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Astounding SCIENCE FICTION. Vol. X, No. 2. (British Edition) February 1954 Pit Contents Novelettes WHAT THIN PARTITIONS _. Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides 3 HUMPTY DUMPTY. ... .. . . Lewis Padgett 34 Short Stories La fae JO8... 2 ss . . . .Algis Budrys 26 THE GARDEN IN THE FOREST . Robert F. Young 77 GIMMICK ...... . . . Katherine MacLean 87 Articles DESTRUCTION FROM ATOMIC WEAPONS Lt. Theodore S. Simpson, USAF 64 VENUS OF TROY... . . . . . Daniel Whitton 71 pe ON PAR ees Ne a a we eee ee O Readers’ Departments Orie 6 Ol atk aS RS oe ee eee IN TIMES TO COME. Pe. fis re THE REFERENCE LIBRARY . . . P. Schuyler Miller 104 Meese TACGS. . ce Se Sin ee eS 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. LTD., 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 20/- 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 FEBRUARY 20th 1954 e CoOMmicdooksnco im