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Astounding Science-Fiction, January 1942
1942
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Vol 28, No 5. Contents: 5 • Pressing Problem • [Editorial (Astounding)] • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by The Editor] 9 • Breakdown • novelette by Jack Williamson 27 • Soup King • short story by Malcolm Jameson [as by Colin Keith] 35 • Mechanistria • [Jay Score / Marathon • 2] • novelette by Eric Frank Russell 57 • Military Explosives • essay by Malcolm Jameson [as by Malcolm M. Jameson] 62 • The Invaders • novelette by L. Ron Hubbard 76 • Fugitive from Vanguard • short story by Norman L. Knight 86 • The Long-Tailed Huns (Part 1 of 2) • essay by L. Sprague de Camp 94 • In Times to Come (Astounding, January 1942) • [In Times to Come (Astounding)] • essay by The Editor 95 • Brass Tacks (Astounding, January 1942) • [Brass Tacks] • essay by The Editor 96 • The Analytical Laboratory: November 1941 (Astounding, January 1942) • [The Analytical Laboratory] • essay by The Editor 96 •  Letter (Astounding, January 1942) • essay by L. M. Jensen 97 • Second Stage Lensmen (Part 3 of 4) • [Lensman • 5] • serial by Edward E. Smith [as by E. E. Smith, Ph.D.]. 【 PREVIOUS ISSUEJanuary 1942NEXT ISSUE

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Authors

L. Sprague de Camp
L. Sprague de Camp
Author · 87 books
Lyon Sprague de Camp, (Pseudonym: Lyman R. Lyon) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and biographer. In a writing career spanning fifty years he wrote over one hundred books, including novels and notable works of nonfiction, such as biographies of other important fantasy authors. He was widely regarded as an imaginative and innovative writer and was an important figure in the heyday of science fiction, from the late 1930s through the late 1940s.
Malcolm Jameson
Malcolm Jameson
Author · 8 books

Malcolm Jameson began writing only seven years before his death. Yet in that short span he wrote and sold more than 70 novelettes and short stories. Critic Groff Conklin calls Jameson's work "lively, ingenious and readable." The majority of Jameson's work appeared in the magazines "Astounding Science Fiction" and "Unknown Worlds" but he was also published in a number of the other pulp magazines of the late 1930's and early 40's. His novella "Blind Alley", first published in the June 1943 issue of Unknown, was the basis for the Twilight Zone episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" starring Albert Salmi, John Anderson, and Julie Newmar. The hour-long episode was broadcast on April 11, 1963.

Eric Frank Russell
Eric Frank Russell
Author · 24 books
Eric Frank Russell was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. Russell also wrote horror fiction for Weird Tales, and non-fiction articles on Fortean topics. A few of his stories were published under pseudonyms, of which Duncan H. Munro was used most often.
Jack Williamson
Jack Williamson
Author · 58 books
John Stewart Williamson who wrote as Jack Williamson (and occasionally under the pseudonym Will Stewart) was a U.S. writer often referred to as the "Dean of Science Fiction".
E. E. Smith
E. E. Smith
Author · 40 books
Edward Elmer Smith (also E.E. Smith, E.E. Smith, Ph.D., E.E. “Doc” Smith, Doc Smith, “Skylark” Smith, or—to his family—Ted), was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and an early science fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera.
L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard
Author · 122 books

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard. Then too, of course, there is all L. Ron Hubbard represents as the Founder of Dianetics and Scientology and thus the only major religion born in the 20th century. While, as such, he presents the culmination of science and spiritual technology as embodied in the religion of Scientology. For an in-depth look at his life, visit www.LRonHubbard.org

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