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ASTOUNDING STORIES JUNE 1931
ASTOUNDING STORIES JUNE 1931
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VOL. VI, No. 3 CONTENTS JUNE, 1931
COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSO
_Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Manape the Mighty."_
THE MAN FROM 2071 SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 295
_Out of the Flow of Time There Appears to Commander John Hanson
a Man of Mystery from the Forgotten Past._
MANAPE THE MIGHTY. ARTHUR J. BURKS 308
_High in Jungle Treetops Swings Young Bentley--His Human Brain
Imprisoned in a Mighty Ape._ (A Complete Novelette.)
HOLOCAUST CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN 356
_The Extraordinary Story of "Paul," Who for Thirty Days Was Dictator
of the World._
THE EARTHMAN'S BURDEN R. F. STARZL 375
_There is Foul Play on Mercury--until Danny Olear of the Interplanetary
Flying Police Gets After His Man._
THE EXILE OF TIME RAY CUMMINGS 386
_Larry and George from 1935, Mary from 1777--All Are Caught up in the
Treacherous Tugh's Revolt of the Robots in the Time World of 2930._
(Part Three of a Four-Part Novel.)
THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 416
_A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories._
* * * * *
Single Copies, 20 Cents In Canada, 25 Cents Yearly Subscription, $2.00
Issued monthly by The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 80 Lafayette Street,
New York, N. Y. W. M. Clayton, President; Francis P. Pace, Secretary.
Entered as second-class matter December 7, 1929, at the Post Office at
New York, N. Y., under Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered as a
Trade Mark in the U. S. Patent Office. Member Newsstand Group. For
advertising rates address The Newsstand Group, Inc., 80 Lafayette
Street, New York; or The Wrigley Bldg., Chicago.
* * * * *
The Man From 2071
_By Sewell Peaslee Wright_
[Illustration: _He clutched at the gangway--and fell._]
[Sidenote: Out of the flow of time there appears to Commander John
Hanson a man of mystery from the forgotten past.]
Perhaps this story does not belong with my other tales of the Special
Patrol Service. And yet, there is, or should be, a report somewhere in
the musty archives of the Service, covering the incident.
Not accurately, and not in detail. Among a great mass of old records
which I was browsing through the other day, I happened across that
report; it occupied exactly three lines in the log-book of the
_Ertak_:
"Just before departure, discovered stowaway, apparently
demented, and ejected him."
For the hard-headed higher-ups of the Service, that was report enough.
Had I given the facts, they would have called me to the Base for a
long-winded investigation. It would have taken weeks and weeks, filled
with fussy questioning. Dozens of stoop-shouldered laboratory men
would have prodded and snooped and asked for long, written accounts.
In those days, keeping the log-book was writing enough for me and
being grounded at Base for weeks would have been punishment.
Nothing would have been gained by a detailed report. The Service
needed action rather than reports, anyway. But now that I am an old
man, on the retired list, I have time to write; and it will be a
particular pleasure to write this account, for it will go to prove
that these much-honored scientists of ours, with all their tremendous
appropriations and long-winded discussions, are not nearly so
wonderful as they think they are. They are, and always have been, too
much interested in abstract formulas, and not enough in their
practical application. I have never had a great deal of use for them.
* * * * *
I had received orders to report to Earth, regarding a dull routine
matter of reorganizing the emergency Base which had been established
there. Earth, I might add, for the benefit of those of you who have
forgotten your geography of the Universe, is not a large body, but its
people furnish almost all of the officer personnel of the Special
Patrol Service. Being a native of Earth, I received the assignment
with considerable pleasure, despite its dry and uninteresting nature.
It was a stood sight to see old Earth, bundled up in her cottony
clouds, growing larger and larger in the television disc. No matter
how much you wander around the Universe, no matter how small and
insignificant the world of your birth, there is a tie that cannot be
denied.
COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSO
_Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Manape the Mighty."_
THE MAN FROM 2071 SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 295
_Out of the Flow of Time There Appears to Commander John Hanson
a Man of Mystery from the Forgotten Past._
MANAPE THE MIGHTY. ARTHUR J. BURKS 308
_High in Jungle Treetops Swings Young Bentley--His Human Brain
Imprisoned in a Mighty Ape._ (A Complete Novelette.)
HOLOCAUST CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN 356
_The Extraordinary Story of "Paul," Who for Thirty Days Was Dictator
of the World._
THE EARTHMAN'S BURDEN R. F. STARZL 375
_There is Foul Play on Mercury--until Danny Olear of the Interplanetary
Flying Police Gets After His Man._
THE EXILE OF TIME RAY CUMMINGS 386
_Larry and George from 1935, Mary from 1777--All Are Caught up in the
Treacherous Tugh's Revolt of the Robots in the Time World of 2930._
(Part Three of a Four-Part Novel.)
THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 416
_A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories._
* * * * *
Single Copies, 20 Cents In Canada, 25 Cents Yearly Subscription, $2.00
Issued monthly by The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 80 Lafayette Street,
New York, N. Y. W. M. Clayton, President; Francis P. Pace, Secretary.
Entered as second-class matter December 7, 1929, at the Post Office at
New York, N. Y., under Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered as a
Trade Mark in the U. S. Patent Office. Member Newsstand Group. For
advertising rates address The Newsstand Group, Inc., 80 Lafayette
Street, New York; or The Wrigley Bldg., Chicago.
* * * * *
The Man From 2071
_By Sewell Peaslee Wright_
[Illustration: _He clutched at the gangway--and fell._]
[Sidenote: Out of the flow of time there appears to Commander John
Hanson a man of mystery from the forgotten past.]
Perhaps this story does not belong with my other tales of the Special
Patrol Service. And yet, there is, or should be, a report somewhere in
the musty archives of the Service, covering the incident.
Not accurately, and not in detail. Among a great mass of old records
which I was browsing through the other day, I happened across that
report; it occupied exactly three lines in the log-book of the
_Ertak_:
"Just before departure, discovered stowaway, apparently
demented, and ejected him."
For the hard-headed higher-ups of the Service, that was report enough.
Had I given the facts, they would have called me to the Base for a
long-winded investigation. It would have taken weeks and weeks, filled
with fussy questioning. Dozens of stoop-shouldered laboratory men
would have prodded and snooped and asked for long, written accounts.
In those days, keeping the log-book was writing enough for me and
being grounded at Base for weeks would have been punishment.
Nothing would have been gained by a detailed report. The Service
needed action rather than reports, anyway. But now that I am an old
man, on the retired list, I have time to write; and it will be a
particular pleasure to write this account, for it will go to prove
that these much-honored scientists of ours, with all their tremendous
appropriations and long-winded discussions, are not nearly so
wonderful as they think they are. They are, and always have been, too
much interested in abstract formulas, and not enough in their
practical application. I have never had a great deal of use for them.
* * * * *
I had received orders to report to Earth, regarding a dull routine
matter of reorganizing the emergency Base which had been established
there. Earth, I might add, for the benefit of those of you who have
forgotten your geography of the Universe, is not a large body, but its
people furnish almost all of the officer personnel of the Special
Patrol Service. Being a native of Earth, I received the assignment
with considerable pleasure, despite its dry and uninteresting nature.
It was a stood sight to see old Earth, bundled up in her cottony
clouds, growing larger and larger in the television disc. No matter
how much you wander around the Universe, no matter how small and
insignificant the world of your birth, there is a tie that cannot be
denied.
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