Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 67 — page 152: what you’re looking at

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Book Reviews FICTION THE YEAR’S BEST SCI- ENCE FICTION NOVELS, Second Series, edited by Bleiler & Dikty, and pub- lished by Grayson & Grayson, 16 Maddox Street, London W.1, at 10s. 6d., is another of the well-known and justifiably recommended selections by editors who know good stories when they see them. This particular selection comprises four novels, or rather, novelettes, and gives good value for the money. To decide which is the best of the four is an impossibility; all are equally good of their type. The Enormous Room, by H. L. Gold ‘and Robert Krepps, tells the story of a group of people who hurtled down the big dipper and found themselves—elsewhere. Elsewhere was anything but snug, and the more they found out about it the less they liked it. How they managed to both survive and escape pro- vides entertainment at its best. In Assignment to Aldebaran, 151 by Kendall Foster Crossen, there was nothing to fear but plenty to outwit. The Aldebarans meant no harm; they just live by piracy and robbery and saw nothing to be gained by joining the Galactic League. Dr. Lertes Kwang Solomon had to per- suade them to change their minds. Frank M. Robinson weaves a gripping story around rivalries in a spaceship years from home in The Oceans are Wide, while Murray Leinster, that skilful and invariably good author, works some distinctly odd magic by the use of some even odder fairy godmothers—they have ten- tacles instead of wands—in The Sentimentalists. A fine selection, and one which should not be missed. TIME AND AGAIN, by Clif- ford D. Simak, published by Messrs. William Heinemann, 99 Great Russell Street, Lon- don W.C.1, at 12s. 6d., may be familiar to inveterate magazine readers as Time Quarry, first published in serial form some five years comicloooks.com