Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 48 — page 125: what you’re looking at

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FICTION A goodly collection of long- ish short stories is to be found in EDITOR’S CHOICE OF SCIENCE FICTION, com- piled by Sam Moskowitz with assistance from various American wmaga- zine editors (McBride, 200, East 37th Street, New York 16, N.Y., U.S.A. $3.50). The price is a bit steep maybe, for the stories are not really top grade. Each of the editors has selected a story that he considers to be worthy of hard-cover preservation. In theory, that is fine. But the hidden limitation is that most of the best stories have already been anthologised and could hardly be used volume come from way back when, and do not represent science fiction as it is to-day. The book must be read in that light, and then is seen to be a distinct contribution to science fiction _ literature. Since some of the stories are legendary, and only difficultly available elsewhere, we will give a full list of the con- tents: The Wall of Fire by Jack Kirkland, What Thin Partitions by Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides, J, Robot by Eando Binder, And | Someday to Mars by Frank Belknap Long, Wall of Dark- ness by Arthur C. Clarke, All Roads by Mona Farnsworth, Exit by Wilson Tucker, The again. So it is that quite a Sublime Vigil by Chester D. few of the stories in this Cuthbert, Far Below by 124 conmiclooks.conrn