Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 52 — page 131: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION answers) and he has cast the book into what is considered to be the science fiction mould. Unfortunately, the result is perhaps not quite what he intended. Still, maybe he’ll do better with his next book. © Hanover House (575 Madison Avenue, New York 22, U.S.A.) have turned out an anthology edited by Frederik Pohl at $2.95. Among the sixteen pieces of fiction are three novelettes and a novel. They are all good and some of them are real first quality pieces. This is certainly an anthology that should be on the shelves of all serious fans. Here are the titles and authors (the book is called ASSIGNMENT IN TOMORROW): Mr. Costello, Hero (Theodore Sturgeon), Angels in the Jets (Jerome Bixby), The Adven- turer (C. M._ Kornbluth), Subterfuge (Ray Bradbury), Helen O’Loy (Lester del Rey), 5,271,009 (Alfred Bester), The Big Trip Up Yonder (Kurt Vonnegut, Jnr.), We Don’t Want Any Trouble (James H. Schmitz), The Peddler’s Nose (Jack Williamson), The FrightenedTree(Algis Budrys), A Matter of Form (H. L. Gold), Back to Julie (Richard Wilson), She Who Laughs (Peter Phillips), Official Record 130 (Fletcher Pratt), Hall of Mirrors (Frederic Brown), Mother (Philip José Farmer). Very highly recommended. Another very high recom- mendation goes with our notice of another anthology. This one is WORLDS OF TOMORROW, edited by August Derleth and published at 9s, 6d. by Weidenfeld and Nicholson (7 Cork Street, London, W.1). Derleth is something of a professional anthologist by now, and this one is fully up to his usual standard of impeccable editing; the only fault we find is his inclusion of two stories by one author. With the amount of science fiction available these days there is no excuse for this preferential treatment, even when the author is our own admired Arthur C. Clarke! Still, maybe Derleth had his reasons, though he doesn’t state them—and tbat, come to think of it, is another fault: there is no word from the editor in the book. Even one page would have been nice, telling us something of why he chose these stories. Again, here are the titles and authors: The Smile (Ray Bradbury), The Fires Within (Arthur C. Clarke), Superiority (Arthur C.° C larkey;; comicloooks.com