Air Wonder Stories, December 1929 — page 76: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

AIR WONDER STORIES tacked us without warning; attacked us with mighty weapons which they had devised especially to annihilate us all—and we could but defend ourselves.” “T know it, Brant,” he said: “We could do nothing else—but I am glad—glad, man!—only that this great- est of all wars is the last.” “Rarth’s Last Air War!” It was Macklin speaking, thoughtfully: “Now, the war lords of our enemies have gone, their people will join with us to end all wars, to forget all our enmities. . . .” “We will,” I said, as I turned toward. the controls; “but we five can never forget what has happened.” And then, as the others sat silent at my words, I was The Greatest opening the speed-control ‘before me, moving over one of the great levers, and sending New York, with its great motors droning and its tube-propellers hissing, away to the east; toward the sunrise, faster and faster, rushing eastward over the green plains that were now rolling swiftly back far beneath. On all the mighty city around us, in all its streets and plazas, its great surging crowds were shouting still, a great, rejoicing clamor. But we five there at the city’s controls, in the great tower, sat silent and unmoving. Gazing out into the blue cloudless heavens before us as our city rushed dawnward, we looked into the face-of the morning sun. Tt was the sun rising on a world at peace. Interplanetarian Story of All Time is to our minds “THE SHOT INTO INFINITY” By Otto Willi Gail During the past few years, the Germans have progressed rapidly in serious attempts to solve interplanetarian travel. In the present story by one of. the greatest German science fiction authors, Mr. Otto Willi Gail has given the world a real story on interplanetarian travel, not based upon the usual fiction, but upon real science. In writing the story he has had the collabora- tion of the most famous German scientists— experts on the subject. A most marvelous story, which will be a classic for all times, is the result. At least 60 to 70 per cent. of the material contained in this story has never appeared in print before in any other science fiction interplanetarian story. A This story along with many other superb ones appears in the new SCIENCE WONDER QUARTERLY, See the important advertisement on page 570 of this issue. Watch the Newsstands for the GOLD COVER