{"product_id":"9780692384138","title":"Black Mask Pulp Story Reader: #4 Stories from the February, 1941 issue of ASTONISHING STORIES","description":"ASTONISHING STORIES was published by Popular Publications between 1940 and 1943. It was published under Popular's Fictioneers imprint Early issues were filled with stories from a group of young science fiction fans and aspiring writers who called themselves the Futurians.\u003cp\u003eIn its short run, ASTONISHING STORIES published works by writers such as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and Leigh Brackett who would be among the elite of science fiction writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE PROFESSOR SPLITS by J. Harvey Haggard \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Hickey had a secret wife whom he feared, and an invention that he didn't-until the day he accidentally started them both going! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHE WASN'T THERE! by Hugh Raymond \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe little man offered ten years of time-travel for ten cents, but Winant only took two. Two, he found, were plenty! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE PET NEBULA by Alfred Bester \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Robert Harris, the man who slept five weeks to hatch a cubical crystal egg from the Pleiades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE KING'S EYE by James MacCreigh \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe old Venusian tribal king had an immense hatred and distrust for Earthmen - and two marooned explorers found the rest of his tribe even worse! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMAGNUS' DISINTEGRATOR by Ray Cummings \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Magnus was a conscientious man. Even the act of leaving the world, he thought, should serve some altruistic purpose. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOSMIC DERELICT by Neil R. Jones \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Jameson and his immortal band of robot-bodied Zoromes find a derelict space ship-and in it the deadliest, mind-destroying danger of their careers!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNOTE: \u003ci\u003eThe new volumes are not reproductions, but new edited and re-typeset preservations of pulp literature from 1927-1951.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iPulpFiction.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019867242736,"sku":"9780692384138","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780692384138_p0.jpg?v=1763612436","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692384138","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}