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Dream Quest, v. 1, issue 1, July 1947

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Interplanetary issue unintentionally. Could be, could be. But returning to the novel -- briefly, "Hidden City" (that's its name) concerns what happened to Harvey Dall and Jules Frontenac when they attempted to carry on rocket research. Dall and Jules had begun to suspect that some organization was working to prevent mankind from ever leaving the earth; one fine day in an airport terminal Dall is accosted by two men who later turn out to be secret service agents who swear Dall in as a special operative to uncover what the mysterious organization is and just why it wants us poor humans to remain forever earthbound. Well, one day at Dall and Frontenac's rocket research camp the food is doped by persons unknown who are spies. Everyone keels over in a dead coma. However Dall is revived by a nysterious white-haired stranger and is able to thwart the evil men before they do too much damage; turns out to be one of his chief assistants who is doing the dirty work, and a cook accomplice who spoiled the broth. ((Come, now.)) The evil one unfortunately escapes and is seen sailing off the earth in a space ship which has no apparent propulsion mechanism. So Dall and Frontenac, believed dead by the evil man, take off in their won space ship, which they have completed, in order to attempt to gain the advantage of surprise. While in transit from Terra to Luna they are rammed by meteorites and all their air goes out. They haven't enough air to return to Earth, so begin searching for the abode of whoever owns the propulsion-less space ship; on the side of the moon which is so conveniently turned away from earth, they run across a mysterious city in a crater, which can be raised and lowered when the owners see fit, lowered for concealment and raised to allow the space ships based there to land and take off. Being as they have no air, Frontenac and Dall decide to land and give themselves up. Landing, they discover that their villainous ex-assistant is general in the hidden city's army, and that the leader of the city, and, incidentally, also of the organization which is playing hob with earth's efforts to conquer space, is the inevitable gorgeous girl. "" And from there on the narrative is developed in the usual Geier manner. The yarn has a surprising resemblance to "Forever Is Too Long," which, if we are not mistaken, will rate high in the Fantasy Review poll next annum. There are mutants here too. Scads and scads of mutants -- in fact it is a race of mutants and not an organization who are attempting to stop space travel in order to prevent their city from being detected so that their preparations to conquer Earth will go unheeded; t hey call themselves "neo-men." They believe they will end war and cause eternal peace and happiness if they take over-- like a good many of our own organizations whose followers, deluded by a blind dreamy idealism and the rantings of demagogues and use of pretty catch-phrases and usually false promises into believing that their organization is the only hope for Earth and that they ware only doing good when they conquer and enslave everybody else. ((Here, here -- let's not start any crusades, shall we?)) Naturally, their plans are foiled -- by the mysterious white-haired stranger mentioned earlier in this review, who is a still-further-advanced mutant -- the last of his race, which is called ultra-men. And of course, our hero ,Mr. Dell, wins the gorgeous maiden, and everything comes out fine for the peoples of earth, with

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DREAM QUEST 19 Interplanetary issue unintentionally. Could be, could be. But returning to the novel -- briefly, "Hidden City" (that's its name) concerns what happened to Harvey Dall and Jules Frontenac when they attempted to carry on rocket research. Dall and Jules had begun to suspect that some organization was working to prevent mankind from ever leaving the earth; one fine day in an airport terminal Dall is accosted by two men who later turn out to be secret service agents who swear Dall in as a special operative to uncover what the mysterious organization is and just why it wants us poor humans to remain forever earthbound. Well, one day at Dall and Frontenac's rocket research camp the food is doped by persons unknown who are spies. Everyone keels over in a dead coma. However Dall is revived by a nysterious white-haired stranger and is able to thwart the evil men before they do too much damage; turns out to be one of his chief assistants who is doing the dirty work, and a cook accomplice who spoiled the broth. ((Come, now.)) The evil one unfortunately escapes and is seen sailing off the earth in a space ship which has no apparent propulsion mechanism. So Dall and Frontenac, believed dead by the evil man, take off in their won space ship, which they have completed, in order to attempt to gain the advantage of surprise. While in transit from Terra to Luna they are rammed by meteorites and all their air goes out. They haven't enough air to return to Earth, so begin searching for the abode of whoever owns the propulsion-less space ship; on the side of the moon which is so conveniently turned away from earth, they run across a mysterious city in a crater, which can be raised and lowered when the owners see fit, lowered for concealment and raised to allow the space ships based there to land and take off. Being as they have no air, Frontenac and Dall decide to land and give themselves up. Landing, they discover that their villainous ex-assistant is general in the hidden city's army, and that the leader of the city, and, incidentally, also of the organization which is playing hob with earth's efforts to conquer space, is the inevitable gorgeous girl. "" And from there on the narrative is developed in the usual Geier manner. The yarn has a surprising resemblance to "Forever Is Too Long," which, if we are not mistaken, will rate high in the Fantasy Review poll next annum. There are mutants here too. Scads and scads of mutants -- in fact it is a race of mutants and not an organization who are attempting to stop space travel in order to prevent their city from being detected so that their preparations to conquer Earth will go unheeded; t hey call themselves "neo-men." They believe they will end war and cause eternal peace and happiness if they take over-- like a good many of our own organizations whose followers, deluded by a blind dreamy idealism and the rantings of demagogues and use of pretty catch-phrases and usually false promises into believing that their organization is the only hope for Earth and that they ware only doing good when they conquer and enslave everybody else. ((Here, here -- let's not start any crusades, shall we?)) Naturally, their plans are foiled -- by the mysterious white-haired stranger mentioned earlier in this review, who is a still-further-advanced mutant -- the last of his race, which is called ultra-men. And of course, our hero ,Mr. Dell, wins the gorgeous maiden, and everything comes out fine for the peoples of earth, with