Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 54 — page 129: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION and Grayson (16 Maddox Street, W.1) at 9s. 6d. It contains: E for Effort by T. L. Sherred, Cold War by Kris Neville, Vault of the Beast by A. E. van Vogt, Historical Note by Murray Leinster, Clash by Night by Lawrence O’Donnell, Meihem in’ ce Klasrum by Dolton Edwards, Late Night Final by Eric Frank Russell, and Pro- tected Species by H. B. Fyfe. These are all good stories, well-deserving preservation between boards. A BOOK OF STRANGE STORIES, selected by Heibert van Thal and published at 2s. by Pan Books (8 Headfort Piace, S.W.1), contains thirteen stories by recognised masters - of the art. These are not science fiction (and neither publisher nor compiler suggest that they are) but they are worth your time, nonethe- less—if only to see how really imaginative fiction can be written in a really erudite manner. DOWN TO EARTH, by Paul Capon, is exciting and fast- moving, but it is a gangsicr 128 story with a few science fiction trimmings. A news- paper finances a spaceflight, and the spaceship is not heard of for five years. The book deals with all the intrigues on Earth between the first com- munication received from the adventurers and their actual landing in Hyde Park. There is a lot of shady dealing and a couple of murders. Some people (including the pub- lishers) might think that this is science fiction. The book is published by Heinemann (99 Great Russell Street, W.C.1) at 9s. 6d. If Charles Chilton’s JOURNEY INTO SPACE was really a record-breaking radio serial, as its publishers state, then it is certainly not at its best as a novel. (We hadn’t the courage to listen to the broad- casts, after what we’d been told about them.) Four men— whose conversations consist mainly of the Christian names of the other three—have some impossible adventures on the Moon and on the Earth. Space, time, flying saucers, voices and several kitchen sinks come into the story in comiclooks.corn