Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, Issue 45 — page 151: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION It’s a monthly and costs 6s. per year. Normally it consists of four pages of close-set type covering major and minor science fiction events through- out the world, with the accent on American and British. ORION, which seems to have a vague sort of connection with the Lakeland Science Fiction Organisation, comes from Pete Campbell of 60 Calgarth Road, Windermere, Westmorland. It is quite a nice little job of about 30 pages, neatly duplicated and containing some cogent ar- ticles and a couple of quite competent stories, as well as news and reviews and readers’ letters. The rather astonishing thing is that nowhere on the issue to hand does it state how much the thing costs. If you want it you'll just have to write to Pete. One intriguing aspect of.ORION is that it uses black, red, green. and purple inks. That, and a pink cover too! 150 Just as we go to press comes a copy of THE ENCHANTED DUPLICATOR, by Walter Willis and Bob Shaw. This is not a fanzine, but is, in the words of the authors, ‘‘a serious, constructive, insurgent publi- cation.” In plain English, that means that Walter and Bob have written another funny story. We have not yet read it, but we don’t doubt that it will be well worth the shilling charged for it, from Walter Willis, 170 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, N. Ireland. All we can tell you at this point is that the story—27 pages long—con- cerns the mythical journey of a mythical fan from the mythical land of Mundane to the mythical land of Tru- fandom, crossing on the way the mythical Jungle of In- experience and the mythical Desert of Indifference. | Though, knowing the authors, maybe there’s not so much myth there after all. comicloooks.conm