Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930

This is science fiction in its infancy, wild and electric with possibility. The May 1930 issue of Astounding Stories captures a genre still learning what it could become, where writers hurled their characters into the ocean's depths, across the moon, and into futures stranger than anyone had imagined. The issue features serialized adventures in progress: Murray Leinster's 'Murder Madness' and Ray Cummings' 'Brigands of the Moon' both continue their sprawling tales, while new tales like Sewell Peaslee Wright's 'Into the Ocean's Depths' plunge readers into underwater civilizations, and Victor Rousseau's 'The Atom-Smasher' toys with forces that could unmake the world. There's a naivety here that charms, and there's also genuine audacity. These are stories written by people who believed the future belonged to the brave, the curious, and the slightly unhinged. For anyone who wants to understand where science fiction came from, or simply wants to experience the raw thrill of imagination unchained from modern irony, this is a time machine to 1930.