Startling Stories Fall 1943 – Time Pirates Attack Future City with Ray Weapons
A massive teardrop-shaped spacecraft bristling with futuristic ray-gun technology dominates the cover, its transparent cockpit revealing a crew of time pirates as golden energy beams lance downward into a burning metropolis below. A swarm of smaller red torpedo-shaped craft fills the lurid green sky, adding to the aerial assault. The city skyline crumbles in orange flames beneath the attack — a visceral vision of advanced aerial warfare and time-travel villainy straight from Ross Rocklynne's complete novel.
Holy smokes, that giant purple ship is blasting the whole city to smithereens while a whole fleet of rocket-bugs backs it up — and there are actual pirates inside! I'm buying this the second I see it on the newsstand!
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