Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October 1930

Astounding Stories, October 1930 This issue of *Astounding Stories* (vol. IV, no. 1) contains five science fiction narratives. Captain S. P. Meek contributes "Stolen Brains," featuring Dr. Bird, a scientific detective investigating a criminal mastermind who steals brains. Victor Rousseau's "The Invisible Death"—a complete novelette—depicts America's counterattack against an invisible empire using night-rays and darkness-neutralizing technology. Robert H. Leitfred's "Prisoners on the Electron" follows two young earthlings battling primeval monsters in an electron's jungle. Ray Cummings continues his serial "Jetta of the Lowlands" (part two of three), wherein Grant and Jetta traverse remote terrain in an invisible aircraft while held captive by a scientific criminal. Jackson Gee's "An Extra Man" concerns a sealed, heavily guarded 1932 invention representing dangerous scientific achievement. The issue also includes readers' correspondence in "The Readers' Corner."