 An early contributor was Nelson S. Bond, whose story "The Judging of the Priestess" appeared in the April 1940 issue.This was the second in a highly regarded series of three stories about a priestess in the future, after civilization has collapsed; the first and third in the series appeared in "Amazing Stories" and "Astounding Stories" respectively.Bond also wrote a humorous short story called "The Amazing Invention of Wilberforce Weems", which appeared in the September 1939 issue and described the consequences of a potion that allowed the instant absorption of knowledge from any book.