{"product_id":"2940013684782","title":"ASTOUNDING STORIES JANUARY 1931","description":"VOL. V, No. 1                CONTENTS                JANUARY, 1931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  COVER DESIGN                   H. W. WESSO\u003cbr\u003e    _Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in \"The Gate to Xoran.\"_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE DARK SIDE OF ANTRI         SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT             9\u003cbr\u003e    _Commander John Hanson Relates an Interplanetary Adventure\u003cbr\u003e    Illustrating the Splendid Service Spirit of the Men of the\u003cbr\u003e    Special Patrol._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE SUNKEN EMPIRE              H. THOMPSON RICH                 24\u003cbr\u003e    _Concerning the Strange Adventures of Professor Stevens with\u003cbr\u003e    the Antillians on the Floor of the Mysterious Sargasso Sea._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE GATE TO XORAN              HAL K. WELLS                     46\u003cbr\u003e    _A Strange Man of Metal Comes to Earth on a Dreadful Mission._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE EYE OF ALLAH               C. D. WILLARD                    58\u003cbr\u003e    _On the Fatal Seventh of September a Certain Secret Service\u003cbr\u003e    Man Sat in the President's Chair and--Looked Back into the Eye\u003cbr\u003e    of Allah._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE FIFTH-DIMENSION CATAPULT   MURRAY LEINSTER                  72\u003cbr\u003e    _The Story of Tommy Reames' Extraordinary Rescue of Professor\u003cbr\u003e    Denham and his Daughter--Marooned in the Fifth Dimension._\u003cbr\u003e    (A Complete Novelette.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE PIRATE PLANET              CHARLES W. DIFFIN               109\u003cbr\u003e    _Two Fighting Yankees--War-Torn Earth's Sole Representatives\u003cbr\u003e    on Venus--Set Out to Spike the Greatest Gun of All Time._\u003cbr\u003e    (Part Three of a Four-Part Novel.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE READERS' CORNER            ALL OF US                       132\u003cbr\u003e    _A Meeting Place for Readers of_ ASTOUNDING STORIES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e======================================================================\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Single Copies, 20 Cents (In Canada, 25 Cents)\u003cbr\u003e                                        Yearly Subscription, $2.00\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIssued monthly by Readers' Guild, Inc., 80 Lafayette Street, New York,\u003cbr\u003eN. Y. W. M. Clayton, President; Francis P. Pace, Secretary. Entered as\u003cbr\u003esecond-class matter December 7, 1929, at the Post Office at New York,\u003cbr\u003eN. Y., under Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered as a Trade Mark in\u003cbr\u003ethe U. S. Patent Office. Member Newsstand Group--Men's List. For\u003cbr\u003eadvertising rates address E. R. Crowe \u0026amp; Co., Inc., 25 Vanderbilt Ave.,\u003cbr\u003eNew York; or 225 North Michigan Ave., Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: \"_Behold one of those who live in the darkness._\"]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Dark Side of Antri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_By Sewell Peaslee Wright_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Commander John Hanson relates an interplanetary adventure\u003cbr\u003e    illustrating the splendid Service spirit of the men of the\u003cbr\u003e    Special Patrol.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn officer of the Special Patrol Service dropped in to see me the\u003cbr\u003eother day. He was a young fellow, very sure of himself, and very\u003cbr\u003ekindly towards an old man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was doing a monograph, he said, for his own amusement, upon the\u003cbr\u003eearly forms of our present offensive and defensive weapons. Could I\u003cbr\u003etell him about the first Deuber spheres and the earlier disintegrator\u003cbr\u003erays and the crude atomic bombs we tried back when I first entered the\u003cbr\u003eService?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI could, of course. And I did. But a man's memory does not improve in\u003cbr\u003ethe course of a century of Earth years. Our scientists have not been\u003cbr\u003eable to keep a man's brain as fresh as his body, despite all their\u003cbr\u003evaunted progress. There is a lot these deep thinkers, in their great\u003cbr\u003elaboratories, don't know. The whole universe gives them the credit for\u003cbr\u003ewhat's been done, yet the men of action who carried out the ideas--but\u003cbr\u003eI'm getting away from my pert young officer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe listened to me with interest and toleration. Now and then he helped\u003cbr\u003eme out, when my memory failed me on some little detail. He seemed to\u003cbr\u003ehave a very fair theoretical knowledge of the subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It seems impossible,\" he commented, when we had gone over the ground\u003cbr\u003ehe had outlined, \"that the Service could have done its work with such\u003cbr\u003ecrude and undeveloped weapons, does it not?\" He smiled in a superior\u003cbr\u003esort of way, as though to imply we had probably done the best we\u003cbr\u003ecould, under the circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI suppose I should not have permitted his attitude to irritate me, but\u003cbr\u003eI am an old man, and my life has not been an easy one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Youngster,\" I said--like many old people, I prefer spoken\u003cbr\u003econversation--\"back in those days the Service was handicapped in every\u003cbr\u003eway. We lacked weapons, we lacked instruments, we lacked popular\u003cbr\u003esupport, and backing. But we had men, in those days, who did their\u003cbr\u003ework with the tools that were at hand. And we did it well.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070200398064,"sku":"2940013684782","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013684782_p0.jpg?v=1763583968","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013684782","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}