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Astounding SCIENCE FICTION Vol. IX, No. 12. (British Edition) December 1953 Contents Novelettes ENOUGH ROPE... ..... + Poul Anderson SURVIVAL. . ...... .. . . .DonGreen 39 ho Short Story SOLUTION DELAYED Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides 22 Serial MISSION OF GRAVITY. ... . . . Hal Clement 72 (Conclusion) Article . : LOCUM TENENS ...... . . .Wallace West 60 Readers’ Departments IR a gg, a ee Re ew ee ee THE REFERENCE LIBRARY. . . P. Schuyler Miller 113 BRUNE RM ae ee ee gine a eee Cover by Miller The American ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, of which this is the British edition, is edited by JOHN W. CAMPBELL, JR. ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION. The editorial contents have not been published before in Great 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 coincidental. Published monthly by ATLAS PUBLISHING & DISTRIBUTING CO. LID., 18 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4, by arrangement with Street & Smith Publications Inc., 575 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New ‘York, U.S.A. Copyright in U.S.A. and Great Britain by Street & Smith Publications Inc, Annual Subscription 2o/- post free. Sole Trade Distributors: THE MAGAZINE COMPANY, 18 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. Sole Agents for Australia and New Zealand: GORDON ’& GOTCH (AUSTRALASIA) LTD. e NEXT ISSUE ON SALE DECEMBER 19, 1953 e@ connicloooks.con