Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930

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Various. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930

The Planet of Dread. By R. F. Starzl

The Lord of Space. By Victor Rousseau

The Second Satellite. By Edmond Hamilton

HISTORIC EXPERIMENT PROVES EARTH'S ROTATION

A REVOLUTIONARY AIRPLANE

Silver Dome. By Harl Vincent

Earth, the Marauder. PART TWO OF A THREE-PART NOVEL. By Arthur J. Burks

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE

CHAPTER XI. Escape – and Dalis' Laughter

CHAPTER XII. Ashes of the Moon

CHAPTER XIII. The Lunar Cubes

CHAPTER XIV. The Crater Gnomes

CHAPTER XV. The Place of the Blue Light

CHAPTER XVI. Cavern of the Cone

CHAPTER XVII. Casting the Die

CHAPTER XVIII. The People of Radiance

Murder Madness. CONCLUSION OF A FOUR-PART NOVEL. By Murray Leinster

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

The Flying City. By H. Thompson Rich

The Readers' Corner

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"On the day of the next full moon every living thing on earth will be wiped out of existence – unless you succeed in your mission, Lee."

Nathaniel Lee looked into the face of Silas Stark, President of the United States of the World, and nodded grimly. "I'll do my best, Sir," he answered.

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"Gott!" screamed the old man. "Gott, you're lying to me, bourgeois! You're lying, I tell you!"

So Eros was their destination! Eros, one of the asteroids, those tiny fragments of a broken planet, lying outside the orbit of Mars. Some of these little worlds, of which more than a thousand are known to exist, are no larger than a gentleman's country estate; some are mere rocks in space. Eros, Nat knew, was distinguished among them from the fact that it had an eccentric orbit, which brought it at times nearer Earth than any other heavenly body except the Moon.

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