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قراءة كتاب Astounding Stories, May, 1931
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ASTOUNDING
STORIES
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VOL. VI, No. 2 CONTENTS May, 1931
| COVER DESIGN | H. W. WESSO | ||
| Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Dark Moon." | |||
| DARK MOON | CHARLES W. DIFFIN | 148 | |
| Mysterious, Dark, Out of the Unknown Deep Comes a New Satellite to Lure Three Courageous Earthlings on to Strange Adventure. (A Complete Novelette.) | |||
| WHEN CAVERNS YAWNED | CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK | 198 | |
| Only Dr. Bird's Super-Scientific Sleuthing Stands in the Way of Ivan Sarnoff's Latest Attempt at Wholesale Destruction. | |||
| THE EXILE OF TIME | RAY CUMMINGS | 216 | |
| Young Lovers of Three Eras Are Swept down the Torrent of the Sinister Cripple Tugh's Frightful Vengeance. (Part Two of a Four-Part Novel.) | |||
| WHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN | HAL K. WELLS | 241 | |
| Outside His Laboratory Bruce Dixon Finds a World of Living Dead Men—and Above, in the Sky, Shines a Weird Green Moon. | |||
| THE DEATH-CLOUD | NAT SCHACHNER AND ARTHUR L. ZAGAT | 256 | |
| The Epic Exploit of One Who Worked in the Dark and Alone, Behind the Enemy Lines, in the Great Last War. | |||
| THE READERS' CORNER | ALL OF US | 276 | |
| A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories. | |||
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Behind them a red ship was falling—falling free!Dark Moon
A COMPLETE NOVELETTE
By Charles W. Diffin
CHAPTER I
There Comes a New World
he one hundred and fifty-ninth floor of the great Transportation Building allowed one standing at a window to look down upon the roofs of the countless buildings that were New York.
Flat-decked, all of them; busy places of hangars and machine shops and strange aircraft, large and small, that rose vertically under the lift of flashing helicopters.
The air was alive and vibrant with directed streams of stubby-winged shapes that drove swiftly on their way, with only a wisp of vapor from their funnel-shaped sterns to mark the continuous explosion that propelled them. Here and there were those that entered a shaft of pale-blue light that somehow outshone the sun. It marked an ascending area, and there ships canted swiftly, swung their blunt noses upward, and vanished, to the upper levels.
A mile and more away, in a great shaft of green light from which all other craft kept clear, a tremendous shape was