F&SF May '59: J T McIntosh, C Oliver, M A deFord & A Davidson

In our last exciting excursion into the world of mid-century speculative fiction, we read two stories that appeared in the May 1959 issue of Robert P. Mills' F&SF (as we people who hate to type call it), A. Bertram Chandler's quite good "The Man Who Could Not Stop" and Rosel George Brown's pretty lame "Lost in Translation." Let's read four more stories from this publication, a long story by J. T. McIntosh and short stories by Chad Oliver, Miriam Allen deFord, and Avram Davidson. That is the order in which they are printed in the magazine, and by coincidence (?) this correlates with how much I am expecting to like each story."Tenth Time Round" by J. T. McIntoshMany have been the times I have told you that J. T. McIntosh sucks. But last year I found McIntosh's novel The Rule of the Pagbeasts AKA The Fittest an involving and enjoyable read. So there is a chance that I will find worthwhile "Tenth Time Round," a story that takes up 19 pages of this ish of F&SF and was reprinted in Japan's…