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ASTOUNDING
STORIES
OF SUPER-SCIENCE
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VOL. II, No. 2 CONTENTS MAY, 1930
COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSOLOWSKI
_Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in_ "_The Atom-Smasher_."
INTO THE OCEAN'S DEPTHS SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 151
_To Save Imee's Race of Men-Who-Returned-To-The-Sea, Two Land-Men Answer the Challenge of the Dreaded Rorn, Corsairs of the Under-Seas._
MURDER MADNESS MURRAY LEINSTER 166
_Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service Men Had Completely Disappeared. Another Had Been Found a Screaming, Homicidal Maniac, Whose Fingers Writhed Like Snakes. So Bell, of the Secret "Trade," Plunges into South America After The Master--the Mighty, Unknown Octopus of Power Whose Diabolical Poison Threatens a Continent!_ (_Beginning a Four-part Novel._)
BRIGANDS OF THE MOON RAY CUMMINGS 195
_Gregg and Anita Risk Quick, Sure Death in a Desperate Bluff on the Ruthless Martian Brigands._ (_Part Three of a Four-part Novel._)
THE JOVIAN JEST LILITH LORRAINE 228
_There Came to Our Pigmy Planet a Radiant Wanderer with a Message--and a Jest--from the Vasty Universe._
THE ATOM-SMASHER VICTOR ROUSSEAU 234
_Four Destinies Rocket Through the Strange Time-Space of the Fourth Dimension in Tode's Marvelous Atom-Smasher._ (_A Complete Novelette._)
THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 277
_A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories._
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