Front matter
Reading edition
Illustrations by SOL LEVIN
Introduction by JOHN W. CAMPBELL, JR.
THE PRIME PRESS Philadelphia
1949
[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
Copyright 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 by Street and Smith for Astounding Science Fiction
Copyright 1947 by THE PRIME PRESS
First printing, 1947 Reprinted, 1949
THE PRIME PRESS Box 2019—Philadelphia 3, Pa.
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES
Dedication:
To James Clerk Maxwell, whose Electromagnetic Equations founded the art of electronics and thus made Venus Equilateral possible....
And to my son, George O. Smith (Jg), who may some day work there.
