Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 71 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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Logic isn’t always correct, not when dealing with divergent cultures, because one man’s premise needn’t be another’s POINT OF VIEW by DOUGLAS WEST T FIRST THEY STAYED A within the ship for fear that, when the rescue party came, they might leave without them. But there was little do do aside from pre- paring meals, checking to see that the automatic crash- beacon was still sending out its signal, and talking about the accident until both of them were heartily sick of the subject. Not that there was much to talk about. One minute the big starship had been humming its smooth way through hyperspace on its way to Sirius IV, the next the alarms had sounded, the emergency lights had glowed blue, and everything was chaos, panic and insane con- fusion. When it had died 37 Malchin had found himself in a lifeshell, alone but for Carter, with the glowing bulk of the starship winking out behind them as they emerged into normal space. : Finding a planet nearby had been sheer luck. Landing © the lifeshell without scattering it over. a square mile of plain had been due more to the automatics than to Mal- chin’s experience. Now he and Carter were stranded with no hope of ever leaving the place aside from the coming of a rescue party. “How long will they be?” asked Carter for perhaps the hundredth time. He was a small man with an expression of perpetual worry, and was addicted to the wearing of conmiclsooks.Cconn