Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 47 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION Susan had already examined it. There was a large room, apparently intended for a living room, to judge by the table and seats in it; two small rooms which were obviously for sleeping, if the couches were anything to go by; anda toilet. There were various small mechanisms which she did not care to tamper with, and whose use she could not imagine. There was no sign of radio, television, or books. She wondered what had taken their place. The place was brightly lit, and so it was rather surprising that she did not think to ask herself where the light was coming from till the men arrived. But then she was still worrying over her husband... “But what is it all about?” Ted Dinton was still shaking from the shock of finding himself in such a place. ““You say we are on another planet, Susan? But why in the name of the devil did they bring us here? Who are they ?”’ Susan explained all she had ' been told. 20 *“‘A war in time and space? It’s crazy. Anyway, if they are in the habit of travelling back through time, how is it we haven’t seen something of them before ?”’ “Well,” Benner cut in, “there’s no real reason why they should pick on our planet out of the planets of the Galaxy. In any case, it’s quite possible they never travel as far back as our time—usually, that is.”’ ‘And you think that in this case two of them did come as far back in time, and were caught by their enemies in Quillon’s, quite fortuitously.” “If that is what happened, then why did they leave their machine on the river bank?” Susan asked. Benner spread his hands. “We don’t know enough to be able to say. Possibly these machines can actually fire on one another while travelling through time, and the two spies just panicked, left it ” there, and ran up into the town to hide.”’ *‘Revilstone was with us when we listened to the record- ing. Why didn’t he try to get to the river?’’ Dinton asked. comicloooks.conn .