Astounding Science Fiction (British Edition) — page 109: what you’re looking at

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Trle REFERE LIBRARY By P. SCHUYLER MILLER “MAN IN SPACE” InN the factual literature of space and man we are going through a process which I suppose is charac- teristic of most growing sciences. First have come the technical works —isolated papers in professional mag- azines, pedantic monographs which only the specialists see—in general, reports on research and theory. From time to time have come fragmentary generalizations and popularizations, in fact or sometimes in fiction, translat- ing the technical literature into more popular terms. Finally, as the field begins to take form, the basic struc- ture of theory and clothing of data seem definite, we get works like Willy Ley’s now-classic “Rockets .. .” which sum up the whole subject as of the moment, clearly, competently, and comprehensively. What Willy Ley has done for the rocket in space, Heinz Haber is now attempting for man in space. His book, ““Man In Space” (Bobbs-Mer- rill Company, Inc., Indianapolis. 1953 291 pp. Ill. $3.75), sums up in popular vein some or most of the information which has been contributed by him and others in such technical books as “Physics and Medicine of the Upper Atmosphere.” It is a good, sound job which should be seen through several constantly improving editions, as has been the case with Willy Ley’s “‘Rockets.”’ Heinz Haber is a German scientist, now in the Department of Engineering of the University of California, who has been working as a physicist and astronomer in the United States Air Force School of Space Medicine. His EComichookssco im ;