Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 135: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION by E. W. Dickes, and pub- lished by Methuen (36 Essex Street, London, W.C.2.) at 18/-. Dr. Heck tells in graphic, absorbing style how he tracked down and captured big game Canada, and how he brought them back to Berlin and set them up in healthy, modern exhibition quarters. As you can imagine, this is a real life story that rivals fiction with its complement of thrills, struggles and accomplish- ments. Thirty-one beautiful photographs of these animals form a fitting aronpan inert to the text. Perhaps the most interest- ing and intriguing part of the book is the fourth section, wherein the author devotes twenty pages to an account of his experiments on controlled breeding with a view to the “resurrection of extinct species of animals.’ It must be clearly realised in dealing 134 in Africa and with this part of the book, that if, for example, we could point to a living animal! today which had all the characteris- tics of a dinosaur, it would be a dinosaur, irrespective of how it came into existence. Thus, when Dr. Heck, by careful long-term breeding pro- grammes, starts off with an animal that is not much different from thousands of other present-day beasts, and ends up with a-creature that bears every stamp of some remote ancestor, which is now extinct—then he has resurrected the species. In this sense he can be said to have resurrected the long-forgotten type of bull called Aurochsen, and is well on the way to producing a final generation of horse-like animals which will be exact replicas of the extinct Tarpans. Work such as this certainly stimulates the imagination and is therefore fitting reading for science fiction fans! COMMCOOOKS.COmM }