Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May 1930

Astounding/Analog #5

by Harry Bates (Editor)

Vol 2, No 2.

No science fiction library would be complete without Astounding Stories of Super-Science, a highly influential pulp magazine of both sci-fi and horror from the early 1930s!

Contents:
151 • Into the Ocean's Depths • [Warren Mercer • 2] • novelette by Sewell Peaslee Wright
166 • Murder Madness (Part 1 of 4) • serial by Murray Leinster
195 • Brigands of the Moon (Part 3 of 4) • [Gregg Haljan • 1] • serial by Ray Cummings
228 • The Jovian Jest • short story by Lilith Lorraine
233 • For Vacation Adventures • essay by uncredited
234 • The Atom-Smasher • novella by Victor Rousseau
277 • The Readers' Corner (Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May 1930) • [The Readers' Corner] • essay by The Editor
277 •  Letter (Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May 1930) • essay by Linus Hogenmiller
278 •  Letter (Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May 1930) • [Letters: Forrest J. Ackerman] • essay by Forrest J. Ackerman

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Genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure

315 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 1930

About the author

Hiram Gilmore "Harry" Bates III (October 9, 1900 – September 1981) was an American science fiction editor and writer. His short story "Farewell to the Master" (1940) was the basis of the well-known science fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_B...

see also under the following pen-names:
Anthony Gilmore (with D.W. Hall)
A.R. Holmes
H.G. Winter (with D.W. Hall)

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There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Reviews

[Evonne Crosswell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dated Language

The stories are good, but...
As a person of color, I did not enjoy the references made to savages, black imp, or the other colorful racist terms used in these stories.