Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 46 — page 139: what you’re looking at

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FICTION The anthologies of science fiction that come from Gray- son & Grayson seem to be getting better and better, and we tend to wonder where the ceiling is! Their latest, THE” FIRST ASTOUNDING ANTHOLOGY is well worth the, 9s. 6d. purchase price—if you have not already got the American edition. It contains seven long stories, each of which origin- ally appeared in the American magazine, Astounding Science Fiction, which many people believe to be the best or second best in that country. Without doubt these stories are all of uniformly high quality. There is Blowups Happen, by Robert Heinlein, a story of what might happen to the minds of men entrusted with watching an atomic pile that could easily—blowup. You find that the men are liable to blow up, too. And there is Hobbyist, Eric Frank Rus- 138 sell’s penetrating tale of what some men might call the Prime Cause. Murray Leinster is represented by First Contact, James H. Schmitz by The Witches of Karres, Theodore Sturgeon by Thunder and Roses, John Pierce by IJn- variant, and William Tenn by Child’s Play. A fine collection. (Grayson’s address is 16 Mad- dox Street, London, W.1.) Eric Frank Russell’s third major novel has now been published in Britain, by Museum Press (63 Old Bromp- ton Road, London, S.W.7) at 9s. 6d. It is SENTINELS FROM SPACE. It lacks the pace and tension of Sinister Barrier, Russell’s finest work, and it is very reminiscent of the van Vogt space-ranging style. But that is no criticism, just a description, for SENTINELS FROM SPACE is a good book by any standard. Set in the future, when Mars and Venus are not only colonised, but are striving © ot FST ae comiclbooks.cotn