Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 65 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION us to keep quiet, not any more at all!” It was dawn before Sam Temple fell at last into a jagged sleep. Supper had been a nightmare. It wasn’t the disrespectful, the insulting frankness of their thoughts, he kept telling himself. . . it was simply the tumult, the pushing and shoving into your mind .. . He turned over heavily. No. It was in- tolerable. Yet Emily was sleeping sweetly. She liked it. ““You’ll get used to it,” she had said when he groaned, “‘and think how much healthier they'll be when they grow up. No hidden compiexes . . . how can the boys have guilt feelings if they think they'd like to kill you sometimes and they know you know and you don’t show any shock ?”’ — “Hah!”’ He’d clutched his head. “It’s intolerable!—and unnecessary . .! Why plot resistance? They’re here to trade! That’s why there are only two in each country!” *“Maybe. But maybe these are scouts... if they once decide Earth is a healthy - 28 place for them they’ll come in droves! But even so——” There was a glint of battle in. her eyes. “Don’t you want to be free?” ‘““Oh, nonsense! We only have to co-operate with them. Theneverything’Il befine——”’ And the next week seemed to prove him right. Permission was granted for selected sales- men to contact the aliens and demonstrate their goods. Sam was one. He came home jubilant. The aliens were queer, he reported—it was unfortunate you could see right through translucent skins to their nervous and digestive | systems—but they were good types to do business with. You told them the line was — good, and they believed you. And they were prepared to give value in return. Super- patriots who thought Earth should die for her indepen- dence should remember that—— A few days later he exulted again: ““They like me! They like my jokes—we’re going to be wealthy!” He winced as the boys bounded into the room. Catching the glow of pros- comiclooks.conrn