Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 138: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION ORBIT, the fanzine of the Leeds Science Fiction Asso- ciation, is almost as badly produced as Fission. Three of the pages in issue five are completely unreadable and the illustrations are deplorably lacking in talent. The con- tents of this issue, on the whole, do nothing to make us change our previous view that here is adolescent material ptesented as though: it were adult. Almost without excep- tion this is the kind of stuff that makes sense of the idea that science fiction is cheap and valueless. If you want it you can get it for 1/- per issue or 5/- for six from G. Gibson, Little London, Aberford, Near Leeds. The second issue of FEMI- ZINE is to hand—and dis- appoints us. The first issue 137 held a promise which has not been realised here. We thought that the girls of fandom would be able to turn out something that would at least rank equal with some of their male coun- terparts: Instead, maybe be- cause mistakenly chivalrous comments on-the first issue and the venture as a whole have gone to their heads, the editresses have turned out a thing which is so obviously trying hard to be intelligently witty and just hasn’t got what it takes. Also there is an em- phasis on the smutty side of things that may well be unhealthy. No doubt these women will one day stop trying to act a part and will be themselves. When they do we'll tell you where to get this fanzine and how much it costs. Until then, chivalry is stone cold dead! commicloookks.com