UK edition. Partial reprint of the December 1947 (US) issue plus two stories from the January 1947 (US) issue. Contents: 2 · Aesop [City (Websters)] · Clifford D. Simak · nv Astounding Science Fiction December 1947; illustrated by Edd Cartier 17 · Age of Unreason · Alfred Coppel, Jr. · ss Astounding Science Fiction December 1947 24 · The Barbarian [Clane Linn] · A. E. van Vogt · nv Astounding Science Fiction December 1947 37 · The Dreamers · Michael Yamin · ss Astounding Science Fiction December 1947 46 · Command · Bernard I. Kahn · nv Astounding Science Fiction January 1947 57 · Time to Die · Murray Leinster · ss Astounding Science Fiction January 1947. The UK edition, published by Atlas, appeared August 1939-August 1963. The contents were severely truncated during the 1940s, and the magazine did not appear regularly, adopting a variable bimonthly schedule. It became monthly from February 1952; from November 1953, when it changed from pulp to digest, it was practically a full reprint (four months behind in cover date) of the US edition, although some stories and departments were omitted.