Astounding Science Fiction, August 1955 (British Edition) — page 128: what you’re looking at

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126 ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION read Gold’s magazine, it is a must. If you do, you can almost afford to buy these ““Readers” and throw away your file of the magazine. THE EXPLORERS, by C. M. Kornbluth. Ballantine Books, New York. 1954. 147 pp. 35c, Why Ballantine hasn’t issued a hard-cover edition of this short-story collection, I don’t know: maybe short-story collections are bad news to pocketbook publishers, even when they are as good as this one. Of the nine stories in the collection, the first, ““Gomez,” is new. It is the story of a Puerto Rican genius with human values if inhuman intelligence. “Thirteen o’Clock’’ is a rollicking fantasy in the best Unknown mood and style, and ““The Rocket of 1955” is a two-page trifle. You probably remember the story of the Heralds, ‘That Share of Glory,” which was here in 1952, and you’ve undoubtedly seen ““The Mindworm,.’ that little classic of the monster-child, in various anthologies. ‘“The Altar at Midnight’’ is a simple little tale of human reactions to space flight, as is ““The Goodly Creatures” — which has touches of the advertising world of the Kornbluth-Pohl “Space Merchants.”’ “Friend to Man’ is a macabre little tale of an alien world, and “With These Hands” is my personal favorite in the book, projecting the plight of the creative artist in a wholly mechanized world. eer > 25 - Se a 1 SA rage comicbooks.conm eo oan eer $s