Captain S.P Meek & Hal K. Wells 
Astounding Stories. May 1931. [EPUB ebook] 
Volume 6, No. 2. May, 1931

Science Fiction has always drawn some of our most creative writers to its form. Back in the early decades of the twentieth century events conspired to propel the whole genre forward from the earlier works of Jules Verne and other luminaries.New media technologies were coming to the fore with radio and television to add to new industrial processes and ideas. Hollywood’s golden years were creating ‘escapist fare’ as the world battled with war and depression where the impossible seemed possible. On the streets pulp magazines were becoming the dominant form of mass market reading. The real world had shrunk and other worlds were sought.Writers were able to fuse ideas with technical ‘know how’ and create fabulous inventions of other worlds and other times. These inspired other writers to re-imagine almost everything in the search for new situations and environments.A Golden Age was upon us. These are their stories…….DARK MOON by CHARLES W. DIFFINMysterious, Dark, Out of the Unknown Deep Comes a New Satellite to Lure Three Courageous Earthlings on to Strange Adventure. (A Complete Novelette.)CHAPTER I — There Comes a New World CHAPTER II — Escape CHAPTER III — The Space Terror CHAPTER IV — The Rescue in Space CHAPTER V — The "Dark Moon"CHAPTER VI — Trapped CHAPTER VII — In the Labyrinth CHAPTER VIII — The Half-Men CHAPTER IX — The Throwers of Thunder CHAPTER X — "But Awfully Dumb…."CHAPTER XI — "Nothing to Be Done"A SCIENTIFIC HELLWHEN CAVERNS YAWNED by CAPTAIN S. P. MEEKOnly Dr. Bird’s Super-Scientific Sleuthing Stands in the Way of Ivan Sarnoff’s Latest Attempt at Wholesale Destruction.THE EXILE OF TIME by RAY CUMMINGSYoung Lovers of Three Eras Are Swept down the Torrent of the Sinister Cripple Tugh’s Frightful Vengeance. (Part Two of a Four-Part Novel.)WHAT HAS GONE BEFORECHAPTER VIII — The Murder of Major Atwood CHAPTER IX — Migul — Mechanism Almost Human CHAPTER X — Events Engraven on the Scroll of Time CHAPTER XI — Back to the Beginning of Time CHAPTER XII — A Billion Years in An Hour!WHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN by HAL K. WELLSOutside His Laboratory Bruce Dixon Finds a World of Living Dead Men and Above, in the Sky, Shines a Weird Green Moon.THE DEATH-CLOUD by NAT SCHACHNER AND ARTHUR L. ZAGATThe Epic Exploit of One Who Worked in the Dark and Alone, Behind the Enemy Lines, in the Great Last War.A BEE’S BREATH