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

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DREAM QUEST            27
Which brings us to the end of the fictional content of this aSF. Also in this issue is an article by Willy Ley called "Pseudoscience in Naziland" which recounts some psuedo-Fortean doctrines the Nazis had--such as the Hollow Earth doctrine and a few others. The article is interesting, but not sensational by any means...another atomic editorial by JWC, in the usual vein..."In Times to Come," predicting Schneeman's welcome-home in the next issue ... and "Brass Tacks." One of the letters is about "Meihem in ce Klasrum." It still beats us how an article so obviously a gag could meet with so much apparently serious criticism as did Edwards' piece. Witness the dissection by Jack Speer, and others in a similar vein. Don't aSF's readers have a sense of homor? [i.e. honor] ... pics this trip are by Cartier and Orban in fine style, and is on the cover, with a masterpiece as is befitting of him, depicting "Fury." Hubett's return is certainly welcome; while Timmins was by no means bad, he was no Rogers, and he did really punk work at times-- witness the April cover. ... Campbell did us dirty when he cut to 162 pages, but we suppose the improved paper sort of makes up for it. And that finishes up aSF till the June issue.

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Astounding SCIENCE FICTION. June 1947; vol. XXXIX, #4. 25c / 

Part Two of FURY takes up so much space in this aSF that the other contents are restricted to one novelette, three shorts, and the usual science article. In addition, there are three departments -- the editor's page, In Times to Come, and the Analyticalab. "Brass Tacks" and the lab cannot both be in the magazine -- there isn't enough room. And since the lab has to be in once in a while, says JWC, BRASS TACKS has to be excluded occasionally. This is one of those times.

A. E. van Vogt does the cover-copping novelette this trip. It is called "Centaurus II." It's a little bit like UNIVERSE, in that it concerns what happens to a group of men marooned for a couple centuries in the unnatural environment of a space ship. Here, however, the resemblance ends. The handling of the two different writers is different. Entirely different. In the van Vogt yarn, the second Centaurus expedition reaches the destination in the time allotted; the alien interstellar civilizations are contacted; everything is done according to schedule. Unfortunately, however, man's nature prevents him from successfully completing the job. A revolt, just before the return voyage, kills all the scientists aboard; the fertilizer technician, or whatever he is, who takes over the captaincy, gets the screwy idea in his head that the ship is inviolable. Hence, he reasons, it should be kept as beautiful as possible. Before the advent of this character, interior sections -- walls, etc -- of the ship had been dismantled from time to time for fuel. The character takes it upon himself to prevent the ugliness caused by this dismantling, and proceeds to strip the fuel from a less obvious section. Turns out to be the inner shell 
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we solemnly promise that the second issue will be on better paper!!!!!

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DREAM QUEST 27 Which brings us to the end of the fictional content of this aSF. Also in this issue is an article by Willy Ley called "Pseudoscience in Naziland" which recounts some psuedo-Fortean doctrines the Nazis had--such as the Hollow Earth doctrine and a few others. The article is interesting, but not sensational by any means...another atomic editorial by JWC, in the usual vein..."In Times to Come," predicting Schneeman's welcome-home in the next issue ... and "Brass Tacks." One of the letters is about "Meihem in ce Klasrum." It still beats us how an article so obviously a gag could meet with so much apparently serious criticism as did Edwards' piece. Witness the dissection by Jack Speer, and others in a similar vein. Don't aSF's readers have a sense of homor? [i.e. honor] ... pics this trip are by Cartier and Orban in fine style, and is on the cover, with a masterpiece as is befitting of him, depicting "Fury." Hubett's return is certainly welcome; while Timmins was by no means bad, he was no Rogers, and he did really punk work at times-- witness the April cover. ... Campbell did us dirty when he cut to 162 pages, but we suppose the improved paper sort of makes up for it. And that finishes up aSF till the June issue. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Astounding SCIENCE FICTION. June 1947; vol. XXXIX, #4. 25c / Part Two of FURY takes up so much space in this aSF that the other contents are restricted to one novelette, three shorts, and the usual science article. In addition, there are three departments -- the editor's page, In Times to Come, and the Analyticalab. "Brass Tacks" and the lab cannot both be in the magazine -- there isn't enough room. And since the lab has to be in once in a while, says JWC, BRASS TACKS has to be excluded occasionally. This is one of those times. A. E. van Vogt does the cover-copping novelette this trip. It is called "Centaurus II." It's a little bit like UNIVERSE, in that it concerns what happens to a group of men marooned for a couple centuries in the unnatural environment of a space ship. Here, however, the resemblance ends. The handling of the two different writers is different. Entirely different. In the van Vogt yarn, the second Centaurus expedition reaches the destination in the time allotted; the alien interstellar civilizations are contacted; everything is done according to schedule. Unfortunately, however, man's nature prevents him from successfully completing the job. A revolt, just before the return voyage, kills all the scientists aboard; the fertilizer technician, or whatever he is, who takes over the captaincy, gets the screwy idea in his head that the ship is inviolable. Hence, he reasons, it should be kept as beautiful as possible. Before the advent of this character, interior sections -- walls, etc -- of the ship had been dismantled from time to time for fuel. The character takes it upon himself to prevent the ugliness caused by this dismantling, and proceeds to strip the fuel from a less obvious section. Turns out to be the inner shell *** we solemnly promise that the second issue will be on better paper!!!!!