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Fantascience Digest, v. 1, issue 5, July-August 1938

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     "Sure! and two crates of oranges."

     "Oranges, salmon and milk: some shipment you picked out!"

     Four weeks later the two men were firmly planted twenty feet beneath the small building designated as the council house. Two more thoroughly sick of milk and salmon could not be found. But they were under the correct house in St. Louis with one week to wait. Twenty rounds of yzxx gelatine were planted directly under the house, and twenty feet from the men. Carefully insulated wires led from the plunger in the rear of the ship to the explosive.

     One week later Batty remarked, just to hear himself talk, 

     "If we press that plunger we will blow up the headquarters and ---- us. We don't have any more wire. So when the headquarters go, we will go along, eh, Splurge?"

     One year later the newspapers of the Independent United Americas announced a new national holiday, "the date when the leader of of the invader and all under oppressors perished in the explosion. It will be marked by appropriate ceremonies in the twenty-foot bowl on the edge of St. Louis where the invaders' headquarters once stood."

FINIS

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AUTHOR'S DREAM (1)

Cycle
Giant insects growing, bigger,
Taking all the land
Man, the conquered of a chigger
Losing fight of a small band.

Insects, growing hungry, eating, 
Stripping all the green
Insects, starving, dying  retreating
Never again to be seen

Helen E. Cloukey

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AFTER-DINNER CONVERSATION
     by Jack Speer

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     JFS: Jack London wrote some pretty good stuff, tho, at that.
     James P. Speer: Yeah, like "The Star Rover."
     JFS: You ever read that, George?
     George: What's that?
     JPS: Jack London's "Star Rover." 'Bout a guy in solitary confinement that learned to project his ---sould---his spirit---his intellect---outside the prison walls---and you can go on from there."
     JSF: That, of course, was science fiction.
     JPS: By golly! I'm getting sick and tired of that! Every bestseller that comes up---everything that's good---he's got to say it's science fiction. Like "Lost Horizon."
      JFS: But----
     JPS: I suppose you say "Gone With the Wind" is science fiction?
     JFS: Well---
     George; Or the Bible.
     JPS: Yeah, the Bible.
     JFS: Well, there's *some* parts of it that are highly fantastic, and fantasy----
      JPS: Well, I will say that the last book in the Bible---
     JFS: Revelation?
     JPS: ---reminds of that "Star Rover." The guy that wrote it was in about the same position. More tea, Espie?

      "The solitaire amused himself by reliving previous incarnations.



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ASTOUNDING, AMAZING, and WONDER
(both Quarterlies and monthlies) for sale. When writing, specific issues desired. --Robert A. Madle
333 E. Belgrade St
Philadelphia, PA

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"Sure! and two crates of oranges." "Oranges, salmon and milk: some shipment you picked out!" Four weeks later the two men were firmly planted twenty feet beneath the small building designated as the council house. Two more thoroughly sick of milk and salmon could not be found. But they were under the correct house in St. Louis with one week to wait. Twenty rounds of yzxx gelatine were planted directly under the house, and twenty feet from the men. Carefully insulated wires led from the plunger in the rear of the ship to the explosive. One week later Batty remarked, just to hear himself talk, "If we press that plunger we will blow up the headquarters and ---- us. We don't have any more wire. So when the headquarters go, we will go along, eh, Splurge?" One year later the newspapers of the Independent United Americas announced a new national holiday, "the date when the leader of of the invader and all under oppressors perished in the explosion. It will be marked by appropriate ceremonies in the twenty-foot bowl on the edge of St. Louis where the invaders' headquarters once stood." FINIS """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" AUTHOR'S DREAM (1) Cycle Giant insects growing, bigger, Taking all the land Man, the conquered of a chigger Losing fight of a small band. Insects, growing hungry, eating, Stripping all the green Insects, starving, dying retreating Never again to be seen Helen E. Cloukey """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" AFTER-DINNER CONVERSATION by Jack Speer """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" JFS: Jack London wrote some pretty good stuff, tho, at that. James P. Speer: Yeah, like "The Star Rover." JFS: You ever read that, George? George: What's that? JPS: Jack London's "Star Rover." 'Bout a guy in solitary confinement that learned to project his ---sould---his spirit---his intellect---outside the prison walls---and you can go on from there." JSF: That, of course, was science fiction. JPS: By golly! I'm getting sick and tired of that! Every bestseller that comes up---everything that's good---he's got to say it's science fiction. Like "Lost Horizon." JFS: But---- JPS: I suppose you say "Gone With the Wind" is science fiction? JFS: Well--- George; Or the Bible. JPS: Yeah, the Bible. JFS: Well, there's *some* parts of it that are highly fantastic, and fantasy---- JPS: Well, I will say that the last book in the Bible--- JFS: Revelation? JPS: ---reminds of that "Star Rover." The guy that wrote it was in about the same position. More tea, Espie? "The solitaire amused himself by reliving previous incarnations. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" ASTOUNDING, AMAZING, and WONDER (both Quarterlies and monthlies) for sale. When writing, specific issues desired. --Robert A. Madle 333 E. Belgrade St Philadelphia, PA