{"product_id":"2940013684898","title":"ASTOUNDING STORIES MAY 1931","description":"VOL. VI, No. 2            CONTENTS            MAY, 1931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOVER DESIGN                  H. W. WESSO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Painted in  Water-Colors from a Scene in \"Dark Moon._\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDARK MOON                     CHARLES W. DIFFIN        148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Mysterious, Dark, Out of the Unknown Deep Comes a New Satellite to\u003cbr\u003e     Lure Three Courageous Earthlings on to Strange Adventure._\u003cbr\u003e     (_A Complete Novelette._)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWHEN CAVERNS YAWNED           CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK       198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Only Dr. Bird's Super-Scientific Sleuthing Stands in the Way of\u003cbr\u003e     Ivan Sarnoff's Latest Attempt at Wholesale Destruction._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE EXILE OF TIME             RAY CUMMINGS             216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Young Lovers of Three Eras Are Swept down the Torrent of the Sinister\u003cbr\u003e     Cripple Tugh's Frightful Vengeance._ (Part Two of a Four-Part Novel.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN    HAL K. WELLS             241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Outside His Laboratory Bruce Dixon Finds a World of Living Dead\u003cbr\u003e     Men--and Above, in the Sky, Shines a Weird Green Moon._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DEATH-CLOUD               NAT SCHACHNER AND\u003cbr\u003e                              ARTHUR L. ZAGAT          256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _The Epic Exploit of One Who Worked in the Dark and Alone, Behind\u003cbr\u003e     the Enemy Lines, in the Great Last War._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE READERS' CORNER           ALL OF US                276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSingle Copies, 20 Cents (In Canada, 25 Cents) Yearly Subscription,\u003cbr\u003e$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. For advertising rates\u003cbr\u003eaddress The Newsstand Group, Inc., 80 Lafayette St., New York or The\u003cbr\u003eWrigley Bldg., Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDark Moon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA COMPLETE NOVELETTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_By Charles W. Diffin_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_There Comes a New World_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: _Behind them a red ship was falling--falling free!_]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Sidenote: Mysterious, dark, out of the unknown deep comes a new\u003cbr\u003esatellite to lure three courageous Earthlings on to strange\u003cbr\u003eadventures.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe one hundred and fifty-ninth floor of the great Transportation\u003cbr\u003eBuilding allowed one standing at a window to look down upon the roofs\u003cbr\u003eof the countless buildings that were New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlat-decked, all of them; busy places of hangars and machine shops and\u003cbr\u003estrange aircraft, large and small, that rose vertically under the lift\u003cbr\u003eof flashing helicopters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe air was alive and vibrant with directed streams of stubby-winged\u003cbr\u003eshapes that drove swiftly on their way, with only a wisp of vapor from\u003cbr\u003etheir funnel-shaped sterns to mark the continuous explosion that\u003cbr\u003epropelled them. Here and there were those that entered a shaft of\u003cbr\u003epale-blue light that somehow outshone the sun. It marked an ascending\u003cbr\u003earea, and there ships canted swiftly, swung their blunt noses upward,\u003cbr\u003eand vanished, to the upper levels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mile and more away, in a great shaft of green light from which all\u003cbr\u003eother craft kept clear, a tremendous shape was dropping. Her hull of\u003cbr\u003esilver was striped with a broad red band; her multiple helicopters\u003cbr\u003ewere dazzling flashes in the sunlight. The countless dots that were\u003cbr\u003eportholes and the larger observation ports must have held numberless\u003cbr\u003eeager faces, for the Oriental Express served a cosmopolitan passenger\u003cbr\u003elist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Walter Harkness, standing at the window, stared out from troubled,\u003cbr\u003efrowning eyes that saw nothing of the kaleidoscopic scene. His back\u003cbr\u003ewas turned to the group of people in the room, and he had no thought\u003cbr\u003eof wonders that were prosaic, nor of passengers, eager or blase; his\u003cbr\u003ethoughts were only of freight and of the acres of flat roofs far in\u003cbr\u003ethe distance where alternate flashes of color marked the descending\u003cbr\u003earea for fast freighters of the air. And in his mind he could see what\u003cbr\u003ehis eyes could not discern--the markings on those roofs that were\u003cbr\u003eenormous landing fields: Harkness Terminals, New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly twenty-four, Walt Harkness--owner now of Harkness, Incorporated.\u003cbr\u003eDark hair that curled slightly as it left his forehead; eyes that were\u003cbr\u003etaking on the intent, straightforward look that had been his father's\u003cbr\u003eand that went straight to the heart of a business proposal with\u003cbr\u003edisconcerting directness.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070200529136,"sku":"2940013684898","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013684898_p0.jpg?v=1763584521","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013684898","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}