UK edition. Partial reprint of the September 1948 (US) issue plus one story from the August 1948 (US) issue and the cover from the September 1948 (US) issue. Contents: 2 · The Catspaw · George O. Smith · na Astounding Science Fiction September 1948; illustrated by Paul Orban 24 · Dreams Are Sacred · Peter Phillips · nv Astounding Science Fiction September 1948 34 · The Great Air Monopoly [Ole Doc Methuselah] · René Lafayette · nv Astounding Science Fiction September 1948 49 · Dance of a New World · John D. MacDonald · ss Astounding Science Fiction September 1948 55 · Inheritance · Arthur C. Clarke · ss New Worlds #3, 1947, as by Charles Willis 59 · Dawn of Nothing · A. Bertram Chandler · ss Astounding Science Fiction August 1948. 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.