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The Planet Entity

E. M. Johnston & Clark Ashton Smith

First published September 1931
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)

Available on page 195, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?GRSBCKYR1999">Bleiler (Gernsback)</a>.

"Based on a plot by E. M. Johnston". First appeared in ''Wonder Stories Quarterly V3 #1'', Fall 1931. The copyright page of ''The Last Incantation'' (1982) incorrectly lists it as a Fall 1939 issue.
Wonder Stories Quarterly, Fall 1931, illustrated by Frank R. Paul. "The second-prize-winning story of the Interplanetary Plot Contest". $25.00. "Johnson did plot, Smith developed story".

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