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He Lost Everything, Then Gambled on Himself
Chapter III introduces Alfred Westwood, a vain but calculating London clerk who once crashed into bankruptcy after reckless ambiti...
Gold, Pride, and a Locked Door: A Son’s Final Goodbye
In Chapter II, Henry Ivraine confronts his miserly father over money, dignity, and a life of emotional captivity at Paradise estat...
Trapped in a Miser’s Mansion: Two Brothers Plot Their Escape
In a desolate Lincolnshire estate ruled by a miserly father, brothers Ernest and Henry Ivraine live in emotional and financial cap...
Trapped in the Laboratory (A Desperate Search for Freedom)
In Chapter XI of Astounding Stories of Super-Science (March 1932), Hawk Carse and Friday are trapped in Dr. Ku Sui’s laboratory un...
The Visi-Screen Ordeal
In Chapter X of Astounding Stories of Super-Science (March 1932), Hawk Carse endures the harrowing Visi-Screen ordeal, witnessing...
Genius at the Command of One
In Chapter IX of Astounding Stories of Super-Science (March 1932), Dr. Ku Sui reveals his ultimate scheme: controlling the greates...
The Mastermind Behind Scientific Abductions
In Chapter VIII of Astounding Stories of Super-Science (March 1932), Dr. Ku Sui reveals his ultimate plan: controlling Earth’s gre...
The Deadly Arrival of Leithgow
In this chapter of Astounding Stories of Super-Science (1932), Hawk Carse confronts the cost of betrayal as Master Scientist Eliot...
Before Cyberpunk, There Was Port o’ Porno
In Chapter VI of The Affair of the Brains, HackerNoon revisits Port o’ Porno—a notorious 1932 sci-fi spaceport teeming with crime,...
How Light Broke the Human Mind
Chapter V of The Affair of the Brains plunges readers into a chilling 1932 sci-fi experiment where color, light, and pain are weap...
When Villains Owned Their Own Planet
In Soil, a 1932 chapter from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, readers encounter a chilling sci-fi concept: a self-contained as...
When Genius Became a Weapon
Published in 1932, The Wave of a Handkerchief captures pulp sci-fi’s fascination with intellect as ultimate power. Dr. Ku Sui’s ca...
