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minds between a man and an inhabitant of an electron. The point is made that if the minds are returned, they will uncontrollably reexchange at times. This story also appeared in book form under the title GREEN MEN OF KILSONIA, I believe. W.K. Sonnemann tells a tale of transfer with a queen bee in THE COUNCIL OF DRONES (Oct. 36 Amz). Instead of using the standard "twin transfer cases, the machine here is "Cross-Rays with Lifex Modulation"--the cross-rays are focused on one subject and the other subject is chosen by dial settings. Lovecraft's SHADOW OUT OF TIME gives another phase of the subject. The great race of all time results when that race's science enables the to project their minds forward or back in time to select and displace the mind of any intelligent being--the displaced mind striking back to the body of the displacer. The possibility of transferring merely a portion of a person's personality or mind--and thus making two people out of one--is suggested by SCULPTORS OF LIFE (Wallace West) in the Dec. 39 ASF. David Wright O'Brien and William P. McGivern collaborated on JOHN BROWN'S BODY (May 40 Amz) to produce a take which represents an unfortunate trend in Ziff-Davis stf: weak and improbable explanations. John Brown and his boss switch bodies while tangled with a giant electric washing machine. Captain Future undergoes his body exchange in Ed Hamilton's third tale of the series, CAPTAIN FUTURE'S CHALLENGE (Summer 40). The Wrecker transfers him to the body of a Neptunian undersea man with a variation of the twin compartment system. THE MAN WHO MURDERED HIMSELF (May 41 FA) by Duncan Farnsworth (David Wright O'Brien) deals with the time when body-exchange machines are accepted as just another scientific development. An off-trail version of mind transfer occurs in METHUSELAH'S CHILDREN (Heinlein, Sept.41 ASF) when Mary Risling decides to avoid death by joining one of the multi-bodies mind groups of the Little People in the PK3722 star system. Eric Frank Russell's SEAT OF OBLIVION (Nov. 41 ASF) presents a transfer machine which empowers the "ego" sufficiently to leave its body and steal another--the routed ego, however, is unable to enter the body of the usurper. The problem of what a man would do if he unexpectedly discovered himself in a strange boy is dealt with in THE MAN WHO WASN'T HIMSELF (Dec. 41 Amz). Since Alexander Blade is a Z-D "house-name", it may be that Ray Palmer wrote this tale. Strange living forces produce the transfer in David V. Reed's PLANET OF GHOSTS. A man's reactions to unexpected body-exchange is the subject of THE CASE OF JONATHAN LANE (Aug. 42 Amz) by John York Cabot (D. W. O'Brien). Donald Bern spins a yarn of transfer by trickery--with unintentional consequences--in SOMERSET, THE SCIENTIFIC MONKEY (Jan. 42 Amz). Henry Kuttner's TO DUST RETURNETH (CF WInter 44) tells of the ancient Martians having the transfer machine and adapting themselves to the dying planet. A rather vague means of transfer after death results from research to discover the future in the remote past as presented by WANDERER OF TIME (Summer 44 Startling) by Polton Cross (J. R. Fearn). Chemistry seems to be resonsible for the change in Miles Shelton's (Don Wilcox') FAIR EXCHANGE (FA Oct. 44) but for some reason the man has no trouble speaking through the dog's vocal chords. Rather improbable is the torture explanation which Helmar Lewis uses in THE WHIPS OF DOOM (Dec. 44 Amz). Early in 1945, there was noticeable quite a wave of these identity exchange stories, and its eddies are still with us: ESCAPE FROM DOOM by John Wilstach (Apr. 45 FA) which presents no especially unusual ideas on the subject; BABY FACE by Kuttner (TWS Spring 45) wherein a doctor desires to use it to check on his patients pains; ALTER EGO by A. Bertram Chandler (ASF Mar. 45) featuring a scientification author who finds his stories aren't fiction (this has a sequel, SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE, in the Feb. 46 ASF); DESTINY TIMES THREE by Fritz Leiber Jr. (April & May 45 ASF) with the logical idea that a person separated by time branches from other versions of himself would have natural ability to switch his minds; I@LL BE FLEECED by Berkley Livingston (June 45 Amz)--and I was; TWO WORLDS TO CONQUER (Sept 45 Amz) by Elroy Arno, a less logical parallel world tale; A. E. Van Vogt's WORLD OF null-A (ASF Aug.-Oct. 45) suggesting a man's consciousness page 8
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minds between a man and an inhabitant of an electron. The point is made that if the minds are returned, they will uncontrollably reexchange at times. This story also appeared in book form under the title GREEN MEN OF KILSONIA, I believe. W.K. Sonnemann tells a tale of transfer with a queen bee in THE COUNCIL OF DRONES (Oct. 36 Amz). Instead of using the standard "twin transfer cases, the machine here is "Cross-Rays with Lifex Modulation"--the cross-rays are focused on one subject and the other subject is chosen by dial settings. Lovecraft's SHADOW OUT OF TIME gives another phase of the subject. The great race of all time results when that race's science enables the to project their minds forward or back in time to select and displace the mind of any intelligent being--the displaced mind striking back to the body of the displacer. The possibility of transferring merely a portion of a person's personality or mind--and thus making two people out of one--is suggested by SCULPTORS OF LIFE (Wallace West) in the Dec. 39 ASF. David Wright O'Brien and William P. McGivern collaborated on JOHN BROWN'S BODY (May 40 Amz) to produce a take which represents an unfortunate trend in Ziff-Davis stf: weak and improbable explanations. John Brown and his boss switch bodies while tangled with a giant electric washing machine. Captain Future undergoes his body exchange in Ed Hamilton's third tale of the series, CAPTAIN FUTURE'S CHALLENGE (Summer 40). The Wrecker transfers him to the body of a Neptunian undersea man with a variation of the twin compartment system. THE MAN WHO MURDERED HIMSELF (May 41 FA) by Duncan Farnsworth (David Wright O'Brien) deals with the time when body-exchange machines are accepted as just another scientific development. An off-trail version of mind transfer occurs in METHUSELAH'S CHILDREN (Heinlein, Sept.41 ASF) when Mary Risling decides to avoid death by joining one of the multi-bodies mind groups of the Little People in the PK3722 star system. Eric Frank Russell's SEAT OF OBLIVION (Nov. 41 ASF) presents a transfer machine which empowers the "ego" sufficiently to leave its body and steal another--the routed ego, however, is unable to enter the body of the usurper. The problem of what a man would do if he unexpectedly discovered himself in a strange boy is dealt with in THE MAN WHO WASN'T HIMSELF (Dec. 41 Amz). Since Alexander Blade is a Z-D "house-name", it may be that Ray Palmer wrote this tale. Strange living forces produce the transfer in David V. Reed's PLANET OF GHOSTS. A man's reactions to unexpected body-exchange is the subject of THE CASE OF JONATHAN LANE (Aug. 42 Amz) by John York Cabot (D. W. O'Brien). Donald Bern spins a yarn of transfer by trickery--with unintentional consequences--in SOMERSET, THE SCIENTIFIC MONKEY (Jan. 42 Amz). Henry Kuttner's TO DUST RETURNETH (CF WInter 44) tells of the ancient Martians having the transfer machine and adapting themselves to the dying planet. A rather vague means of transfer after death results from research to discover the future in the remote past as presented by WANDERER OF TIME (Summer 44 Startling) by Polton Cross (J. R. Fearn). Chemistry seems to be resonsible for the change in Miles Shelton's (Don Wilcox') FAIR EXCHANGE (FA Oct. 44) but for some reason the man has no trouble speaking through the dog's vocal chords. Rather improbable is the torture explanation which Helmar Lewis uses in THE WHIPS OF DOOM (Dec. 44 Amz). Early in 1945, there was noticeable quite a wave of these identity exchange stories, and its eddies are still with us: ESCAPE FROM DOOM by John Wilstach (Apr. 45 FA) which presents no especially unusual ideas on the subject; BABY FACE by Kuttner (TWS Spring 45) wherein a doctor desires to use it to check on his patients pains; ALTER EGO by A. Bertram Chandler (ASF Mar. 45) featuring a scientification author who finds his stories aren't fiction (this has a sequel, SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE, in the Feb. 46 ASF); DESTINY TIMES THREE by Fritz Leiber Jr. (April & May 45 ASF) with the logical idea that a person separated by time branches from other versions of himself would have natural ability to switch his minds; I@LL BE FLEECED by Berkley Livingston (June 45 Amz)--and I was; TWO WORLDS TO CONQUER (Sept 45 Amz) by Elroy Arno, a less logical parallel world tale; A. E. Van Vogt's WORLD OF null-A (ASF Aug.-Oct. 45) suggesting a man's consciousness page 8
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