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would flee to his reserve body when he died--provided he could grow extra bodies and keep them satisfactorily; STEEL GIANTS OF CHAOS by James R. Adams (Wint. 45 Planet) and SURVIVAL (Spring 56 Planet) by Basil Wells which you have probably read such a short time ago that comment is needless. Most of the stories in this "parasite" category are hard on the host--in many of the tales the host is killed; in others he is merely eclipsed, sometimes permanently. THE PURPLE BRAIN by Hal K. Wells (Dec. 33 Astounding) which features an invader from space who attaches himself to the neck of the hostbody and uses it as a robot; PARASITE by Harl Vincent (Schoepflin) wherein the invaders are resolved to invisible bubbles which are absorbed by the host (July 5 Amz); PEBBLES OF DREAD by Gerald Evans (Aug. 40 TWS) which pebbles, conquering their host, could with the proper solution reshuffle the hostbodys with themselves incorporated therein; THE MAN WHO DIDN'T BREATHE by Harry Walton (Nov. 41 Astonishing) wherein the alien's necessity to life, radioactivity, decimates the host to a point where hypnotism has to be used to conceal the change; Joseph Millard's THE GODS HATE KANSAS (Nov. 41 Startling) with its bodyless super-intellectuals who use the bodies of their backward brothers; THE TIME MIRROR by Clark South (Dec. 42 Amz) which projects minds into other ages to lose themselves with their host's mind; Same mag, Hamilton's WORLD OF A THOUSAND MOONS with its parasites that make robots of their living hosts; VOLUSWEN by Kuttner (April 43 SF Stories) hinting at what an invader using what bodies it wishes; ME, THE PEOPLE by Emil Petaja (June 43 Amz) theorizing an obscure "tree of life" as its basis for empowering a mind to invade another's body; Frederic Brown's AND THE GODS LAUGHED (Spring 44 Planet) hinting at humanity's eclipse by the earrings which wear it; THE LEACH by Malcolm Jameson (Jan 44 ASF) with its multipurpose mind-control machine; and the Pete Manx tales by Kelvin Kent (Art Barnes and/or Henry Kuttner), which fit here somewhat better than elsewhere due to the fact that Manx' mind completely eclipses whichever mind it is realeased into. For the convenience of those who desire a list of these Pete Manx tales, they all appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, as follows: ROMAN HOLIDAY Aug. 39; WORLD'S PHARAOH Dec. 39; SCIENCE IS GOLDEN Apr. 40; KNIGHT MUST FALL June 40; THE COMEDY OF ERAS Sept 40; MAN ABOUT TIME Oct. 40; THE GREEKS HAD A WAR FOR IT Jan. 41; HERCULES MUSCLES IN Feb. 41; DAMES IS POISON June 42; DE WOLFE OF WALL STREET Feb. 43; GRIEF OF BAGDAD June 43; and SWING YOUR LADY Winter 44. Jack Williamson's TERROR OUT OF TIME (Dec. 33 Astounding) is fairly similar to the Pete Manx tales except the hero is sent forward in time whereupon the last Martian transfers his mind to the hero's dormant body. In INTERLINK by Fearn (Fall 4 TWS), the criminal's secondary control of the heroine's body is the result of portions of their brains being interchanged in a surgical operation. A marriage of minds into one body is suggested in Raymond F. Jones' CORRESPONDENCE COURSE (Apr. 45 ASF). And in conclusion, I wish to mention two ideas that, while rather out of the field under discussion, are worthy of consideration in connection with the material so far presented. They are (1) the possibility of adapting someone or something else's outlook completely--if only temporarily--as suggested in THE POINT OF VIEW by Stanley Weinbaum (Feb. 36 Wonder & Spring 44 Startling); and (2) as indicated in Kuttner's A MILLION YEARS TO CONQUER (Nov. 40 Startling), the transfer of anybody's or anything's complete memory and knowledge to someone else--preferably without damage to the original owner or his memory. --------------- (Editorial, continued from page 6) will have to remain indefinite. However, future issues of SCIENTIFICTIONIST will be out as soon as material and time will allow. Walter Coulet's IDEA CORNER is the most popular feature in the magazine, as the ratings have indicated. In the future, Walter is going to have some of the IC's guest-written, so if you've got some good ideas you'd like to write up, drop a note to Walter at Box 6, Helena, Montana. We wish to close by urging every one of you to read H.G. Wells' THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. It's the best book we've ever read -- stf or otherwise. It should be in your public library. page 9
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would flee to his reserve body when he died--provided he could grow extra bodies and keep them satisfactorily; STEEL GIANTS OF CHAOS by James R. Adams (Wint. 45 Planet) and SURVIVAL (Spring 56 Planet) by Basil Wells which you have probably read such a short time ago that comment is needless. Most of the stories in this "parasite" category are hard on the host--in many of the tales the host is killed; in others he is merely eclipsed, sometimes permanently. THE PURPLE BRAIN by Hal K. Wells (Dec. 33 Astounding) which features an invader from space who attaches himself to the neck of the hostbody and uses it as a robot; PARASITE by Harl Vincent (Schoepflin) wherein the invaders are resolved to invisible bubbles which are absorbed by the host (July 5 Amz); PEBBLES OF DREAD by Gerald Evans (Aug. 40 TWS) which pebbles, conquering their host, could with the proper solution reshuffle the hostbodys with themselves incorporated therein; THE MAN WHO DIDN'T BREATHE by Harry Walton (Nov. 41 Astonishing) wherein the alien's necessity to life, radioactivity, decimates the host to a point where hypnotism has to be used to conceal the change; Joseph Millard's THE GODS HATE KANSAS (Nov. 41 Startling) with its bodyless super-intellectuals who use the bodies of their backward brothers; THE TIME MIRROR by Clark South (Dec. 42 Amz) which projects minds into other ages to lose themselves with their host's mind; Same mag, Hamilton's WORLD OF A THOUSAND MOONS with its parasites that make robots of their living hosts; VOLUSWEN by Kuttner (April 43 SF Stories) hinting at what an invader using what bodies it wishes; ME, THE PEOPLE by Emil Petaja (June 43 Amz) theorizing an obscure "tree of life" as its basis for empowering a mind to invade another's body; Frederic Brown's AND THE GODS LAUGHED (Spring 44 Planet) hinting at humanity's eclipse by the earrings which wear it; THE LEACH by Malcolm Jameson (Jan 44 ASF) with its multipurpose mind-control machine; and the Pete Manx tales by Kelvin Kent (Art Barnes and/or Henry Kuttner), which fit here somewhat better than elsewhere due to the fact that Manx' mind completely eclipses whichever mind it is realeased into. For the convenience of those who desire a list of these Pete Manx tales, they all appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, as follows: ROMAN HOLIDAY Aug. 39; WORLD'S PHARAOH Dec. 39; SCIENCE IS GOLDEN Apr. 40; KNIGHT MUST FALL June 40; THE COMEDY OF ERAS Sept 40; MAN ABOUT TIME Oct. 40; THE GREEKS HAD A WAR FOR IT Jan. 41; HERCULES MUSCLES IN Feb. 41; DAMES IS POISON June 42; DE WOLFE OF WALL STREET Feb. 43; GRIEF OF BAGDAD June 43; and SWING YOUR LADY Winter 44. Jack Williamson's TERROR OUT OF TIME (Dec. 33 Astounding) is fairly similar to the Pete Manx tales except the hero is sent forward in time whereupon the last Martian transfers his mind to the hero's dormant body. In INTERLINK by Fearn (Fall 4 TWS), the criminal's secondary control of the heroine's body is the result of portions of their brains being interchanged in a surgical operation. A marriage of minds into one body is suggested in Raymond F. Jones' CORRESPONDENCE COURSE (Apr. 45 ASF). And in conclusion, I wish to mention two ideas that, while rather out of the field under discussion, are worthy of consideration in connection with the material so far presented. They are (1) the possibility of adapting someone or something else's outlook completely--if only temporarily--as suggested in THE POINT OF VIEW by Stanley Weinbaum (Feb. 36 Wonder & Spring 44 Startling); and (2) as indicated in Kuttner's A MILLION YEARS TO CONQUER (Nov. 40 Startling), the transfer of anybody's or anything's complete memory and knowledge to someone else--preferably without damage to the original owner or his memory. --------------- (Editorial, continued from page 6) will have to remain indefinite. However, future issues of SCIENTIFICTIONIST will be out as soon as material and time will allow. Walter Coulet's IDEA CORNER is the most popular feature in the magazine, as the ratings have indicated. In the future, Walter is going to have some of the IC's guest-written, so if you've got some good ideas you'd like to write up, drop a note to Walter at Box 6, Helena, Montana. We wish to close by urging every one of you to read H.G. Wells' THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. It's the best book we've ever read -- stf or otherwise. It should be in your public library. page 9
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