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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

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