Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 48 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION realised something with a fierce and sudden joy. He realised that here on the Moon he would find the means to usher in that new era of happiness which it was his destiny to bring to the sad and savage solar system. TAKATO WAS happy on the Moon, as happy as any young man could be with so much hatred and anguish festering inside him. He had only to conjure up a mental picture of his mother to be engulfed in a wave of anger which almost throttled him. Yet, in a way, he was happy. The Lunics were carefree and cosmopolitan. The Moon was populated with cheerful, active people from every in- habited planet, and with all the resultant cross-breeds. Here even a descendant of the Venusian satellites might work, if he were careful to forget his ancestry and tradi- tions. In their thousands of sub- terranean cells the Lunics made weapons of terror and 20 destruction for the Fighters. But they also manufactured communication equipment, space vehicles and com- ponents for the vast complex of electronically - controlled thought mechanisms. Here a young man like Takato could feel at home. In the Instru- ments Division or the Geodesy Section, in both of which — Takato found employ, he could satisfy his desire to create rather than to destroy. © Time passed. Mercury looped round the Sun almost twenty-one times. The Mer- curians reported that the last of the shattered satellites round Venus had _ erupted. They observed the sight with their usual~ impassive curiosity. Their report was acknowledged, filed some- where on Earth, and _for- gotten. Venus revolved round the Sun eight times and started or another circuit. The Venusians got. fatter and blacker, or fatter and whiter, according to their zones. They exported so much sludgy rice comicloooks.comn