Clark Ashton Smith: "Marooned in Andromeda," "The Amazing Planet" and "The Eternal World"

Let's read three early 1930s stories by that titan (or as we might start saying after today, Anakim) of the weird, Clark Ashton Smith, the California-based poet, short-story craftsman, sculptor and painter. Today's stories debuted in Hugo Gernsback's magazine of prophetic fiction, Wonder Stories, so these might be more like science fiction stories than actual weird tales, but we'll see to what extent Smith puts his own weird stamp on these tales of life beyond mother Earth.Note that I am reading the magazine versions of these stories, which may well be quite different than later book versions. Here find links to the very scans of the magazines that I will be reading:Wonder Stories, October 1930 Wonder Stories Quarterly, October 1931Wonder Stories, March 1932"Marooned in Andromeda" (1930)Here we have the first of two stories about a Captain Volmar published in Smith's lifetime. The two published Volmar stories later appeared together in the Smith collection Other Dimensions, in an…