Flying Ocean Liner Levitated by Searchlight, Amazing Stories June 1930
Pure pulp wonder radiates from this audacious cover — a full-sized ocean liner, smoke still billowing from its funnels, impossibly lifted clear of the sea by a brilliant cone of white light emanating from below. Sailors on a dock gesture in astonishment as the massive red-hulled vessel hangs suspended against a warm, hazy sky. The marriage of everyday maritime technology with inexplicable levitating force is classic Golden Age science fiction spectacle at its most jaw-dropping.
A fully intact ocean liner — funnels, anchors, and all — hoisted bodily into the sky by a single cone of light is magnificently absurd. The ship's red hull gleams against the clouds with zero concern for the laws of physics.
“JUNE AMAZING STORIES 25 CENTS IN CANADA 30 CENTS Scientifiction Stories by A. Hyatt Verrill John W. Campbell, Jr. Edmond Hamilton”
