Part of Series
Vol 30, No 5. Contents: 6 • Re Rays • [Editorial (Astounding)] • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by The Editor] 9 • Opposites—React! (part 1 of 2)? • [Seetee] • serial by Jack Williamson [as by Will Stewart] 33 • The Analytical Laboratory: October 1942 (Astounding, January 1943) • [The Analytical Laboratory] • essay by The Editor 33 • The Analytical Laboratory: November 1942 (Astounding, January 1943) • [The Analytical Laboratory] • essay by The Editor 34 • Backfire • novelette by Ross Rocklynne 44 • The Search • novelette by A. E. van Vogt 60 • Nothing But Gingerbread Left • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner] 69 • Barrius, Imp • [Anachron] • novelette by Malcolm Jameson 83 • The Cave • novelette by P. Schuyler Miller 92 • Get Out and Get Under (Part 2 of 2) • essay by L. Sprague de Camp 100 • Time Locker • [Gallegher (Henry Kuttner)] • novelette by Henry Kuttner [as by Lewis Padgett] 112 • Elsewhen • [Fergus O'Breen] • novelette by Anthony Boucher 127 • Book Review (Astounding, January 1943) • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr. 128 • Brass Tacks (Astounding, January 1943) • [Brass Tacks] • essay by uncredited 128 • Letter (Astounding, January 1943) • essay by E. Everett Evans 129 • Letter (Astounding, January 1943) • essay by George Holman 129 • Letter (Astounding, January 1943) • essay by Arthur W. Saha [as by Arthur Saha].
Authors
Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded by some as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century—the "Golden Age" of the genre. van Vogt was born to Russian Mennonite family. Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home. He began his writing career with 'true story' romances, but then moved to writing science fiction, a field he identified with. His first story was Black Destroyer, that appeared as the front cover story for the July 1939 edtion of the popular "Astounding Science Fiction" magazine.
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.
