Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 131: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION title, it still has competent plot and writing. As a frankly juvenile story it is a success; older readers may find its conflicts and characters a little too simple for their liking. This is really a spy story set on Venus, or rather, beneath the sea of Venus, where a gigantic city squats under a protective dome. Somebody is walking off with “top secret Venusian for- mule” and it is Lucky Starr’s task to find out who. So the book is a whodunnit too! Certainly it is exciting to the young mind, and that, after all, is what it sets out to be. Rather an unusual theme makes SATELLITE E ONE an unus.ial book. It is all about the planning, -building and runiing of Earth’s first arti- ficial satellite. It is a pity that the American design of space station is again presented as a feasible theory, but apart from this the book is remark- ably accurate. There are many intriguing passages concern- ing the main character’s emo- tions and feelings in space and on the station. Written in slow, somewhat pedantic style, the book will not bring a 130 quickening of the breath and a dilation of the nostrils. But it will prove of special interest nonetheless, for there are few books of this kind—Prelude to Space by Arthur €. Clarke springs to mind as the only otmer one worth reading. Satellite E One is written by Jeffery Lloyd Castle, and costs 10/6 from Eyre and Spottiswoode (15 Bedford Street, London W.C.2.) NON-FICTION The intriguing title: Do COWS HAVE NEUROSES? is applied to a splendid little 1/6 booklet published by the National Association for Men- tal Health (39 Queen Anne Street, London, W.1.) It was originally written by Mrs. June Bingham for American readers, and that may explain the refreshingly casual presen- tation in the slightly amended British edition. The booklet is intended to explain simply, clearly and light-heartedly the way in which reasonably nor- mal people feel and behave— and to compare them with those who are mentally ill. It is hoped that the booklet will help to dispel some of the comicloooks.comn