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The Mind Master

Arthur J. Burks

First published January 1932
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella
Series Caleb Barter #2

"Lee Bentley and Ellen Estabrook are back in New York–and so is Professor Barter, who is not dead, but is very much alive and equipped with heat and disintegrator rays, a far-viewer, and brain implants... he plans to transfer [twenty] tycoons' brains into ape bodies." (Taken from page 44, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?GRSBCKYR1999">Bleiler (Gernsback)</a>. The page also contains a spoiler.)

Astounding Stories, January-February 1932, illustrated by H. W. Wesso. Bleiler, in the author/story section, incorrectly gives 1931 as the year of publication.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1932 Cover Astounding Stories, January 1932 The Clayton Magazines, Inc. MAGAZINE 28
February 1932 Cover Astounding Stories, February 1932 The Clayton Magazines, Inc. MAGAZINE 238
July 2009 The Mind Master Project Gutenberg Chapbook
April 2010 Cover Tales of the Man-Ape Wildside Press Collection
September 2010 Cover The Mind Master CreateSpace Chapbook
May 2012 Cover Man-Ape: Two Tales from the Pulps Wildside Press Collection
May 2013 Cover The Mind Master Spastic Cat Press Chapbook
December 2014 Cover The Mind Master / The Tentacles from Below Armchair Fiction Anthology 5
May 2016 Cover The Mind Master Sci-Fi Publishing Chapbook