Astounding Stories. March 1931. : Volume 5, No. 3. March, 1931 EPUB

Science Fiction has always drawn some of our most creative writers to its form. Back in the early decades of the twentieth century events conspired to propel the whole genre forward from the earlier works of Jules Verne and other luminaries.

New media technologies were coming to the fore with radio and television to add to new industrial processes and ideas. Hollywood's golden years were creating 'escapist fare' as the world battled with war and depression where the impossible seemed possible. On the streets pulp magazines were becoming the dominant form of mass market reading. The real world had shrunk and other worlds were sought.

Writers were able to fuse ideas with technical 'know how' and create fabulous inventions of other worlds and other times. These inspired other writers to re-imagine almost everything in the search for new situations and environments.

A Golden Age was upon us. These are their stories.......

WHEN THE MOUNTAIN CAME TO MIRAMAR by CHARLES W. DIFFIN

It is Magic against Magic As Garry Connell Bluffs for His Life with a Prehistoric Savage in the Heart of Sentinel Mountain.

ROBOT CHEMIST

BEYOND THE VANISHING POINT by RAY CUMMINGS

The Tale of a Golden Atom an Astounding Adventure in Size. (A Complete Novelette.)

CHAPTER I - The Fragment of Quartz

CHAPTER II - The Girl an Inch Tall

CHAPTER III - The Fight in the Shrinking Dome Room

CHAPTER IV - The Journey Into Smallness

CHAPTER V - The Message from Polter

CHAPTER VI - The Girl in the Golden Cage

CHAPTER VII - Within the Golden Cage

CHAPTER VIII - From a Drop of Water

CHAPTER IX - The Doomed Realm

CHAPTER X - The Escape

CHAPTER XI - The Combat of Size

CHAPTER XII - Mysterious Little Golden Rock

INVISIBLE EYES

MOON ROCKETS

TERRORS UNSEEN by HARL VINCENT

One after Another the Invisible Robots Escape Shelton's Control and Their Trail Leads Straight to the Gangster Chief Cadorna.

PHALANXES OF ATLANS by F. V. W. MASON

Never Did an Aviator Ride a More Amazing Sky-Steed Than Alden on His Desperate Dash to the Great Jarmuthian Ziggurat. (Conclusion of a Two-Part Novel.)

CONCLUSION

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

THE METEOR GIRL by JACK WILLIAMSON

Through the Complicated Space-Time of the Fourth Dimension Goes Charlie King in an Attempt to Rescue the Meteor Girl.

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