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Astounding British Edition, Vol. 1, No. 1

1939 · Free to read

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About this issue

This is a science fiction pulp magazine from August 1939. The issue contains a serialized story, multiple novelettes, and short stories. Frederick Engelhardt's two-part serial "General Swamp, C.I.C." concerns a military commander and Venus's swamp terrain. "The Luck of Ignatz" by Lester del Rey is featured prominently, following a spaceman named Jerry Lord and his Venusian mascot, a zloaht (snail-lizard) creature named Ignatz who brings good fortune in swamps but causes misfortune elsewhere. Other contents include L. Sprague de Camp's "The Blue Giraffe," depicting an African scientific mishap involving unusual colored animals; Lee Gregor's "Heavy Planet," concerning a derelict spaceship on a high-gravity world; Robert Heinlein's "Life-Line," presenting a method for predicting human death; and Nelson S. Bond's "Stowaway." The magazine's editorial discusses how science fiction writers propose inventions while neglecting realistic development timescales.

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