{"product_id":"2940013685024","title":"ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE DECEMBER 1930","description":"VOL. IV, No. 3               CONTENTS                  DECEMBER, 1930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  COVER DESIGN                 H. W. WESSOLOWSKI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Painted in Oils from a Scene in \"The Ape-Men of Xlotli.\"_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  SLAVES OF THE DUST           SOPHIE WENZEL ELLIS                  295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Fate's Retribution Was Adequate. There Emerged a Rat with a\u003cbr\u003e  Man's Head and Face._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE PIRATE PLANET            CHARLES W. DIFFIN                    310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _It is War. Interplanetary War. And on Far-Distant Venus Two\u003cbr\u003e  Fighting Earthlings Stand Up Against a Whole Planet Run Amuck._\u003cbr\u003e  (Part Two of a Four-Part Novel.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE SEA TERROR               CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK                   336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _The Trail of Mystery Gold Leads Carnes and Dr. Bird to a\u003cbr\u003e  Tremendous Monster of the Deep._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  GRAY DENIM                   HARL VINCENT                         354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _The Blood of the Van Dorn's Ran in Karl's Veins. He Rode\u003cbr\u003e  the Skies Like an Avenging God._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE APE-MEN OF XLOTLI        DAVID R. SPARKS                      370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _A Beautiful Face in the Depths of a Geyser--and Kirby Plunges\u003cbr\u003e  into a Desperate Mid-Earth Conflict with the Dreadful\u003cbr\u003e  Feathered Serpent._ (A Complete Novelette.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE READERS' CORNER          ALL OF US                            421\u003cbr\u003e\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 St., New York, N.Y.\u003cbr\u003eW. 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. Crow \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSlaves of the Dust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_By Sophie Wenzel Ellis_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Fate's retribution was adequate. There emerged a rat with a man's\u003cbr\u003e  head and face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _It's a poor science that would hide from us the great, deep,\u003cbr\u003e  sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on\u003cbr\u003e  which all science swims as mere superficial film._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    --_Carlyle_.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: _Sir Basil showed his teeth in his ugly smile. \"A creator\u003cbr\u003eis never merciful.\"_]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe two _batalões_ turned from the open waters of the lower Tapajos\u003cbr\u003eRiver into the _igarapé_, the lily-smothered shallows that often mark an\u003cbr\u003eIndian settlement in the jungles of Brazil. One of the two half-breed\u003cbr\u003erubber-gatherers suddenly stopped his _batalõe_ by thrusting a paddle\u003cbr\u003eagainst a giant clump of lilies. In a corruption of the Tupi dialect, he\u003cbr\u003ecalled over to the white man occupying the other frail craft.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We dare go no farther, master. The country of the Ungapuks is\u003cbr\u003ebewitched. It is too dangerous.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFearfully he stared over his shoulder toward a spot in the slimy water\u003cbr\u003ewhere a dim bulk moved, which was only an alligator hunting for his\u003cbr\u003ebreakfast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHale Oakham, as long and lanky and level-eyed as Charles Lindbergh, ran\u003cbr\u003edespairing fingers through his damp hair and groaned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"But how can I find this jungle village without a guide?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe _caboclo_ shrugged. \"The village will find you. It is bewitched,\u003cbr\u003emaster. But you will soon see the path through the _matto_.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Can't you stay by me until time to land? I don't like the looks of\u003cbr\u003ethese alligators.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is better for a white man to face an alligator than for a _caboclo_\u003cbr\u003eto face an Ungapuk. Once they used to kill and eat us for our strength.\u003cbr\u003eNow--\" Again his shrug was eloquent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Now?\" Hale prompted impatiently.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The white god who put a spell on these one-time cannibals will bewitch\u003cbr\u003eus and make us wash and rejoice when it is time to die.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe shuddered and spat at a cayman that was lumbering away from his\u003cbr\u003e_batalõe._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHale Oakham laughed, a hearty boyish laugh for a rather learned young\u003cbr\u003eprofessor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Is that all they do to you?\" he asked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No. All who enter this magic _matto_ die soon, rejoicing. Before the\u003cbr\u003elast breath comes, it is said their bodies turn into a handful of silver\u003cbr\u003edust--poof!--like that.\" He snapped his dirty fingers. \"Then the life\u003cbr\u003ethat leaves them goes into rocks that walk.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHale sighed resignedly. There wasn't any use to argue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Unload your _batalõe_,\" he ordered testily, \"and get your filthy\u003cbr\u003ecarcasses away.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe half-breeds obeyed readily.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070200856816,"sku":"2940013685024","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013685024_p0.jpg?v=1763583940","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013685024","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}