UK edition. Partial reprint of the November 1944 (US) issue plus the editorial from the September 1944 (US) issue. Contents: 2 · Killdozer! · Theodore Sturgeon · na Astounding Science Fiction November 1944; illustrated by Paul Orban 37 · When the Bough Breaks · Lewis Padgett · nv Astounding Science Fiction November 1944 49 · The Harmonizer · A. E. van Vogt · ss Astounding Science Fiction November 1944 54 · Alien Envoy · Malcolm Jameson · nv Astounding Science Fiction November 1944 64 · Remarkably Absent · John W. Campbell, Jr. · ed Astounding Science Fiction September 1944. 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.