Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 48 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION beard and. stifled a yawn. “ Well, it’s simple enough, if a little inconvenient.” “A little inconvenient!” exclaimed Takato. “tts downright dangerous. Before a man translates himself he has to stand in a clear Beta space so as to arrive in the corresponding Alpha space. Just think what happens when some office furniture has been pushed carelessly into his Alpha space. Some of the injuries that occur when people translate themselves into the middle of tables and chairs are not very pretty. I even heard of one poor devil who translated himself into the middle of a meat-slicing machine.” Tabarni chuckled. “ It was the last time he did that, I’m sure.” Takato was slightly offended. “ Don’t laugh, Cha. You might have to live there some day. The problem has always been, how to get over these difficulties.” < “Oh, I should think that would be fairly simple,” said 28 Tabarni. “ You just bolt down everything in sight, from lathes to viewing boxes.” Takato shook his _ head. “'Too complicated. No, what they’ve done is to define the translation stations as nar- rowly as possible. Usually Beta stations are beside beds, so that men can go straight to their work-benches. But no one can be made to spend the whole day in one place. You can guess what happens when someone strays too far away from his workplace and someone else suddenly trans- lates himself into the same space. The results are ter- rible.” ‘So what do we do?” asked Tabarni. His gaze wandered round the room. Plainly he was bored. “J think the Alpha-Beta translation is a failure. It should be done away with.” “Yes, let’s do that. Now that you’ve got that off your chest, can I offer you some- thing to eat?” He rose and started to prepare a tray. comicloooks.conn