Friday, July 22, 2011

"Thrilling Wonder Stories", December 1940 (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Cover image of the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1940 issue. It is a painting by E K Bergey, depicting a scene from the story The Life Machines by Manly Wade Williams.Scans of the magazine are available online as a CBR file as part of a larger package.

Table of contents.

  1. [novel] Edmond Hamilton's "Gift from the Stars": '"Human zero" Padgett never had the nerve to fight for his rights - till the mighty science of Vega showed him how to change a decimal point of a man to an important figure!"
  2. [novelet] Manly Wade Williams' "The Life Machines": "Man's successor follows the path of suicide until the Science Research Battalion steps in to save a robot race from despair & annihilation!"
  3. [novelet] G T Fleming-Roberts' "The Golden Barrier": "Between the hemispheres rises a wall of doom, & Hyatt of International Police tries to beat Earth's solitary confinement!"
  4. [ss] Sam Merwin, Jr's "Exiled from Earth": "The man without a world hated the planet that banished him - but he couldn't let it die!"
  5. [ss] Gordon A Giles' "Via Intelligence": "Stranded, the expedition must buy its way off the Furnace Plant, at the price of death if they win - & death if they lose!"
  6. [ss] Kenneth L Harrison's "The Blond, The Time Machine, & Johny Bell": "Johnny set out to make his fortune in the future - but the payoff was too fast even for a time-traveler!"
  7. [ss] Ray Cummings' "World Upside Down": "The the world doesn't spin fast enough for Tubby, the amateur scientist, he starts his own revolution!"

Related.

  1. Fiction from Thrilling Wonder Stories.
  2. "Pulp" magazines.
  3. Fiction from 1940s.

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