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Astounding Stories January 1931 - Volume 5 No 1 January 1931 - cover

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Astounding Stories January 1931 - Volume 5 No 1 January 1931

Murray Leinster, Hal K. Wells, H. Rich Thompson

Publisher: SCI-FI Publishing

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Summary

Science Fiction has always drawn some of our most creative writers to its form.  Back in the early decades of the twentieth century events conspired to propel the whole genre forward from the earlier works of Jules Verne and other luminaries. 
New media technologies were coming to the fore with radio and television to add to new industrial processes and ideas. Hollywood’s golden years were creating ‘escapist fare’ as the world battled with war and depression where the impossible seemed possible.  On the streets pulp magazines were becoming the dominant form of mass market reading.  The real world had shrunk and other worlds were sought. 
Writers were able to fuse ideas with technical ‘know how’ and create fabulous inventions of other worlds and other times.  These inspired other writers to re-imagine almost everything in the search for new situations and environments. 
A Golden Age was upon us.  These are their stories……. 
 
THE DARK SIDE OF ANTRI by SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 
Commander John Hanson Relates an Interplanetary Adventure Illustrating the Splendid Service Spirit of the Men of the Special Patrol. 
 
THE SUNKEN EMPIRE by H. THOMPSON RICH 
Concerning the Strange Adventures of Professor Stevens with the Antillians on the Floor of the Mysterious Sargasso Sea. 
 
THE GATE TO XORAN by HAL K. WELLS 
A Strange Man of Metal Comes to Earth on a Dreadful Mission. 
 
THE EYE OF ALLAH by C. D. WILLARD 
On the Fatal Seventh of September a Certain Secret Service Man Sat in the President's Chair and Looked Back into the Eye of Allah. 
 
THE FIFTH-DIMENSION CATAPULT by MURRAY LEINSTER 
The Story of Tommy Reames' Extraordinary Rescue of Professor Denham and his Daughter Marooned in the Fifth Dimension. (A Complete Novelette.)  
FOREWORD, CHAPTER I, CHAPTER II, CHAPTER III, CHAPTER IV, CHAPTER V 
 
THE PIRATE PLANET by CHARLES W. DIFFIN 
Two Fighting Yankees―War-Torn Earth's Sole Representatives on Venus―Set Out to Spike the Greatest Gun of All Time. (Part Three of a Four-Part Novel.)  
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, CHAPTER XIII, CHAPTER XIV, CHAPTER XV 
 
MYSTERIOUS CARLSBAD CAVERN 
 
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Available since: 02/08/2018.

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