Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, Issue 45 — page 138: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION But if you take an intellectual enjoyment in your imaginative reading, this book is for you. The authors are all well- known for their splendid craftsmanship, and the stories have all run the gauntlet of reader opinion in the Maga- zine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, the editors of which are the editors of this an- thology. With the reservations made above, the book is highly recommended. * Those of you who have made the acquaintance of Professor C. P. Ransom in magazine form will undoubt- edly be pleased to know that Doubleday have published a collection of these stories by H. Nearing, Jr. Called THE SINISTER RESEARCHES OF C., P. RANSOM, it costs $2.95, which is very reasonable. The book contains eleven stories, six of which first appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and which have been linked very cleverly with the remaining five. It is a kind of episodic novel, each chapter describing Ran- som’s attempts to devise a gadget that will advance the liberal arts—in order to cap- ture an endowment for his university, and at the same 137 time to save himself from being made to give a broad- cast series of lectures on mathematics. In the grand Ransom manner he comes up with a poetry writing machine, a mathematical voo- doo, a malignant organ, an actinic ghost and a number of other equally intriguing de- vices. As usual, his old friend, Professor of Philo- sophy MacTate, comes in for more than his share of the kickbacks involved in the projects. Great fun, wittily written and intelligently thought out. Everybody will like this one. Three Panther Books at the top of Hamilton’s list of 6s. bound books are WORLD AT Bay by E. C. Tubb, THE ECHOING WorRLDSs by Jona- than Burke, and THE INDE- STRUCTIBLE by Rolf Garner. Tubb’s story is one of the best novels he has ever written. It is about a clash, a fierce struggle, a life-or-death con- flict between official science and heretical science. Eng- land of the future is the setting, an England that is on its way to doom by Starvation, an England that could be saved if atomic research were put into play. But a League of comicloooks.com