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

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DREAM QUEST     21

crumbling to dust at the touch as if they had been there for thousands of years.Finally turns out that the derelict is infested with the plague; it consisted of the last survivors of a plague-stricken civilization trying to escape, and unfortunately the survivors all got the plague too. The young assistant when he learns this destroys the spac suits of himself and his greedy captain so that they won't carry the plague to Earth. Altogether a nice filler space opera, well-written but far from sensational........the other short is by oldtimer Alexander Blade and is about a mysterious epidemic of vanishing spacemen. Appears they fade away into thin air. The things is cleared up in the usual space tale manner. This one is fair quality, and again is nothing sensational.

Actually, nothing in this issue is guaranteed to put Kuttner out of business, although two of the yarns should rate reasonably high. The issue is remarkable for another reason. It contains no Shaver stories. There is none of the occultism-mysticism which we have been encountering for the past couple years, that has been earning AS such a bad name. Four straight old-fashioned stf stories, all in one issue! Maybe it was just a bit of reaction after the all-Shaver issue -- which, incidentally, was the first AS we have ever deliberately missed,and the only AS we never intend to read. Palmer says the three shorts are there because they were left over from a type-setter's strike, and he could slip them in as they were, without even changine the page numbers -- so you see all that jubilation was for nothing, after all. Just an accident -- there will probably be many more Shaver stinkers, de Courcy drivel, Hauser hack, and all that sort of thing. However, at least the issue is proof that Amazing isn't completely lost to us -- occasionally, in among the Lemuria bilge and assorted mouthings of Shaver and the rest, there will be occasional stf tales which can be dug out and read with no waste of time by fen. Next issue features an atom was saga by Rog Phillips, author of other atom war sagas in times past, and originator of the frame concept, if we have guest correctly. September issue will be graced by Edmond Hamilton! and THE STAR KINGS, which he has said contains his greatest plot, and which ought to provide some really engrossing reading. So you see there may be ample reason for fen to contribute to Rap's zine, after all. Watch and see.

Now the cover and the artwork of the issue. The cover was painted by Julian Krupa to illustrate "Hidden City," and is really gorgeous. It's an astronomical cover, showing two spacesuited men in a rocket pointing at the hidden city as it rises out of a lunar crater. We could rave on for hours about this painting, but you've no doubt seen it so any reiteration would be superfluous. The interior artwork is pretty good, being done by Malcolm Smith, Krupa, and Enoch Sharp. However, it's no Lawrence or Finlay. Neither, on the other hand, is it Marchioni..............the departments are worthless as far as fen are concerned, being all Shaveristic or "oddity" in nature. And that exhausts our wordage till the issue of August, which will be out in time to be reviewed in this column. ###
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DREAM QUEST 21 crumbling to dust at the touch as if they had been there for thousands of years.Finally turns out that the derelict is infested with the plague; it consisted of the last survivors of a plague-stricken civilization trying to escape, and unfortunately the survivors all got the plague too. The young assistant when he learns this destroys the spac suits of himself and his greedy captain so that they won't carry the plague to Earth. Altogether a nice filler space opera, well-written but far from sensational........the other short is by oldtimer Alexander Blade and is about a mysterious epidemic of vanishing spacemen. Appears they fade away into thin air. The things is cleared up in the usual space tale manner. This one is fair quality, and again is nothing sensational. Actually, nothing in this issue is guaranteed to put Kuttner out of business, although two of the yarns should rate reasonably high. The issue is remarkable for another reason. It contains no Shaver stories. There is none of the occultism-mysticism which we have been encountering for the past couple years, that has been earning AS such a bad name. Four straight old-fashioned stf stories, all in one issue! Maybe it was just a bit of reaction after the all-Shaver issue -- which, incidentally, was the first AS we have ever deliberately missed,and the only AS we never intend to read. Palmer says the three shorts are there because they were left over from a type-setter's strike, and he could slip them in as they were, without even changine the page numbers -- so you see all that jubilation was for nothing, after all. Just an accident -- there will probably be many more Shaver stinkers, de Courcy drivel, Hauser hack, and all that sort of thing. However, at least the issue is proof that Amazing isn't completely lost to us -- occasionally, in among the Lemuria bilge and assorted mouthings of Shaver and the rest, there will be occasional stf tales which can be dug out and read with no waste of time by fen. Next issue features an atom was saga by Rog Phillips, author of other atom war sagas in times past, and originator of the frame concept, if we have guest correctly. September issue will be graced by Edmond Hamilton! and THE STAR KINGS, which he has said contains his greatest plot, and which ought to provide some really engrossing reading. So you see there may be ample reason for fen to contribute to Rap's zine, after all. Watch and see. Now the cover and the artwork of the issue. The cover was painted by Julian Krupa to illustrate "Hidden City," and is really gorgeous. It's an astronomical cover, showing two spacesuited men in a rocket pointing at the hidden city as it rises out of a lunar crater. We could rave on for hours about this painting, but you've no doubt seen it so any reiteration would be superfluous. The interior artwork is pretty good, being done by Malcolm Smith, Krupa, and Enoch Sharp. However, it's no Lawrence or Finlay. Neither, on the other hand, is it Marchioni..............the departments are worthless as far as fen are concerned, being all Shaveristic or "oddity" in nature. And that exhausts our wordage till the issue of August, which will be out in time to be reviewed in this column. ### **************** support the Philcon