"The Void Beyond and Other Stories" by Robert Moore Williams
**** The Void Beyond (1951) 34 pages Women don't go on spaceships. Some unexplained feature of their anatomy causes them to lose their sanity if they try. However, one women insists. The story recounts the result of her failure to accept no for an answer. Many people, women in particular, I imagine, will find this tale misogynistic and hopelessly outdated. I suppose it is, but I suspended disbelief, granted the author his premises, and watched with interest to see where he would take it. The ending really worked for me. *** Refuge for Tonight (1949) 31 pages Set in the near future, this story is a derivation of the alien invasion and takeover of Earth story except there are no aliens and only North America is taken over by united Europeans of all people. Americans are about to develop space travel and Europeans are concerned Americans will then become too dominant. So they launch a pre-emptive strike and conquer America. Now it's up to the Resistance. This is a familiar trope ...
