Astounding Science Fiction (British Edition) — page 108: what you’re looking at

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106 of explaining all this to the Crawlers when they wake up on their new planet. I wouldn’t be a telepath for anything, too dangerous, for one thing—”’ If a planet of the pre-nova stage sun is found to contain intelligent life, the Force will assemble an adequate number of transport units to evacuate the planet in question, having first informed the natives of their danger ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION through operatives of the Department of E-T Communications. Should no ETCOM telepaths be available at the time, the natives must be evacuated forcefully and taken to the planet assigned them by the De- partment of Colonization, where the situation will be explained to them when they are received. From the ‘“‘Force Handbook,” sec- tion on Special Duties. KK. IN TIMES TO COME Astounding seldom runs photographic covers; years go by with none breaking the series of paintings. We’ve had one quite recently; next month we have an- other. This one, however, is unusual in another way; it is a picture appropriate indeed to the essence of science-fiction’s philosophy—yet it is simply a picture taken from our New York office window. Some few of you who read this, authors and readers who’ve happened to visit at the office, will understand what I have in mind; the rest can have fun specu- lating how the above statements can be true. The lead story will be “Trade Secret” by Raymond F. Jones. Ray Jones seems to have been inspired by the recent “Improbable Profession” —and also by his wartime experience in the patent department of a major electronics firm. The physicist-psychologist team of “Noise Level’ is back at work—and this time their noise is directed at the United States Patent system ... and the noise somewhat resembles a Bronx Cheer. Also coming is an article by Dr. Gotthard Gunther, on a genuinely new ap- proach to the problem of multi-value logic. Dr. Gunther’s “logical parallax” idea is, currently, causing intense interest in professional mathematical-logic schools. And, surprisingly, it makes simple, ordinary, everyday good sense! Most-such logic discussions I’ve found somewhat hard to distinguish from the angel-on-the-pin type. This one isn’t; it makes sense of something that is simul- taneously true and not-true! THe Epiror. EComichbooks.co in