Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 65 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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" Children should be seen BY KATHERINE MARCUSE HE ALIENS MIGHT NEVER have been defeated if Sam Temple had not been typical of those fathers who want peace and quiet when they come home from work. He was a travelling man, who had once loved the game, but now—you went through the motions, but it couldn’t be the same. If you remember the 1970s, you’ll understand why. Sam _ had started in the era of verbal communication—there was something to selling then!— and then Derleth perfected his telepathy receivers and senders, and it was all over. All adults wore them—no children, of course!—and the merits of your goods were as plain as the nose on your face. Sam sighed whenever he thought of the good old days— but now .. . it was just 26 possible a new era was be- ginning. The aliens, you see, had never heard of the danged gadgets. Sam walked briskly up his front path—home after spend- ing the first week of the invasion on his route. It was a possibility. This, after all, was a peaceful occupation. True it was peaceful because in each country the alien ships had given graphic demon- stration of irresistible power— but they were here to trade— they would need his line of goods. Imagine trying all the old tricks, the jokes, on people—weil creatures—who got only the top layer of your mind! There’d be challenge in it again! And there was slight danger of the aliens catching on to telepathic communica- tion—this, as part of a long term plan of resistance, was comiclooks.corn