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Dunno what 1950s or 1960s SF magazine or paperback it came from (a search was inconclusive), but you can see from the signature that it’s by Ed “Emsh” Emshwiller.
Space Stories, February 1953, possibly illustrating Leigh Brackett’s “The Big Jump.”
The Big Jump “Transuranne. Why did it have to be transuranne?” SF authors had all kinds of fun with trans-uranic elements (elements heavier than Uranium) back before they were actually discovered and turned out to be rather boring when they weren’t decomposing nearly too fast to study.
Reminds me a little of the 1959 film The Angry Red Planet.
Dunno what 1950s or 1960s SF magazine or paperback it came from (a search was inconclusive), but you can see from the signature that it’s by Ed “Emsh” Emshwiller.
Little more research and I found it:
http://www.philsp.com/data/images/s/space_stories_195302.jpg
Space Stories, February 1953, possibly illustrating Leigh Brackett’s “The Big Jump.”
The Big Jump “Transuranne. Why did it have to be transuranne?” SF authors had all kinds of fun with trans-uranic elements (elements heavier than Uranium) back before they were actually discovered and turned out to be rather boring when they weren’t decomposing nearly too fast to study.
Reminds me a little of the 1959 film The Angry Red Planet.