Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 53 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION she shouted: “Put that gun down, you fool.” With one sweep of his fist the aide knocked it out of Celeste’s hand. She backed away, startled. I looked around the room. Everybody seemed more re- laxed than before. “All right, what is going on now ?’’ said Alisoun. “T’ll tell you,” I said. “But this time let me finish. Here’s the situation. The Teams were complete units, intellectually, physically and emotionally. Though it may have been an accident that brought the first women into the Teams, their presence was found to be of value and they soon became the keystone, the dampers, the stabilizing in- fluence. Their emotions an- swered and complemented those of their male compan- ions. And that is why the Teams, though individually as brilliant and as high-strung as any New Man, functioned so well. Only when the Teams went about creating the men- tality of the New Men, this 40 stabilizing influence was not included. Tiger, do you re- member the set-up we used on the embryos?” od Ney “‘We had the lenses right in the grids and the women stood directly in front of the lenses. What would happen to the emotions and the influence of the women in such a case?” “You got it, brother,” shouted Tiger. ““They wouldn’t get through. They’d set up a feed-back, like when a mike is too close to a loudspeaker. They’d be cancelled out.” “So what are you doing now ?”’ asked Alisoun. “IT took transcriptions of those missing dampers, those missing influences, and I’m adding them now, mechanic- ally and automatically.” I showed her the modified ’cor- der and the dubbings I had taken, and explained how I had arrived at my theory. “And that’s why we have been able to talk this over so peacefully, why there hasn’t been any shooting or fighting.” “Well, I’m certainly doing comiclbooks.con |