Avon Fantasy Reader No. 13 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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She Forgotten Planet by Sewell P. bales Wright The name of Sewell Peaslee Wright is not seen today in the science- fiction pulps, but it was well known to the readers of the early thir- ties, for Wright was one of the men who put the infant science- fiction on its feet and headed it towards its present stature. Among his original successes were a series of stories taken from the “annals” of the “Interplanetary Patrol” as related by a retired old space captain, John Hanson. Told with the clear narration of a day when authors had to construct their own spaceships and do without for- mula stereotypes, we think the modern reader will get a kick out of the story of a world that had to be expunged from the records of the civilized stars. . HAVE been asked to record, plainly and without prejudice, a brief history of the Forgotten Planet, That this record, when completed, will be sealed in the archives of the. Interplanetary Alliance and remain there, a secret and rather dreadful bit of history, is no concern of mine. I am an old man, well past the century mark, and what disposal is made of my work is of little importance to me. _ I grow weary of life and living, which is good. The fear of death was lost when our scientists showed us how to live until we grew weary of life. But I am digressing—an old man’s failing. The Forgotten Planet was not always so named. The name that it once bore had been, as every child knows, stricken from the records, actual and mental, of the Universe. It is well that evil should not be remembered. But in order that this history may be clear in the centuries to come, my record should go back to beginnings. : | So far as the Universe is concerned, the history of the Forgotten Planet begins with the visit of the first craft ever to span the space between the worlds: the crude, adventuresome Edorn, whose name, as well as the names of the nine Zenians who manned her, occupy the highest places in the roll of honor of the Universe. — Ame Baove, the commander and historian of the Edorn, made but brief comment on his stop at the Forgotten Planet. I shall record it in full: “We came to rest upon the surface of this, the fourth of the planets visited during the first trip of the Edorn, eighteen spaces before the height — 25 oe ete oS CORMMCOOKS (E(0)