Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 47 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION | gressed her point of view shifted. After all, she had lived with Ted in perfect harmony for nearly two years, and he could not be anything else but himself. She was sure of his love, she told herself, and that was all that mat- tered. She tried to repress the memory of her forebodings. Dinton replaced the panel, his job finished, and joined her. He tossed the empty containers into a waste trap, and then sat with his eyes on the dials. They were dead; no lights flashed, no blue strip indicated the track they were following through a maze of unknown dimensions. He shrugged. “Ted,” she said, abruptly, “about this war of yours.” There was amusement in the glance he gave her. “What about it?” She flushed a little. “Are you reading my thoughts?’ she demanded. “Good Lord!”’ he laughed. “Is that worrying you? No, Susan, I wouldn’t do it. I learned how not to a long time ago. Seriously, what about our war?” 34 She did not answer at once. Her mind was once more in a whirl. How many men of her own time, she wondered, would avoid reading a woman’s thoughts, given the ability to do so? Yet she remembered that Janton had promised not to do so, and now Ted. Susan realised then that these men were ahead of her own people not only in scientific achievement, but in their social standards as well. “I’ve been thinking. It’s crazy.” : He smiled. “It’s crazy, all right. What particular crazy aspect are you thinking of?” “If you are fighting this war through time as well as space, why didn’t you just keep on going back in time a few weeks and attack the enemy before he was ready ?” “Susan, can you see any ~ difference between that and any other surprise attack? It didn’t matter what time the fleet set out, if it was to be a surprise attack, did it?” “N-no, I suppose not,” Susan admitted. “But why didn’t both sides keep on ee — . | 3 Ccomiclbooks.coin