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Alchemist, v. 1, issue 4, December 1940
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34 ALCHEMIST cruise. The party consists of a particularly obnoxious and objectionable group of guests, whose chief purpose in life seems to be causing annoyance to the B.A.O. This fellow has, at times, an unusual faculty of seeing into the past of the ruins or grounds in which he finds himself. At Carthage this mental condition enables Queen Dido (the only person who ever got the best of a real estate agent) to get in touch with him. The queen insists that he is the reincarnation of Aeneas (who made the longer after-dinner speech in history) with whom she had enjoyed some mutual experiences. She then slips him a ring which will give him power over the objectionables. The tables are turned the next day but things don't really start happening until that evening. Dido's spirit, along with those of the members of her court, enters the bodies of present-day humans. In some huge caves she holds a court to deal with offenses of the party. Her rather naive (but praiseworthy) intent is to feed them to the fires of Moloch. Despite the apparently serious situations, the story moves along joyously to a smashing climax. ** I particularly recommend this book. The author is Ian Hay. (Look for Beith at the library as that is the author's last name.) It is well worth the reading. Edgar Wallace's "Green Rust", which I mentioned in the last issue, is now obtainable in the low-priced 39c Triangle Books edition....Another favorite of the stf reader is present in this series. I refer to Balmer and Wylie's "When Worlds Collide". Ran across Frank Owens' "A Husband for Kutani" at a large department store the other day. It was selling for a quarter, as was "Lunarchia, That Strange Land Beneath the Moon's Crust". Didn't have any money left with me at the time; the store didn't have the books the next day!
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34 ALCHEMIST cruise. The party consists of a particularly obnoxious and objectionable group of guests, whose chief purpose in life seems to be causing annoyance to the B.A.O. This fellow has, at times, an unusual faculty of seeing into the past of the ruins or grounds in which he finds himself. At Carthage this mental condition enables Queen Dido (the only person who ever got the best of a real estate agent) to get in touch with him. The queen insists that he is the reincarnation of Aeneas (who made the longer after-dinner speech in history) with whom she had enjoyed some mutual experiences. She then slips him a ring which will give him power over the objectionables. The tables are turned the next day but things don't really start happening until that evening. Dido's spirit, along with those of the members of her court, enters the bodies of present-day humans. In some huge caves she holds a court to deal with offenses of the party. Her rather naive (but praiseworthy) intent is to feed them to the fires of Moloch. Despite the apparently serious situations, the story moves along joyously to a smashing climax. ** I particularly recommend this book. The author is Ian Hay. (Look for Beith at the library as that is the author's last name.) It is well worth the reading. Edgar Wallace's "Green Rust", which I mentioned in the last issue, is now obtainable in the low-priced 39c Triangle Books edition....Another favorite of the stf reader is present in this series. I refer to Balmer and Wylie's "When Worlds Collide". Ran across Frank Owens' "A Husband for Kutani" at a large department store the other day. It was selling for a quarter, as was "Lunarchia, That Strange Land Beneath the Moon's Crust". Didn't have any money left with me at the time; the store didn't have the books the next day!
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