JF Ptak Science Books: Daily Dose of Dr. Odd: Fabulous Spherical Spacecraft from Pulpworld

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Daily Dose of Dr. Odd: Fabulous Spherical Spacecraft from Pulpworld

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Piecing my way through the great collection at Cover Browser, looking for science fiction pulp covers for images of Enormous-and-Montrously-Huge-Outer-Space-Things, I developed a very small collection of spherical spacecraft and/or "stuff". They're quite lovely, I think.

[All of the images I used below I selected from the big and wonderful collection at Cover Browser, here.]

Astounding Stories 148 - Science Fiction - March 1943 - Short Stories - Golden Age Science Fiction - Classic Science Fiction Short Stories

Astounding Stories 64 - March 1936 - Schachner - Entropy - Glass Globes - Trapped

Astounding Stories 81 - Earth - Moon - Space - Author Nat Schachner - Article Chrystallized Thought

Astounding Stories 241 - Bindlesuff - December 1950 - Tropical Forest - Native - Space Craft
Astounding Stories 57 - Jack Williamson - The Galatic Circle - August - A Street L Smith Publication - Astounding