Showing posts with label Nat Schachner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nat Schachner. Show all posts

Sunday, September 5, 2010

"Astounding Science-Fiction", March 1940 (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Cover by Gilmore of Astounding Science-Fiction magazine, March 1940 issue
Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.

Table of contents. 

Links on author fetch more fiction by author.

  1. [novelette] Nat Schachner's "Cold": Two worlds dependent utterly on one mine--& the mine gives out! The warmth of two worlds' friendship freezes in the cold of a tiny world--"
  2. [novelette] L Sprague de Camp's "The Emancipated": "Johnny Black & Company--& what company! Johnny learns to talk, but when McGinty the ape starts--"
  3. [ss] P Schuyler Miller's "In the Good Old Summertime": "He liked heat--was sure he'd like even the hear of a Venus summer, while he set up his kingdom. But a drying mud-puddle meant--"
  4. [ss] A M Phillips' "Chapter from the Beginning": "Half a jawbone & the end of a tooth are clues to a new pre-man. But how many species have we missed--how many unknown half-men--"
  5. [ss] Willard E Hawkins' "The Dwindling Sphere": "The inventor figured it was a failure. It was an overwhelming success--a success that overwhelmed the Earth--"
  6. [serial - part 2/2] Robert Heinlein's "If This Goes On--": "Astounding's second Nova story--one of the most powerful novels of dictatorship science-fiction has produced."

See also.

  1. Fiction from Analog/Astounding (only issues edited by Harry Bates, John Campbell).
  2. Stories written by John Campbell.
  3. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
  4. Fiction from 1940s.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

"Wonder Stories", Vol 2 No 4 (September 1930) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Cover image of Wonder Stories magazine, Volume 2 Number 4 September 1930 issue. It depicts a scene from the short story The Tragedy of Spider Island by Captain S P Meek.It's one of the Hugo Gernsback's magazines, & scans in CBR format are online at Crosseyed Cyclops.

Table of contents.

  1. Frank J Bridge's "The War Lord of Venus": "Across fifty million miles & thirty million years they traveled to battle for the supremacy of a great world!"
  2. Nat Schachner & Arthur L Zagat's "In 20,000 AD!": "The revolt had come ... but then the great Jed threw over that mob his magnetic power ..."
  3. Captain S P Meek's "The Tragedy of Spider Island": "Against those monsters the rays had no longer their force ... & when the tom-toms began beating ..."
  4. R F Starlz's "The King of the Black Bowl": "Cut off by a wall of Nothingness ... the great city lay helpless ..."
  5. Lowell Howard Morrow's "A Rescue in Space".
  6. Edsel Newton's "The Torpedo Terror": "Across the nation sped those dreaded agents of destruction & terror ... until the word was flashed ..."