Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 48 — page 130: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION before she died, and she had a tremendous gift for present- ing this subject stripped of its traditional frustrations. Her more advanced works are standard university textbooks, but this one is for “ordinary” people. As the title implies, it tackles logic from the point of view of its use in life, and thereby becomes something that most of us can read with profit. We highly recom- mend this little book to all our readers and predict that many of them will have to change some of their ideas when they have read it! . SPEEDING INTO SPACE is another of Marie Neurath’s colour books for children put out by Max Parrish at 6s. (55, Queen Anne Street, W.1). Though presented simply and highly dramatically, the story of space flight as expounded in this book is quite accurate, having been checked by Ken- neth Gatland, of the British Interplanetary Society. <A useful book for readers who want to bring up their children with the right ideas! SCIENCE NEWS No. 32 (2s., Penguin Books, Har- mondsworth, Middlesex) con- tains several articles which would interest most of our readers, and quite a few would be intrigued by all the articles. Perhaps the most apposite for devotees of our kind of literature is that by the Astronomer Royal, Sir Harold Spencer Jones, on Continuous Creation. A. M. Mayer’s piece on the mass culture of chlorella gives the scientific background to spaceship and satellite farms. A most absorbing philosophi- cal piece comes from Bernard Mayo on the Existence of Theoretical Entities. NEW BIOLOGY No. 16 (2s., Penguin Books, Har- mondsworth, Middlesex) is especially recommendable for its symposium on the origin of life, with contributions by J. B. S. Haldane, J. D. Ber- nal, N. W. Pirie and J. W. S. Pringle. All who are in the least interested in this subject will find much here to stimu- late thought and argument. 129 comicloooks.conrn