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قراءة كتاب Astounding Stories, August, 1931
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VOL. VII, No. 2 CONTENTS August, 1931
| THE DANGER FROM THE DEEP | RALPH MILNE FARLEY | 149 |
| Marooned on the Sea-Floor, His Hoisting Cable Cut, Young Abbot Is Left at the Mercy of the Man-Sharks. | ||
| BROOD OF THE DARK MOON | CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN | 168 |
| Once More Chet, Walt and Diane Are United in a Wild Ride to the Dark Moon. But This Time They Go as Prisoners of Their Deadly Enemy Schwartzmann. (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.) | ||
| IF THE SUN DIED | R. F. STARZL | 198 |
| Tens of Millenniums After the Death of the Sun There Comes a Young Man Who Dares to Open the Frozen Gate of Subterranea. | ||
| THE MIDGET FROM THE ISLAND | H. G. WINTER | 214 |
| Garth Howard, Prey to Half the Animals of the Forest, Fights Valiantly to Regain His Lost Five Feet of Size. A Complete Novelette.) | ||
| THE MOON WEED | HARL VINCENT | 236 |
| Unwittingly the Traitor of the Earth, Van Pits Himself Against the Inexorably Tightening Web of Plant-Beasts He Has Released from the Moon. | ||
| THE PORT OF MISSING PLANES | CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK | 255 |
| In the Underground Caverns of the Selom, Dr. Bird Once Again Locks Wills with the Subversive Genius, Saranoff. | ||
| THE READERS CORNER | ALL OF US | 273 |
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The Danger from the Deep
By Ralph Milne Farley
He caught a glimpse of the grinning fish-face.
ithin a thick-walled sphere of steel eight feet in diameter, with crystal-clear fused-quartz windows, there crouched an alert young scientist, George Abbot. The sphere rested on the primeval muck and slime at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, one mile beneath the surface.
The beam from his 200-watt searchlight, which shot out through one of his three windows into the dark blue depths beyond, seemed faint indeed, yet it served to illuminate anything which crossed it, or on which it fell.
For a considerable length of time since his descent to the ocean floor, young Abbot had clung to one of the thick windows of his bathysphere, absorbed by the marine life outside. Slender small fish with stereoscopic eyes, darted in and out of the beam of light. Swimming snails floated by, carrying their own