The August 1931 issue of Astounding Stories continues the pulp magazine’s run of science fiction adventure under the Clayton Magazines banner. By mid-1931 the magazine had established a loyal readership hungry for the fast-paced stories of interplanetary warfare, superscience invention, and alien menace that filled its pages month after month.
As a historical document of early science fiction publishing, this issue captures the genre in its most unrestrained and energetic phase — before the literary ambitions of the Campbell era shifted the field’s centre of gravity. The free EPUB download makes this period artifact available to science fiction historians and enthusiasts.