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Chanticleer, v. 1, issue 3, December 1945
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ROSENBLUM: WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT THE NORTH SEA BUBBLE by Ernest Oldmeadow, p. Grant Richards, 1906 Rather a funny type of book to try and classify. Obviously it starts off as a "warning" yarn as it deals with an England conquered by Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany. As we open England (& presumably Scotland and Wales) is prostrate under the heel of the Prussian conqueror, but Ireland remains untouched. Apparently part of the British Army did a Dunkirk from Morecambe to the Emerald Isle which, as soon as england is down, discovers her inalienable loyalty. Now all we want is the intrepid aristocratic family to escape from England, place themselves at the head of the Irish, Enlish and some Empire forces and the Germans are as good as finished. And that is what happens. Wonderful isn't it! Plus a noble and chivalrous love that made me, at least, want to give the hero a good hearty kick! The whole book is stilted and the style of writing out of date; not to mention various unbelievable episodes--particularly the rallying of some thousands of German writers, barbers and so fort, who had been living in England "to escape military service", as a military body who defy and declare war on the Kaiser. SUBSTITUTE FOR LIVING by Gideon Clark, p. Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1937. I'd had this title on my wants-list for quite a while but on discovering a copy in one of my favorite bookshop haunts, was told by the proprietor that there was nothing fantastic about the book. Well, the bookseller was wrong-- but only just. Primarily it is the tale of a shy and rather stupid young man of 22--a failure in everything he undertakes, and the love for him of two absolutely different young females, both of whom want to look after him. But, all the while the young fellow is obsessed with one haunting idea, to create a machine which will reproduce the sights and scenes of the past. In fact the well-known recapture-lightwaves which have been in existence for many years theme. All through the book he potters with this contraption, having varied success. Our author doesn't make any serious attempt to make the thing scientifically logical and I for one was getting rather annoyed with him, when, hey presto, the device is half-proved to be actually making visible the scenes thought of by its creator. This is failure and so the machine is worthless,except for "psychic research". Why, I can't see! So our hero smashes it and goes off to marry the faithful young woman. Make up your mind whether it is supposed to be a tragedy, but to a sciencefictionist it definitely is. THE SECOND LEOPARD by John Lambourne, p. John Murray, 1932. A sequel to the author's "The Kingdom That Was". Another tale of the wonderful "civilization John Lambourne has visualized, wherein all animals
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ROSENBLUM: WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT THE NORTH SEA BUBBLE by Ernest Oldmeadow, p. Grant Richards, 1906 Rather a funny type of book to try and classify. Obviously it starts off as a "warning" yarn as it deals with an England conquered by Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany. As we open England (& presumably Scotland and Wales) is prostrate under the heel of the Prussian conqueror, but Ireland remains untouched. Apparently part of the British Army did a Dunkirk from Morecambe to the Emerald Isle which, as soon as england is down, discovers her inalienable loyalty. Now all we want is the intrepid aristocratic family to escape from England, place themselves at the head of the Irish, Enlish and some Empire forces and the Germans are as good as finished. And that is what happens. Wonderful isn't it! Plus a noble and chivalrous love that made me, at least, want to give the hero a good hearty kick! The whole book is stilted and the style of writing out of date; not to mention various unbelievable episodes--particularly the rallying of some thousands of German writers, barbers and so fort, who had been living in England "to escape military service", as a military body who defy and declare war on the Kaiser. SUBSTITUTE FOR LIVING by Gideon Clark, p. Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1937. I'd had this title on my wants-list for quite a while but on discovering a copy in one of my favorite bookshop haunts, was told by the proprietor that there was nothing fantastic about the book. Well, the bookseller was wrong-- but only just. Primarily it is the tale of a shy and rather stupid young man of 22--a failure in everything he undertakes, and the love for him of two absolutely different young females, both of whom want to look after him. But, all the while the young fellow is obsessed with one haunting idea, to create a machine which will reproduce the sights and scenes of the past. In fact the well-known recapture-lightwaves which have been in existence for many years theme. All through the book he potters with this contraption, having varied success. Our author doesn't make any serious attempt to make the thing scientifically logical and I for one was getting rather annoyed with him, when, hey presto, the device is half-proved to be actually making visible the scenes thought of by its creator. This is failure and so the machine is worthless,except for "psychic research". Why, I can't see! So our hero smashes it and goes off to marry the faithful young woman. Make up your mind whether it is supposed to be a tragedy, but to a sciencefictionist it definitely is. THE SECOND LEOPARD by John Lambourne, p. John Murray, 1932. A sequel to the author's "The Kingdom That Was". Another tale of the wonderful "civilization John Lambourne has visualized, wherein all animals
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