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THE EXILE OF TIME RAY CUMMINGS 216

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WHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN HAL K. WELLS 241

_Outside His Laboratory Bruce Dixon Finds a World of Living Dead
Men--and Above, in the Sky, Shines a Weird Green Moon._

THE DEATH-CLOUD NAT SCHACHNER AND
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_The Epic Exploit of One Who Worked in the Dark and Alone, Behind
the Enemy Lines, in the Great Last War._

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Dark Moon

A COMPLETE NOVELETTE

_By Charles W. Diffin_

CHAPTER I

_There Comes a New World_

[Illustration: _Behind them a red ship was falling--falling free!_]

[Sidenote: Mysterious, dark, out of the unknown deep comes a new
satellite to lure three courageous Earthlings on to strange
adventures.]

The one hundred and fifty-ninth floor of the great Transportation
Building allowed one standing at a window to look down upon the roofs
of the countless buildings that were New York.

Flat-decked, all of them; busy places of hangars and machine shops and
strange aircraft, large and small, that rose vertically under the lift
of flashing helicopters.

The air was alive and vibrant with directed streams of stubby-winged
shapes that drove swiftly on their way, with only a wisp of vapor from
their funnel-shaped sterns to mark the continuous explosion that
propelled them. Here and there were those that entered a shaft of
pale-blue light that somehow outshone the sun. It marked an ascending
area, and there ships canted swiftly, swung their blunt noses upward,
and vanished, to the upper levels.