Astounding Science Fiction July 1949 (Volume 43, Number 5)
Illustrations by Brush, Ed Cartier, Paul Orban, Quackenbush. Cover by Hubert Rogers.

Novelettes: "Agent of Vega" by James H. Schmitz (started "Confederacy of Vega" series / formed beginning of Agent of Vega)
"Eternity Lost" by Clifford D. Simak.

Stories: "Convergence to Death" by M. C. Pease
"The Animal-Cracker Plot" by L. Sprague de Camp ("Viagens" series)
"Trip One" by Edward Grendon
"Secret Weapon" by Alfred Coppel
"Adaptation" by John Beynon (a.k.a. "John Wyndham.")

Article: "Talking on Pulses" by C. Rudmore.

John W. Campbell's editorial is "Brookhaven Sketches." Book review by Willy Ley