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Check out "The Laxian Key" and "Prospector's Special" by Robert Sheckley:

* https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1954-11/Galaxy_195...

* https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1959-12/Galaxy_195...

My other favorite is Watchbird:

https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1953-02/Galaxy_195...

Lot's of his other stories were published in the Galaxy.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sheckley_short_stories_...

This cover has always freaked me out:

https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1954-09

Random OT fact of the day:

The man on the cover is wearing one of those mirrors on his forehead that you often see in older photos of doctors. Thanks to Google and Wikipedia, I can now report what it is called ("head mirror") and what it was used for (to provide illumination for ear, nose, and throat exams). [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_mirror

Depending on how experimental you like your science fiction, Moorcock-era (1964+) New Worlds magazine.

* one I found that I'll read: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_171v50_1967-03

There's something about this era that I've always liked. Maybe because these old pulps were my first lesson that scifi =/= space opera.