Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 72 — page 154: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION eyes of the men who built, serviced -and launched the rockets. With them we share frustration and defeat as things, seemingly trivial in - themselves, caused expensive and irritating delays. With them, too, we feel success as _ the rockets soar higher and higher into the atmosphere. Ground launchings took place at White Sands, and a comprehensive description of the famous rocket-testing grounds, the system of radar control and flight checking is given. Also explained are the telemetering devices and most of these details will come as a surprise to those who imagine that a rocket is something you put a match to and send on its way. These details, together with tables, forty-five remarkable photographs, including some taken by a Viking-mounted camera from a high altitude, and simple illustrations make this a book every rocket en- thusiast will want to own. For this isn’t something which may happen; it is something which has happened and al- ready belongs to the literature of the history of space travel. GUIDE TO MARS, by Patrick Moore, F.R.A.S., published by Frederick Mul- ler Ltd., Ludgate House, 110 Fleet Street, London, E.C.4, at 10s. 6d., is a timely book about the red planet by an author who has become an authority on the subject. Containing illustrations, photographs, and an exten- sive bibliography, it will prove of interest to all who are interested in our near-neigh- bour in space. A well-written, lucid and educational book which will give many hours of entertainment to all. ALL ABOUT PHOTO- GRAPHING INSECTS, by George E. Hyde, Photo Guide 73, published by Focal Press’ Ltd., 31 Fitzroy Square, Lon- don, W.1, at 2s., is a highly interesting little book full of photographs and information on how to take close-ups of the insects around us. Anyone who has a camera, and who wants to take photo- graphs of creatures which ap- pear far more alien than any fictional concept, will be well- rewarded with the information given. 153 comiclooks.corn