Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 50 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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Half a century—and not out! With our fiftieth number we are still batting strong and—some say —first in the field. Whatever be the relative merits of the British science fiction magazines in print today, there seems to be little doubt that Authentic holds an honoured place in the ranks. It is even contended that we have added a few things to the genre—one or two new authors, new slants in stories, new kinds of covers, new types of features, and so on. That, perhaps, makes us proudest—to have contributed something to the pattern of British science fiction, while some other British science fiction magazines, it may be whispered, are stil] stealing ideas from the more enterprising ones. However . . . imitation but rarely succeeds ... So, what do you get on this > * LNCAMPBELL auspicious occasion? Well, you get a rather nice long story by Kenneth Bulmer. Some people will think that it is not quite as good as some of his previous pieces, but it’s well worth reading all the same. E. C. Tubb, a name that’s cropping up all over these days, gives us a sort of weepie about the remote future. An erstwhile non-fiction contributor, George Duncan, gives us a varia- tion on the “last few minutes” theme. Then we have two more new authors—S. M. Lane and K. E. Smith, each of whom contributes a very short piece to this issue, though I hope to publish longer ones — them later on. Non-fiction is fully up to stan- dard for our half-centenary. We are starting a new series of articles written by a man whose pen-name is Professor Delwood; this nom- comiclbooks.cormn