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Title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
Editor: Harry Bates
Contributor: Ray Cummings
V. R. Emanuel
Murray Leinster
S. P. Meek
Anthony Pelcher
M. L. Staley
C. V. Tench
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE JANUARY 1930 ***
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE
VOL. I No. 1 JANUARY, 1930
W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher
HARRY BATES, Editor
DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting Editor
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CONTENTS
EDITORIAL THE EDITOR 7
_An Introduction to a New and Unique Magazine._
THE BEETLE HORDE VICTOR ROUSSEAU 8
_Only Two Young Explorers Stand in the Way of the Mad Bram's
Horrible Revenge--the Releasing of His Trillions of Man-sized
Beetles upon an Utterly Defenseless World._ (Part One of a Two-part
Novel.)
THE CAVE OF HORROR CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 32
_Screaming, the Guardsman Was Jerked Through the Air. An Unearthly
Screech Rang Through the Cavern. The Unseen Horror of Mammoth Cave
Had Struck Again!_
PHANTOMS OF REALITY RAY CUMMINGS 46
_Red Sensua's Knife Came up Dripping--and the Two Adventurers Knew
that Chaos and Bloody Revolution Had Been Unleashed in that Shadowy
Kingdom of the Fourth Dimension._ (A Complete Novel.)
THE STOLEN MIND M. L. STALEY 75
_What Would You Do, If, Like Quest, You Were Tricked, and Your Very
Mind and Will Stolen from Your Body?_
COMPENSATION C. V. TENCH 92
_Professor Wroxton Had Disappeared--But in the Bottom of the
Mysterious Crystal Cage Lay the Diamond from His Ring!_
TANKS MURRAY LEINSTER 100
_Two Miles of American Front Had Gone Dead. And on Two Lone
Infantrymen, Lost in the Menace of the Fog-gas and the Tanks,
Depended the Outcome of the War of 1932._
INVISIBLE DEATH ANTHONY PELCHER 118
_On Lees' Quick and Clever Action Depended the Life of "Old Perk"
Ferguson, the Millionaire Manufacturer Threatened by the Uncanny,
Invisible Killer._
_Introducing_--
ASTOUNDING STORIES
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.
Or if you lived in 1840, and were told that some day men a thousand
miles apart would be able to talk to each other through a little
wire--or without any wire at all--that would have been another.
Or if, in 1900, they predicted ocean-crossing airplanes and submarines,
world-girdling Zeppelins, sixty-story buildings, radio, metal that can
be made to resist gravity and float in the air--these would have been
other "astounding" stories.
To-day, time has gone by, and all these things are commonplace. That is
the only real difference between the astounding and the
commonplace--Time.
To-morrow, more astounding things are going to happen. Your children--or
their children--are going to take a trip to the moon. They will be able
to render themselves invisible--a problem that has already been partly
solved. They will be able to disintegrate their bodies in New York and
reintegrate them in China--and in a matter of seconds.
Astounding? Indeed, yes.
Impossible? Well--television would have been impossible, almost
unthinkable, ten years ago.
Now you will see the kind of magazine that it is our pleasure to offer
you beginning with this, the first number of ASTOUNDING STORIES.
It is a magazine whose stories will anticipate the super-scientific
achievements of To-morrow--whose stories will not only be strictly
accurate in their science but will be vividly, dramatically and
thrillingly told.
Already we have secured stories by some of the finest writers of fantasy
in the world--men such as Ray Cummings, Murray Leinster, Captain S. P.
Meek, Harl Vincent, R. F. Starzl and Victor Rousseau.
So--order your next month's copy of ASTOUNDING STORIES in advance!
--_The Editor._
The Beetle Horde
A TWO-PART NOVEL
_By Victor Rousseau_
[Illustration: _Dodd and Tommy realised that they were powerless against
the monstrous beetles._]
[Sidenote: Only two young explorers stand in the way of the mad Bram's
horrible revenge--the releasing of his trillions of man-sized beetles
upon an utterly defenseless world.]
CHAPTER I
_Dodd's Discovery_
Out of the south the biplane came winging back toward the camp, a black
speck against the dazzling white of the vast ice-fields that extended
unbroken to the horizon on every side.
It came out of the south, and yet, a hundred miles further back along
the course on which it flew, it could not have proceeded in any
direction except northward. For a hundred miles south lay the south
pole, the goal toward which the Travers Expeditions had been pressing
for the better part of that year.
Not that they could not have reached it sooner. As a matter of fact,
the pole had been crossed a Next |