Astounding Stories of Super-Science Vol 19 - July 1931

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Summary

No science fiction library would be complete without Astounding Stories of Super-Science, a highly influential pulp magazine of both sci-fi and horror from the early 1930s!

Vol. 16 includes:

COVER DESIGN    H. W. WESSO         
Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "The Doom from Planet 4.
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THE DOOM FROM PLANET 4    JACK WILLIAMSON
A Ray of Fire, Green, Mysterious, Stabs Through the Night to Dan on His Ship. It Leads Him to an Island of Unearthly Peril.     
   
THE HANDS OF ATEN    H. G. WINTER
Out of the Solid Ice Craig Hews Three Long-Frozen Egyptians and Is at Once Caught Up into Amazing Adventure. (A Complete Novelette.)        

THE DIAMOND THUNDERBOLT    H. THOMPSON RICH
Locked in a Rocket and Fired into Space! Such Was the Fate which Awaited Young Stoddard at the End of the Diamond Trail!        

THE SLAVE SHIP FROM SPACE    A. R. HOLMES
Three Kidnapped Earthlings Show Xantra of the Tillas How "Docile" Earth Slaves Can Be.        

THE REVOLT OF THE MACHINES    NAT SCHACHNER AND ARTHUR L. ZAGAT
Something in the Many-Faceted Mind of the Master Machine Spurs It to Diabolical Revolt Against the Authority of Its Human Masters.     
   
THE EXILE OF TIME    RAY CUMMINGS
Only Near the End of the World Does Fate Catch Up with Tugh, the Cripple Who Ran Amuck Through Time. (Conclusion.)      
 
THE READERS' CORNER    ALL OF US
A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.

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