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

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24     DREAM QUEST

Winding up the issue is a novelet by Richard S. Shaver. It was squeezed out of the June all-Shaver issue because of lack of space. We wish it'd stayed there. It's about people -- intangible people, to us -- who live in the ether, swimming through it like fish through water. Their adventures -- chiefly the adventures of the inevitable purple-nippled green goddess -- constitute the story. The ether-people are being attacked by another race of ether people, and they win out through the heroic sacrifice of the goddess and her lover . Shaver states that he has never seen the mech through which he purported in the yarn to have watched the ether-things' doings, but that he knows it exists somewhere in the caverns. And also presumably he knows the ether beings exist. So he makes the story, which was not really so bad even if nothing to brag about. And, incidentally, in case somebody might wonder, the yarn's name is "Mer-Witch of Ether 18." So-named because the mer-witch appeared on the visiplate when the dials of the mech were turned to "18."

As for departments, they are a total loss to fen, as usual. The editorial tends to make us believe that Rap is mentally unsound. He is even more that way than usual. There is the usual line-up of "scientific" articles; one of them proves mathematically that the moon has an atmosphere which is forever confined to the moon's other side because of centrifugal force caused by the revolution of the moon around the earth! Awk. ... Interior art is okay, especially Schneeman. The cover shows a fat man pondering, with the atom structural diagram in his hand. Fine, as far as symbolism goes.

All in all, we would say that you guys should read this issue. SO SHALL YE REAP is definitely as worthwhile as AGH RTI or TITANS' BATTLE -- so much more worthwhile that it's pitiful.
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Astounding SCIENCE FICTION. VOLUME XXXIX #3, May 1947. 25[[cent symbol]]
The May aSF contains Part I of a serial, two novelets, and two shorts, one article, and three departments. First off is Kuttner - Moore O'Donnell's latest contribution, "Fury," a three-part sequel to "Clash By Night," which appeared in ASF's March 1943 issue. Fans who were readers int he bedsheet-sized days of our favorite magazine will remember that the tale of the undersea keeps of Venus. The basic idea, for those who haven't read it, is this: man destroyed Earth by atomic fire, making his home planet a miniature sun. The survivors fled to Venus, and, finding the surface environment hostile, built great Keeps -- domes -- on the ocean bed, and there established a culture. In the days of "Clash by Night," there were still companies of mercenaries, known by the name of Free Companies, which were composed of men who still had enough of the old human spirit to refuse to degenerate in the Keeps along with the rest of Homo Sapiens. These mercenaries
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24 DREAM QUEST Winding up the issue is a novelet by Richard S. Shaver. It was squeezed out of the June all-Shaver issue because of lack of space. We wish it'd stayed there. It's about people -- intangible people, to us -- who live in the ether, swimming through it like fish through water. Their adventures -- chiefly the adventures of the inevitable purple-nippled green goddess -- constitute the story. The ether-people are being attacked by another race of ether people, and they win out through the heroic sacrifice of the goddess and her lover . Shaver states that he has never seen the mech through which he purported in the yarn to have watched the ether-things' doings, but that he knows it exists somewhere in the caverns. And also presumably he knows the ether beings exist. So he makes the story, which was not really so bad even if nothing to brag about. And, incidentally, in case somebody might wonder, the yarn's name is "Mer-Witch of Ether 18." So-named because the mer-witch appeared on the visiplate when the dials of the mech were turned to "18." As for departments, they are a total loss to fen, as usual. The editorial tends to make us believe that Rap is mentally unsound. He is even more that way than usual. There is the usual line-up of "scientific" articles; one of them proves mathematically that the moon has an atmosphere which is forever confined to the moon's other side because of centrifugal force caused by the revolution of the moon around the earth! Awk. ... Interior art is okay, especially Schneeman. The cover shows a fat man pondering, with the atom structural diagram in his hand. Fine, as far as symbolism goes. All in all, we would say that you guys should read this issue. SO SHALL YE REAP is definitely as worthwhile as AGH RTI or TITANS' BATTLE -- so much more worthwhile that it's pitiful. ### Astounding SCIENCE FICTION. VOLUME XXXIX #3, May 1947. 25[[cent symbol]] The May aSF contains Part I of a serial, two novelets, and two shorts, one article, and three departments. First off is Kuttner - Moore O'Donnell's latest contribution, "Fury," a three-part sequel to "Clash By Night," which appeared in ASF's March 1943 issue. Fans who were readers int he bedsheet-sized days of our favorite magazine will remember that the tale of the undersea keeps of Venus. The basic idea, for those who haven't read it, is this: man destroyed Earth by atomic fire, making his home planet a miniature sun. The survivors fled to Venus, and, finding the surface environment hostile, built great Keeps -- domes -- on the ocean bed, and there established a culture. In the days of "Clash by Night," there were still companies of mercenaries, known by the name of Free Companies, which were composed of men who still had enough of the old human spirit to refuse to degenerate in the Keeps along with the rest of Homo Sapiens. These mercenaries *** SEND US YOUR LETTERS OF COMMENT