Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, Issue 45 — page 64: what you’re looking at

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SOME OTHER TIME every assistance to be given to the Carpenter Eugenic Re- search Station. Expect further appropriations to be generous. Work on eugenic control must be hastened...” At a curt gesture from Car- penter, Louise cut the record- ing and the silence washed back into the office. **So you see, Carpenter?” the alien said. “See what ?”’ “Someone on Earth has had the idea. From this moment there will be certain men planning to control people’s bodies, change them, force a new culture pattern and a new sort of society based on level of function.” “You mean your deadline has passed ?” “In a way. We can still doa great deal to stop the work here, but it will mean tre- mendous efforts on our part to stifle all research on all your planets.”” The Molin- arian’s voice had a sick, hopeless quality to it. *“Youcan’t mean that you’re too late?” 63 ‘““Perhaps——-” The alien shrugged, and began to change his form again, flowing and melting, easing out the lines of pain and worry that were etched into Carpenter’s fea- tures. Louise gave a little gasp. “You were the man who came to see Doctor Carpenter. The man who disappeared so mysteriously.” ‘That is so. If I had seen him then, perhaps——” “Forget that,’ Carpenter said, roughly. ““You mean that now it is too late for me to decide to abandon my work here? After all that damned upset you gave me, now it doesn’t matter what I decide?” “Not quite.” The Molin- arian began to help himself to whisky, unasked. Human or humanoid, Carpenter saw his alien hands were shaking. “It makes it much more difficult for me, though. We can’t assume that to stop the work here would mean a general abandonment of similar lines of research after the Earth Government have expressed such a strong interest.” comicloooks.conn