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قراءة كتاب Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930
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ASTOUNDING
STORIES
OF SUPER-SCIENCE
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VOL. IV, No. 1 CONTENTS October, 1930
| COVER DESIGN | H. W. WESSOLOWSKI | ||
| Painted in Oils from a Scene in "The Invisible Death." | |||
| STOLEN BRAINS | CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK | 7 | |
| Dr. Bird, Scientific Sleuth Extraordinary, Goes After a Sinister Stealer of Brains. | |||
| THE INVISIBLE DEATH | VICTOR ROUSSEAU | 24 | |
| With Night-Rays and Darkness-Antidote America Strikes Back, at the Terrific and Destructive Invisible Empire. (A Complete Novelette.) | |||
| PRISONERS ON THE ELECTRON | ROBERT H. LEITFRED | 75 | |
| Fate Throws Two Young Earthians into Desperate Conflict with the Primeval Monsters of an Electron's Savage Jungles. | |||
| JETTA OF THE LOWLANDS | RAY CUMMINGS | 94 | |
| Into Remote Lowlands, in an Invisible Flyer, Go Grant and Jetta—Prisoners of a Scientific Depth Bandit. (Part Two of a Three-Part Novel.) | |||
| AN EXTRA MAN | JACKSON GEE | 118 | |
| Sealed and Vigilantly Guarded Was "Drayle's Invention, 1932"—for It Was a Scientific Achievement Beyond Which Man Dared Not Go. | |||
| THE READERS' CORNER | ALL OF US | 130 | |
| A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories. | |||
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Two long arms shot silently down and grasped the motionless figure.Stolen Brains
By Captain S. P. Meek
hope, Carnes," said Dr. Bird, "that we get good fishing."
"Good fishing? Will you please tell me what you are talking about?"
"I am talking about fishing, old dear. Have you seen the evening paper?"
"No. What's that got to do with it?"
Dr. Bird tossed across the table a copy of the Washington Post folded so as to bring uppermost an item on page three. Carnes saw his picture staring at him from the center of the page.
"What the dickens?" he exclaimed as he bent over the sheet. With growing astonishment he read that Operative Carnes of the United States Secret Service had collapsed at his desk that afternoon and had been rushed to Walter Reed Hospital where the trouble had been diagnosed as a nervous breakdown caused by overwork. There followed a guarded statement from Admiral Clay, the President's personal physician, who had been called into conference by the army authorities.
The Admiral stated that the Chief of the Washington District was in no immediate danger but that a prolonged rest was necessary. The paper gave a glowing tribute to the detective's life and work and stated that he had been given sick leave for an indefinite period and that he was leaving at once for the fishing