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قراءة كتاب Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930
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ASTOUNDING
STORIES
OF SUPER-SCIENCE
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| VOL. III, No. 1 | CONTENTS | JULY, 1930 |
| COVER DESIGN | Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "Earth, the Marauder." | |
| BEYOND THE HEAVISIDE LAYER | CAPT. S. P. MEEK | 5 |
| For Eighty Vertical Miles Carpenter and Bond Blasted Their Way—Only to Be Trapped by the Extraordinary Monsters of the Heaviside Layer. | ||
| EARTH, THE MARAUDER | ARTHUR J. BURKS | 18 |
| Out of Her Orbit Sped the Teeming Earth—A Marauding Planet Bent on Starry Conquest. (Beginning a Three-part Novel.) |
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| FROM AN AMBER BLOCK | TOM CURRY | 50 |
| A Giant Amber Block at Last Gives Up Its Living, Ravenous Prey. | ||
| THE TERROR OF AIR-LEVEL SIX | HARL VINCENT | 62 |
| From Some Far Reach of Leagueless Space Came a Great Pillar of Flame to Lay Waste and Terrorize the Earth. (A Novelet.) |
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| THE FORGOTTEN PLANET | SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT | 88 |
| The Authentic Account of Why Cosmic Man Damned an Outlaw World to Be, Forever, a Leper of Space. | ||
| THE POWER AND THE GLORY | CHARLES W. DIFFIN | 104 |
| Sadly, Sternly, the Old Professor Reveals to His Brilliant Pupil the Greater Path to Glory. | ||
| MURDER MADNESS | MURRAY LEINSTER | 109 |
| More and More South Americans Are Stricken with the Horrible "Murder Madness" That Lies in the Master's Fearful Poison. And Bell Is Their One Last Hope as He Fights to Stem the Swiftly Rising Tide of a Continent's Utter Enslavement. (Part Three of a Four-part Novel.) |
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| THE READERS' CORNER | ALL OF US | 134 |
| A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories. | ||
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Beyond the Heaviside Layer
By Capt S. P. Meek
They were moving sluggishly along the red light, seeming to flow rather than crawl.McQuarrie, the City Editor, looked up as I entered his office.
"Bond," he asked, "do you know Jim Carpenter?"
"I know him slightly," I replied cautiously. "I have met him several times and I interviewed him some years ago when he improved the Hadley rocket motor. I can't claim a very extensive acquaintance with him."
"I thought you knew him well. It is a surprise to me to find that there is any prominent man who is not an especial friend of yours. At any rate you know him as well as anyone of the staff, so I'll give you the assignment."
"What's he up to now?" I asked.
"He's going to try to punch a hole in the heaviside layer."
"But that's impossible," I cried. "How can anyone...."
My voice died away in silence. True enough, the idea of trying to make a permanent hole in a field of magnetic force was absurd, but even as I spoke I remembered that Jim Carpenter had never agreed to the opinion almost unanimously held by our scientists as to the true nature of the heaviside layer.
"It may be impossible," replied McQuarrie