Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931
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ASTOUNDING STORIES
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VOL. V, No. 1 CONTENTS JANUARY, 1931
COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSO _Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "The Gate to Xoran."_
THE DARK SIDE OF ANTRI SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 9 _Commander John Hanson Relates an Interplanetary Adventure Illustrating the Splendid Service Spirit of the Men of the Special Patrol._
THE SUNKEN EMPIRE H. THOMPSON RICH 24 _Concerning the Strange Adventures of Professor Stevens with the Antillians on the Floor of the Mysterious Sargasso Sea._
THE GATE TO XORAN HAL K. WELLS 46 _A Strange Man of Metal Comes to Earth on a Dreadful Mission._
THE EYE OF ALLAH C. D. WILLARD 58 _On the Fatal Seventh of September a Certain Secret Service Man Sat in the President's Chair and--Looked Back into the Eye of Allah._
THE FIFTH-DIMENSION CATAPULT MURRAY LEINSTER 72 _The Story of Tommy Reames' Extraordinary Rescue of Professor Denham and his Daughter--Marooned in the Fifth Dimension._ (A Complete Novelette.)
THE PIRATE PLANET CHARLES W. DIFFIN 109 _Two Fighting Yankees--War-Torn Earth's Sole Representatives on Venus--Set Out to Spike the Greatest Gun of All Time._ (Part Three of a Four-Part Novel.)
THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 132 _A Meeting Place for Readers of_ ASTOUNDING STORIES.
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