Harbinger of Interplanetary War._
(Beginning a Four-Part Novel.)

THE DESTROYER WILLIAM MERRIAM ROUSE 198

_Slowly, Insidiously, There Stole Over Allen Parker Something
Uncanny. He Could No Longer Control His Hands--Even His Brain!_

THE GRAY PLAGUE L. A. ESHBACH 210

_Maimed and Captive, in the Depths of an Interplanetary Meteor-Craft,
Lay the Only Possible Savior of Plague-Ridden Earth._

JETTA OF THE LOWLANDS RAY CUMMINGS 230

_Black-Garbed Figures Move in Ghastly Greenness As the Invisible Flyer
Speeds on Its Business of Ransom._ (Conclusion.)

VAGABONDS OF SPACE HARL VINCENT 244

_From the Depths of the Sargasso Sea of Space Came the Thought-Warning,
"Turn Back!" But Carr and His Martian Friend Found It Was Too Late!_
(A Complete Novelette.)

THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 271

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The Wall of Death

_By Victor Rousseau_

[Illustration: And then Kay had broken through and was hewing madly
with great sweeps of the ax.]

[Sidenote: Out of the Antarctic it came--a wall of viscid, grey,
half-human jelly, absorbing and destroying all life that it
encountered.]

"This news," said Cliff Hynes, pointing to the newspaper, "means the
end of _homo Americanus_."

The newspaper in question was the hour-sheet of the International
Broadcast Association, just delivered by pneumatic tube at the
laboratory. It was stamped 1961, Month 13, Day 7, Horometer 3, and the
headlines on the front page confirmed the news of the decisive defeat
of the American military and naval forces at the hands of the Chinese
Republic.

A gallant fight for days against hopeless odds; failure of the army
dynamos; airships cut off from groun