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ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE
_On Sale the First Thursday of Each Month_
W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher
HARRY BATES, Editor
DR. DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting Editor
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VOL. III, No. 1 CONTENTS JULY, 1930
COVER DESIGN
_Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "Earth, the Marauder."_
BEYOND THE HEAVISIDE LAYER CAPT. S. P. MEEK 5
_For Eighty Vertical Miles Carpenter and Bond Blasted Their Way--Only to Be Trapped by the Extraordinary Monsters of the Heaviside Layer._
EARTH, THE MARAUDER ARTHUR J. BURKS 18
_Out of Her Orbit Sped the Teeming Earth--A Marauding Planet Bent on Starry Conquest._ (Beginning a Three-part Novel.)
FROM AN AMBER BLOCK TOM CURRY 50
_A Giant Amber Block at Last Gives Up Its Living, Ravenous Prey._
THE TERROR OF AIR-LEVEL SIX HARL VINCENT 62
_From Some Far Reach of Leagueless Space Came a Great Pillar of Flame to Lay Waste and Terrorize the Earth._ (A Novelet.)
THE FORGOTTEN PLANET SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 88
_The Authentic Account of Why Cosmic Man Damned an Outlaw World to Be, Forever, a Leper of Space._
THE POWER AND THE GLORY CHARLES W. DIFFIN 104
_Sadly, Sternly, the Old Professor Reveals to His Brilliant Pupil the Greater Path to Glory._
MURDER MADNESS MURRAY LEINSTER 109
THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 134
_A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories._
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