Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930

Astounding Stories of Super-Science

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W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher HARRY BATES, Editor DR. DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting Editor

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VOL. IV, No. 3 CONTENTS DECEMBER, 1930

COVER DESIGN	H. W. WESSOLOWSKI
Painted in Oils from a Scene in “The Ape-Men of Xlotli.”
SLAVES OF THE DUST	SOPHIE WENZEL ELLIS	295
Fate’s Retribution Was Adequate. There Emerged a Rat with a Man’s Head and Face.
THE PIRATE PLANET	CHARLES W. DIFFIN	310
It is War. Interplanetary War. And on Far-Distant Venus Two Fighting Earthlings Stand Up Against a Whole Planet Run Amuck. (Part Two of a Four-Part Novel.)
THE SEA TERROR	CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK	336
The Trail of Mystery Gold Leads Carnes and Dr. Bird to a Tremendous Monster of the Deep.
GRAY DENIM	HARL VINCENT	354
The Blood of the Van Dorn’s Ran in Karl’s Veins. He Rode the Skies Like an Avenging God.
THE APE-MEN OF XLOTLI	DAVID R. SPARKS	370
A Beautiful Face in the Depths of a Geyser—and Kirby Plunges into a Desperate Mid-Earth Conflict with the Dreadful Feathered Serpent. (A Complete Novelette.)
THE READERS’ CORNER	ALL OF US	421
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