Black Mask Pulp Story Reader: #4 Stories from the February, 1941 issue of ASTONISHING STORIES (Volume 4)

ASTONISHING STORIES was published by Popular Publications between 1940 and 1943. It was published under Popular's Fictioneers imprint Early issues were filled with stories from a group of young science fiction fans and aspiring writers who called themselves the Futurians.

In its short run, ASTONISHING STORIES published works by writers such as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and Leigh Brackett who would be among the elite of science fiction writers.

THE PROFESSOR SPLITS by J. Harvey Haggard
Professor Hickey had a secret wife whom he feared, and an invention that he didn’t—until the day he accidentally started them both going!

HE WASN’T THERE! by Hugh Raymond
The little man offered ten years of time-travel for ten cents, but Winant only took two. Two, he found, were plenty!

THE PET NEBULA by Alfred Bester
Meet Robert Harris, the man who slept five weeks to hatch a cubical crystal egg from the Pleiades.

THE KING’S EYE by James MacCreigh
The old Venusian tribal king had an immense hatred and distrust for Earthmen — and two marooned explorers found the rest of his tribe even worse!

MAGNUS’ DISINTEGRATOR by Ray Cummings
John Magnus was a conscientious man. Even the act of leaving the world, he thought, should serve some altruistic purpose.

COSMIC DERELICT by Neil R. Jones
Professor Jameson and his immortal band of robot-bodied Zoromes find a derelict space ship—and in it the deadliest, mind-destroying danger of their careers!

NOTE: The new volumes are not reproductions, but new edited and re-typeset preservations of pulp literature from 1927-1951.