Astounding Stories, April, 1931

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• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Astounding Stories, April, 1931, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Astounding Stories, April, 1931 Author: Various Release Date: November 11, 2009 [EBook #30452] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ASTOUNDING STORIES, APRIL, 1931 *** Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ASTOUNDING STORIES 20¢ On Sale the First Thursday of Each Month W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher Editor HARRY BATES, Editor DR. DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting The Clayton Standard on a Magazine Guarantees That the stories therein are clean, interesting, vivid, by leading writers of the day and purchased under conditions approved by the Authors' League of America; That such magazines are manufactured in Union shops by American workmen; That each newsdealer and agent is insured a fair profit; That an intelligent censorship guards their advertising pages. The other Clayton magazines are : ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE, RANCH ROMANCES, COWBOY STORIES, CLUES, FIVE-NOVELS MONTHLY ALL STAR DETECTIVE STORIES, RANGELAND , LOVE STORY MAGAZINE, WESTERN ADVENTURES, and WESTERN LOVE STORIES. More than Two Million Copies Required to Supply the Monthly Demand for Clayton Magazines. VOL. VI, No. 1 CONTENTS April, 1931 COVER DESIGN MONSTERS OF MARS H. W. WESSO EDMOND HAMILTON 4 Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Monsters of Mars." Three Martian-Duped Earth-Men Swing Open the Gates of Space That for So Long Had Barred the Greedy Hordes of the Red Planet. (A Complete Novelette.) THE EXILE OF TIME RAY CUMMINGS 26 From Somewhere Out of Time Come a Swarm of Robots Who Inflict on New York the Awful Vengeance of the Diabolical Cripple Tugh. (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.) HELL'S DIMENSION TOM CURRY 51 Professor Lambert Deliberately Ventures into a Vibrational Dimension to Join His Fiancée in Its Magnetic Torture-Fields. THE WORLD BEHIND THE MOON FOUR MILES WITHIN PAUL ERNST ANTHONY GILMORE 64 76 Two Intrepid Earth-Men Fight It Out with the Horrific Monsters of Zeud's Frightful Jungles. Far Down into the Earth Goes a Gleaming Metal Sphere Whose Passengers Are Deadly Enemies. (A Complete Novelette.) THE LAKE OF LIGHT JACK WILLIAMSON 100 In the Frozen Wastes at the Bottom of the World Two Explorers Find a Strange Pool of White Fire—and Have a Strange Adventure. THE GHOST WORLD SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 118 Commander John Hanson Records Another of His Thrilling Interplanetary Adventures with the Special Patrol Service. THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 134 A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories. Single Copies, 20 Cents (In Canada, 25 Cents) $2.00 Yearly Subscription, Issued monthly by Readers' Guild, Inc., 80 Lafayette Street, New York, N. Y W. M. Clayton, President; Francis . P. Pace, Secretary. Entered as second-class matter December 7, 1929, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y ., under Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered as a Trade Mark in the U. S. Patent Office. Member Newsstand Group—Men's List. For advertising rates address E. R. Crowe & Co., Inc., 25 Vanderbilt Ave., New York; or 225 North Michigan Ave., Chicago. Monsters of Mars A COMPLETE NOVELETTE [4] By Edmond Hamilton The Martian gestured with a reptilian arm toward the ladder. llan Randall stared at the man before him. "And that's why you sent for me, Milton?" he finally asked. There was a moment's silence, in which Randall's eyes moved as though uncomprehendingly from the face of Milton to those of the two men beside him. The four sat together at the end of a roughly furnished and electric-lit living-room, and in that momentary silence there came in to them from the outside night the distant pounding of the Atlantic upon the beach. It was Randall who first spoke again. The other's face was unsmiling. "That's why I sent for you, Allan," he said quietly. "To go to Mars with us to-night!" "To Mars!" he repeated. "Have you gone crazy, Milton—or is this some joke you've put up with Lanier and Nelson here?" Three Martian-duped Earth-men swing open the gates of space that for so long had barred the greedy hordes of the Red Planet. Milton shook his head gravely. "It is not a joke, Allan. Lanier and I are actually going to flash out over the gulf to [5] the planet Mars to-night. Nelson must stay here, and since we wanted three to go I wired you as the most likely of my friends to make the venture." "But good God!" Randall exploded, rising. "You, Milton, as a physicist ought to know better. Space-ships and projectiles and all that are but fictionists' dreams." "We are not going in either space-ship or projectile," said Milton calmly. And then as he saw his friend's bewilderment he rose and led the way to a door at the room's end, the other three following him into the room beyond. t was a long laboratory of unusual size in which Randall found himself, one in which every variety of physical and electrical apparatus seemed represented. Three huge dynamo-motor arrangements took up the room's far end, and from them a tangle of wiring led through square black condensers and transformers to a battery of great tubes. Most remarkable, though, was the object at the room's center. It was like a great double cube of dull metal, being in effect two metal cubes each twelve feet square, supported a few feet above the floor by insulated standards. One side of each cube was open, exposing the hollow interiors of the two cubical chambers. Other wiring led from the big electronic tubes and from the dynamos to the sides of the two cubes. The four men gazed at the enigmatic thing for a time in silence. Milton's strong, capable face showed only in its steady eyes what feelings were his, but Lanier's younger countenance was alight with excitement; and so [6] too to some degree was that of Nelson. Randall simply stared at the thing, until Milton nodded toward it. "That," he said, "is what will flash us out to Mars to-night." Randall could only turn his stare upon the other, and Lanier chuckled. "Can't take it in yet, Randall? Well, neither could I when the idea was first sprung on us." ilton nodded to seats behind them, and as the half-dazed Randall sank into one the physicist faced him earnestly. "Randall, there isn't much time now, but I am going to tell you what I have been doing in the last two years on this God-forsaken Maine coast. I have been for those two years in unbroken communication by radio with beings on the planet Mars! "It was when I still held my physics professorship back at the university that I