Amazing Stories, August 1930

About this issue

This issue contains the opening installment of "Skylark Three" by Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., a space-opera serial featuring the Skylark spacecraft in intergalactic adventure, with the vessel depicted on the cover engaging enemy vessels of the Fenechrons from another planet. Additional fiction includes "South Polar Beryllium, Limited" by Peter van Dresser; "World Atavism" by Edmond Hamilton; "The Mystery of Professor Brown" by A. L. Hodges; "The Last War" by Captain S. P. Meek; and "When Incarcland Revolted" by Woods Peters. The issue features a science questionnaire and editor T. O'Conor Sloane's essay on atomic theory and classical versus modern physics. The cover price is twenty-five cents. The magazine also advertises upcoming stories including "The Troglodytes" by Fred M. Barclay, "Free Energy" by Harl Vincent, and "The Translation of John Forsythe" by Edmund W. Putnam.