[Gutenberg 31586] • The Very Black

"Anders was pretty sure he was going to die. No one had yet flown the new-style jet job and lived to tell the tale. A story both chilling and heart-warming that shows us how bravely the human equation can operate when the chips are stacked against it."br/br/The Very Black is a short Science Fiction story by Dean Evens that appeared in the August-September 1953 issue of Fantastic [Universe.br/br/Fantastic](http://Universe.br/br/Fantastic) Universe was a U.S. science fiction magazine which began publishing in the 1950s. It ran for 69 issues, from June 1953 to March 1960, under two different publishers. It was part of the explosion of science fiction magazine publishing in the 1950s in the United States.