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IN THIS ISSUE
Feeling of Power Out from the Sun
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NI NE GREAT NOVELETTES from the first six years of
IF Magazine! Like
The First World
of
IF,
which re-
ceived such enthusiastic response from science fic-
tion lovers allover America, here is a volume of
exceptional interest--nine long stories by Charles
Beaumont, James Blish, Phillip K. Dick, Gordon
Dickson, Charles L. Fontenay, James E. Gunn,
Raymond F. Jones, Bryce Walton and Robert
F. Young-devoted to a wide diversity of
science fiction entertainment. The printing
will again be a small one, so ask your news
dealer right now to save you a copy. Or,
if you prefer, send fifty cents to IF Mag-
azine, Kingston, New York, and a copy
will be mailed to you upon publication,
which shall be January 12th.
W O R L D S OF
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SCIENCE FICTION
FEBRUARY 1958
All Stories New and Complete
Editor: JAMES L. QUINN
Assist. Editor: EVE WULFF
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NOVELETTES
ASSASSIN
by J. F. Bone
THE BARBARIANS
by John Sentry
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SHORT STORIES
THE FEELING OF POWER
by Isaac Asimov
THE HERO
by Elaine Wilber
CONTAMINATION CREW
by Alan E. Nourse
OUT FROM THE SUN
by Arthur C. Clarke
SECURITY RISK
by Ed M. Clinton, Jr.
THE STANDARDIZED M AN
by Stephen Bartholomew
FEET OF CLAY
by Phillip Hoskins
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FEATURES
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EDITOR'S REPORT
WHAT'S YOUR SCIENCE I.Q.?
SCIENCE BRIEFS
HUE AND CRY
COVER
A Scene from "Assassin" by Mel Hunter
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M ail has
been piling up nicely on
the editorial desk in response to our
request for information about the
readers. Judging by a cross section,
(this means picking letters out of
the heap at random) we’ve got
readers from 12 to 74— all with
stars in their eyes. Fields of en­
deavor now include musicians,
salesmen, lab technicians, pharma­
cists, test pilots, actors and one
prisoner, who writes that he “ likes
to escape” with science fiction! T o
find out why people read science
fiction read some of their letters in
Hue and Cry . . . and if you haven’t
already done it, why not drop us a
vital statistic or two to help swell
the mail?
Following through
on our practice
o f letting readers in on just what
authors do, we corralled the “ mas­
ter” who’s the lead-off man in this
issue. Seems as though all people
( “ without exception” , he claims)
who meet Isaac Asimov for the first
time are startled to find him clean
shaven (except, o f course for five
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o’clock shadow). For some reason
an immediate picture of a patriar­
chal type with a long white beard
(or at any rate a dignified Van
Dyke) rises unbidden when his
name is mentioned. Isaac has been
writing science fiction for 20 years;
but insists he started as a teen-ager
— he’s still not
that
old. The whole
thing is even more demoralizing
when some great muscular hunk of
humanity boasts that he was born
in the same year that Asimov’s first
story appeared! O f course, the re­
sounding title of Associate Profes­
sor of Biochemistry at Boston Uni­
versity, plus the fact that the man
has several learned textbooks to his
credit, may have a great deal to do
with this modern fable o f “ old man
Asimov” .
A recent study
concerning the ag­
gressive tendencies of authors held
at U.C.L.A., showed that there was
a definite correlation between per­
sonal aggressiveness and the inten­
sity of violence in the fiction these
men wrote. The least aggressive
people wrote the most consistently
violent tales, while those with ag­
gressive natures were much more
variable. Interesting sidelight on
the study was the fact that authors
tended to write of more intense
violence under stress from financial
problems!
Hydroponic tanks
for feeding the
crew of a spaceship may be out­
moded before the first one is ever
installed! Scientists have discovered
that green plants secrete a deadly
carbon monoxide gas when in­
jured. And since no one knows just
what in space could or would cause
such “ injury” , researchers feel that
plants used as a source o f food and
oxygen during space flight might
poison the spaceship’s entire air
supply.
By this time
the world is aware
that the Russians rushed their satel­
lite into space not so much for
benefit o f the IG Y as for propa­
ganda. Now the second “ sputnik”
is about due, and the Soviets prom­
ise it will carry much more instru­
mentation than “ sputnik the first” .
The second moon will rise to 560
miles and speed at 18,000 miles per
hour, same as the first, but will
weigh 400 or 500 pounds, accord­
ing to Dr. Blagonravov, who helped
develop the Russian satellite pro­
gram. It will broadcast intensity of
cosmic rays, temperature and air
density, whereas the first “ moon”
broadcast only temperature. Wheth­
er “ sputnik the second” gets up
there before the first American sat­
ellite does or not, we’ ll hold that
Vanguard sends up a better
“ mouse trap” , and if you are look­
ing for real estate on the moon,
don’t get it from the Ruskies.
The first
motion picture visualiza­
tion of Project Vanguard, the
launching and tracking o f the
first American satellite, is being dis­
tributed. The four minute ani­
mated film is titled
A M oon is Born
and is shown in color and black
and white. It includes the depiction
of the Minitrack and Moonwatch
phases of the project as well as the
use of an IBM computer for the
prediction o f the moon’s future po­
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sitions. If your club, civic group or
school is interested in showing this
film, drop us a line and we’ll send
you the name and address o f the
distributor.
We've had
so many blasts, both pro
and con, about our quiz, that we
decided to explain our stand. Big­
gest noise against it comes from
those who feel that the page could
be used for more stories. Those in
favor, feel they’re learning some­
thing— and to a man they’re pretty
proud when they come up with a
good score. Now, a good
one page
story is as rare as the Penny Black
of stamp collecting; and padding a
story so it will run over for an extra
page is against all our editorial in­
stincts. So why not give people a
chance to test themselves on what
they know about the world around
them?
Last minute
notes. . . . The by­
line John Sentry on this issue’s
The Barbarians
is a pen name for
what well known science-fiction
writer? . . . Don’t forget
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W
o r l d o f
IF! If you haven’t
ordered one already, hang around
your newsstand and grab it the
minute it arrives. One hundred and
sixty pages of solid entertainment
without a single “ wasted” page . . .
Look for an exciting new yarn by
Frank Riley called
A Question of
Identity
in our April issue— an en­
tirely new theme in science fiction
and
definitely
one to which we can
look forward. . . . And while we’re
looking ahead, by all means look
for Arthur G. Clarke’s newest,
The
Songs of Distant Earth,
in the June
issue.
— ekw

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