Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930

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Various. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930

Old Crompton's Secret

Spawn of the Stars

The Corpse on the Grating

Creatures of the Light

Into Space

The Beetle Horde

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER VII. Through the Inferno

CHAPTER VIII. Recaptured

CHAPTER IX. The Trail of Death

CHAPTER X. At Bay

CHAPTER XI. The World Set Free

Mad Music

The Thief of Time

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When Cyrus R. Thurston bought himself a single-motored Stoughton job he was looking for new thrills. Flying around the east coast had lost its zest: he wanted to join that jaunty group who spoke so easily of hopping off for Los Angeles.

The Earth lay powerless beneath those loathsome, yellowish monsters that, sheathed in cometlike globes, sprang from the skies to annihilate man and reduce his cities to ashes.

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Arms carried him stumbling from the field. Above the low hangars he saw smoke clouds over the bay. These and red rolling flames marked what had been an American city. Far in the heavens moved five glinting specks.

His head reeled with the thunder of engines. There were planes standing in lines and more erupting from hangars, where khaki-clad men, faces tense under leather helmets, rushed swiftly about.

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