Astounding Science Fiction October 1952

Volume 50 Number 2

Serial

The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov

Novelettes

Survival Policy by Edwin James

The Evidence at Hand by Dean McLaughlin

Short Stories

The Exile by Alfred Coppel

The Big Hunter by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Special Feature

“But You Said” by Ralph Williams

Article

Fireworks by Willy Ley

Reader’s Departments

The Editor’s Page

In Times to Come

The Analytical Library

Brass Tacks

The Reference Library by P. Schuyler Miller

Cover by Richard Van Dongen

Illustrations by Edd Cartier, Gordon Pawelka, and Richard Van Dongen