Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ASTOUNDING STORIES 20¢ _On Sale the First Thursday of Each Month_ W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher HARRY BATES, Editor DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting Editor The Clayton Standard on a Magazine Guarantees _That_ the stories therein are clean, interesting, vivid, by leading writers of the day and purchased under conditions approved by the Authors' League of America; _That_ such magazines are manufactured in Union shops by American workmen; _That_ each newsdealer and agent is insured a fair profit; _That_ an intelligent censorship guards their advertising pages. _The other Clayton magazines are:_ ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE, RANCH ROMANCES, COWBOY STORIES, CLUES, FIVE-NOVELS MONTHLY, ALL STAR DETECTIVE STORIES, RANGELAND LOVE STORY MAGAZINE, WESTERN ADVENTURES, and WESTERN LOVE STORIES. _More than Two Million Copies Required to Supply the Monthly Demand for Clayton Magazines._ * * * * * VOL. VII, No. 1 CONTENTS JULY, 1931 COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSO _Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "The Doom from Planet 4."_ THE DOOM FROM PLANET 4 JACK WILLIAMSON 5 _A Ray of Fire, Green, Mysterious, Stabs Through the Night to Dan on His Ship. It Leads Him to an Island of Unearthly Peril._ THE HANDS OF ATEN H. G. WINTER 20 _Out of the Solid Ice Craig Hews Three Long-Frozen Egyptians and Is at Once Caught Up into Amazing Adventure._ (A Complete Novelette.) THE DIAMOND THUNDERBOLT H. THOMPSON RICH 46 _Locked in a Rocket and Fired into Space! Such Was the Fate which Awaited Young Stoddard at the End of the Diamond Trail!_ THE SLAVE SHIP FROM SPACE A. R. HOLMES 68 _Three Kidnapped Earthlings Show Xantra of the Tillas How "Docile" Earth Slaves Can Be._ THE REVOLT OF THE MACHINES NAT SCHACHNER AND ARTHUR L. ZAGAT 86 _Something in the Many-Faceted Mind of the Master Machine Spurs It to Diabolical Revolt Against the Authority of Its Human Masters._ THE EXILE OF TIME RAY CUMMINGS 109 _Only Near the End of the World Does Fate Catch Up with Tugh, the Cripple Who Ran Amuck Through Time._ (_Conclusion._) THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 129 _A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories._ * * * * * Single Copies, 20 Cents In Canada, 25 Cents Yearly Subscription, $2.00