Astounding British Edition, Volume 14, Number 11

Astounding Science Fiction, November 1958 (British Edition) This issue features the opening installment of Poul Anderson's serial "We Have Fed Our Sea," Part One of Two. The narrative spans humanity's multi-generational starship program: the Southern Cross and successive vessels fall toward distant objectives across centuries while Earth undergoes wars, conquests, and societal transformations. The story shifts to a far-future oceanside scene where Terangi Maclaren, an astrophysicist from New Zealand, flirts with an amber-skinned Burmese woman aboard a ketch. Maclaren has maneuvered the Exploration Authority to approve his month-long mission to observe a burned-out supernova star—the first close examination of such an object in over two centuries of space travel. The issue also includes Christopher Anvil's novelette "Cargo for Colony 6," Anton Lee Baker's story "They've Been Working On...," Robert Silverberg's "Point of Focus," plus editorial commentary and reader departments.