Does science fiction have the answer for illegal immigration? "Highway J" by Charles Eric Maine depicts a world where a wall must be built within the time-stream!
Illegal immigration is the hot-button topic these days -- especially now that President Donald J. Trump is moving forward with travel bans and his plans to erect a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Surprisingly, illegal immigration is a problem that spans the decades, well into the far-flung future! What becomes of a hapless scientist when his time-travel break-through makes him Public Enemy No. 1 in the 25th Century? What happens when finds himself the unwitting architect of the biggest immigration of all -- through time itself? "Highway J" by Charles Eric Maine depicts a world where a wall must be built within the time-stream!
This issue also features two thrillers starring Sherlock Holmes: "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle, and a New Pulp yarn "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Quarantine" by Adam Beau McFarlane. Other stories run the gamut from mystery, horror, science fiction, and even railroading fiction by authors such as Ron Fortier, Patti Boeckman, Arthur Conan Doyle, Adam Beau McFarlane, Johnny Strike, Charles Eric Maine, C.K.M. Scanlon, H.P. Lovecraft, John E. Petty, and Leland S. Chester.
"The Hideout" by Ron Fortier -- The plan was simple — to catch Brother Bones, the Undead Avenger, off-guard.; "Death of a Pulp Writer" by Patti Boeckman; "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle, in which a very exclusive club leads a swindled client to the great detective Sherlock Holmes.; "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Quarantine" by Adam Beau McFarlane — At last it can be told — The secret of the Giant Rat of Sumatra.
"Flowers for Christina" by Johnny Strike — There was no customs inspection for his heart.; "Death Steps Down" by C.K.M. Scanlon — A thug wants revenge, but gives a detective a chance to double the score!; "The Tree" by H.P. Lovecraft — An ancient evil takes root.; "The Doom That Came to Roanoke" by John E. Petty — The squat little statue was a harbinger of evil to come!; "From the Ground Up" by Leland S. Chester — The whippersnapper thought he was a big shot, when he arrived at the railroad company, but he made good on a promise!
Cover by Norman A. Saunders, original pulp illustrations.