Astounding Stories #40

This issue contains multiple science fiction and suspense stories. "The Incredible Giants" depicts a spacecraft crew encountering a mysterious giant hand in space, discovering that their vessel has stopped moving. Another story involves extraterrestrials from distant planets overcoming initial suspicion to forge a friendship with Earth's inhabitants. "The Narzo Coward" is set in a small European country seventy years in the past, where a woman named Maria seeks out an unknown soldier who saved her nation, hoping to convince him to become a soldier rather than pursue his personal dreams of becoming a nurse.