This is far from the best edition of Astounding from the 1940s that I've read. To be honest, the cover story, Trog, by Murray Leinster, was pretty dreadful. The plot was pure wartime propaganda and the prose was at a grade school level. None of the other offerings in this February 1944 edition impressed me much, either. Most of the old editions of Astounding I've read were far better. Admittedly there are only a handful. My brother occasionally comes across one and sends it to me, but they are hard to find and tend not to be in good shape because time takes a toll on the cheap pulp paper. Still, I'm happy to own those I do. There are gems in some of these.

(I've had added a cover shot for this, but since I didn't create the Goodreads listing for this one, there seems to be no way of doing so without adding it as a new edition.) ( )