What is the ideal bodyguard? The most ferocious looking, the most efficient killer or the most devoted? On earth you might find a combination of all three but he’d never be as effective in the long run as the curious creature, which came back from mars with Dr Clyde Curtis in the year 2512. We shall very soon sense the unique qualities of this pet, Schaughtowl by name, the inspiration for a story in Galaxy Magazine called Martians Never Die.

Written by: Lucious Daniel (1952)