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Science Fiction Critic, v. 1, issue 6, December 1936
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THE SCIENCE FICTION CRITIC 4 [ring?] Uncle might levy. The address: Philip Allen & Co., 69 Great Russell St., London, England. Another English book to come my way is The Inner Number by Chenhalls Williams, a first-rate science-fantasy. The blurb on the jacket leaf says this: "'I have known your every thought for a week!' Nicholas Seminov, the Russian professor who makes this curious statement, has been 'listening' in with an instrument which records the thoughts of any living man whose 'inner number' has been ascertained. How this machine which probes the soul interferes with existing conditions of life, and drags its inventor and his assistant into deadly peril and strange adventure -" etc. But good stuff, actually. That venerable fellow, Jones -- H. Bedford, this time. You may not know he has written some of the finest of strange tales. Some of his older novels, all fantastic, all first-rate, are: Red Runes of China, Wizard of the Outlands, Fang-Tung, Magician, and others almost beyond tabulating. Lately - 1934 - in [Argosy?], he had Jungle Girl, subtitled, "Amazing adventure in Siam." And it was. Jones is an amazing fellow. Read him... I still like William Wallace Cook's three fantastic novels, though some have called them juvenile. They are: Adrift in the Unknown, A Round Trip to the Year 2000, and Marooned in 1492. Perhaps this childish mind harbors delusions, but I believe they are excellent satire and in spots hilariously funny. Obtainable anywhere in paper-back format, or direct from Street and Smith. Fantastic Fact Supreme - the openlng of the mighty San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, November 12. A gala celebration and holiday in both cities paying tribute to this marvel wrought by seventy-three million dollars and the genius of the world's greatest engineers. The Pyramids? The Empire State Building? By comparison, their construction was child's play. And the notion strikes that, if only equal effort and expenditure were directed into the right channels, space flight, time conquest, and any other now fictional triumphs, would be a certainty. Think you not so? (Of interest is the fact that Victor Endersby, one of the better science fiction authors, was among the competent engineers directing operations on this great structure.) Did you ever read the autobiography of God? The man who wrote it was stricken dead by lightning for his blasphemy, and the publishers who printed it were forced to change the name of the book until it read: The Book of Gud, by Dan Spain and Harold Hersey.
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THE SCIENCE FICTION CRITIC 4 [ring?] Uncle might levy. The address: Philip Allen & Co., 69 Great Russell St., London, England. Another English book to come my way is The Inner Number by Chenhalls Williams, a first-rate science-fantasy. The blurb on the jacket leaf says this: "'I have known your every thought for a week!' Nicholas Seminov, the Russian professor who makes this curious statement, has been 'listening' in with an instrument which records the thoughts of any living man whose 'inner number' has been ascertained. How this machine which probes the soul interferes with existing conditions of life, and drags its inventor and his assistant into deadly peril and strange adventure -" etc. But good stuff, actually. That venerable fellow, Jones -- H. Bedford, this time. You may not know he has written some of the finest of strange tales. Some of his older novels, all fantastic, all first-rate, are: Red Runes of China, Wizard of the Outlands, Fang-Tung, Magician, and others almost beyond tabulating. Lately - 1934 - in [Argosy?], he had Jungle Girl, subtitled, "Amazing adventure in Siam." And it was. Jones is an amazing fellow. Read him... I still like William Wallace Cook's three fantastic novels, though some have called them juvenile. They are: Adrift in the Unknown, A Round Trip to the Year 2000, and Marooned in 1492. Perhaps this childish mind harbors delusions, but I believe they are excellent satire and in spots hilariously funny. Obtainable anywhere in paper-back format, or direct from Street and Smith. Fantastic Fact Supreme - the openlng of the mighty San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, November 12. A gala celebration and holiday in both cities paying tribute to this marvel wrought by seventy-three million dollars and the genius of the world's greatest engineers. The Pyramids? The Empire State Building? By comparison, their construction was child's play. And the notion strikes that, if only equal effort and expenditure were directed into the right channels, space flight, time conquest, and any other now fictional triumphs, would be a certainty. Think you not so? (Of interest is the fact that Victor Endersby, one of the better science fiction authors, was among the competent engineers directing operations on this great structure.) Did you ever read the autobiography of God? The man who wrote it was stricken dead by lightning for his blasphemy, and the publishers who printed it were forced to change the name of the book until it read: The Book of Gud, by Dan Spain and Harold Hersey.
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