Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June 1930

# Astounding Stories, June 1930

This issue of Astounding Stories (vol. II, no. 3) contains five science fiction stories and one serial conclusion. The cover story is Charles W. Diffin's "The Moon Master," a complete novelet in which Jerry Foster rocketes to the Moon and is captured by a barbaric lunar race to be sacrificed to their hypnotic god Oong. Ray Cummings contributes "Brigands of the Moon," concluding an ultra-scientific war between Earth colonists and Martian bandits over radium ore. "Murder Madness" by Murray Leinster is the second installment of a continued novel following Bell into the South American jungle to locate a mysterious master criminal spreading enslavement poison across the continent. James P. Olsen's "The Cavern World" concerns Asher, trapped beneath Earth's surface among the Petrolia, discovering why an oil field went dry. Tom Curry's "Giants of the Ray" depicts men fleeing through a radium mine shaft from radiation-spawned monsters. C. D. Willard's "Out of the Dreadful Depths" opens the issue with Robert Thorpe investigating a nameless horror draining human life from ships in the South Pacific.