Astounding Science Fiction, volume 33, number 1
Item
Title
Astounding Science Fiction, volume 33, number 1
Editor
Table Of Contents
Novelettes: The contract by H. Marne Hull; Circle of Confusion by Wesley Long; The Children's Hour by Lawrence O'Donnell; Deadline by Cleve Cartmill/ Short Stories: The Rulers by A. E. van Vogt; Controller by Eric Frank Russell/ Article: The Vanishing Yankees by George O. Smith/ Reader's Department: The Editor's Page; In Times to Come; The Analytical Laboratory; Brass Tacks
Cover Description
A slouching, pale figure in a red jumpsuit and dark boots walks facing right. Appears to be male, completely bald. Another figure, also appearing male, hides behind a large leafy green plant in the right corner of the image, a weapon drawn, seeming to wait for the other to pass for an ambush. In the background are hills and a clouded horizon, cut through by a river carrying a red watercraft
Notable Details
Issue contains the story “Deadline” by Cleve Cartmill. This story is noteworthy because it described a “super bomb” that had close parallels to the atomic bomb a full 14 months before the first successful A-bomb tests. The story prompted a FBI investigation of both Cartmill and Astounding Science Fiction editor John W. Campbell. Because of the notoriety of this story, the issue is rare and highly collectible
List of contributing authors
Cover Artist
William Frederick Timmins
List of illustrators
Paul Orban, Williams
Publisher
Street & Smith Publications
Format
19cm long, 14 cm wide, 1.5 cm tall
Date
March 1944
