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The Science Fiction Fan, v. 4, issue 9, whole no. 45, April 1940
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8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAN Society which did an amount of good theoretical work until the war caused a suspension of their activities. THE CONQUEST OF SPACE is now a rare book to obtain. Mr. Lasser as most newspaper-wide fans know is now connected with the Worker's Alliance and spends no further time on fantasy. THE CONQUEST OF SPACE is not a technical work however. It is a fairly easy and casual survey of the background of rocket flight, the knowledge of the subject at the time, and the aspects of actual space travel. Part of the book describes an imaginary voyage into space detailing the factors that would be likely to arise, The book is light and will carry extensive information on the subject to a new comer but it will not convey any solid facts to the person probing for more factual figures. Th book is illustrated by four plates - two of which are scenes from the German motion picture "By Rocket to the Moon". ROCKETS THROUGH SPACE, subtitled "The Dawn of Interplanetary Travel", is a far more up-to-date volume and contains far more information statistics and diagrams of actual rocket models, designs and experiments. Plates show Pendry (Gawain Edwards) and the ARS rocket which made a record of 700 miles an hour, scenes from Jules Verne, from the UFA film, from various rocket mail and rocket experimenters flights. Rather than dealing with imaginary flights through space itself, the greater part of the book recounts the actual experiments made on the subject of rocketry, detailing the work of the German Society and its "Maraks", the American Society's trials, the various mail-rockets, both winged and otherwise, and other experiments. One or both of these books should be must reading for at least nine-tenths of the writers whose dizzy yarns on a space-adventure appear in the magazines today. A few cold facts on the subject would douse their fine fantastically nonsensical space-pirates, garbage men, warships, and malignant Martian marauders into thin soup.
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8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAN Society which did an amount of good theoretical work until the war caused a suspension of their activities. THE CONQUEST OF SPACE is now a rare book to obtain. Mr. Lasser as most newspaper-wide fans know is now connected with the Worker's Alliance and spends no further time on fantasy. THE CONQUEST OF SPACE is not a technical work however. It is a fairly easy and casual survey of the background of rocket flight, the knowledge of the subject at the time, and the aspects of actual space travel. Part of the book describes an imaginary voyage into space detailing the factors that would be likely to arise, The book is light and will carry extensive information on the subject to a new comer but it will not convey any solid facts to the person probing for more factual figures. Th book is illustrated by four plates - two of which are scenes from the German motion picture "By Rocket to the Moon". ROCKETS THROUGH SPACE, subtitled "The Dawn of Interplanetary Travel", is a far more up-to-date volume and contains far more information statistics and diagrams of actual rocket models, designs and experiments. Plates show Pendry (Gawain Edwards) and the ARS rocket which made a record of 700 miles an hour, scenes from Jules Verne, from the UFA film, from various rocket mail and rocket experimenters flights. Rather than dealing with imaginary flights through space itself, the greater part of the book recounts the actual experiments made on the subject of rocketry, detailing the work of the German Society and its "Maraks", the American Society's trials, the various mail-rockets, both winged and otherwise, and other experiments. One or both of these books should be must reading for at least nine-tenths of the writers whose dizzy yarns on a space-adventure appear in the magazines today. A few cold facts on the subject would douse their fine fantastically nonsensical space-pirates, garbage men, warships, and malignant Martian marauders into thin soup.
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