GIANT FISH (1933)

SOURCES: "Into the Hydrosphere" (Amazing Stories, October 1933)

DESCRIPTION: “While the rescue party was still some fifty feet above the two machine men and their two supporters, a dark shape of gigantic proportions swam up from below them. Large, baleful eyes regarded them hungrily, while the cavernous mouth opened and rushed at them, frightful jaws gleaming. A shroud of darkness leaped over the prossor's vision, and he felt himself squeezed between cold, clammy walls...” (“Into the Hydrosphere” by Neil R. Jones)

NOTES: The fish of the water planet of the Plekne are of great size. They prey upon the Plekne and their allies the Nacac. When Professor Jameson and another Zorome get swallowed by a giant fish, the Professor uses his heat ray to burn his way out of the fish's stomach. Even deeper down, Professor Jameson finds other types of fish that possess luminescent abilities.

HISTORY: These giant fish remind me of certain parts of The Phantom Menace (1999) set in the interior oceans of the planet Naboo. I wonder if George Lucas ever read these stories?