Startling Stories January 1949 Henry Kuttner Jack Vance Murray Leinster Pulp For Sale

STARTLING STORIES — JANUARY 1949 — VOLUME 18, NUMBER 3

A terrific Golden Age science-fiction pulp featuring a complete novel by Henry Kuttner, plus a pair of complete novelets and additional stories by some of the era's most interesting genre writers.

Complete Novel:

• THE TIME AXIS — Henry Kuttner

Complete Novelets:

• THE SUB-STANDARD SARDINES — Jack Vance

• MARTIAN GESTURE — Alexander M. Phillips

Short Stories:

• FLAW — John D. MacDonald

• THE STORY OF ROD CANTRELL — Murray Leinster

• THE FISSION MAN — R. W. Stockheker

• FORofferDEN VOYAGE — René Lafayette

The issue also includes letters and announcements, a review of science-fiction fan publications, and a science-fiction bookshelf department. The cover painting by Earle Bergey illustrates The Time Axis.

Condition: Good. There is a small amount of wear along the edges of the cover, but otherwise this is a solid, complete used copy with good overall presentation. The original pulp construction remains intact.

A particularly appealing issue for collectors of Henry Kuttner, Jack Vance, Golden Age science fiction, and vintage pulp magazines.  Please see photos.

Henry Kuttner's The Time Axis sends a group of very different twentieth-century figures into a distant future where they are called upon to confront a threat to the galaxy. The issue supplements Kuttner's novel with Jack Vance's humorous Magnus Ridolph adventure The Sub-Standard Sardines and Alexander M. Phillips's Martian Gesture, described in the magazine as a Hall of Fame classic.

Additional stories by John D. MacDonald, Murray Leinster, R. W. Stockheker, and René Lafayette round out a particularly strong January 1949 science-fiction pulp. E5.