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Spaceship, issue 10, October 1950
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PAGE ELEVEN What had once been rolling farm land, green grass, soft, warm earth, was scared and scorched[[?]]. Blasted ruins of buildings leaned crazily or stood erect, gaunt skeletons. Between each pile of ashes a blade of grass shot up in an attempt to restore the mutilated land. Nature had won some of the blackened and tortured earth back for her own. Scattered over the scene of destruction were bleached, white bones. These were the only remnants of the race that had made Earth great or of the fierce conquerors which had ravaged it. They looked down on the deserted Earth and shuddered. Hollow and disappointed, the men of the Ronthe XVII flew their ship slowly over the earth. Everywhere was the same devastated desolation, devoid of life. With a common resolution, the men of the Ronthe chucked the Autochron calendar out of the port windows and set their course. Their destination, gleaming whitely against the Visiplates, was a dead world which would grow young and be born eventually, a solitary planet revolving around an unknown sun in the far-off second galaxy. THE END REPRINTED FROM NATURE MAGAZINE, April 1945, with permission: "F A N TA A S Y" I circled the tracks of the galaxies In a chariot, wind-designed, And winked my eye at the Pleiades As I left them far behind. I roughed-and-tumbled the Little Bear, I whistled the dog-star's name And tossed him sticks all over the air- We found it a capital game. I swept the sky with a sickle-moon, And gathered a sheaf of stars, To bribe the dawn when it beat too soon At the eastern pasture-bars. I stole the Dipper and skimmed the cream That covered the Milky Way... All this I did in a childhood dream That fled with the break of day. John Gallinari Whidding BACK NUMBERS OF SPACESHIP-- Vol. 1 #1-- Apr 11 1949--10[[cent symbol]] V[[?]]--May 1949-- 10[[cent symbol]] V1N3--June 1949-- 10[[cent symbol]] V1N4--Sept. 1949-- 5[[cent symbol]] V2N2--12/3/49-- 5[[cent symbol]] V2N1--Apr 50 [[5 cent symbol]] address this magazine.
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PAGE ELEVEN What had once been rolling farm land, green grass, soft, warm earth, was scared and scorched[[?]]. Blasted ruins of buildings leaned crazily or stood erect, gaunt skeletons. Between each pile of ashes a blade of grass shot up in an attempt to restore the mutilated land. Nature had won some of the blackened and tortured earth back for her own. Scattered over the scene of destruction were bleached, white bones. These were the only remnants of the race that had made Earth great or of the fierce conquerors which had ravaged it. They looked down on the deserted Earth and shuddered. Hollow and disappointed, the men of the Ronthe XVII flew their ship slowly over the earth. Everywhere was the same devastated desolation, devoid of life. With a common resolution, the men of the Ronthe chucked the Autochron calendar out of the port windows and set their course. Their destination, gleaming whitely against the Visiplates, was a dead world which would grow young and be born eventually, a solitary planet revolving around an unknown sun in the far-off second galaxy. THE END REPRINTED FROM NATURE MAGAZINE, April 1945, with permission: "F A N TA A S Y" I circled the tracks of the galaxies In a chariot, wind-designed, And winked my eye at the Pleiades As I left them far behind. I roughed-and-tumbled the Little Bear, I whistled the dog-star's name And tossed him sticks all over the air- We found it a capital game. I swept the sky with a sickle-moon, And gathered a sheaf of stars, To bribe the dawn when it beat too soon At the eastern pasture-bars. I stole the Dipper and skimmed the cream That covered the Milky Way... All this I did in a childhood dream That fled with the break of day. John Gallinari Whidding BACK NUMBERS OF SPACESHIP-- Vol. 1 #1-- Apr 11 1949--10[[cent symbol]] V[[?]]--May 1949-- 10[[cent symbol]] V1N3--June 1949-- 10[[cent symbol]] V1N4--Sept. 1949-- 5[[cent symbol]] V2N2--12/3/49-- 5[[cent symbol]] V2N1--Apr 50 [[5 cent symbol]] address this magazine.
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