Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 44 — page 71: what you’re looking at

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4 AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION “TLA CORGW VRNEQ”’ Says a well-known Martian author about SPACE TIMES ROBERT BLOCH (the well- known American science fictionauthor) however, states: ‘‘! was most taken with the format of your maga- zine as well as with the contents . . . hesitate to comment on any one item for fear of slighting others, and the array of material is a distin- guished one.”’ SPACE TIMES—The leading British Fanzine, is pub- lished monthly. Subscription 6/- per annum. Send 8d. in . Stamps for a sample copy to: ERIC BENTCLIFFE, 47 Alldis Street, Great Moor, STOCKPORT, Cheshire. deux, and then Steve had the gun and was trying to hold its shivering metal steady on Curry’s helplessly drifting form. His breath came like the erratic fluttering of a moth against a window pane. “I’ve got the gun! You'll have to turn back now!” (Curry sighed. “IT thought we'd decided all that before. You just don’t count. Beside the desperate need of mankind for the stars, beside the work and sacrifice of the team—well, Steve, you’re just a laugh.”’ Steve didn’t say anything. He just looked at the gun in his hand with a puzzled, hurt expression on his lean face. The cabin wall came up under Curry and he landed with a gentle bounce. He spread the fingers of his right hand beneath him against the cool metal. He spoke conver- sationally. “There was a guy shot up in an experimental rocket a few years before the station was begun. He was a sort of pioneer, sent to find out what things might be like up there. The rocket crashed. There was an escape apparatus. But this stupid, heroic guy stuck to the rocket all the way, sending readings from his in- struments so we down on comicloooks.conn