Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 47 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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STRANGER IN TIME with a super-man from the unimaginable future? A man who fought with the mind as the men of her own time fought with their hands; living with the continual knowledge that she was more hopelessly inferior to him than the most primitive savage of the twen- tieth century Earth would be compared to the highest pro- duct of the western civilisa- tions. She would never again be able to look at Ted with the same eyes. They had always been equal in every- thing; at least, she had thought it equality. He had married her under false pretences; had acted a part throughout the whole of their married life. She did not even know his real name, she realised suddenly. A bitter resentment began. to flare up in her. When ‘she thought what an open book her mind must have been to him ever since the occasion of their first meeting, a sensa- tion of almost physical sick- ness overcame her, and she sank her head into her hands with a stifled sob. There was a slight crease between Din- ton’s brows as he glanced at her. Possibly he grasped the 33 reason behind at least part of her depression, if she did not. *“*Aren’t you feeling hungry, Susan ?”’ She thought about it for a moment. “‘Not particularly,” she answered, indifferently. “Well, it’s long enough since we last ate.’’ He indi- cated a button on the side wall. ‘‘Just press that, will you?”’ Susan obeyed with no great show of interest. A panel slid back, revealing a _ shallow space with a number of flat, square objects within. She took one out and stared at it blankly. ‘The top slides off,’ Dinton told her, still working away at the leads behind the panel, ‘“‘and mind your fingers—the contents will be hot.” Susan found a tiny catch and removed the lid. The smell of hot food awakened her appetite. She searched in — the cavity and found a rather oddly-shaped object resem- bling a flat spoon. Although the flavour was new to her, the food was satisfying, as was the coffee- like beverage which she drank later, and as the meal pro- comicloooks.conrn