Astounding Stories. March 1931.

Science Fiction has always drawn some of our most creative writers to its form. Back in the early decades of the twentieth century events conspired to propel the whole genre forward from the earlier works of Jules Verne and other luminaries.New media technologies were coming to the fore with radio and television to add to new industrial processes and ideas. Hollywood's golden years were creating 'escapist fare' as the world battled with war and depression where the impossible seemed possible. On the streets pulp magazines were becoming the dominant form of mass market reading. The real world had shrunk and other worlds were sought.Writers were able to fuse ideas with technical 'know how' and create fabulous inventions of other worlds and other times. These inspired other writers to re-imagine almost everything in the search for new situations and environments.A Golden Age was upon us. These are their stories.......WHEN THE MOUNTAIN CAME TO MIRAMAR by CHARLES W. DIFFINIt is Magic against Magic As Garry Connell Bluffs for His Life with a Prehistoric Savage in the Heart of Sentinel Mountain.ROBOT CHEMISTBEYOND THE VANISHING POINT by RAY CUMMINGSThe Tale of a Golden Atom an Astounding Adventure in Size. (A Complete Novelette.)CHAPTER I - The Fragment of QuartzCHAPTER II - The Girl an Inch TallCHAPTER III - The Fight in the Shrinking Dome RoomCHAPTER IV - The Journey Into SmallnessCHAPTER V - The Message from PolterCHAPTER VI - The Girl in the Golden CageCHAPTER VII - Within the Golden CageCHAPTER VIII - From a Drop of WaterCHAPTER IX - The Doomed RealmCHAPTER X - The EscapeCHAPTER XI - The Combat of SizeCHAPTER XII - Mysterious Little Golden RockINVISIBLE EYESMOON ROCKETSTERRORS UNSEEN by HARL VINCENTOne after Another the Invisible Robots Escape Shelton's Control and Their Trail Leads Straight to the Gangster Chief Cadorna.PHALANXES OF ATLANS by F. V. W. MASONNever Did an Aviator Ride a More Amazing Sky-Steed Than Alden on His Desperate Dash to the Great Jarmuthian Ziggurat. (Conclusion of a Two-Part Novel.)CONCLUSIONWHAT HAS GONE BEFORECHAPTER VIICHAPTER VIIICHAPTER IXCHAPTER XCHAPTER XITHE METEOR GIRL by JACK WILLIAMSONThrough the Complicated Space-Time of the Fourth Dimension Goes Charlie King in an Attempt to Rescue the Meteor Girl.ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Science Fiction has always drawn some of our most creative writers to its form. Back in the early decades of the twentieth century events conspired to propel the whole genre forward from the earlier works of Jules Verne and other luminaries.New media technologies were coming to the fore with radio and television to add to new industrial processes and ideas. Hollywood's golden years were creating 'escapist fare' as the world battled with war and depression where the impossible seemed possible. On the streets pulp magazines were becoming the dominant form of mass market reading. The real world had shrunk and other worlds were sought.Writers were able to fuse ideas with technical 'know how' and create fabulous inventions of other worlds and other times. These inspired other writers to re-imagine almost everything in the search for new situations and environments.A Golden Age was upon us. These are their stories.......WHEN THE MOUNTAIN CAME TO MIRAMAR by CHARLES W. DIFFINIt is Magic against Magic As Garry Connell Bluffs for His Life with a Prehistoric Savage in the Heart of Sentinel Mountain.ROBOT CHEMISTBEYOND THE VANISHING POINT by RAY CUMMINGSThe Tale of a Golden Atom an Astounding Adventure in Size. (A Complete Novelette.)CHAPTER I - The Fragment of QuartzCHAPTER II - The Girl an Inch TallCHAPTER III - The Fight in the Shrinking Dome RoomCHAPTER IV - The Journey Into SmallnessCHAPTER V - The Message from PolterCHAPTER VI - The Girl in the Golden CageCHAPTER VII - Within the Golden CageCHAPTER VIII - From a Drop of WaterCHAPTER IX - The Doomed RealmCHAPTER X - The EscapeCHAPTER XI - The Combat of SizeCHAPTER XII - Mysterious Little Golden RockINVISIBLE EYESMOON ROCKETSTERRORS UNSEEN by HARL VINCENTOne after Another the Invisible Robots Escape Shelton's Control and Their Trail Leads Straight to the Gangster Chief Cadorna.PHALANXES OF ATLANS by F. V. W. MASONNever Did an Aviator Ride a More Amazing Sky-Steed Than Alden on His Desperate Dash to the Great Jarmuthian Ziggurat. (Conclusion of a Two-Part Novel.)CONCLUSIONWHAT HAS GONE BEFORECHAPTER VIICHAPTER VIIICHAPTER IXCHAPTER XCHAPTER XITHE METEOR GIRL by JACK WILLIAMSONThrough the Complicated Space-Time of the Fourth Dimension Goes Charlie King in an Attempt to Rescue the Meteor Girl.ABOUT THE AUTHORS