Astounding Stories of Super-Science, September 1930

About this issue

This issue of the science fiction pulp contains six stories and serials. "A Problem in Communication" by Miles J. Breuer, M.D., chronicles Dr. Peter Hagstrom and Carl Benda, whose boyhood fascination with ciphers and codes enables them to decipher a mysterious code that prevents their nation's delivery into the hands of a "merciless, ultra-modern religion." Ray Cummings contributes "Jetta of the Lowlands," a three-part novel where Philip Grant descends into fantastic, sinister lowlands on a dangerous assignment. "The Terrible Tentacles of L-472" by Sewell Peaslee Wright follows Commander John Hanson's interplanetary patrol. Paul Ernst's complete novelette "Marooned Under the Sea" involves three men enduring a desperate adventure among incredible sea-floor monsters. Hugh B. Cave's "The Murder Machine" depicts four lives threatened by a device using hypnotic thought-waves to create murderers. Captain S. P. Meek's "The Attack from Space" features invisible monstrous invaders. Arthur J. Burks concludes "Earth, the Marauder" with Martian fire-balls and moon-cubes devastating Earth.