{"product_id":"2940013684751","title":"ASTOUNDING STORIES AUGUST 1931","description":"VOL. VII, No. 2            CONTENTS           AUGUST, 1931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DANGER FROM THE DEEP      RALPH MILNE FARLEY            149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Marooned on the Sea-Floor, His Hoisting Cable Cut, Young Abbot Is\u003cbr\u003e     Left at the Mercy of the Man-Sharks._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBROOD OF THE DARK MOON        CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN        168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Once More Chet, Walt and Diane Are United in a Wild Ride to the Dark\u003cbr\u003e     Moon. But This Time They Go as Prisoners of Their Deadly Enemy\u003cbr\u003e     Schwartzmann._ (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIF THE SUN DIED               R. F. STARZL                  198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Tens of Millenniums After the Death of the Sun There Comes a Young\u003cbr\u003e     Man Who Dares to Open the Frozen Gate of Subterranea._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MIDGET FROM THE ISLAND    H. G. WINTER                  214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Garth Howard, Prey to Half the Animals of the Forest, Fights Valiantly\u003cbr\u003e     to Regain His Lost Five Feet of Size._  (A Complete Novelette.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MOON WEED                 HARL VINCENT                  236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _Unwittingly the Traitor of the Earth, Van Pits Himself Against the\u003cbr\u003e     Inexorably Tightening Web of Plant-Beasts He Has Released from the\u003cbr\u003e     Moon._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PORT OF MISSING PLANES    CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK            255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _In the Underground Caverns of the Selom, Dr. Bird Once Again Locks\u003cbr\u003e     Wills with the Subversive Genius, Saranoff._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE READERS CORNER            ALL OF US                     273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    _A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSingle Copies, 20 Cents (In Canada, 25 Cents) Yearly Subscription, $2.00\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIssued monthly by The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 80 Lafayette Street,\u003cbr\u003eNew York, N. Y. W. M. Clayton, President; Francis P. Pace, Secretary.\u003cbr\u003eEntered as second-class matter December 7, 1929, at the Post Office at\u003cbr\u003eNew York, N. Y., under Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered as a\u003cbr\u003eTrade Mark in the U. S. Patent Office. Member Newsstand Group. For\u003cbr\u003eadvertising rates address The Newsstand Group, Inc., 80 Lafayette\u003cbr\u003eStreet, New York; or The Wrigley Bldg., Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Danger from the Deep\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_By Ralph Milne Farley_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: _He caught a glimpse of the grinning fish-face._]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Sidenote: Marooned on the sea-floor, his hoisting cable cut, young\u003cbr\u003eAbbot is left at the mercy of the man-sharks.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin a thick-walled sphere of steel eight feet in diameter, with\u003cbr\u003ecrystal-clear fused-quartz windows, there crouched an alert young\u003cbr\u003escientist, George Abbot. The sphere rested on the primeval muck and\u003cbr\u003eslime at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, one mile beneath the\u003cbr\u003esurface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe beam from his 200-watt searchlight, which shot out through one of\u003cbr\u003ehis three windows into the dark blue depths beyond, seemed faint\u003cbr\u003eindeed, yet it served to illuminate anything which crossed it, or on\u003cbr\u003ewhich it fell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor a considerable length of time since his descent to the ocean\u003cbr\u003efloor, young Abbot had clung to one of the thick windows of his\u003cbr\u003ebathysphere, absorbed by the marine life outside. Slender small fish\u003cbr\u003ewith stereoscopic eyes, darted in and out of the beam of light.\u003cbr\u003eSwimming snails floated by, carrying their own phosphorescent\u003cbr\u003elanterns. Paper-thin transparent crustaceans swam into view, followed\u003cbr\u003eby a few white shrimps, pale as ghosts. Then a mist of tiny fish swept\u003cbr\u003eacross his field of vision. Abbot cupped his face in his hands, and\u003cbr\u003estared out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe incongruous thought flashed across his mind that thus he had often\u003cbr\u003esat by the window of his club in New York, and gazed out at the\u003cbr\u003epassing motor traffic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis searchlight cut a sharp swath through the blue muck. More than\u003cbr\u003eonce he thought he saw large moving fish-like forms far away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Speed up the generator,\" he called into his phone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImmediately the shaft of light brightened. He set about trying to\u003cbr\u003efocus upon one of those dim elusive shapes which had so intrigued him.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070192468208,"sku":"2940013684751","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013684751_p0.jpg?v=1763597102","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013684751","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}