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TIMELINE
If you want to know which events took place first in the Astounding Space Thrills universe, use this handy guide. Galaxy-Sized AST, The Entropian Engine adventure and the Secret of Mooch's Loot (the Convention Comics) stories have yet to be added to the timeline. -- Steve

  timeline element   Around 3500 B.C.
Stonehenge is built.
  timeline element Pyramids 2680-2565 B.C.
The pyramids at Giza are built.
  timeline element   500 YEARS AGO
The Neghtaer, who had been abducting the most intelligent aliens from all over the cosmos are forced to stop by a shift in the physical laws of the universe.
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  timeline element   400 YEARS AGO
The Lem begin their search for religious artifacts similar to their own.
       
  timeline element   EASTER 1722
Dutch Admiral Jacob Roggeveen and his three ships, land on the south Pacific island of Rapa Nui. Roggeveen renames it Easter Island.
       
  timeline element   JUNE 30 , 1908
Tunguska, Russia: An 850-square mile section of Siberia is destroyed by a meteor explosion striking with the impact of a 20 megaton nuclear weapon. Prior to the blast, witnesses see a fiery object descend into the region.
       
  timeline element   JULY 2, 1937
Aviator Amelia Earhart vanishes along with her navigator Frederick Noonan over the Pacific Ocean.
       
  timeline element   DECEMBER 2 , 1942
Man splits the atom for the first time.
  timeline element Gordo DECEMBER 13, 1958
The spider monkey Gordo is launched in the nose cone of an ICBM missile. He becomes the first primate to reach outer space.
  timeline element   APRIL 12 , 1961
Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to orbit Earth.
  timeline element footprint JULY 20, 1969
American Astronaut Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
  timeline element Mainstream 1998
ARGOSY SMITH VS. MAINSTREAM

Available online
Argosy Smith and Theremin travel back in time to a comic book convention in 1998. Adapted for online - with a new epilogue - from a short story which appeared th the SPX 1998 anthology.
  timeline element The Shift A FEW SHORTS YEARS FROM NOW
BLIPTHE SHIFT

Available online
As our part of the Milky Way swings into a new region of space where the laws of physics are different. During the chaos, Argosy Smith is born. "The Shift" first appeared in the anthology BLIP (right) published by Bardic Press and was later adapted for the web.
  timeline element Made For Each Other

ALMOST 25 YEARS LATER
MADE FOR EACH OTHER
Available online

A prologue to The Codex Reckoning story. Redmond tries to distract Argosy from finding the Codex Melzi. The online story was adapted from a short tale which appeared in the adventure-romance anthology Love in Tights from Slave Labor Graphics.

  timeline element AST cover 25 YEARS LATER
THE CODEX RECKONING
(PART 1)
Issue 1 of the original b&w series
Argosy Smith, Theremin, Petra Vaverchek, Redmond and thousands of aliens chase the Codex Melzi, the lost notes of Leonardo DaVinci.
  timeline element AST cover THE CODEX RECKONING (PART 2)
Issue 2 of the original b&w series
The race for the Codex concludes and Argosy Smith is killed. 
  timeline element AST cover ASPECTS OF IRON
Issue 3 of the original b&w series
If Argosy's dead, why is he being chased by dinosaurs and crazed robots?
  timeline element AST cover THE CYDONIAN CONTRACT
Issue 1 of the full-color Image Comic series
Argosy Smith and Theremin race aliens and Astra Nouveau for the secrets of the mysterious Face on Mars.
  timeline element   BRIGHT SPOTS
Argosy & Theremin take a walk on the sun.
Only available in the EXPO 1999 anthology available from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
  timeline element Undersea Menace MENACE FROM THE YEAR 3200
Available only online
Argosy Smith must save an undersea kingdom from disaster! 
  timeline element Space Quakes SPACE QUAKES
Available online
Someone is tampering with the physical laws that hold the galaxy together.
  timeline element Astrogenesis ASTROGENESIS
Available online
Petra is hired to ferry a strange passenger to a stranger planet! This story first appeared in the anthology MYTHOGRAPHY published by Bardic Press and was later adapted for the web. The online version is available in the archives.
  timeline element Stonehenge THE STONEHENGE CONNECTION
Available online
The secret of Stonehenge revealed! Adapted from a short story which appeared in the anthology, Son of Rampage.
  timeline element AST cover THE CRIMINAL CODE
Issue 2 of the full-color Image Comic series
Someone is killing high-profile robots and computer-programmer Argosy Smith is hired to decode the crime.
  timeline element   THE FABERGÉ OMELETTE
Available only online
Eggciting adventures as giant monsters duke it out.
  timeline element AST cover GORDO: EARTHLING PRIME
Issue 3 of the full-color Image Comic series
Earth's mysterious ambassador to the Galactic Parliament seeks revenge on the people of Earth.
  timeline element AST cover

HOSTILE TAKEOVER
Issue 4 of the full-color Image Comic series
Now that Marcoshaft owns all of Earth, what will it do with it?

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  timeline element   3200 A.D. POSSIBLE FUTURE
Prince Gillcrest rules earth.
     
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