The Collected Stories
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The Invible Man of Mars, Captain Marvel Adventures, #84, May 1948
The Invisible Robinhood, Fantastic Adventures, May 1939
Iron Man, Future Science Fiction, December 1955
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Jaunt on Jupiter, Captain Marvel Adventures, #91, December 1948
Jon Jarl Loses His Job, Captain Marvel Adventures, #109, June 1950
Jon Jarl Saves 1950, Captain Marvel Adventures, #115, December 1950
The Judgement Sun, Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937
The Jules Verne Express, Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1939
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The Killer Plants, The Killer Plants and Other Stories, 1974
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Land of the Shadow Dragons, Fantastic Adventures, May 1941
The Life Battery, Startling Stories, July 1939
The Life Beyond, Science Fiction, March 1941
Life Disinherited, Astounding Stories, March 1937
Life Eternal, Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1938
The Little People, Fantastic Adventures, March 1940
Lords of Creation (Part One), Argosy, September 23, 1939
Lords of Creation (Part Two), Argosy, September 30, 1939
Lords of Creation (Part Three), Argosy, October 7, 1939
Lords of Creation (Part Four), Argosy, October 14, 1939
Lords of Creation (Part Five), Argosy, October 21, 1939
Lords of Creation (Conclusion), Argosy, October 28, 1939
Lt. Jarl on Mars, Captain Marvel Adventures, #67, November 1946
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Man from the Past, Captain Marvel Adventures, #102, November 1949
Man in the Moons, Other Worlds Science Stories, September 1955
The Man Who Saw Too Late, Fantastic Adventures, September 1939
The Man Without a World, Captain Marvel Adventures, #103, December 1949
Martian Martyrs, Science Fiction, March 1939
Master of Telepathy, Amazing Stories, December 1938
Memos on Mercury, Captain Future, Summer, June 1941
Menace of the Metal Men, Captain Marvel Adventures, #88, September 1948
The Metal Ocean, Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1938
The Metal World, Captain Marvel Adventures, #116, January 1951
The Mind Exchange, Captain Marvel Adventures, #94, March 1949
Mind Over Matter, Captain Marvel Adventures, #77, October 1947
The Missing World, The Missing World and Other Stories, 1974
The Missing Year, Amazing Stories, October 1939
The Mogu of Mars, Science Fiction, August 1939
Momus’ Moon, Comet, December 1940
The Monster or—the Monster?, Science Fiction Quarterly, February 1954
Moon of Intoxication, Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1939
The Moon Mines, Wonder Stories, April 1933
Murder on the Asteroid, Wonder Stories, June 1933
The Mysterious Stranger, Amateur Correspondent, September/October, September 1937
Mystery from the Stars, Future Fiction, November 1939
Mystery World, Captain Marvel Adventures, #90, November 1948
Mystery World, Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941
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The New Life, Science Fiction, March 1940
The New Moon, Captain Marvel Adventures, #108, May 1950
The Nova Menace, Captain Marvel Adventures, #117, February 1951
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The Old West Lives Again, Captain Marvel Adventures, #113, October 1950
On Mars We Trod, Universe Science Fiction, December 1953
One Thousand Miles Below, Planet Stories, Winter, November 1940
Orestes Revolts, Astounding Stories, October 1938
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The Payoff, Future Science Fiction, March 1954
The Poison Realm, Future Fiction, July 1940
Polar Doom, Science Fiction Quarterly, Summer, July 1940
Prison of Time, Dynamic Science Stories, April/May, April 1939
The Purple Lotus, Action Stories, February 1941
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Queen of the Skies, Astounding Stories, November 1937
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Rays of Blindness, Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1938
Revenge of the Space Hermit, Captain Marvel Adventures, #69, February 1947
The Ring Bonanza, Startling Stories, July 1947
Robinson Crusoe of Space, Captain Marvel Adventures, #104, January 1950
The Robot Aliens, Wonder Stories, February 1935
Rocket Race, Captain Marvel Adventures, #79, December 1947
Rope Trick, Astounding Science-Fiction, April 1939
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S O S in Space, Astounding Stories, January 1937
Satellite Prison, Captain Marvel Adventures, #71, April 1947
Science Island, Startling Stories, January 1939
The Secret of Anton York, Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1940
Set Your Course by the Stars, Astounding Stories, May 1935
Shadows of Blood, Weird Tales, April 1935
Ships That Come Back, Astounding Stories, November 1935
Shipwreck in the Sky, Fantastic Universe, March 1954
Son of the Stars, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, February 1940
The Space Beachcomber, Captain Marvel Adventures, #105, February 1950
Space Scavenger Hunt, Captain Marvel Adventures, #110, July 1950
Space Hitch-Hiker, Super Science Stories, May 1942
The Space Monster, Captain Marvel Adventures, #118, March 1951
The Space Olympics, Captain Marvel Adventures, #68, December 1946
The Space Pirate, Amazing Stories, June 1938
The Space Trap, Captain Marvel Adventures, #81, February 1948
Spawn of Eternal Thought (Part One), Astounding Stories, April 1936
Spawn of Eternal Thought (Conclusion), Astounding Stories, May 1936
The Spore Doom, Wonder Stories, February 1934
Static, Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1936
Strange Vision, Astounding Stories, May 1937
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The Teacher from Mars, Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1941
Testing, Testing, Universe Science Fiction, May 1954
The Thieves from Isot, Wonder Stories, October 1934
The Three Eternals, Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1939
The Time Cheaters, Thrilling Wonder Stories, March 1940
The Time Contractor, Astounding Stories, December 1937
The Time Cylinder, Science-Fiction Plus, March 1953
The Time Entity, Astounding Stories, October 1936
The Time Trip, Captain Marvel Adventures, #107, April 1950
Tiny Terror, Captain Marvel Adventures, #87, August 1948
Trapped by Telepathy, Amazing Stories, March 1939
Treasure on Saturn, Captain Marvel Adventures, #73, June 1947
The Trial of Adam Link, Robot, Amazing Stories, July 1939
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Valley of Lost Souls, Amazing Stories, February 1939
Vassals of the Master World, Planet Stories, Fall, August 1941
Venus, 23rd Century, Captain Marvel Adventures, #70, March 1947
Via Asteroid, Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1938
Via Catacombs, Thrilling Wonder Stories, November 1940
Via Death, Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1938
Via Etherline, Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1937
Via Intelligence, Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1940
Via Jupiter, Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1942
Via Mercury, Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1940
Via Pyramid, Thrilling Wonder Stories, January 1940
Via Sun, Thrilling Wonder Stories, March 1940
Via Venus, Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1939
Villain of Time, Captain Marvel Adventures, #97, June 1949
The Violators, Planet Stories, Fall, September 1954
Vision of the Hydra, Thrilling Wond
er Stories, August 1937
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Wanderer of Little Land, Fantastic Adventures, June 1941
Wanderers of Space, Captain Marvel Adventures, #112, September 1950
Wandering World, Captain Marvel Adventures, #99, August 1949
Waters of Death, Thrilling Wonder Stories, January 1940
Wayward World, Astounding Stories, February 1938
We Are One, Comet, May 1941
When the Sun Went Out, Astounding Stories, September 1937
Where Eternity Ends, Science Fiction, June 1939
The Winking Lights of Mars, Amazing Stories, February 1941
World of Illusion, Future Fiction, November 1940
World of Titans, Captain Marvel Adventures, #89, October 1948
World of Youth, Captain Marvel Adventures, #92, January 1949
The World Owner, Captain Marvel Adventures, #96, May 1949
The World Stealers, Captain Marvel Adventures, #78, November 1947
World Within, Captain Marvel Adventures, #100, September 1949
FICTION SERIES
[C] = Collection
[N] = Novel
[SF] = Short Story/Novelette
Adam Link
“I, Robot” [SF]
The Trial of Adam Link, Robot [SF]
Adam Link in Business [SF]
Adam Link’s Vengeance [SF]
Adam Link, Robot Detective [SF]
Adam Link, Champion Athlete [SF]
Adam Link Fights a War [SF]
Adam Link in the Past [SF]
Adam Link Faces a Revolt [SF]
Adam Link Saves the World [SF]
Adam Link—Robot [N]
Anton York
Conquest of Life [SF]
Life Eternal [SF]
The Three Eternals [SF]
The Secret of Anton York [SF]
Anton York, Immortal [C]
Invisible Robinhood
The Invisible Robinhood [SF]
Land of the Shadow Dragons [SF]
Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Patrol
Adventure in Space [SF]
Lt. Jarl On Mars [SF]
The Space Olympics [SF]
Revenge of the Space Hermit [SF]
Venus, 23rd Century [SF]
Satellite Prison [SF]
Dictator of Space [SF]
Treasure on Saturn [SF]
Human Pets of Neptune [SF]
Exile on Mercury [SF]
Hitchhiker of Space [SF]
Mind Over Matter [SF]
The World Stealers [SF]
Rocket Race [SF]
Duel in Space [SF]
The Space Trap [SF]
Hobo of the Void [SF]
The Atom Dictator [SF]
The Invisible Man of Mars [SF]
The Freedom Rocket [SF]
The Great Rhean War [SF]
The Tiny Terror [SF]
Menace of the Metal Men [SF]
World of Titans [SF]
Mystery World [SF]
Jaunt On Jupiter [SF]
World of Youth [SF]
Evil Beyond the Sun [SF]
The Mind Exchange [SF]
Interplanetary Census [SF]
The World Owner [SF]
Villain of Time [SF]
Atomic Express Mail [SF]
Wandering World [SF]
World Within [SF]
Asteroid Adventure [SF]
Man from the Past [SF]
The Man Without a World [SF]
Robinson Crusoe of Space [SF]
The Space Beachcomber [SF]
Interplanetary Colony [SF]
The Time Trip [SF]
The New Moon [SF]
Jon Jarl Loses His Job [SF]
Space Scavenger Hunt [SF]
Invisible Doom [SF]
Wanderers of Space [SF]
The Old West Lives Again [SF]
The Crime Genie [SF]
Jon Jarl Saves 1950 [SF]
The Metal World [SF]
The Nova Menace [SF]
The Space Monster [SF]
The Great Space Piracy [SF]
The Darkness Danger [SF]
The First Space Patrol Megapack [C]
The Second Space Patrol Megapack [C]
The Little People
The Little People [SF]
Wanderer of Little Land [SF]
Mad Moor
The Black Comet [SF]
World of Illusion [SF]
Saucers
Menace of the Saucers [N]
Night of the Saucers [N]
Via
Via Etherline [SF]
Via Asteroid [SF]
Via Death [SF]
Via Venus [SF]
Via Pyramid [SF]
Via Sun [SF]
Via Mercury [SF]
Via Catacombs [SF]
Via Intelligence [SF]
Via Jupiter [SF]
1932
THE FIRST MARTIAN
OUR continued experiments in radio and television may play a much more important part in the eventual realization of successful interplanetary travel than we can possibly conceive of right now. But if we stop a moment to think about it, the possibilities of such closely allied work between radio, television and rocket travel take on vast proportions—one phase of which is vividly portrayed in this short science fiction gem.
Synthetic Platinum
THE American people have never clamored for a true, detailed account of the arrival of the First Martian. Yet the event, unheralded and unprecedented though it was, was one of the most important occurrences in human history. His coming was a distinct shock to the whole world, despite the marvelous advances of science from its birth in 1896 to that date. The inconceivable distance to be traversed, the enormous energy required to transport a heavy machine from planet to planet, and the all-powerful force of gravity, seemed insurmountable objects to even the most broadminded and optimistic thinkers. Feeble attempts were made even in 1931 to leave this speck of the universe and soar to other worlds, but constant failures dulled the ardor of those who wished to connect our world with the others which acknowledge the same central sun. Hope flourished after the almost successful (perhaps indeed successful) attempt of four German scientists to soar from the hidebound earth, who departed in their famous rocket in 1938, bound for the moon. The world is certain that they never returned, unless they landed in some very remote spot, unseen by human eyes; and it cannot be said where they are, whether lost in boundless space, alive or dead on the moon, or perhaps scattered in minute particles in the infinite. Again, five years later, the globular ship of two intrepid Americans vanished from the earth, never to be seen or heard from; and during the period just following the Martian signaling, several others were lost and many more crashed. Although the fatalities far exceeded these probable successes, the hope of interplanetary travel was still uppermost in our minds. We know now, that our failure can be attributed to the unfortunate lack of radioactive elements, and not to the lack of ingenuity or inventiveness. It was only too true, as Professor Billings stated in 1945, that the only type of engine which could possibly transport a heavy machine from our earth to some planet, would have to be the atomic-energy engine, which, with a minimum of fuel and the very necessary radioactive element, could develop an unlimited amount of energy.
He even drew plans of the basic principles of such an engine, estimated the amount of radioactive material needed, and worked out the propulsion of the ship. The theory, which he advanced to the scientific world, was the direct cause of Professor Riehm’s remarkable development of transmutation of elements, for it was found, upon investigation, that at least twenty-five times the amount of actinium existing in the world would be needed to send a ship to the moon. Professor Riehm, realizing that the probability of discovering a rich ore of actinium was too remote to be relied on, decided that transmutation alone was the keynote to this baffling problem.
His first great work was to break down the ordinary platinum of comm
erce to iso-platinum 192! In other words, he made a variety of platinum with a specific gravity of 21.021! It consequently had a lower melting point, a lower specific heat, and higher atomic volume! For a full understanding of this, one must review the past of science, a wonderful stairway of facts and truths, leading to Truth enthroned.
Prout, back in the days of the dawn of science, formulated the theory that elements were aggregates of the hydrogen atom, and hence every atomic weight should come out exactly and without fractions, or very nearly even. His contemporaries, all able men, examined carefully the then existing list of elements, and although a surprising number came out very close to whole numbers, a good many were halfway between.
Stas, a German, then proceeded to redetermine the atomic weights and came to the conclusion that Prout was wrong, for no matter how carefully done, chlorine always came out 35.5, and several others, too, showed an uneven atomic weight, with full allowance for experimental error. This marked the doom of Prout’s hypothesis, and he died in the belief that he had failed to reveal to the world a great truth, because of the bigoted beliefs, and inaccurate work of Stas. As it chanced, both were right. Stas had done his work admirably well, and yet Prout’s Theory was not a mere dream. For early in this century, a series of brilliant spectroscopic experiments proved that many, in fact most, of the elements, were mixtures of bodies, chemically alike, but EACH HAVING A WHOLE NUMBER ATOMIC WEIGHT!
For instance, Aston, the investigator, found that tin was composed of no less than eight isotopes, whose atomic weights are as follow: 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124. Each of these iso-elements is chemically identical with all the others; but possessed each of varying specific gravities. It will be noticed that two of the isotopes are actually greater in atomic weight than antimony (121.77), the element following tin. No doubt one or two of the isotopes of antimony (they have not yet been investigated thoroughly) are identical in atomic weight with one or two of tin!
The average of all the isotopic weights of any one element, with due regard to their relative proportions, gives the present value for the atomic weight. For as yet (beyond a very limited number) we have not been able to separate the isotopes of many elements.
We shall now, after this short digression, be able better to understand Professor Riehm’s remarkable experiment whereby he made iso-platinum 192. Let us read from his account of the transmutation:
“——it was found that platinum was composed of the following isotopes: 192, 194, 195, and 198. Isotope 192 has a 48He (helium) proton; 194, a 48He—2H (hydrogen) proton; 195, a 48He—3H proton; and 198, a 49He—2H proton. The problem now resolved itself into this: to remove by a sufficiently powerful agency the excess hydrogen protons of isos 194, 195, and 198, leaving isos 192 and 196.