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Astounding British Edition, May 1956
This May 1956 British edition of *Astounding Science Fiction* features the novelette "Sand Doom" by Murray Leinster, concerning a Colonial Survey officer named Bordman and passenger Aletha Redfeather, an Amerind historian, unexpectedly diverted from routine orbit to an emergency boat landing on Xosa II. The story involves an unexcited survey mission complicated by mysterious ground conditions requiring immediate planetfall. The issue also contains Frank Herbert's serial "Under Pressure" (part two of three), short stories by Stanley Gimble ("Breakaway"), N.J.A. Taylor ("Far From Home"), and Lou Tabakow ("Faithfully Yours"). Campbell's editorial examines concepts of organization and complexity, comparing magnetization to life, arguing that scientific models may miss intangible yet measurable organizational principles. The issue includes reader correspondence and P. Schuyler Miller's reference column.