Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, Issue 45 — page 140: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION In this series is perpetuated the character Lord Kennet, a spaceship captain of the up- and-at-’em, I-can-do-anything type. The interesting thing is that usually Captain Kennet can do it, and quite feasibly too. Therein, perhaps, lies the main appeal of this bbok— and its earlier relatives. The a modern slant of credibility often totally lacking in the classical stories of this space- roving, swashbuckling type. Kennet is not a superman; merely extremely intelligent, shrewd and courageous. Also, of course, he gets many of his successes because so many ordinary people are little less plot is fairly ordinary and of than fools! An interesting the old school of science book. fiction. But Berry brings to it NON-FICTION The first non-fiction book by William F. Temple—a well-liked contributor to Authentic, has been published by Frederick Muller (Earls Court Gardens, London, S.W.5) at 6s. It is called THE TRUE Book AsouT SPACE TRAVEL and is aimed at the juvenile market. For that it is especially suitable. Temple has managed to put over this somewhat complex subject with ease and erudition and simple prose. But the book will also be of considerable interest to adult readers—who may, as an excuse, buy it for their sons or nephews!—for it contains a fair amount of most interesting material that is not normally included in 139 books on space travel—sec- tions on language difficulties with alien races, for example. It is rather a pity, though, that the American design of satellite station has been de- scribed and quoted as a distinct possibility; British ex- perts are convinced that this pretty-pretty design will not function because it ignores the following natural laws: (a) objects expand on heating, (b) material objects have in- ertia, (c) light proceeds in a straight path unless reflected or refracted, (d) the moment of momentum of a rotating body must be conserved, (e) if a force is impressed upon a body in rotation such that its axis of rotation is disturbed, comiclooks.corn