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: CONTINENTAL PUBLICATIONS. INC. 99 Hudson Street. New York. N. Y. I am enclosing herewith my remittance of $ for which you are to send me the numbers of books In the SCIENCE FICTION SERIES which 1 have circled below, at the price of 10c each or Six Books for Fifty cents. No less than three books are sold. Send remittance in check, stamps or money order. The numbers of the books that I want are circled below. 13 14 15 16 17 18 HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE Name Address City Science Fiction Series State WS-934 CLIP HE increasing demand by our readers for new COUPON T titles to be added to the SCIENCE FICTION SERIES has now been met. Six new books have been AND published and are now ready. Many new authors have contributed excellent stories which you will en- MAIL joy reading. A short summary of the new titles will be found below. These new books, as usual, are printed on a good grade of paper, and contain brand new stories never published before in any magazine. Each book (size 6x8 inches) contains one or two stories by a well-known science fiction author. The Titles Are IS—MEN FROM THE 16—IMMORTALS OF METEOR MERCURY by Panzie E. Black by Clark Ashton Smith In the unexplored heart of Australia Under the sun-parched surface of lay the bizarre and cruel civilization Mercury, we follow in this story, the of the meteormen. And into their experiences of a man, reminiscent of midst came the two men from Outside, Dante’s Inferno. Every force of to pit their puny strength against the grotesque nature, the bitter enmity of meteormen’s power. the Immortals track him down in his wild escape to the surface. 14—THE FLIGHT OF THE AEROFIX 17—THE SPECTRE BULLET by Maurice Renard by Thomas Mack and Renard is the H. G. Wells of France. c With sly humor and yet grim reality THE AVENGING NOTE 10 he describes the most unusual and by Alfred Sprissler startling flight made by man. An en- are two surprises for the lovers of tirely new type of transportation EACH scientific detective mysteries. Death dawns upon the world in this master- strikes suddenly in these stories ; clever ly story I OR scientific minds and cleverer detectives are pitted against each other in a duel 15—THE INVADING with Death. ASTEROID by Manly Wade Wellman 18—THE SHIP FROM 6 NOWHERE Into the vision of the Earth swam FOR the huge but innocent asteroid. Mars, by Sidney Patzer at death grips with the Earth, was far A trip to infinity is this unusual away ; but the asteroid loomed story ; a mad chase across the infinite ominous, menacing. Two men were pmptiness, tracked always by the delegated avenging is c to solve the mystery ; and Marauder. Here a story 50 what they found is revealed in this that deals with millions of years and startling story. billions of billions of miles. CONTINENTAL PUBLICATIONS, INC. 99 Hudson Street New York, N. Y. 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THE MAGAZINE OP PROPHETIC FICTION Vol. 6, No. 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS September, 1934 WONDERS OF THE PLANETS, an editorial by Hugo Gemsback 389 THE FALL OF THE EIFFEL TOWER by Charles de Richter 390 (In Three Parts—Part One) 'THE MAN FROM BEYOND by John Beynon Harris 420 THE LIVING GALAXY by Laurence Manning 436 FORTHCOMING STORIES 444 SHELL UTILIZES ROTATION OF THE EARTH a news article 445 WHAT IS YOUR SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE? 445 THE WANDERER a poem by L.
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