![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.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguoEVa_AOArIBOyPon1ovHNYwoxvA6jFF-gV1IulDbgIUpz3OGDb_Xtqe3qotV3Fn6uMPQZQmfmJqea1n0y-8w8wPaytF0N4_9rADz2n4b1L-x1GjUbOivGwzKUB7pmkgchRD2zVlpSfk/s200/Thrilling+Wonder+Stories,+December+1940+%28cover%29.jpg)
Scans of the magazine are available online as a CBR file as part of a
larger package.
Table of contents.
- [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!"
- [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!"
- [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!"
- [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!"
- [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!"
- [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!"
- [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.
- Fiction from Thrilling Wonder Stories.
- "Pulp" magazines.
- Fiction from 1940s.
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