Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 47 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION But let’s go on to pleasanter fields. This month you’ve got some nice material waiting for you. Stranger in Time, S. Gordon’s lead story, is a rather fresh and exciting ap- proach to time travel. The Mutilants by debut author R. W. Wingfield may chill _ your spine. Peter Green, a new _author who will no doubt be seen in these pages quite often, gives us a poignant piece, To Shake the Stars, which I am sure will meet with wide acclaim. Richard Wilson is back with a robot story that will amuse you. Another new author, Anthony G. William- son, gives us Day of All Else. Tell me what you think of it. And I shall be especially pleased to have your views on Tryst, an odd little piece, by W. B. Johnson, written in a style that’s strange, to say the least. Then we have Len Shaw’s The Bridge, which digs into the recesses of the mind! _~ Articles are up to standard, I think. G. C. Duncan’s Planetary Farms tells us all about how we are going to eat when we get to Mars. I’ve done you a piece about Aristotle, which I hope you'll like. John Tayne is back with a most interesting account of problems that will face Earth in the remote future. Then there is the third instalment in the series on logic. I hope you are liking these and not find- ing them too stiff for you. Fan circles these days are raising the question as to how near science fiction can get to present-day life and yet still be science fiction. I personally believe that stories could be written right in the present day and still be science fiction; while other stories could be written about the far future on some distant planet and not be science fiction. All depends on the way it’s done. But here am I talking about something I think isn’t worth talking about! I’d better go and read your next month’s fare. "Bye now. H.J.C. conmiclbooks.conrn