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• 5 • The Lead Curtain • [Editorial (Astounding)] • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by The Editor]
• 7 • The Chronicler (Part 1 of 2) • serial by A. E. van Vogt (book publication as Siege of the Unseen)
• 7 •  The Chronicler (Part 1 of 2) • interior artwork by Swenson
• 12 •  The Chronicler (Part 1 of 2) [2] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 17 •  The Chronicler (Part 1 of 2) [3] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 24 •  The Chronicler (Part 1 of 2) [4] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 31 •  The Chronicler (Part 1 of 2) [5] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 35 • In Times to Come (Astounding, October 1946) • [In Times to Come (Astounding)] • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by The Editor]
• 36 • Chaos, Co-Ordinated • novelette by James Blish and Robert A. W. Lowndes [as by John MacDougal]
• 36 •  Chaos, Co-Ordinated • interior artwork by Swenson
• 43 •  Chaos, Co-Ordinated [2] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 48 •  Chaos, Co-Ordinated [3] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 53 •  Chaos, Co-Ordinated [4] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 58 • Assumption Unjustified • novella by Hal Clement
• 58 •  Assumption Unjustified • interior artwork by Swenson
• 67 •  Assumption Unjustified [2] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 76 •  Assumption Unjustified [3] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 85 •  Assumption Unjustified [4] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 94 •  Assumption Unjustified [5] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 98 • The Analytical Laboratory: July 1946 (Astounding, October 1946) • [The Analytical Laboratory] • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by The Editor]
• 99 • The Atomic Pile • essay by uncredited
• 115 • Alien • short story by George O. Smith
• 115 •  Alien • interior artwork by Swenson
• 122 •  Alien [2] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 126 • False Dawn • novelette by A. Bertram Chandler
• 126 •  False Dawn • interior artwork by Swenson
• 135 •  False Dawn [2] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 144 •  False Dawn [3] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 153 •  False Dawn [4] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 159 • To Still the Drums • short story by Chan Davis
• 159 •  To Still the Drums • interior artwork by Swenson
• 167 •  To Still the Drums [2] • interior artwork by Swenson
• 173 • Brass Tacks (Astounding, October 1946) • [Brass Tacks] • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by The Editor]
• 137 •  Letter (Astounding, October 1946): Atomic Rockets Are More Than a Sixty-Four Dollar Question. We Need a Lot More Answers. • essay by Herbert Gould
• 174 •  Letter (Astounding, October 1946): One Bowl We Don't Want Here. • essay by R. S. Patrick
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  Letter (Astounding, October 1946): This Man Knows He Has a Personal Interest. A Lot of the Rest of Us Do Too—Only We Don't Know It Yet.^?Letter (Astounding, October 1946): This Man Knows He Has a Personal Interest. A Lot of the Rest of Us Do Too-Only We Don't Know It Yet.
  • essay by Joe Spivins
• 176 •  
  Letter (Astounding, October 1946): But Mathematics—Like the Rules of Chess or Any Other Game—Has No Real Relation to the Actual Universe. For Instance, Arithmetic Finds the Ratio of Diameter to Circumference Inexpressible. But the Ratio Is Real; It Exists.^?Letter (Astounding, October 1946): But Mathematics-Like the Rules of Chess or Any Other Game-Has No Real Relation to the Actual Universe. For Instance, Arithmetic Finds the Ratio of Diameter to Circumference Inexpressible. But the Ratio Is Real; It Exists.
  • essay by Edwin Sigler
• 177 •  Letter (Astounding, October 1946): But I Do Wish He'd Included a Circuit Diagram of That Harrington Gadget as Well as Fig. I and 2! • essay by Richard L. Montgomery