Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 48 — page 127: what you’re looking at

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- AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION that future Museum selec- tions will get back to the standard of their earlier titles, The Blind Spot, Dreadful Sanctuary, Gateway to To- morrow. The trouble with people who try to get in on a success- ful act is that they rarely take the trouble to learn their lines. This is a sin of omis- sion on the part of Captain W. E. Johns who, after turn- ing out some twenty-seven juvenile books such as Biggles and the Black Raider and Gimlet Mops Up, has now jumped on the science fiction waggon with KINGS OF SPACE (Hodder & Stough- ton, Warwick Square, Lon- ° don, E.C.4. 7s. 6d.). Though this is a fast-moving story of considerable power (the plot is standard juvenile adven- ture), the sheer stupidity of the inaccuracies is likely to undo a lot of the good that education does. We believe that a story can be made exciting without dragging in Armadillos as natives of the Moon and Brontosauri as inhabitants of Venus. Such things abound in this book. NON-FICTION If there are still people about who are not tired and sick of all the nonsense that has been written and spoken about flying saucers, they will probably be interested in FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE, by Donald Keyhoe, which costs 10s. 6d. from Hutchinson (Stratford Place, London, W.1). Keyhoe, you will remember, wrote the booklet called The Flying Saucers are Real a few years back. This present piece 126 from his pen seems to be a kind of new and more expen- sive edition of the earlier book, with the addition of some more recent sightings and wads of the conversations that arose out of them. Naturally, nothing definite ~ comes out of it all—except, perhaps, the not very brilliant opinion of a U.S.A.F. spokes- man that “if the UFO’s (un- identified flying objects) are not caused by some strange natural phenomena, they are conmmicloooks.comn