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Cover of Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1943

Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1943

May 1943

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Contents

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
6 Essay Non Fiction "—Wrap It Up—" The Editor
9 Serial Fiction Gather, Darkness! (Part 1 of 3) Fritz Leiber
59 Essay Non Fiction In Times to Come (Astounding, May 1943) The Editor
60 Short Fiction Fiction Ghost Henry Kuttner
71 Short Fiction Fiction Pacer Raymond F. Jones
88 Essay Non Fiction The Old Ones Willy Ley
104 Essay Non Fiction Brass Tacks (Astounding, May 1943) The Editor
105 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Astounding, May 1943): "They Fit All TImes—All Places." Thanks—That's What I Thought, Too. The Plots Are, Then, Soundly Based on the Fundamentals of Human Nature, a Factor That Changes Only Over Periods of Hundreds of Millenniums. If Human Beings Are Inherent in Those Futures, Then the Plots Used Are, Too. J. V. Lewis
106 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Astounding, May 1943): I Guess the Best Answer I Can Give on the Next Gray Lensman Story Is the One the Soldiers All Know—"Duration Plus Six Months." Richard Olsson
108 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Astounding, May 1943): Said the Queen, "Don't Be Stupider Than You Have to. That Isn't an Automatic Bomb; It's Under the Control of an Operator Watching the Television Screen—" Joe Gibson
109 Short Fiction Fiction Fifth Freedom John Alvarez
124 Short Fiction Fiction Let's Disappear Cleve Cartmill
104|104.1 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Astounding, May 1943): If Science-Fiction Turned Out to Be Prophecy, the Planet Would Be Fighting Off Six Mutually Exclusive Sorts of Invaders, Preparing to Undergo an Ice Age and/or a Nova Explosion of the Sun—Well, You Add Up All the Catastrophies Promised! But as Stories— Edwin M. Clinton, Jr.
107|107.1 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Astounding, May 1943): Don A. Stuart Is Too Darned Bust to Write for the Magazine Now. Sorry. Chandler Davis
107|107.2 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Astounding, May 1943): Frequently, Specific Names Get Carried Over as General Nouns. "Pistol" Was Originally a Specific Noun—Now Become a Class Noun. Similarly, "Rifle" Might Become a General Noun Meaning a Long-Shafted, Somewhat Clumsy Hand-Weapon. Harold Wooster
Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction Astounding Science Fiction - 1943 John W. Campbell, Jr.
Cover Art Non Fiction Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1943 Timmins
16 Interior Art Non Fiction Gather, darkness! (part 1 of 3) F. Kramer
29 Interior Art Non Fiction Gather, darkness! (part 1 of 3) [2] F. Kramer
47 Interior Art Non Fiction Gather, darkness! (part 1 of 3) [3] F. Kramer
62 Interior Art Non Fiction Ghost F. Kramer
65 Interior Art Non Fiction Ghost [2] F. Kramer
75 Interior Art Non Fiction Pacer Orban
80 Interior Art Non Fiction Pacer [2] Orban
111 Interior Art Non Fiction Fifth Freedom F. Kramer
118 Interior Art Non Fiction Fifth Freedom [2] F. Kramer
129 Interior Art Non Fiction Let's Disappear Orban
132 Interior Art Non Fiction Let's Disappear [2] Orban
139 Interior Art Non Fiction Let's Disappear [3] Orban
144 Interior Art Non Fiction Let's Disappear [4] Orban