Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 71 — page 159: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION succession of ideas, situations, characters, facets and by-ways of a future world. And, against this fascinating back- ground, the tension and ex- citement mount until cul- minating in a truly stupendous climax. Anyone who has read the earlier work by this author will want this book. Anyone who likes good, fast-moving, well-written science fiction of the highest order cannot afford to miss it. ESCAPE TO VENUS, by S. Makepeace Lott, published by Messrs. Rich & Cowan, 178-202 Great Portland Street, London W.1, at 10s. 6d., is a thoughtful account of the colonisation of Venus. Venus offered something to the tired, sick world of Earth. A world, in 2040, in which men seemed to have lost the initiative. Yet some men rose above their environ- ment, and to these men Venus offered escape. There is no nonsense in this book, and the author has 158 taken the trouble to present — his story with scientific ac- curacy. His characters are real men and women, moving ~ against a logical background — in which space travel is just another ingredient in a sober, — excitingly realistic ima- ginative study of what the future may well be. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ~ MOON, by August Derleth, published by Macdonald & — Co., 16 Maddox Street, Lon- don W.1, at 10s. 6d., is a collection of eleven stories. It is a mixed bag of good, very good, and indifferent. The Appearance of Man, a short sketch, will not please — everyone, but old favourites such as The City of the Singing Flame, by Clark Ash- ton Smith. Bradbury’s Pillar of Fire. Sturgeon’s Memorial and other fine pieces by Eric Frank Russell, Will F. Jen- kins, A. E. Van Vogt, S. Fowler Wright, Donald Wan- drei, Murray Leinster and H. P. Lovecraft, make this collection most enjoyable. - = nie GOMiIcboOoOkS-com POEM CA URS ART FcR IP OE eR CEP ' hs AY \ fy hs Na | “4 i) aa thay Prat Mi +, rei AYRE" : th i (Aint Dh! Gea ee 2 fi eR TRAN Bleaemobes (0) SLSMIAT oe SHIN Aa RANG Yost iy MATT Save t Baal iit.: (A i} rey MESAA > Sat ets po 7 a) SAAN aut a vee | ¢) ~~ pe) PAY Ry di! YP ghee Jah SI él ie : : f.. ol siet aA