Thursday, October 9, 2008

Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1930 (magazine, ed Harry Bates): Annotated table of contents, & download links

Cover image of magazine called Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1930 issue. Image was painted in water colors by H W Wessolowski from a scene in the included story titled The Beetle Horde by Victor Rousseau. Click image for full sized original scan image.This is the first issue ever of Analog/Astounding. That alone should mark it as something of historic importance.

See Astounding 1930-1933 scans index page for basic information.

Scans of all 1930 issues are on this page, one file per page of magazine, January issue pages named like "asf193001PPP.png": YYYY - year, MM - month, PPP - page number. Page number a story begins at is listed in ToC below. ToC below is produced from this scan page. Click cover image on the right for full-sized original scan image.

Each scan page of this January 1930 issue is about half MB.

Table of contents.

  1. [novel] [serial - 1 of 2] [p 8] Victor Rousseau's "The Beetle Horde": "Only two young explorers stand in the way of the Mad Bram's horrible revenge - the releasing of his trillions of man-sized beetles upon the utterly defenseless world."
  2. [p 32] Captain S P Meek's "The Cave of Horror": "Screaming, the guardsman was jerked through the air. An unearthly screech rang through the cavern. The unseen horror of mammoth cave had struck."
  3. [novel] [p 46] Ray Cummings' "Phantoms of Reality": "Red Sensua's knife came up dripping, & the two adventurers knew that chaos & bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom of the fourth dimension."
  4. [p 75] M L Staley's "The Stolen Mind": "What would you do, if, like Quest, you were tricked, & your very mind & will stolen from your body."
  5. [p 92] C V Tench's "Compensation": "Professor Wroxton had disappeared - but in the bottom of the mysterious crystal cage lay the diamond from his ring!"
  6. [p 100] Murray Leinster's "Tanks": Two miles of American front had gone dead. And on two lone infantrymen, lost in the menace of the fog-gas & the tanks, depended the outcome of the war of 1932."

    While this description sounds a bit like Leinster's "Morale", it is a different story, because "Morale" appears later - in December 1931 issue.
  7. [p 118] Anthony Pelcher's "Invisible Death": "On Lees' quick & clever action depended the life of "Old Perk" Ferguson, the millionaire manufacturer threatened by the uncanny, invisible killer."

Related.

  1. Annotated list of stories from John Campbell's Astounding.
  2. All Analog/Astounding posts.
  3. Feed that catches only posts about Analog/Astounding. Caution: Weeks or months might sometimes lapse between these posts.

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