Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 54 — page 135: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION pages, including: a 20 page literary supplement all about books and magazines, with reviews by Francis Arnold and a check list of “Lost Land” stories, by Fred C. Brown; a 14-page pantomime (Fanderella), by A. Vincent Clarke; a long serious piece on obscenity by Sid Birchby; a Gunner’s Code, designed to control the childish use of water pistols; a dozen pages of quite fine poetry; a booklet about getting your name known in fandom; a piece in praise of ballet, by Stuart Mackenzie; a kind of Scrooge- up-to-date tale, by Charles Grey (Requiem); a fanciful ORDEAL history of fan myth, by Ted Carnell and Donald Wolheim —and on and on and on. There are ten different colours of paper, not including white. There are many (but not too - many) illustrations of com- petent calibre. And the whole enormous wad costs only 2s. Editors Stuart Mackenzie, Ted Tubb and H. Ken Bulmer are to be soundly congratu- lated on producing a mam- moth, intelligent, neat and thoroughly worth-the-cost issue. It can be obtained from 5 Hans Place, London, S.W.1. Future issues may be obtained at ls. 6d. each, in advance, or 6s. for the year. is our lead story by Kenneth Bulmer in next month’s issue. Supporting stories are Murder Most Innocent by E. C. Tubb, The Silver Box by Len Shaw, and The Holiday by Katherine Marcuse. There will be our usual features and more articles, PLUS another 16-page illustrated supple- ment. AUTHENTIC A MONTHLY MUST! 1384 comichooks.conn