Among the stories is James E. Gunn's "The Immortals", about a test car driver who discovers he can live forever.

[1] The first edition of Star Science Fiction Stories No.4 featured semi-abstract cover art by Richard M. Powers.

The cover art that featured on the 1972 reprint was painted by the noted speculative fiction artist John Berkey.

It is thought that this painting had a strong influence on the eventual production design of Star Wars and served to inspire the film's leading concept artist, Ralph McQuarrie, and model maker Colin Cantwell, whose early designs for the Death Star battle station bore a strong similarity to Berkey's painting of a metal world.

This article about a collection of science fiction short stories published in the 1950s is a stub.