The first issue of the classic pulp magazine Astounding Stories of Super-Science (later renamed Astounding Science Fiction, and currently being published as Analog Science Fiction) presents a mix of science fiction adventure stories by top writers of the day. Included are "Phantoms of Reality," by Ray Cummings; "The Beetle Horde," by Victor Rousseau; "Tank," by Murray Leinster; "The Cave of Horror," by Captain S.P. Meek; and many others.

Victor Rousseau - The Beetle Horde and other stories An expedition charged with locating the south pole with precision comes upon marvels. Aviator Tommy Travers and scientist Jim Dodd find evidence of man-sized beetles near the pole. Then, their plane is sucked into a vortex and drawn inside the Earth...Bullets, shrapnel, shell - nothing can stop the trillions of famished, man-sized beetles which, led by a madman, sweep down over the human race.

While exploring near the South Pole Tommy Travers and James Dodd, of the Travers Antarctic Expedition, crash in their plane and are seized by a swarm of man-sized beetles. They are carried down to Submundia, a world under the earth's crust, where the beetles have developed their civilization to an amazing point, using a wretched race of degenerated humans, whom they breed as cattle, for food. The insect horde is ruled by a human whose fiendish mind now plans to lead his unconquerable horde of monster insects forth to ravage the world, destroy the human race and establish a new era-the era of the insect.

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The Anthology of Sci-Fi V14 is a collection of seven the past century. Included are: The Soul-Snatcher By Tom Curry, Giants of the Ray By Tom Curry, From An Amber Block By Tom Curry, The Lord of Space By Victor Rousseau, Hell's Dimension By Tom Curry, The Moon Destroyers By Monroe K. Ruch, Spacewrecked on Venus By Neil R. Jones.

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