Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 54 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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THE LESSER BREED duration of the longest trips has been under three months —with the Grenbach drive, that will take you anywhere you want to go within the Solar System. “Apart from the first few poor devils who gave their lives trying to pilot their own ships, men have returned from space physically un- harmed—to all appearances. But, by examining the cell tissues of people like myself, ‘ Goldfarb found that there was, in fact, a residual effect upon the human body—an effect too deep and too infini- tesimal to be detected by ordinary methods. *“Where the ordinary short voyages were concerned the effect was not serious, so he filed the results along with his other data and went no further into the matter. Then, several years ago, the World Council Commission on In- terstellar Colonisation was formed and preparations were begun for project Astra- venturer. The Goldfarb lab- oratories were, naturally, com- missioned to supply the neces- sary android crew. “Goldfarb immediately rea- 29 lised that the passengers on such a voyage would be exposed to space conditions for far longer than any humans heretofore. In _ all probability this ‘space change’, as he had named the effect, would assume more danger- ous proportions. He could not predict the exact nature of the danger—his experi- mental data were insufficient, but he guessed that the first manifestation would be a disorganisation of the genetic mechanisms of the human body.” Admans exhaled sharply. “In other words, he pre- dicted exactly the sort of trouble we are up against now. Why didn’t he do something about it?” “He tried,’ continued Mayo. “He assembled and correlated all his data, and produced a report which he submitted to the I.C.C. He was told in no_ uncertain terms to mind his own damned business!” “I don’t believe it!’ ex- ploded Admans. “‘How could they ignore the testimony of a scientist of Goldfarb’s calibre?” conmmclooolks.com