Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 52 — page 129: what you’re looking at

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FICTION Though we do not normally commend the practice of nostalgia about early science fiction, we nevertheless feel that a certain amount of affection is rightly bestowed upon the works of Jules Verne because these were imaginative stories par excel- lence. Thus we believe that Dents (Aldine House, Bedford Street, London, W.C.2) have done something notable in bringing out FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON and AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS in their Everyman’s Library for Young People at only 5s. These two stories are hardly scientific, but they are none the worse for that. For those who desire to be up-to-date in historic science fiction the long traipse around the book- shops is ended. Here is the classic at a price everyone can 128 afford in a form that will grace the bookshelves of all. Well done Dents. WORLD IN ECLIPSE is the first science fiction title to come from Peter Owen (50 Old Brompton Road, London, S.W.7). It is by William Dexter and costs 10s. 6d. As a first shot it is not at all bad. Indeed, the early part of the book gives one the feeling that here at last is something of a new style in science fiction. But the quality tends to sag as the book unfolds a complex story of a devastated Earth with assorted monster aliens, flying saucers and the starting of a new colony on Earth by people who had been kidnapped from our planet long before. The ending is very sudden, so much so that we predict the imminent arrival of a sequel! On the whole, though, we recommend this comichooks.conm ™