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companion magazine to the popular— STREET & SMITH'S DETECTIVE monthly ONE SHILLING mystery DETECTIV E ONE SHILLING MONTHLY —stories to thrill and chill you! Astounding SCIENCE FICTION Vol. XI. No. 9. (British Edition) _ September 1955 Contents Serial THE LONG WAY HOME... . . Poul Anderson 5 (Part One of Four Parts) : Novelettes THE STUTTERER ....:. .. R.R. Merliss 40 OEE RECA Eu eae the dae, hemetas pig, 5 gece’ . Everett B. Cole 88 Short Story . THE PLAINS OF SAN AUGUSTINE. . Lee Correy 64 Article THE RIGHT TO BREED . . . .Donald Kingsbury 79 Readers’ Departments EDITORTALS Whee etete Sean HC NEE Sie sotto hy! ay BOOKS RECEIVED Rikies aie ab rial as 78 IN TIMES TO COME ... . Bara. thine & 78 THE ANALYTICAL LABORATORY eect ye ay. 7 ‘The American ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, of which this | is the British Edition, is edited by JOHN W. CAMPBELL, Jr. COVER BY FREAS * Illustrations by Freas, Riley, Solo and Van Dongen SYMBOL: Relationships. _ ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION. The editorial contents have not been published before in Grea Britain, are protected by copyright and cannot be reprinted without publishers’ permission. All stories in this magazine are fiction. No actual persons are designated by name or character. Any similarity is coincident Published monthly by ATLAS PUBLISHING & DISTRIBUTING CO. LTD,, 18 Bride Lane, Fleet eee London, E.C.4, by arrangement with Street & Smith Publications Inc., 575 Madison Avenue, w York 22, New York, U.S.A. Copyright in U.S.A. and Great Britain by Street & Smith Publications nee Annual Subscription 20/- post free. Sole Trading Distributors: THE MAGAZINE COMPANY, x8 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. Sole Agents for Australia and New Zealand: GORDON & GOTCH (AUSTRALASIA) LTD. < S G fe) O e NEXT ISSUE ON co SEPTE cpo0o0 ¢