April 1953
A man stranded on Venus after getting space sickness as a teen is recruited in a mission to discover who's been putting mind destroying Quaa in the Venusian cure-all Panaceum. With a different McGuffin this could have been a western with detective elements, riding animals in a hunt and facing savage aborigines. Without much reading to back it up, I've had a low opinion of 50s scifi fiction as being formulaic and juvenile, and stories like this haven't changed my mind.
Welcome Voyagers by Hubert J. Bernhard
Future year 1970, Americans attack a Martian envoy with missiles, but they cure a general's cancer and we all become friends.
This World is Condemned by Ward Botsford
A low-tech planet joins an interplanetary confederation by exporting stamps to philatelists. That world was not condemned.
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