UK edition. Partial reprint of the June 1952 (US) issue plus a single story from the March 1952 (US) issue. Contents: 2 · The Specter General [Kurt Dixon] · Theodore R. Cogswell · na Astounding Science Fiction June 1952; illustrated by Gaylord Welker 30 · Blood Bank · Walter M. Miller, Jr. · na Astounding Science Fiction June 1952; illustrated by Edd Cartier 56 · Bluff-Stained Transaction [Bureau of Slick Tricks] · H. B. Fyfe · ss Astounding Science Fiction March 1952 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.