# Astounding Science Fiction v40n3

Astounding Science Fiction , Volume 40 Number 3, November of 1947. Published by Street & Smith Publications, Inc., New York, NY. 164 pages. Cover art by Hubert Rogers. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Featuring essays by John W. Campbell, Jr. as The Editor and John R. Pierce as J. J. Coupling. Includes the following works of fiction: Children of the Lens (Lensman Part 1 of 4), a serial by Edward E. Smith. The Expensive Slaves, an Ole Doc Methuselah shortstory by L. Ron Hubbard as René Lafayette. Thunder and Roses, a novelette by Theodore Sturgeon. Boomerang, a shortstory by Eric Tinde. Margin for Error, a novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett.

- Kind: Magazine
- Series: Astounding Science Fiction
- Year: 1947
- By: Street and Smith Publications
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/AstoundingScienceFictionv40n3)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can read it: Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says)

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