Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 129: what you’re looking at

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FICTION THE STARMEN, by Leigh Brackett, is the latest book received from Museum Press (26 Old Brompton Road, London, S.W.7). It costs 8/6. As might be expected from the American author, the story is space opera-cum- romance. Quite possibly it is also science fiction. The theme is that only one planet of some extra - systemic set-up, has people who can go to the stars — because they are mutants. and able to with- stand the high velocities. Con- flict rages around the man who discovers a means of mutating in this fashion. He is finally packed off to oblivion so that no one shall share the mutants’ abilities. It is quite an entertaining yarn, suit- able for quick and unfastid- ious reading. It has no depth, is deplorably inaccurate and only passably well-developed. Another ‘Low’ on Museum’s list unfortunately. One in THREE HUNDRED, by J. T. McIntosh, comes from Doubleday . (575 Madison Avenue, New York 22, U.S.A. at $2.95. It is right back in the standard of MclIntosh’s first novel, World Out of Mind, and is very highly recommen- ded. With the simple, straight- — forward, dimensional style of writing that makes science fiction really credible this book will go a long way to- wards changing the minds of people who still do not know that science fiction can deal with matters of wide and im- portant interest. The story is woven round a Lieutenant in the space service who has to 128 comiclooks.corn