Astounding Stories of Super-Science

Into the Ocean's Depths and Murder Madness

This May 1930 issue of Astounding Stories features two science fiction serials. Sewell Peaslee Wright contributes "Into the Ocean's Depths," a sequel to "From the Ocean's Depths," which sends a land-dwelling protagonist to aid Imee's aquatic race against the Rorn, corsairs of the ocean depths.

Murray Leinster's "Murder Madness" begins a four-part novel in which Secret Service agent Charley Bell investigates the disappearance of seven fellow agents and the homicidal breakdown of another. Bell pursues a mysterious criminal mastermind—the unknown "Octopus of Power"—through South America, where a diabolical poison threatens continental enslavement. The issue also includes Ray Cummings' "Brigands of the Moon" (part three), Lilith Lorraine's short "The Jovian Jest," and Victor Rousseau's complete novelette "The Atom-Smasher," featuring characters exploring the fourth dimension.