 Despite such disagreements, Aderca and Fondane were still corresponding frequently, and Aderca was even approached to arrange Fondane's return visit Romania (planned during Fondane's second stay in Argentina).Aderca's next contributions as a novelist came in 1932, when he completed the fantasy volume "Aventurile D-lui Ionel Lăcustă-Termidor" ("The Adventures of Mr. Ionel Lăcustă-Termidor") and published, in two consecutive issues of "Realitatea Ilustrată" magazine, the first fragments of his science fiction work, "Orașele înecate" ("The Drowned Cities"), later known as "Orașe scufundate" ("Submerged Cities").Originally, these pieces, grouped under the working title "X-O.