The June 1931 issue of Astounding Stories is another monthly installment in the early run of the magazine that would eventually become the most important publication in science fiction history. Published by Clayton Magazines, this mid-1931 issue features the superscience adventure stories — alien invasions, ray guns, interplanetary explorers — that defined the pulp era of science fiction.
Reading these issues today offers an unfiltered view of what “science fiction” meant to readers and writers in the early 1930s, before the genre developed the literary self-consciousness it would acquire later in the decade. Download the free EPUB to explore this crucial chapter of science fiction’s origins.