Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, Issue 45 — page 65: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION ““Wonder what Merrick and Mackenzie will think when they get that order,’’ Carpen- ter mused. “The irony of it! When I begin to feel that I can’t take any more pressure, that it would be so much easier to drop everything and crawl into some soft hole away from all this—bingo— Earth comes up with the very idea we’re trying to prevent.” Louise said softly: ““There’s something you’ve both over- looked.” She went on quickly when they would have inter- rupted. “No. Listen. You’ve both been taking this whole thing from the angle of Car- penter against Molinarian. Well—surely—isn’t it really the future nastiness of Earth against both of you two together ?” ““My God!” said Carpenter. “Your secretary is right, of course.” “We think along similar lines, my friend,’ Carpenter said, his jaws feeling as though he had been cracking nuts. The pain behind his eyes was like a dull flame, eating in and 64 making it hard to think. ““You want a peaceful life in the Galaxy at your period of time. I do not want Earthmen to be depraved in the way you’ve shown me. So we ought to be able to co-operate.”’ “There’s good and bad in all men,’’ Louise breathed. “Oh, Doctor, if only you can find some way to prevent the horrors we have seen—and yet not waste your years of effort!” Carpenter was thinking back to lunch and Wheeker quizzing him on the super- man concept. Doctor Hamlin saying in as many words— Why didn’t Carpenter fiddle with men’s minds and thus eradicate the killing lust? He still had that reluctance to interfere with metaphysical conceptions, but now the matrix of cause and effect had been changed by an alien. “You mentioned your philosophy, Molinarian,” he said, thoughtfully. ““You said you had a cognition of mys- teries that far transcended anything known on Earth.” comicloooks.com