Bertrand Baxter was a man's man living in a household of women, most of whom baffled him. But, when he discovered a unique connection to his youngest daughter, who was still a baby, he devised a plan to understand women better.

"Go To Sleep, My Darling" appeared in "Infinity Science Fiction," November 1958, page 99 - 109.

Winston Kinney Marks (1915-1979) was an American author of Science Fiction short stories who also wrote as Win Marks and used the pseudonyms Win Kinney and Ken Winney, each for just one story. He began publishing with "Mad Hatter" for Unknown in May 1940, but then, after "Manic Perverse" (October 1941 Astounding), was not heard of again until 1953 when he published The Water Eater (June 1953 Galaxy). He published nearly 60 further stories to 1959, with two final SF Magazine appearances in the late 1960s. His style was mildly hard-bitten and amusing. A posthumous collection is The Test Colony and Other Stories (2012).

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Step by grueling step the four of them slogged their way toward a tenuous safety. It was a magnificent display of their will for survival. The only question was, whose survival?

"The Survivors" appeared in "Amazing Stories," August 1961.

T. D. Hamm (real name Thelma Hamm Evans, 1905 – 1995) was a science fiction writer with stories published in If, Tomorrow's Universe, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and several others.

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A strange and curious little story, about the moonlight mating of flowers.

Today's story is "Vallisneria Madness", by Ralph Milne Farley. It appeared in the May 1937 issue of Weird Tales on pages 612 to 616.

Ralph Milne Farley was the pen name of the science fiction writing collaboration between Roger Sherman Hoar, state senator and assistant Attorney General for Massachusetts, and his daughter Caroline Prescott Hoar.

Vallisneria is a genus of submerged freshwater aquatic plant, commonly called eelgrass, tape grass or vallis, that spreads by runners and sometimes forms tall underwater meadows. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. Single female flowers grow to the water surface on very long stalks. Male flowers grow on short stalks, become detached, and float to the surface.

Roger Sherman Hoar (April 8, 1887, Waltham, Massachusetts – October 10, 1963) was an American state senator and assistant Attorney General for the state of Massachusetts. He wrote and published science fiction under his own name, and from 1932 in collaboration with his daughter, Caroline Prescott Hoar, under the pseudonym of Ralph Milne Farley.

He was a great-great-grandson of Founding Father Roger Sherman.

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