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1. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XXIII
It stung me into action, and for all the chaotic rush of these desperate moments my heart surged with relief.
2. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1931 - Table of Links
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3. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, July 1931 - Table of Links
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4. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XXIV
Mary and I turned away into the New York City of 1935, to begin our life together.
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6. Earth, the Marauder
Despite the fact that for centuries the Secret of Life had been the possession of children of men, the Earth was dying.
7. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XIV
There came a girl's scream, and muffled, frantic words.
8. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, April 1930 - Table of Links
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9. The Noonification: Pure Evil (11/5/2022)
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10. The Noonification: Web Automation with Python and Selenium (9/10/2022)
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11. The Noonification: The World Behind the Moon (9/21/2022)
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12. The Noonification: The Forgotten Planet (10/5/2022)
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13. The Noonification: Invisible Death (8/29/2022)
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14. The Noonification: Prisoners on the Electron (11/7/2022)
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15. The Noonification: Accelerating Android Application Development With the ADB Idea Plugin (10/12/2022)
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16. The Noonification: Monsters of Mars (9/24/2022)
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17. The Challenge of the Unknown
Incredible! Impossible! I did not say it, though my thoughts were written on my face, no doubt.
18. The Noonification: The Wall of Death (12/26/2022)
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19. The Noonification: The Murder in A 22 (10/22/2022)
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20. The Noonification: Musk Smells an Opportunity (10/18/2022)
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21. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May 1931 - Table of Links
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22. The Noonification: The Stolen Mind (9/3/2022)
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23. The Noonification: The Destroyer (12/29/2022)
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24. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930: The Ape-Men of Xlotli - Chapter IX
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25. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1931: Table of Links
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26. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June 1931 - Table of Links
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27. The Noonification: He Was Trapped—Two Miles Below the Earth (10/8/2022)
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28. L'Envoi
MY solution of the message practically ends the story.
29. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June 1930: Vol. II, No. 3 - Murder Madness
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30. The Half-Dream
The river of sound he decided to be the sound of a vibrational explosion of some sort.
31. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter VIII
He did not fear the battle he knew he must fight. He hurried back because Apeman might realize himself beaten and escape into the jungle.
32. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 - Table of Links
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33. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930: VOLUME I, NO. 3 - Brigands of the Moon
I stood on the turret-balcony of the Planetara with Dr. Frank, watching the arriving passengers...
34. A Scream in the Night
WE kept, on the Planetara, always the time and routine of our port of departure.
35. Hope, I Came...
I think I was first conscious of a queer calmness which had settled upon me, as though now I had withdrawn contact with the turmoil of our world!
36. Wings of To-morrow
That airplane of the slanted wings, the bulbous, almost bulletlike fuselage, what of it?
37. The Fight on the Tower Balcony
Whether the watchmen came in to see a ghost of me lying there on the floor I did not know, nor did I care. I whirled into the shadows.
38. From Out of the Past
"She's sane," he reiterated. "Though from what you tell me, it's a wonder that she is."
39. A Nation Waits in Dread
It had been the intention of the government to deny the public even this knowledge.
40. Astounding Stories of Super-Science March 1931: Beyond the Vanishing Point - Chapter V
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41. A Speck of Human Earth-dust
It was obvious that at least two of our passengers were plotting with Miko and George Prince; trying during this voyage to learn what they could about Grantline
42. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: Dark Moon - Chapter VI
Walter Harkness, piloting his ship to a slow, safe landing on a new world, had watched his instruments with care.
43. Vanishing Ships
PRESTER KLEIG, ordered to Madagascar from the Secret Room, had been merely an operative.
44. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter IV
"I told you I would yet prove to[323] the world the greatness of Caleb Barter," said the scientist.
45. Chapter VI: The Atom-Smasher
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46. The Noonification: Vandals of the Stars (9/4/2022)
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47. The Reader's Corner
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48. A Burn on a Martian Arm
I DID not appear at that morning meal. I was exhausted and drugged with lack of sleep.
49. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November 1930: Vagabonds of Space - Chapter IV
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50. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930 - Table of Links
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51. Chapter IV: The Fight With the Robot
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52. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter III
The meal consisted of various fruits, some meat which Bentley could not identify, and wild honey which was delicious.
53. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter IX
If Manape were to attempt first aid for Apeman, how would such a sight react upon Ellen Estabrook?
54. What are Astounding Stories?
Well, if you lived in Europe in 1490, and someone told you the earth was round and moved around the sun—that would have been an "astounding" story.
55. The Object Shot Forth Another Tentacle
The object shot forth another tentacle.
56. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1930 - Table of Links
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57. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter I
High in jungle treetops swings young Bentley—his human brain imprisoned in a mighty ape.
58. CHAPTER VII. The Vengeance of Tugh
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59. Phantoms of Reality - Chapter IX Alexandre
My will is law beyond this king—beyond these palace soldiers—beyond any power you have ever known.
60. A Traitor and a Passing Asteroid
We have information, Johnson––there’s some under cover plot here aboard. I want to know what it is.
61. The Electrical Eavesdropper
I realized that he could not be aware we knew he was the murderer.
62. The Power and the Glory
Sadly, sternly, the old professor reveals to his brilliant pupil the greater path to glory.
63. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter X
What was Barter doing now? Would he not be striving to watch the course of his experiment?
64. Unspoken Love
I think if I had yielded to the impulse of my heart, I would have poured out all those protestations of a lover’s ecstasy
65. The Beetle Horde - Chapter VI: Escape!
I heard what he said. You shall not die. We shall go away to your place, where there are no beetles to eat us
66. Chapter IV. Spawn of the Cavern
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67. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1931: Phalanxes of Atlans - Chapter I
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68. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter III
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69. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter VIII
Young lovers of three eras are swept down the torrent of the sinister cripple Tugh's frightful vengeance.
70. Chapter X: Phalanxes of Atlans
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71. Chapter I: The Monster of Metal
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72. The Noonification: Are Insects The Future of Food? (9/11/2022)
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73. A Person Under Yagué Will Seem to Slumber and yet Will Obey Any Order
Bell saw what he was looking for, out in the throng of traffic that filled the Avenida do Acre, in Rio.
74. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May 1930: Brigands of the Moon - Chapter XXIX
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75. Astounding Stories of Super-Science March 1931: Beyond the Vanishing Point - Chapter I
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76. Chapter 5: The Exile of Time
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77. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter XIII
He had read somewhere that the great apes sorrowed when any of their members died.
78. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XV
There was a nameless feeling, a repulsion against stopping; it was indescribable, but he was aware of it.
79. Phantoms of Reality
The man to whom I spoke was a scientist. He replied gently, "My boy, when you are grown older and wiser you will realize that nothing is impossible."
80. The Noonification: Snippets (9/23/2022)
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81. The Beetle Horde
Jim Dodd, the young archaeologist of the party, could be seen apparently wrestling with something that looked like a suit of armor.
82. The Noonification: Earth, the Marauder (10/29/2022)
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83. I Saw the Famous Science Temple with its Constant Stream of Worshippers
The delivery of his country into the clutches of a merciless, ultra-modern religion can be prevented only by Dr. Hagstrom's deciphering an extraordinary code.
84. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter VII
85. Part 1: Trapped Again
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86. Chapter III: The Ape-Men of Xlotli
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87. The Atom-Smasher
It was sublime and terrible, and on the result of that conflict.
88. Monsters of Moyen
IN 1935 the mighty genius of Moyen gripped the Eastern world like a hand of steel.
89. Venza the Venus Girl
IT WAS shortly after that mid-day meal when I encountered Venza sitting on the starlit deck.
90. One Tumultuous Night
I returned to my own world. And Derek stayed in his. Each to his own; one may rail at this allotted portion—but he does not lightly give it up.
91. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XVI
"But I won't let you go," Larry finished. The palace was somnolent; the officials were asleep: none had heard of the murder.
92. My Role to Play
I was trembling. Everything depended upon me now. I must get up into the tower. And, above everything, haste was necessary.
93. The Crimson Murderess
Hope murmured. "The three-part music comes first. There will first be the spiritual."
94. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: Dark Moon - Chapter XI
Unmoving, their ship seemed, through the long hours.
95. Brigands of the Moon - Chapter 2 (Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930)
I STOOD on the turret-balcony of the Planetara with Captain Carter and Dr. Frank, the ship surgeon, watching the arriving passengers.
96. Astounding Stories of Super-Science August 1931: Brood of the Dark Moon - Chapter V
The ship that Chet Bullard and Harkness had designed had none of the instruments for space navigation that the ensuing years were to bring.
97. Murder Madness! 7 Secret Service Men had Completely Disappeared
The engines of the Almirante Gomez were going dead slow. Away up beside her monster funnels her siren blew dismally
98. The People of the Hives
The surface of the Earth was one vast building, like a hive, and to each human being was allotted by law a certain abiding place.
99. Astounding Stories of Super-Science August 1931: Brood of the Dark Moon - Chapter IV
No man faces death in so shocking a form without feeling the effects. Death had flicked them with a finger of flame and had passed them by.
100. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931: The Fifth-Dimension Catapult - Chapter V
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101. Chapter III: Phalanxes of Atlans
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102. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XXII
The giant mechanism, fashioned in the guise of a man, lay dying.
103. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter XII
The blacks shouted to Apeman but of course Bentley could not understand what they said.
104. The Beetle Horde - Chapter II: Beetles and Humans
How long he had remained unconscious, Tommy had no means of determining.
105. Astounding Stories of Super-Science March 1931: Beyond the Vanishing Point - Chapter IX
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106. Fantastic and Sinister are the Lowlands into which Philip Grant Descends
HAVE you ever stood on the seashore, with the breakers rolling at your feet, and imagined what the scene would be like if the ocean water were gone?
107. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930: The Pirate Planet - Chapter IX
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108. The Hideous Monsters Leaped into the Cockpits and Began their Abominable Meal
Bullets, shrapnel, shell—nothing can stop the trillions of famished, man-sized beetles which, led by a madman, sweep down over the human race.
109. Astounding Stories of Super-Science March 1931: Beyond the Vanishing Point - Chapter XI
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110. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: Dark Moon - Chapter I
Mysterious, dark, out of the unknown deep comes a new satellite to lure three courageous Earthlings on to strange adventures.
111. Chapter VIII: The Tentacles from Below
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112. The Trail of Death
There's sure some sort of hoodoo on these Antarctic expeditions
113. The King's Henchman
Hope approached him and knelt. Derek and I could hear their voices, although the babble of the crowd went on.
114. The Torture
He had in his hand too large a projector. Its ray would kill me. If he wanted to take me alive, he would not fire. I chanced it.
115. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930: VOL. IV, No. 3 - Gray Denim
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116. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XII
"There are colors," said the Robot. "And the daylight and darkness of the days. But we are moving through them very rapidly, so they blend into gray."
117. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: Dark Moon - Chapter III
The Arctic Ocean was beneath. The tiny light had passed clear of the land on the moving chart.
118. It is a Poison Which Makes a Man Mad in a Very Horrible Fashion
"I am poisoned," said Ortiz. He tried to smile, but it was ghastly.
119. You Haven't the Guts
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120. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XX
Only near the End of the World does Fate catch up with Tugh, the cripple who ran amuck through Time.
121. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter X
This analogy occurs to me: There are two ants of human intelligence to whom we are trying to explain the nature of Space.
122. The Exile of Time: Mysterious Girl
The extraordinary incidents began about 1 A.M. in the night of June 8-9, 1935.
123. "More victims," He Observed Grimly to Himself, of the Plane
There was a dull muttering in the sky to the east, and a speck appeared, drew nearer swiftly, grew larger, and became a small army biplane.
124. Am I in Time, Hope?
I stood listening to their vehement, half-whispered words. For a moment or two, absorbed, they ignored me.
125. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: Dark Moon - Chapter VII
He had found the entrance an opening no longer: it was sealed with a giant web of ropy strands—a network, welded together to a glutinous mesh.
126. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XVIII
There were also Robots here of many different types. Some of them were eight or ten feet in stature, in the fashion of a man:
127. Astounding Stories of Super-Science August 1931: VOL. VII, NO. 2 - The Moon Weed
128. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: VOL. VII, No. 1 - The Revolt of the Machines
Something in the many-faceted mind of the master machine spurs it to diabolical revolt against the authority of its human masters.
129. The Second Satellite: The City of the Frog-Men
Norman and Hackett, bulky in their thick flying suits, seemed to fill the little office.
130. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter IX
Mary Atwood and I lay on the metal grid floor of the largest Time-cage.
131. Astounding Stories of Super-Science August 1931: Brood of the Dark Moon - Chapter II
A pulsing pain that stabbed through his head was Chet's first conscious impression.
132. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: Dark Moon - Chapter IX
The memory that had registered only in some corner of a mind deeper than the conscious, came to the surface.
133. The Sunken Empire
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134. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: VOL. VII, No. 1 - The Diamond Thunderbolt
Locked in a rocket and fired into space!—such was the fate which awaited young Stoddard at the end of the diamond trail!
135. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: VOL. VII, No. 1 - The Slave Ship From Space
Three kidnapped Earthlings show Xantra of the Tillas how "docile" Earth slaves can be.
136. Astounding Stories of Super-Science August 1931: VOL. VII, NO. 2 - The Midget From the Island
Garth Howard, prey to half the animals of the forest, fights valiantly to regain his lost five feet of size.
137. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: VOL. VII, No. 1 - The Hands of Aten
Out of solid ice Craig hews three long-frozen Egyptians—and is at once caught up into amazing adventure.
138. Into the Unknown
The laboratory was a small room of board walls, board ceiling and floor. Windowless, with a single door opening into the cellar of the apartment house.
139. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter XI
Slowly she began to move. Moans escaped her lips, little pathetic moans, and the name of Lee Bentley.
140. Astounding Stories of Super-Science August 1931: VOL. VII, NO. 2 - The Port of Missing Planes
141. The World Set Free
THEY waited two days at Settler's Station. To push along the line into the desert would have been useless, both men were convinced that an airplane would arrive
142. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XI
There was a device upon the table. I have already described a similar one, the Time-telespectroscope.
143. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: Dark Moon - Chapter VIII
Flint knives came into play, then sharpened stakes that were thrust through the bleeding meat.
144. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter VI
The thing that Barter then contrived was destined to remain forever in the memory of Bentley as the most ghastly thing he had ever experienced.
145. The Murder in A 22
“GOOD GOD, what was that?” Dr. Frank’s face had gone white in the starlight. Snap stood like a statue of horror.
146. Chapter XVIII: The Pirate Planet
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147. The Beetle Horde - Chapter IV: Bram's Story
A sneering chuckle broke from Bram's lips. "Yes, it's me, James Dodd," he answered. "I'm a little surprised to see you here, Dodd, but I'm mighty glad."
148. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XIII
"Master, I have done well. There is no reason to punish."
149. The Sun, With the Leaping Corona, Burst Through the Blackness Behind Us
The firmament––black interstellar space with its blazing white, red and yellow stars––lay spread around us.
150. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1931: The Tentacles from Below - Chapter VI
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151. The Beetle Horde - Chapter III: Ten Miles Underground
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152. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: Dark Moon - Chapter V
They were seated in the cabin of the man-made meteor that the brain of Harkness had conceived—two men and a girl.
153. The Man Who Was Dead
IT was a wicked night, the night I met the man who had died.
154. The New Religion
EVERY great religion has as its psychological reason for existence the mission of compensating for some crying, unsatisfied human need.
155. Recaptured
"Where are we?" each demanded of the other, as they staggered out.
156. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1931: The Tentacles From Below - Chapter X
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157. Astounding Stories of Super-Science August 1931: Brood of the Dark Moon - Chapter III
Walter Harkness had built this ship with Chet's help. They had designed it for space-travel.
158. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: Dark Moon - Chapter IV
How often are the great things of life submerged beneath the trivial.
159. Murder Madness: Chapter V 'The Trade Which Does Not Exist has Its Obligations'
The Trade—which does not exist—has its obligations and its code, but also it has its redeeming features.
160. The Cipher Message
BENDA conducted me personally to a room very much like an ordinary hotel room.
161. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XVII
None of the Robots would admit having seen Migul; nor the arrival of the cage; nor the strangers from the past.
162. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: VOL. VI, NO. 3 - The Readers' Corner
People read every day of "miracles" and scarcely give them a second thought, while a hundred years ago their perpetrators would have been destroyed as witches.
163. Monsters of the Deep
"I wish to show those of you who failed to see it the sinking of the Stellar, on which I was a passenger and, I believe, the only survivor."
164. An Extra Man
"Harry turns into a thick smoke, and gets sucked into a big hole in the machine."
165. "Why, This Is Treason!"
There was a gasp. The audience sat frozen. On the stage, with no one lifting a hand to stop her, the crimson murderess made a leap and vanished.
166. There Was No Struggle, No Attempt at Flight or Resistance
They could see one another, but it was impossible for them to make their voices heard above the rasping of the beetles' legs.
167. Astounding Stories of Super-Science August 1931: Brood of the Dark Moon - Chapter I
Once more Chet, Walt and Diane are united in a wild ride to the Dark Moon—but this time they go as prisoners of their deadly enemy Schwartzmann.
168. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter II
"Fate wouldn't allow us to come through what we have only to end things with poisoned darts. It just couldn't happen that way!"
169. A Death More Hideous
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170. The Beetle Horde - Chapter V: Doomed!
There were no means known to Tommy of reckoning time in that strange place of twilight. His watch had been broken in the airplane fall
171. Good God! Was I going mad? Surely this was some awful nightmare!
Involuntarily I halted at the entrance to my snug bachelor quarters as the flood of light my turning of the switch produced revealed a huddled figure.
172. The Weightless Combat
There was an instant when I stood numbed, fumbling for a weapon at my belt, undecided whether to run or stand my ground.
173. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: VOL. VI, NO. 3 - The Earthman's Burden
There is a foul play on Mercury--Until Denny Olear of the Interplanetary Flying Police gets after his man.
174. Marable, in a Desperate Frenzy, Hacked at the Reptile's Awful Head
Marable, in a desperate frenzy, hacked at the reptile's awful head.
175. The Invisible Death: Out of the Hangman's Hands
"You speak," said Von Kettler, jeering, "as if you really believed that you had the power of life and death over me."
176. Into Space
MANY of my readers will remember the mysterious radio messages which were heard by both amateur and professional short wave operators during the night
177. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 - Table of Links
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178. In an Inner Room They Found a Diabolical Machine
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179. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: VOL. VII, No. 1 - The Doom from Planet 4
A ray of fire, green, mysterious, stabs through the night to Dan on his ship. It leads him to an island of unearthly peril.
180. The Spokesmen of the Gens
FOR a long moment Sarka looked broodingly out across the world beyond the metalized glass which formed the curving dome of his laboratory roof.
181. A Strange Metal Creature Comes to Earth on a Dreadful Mission
HE sat in a small half-darkened booth well over in the corner—the man with the strangely glowing blue-green eyes.
182. The Terrible Tentacles of L-472
Commander John Hanson of the Special Patrol Service records another of his thrilling interplanetary assignments.
183. A Scientist Discovers a Dimensionless Universe
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184. Astounding Stories of Super-Science March 1931: VOL V, No. 3 - Terrors Unseen
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185. Adventures in the Ghost World
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186. The Two Shark-Faced Creatures Were Dragging at my Arms and Legs
I read the telegram for the second time. Then I folded it up, put it in my pocket, and pressed the little button on my desk. My mind was made up.
187. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: VOL. VI, NO. 3 - The Man From 2071
Out of the flow of time there appears to Commander John Hanson a man of mystery from the forgotten past.
188. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: VOL. VI, No. 2 - The Readers' Corner
A meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories
189. Astounding Stories of Super-Science August 1931: VOL. VII, NO. 2 - The Danger from the Deep
Marooned on the sea-floor, his hoisting cable cut, young Abbot is left at the mercy of the man-sharks.
190. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: VOL. VI, No. 2 - When Caverns Yawned
Only Dr. Bird's super-scientific sleuthing stands in the way of Ivan Saranoff's latest attempt at wholesale destruction.
191. The Meteor Girl
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192. Read Brigands of the Moon Online for Free
I introduce myself, begging grace that I intrude upon your busy minutes, with my only excuse that perhaps I may amuse you.
193. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: VOL. VI, No. 2 - The Death-Cloud
The epic exploit of one who worked in the dark and alone, behind the enemy lines, in the great Last War.
194. Behind Them Poured a Stream of Hideous Monsters, Giants of the Ray
Madly the three raced for their lives up the shaft of the radium mine, for behind them poured a stream of hideous monsters—giants of the ray!
195. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XXI
His labored voice came up. "George? Thank God! Get us—out of here. Almost—gone, George!"
196. The Lake of Light
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197. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: VOL. VII, No. 1 - The Readers' Corner
The Authors Explains
198. 'It is Some Horrible Inhabitant of Space, Something Unknown to us on Earth'
They were moving sluggishly along the red light, seeming to flow rather than crawl.
199. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930: Vol. I, No. 2 - Spawn of the Stars
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200. Monsters of Mars
The Martian gestured with a reptilian arm toward the ladder.
201. Creatures of the Light
The projector, belching forth its stinking breath of corruption, swung in a mad arc over the ceiling, over the walls.
202. Read Old Crompton's Secret Online for Free Full Text
Tom Forsythe, the only son of an old recluse, moved in to a secluded laboratory in the woods.
203. Astounding Stories of Super-Science August 1931: VOL. VII, NO. 2 - If The Sun Died
204. The Fifth-Dimension Catapult
The story of Tommy Reames' rescue of Professor Denham and his daughter marooned in the fifth dimension.
205. Read The Corpse on the Grating Online for Free
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206. The Planet of Dread
There was no use hiding from the truth. Somebody had blundered—a fatal blunder—and they were going to pay for it!
207. The Cave of Horror
"Suddenly, for no apparent reason at all, one of the men on guard was jerked into the air feet upwards."
208. He Was Trapped—Two Miles Below the Earth
Impossible! What sort of creatures would they be, that could live two miles beneath the surface of the earth?
209. He Began to Twist and Turn, as Though Torn by Some Invisible Force
From twenty miles away stabbed the "atom-filtering" rays to Allen Baker in his cell in the death house.
210. Astounding Stories of Super-Science August 1931: VOL. VII, NO. 2 - The Readers' Corner
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211. Holocaust
It passed beneath the planes, that were motionless by contrast.
212. The World Behind the Moon
Like pitiless jaws, a distant crater opened for their ship.
213. From the Ocean’s Depths
Her head was a little to one side, in the attitude of one who listens intently.
214. When the Mountain Came to Miramar
The first tremor that set the timbers of the house to creaking brought Garry Connell out of his bunk and into the middle of the floor.
215. Vampires of Venus
Leslie Larner, an entomologist borrowed from the Earth, pits himself against the night-flying vampires that are ravaging the inhabitants of Venus.
216. Invisible Death
The inquest into the mysterious death of Darius Darrow, savant, inventor, recluse and eccentric, resembled a scientific convention.
217. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: VOL. VI, No. 2 - When the Moon Turned Green
Outside his laboratory Bruce Dixon finds a world of living dead men--and above, in the sky, shines a weird green moon.
218. The Ray of Madness
Dr. Bird discovers a dastardly plot, amazing in its mechanical ingenuity, behind the apparently trivial eye trouble of the President.
219. The Stolen Mind
The structure, pivoting downward, plunged Quest to his waist in the osmotic solution.
220. A Secret Service Man Sat in the President's Chair and Looked Back Into the Eye of Allah
THE great discovery came when a box was brought to the dingy room and Mr. Collins was asked to show what was inside it.
221. The Murder Machine
"When I am finished, Dale, I shall probably kill you."
222. The Destroyer
Slowly, insidiously, there stole over Allen Parker something uncanny. He could no longer control his hands—even his brain!
223. The Forgotten Planet
The authentic account of why cosmic man damned an outlaw world to be, forever, a leper of Space.
224. The Dark Side of Antri
“Behold one of those who live in the darkness.”
225. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930: VOLUME I, NO. 3 - Cold Light
I have one of the weirdest cases on my hands that I have ever been mixed up in...
226. Out of the Dreadful Depths
Robert Thorpe seeks out the nameless horror that is sucking all human life out of ships in the South Pacific.
227. Stolen Brains
Dr. Bird, scientific sleuth extraordinary, goes after a sinister stealer of brains.
228. The Wall of Death
And then Kay had broken through and was hewing madly with great sweeps of the ax.
229. The Ray Shot Down and Squadrons of Planes Frizzled Like Moths in the Air
In the burning solitude of the great Arizona desert, a young scientist was about to perform an experiment that might have far-reaching results for humanity.
230. Tanks: The Deciding Battle of the War of 1932
Row after row of the monsters roared by, going greedily with hungry guns into battle.
231. Prisoners on the Electron
Fate throws two young Earthians into desperate conflict with the primeval monsters of an electron's savage jungles.
232. The Attack from Space
We had been captured by a race of gigantic beetles.
233. Orris Led the Way to a Great Underground City
It was now two years since Edwin Leland bought the estate for a song and took up his residence in the gloomy old house.
234. The Soul Master
A terrific force was emanating from that devilish globe above.
235. The Lord of Space
On the day of the next full moon every living thing on earth will be wiped out of existence
236. Read Spawn of the Stars Online for Free
The sky was alive with winged shapes, and high in the air shone the glittering menace, trailing five plumes of gas.
237. The Terror of Air-Level Six
The SF-22 and her convoy were surrounded by these unearthly rays.
238. Vandals of the Stars
IT came suddenly, without warning, and it brought consternation to the people of the world.
239. Marooned Under the Sea
We were going on some mysterious cruise to the South Seas, the details of which I did not know.
240. The Moon Master
Through infinite deeps of space Jerry Foster hurtles to the Moon—only to be trapped by a barbaric race and offered as a living sacrifice to Oong
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