Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 50 — page 134: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION we have for review this month is another Boardman _ book, this time a novel by Frederick Brown. PROJECT JUPITER is Brown’s second science fiction novel—if one can class his What Mad Uni- verse as science fiction—but he has written a good many mystery stories, and thereby brings a well- practised writer’s craft to the job of tackling a new medium. On the whole he does it very well, and this book is a much closer approximation to the general idea of science fiction than was his previous one. Also, it extends across a broader, deeper field, and takes on added importance because of that. The book is set in the future—1997. The bright boys have already ‘“conquered’’the Moon, Mars and Venus. Their roaming eyes now alight on Jupiter. By a gift of oratory or hyp- notism that seems to be quite beyond present-day scientists, they talk Congress into fork- ing up the money for an expedition to Jupiter. At least, that seems to be the general idea, though it is woven so delicately through the book that one is rarely reminded what the book is all about. But that does not matter somehow. The story has such charm and hypnotic power that you just go on reading it, not caring what it is about, but just rejoicing in the fact that it as. It costs 9s. 6d. and has one of the most awful dust jackets ever to appear on a science fiction book. NON-FICTION IDGWICK & JACKSON S (44, Museum Street, London, W.C.1) have done us all a great service in bringing out an English edi- tion of Giorgio Abetti’s Storia dell’ Astronomia. ‘The Eng- lish title is THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY, and the translation from the Italian has been made by Betty Burr Abetti. The book costs 25s., and is worth every penny of it. Splendidly produced, i33 comicloooks.com