Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 44 — page 139: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION old building. Without ever looking down, the nimble girl leaped the intervening four feet to the other building. A feeling of dread nearly over- came him, but he followed, falling to his hands and knees at the end of his leap. “That’s right, don’t look down. It’s easy if you aren’t afraid.” “Lilian...” hesaid, between gasps for breath. ““Where are we going?” “It has been a long way without knowing, hasn’t it?” she said. “Well, it’s that building there.” She pointed as she prepared for a longer leap to still another building. George Three searched the sector she had indicated. “The one with the cupola. The church.’ Taking a short run down the sloping roof she jumped and landed lightly on the other roof. George Three hesitated. It was a full five feet. The other building was about a foot higher than this one. But the girl beckoned him with a smile. He leaped and managed to gain a footing. Church. Churches meant re- ligion. That was what you saw if you stayed up very late at night and watched the viewer programmes. He had done so one night when he couldn’t go to sleep. But a church, mean- ing a building ? ““Peopleoncelefttheirhomes to gotochurches,” said the girl. “Hows. 7° But he did not finish the sen- tence. The first explosive shell sent tiny stone fragments showering into his leg. The shock of the next one stunned him. He strove to rise from the roof, to see through a veil of red. There was an intense ringing in his ears. He heard nothing else for a long time. He felt himself floating, per- haps being carried endlessly. ** “George .. . Three’.” “What else it say ?”’ ““Trans . . . transformer assember.’ Hey, he works ina factory.” “That’s a fake. Ain’t no factory workers in this sector.” “Well, it says he lives in Sector B.” “Sector B is way the hell and gone from here. They get the other one yet?” 138 comiclooks.conn