{"product_id":"2940013685154","title":"ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE NOVEMBER 1930","description":"VOL. IV, No. 2 CONTENTS NOVEMBER, 1930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOVER DESIGN              H. W. WESSOLOWSKI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in \"The Pirate Planet.\"_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE WALL OF DEATH         VICTOR ROUSSEAU              151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Out of the Antarctic It Came--a Wall of Viscid, Grey, Half-Human\u003cbr\u003e     Jelly, Absorbing and Destroying All Life That It Encountered._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PIRATE PLANET         CHARLES W. DIFFIN            168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _A Strange Light Blinks on Venus, and Over Old Earth Hovers a\u003cbr\u003e     Mysterious Visitant--Dread Harbinger of Interplanetary War._\u003cbr\u003e     (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DESTROYER             WILLIAM MERRIAM ROUSE        198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Slowly, Insidiously, There Stole Over Allen Parker Something\u003cbr\u003e     Uncanny. He Could No Longer Control His Hands--Even His Brain!_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GRAY PLAGUE           L. A. ESHBACH                210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Maimed and Captive, in the Depths of an Interplanetary Meteor-Craft,\u003cbr\u003e     Lay the Only Possible Savior of Plague-Ridden Earth._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJETTA OF THE LOWLANDS     RAY CUMMINGS                 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Black-Garbed Figures Move in Ghastly Greenness As the Invisible Flyer\u003cbr\u003e     Speeds on Its Business of Ransom._ (Conclusion.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVAGABONDS OF SPACE        HARL VINCENT                 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _From the Depths of the Sargasso Sea of Space Came the Thought-Warning,\u003cbr\u003e     \"Turn Back!\" But Carr and His Martian Friend Found It Was Too Late!_\u003cbr\u003e     (A Complete Novelette.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE READERS' CORNER       ALL OF US                    271\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 Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 80 Lafayette St.,\u003cbr\u003eNew York. N. Y. W. M. Clayton, President; Francis P. Pace, Secretary.\u003cbr\u003eEntered as second-class matter December 7, 1929, at the Post Office at\u003cbr\u003eNew York, N. Y., under Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered as a\u003cbr\u003eTrade Mark in the U. S. Patent Office. Member Newsstand Group--Men's\u003cbr\u003eList. For advertising rates address E. R. Crowe \u0026amp; Co., Inc., 25\u003cbr\u003eVanderbilt Ave., New York: or 225 North Michigan Ave., Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Wall of Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_By Victor Rousseau_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: And then Kay had broken through and was hewing madly\u003cbr\u003ewith great sweeps of the ax.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Sidenote: Out of the Antarctic it came--a wall of viscid, grey,\u003cbr\u003ehalf-human jelly, absorbing and destroying all life that it\u003cbr\u003eencountered.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This news,\" said Cliff Hynes, pointing to the newspaper, \"means the\u003cbr\u003eend of _homo Americanus_.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe newspaper in question was the hour-sheet of the International\u003cbr\u003eBroadcast Association, just delivered by pneumatic tube at the\u003cbr\u003elaboratory. It was stamped 1961, Month 13, Day 7, Horometer 3, and the\u003cbr\u003eheadlines on the front page confirmed the news of the decisive defeat\u003cbr\u003eof the American military and naval forces at the hands of the Chinese\u003cbr\u003eRepublic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gallant fight for days against hopeless odds; failure of the army\u003cbr\u003edynamos; airships cut off from ground guidance; battleships ripped to\u003cbr\u003epieces by the Chinese disintegrators; and, finally, the great wave of\u003cbr\u003eblack death that had wiped out two hundred thousand men.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKay Bevan--to use the old-fashioned names which still persisted,\u003cbr\u003edespite the official numerical nomenclature--glanced through the\u003cbr\u003eaccount. He threw the sheet away. \"We deserved it, Cliff,\" he said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCliff nodded. \"You saw that bit about the new Chinese disintegrator?\u003cbr\u003eIf the Government had seriously considered our Crumbler--\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKay glanced at the huge, humming top that filled the center of the\u003cbr\u003elaboratory. It spun so fast that it appeared as nothing but a\u003cbr\u003espherical shadow, through which one could see the sparse furnishings,\u003cbr\u003ethe table, the apparatus ranged upon it, and the window over-looking\u003cbr\u003ethe upper streets of New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes--_if!_\" he answered bitterly. \"And I'm willing to bet the Chinese\u003cbr\u003ehave an inferior machine, built upon the plans that Chinese servant\u003cbr\u003estole from us last year.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We deserved it, Cliff,\" said Kay again. \"For ten years we've harried\u003cbr\u003eand enslaved the yellow man, and taken a hundred thousand of his men\u003cbr\u003eand women to sacrifice to the Earth Giants. What would we have done,\u003cbr\u003eif conditions had been reversed?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Self-preservation,\" Cliff suggested.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Exactly. The law of the survival of the fittest. They thought that\u003cbr\u003ethey were fitter to survive. I tell you they had right on their side,\u003cbr\u003eCliff, and that's what's beaten us. Now--a hundred thousand of our\u003cbr\u003e_own_ boys and girls must be fed into the maw of these monsters every\u003cbr\u003eyear. God, suppose it were Ruth!\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070243160304,"sku":"2940013685154","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013685154_p0.jpg?v=1763583943","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013685154","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}