Description: Astounding Stories of Super-science : January, 1930, Paperback by Cummings, Ray, ISBN 151952644X, ISBN-13 9781519526441, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Introducing— ASTOUNDING STORIESWhat are "astounding" stories?Well, if you lived in Europe in 1490, and someone told you the earth was round and moved around the sun—that would have been an "astounding" if you lived in 1840, and were told that someday men a thousand miles apart would be able to talk to each other through a little wire—or without any wire at all—that would have been if, in 1900, they predicted ocean-crossing airplanes and submarines, world-girdling Zeppelins, sixty-story buildings, radio, metal that can be made to resist gravity and float in the air—these would have been other "astounding" , time has gone by, and all these things are commonplace. That is the only real difference between the astounding and the commonplace—, more astounding things are going to happen. Your children—or their children—are going to take a trip to the moon. They will be able to render themselves invisible—a problem that has already been partly solved. They will be able to disintegrate their bodies in New York and reintegrate them in China—and in a matter of Indeed, Well—television would have been impossible, almost unthinkable, ten years you will see the kind of magazine that it is our pleasure to offer you beginning with this, the first number of ASTOUNDING is a magazine whose stories will anticipate the super-scientific achievements of To-morrow—whose stories will not only be strictly accurate in their science but will be vividly, dramatically and thrillingly we have secured stories by some of the finest writers of fantasy in the world—men such as Ray Cummings, Murray Leinster, Captain S. P. Meek, Harl Vincent, R. F. Starzl and Victor —order your next month's copy of ASTOUNDING STORIES in advance!—The Editor.
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Book Title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1930)
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Publication Year: 2015
Topic: Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies
Item Height: 0.4 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 14.9 Oz
Author: Ray Cummings
Item Length: 10 in
Book Series: Astounding Stories of Super-Science Ser.
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
