Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 47 — page 145: what you’re looking at

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ot _ 1G AUTHENTIC covers take you step by step from the first manned rocket to man’s final conquest of interstellar space. Accurate, scientific, exciting ! This is the way it will happen ! THIS MONTH'S COVER shows our starship, huge as it is, dwarfed against the terrible grandeur of a triple sun system. After several hundred years of steady travel away from thesolar system, the starship has reached another stellar region. - Searching for a planet that will be suitable for human life, so that a new branch of humanity.may come into being and flourish among the stars, the ship flits like an enormous butterfly from star to star, | i Many stars have no planets — or if the do possess planets, they are too big or too'smallor t o hot or too cold. Andso the quest moves on to another star, another hundre years away. The people onboard the ship | ave never seen Earth. They know of it only by hearsay and records. They know that their great great grand- parents were born on Earth, and they wonder what is must be like to feel ._ solid ground beneath the feet and see a blue sky en fields. For these “Things they have never seen. The whole vastness and significance of the human raceis but a vague idea to then They were born onthe ship and they will probably die onit, knowing only the small compact community that lives, isolated and sealed off, on is massive space vessel. a So, our ship glides in among the,triple s S, insearch of a planet. glowing with a deep vibrant redness. Some two or three hundred million miles from it, hangs a double star—two stars that revolve around a common centre of gravity. So near to @ach other are these stars that a continuous band of white-hot gases connect them, drawn like tides by the separate gravitational forces. : One of the suns, the i is an enormous re —aeY cool, The. tenuous envelope of the purple-hot member streams out behind it as it revolves, thus producing a widening spiral of searing light. Next month — perhaps ! — our starship will have found a planet and the passengers will be.thrilling to the thought of standing on solid ground for the first time! Ccomicbooks.com