Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 46 — page 140: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION for independence in no un- certain manner, the story follows the efforts of one specially qualified man to put a stop to the conflict in the ‘solar system. In places, these efforts are not very credible, but always they are intriguing —especially when they in- volve the mutants, twelve kinds of which have been developed in man’s image. The book has many facets, as Russell books usually do. Cunningly interwoven are the separate ‘“‘messages’ about mutants, about planetary colo- nial expansion, about the ap- parently immutable nature of man. Though this many- angled treatment tends to give a lower gripping-value than one-track stories, SEN- TINELS FROM SPACE has a multi-dimensional quality lacking in Sinister Barrier. It is certainly a very recom- mendabie book, and forserious collectors is absolutely essential. That popular contributor to Authentic, Jon J. Deegan, has taken time travel as the theme of his latest novel (Hamiltons, 6s.), called EXILES IN TIME. Here, perhaps, is Deegan at his best. He seems to have out- grown the limitations imposed upon his style by his earlier “Old Growler” stories, and 139 future, to have entered upon the more comprehensive pattern of novel structure. In EXILES IN TIME, he traces the adventures of a man and a woman whose insatiable curiosity about things in gen- eral lead them to embark on somewhat perilous journeys through the time-stream. You may remember that Deegan’s two previous books, Corridors of Time and Beyond the Fourth Door (also from Hamiltons) introduced us to these charac- ters. In this third of the series, Deegan has drawn them with greater precision and increased realism. As people of the they seem credible enough. And in this story they have all our sympathies and attention right from the start, when they decide to cross the door of time to when they get themselves in a fix “‘on the other side.” Well worth reading by all the many thousands who have enjoyed previous Deegan books. Jonathan Burke is also a name not unknown to readers of Authentic. The theme of his latest novel, TWILIGHT OF REASON (Hamiltons, 6s.), is pandemic disease, the biggest and most virulent ever. He draws for us the crushing disappointment that comes to conmicloooks.comn