UK edition. Vol. XXIV No. 1. Partial reprint of the September 1939 (US) issue. Contents: 2 · Forces Must Balance! · Manly Wade Wellman · nv Astounding Science-Fiction September 1939; illustrated by Charles Schneeman 24 · The Last Hope · Don Evans · na Astounding Science-Fiction September 1939; illustrated by Rey Isip 63 · The Other Side of Astronomy · R. S. Richardson · ar Astounding Science-Fiction September 1939 70 · General Swamp, C.I.C. [Part 2 of 2] · Frederick Engelhardt · na Astounding Science-Fiction September 1939; illustrated by M. & Rey Isip. 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.