When the world-war was at its height, wireless messages signed with the name "Pax" had been received at the Naval Observatory at Washington, in which the sender declared himself capable of controlling the forces of nature. These mysterious messages were followed by the occurrence of extraordinary natural phenomena such as violent seismic shocks and an unprecedented display of the aurora borealis. Coincidently, there appeared in the heavens a terrible air-craft, the Flying Ring, which, by means o

I "Now," said Bentham T. Tassifer, with an air of defiance, "we'll see!" He was a bandy-legged little man, whose abdominal structure suggested a concealed melon. Red-faced and perspiring, he arose from where he had been teeing up his ball for the fifth hole, flourished his driver aggressively, and, adjusting his knobby calves at a carefully calculated angle, went through a variety of extraordinary contortions with his wrists and forearms. Outwardly, he was the personification of pugnacious assur

I Bentham T. Tassifer had had a very hard day indeed. He had discovered, to his disgust, that fear is a great leveler, and that the professional dignity of a deputy assistant solicitor at the Department of Justice counted for very little when the world was on the point of extinction. Like forty or fifty million other citizens of the United States, he had attempted to participate in the scramble to "get onto the lee side of the earth," but his efforts had been totally unavailing. There wasn't a c

I "Turn her loose!" repeated Hooker, and stepped swiftly to the nearest port-hole, while Rhoda, lying in her place of concealment behind the chair, clutched at the floor in breathless apprehension. A humming sound filled the air. Through the open door of the lighted control-room, the girl could see the gyroscopes slowly beginning to revolve. The Ring throbbed as if alive. Fear seized her. Perhaps she could still escape from her voluntary imprisonment. Perhaps she could even yet open the air-lock

I "We have arrove! All out for the moon!" repeated Burke, the would-be humorist. "Get ready for the quarantine officer!" They all looked at one another incredulously. Save for the jar and the thunder of the blow when the Ring struck the moon's surface, there was nothing to suggest or indicate that they were not still moving through space, except the minor facts that the port-holes were curtained by a sitting cloud of white dust and that the deadlight was totally obscured. There was no motion now

I "It's time we were off," announced Bennie presently, glancing at his watch. "We've been here over two hours, and Medusa is coming on fast." Rhoda went to the glass port-hole and looked out. "By the way, where is she now?" she asked. "Below us," answered Bennie. "We're on the earth-side of the moon. The asteroid is away off in space on the other side." "Then we shall see the other side of the moon," exclaimed Rhoda, "the side we never see from the earth!" "Not much of it, I'm afraid," said Benn

Arthur Train and Robert W. Wood On the front cover: Professor Hooker watches the Earth rise as he stands on the Moon! On the back cover: The destruction of the asteroid; Medusa! These are just two of the many memorable scenes of fantastic adventure in this thrilling classic of science fiction. A masterpiece of suspense as a giant asteroid hurtles thru space towards Earth, and man must make his first trip into space to save his planet! Edition limited to 500 copies! $3.00 Other fantasy and scienc