Sterner St. Paul Meek was a US military chemist, and SF and children's book author. He published as Capt. S.P. Meek, Major S.P. Meek, and Col. S.P. Meek. He retired as a Colonel in 1947 and took up writing full time. His first published story was in Field and Stream in 1928, and he was a prolific contributor to SF pulp magazines like Amazing and Astounding between 1929 and 1933, appearing alongside Ray Cummings and Murray Leinster. He stopped writing SF in 1933, turning to children's fiction, and published twenty children's books between 1932 and 1956. Giants of the Earth was published as a serial in Astounding in 1931. The Earth lies under the yoke of Jovian oppression. Glavour, the Jovian, called Son of God and Viceroy of Earth, contends with Damis the Nepthalim, half-breed son of the previous Jovian Viceroy and a human mother. Glavour is eight feet tall with the strength conferred by Jupiter's gravity. Damis is of human stature, but with his father's strength. Will it be enough? He is half-Jovian and half-human. On which side will his loyalties fall? Can he assist the people of Earth in a revolt against their masters?
How could a human body be found actually splintered-broken into sharp fragments like shattered glass! Once again Dr. Bird probes deep into an amazing mystery.
There's no hurry, Doctor,"" replied Operative Carnes of the United States Secret Service as he entered the room and sat on the edge of the Doctor's desk. ""I haven't got a case up my sleeve this time; I just came in for a little chat.""""All right, glad to see you. Read that latest volume of the Zeitschrift for a while. That article of Von Beyer's has got me guessing, all right.""Carnes picked up the indicated volume and settled himself to read. The Doctor bent over his apparatus. Time and again he made minute adjustments and gave vent to muttered exclamations of annoyance at the results he obtained. Half an hour later he rose from his chair with a sigh and turned to his visitor.
It has long been a dream of metallurgists to conquer the science of transmutation of metals. Also it is a pet theme for writers of scientific fiction. We are well on the road to synthetic foods, why not synthetic metals? This time Capt Meek has devised a truly ingenious method for obtaining synthetic gold, which gives the radio yet another use.
Jim Carpenter had never agreed to the opinion almost unanimously held by the scientists as to the true nature of the magnetic heaviside layer. He was going to try and punch a hole through it.
How could a human body be found actually splintered-broken into sharp fragments like shattered glass! Once again Dr. Bird probes deep into an amazing mystery.
Jim Carpenter had never agreed to the opinion almost unanimously held by the scientists as to the true nature of the magnetic heaviside layer. He was going to try and punch a hole through it.
It has long been a dream of metallurgists to conquer the science of transmutation of metals. Also it is a pet theme for writers of scientific fiction. We are well on the road to synthetic foods, why not synthetic metals? This time Capt Meek has devised a truly ingenious method for obtaining synthetic gold, which gives the radio yet another use.
Astounding Stories (Vol. V No. 2 February, 1931); pulp science fiction and horror.In this issue:WEREWOLVES OF WAR D. W. HALLThe Story of the "Torpedo Plan" and of Capt. Lance's Heroic Part in America's Last Mighty Battle with the United Slavs. THE TENTACLES FROM BELOW ANTHONY GILMOREDown to Tremendous Ocean Depths Goes Commander Keith Wells in His Blind Duel with the Marauding "Machine-Fish." (A Complete Novelette.) THE BLACK LAMP CAPTAIN S. P. MEEKDr. Bird and His Friend Carnes Unravel Another Criminal Web of Scientific Mystery.PHALANXES OF ATLANS F. V. W. MASONOnly in Dim Legends Did Mankind Remember Atlantis and the Lost Tribes—Until Victor Nelson's Extraordinary Adventure in the Unknown Arctic. (Beginning a Two-Part Novel.)THE PIRATE PLANET CHARLES W. DIFFINFrom Earth and Sub-Venus Converge a Titanic Offensive of Justice on the Unspeakable Man-Things of Torg. (Conclusion.)
There's no hurry, Doctor,"" replied Operative Carnes of the United States Secret Service as he entered the room and sat on the edge of the Doctor's desk. ""I haven't got a case up my sleeve this time; I just came in for a little chat.""""All right, glad to see you. Read that latest volume of the Zeitschrift for a while. That article of Von Beyer's has got me guessing, all right.""Carnes picked up the indicated volume and settled himself to read. The Doctor bent over his apparatus. Time and again he made minute adjustments and gave vent to muttered exclamations of annoyance at the results he obtained. Half an hour later he rose from his chair with a sigh and turned to his visitor.
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