Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 41 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION Professor Knaut made the decision. Dr. Strothmeyer sec- onded it. The great day had arrived—the day upon which one of the world’s most famous men, Sir Winston Churchill, would be dupli- cated and re-duplicated, upon the face of the earth, so that immortality might be proven once and for all and so that the services of one- of the world’s most noble statesmen not only might be regained for mankind, but also might be doubled in volume of output. It had all begun back in the 1920’s, when Harrison and Spemann had initiated their investigation of the startling embryological phenomena which were to grow into the new science of pheenixology. Spemann discovered the chem- ical “‘sculptor of life,”’ which is known today as “‘genoplast.”’ His pupil, Schotté, demon- strated the ability of certain simple life forms to redupli- cate themselves almost com- pletely, without benefit of either meiotic or mitotic re- production. Phcenixology had been born. Seventy years later, in the phoenix laboratory of United States University—known af- fectionately to its undergrad- uates as “‘Use-You’’—two young Winston Churchills, grown from slivers of the body of the original Winston Churchill, lay ready for awakening. It had been a long wait for old Winnie. Before he had passed away for the first time, at a great age, the delicate in- cision had been made. Two samples of his living proto- plasm had been removed and immediately frozen to a tem- perature of eighty-eight de- grees, Kelvin, and kept in sealed and icy glass for the many years that intervened between the death of the great statesman and the develop- ment of pheenixology to a point at which it was ready to begin the regeneration of human beings. Countless thousands of ex- periments had been performed on animals. The pheenix- ologists began with various simple vertebrates, like sala- manders, and worked their way up through guinea pigs, rats, rabbits, dogs and mon- keys. In each case, a few cells were taken from the body of P * v és es P " : . : Oe ET oe Py Dates SN econmmicooolks.comn)