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Spaceways, v. 4, issue 4, whole no. 27, April 1942

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10                                                                    SPACEWAYS
[Centered]
[Handwritten number 7] WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT
by
J. MICHAEL ROSENBLUM

[Faint illustration on right side of page of a man reading a piece of paper. Text wraps around image on left side.]

[Underlined title] Mars Breaks Through, by Prof. A. M. Low. P. Michaeld Joseph, 1936. 7/6.
An astonishingly inept book for such a sci-entific authority to write, and the President of SFA to boot. It is a puzzle indeed why so intelligent a personality as Professor Low can write such works! Anyrate, the story is of a wonderful scientist and his beautiful daughter, who is loved by two men, but "good" and sincere. But the scientist manages to permit a Martian intelligence to re-coalesce on this planet and take over the body (and therefore the influence) of the world's richest man. The Martian sets about creating universal peace on our wartorn world, by means of antidotes to all known weapons presented free to all the powers. But he (it?) turns out to be an outlaw fleeing from Martian justice and only invading this world in order to make war on Mars with super-weapons. And worser and worser, he hypnotises our heroine so that she agrees to marry him; a dirty deed apparently slightly worse than destroying a planet. But our two pure good her-oes outwit him and all is well. [next four words underlined in black ink] Clinches, cliches, and curtains; enough said, and don't go out of your way to get it. 
[Next review has horizontal line written beside it in black ink on left side of page] 
[Title underlined] The Hesperides, by John Palmer. P. Martin Secker, 1936. 7/6.
Subtitled "a looking-glass fugue" which is not so bad a description. The not-quite-original idea of putting on another planet the direct antithesis of our present "civilisation". The author states: "When one is shown a picture of something which looks somehow wrong the right way up, it is a natural impulse to turn it upside down to see whether, that way, it may not look a little less pe-culiar", and later, "This book should not be read by anyone who has the smallest respect for things as they are". Concerned with three of our major problems: sex, religion, and war; we see just how ridiculous our treatment of these are by seeing everything just the other way round. A grand and glorious satire in-deed.
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[Centered] MOOT POINT [handwritten number 5 in black ink.]
by 
ROBERT W. LOWNDES

I am not frightened by your quiet shade,
Nor would you have it so, (the warm desire,
The vibrant thing you were, could not expire
To satisfy reality) who made
Your fantoms silhouette along the staid
Horizons of my consciousness. No fire
Can surge but that, before its sparks retire,
Our eyes meet, on my lips your fingers laid....

Sometimes a ghostly thing you are...again,
No wraith, but vital ever, in the guise
Of some new-found romance when stars have fled;
And if I whisper quickly, I surprise
Your husky voice, not hers. These things are ken: 
But will you haunt me after [underlined] I am dead?

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10 SPACEWAYS [Centered] [Handwritten number 7] WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT by J. MICHAEL ROSENBLUM [Faint illustration on right side of page of a man reading a piece of paper. Text wraps around image on left side.] [Underlined title] Mars Breaks Through, by Prof. A. M. Low. P. Michaeld Joseph, 1936. 7/6. An astonishingly inept book for such a sci-entific authority to write, and the President of SFA to boot. It is a puzzle indeed why so intelligent a personality as Professor Low can write such works! Anyrate, the story is of a wonderful scientist and his beautiful daughter, who is loved by two men, but "good" and sincere. But the scientist manages to permit a Martian intelligence to re-coalesce on this planet and take over the body (and therefore the influence) of the world's richest man. The Martian sets about creating universal peace on our wartorn world, by means of antidotes to all known weapons presented free to all the powers. But he (it?) turns out to be an outlaw fleeing from Martian justice and only invading this world in order to make war on Mars with super-weapons. And worser and worser, he hypnotises our heroine so that she agrees to marry him; a dirty deed apparently slightly worse than destroying a planet. But our two pure good her-oes outwit him and all is well. [next four words underlined in black ink] Clinches, cliches, and curtains; enough said, and don't go out of your way to get it. [Next review has horizontal line written beside it in black ink on left side of page] [Title underlined] The Hesperides, by John Palmer. P. Martin Secker, 1936. 7/6. Subtitled "a looking-glass fugue" which is not so bad a description. The not-quite-original idea of putting on another planet the direct antithesis of our present "civilisation". The author states: "When one is shown a picture of something which looks somehow wrong the right way up, it is a natural impulse to turn it upside down to see whether, that way, it may not look a little less pe-culiar", and later, "This book should not be read by anyone who has the smallest respect for things as they are". Concerned with three of our major problems: sex, religion, and war; we see just how ridiculous our treatment of these are by seeing everything just the other way round. A grand and glorious satire in-deed. [Line break] [Centered] MOOT POINT [handwritten number 5 in black ink.] by ROBERT W. LOWNDES I am not frightened by your quiet shade, Nor would you have it so, (the warm desire, The vibrant thing you were, could not expire To satisfy reality) who made Your fantoms silhouette along the staid Horizons of my consciousness. No fire Can surge but that, before its sparks retire, Our eyes meet, on my lips your fingers laid.... Sometimes a ghostly thing you are...again, No wraith, but vital ever, in the guise Of some new-found romance when stars have fled; And if I whisper quickly, I surprise Your husky voice, not hers. These things are ken: But will you haunt me after [underlined] I am dead? [Line break]