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        I was first introduced to science-fiction when my father handed me the first issue of Science Wonder Stories in 1989, misled by the word "Science" into the mistaken idea that the magazine was educational. That maggot grew with the result that today I am widely known as one of the thousand best stf. writers in the world (unless there are two thousand altogether, in which case I am one of the two thousand best.)

       My first stf. story was written in July, 1938, but it never sold. You ought to see it. God, what a mess! My second and third stories did sell however, eventually. their names being "Callistan Menace" and "Marooned off Vesta" respectively.

     As for my personal appearance (if you can call it that) I stand five foot nine in height (except when I sit, of course), weight 153 pounds, have dark brown hair, dark brown mustache, dark blue eyes, silver-rimmed glasses, a grin, and a slightly goofy expression.

      Have had a very eventful love life. Fell in love once (a blonde, as you have no doubt guessed), got my heart broken once, recovered once---and am now waiting to fall in love a second time. Period.

     And that is that---except that I'm am all around swell fellow. ------Well a pretty swell fellow. -----Well, I try to be decent.              -----------------All right, I'm a rat! (violent applause.)

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BOOK REVIEWS

           JOHN LILLIBUD, by F. G. Hurrell

    A story of that fantastic type which must be very good indeed if it is to be any good at all, Hurrell's tale deals with a kind of dual personality. His hero, John Mildlioud, an unsuccessful author, turns inventor and makes a great deal of money. Aided by the discovery of a substance that enables him to transform his nose, he acquadres a second self, Richard Whittington, wherein the qualities which made him a writer find refuge.

    Soon the two selves are at war, their struggle being complicated by a communitis organization composed of men who are deaf-mutes, as well as two women, each of whom appels to one of the hero's selves. Also by the machination of an insane parter. At the last he finds himself shifting from one of his personalities to the other with the most extraordinary repidity.

                                         -- Ted Dikty

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       The books of Charles Fort --- "Lo!," "Book of the Ismned," "New Lands," and "Wild Telents" --- have now been combined in one volume. The book is published by Henry Holt & Co., and sells for the comparatively small price of $4.00. It can be obtained at practically any large book store, and is almost a must for every lover of fantasy.
         We also noticed, while in Denver, a copy of "The Oracles of Nostradamus".

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I was first introduced to science-fiction when my father handed me the first issue of Science Wonder Stories in 1989, misled by the word "Science" into the mistaken idea that the magazine was educational. That maggot grew with the result that today I am widely known as one of the thousand best stf. writers in the world (unless there are two thousand altogether, in which case I am one of the two thousand best.) My first stf. story was written in July, 1938, but it never sold. You ought to see it. God, what a mess! My second and third stories did sell however, eventually. their names being "Callistan Menace" and "Marooned off Vesta" respectively. As for my personal appearance (if you can call it that) I stand five foot nine in height (except when I sit, of course), weight 153 pounds, have dark brown hair, dark brown mustache, dark blue eyes, silver-rimmed glasses, a grin, and a slightly goofy expression. Have had a very eventful love life. Fell in love once (a blonde, as you have no doubt guessed), got my heart broken once, recovered once---and am now waiting to fall in love a second time. Period. And that is that---except that I'm am all around swell fellow. ------Well a pretty swell fellow. -----Well, I try to be decent. -----------------All right, I'm a rat! (violent applause.) _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ BOOK REVIEWS JOHN LILLIBUD, by F. G. Hurrell A story of that fantastic type which must be very good indeed if it is to be any good at all, Hurrell's tale deals with a kind of dual personality. His hero, John Mildlioud, an unsuccessful author, turns inventor and makes a great deal of money. Aided by the discovery of a substance that enables him to transform his nose, he acquadres a second self, Richard Whittington, wherein the qualities which made him a writer find refuge. Soon the two selves are at war, their struggle being complicated by a communitis organization composed of men who are deaf-mutes, as well as two women, each of whom appels to one of the hero's selves. Also by the machination of an insane parter. At the last he finds himself shifting from one of his personalities to the other with the most extraordinary repidity. -- Ted Dikty --------------------------- The books of Charles Fort --- "Lo!," "Book of the Ismned," "New Lands," and "Wild Telents" --- have now been combined in one volume. The book is published by Henry Holt & Co., and sells for the comparatively small price of $4.00. It can be obtained at practically any large book store, and is almost a must for every lover of fantasy. We also noticed, while in Denver, a copy of "The Oracles of Nostradamus".