Astounding
SCIENCE FICTION
VOLUME LV • NUMBER 5
July 1955
Novelettes
In Clouds of Glory |
Algis Budrys | 8 |
The Waitabits |
Eric Frank Russell | 41 |
Rat Race |
Frank Herbert | 90 |
Short Stories
Earth, Air, Fire and Water |
Robert Sheckley | 33 |
Tieline |
Duncan H. Munro | 78 |
Serial
The Long Way Home |
Poul Anderson | 112 |
(Conclusion)
Article
Is Bode’s Law a Coincidence? |
Roy Malcolm | 85 |
Readers’ Departments
The Editor’s Page |
4 |
The Analytical Laboratory |
89 |
The Reference Library |
P. Schuyler Miller | 148 |
Brass Tacks |
158 |
Editor: JOHN W. CAMPBELL, JR.
Assistant Editor: KAY TARRANT
Advertising Director: ROBERT E. PARK
Advertising Manager: WALTER J. McBRIDE
COVER: BY KELLY FREAS. SYMBOL: Two-stage transformer coupling.
Illustrations by Freas, Riley and van Dongen
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