Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced from Astounding Stories March 1933. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
The Table of Contents is not part of the original magazine.
 
 
Lords of the Stratosphere
 A Complete Novelette
 
By Arthur J. Burks
 
 
Contents
   
I The Take-off
II The Ghostly Columns
III Strange Levitation
IV Frantic Scheming
V Into the Void
VI Stratosphere Currents
VII Invisible Globe
VIII Cataclysmic Hunger
IX A Scheme Is Described
X How It Came About
XI To the Rescue
XII High Chaos
CHAPTER I
 The Take-off
High into air are the great New York buildings lifted by aray whose source no telescope can find.
It seemed only fitting and proper that the greatest of all leaps intospace should start from Roosevelt Field, where so many great flights hadbegun and ended. Fliers whose names had rung—for a space—around theworld, had landed here and been received by New York with all the pompof visiting kings. Fliers had departed here for the lands of kings, tobe received by them when their journeys were ended.
Of course Lucian Jeter and Tema Eyer were disappointed that Franz Kresshad beaten them out in the race to be first into the stratosphere abovefifty-five thousand feet. There was a chance that Kress would fail, whenit would be the turn of Jeter and Eyer. They didn't wish for hisfailure, of course. They were sports-men as well as scientists; butthey were just human enough to anticipate the plaudits of the worldwhich would be showered without stint upon the fliers who succeeded.
The warship simply vanished into the night sky.The warship simply vanished into the night sky.
"At least, Tema," said Jeter quietly, "we can look his ship over and s                        
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