Monroe K Ruch – författare

''Wonder Stories'' was founded by legendary publisher Hugo Gernsback after he left ''Amazing Stories.'' ''Wonder Stories'' thrived in one form or another for more than thirty years, briefly rivaling even ''Astounding.'' This four-hundred-plus page anthology collects ten important stories from the magazine''s zenith. Included herein are: ''Onslaught from Rigel'' by Fletcher Pratt; ''Valley of Dreams'' by Stanley G. Weinbaum; ''The Revolt of the Star Men'' by Raymond Gallun; ''The Point of View'' by Stanley G. Weinbaum; ''The Metal Moon'' by Everett C. Smith and R.F. Starzl; ''The Martian'' by Allen Glasser and A. Rowley Hilliard; ''Pygmalion''s Spectacles'' by Stanley G. Weinbaum; ''Spacewrecked on Venus'' by Neil R. Jones; ''The Moon Destroyers'' by Monroe K. Ruch; and ''The Worlds of If'' by Stanley G. Weinbaum.

The moon is not only the most prominent object in our heavens, but also an integral part of the Earth. We are, so to speak, an astronomical unit, and we affect each other for better or for worse. We know that the gravitational attraction of the moon causes our tides, and tends to slow up the earth in her daily rotation. It has also been deemed responsible for earthquakes, causing untold suffering among earth''s people. But so far the effect of the moon has been rather an inhuman affair. No man has gone to the moon to see just what conditions are there, and to observe accurately the influence that the moon and earth exercise over each other. But when interplanetary travel does come, when commerce between moon and earth may possibly assume importance in our lives, the influence of the moon upon us may be more accurately determined. And when it is, the amazing series of incidents, pictured in this story, may yet come true.