Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930
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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
_More and More South Americans Are Stricken with the Horrible "Murder Madness" That Lies in the Master's Fearful Poison. And Bell Is Their One Last Hope as He Fights to Stem the Swiftly Rising Tide of a Continent's Utter Enslavement._ (Part Three of a Four-part Novel.)
THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 134
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