Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, October 1947

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Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, October 1947Publication Record # 57646 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: John W. Campbell, Jr.
Date: 1947-10-00
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
Price:
$0.25^?$: US dollar
Pages: 164
Format:
digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
Type: MAGAZINE
Cover: Astounding Science Fiction, October 1947 by Chesley Bonestell [as by Bonestell]
Webpages: archive.org
Notes: Sep. 1947←Oct. 1947→Nov. 1947 Vol 40, No 2. Cover illustration is symbolic as labelled on the cover, "Sun...Mercury in Transit", as noted in "In Times to Come" from the September 1947 issue (scanned version from Internet Archive). The full text and images of this edition are available at Internet Archive, see web page for link.

Cover art supplied by Galactic Central

Editor Title: Astounding Science Fiction - 1947 • [Astounding / Analog (1937-1971)] • (1947) • edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

4 • Flying Somethings • [Editorial (Astounding)] • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by The Editor]
6 • Ole Doc Methuselah • [Ole Doc Methuselah] • novelette by L. Ron Hubbard [as by René Lafayette]
39 • Problem in Solid • novelette by George O. Smith
60 • Target • short story by Peter Grainger [as by Peter Cartur]
68 • Collector's Item • short story by Frank Belknap Long
87 • What's Wrong in the Patent System • essay by G. S. Curry
104 • Book Review (Astounding, October 1947) • essay by P. Schuyler Miller
106 • In Times to Come (Astounding, October 1947) • [In Times to Come (Astounding)] • essay by The Editor
107 • The End Is Not Yet (Part 3 of 3) • serial by L. Ron Hubbard

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