Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 53 — page 130: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION with sixty-four pilates, excel- lently drawn by Fred L. Wolff, it is a much more up- to-date account of the possi- vilities and potentialities of space flight than anything at the moment on the market. The very latest information has been incorporated into the text, which is smooth- flowing and attractive. An- other very high recommenda- tion to S & J for this. Science fiction owes a great deal to this firm for its constant flow of high quality fact space books. WORLDS IN SPACE should be on the shelves of all serious fans. BY SPACESHIP TO THE MOON and ROCKETS, JETS, GUIDED MISSILES AND SPACESHIPS are two large-format books put out by Publicity Products (S5la Rathbone Place, W.1) at 4s. 6d. each. They are both by Jack Coggins and Fletcher Pratt, and they originate from America. With somewhat juvenile covers, they are, nevertheless, suitable for quite a few adults, being maturely written and lavishly illustrated, accurate and interesting. Easily recommendable since they are so remarkably cheap. Sometimes we receive a book that fills us with pure joy and makes up for the 129 frustration of having to re- view less happy publications. Such a pleasure-giving book is A TREASURY OF SCIENCE, edited by Harlow Shapley and published by Angus & Robertson (105 Great Russell Street, W.C.1) at 21s. This, you may think, is a high price, but, believe us, it isn’t. Here we have 654 pages of really excellent writing by some eighty authors, many of them world-famous scientists. Each author contributes a piece that fits into a pattern, and the pattern is simply the matrix of science—its methods and aims and attitudes and progress; and its lure. Prac- tically every science is dealt with. This book is for the intelligent, curious layman who likes to know what science is all about, and for the scien- tist who wants to know wider perspectives within the main discipline. The language is easy to follow, since all technicalities have been thrown to the winds; and it is throughout in a style both erudite and pleasing. Truly do the publishers claim that: “Here is a connected account of the modern man’s universe, the substance of a hundred books.”’ Do get it, please, for we recommend it most highly. comiclooks.conn