Various ~6 hr read

A complete December 1930 issue of the pulp that would grow into the field's most important title.

This December 1930 number of Astounding Stories of Super-Science, edited by Harry Bates in the magazine's Clayton-era infancy, offers a full slate of rockets, rays, and cosmic adventure by the popular pulpsters of the moment. Read it as a genuine time capsule from the early days of magazine science fiction.

In its time

Published in 1930, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).