Avon Fantasy Reader No. 13 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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LHHAALHHAAAH | Can Science Solve Love's Eternal Triandles? Clandestine loves, flirtations, and secret kisses had ceased to be problems for those future men and women—for by the year 5678, clever scientists thought they had found the solution—in the Love-Slaves. Even though a wife might find her husband philandering with a gorgeous creature—how could she be jealous when the “Other Woman” was—a robot! At least that’s what the scientists theorized when they invented these delectable toys—but they failed to reckon with the unstable passions of wives and lovers as this delightful story by Frank Belknap Long illustrates. You'll find THE LOVE SLAVE AND THE SCIENTISTS a gay and thought-provoking divertissement on what may be “just around the corner” for — romance in the atomic age. In this new selection of fantastic classics, you will also read: fhe CURIOUS CASE OF NORTON HOORNE.by Ray Cummings: Wherein the love of a talented man tr ance the veil of death to reach a heart-shaking climax. JHE SHIP OF SILENCE by Albert Richard Wetjen: In which a modern “Marie Celeste” is boarded at sea by modern sailors determined to settle an ancient mystery. THE FORGOTTEN PLANET by Sewell Peaslee Wright: There was a world among the stars banned forever to the men of the civilized planets, and this is the epic story of the last dreadful voyage of the space patrol to its sphere. ‘This number of the first and leading popular-priced anthol- ogy of fantasy classics also brings you excellent fantasy “finds” by Beatrice Grimshaw, Donald Wandrei, Charles W. Difin, Mary E. Counselman, and many others. You can always rely on the AVON FANTASY READER for taste and Ba quality. Be —D.A.W.