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ASTOUNDING
STORIES
OF SUPER-SCIENCE
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VOL. II, No. 3 CONTENTS JUNE, 1930
COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSOLOWSKI
_Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "The Moon Master."_
OUT OF THE DREADFUL DEPTHS C. D. WILLARD 293 _Robert Thorpe Seeks Out the Nameless Horror That Is Sucking All Human Life Out of Ships in the South Pacific._
MURDER MADNESS MURRAY LEINSTER 310 _Bell, of the Secret "Trade," Strikes into the South American Jungle to Find the Hidden Stronghold of the Master--the Unknown Monster Whose Diabolical Poison Swiftly and Surely Is Enslaving the Whole Continent._ (Part Two of a Continued Novel.)
THE CAVERN WORLD JAMES P. OLSEN 340
_A Great Oil Field Had Gone Dry--and Asher, Trapped Far under the Earth Among the Revolting Petrolia, Learns Why._
BRIGANDS OF THE MOON RAY CUMMINGS 352
_The Besieged Earth-men Wage Grim, Ultra-scientific War with Martian Bandits in a Last Great Struggle for Their Radium-ore--and Their Lives._ (Conclusion.)
GIANTS OF THE RAY TOM CURRY 368
_Madly the Three Raced for their Lives up the Shaft of the Radium Mine, for Behind Them Poured a Stream of Hideous Monsters--Giants of the Ray!_
THE MOON MASTER CHARLES W. DIFFIN 384
_Through Infinite Deeps of Space Jerry Foster Hurtles to the Moon--Only to be Trapped by a Barbaric Race and Offered as a Living Sacrifice to Oong, their Loathsome, Hypnotic God._ (A Complete Novel.)
THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 421
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