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Title: Astounding Stories, May, 1931

Author: Various

Release Date: November 23, 2009 [EBook #30532]

Language: English

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ASTOUNDING

STORIES

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VOL. VI, No. 2 CONTENTS May, 1931

COVER DESIGN	H. W. WESSO
Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Dark Moon."
DARK MOON	CHARLES W. DIFFIN	148
Mysterious, Dark, Out of the Unknown Deep Comes a New Satellite to Lure Three Courageous Earthlings on to Strange Adventure. (A Complete Novelette.)
WHEN CAVERNS YAWNED	CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK	198
Only Dr. Bird's Super-Scientific Sleuthing Stands in the Way of Ivan Sarnoff's Latest Attempt at Wholesale Destruction.
THE EXILE OF TIME	RAY CUMMINGS	216
Young Lovers of Three Eras Are Swept down the Torrent of the Sinister Cripple Tugh's Frightful Vengeance. (Part Two of a Four-Part Novel.)
WHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN	HAL K. WELLS	241
Outside His Laboratory Bruce Dixon Finds a World of Living Dead Men—and Above, in the Sky, Shines a Weird Green Moon.
THE DEATH-CLOUD	NAT SCHACHNER AND ARTHUR L. ZAGAT	256
The Epic Exploit of One Who Worked in the Dark and Alone, Behind the Enemy Lines, in the Great Last War.
THE READERS' CORNER	ALL OF US	276
A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.

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