Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930

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Slaves of the Dust

A SIGNAL TO THE MOON

The Pirate Planet PART TWO OF A FOUR-PART NOVEL

The Sea Terror

Gray Denim

The Ape-Men of Xlotli

The Reader's Corner

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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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