Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 67 — page 153: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION ago. The novel, rewritten for book publication, shows that a really good story can stand the test of time no matter whether it is science fiction or not. This book is science fiction at its best, well-written, smooth, intriguing and with real people and situations. To relate the complex and involved plot would be to spoil the story for the new reader. It concerns Asher Sutton, who should be dead but isn’t. It concerns the human-android war and a book which has not yet been written. Time travel is in- volved and conflicting interests and, at the same time, the author gives a realistic picture of what our future well may be. There is action, human interest, intellectual teasing and a mounting ten- sion as conflict piles on conflict so that, literally, this is one of those few books which, once started, is almost impossible to put down until finished. In short, it is science fiction at its best. NON-FICTION ENGINEERS’ DREAMS, by Willy Ley, published by Phe- nix House Ltd., 38 William 152 IV Street, Charing Cross, London, at 15s., is one of those books which, while having to be classified as non-fiction, reads more inter- estingly and is far more entertaining than many straight fiction books. Here is a book to set your imagination working. The author discusses, with many photographs and illustrations, some of the projects which have been found to be prac- ticable by engineers but which, for one reason or another, have not as yet been achieved. They range from the Channel Tunnel to a workable plan to reduce the level of the Mediterranian; from harnessing the energy of the tides, to drilling for heat; from solar energy to work- able heat engines for use in the Arctic. This is a book of vital in- terest to all, young and old alike, written in the smooth, easy style which has made the author so popular to the layman, and containing thirty explicit diagrams and maps and fourteen half-tone illus- trations. HYPNOSIS—ITS MEAN- ING AND PRACTICE, by Eric Cuddon, published by Messrs. Bell & Sons Ltd. comicloooks.com