UK edition. Partial reprint of the April 1949 (US) issue plus one story from the January 1948 (US) issue. Contents: 3 · Plague [Ole Doc Methuselah] · René Lafayette · nv Astounding Science Fiction April 1949; illustrated by Edd Cartier; given as “Plague!” in the Table of Contents. 19 · Devious Weapon · M. C. Pease · ss Astounding Science Fiction April 1949 24 · The Undecided · Eric Frank Russell · nv Astounding Science Fiction April 1949 39 · Prodigy · Theodore Sturgeon (with O. W. Hopkinson, Jr.) · ss Astounding Science Fiction April 1949 44 · Colonial [Max Larkin] · Christopher Youd · nv Astounding Science Fiction April 1949 57 · The Helping Hand · Burt MacFadyen · ss Astounding Science Fiction January 1948. 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.