Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 41 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION ‘before he would grow to great enough stature to in- fluence the societies of the world. This way, he will be able, with a few months’ edu- cation, to step from the laboratory into Parliament, or the Senate chamber—don’t forget, he was part American. All we have to do is provide him with a suitable wardrobe.”’ The dreaminess into which Knaut had drifted was dis- pelled. He smiled archly at Strothmeyer. “Since I don’t care to give up another of my suits to our work—even for Sir Winston’s sake—I want you to look up his exact measurements in the file and have two good blue suits made for him at the best tailor’s you can find. We want to do this thing properly!”’ Professor Knaut winked at the astonished Strothmeyer and strodefromthelaboratory, whistling “‘Rule Britannia!’ In the months that followed, the twin Churchills took form in their milky baths and grew. First, they were tiny collec- tions of cells, having no recog- nisable character. Then, through successive stages 18 which paralleled the evolution of the human body through hundreds of millions of years, emerged a figure familiar to anyone who was versed in the history of the Western World during the first half of the twentieth century. He lay—or rather, they lay—with the dignity and splendour of sleeping gods. The young Churchill, reborn and renurtured to the robust and masterful age of thirty- one years. As the process neared completion, in the later months, many adjustments had to be made. The care and feeding of the bodies had to be modified. The unawakened organisms could do nothing for themselves, although they had passed the pre-natal and childhood stages very quickly. When maturity began to approach, the scientists had found it necessary frequently to cut the Churchills’ hair and remove their beards, in order to prevent a profuse growth of hair from interfering with the free flow of liquids within the nests. The two Churchills were stillreceiving nutrition through their omfali—which was the comiclooks.conn