Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 42 — page 153: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION we cannot ignore it, for here we have a splendid example of popular science that is true to science, and one that deals in most excellent fashion with its title. Ranging from a short history of rockets, through all the many aspects of space flight, right up to the pos- sibility of reaching the stars, this book really covers the field in a way that no other book has done. It should have been a Book-of-the- Month choice. Its only marring factor is a number of rather poor drawings. The many photographic illustrations are very good. We recommend this book above all others of similar theme. Two very interesting Penguin Books have just been published, and we strongly recommend them both. Animals and Men, by the late Professor David Katz, is an en- thralling account of the results of experiments in animal behaviour interpreted, as far as possible, in a way that increases our under- standing of human _ behaviour. Professor Katz was one of the "al 152 greatest authorities on psychology i and behaviour, and he brings to this book his full talents as an observer, as a commentator and as a writer. One of the most intriguing things this book shows is how easy it is to misinterpret the behaviour of creatures we do not really understand. Let us hope that our spacemen will have learned this lesson before they begin to 4 deal with men on other planets! Viruses and Man, by Professor _ F. M. Burnett, contains all there is to know about viruses on the popular level. Naturally, from the title, the emphasis is on the rela- tions between viruses and humans; but even so, the book manages to get over many of the fundamental principles of virus biology—and does it in a way that makes ab- sorbing reading to all who are intelligent enough to wonder exactly where these half-living, half-dead creatures stand in the scheme of things. Reading this book, we realise that viruses aren’t so bad after all! Both books cost only 2s. Ccomicloooks.conn :