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Sun Spots, v. 3, issue 4, whole no. 12, November 1940
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November 1940, SUN SPOTS, Page 24 BOOK REVIEWS By de la Ree Jr. The Wonder Stick, by Stanton A Coblentz- 309 pages. This book, is rather childish, but no more so than the majority of cave-man stories. It remind me an awful lot of the Irving Crump "Cg" series. The hero of The Wonder Stick is Ru, The Sparrow Hearted, and as is usual in cave-man stories, he is the smartest, but the weakest of his tribe. There is also the women angle, the heroine being Yonyo the smiling-eyed. All through the book, Ru is ridiculed by his fellow tribesmen, untill the end, when he kills the hated chief, with his latest invention, the bow and arrow. He of course becomes the chief, gets his girl, and the tribe is happy forever after. I'd only recomend this book to thoes who like cave-man stuff. Not to thoes who only like science. THE Oracles of Nostradamus- by Charles A Ward, 425 pages. Not really science fiction, in the sence of the word, but a book of this great French prophits prophicies. Besides the 370 pages those that have all ready come true, there is 50 pages of supplement, dealing with the present day, and the present war, the editors believe, Nostradamus was Europe's greatest prophet, and foretold three centuries ago, events which history has confirmed with uncanny frequency. His "prophetic centuries" forcast the fall of Paris, war in the air, the invasion of Britian, etc. His prophicies go up as far as the year 3000 AD, and if you don't wish to miss a good book, get The Oracles of Nostradamus, only $2.00 from Scribners, New York City. A real value, that should be on every science fiction fan's book shelf. A must! "The Sage Says:" "Farwell to the Master" by Harry Bates, in Oct Astounding is a brilliant story. Cliff Sutherland, picture reporter, discovers that the giant robot from an unknown place in outer space, is capable of motion. He has several terrifying experiences, as he spies on the mighty Gnut. Gnut has powers and abilities incredible to human beings. He is able to recreate living things from recordings of their human voices. He attempts to so re-create his suposed master. who had been killed by a fanatic, shortly after arriving on Earth. The re-direction dies, because the recording is imperfect, Sutherland suggests a method of overcoming this. The story has a suprise ending, in which the identity of the real "master" is revealed. --DBT
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November 1940, SUN SPOTS, Page 24 BOOK REVIEWS By de la Ree Jr. The Wonder Stick, by Stanton A Coblentz- 309 pages. This book, is rather childish, but no more so than the majority of cave-man stories. It remind me an awful lot of the Irving Crump "Cg" series. The hero of The Wonder Stick is Ru, The Sparrow Hearted, and as is usual in cave-man stories, he is the smartest, but the weakest of his tribe. There is also the women angle, the heroine being Yonyo the smiling-eyed. All through the book, Ru is ridiculed by his fellow tribesmen, untill the end, when he kills the hated chief, with his latest invention, the bow and arrow. He of course becomes the chief, gets his girl, and the tribe is happy forever after. I'd only recomend this book to thoes who like cave-man stuff. Not to thoes who only like science. THE Oracles of Nostradamus- by Charles A Ward, 425 pages. Not really science fiction, in the sence of the word, but a book of this great French prophits prophicies. Besides the 370 pages those that have all ready come true, there is 50 pages of supplement, dealing with the present day, and the present war, the editors believe, Nostradamus was Europe's greatest prophet, and foretold three centuries ago, events which history has confirmed with uncanny frequency. His "prophetic centuries" forcast the fall of Paris, war in the air, the invasion of Britian, etc. His prophicies go up as far as the year 3000 AD, and if you don't wish to miss a good book, get The Oracles of Nostradamus, only $2.00 from Scribners, New York City. A real value, that should be on every science fiction fan's book shelf. A must! "The Sage Says:" "Farwell to the Master" by Harry Bates, in Oct Astounding is a brilliant story. Cliff Sutherland, picture reporter, discovers that the giant robot from an unknown place in outer space, is capable of motion. He has several terrifying experiences, as he spies on the mighty Gnut. Gnut has powers and abilities incredible to human beings. He is able to recreate living things from recordings of their human voices. He attempts to so re-create his suposed master. who had been killed by a fanatic, shortly after arriving on Earth. The re-direction dies, because the recording is imperfect, Sutherland suggests a method of overcoming this. The story has a suprise ending, in which the identity of the real "master" is revealed. --DBT
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