# Astounding Science Fiction v44n5

The writings of Lester Del Rey have been removed due to a request by John Betancourt of Wildside Press. Astounding Science Fiction , Volume 44 Number 5, January of 1950. Published by Street & Smith Publications, Inc., New York, NY. 164 pages. Cover art by Chesley Bonestell. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Featuring essays by John W. Campbell, Jr. as The Editor and Arthur C. Parlett, with Forrest J. Ackerman as Alden Lorraine providing a book review of THE SHIP OF ISHTAR by A. Merritt. Includes the following works of fiction: The Xi Effect, a shortstory by R. S. Richardson as Philip Latham. Undesirable Alien, a shortstory by David McCarthy. Not to Be Opened, a novelette by Peter Grainger as Roger Flint Young. Gypsy, a Psychotechnic League shortstory by Poul Anderson. Ole Mother Methuselah, a Doc Methuselah novelette by L. Ron Hubbard as René Lafayette. ... And Now You Don't (Foundation Original Series Part 8 of 8), a serial by Isaac Asimov.

- Kind: Magazine
- Series: Astounding Science Fiction
- Year: 1950
- By: Street and Smith Publications
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/AstoundingScienceFictionv44n5)
- 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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