Astounding Stories 11, November 1930

Six tales of tomorrow, pulled from the early raw heart of science fiction. The November 1930 issue of Astounding Stories captures a moment when the genre was still inventing itself, when rockets had just started scratching the sky and writers dared to imagine what waited in the void. Here you'll find space pirates and planetary romance, a gray plague threatening humanity's future, and a wall of death that guards terrible secrets. Ray Cummings contributes 'Jetta of the Lowlands,' a romance set among the mist-shrouded hills of an alien world, while Harl Vincent's 'Vagabonds of Space' sends wanderers tumbling through the cosmos. These are stories written in earnest wonder, before cynicism crept in, when the stars still felt like destinations waiting to be claimed. For anyone who wants to see where science fiction came from, or simply lose themselves in old-fashioned adventure unbound by modern irony.