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Scientifictionist, v. 1, issue 1, September 1945
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The sequel carries on Anthony Rogers’ account of the war against the Hans. The immense advantage of the rocket gun over the disintegrator ray, brought out in ’’Armageddon”, is still further illustrated when the Hans, on the defensive for the first time, also resort to rocket artillery. There is an interesting digression in which the respective sciences of the Hans and the Americans are compared. Han science is the ultimate development of 20th-century radio and electronics. The Han ships and disintegrators draw on power broadcast from their cities. The Americans, however, have gone to new fields and employ subelectronis and ’’ultronic” forces of which the Han scientists know nothing. This the American "ultrophones” and "ultroscopes” cannot be detected by the Hans, while the Han ’’electrono” (radio) communications are readily intercepted by the Americans. Rogers is captured by the Hans and imprisoned in their capital city of Lo-Tan, where he is subjected to psychological and hypnotic torments in an effort to extort information from him. These fail, apparently due, as he accounts for it, to their subtlety’s being lost on his 20th-century obtuseness, and he is afterwards permitted to live as an object of interest to the Han philosophers and even to the ’’Heaven-born” himself. Rogers gives an eminently complete description the degenerate Han civilization. Of his rescue and of his part in the subsequent destruction of the cities and extermination of the Han dynasty there too is adequate account. The story ends with some theorizing as to the origin of the Hans, who supposedly arose as hybrids from the Tibetans and an extramundane unhuman race traced to a meteor which landed in central Asia during the late 20th century. Tastefully handled is the love interest between Rogers and Wilma Deering. Their courtship is anything but dilatory, though being consumed within the first four chapters of ’’Armageddon”. However, Wilma remains a prominent character throughout the two stories. —(Editorial Rumblings, continued from page 2) — which would in turn be giving to the readers, thus ending the stories and still leaving Palmer in delusions. The readers probably will be told that the matter had become either too dangerous to pursue further in print, (Deros, y’know), or that it had become too technical for the readers to follow. At any rate, the series will drag out for another 1 or 2 years, and after that, only time will tell what the final outcome will be. Since "A WORD ABOUT THE PROS” was written, the TWS with Leinster's ”THINGS PASS BY” has appeared. This issue is quite a pick-up from the proceeding ones, but only future issues will tell if this issue was the start in a gradual improvement in TWS, or merely a single outstanding issue. Some of you fans — especially the newer ones —might be interested to know that SUPER SCIENCE STORIES is still being published in Canada. It’s a bi-monthly, 15c per copy, (90c per yr.), available from: 100 Adelaide Street West, Toronto 1, Ont., Canada. The mag features reprints of famous Stf classics. The August issue, the latest I have received, has for the feature story THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD by Austin Hall. There is a novelette by Charles Stillson called THE SKY WOMAN, and the following short stories: SON OF THE STARS - Binder, THE PLUNGE .OF THE "KNUPFEN” - L. Gorver, THE KISS OF DEATH" L. Withrow, THE DEMISE OF PROFESSOR MANRIED - P. M.Fisher, Jr.,, AFRAID OF HIS SHADOW - D.D. Calhoun. The cover depicts a fleet of rocket-propelled flying submarines emerging from an ocean to attack a walled city in the distance. At the right of the pic is part of a wall of a fort guarding the city, which is topped by plastic, transparent gun mounts, which are attempting to repel the flying subs with flame-throwers. It seems your editor has used up a quantity of paper on ramblings,. and even more hot air, so he’ll cease for the time being. Be seein’ ya next issue, which by the way, is SCIENTIFICTIONIST’s special off-trail number. Don’t miss itl Page 14
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The sequel carries on Anthony Rogers’ account of the war against the Hans. The immense advantage of the rocket gun over the disintegrator ray, brought out in ’’Armageddon”, is still further illustrated when the Hans, on the defensive for the first time, also resort to rocket artillery. There is an interesting digression in which the respective sciences of the Hans and the Americans are compared. Han science is the ultimate development of 20th-century radio and electronics. The Han ships and disintegrators draw on power broadcast from their cities. The Americans, however, have gone to new fields and employ subelectronis and ’’ultronic” forces of which the Han scientists know nothing. This the American "ultrophones” and "ultroscopes” cannot be detected by the Hans, while the Han ’’electrono” (radio) communications are readily intercepted by the Americans. Rogers is captured by the Hans and imprisoned in their capital city of Lo-Tan, where he is subjected to psychological and hypnotic torments in an effort to extort information from him. These fail, apparently due, as he accounts for it, to their subtlety’s being lost on his 20th-century obtuseness, and he is afterwards permitted to live as an object of interest to the Han philosophers and even to the ’’Heaven-born” himself. Rogers gives an eminently complete description the degenerate Han civilization. Of his rescue and of his part in the subsequent destruction of the cities and extermination of the Han dynasty there too is adequate account. The story ends with some theorizing as to the origin of the Hans, who supposedly arose as hybrids from the Tibetans and an extramundane unhuman race traced to a meteor which landed in central Asia during the late 20th century. Tastefully handled is the love interest between Rogers and Wilma Deering. Their courtship is anything but dilatory, though being consumed within the first four chapters of ’’Armageddon”. However, Wilma remains a prominent character throughout the two stories. —(Editorial Rumblings, continued from page 2) — which would in turn be giving to the readers, thus ending the stories and still leaving Palmer in delusions. The readers probably will be told that the matter had become either too dangerous to pursue further in print, (Deros, y’know), or that it had become too technical for the readers to follow. At any rate, the series will drag out for another 1 or 2 years, and after that, only time will tell what the final outcome will be. Since "A WORD ABOUT THE PROS” was written, the TWS with Leinster's ”THINGS PASS BY” has appeared. This issue is quite a pick-up from the proceeding ones, but only future issues will tell if this issue was the start in a gradual improvement in TWS, or merely a single outstanding issue. Some of you fans — especially the newer ones —might be interested to know that SUPER SCIENCE STORIES is still being published in Canada. It’s a bi-monthly, 15c per copy, (90c per yr.), available from: 100 Adelaide Street West, Toronto 1, Ont., Canada. The mag features reprints of famous Stf classics. The August issue, the latest I have received, has for the feature story THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD by Austin Hall. There is a novelette by Charles Stillson called THE SKY WOMAN, and the following short stories: SON OF THE STARS - Binder, THE PLUNGE .OF THE "KNUPFEN” - L. Gorver, THE KISS OF DEATH" L. Withrow, THE DEMISE OF PROFESSOR MANRIED - P. M.Fisher, Jr.,, AFRAID OF HIS SHADOW - D.D. Calhoun. The cover depicts a fleet of rocket-propelled flying submarines emerging from an ocean to attack a walled city in the distance. At the right of the pic is part of a wall of a fort guarding the city, which is topped by plastic, transparent gun mounts, which are attempting to repel the flying subs with flame-throwers. It seems your editor has used up a quantity of paper on ramblings,. and even more hot air, so he’ll cease for the time being. Be seein’ ya next issue, which by the way, is SCIENTIFICTIONIST’s special off-trail number. Don’t miss itl Page 14
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