Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930

_Dodd's Discovery_ Out of the south the biplane came winging back toward the camp, a black speck against the dazzling white of the vast ice-fields that extended unbroken to the ho...

_Beetles and Humans_ How long he had remained unconscious, Tommy had no means of determining. Of a sudden he found himself lying on the ground beside the shattered plane, with his...

_Ten Miles Underground_ "What I was going to say when we were interrupted, was, 'Can you beat it?'" Jimmy Dodd observed, with admirable sang-froid. They were still seated on the ...

_Bram's Story_ A sneering chuckle broke from Bram's lips. "Yes, it's me, James Dodd," he answered. "I'm a little surprised to see you here, Dodd, but I'm mighty glad. Still insane...

_Doomed!_ There were no means known to Tommy of reckoning time in that strange place of twilight. His watch had been broken in the airplane fall; and Dodd never remembered to wind...

_Escape!_ "I heard what he said. You shall not die. We shall go away to your place, where there are no beetles to eat us, even if"--Haidia shuddered--"even if we have to cross the...

_Wall Street--or the Open Road?_ When I was some fifteen years old, I once made the remark, "Why, that's impossible." The man to whom I spoke was a scientist. He replied gently, ...

_The Challenge of the Unknown_ Incredible! Impossible! I did not say it, though my thoughts were written on my face, no doubt. Derek said quietly, "Difficult to believe, Charlie?...

_Into the Unknown_ We stood in the boarded room which was Derek's laboratory. Our preparations had been simple: Derek had made them all in advance. There was little left to do. Th...

_"Hope, I Came...."_ I think I was first conscious of a queer calmness which had settled upon me, as though now I had withdrawn contact with the turmoil of our world! Something wa...

_Intrigue_ "Am I in time, Hope?" "Yes, but the festival is to-night. In an hour or two now. Oh Derek, if the king holds this festival, the toilers will revolt. They won't stand i...

_The King's Henchman_ The long room was bathed in colored lights. There was an ornate tiled floor. Barbaric draperies of heavy fabric shrouded the archways and windows. It was a t...

_The Crimson Murderess_ Hope murmured. "The three-part music comes first. There will first be the spiritual." An orchestra was seated on the stage in a semi-circle. It was compos...

_"Why, This Is Treason!"_ There was a gasp. The audience sat frozen. On the stage, with no one lifting a hand to stop her, the crimson murderess made a leap and vanished. A moment...

_"Alexandre--"_ Derek turned back to the balcony. It had been a brief interlude. The mob in the garden, the soldiers at the top of the stairway, and the other guards high on the b...

_My Role to Play_ I slipped like a shadow through the almost empty corridors. Down on the lower floor I found that many of the soldiers were on the inside, standing about the corr...

_The Fight on the Tower Balcony_ The sensations swept me again. The room faded. Whether the watchmen came in to see a ghost of me lying there on the floor I did not know, nor did ...

_One Tumultuous Night_ I come now with very little more to record. I returned to my own world. And Derek stayed in his. Each to his own; one may rail at this allotted portion--bu...