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Dawn, issue 11, combined with The Imaginative Collector, issue 1, November 1950

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THE LADY FROM VENUS

by Garnett radcliffe[[?]]

THE LADY FROM VENUS is Lady Sharron. She is, you guessed it, a Venusian. This book is a whacky satire on scientifiction in the form of the inimitable Lady Sharron's adventures on an "egg hunting" expedition to "Urth". 
It is also the story of Wing-Commander Tom Brysson, D. F. C., who is on the verge of committing suicide because of his blindness and injuries received in the Second World War. Needless to say it is Lady Sharron who..., well, you read it and found out!
Lady Sharron is a spoiled brat daughter of the Governor of the Seventh Province of Venus. She celebrated (and how) her twenty-first birthday shortly after the story begins. It is then that she decides to go to Urth after eggs, the common currency of Venus! She belongs to a gay, more or less unhibited society, that roams around the universe, thinking nothing of a little trip to Jupitor in a "Cosmic-Energised, Super-de-Luxe, Ultra-Perfection Space-Yacht". There are frequent parties with visiting dignitaries from Orion. Cygnus and other far away stars through out the universe.
Urth is supposed to be a planet of barbarians who, among other things, have the horrible habit of eating eggs. With Pollux, her fiance(she met him in a love park when she was seventeen), she goes to Urth. There in and near the city of Lun-dun, she manages to get mixed up as Tom Bryssons nurse and then the fun begins. Having much difficulty in making the poor ignorant natives understand her, she has a terrible time trying to obtain camels to use in a egg-hunting trip. (Where they were going I never found out). She loses track of Pollux and her party which helps and then she has many fantastic escapades in Lun-dun. She also meets up with a rival party from Venus(after eggs of course) and has many a delightful skirmish.
In some ways the author goes too far in his satire. In one instance: "... the ship is probably a few hundred light years up in the stratosphere..."! And then the continuel search for camels(and yaks) in London, when all the cars and things must have been evident. But still it is a good enough book with some real humor at times.I haven't started to write what is in this book, so; if you like a fantastic satire, like a story flavored with a Thorne Smithian spice ( Sharron has a habit of divesting herself of all her clothers ) and like to read a story that is really different, get a copy of this book! You'll enjoy it!

ED COX..

DONOVANS BRAIN
by Curt Sidomak

Donovan's Brain is quite a famous book which is very popular among fantasy fans and well deserves the praise heaped upon it. The book not only is an enthralling fantast, but it also contains well written suspense. A vertible battle of wits and the battle takes place inside of one man's head between two brains.
Not quite fast moving or filled with quick action, but rather a story with a plot that moves along spinning its thread of suspense and sometimes terror in a way that keeps on on the edge of his chair, until the book is finished.

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(8) THE LADY FROM VENUS by Garnett radcliffe[[?]] THE LADY FROM VENUS is Lady Sharron. She is, you guessed it, a Venusian. This book is a whacky satire on scientifiction in the form of the inimitable Lady Sharron's adventures on an "egg hunting" expedition to "Urth". It is also the story of Wing-Commander Tom Brysson, D. F. C., who is on the verge of committing suicide because of his blindness and injuries received in the Second World War. Needless to say it is Lady Sharron who..., well, you read it and found out! Lady Sharron is a spoiled brat daughter of the Governor of the Seventh Province of Venus. She celebrated (and how) her twenty-first birthday shortly after the story begins. It is then that she decides to go to Urth after eggs, the common currency of Venus! She belongs to a gay, more or less unhibited society, that roams around the universe, thinking nothing of a little trip to Jupitor in a "Cosmic-Energised, Super-de-Luxe, Ultra-Perfection Space-Yacht". There are frequent parties with visiting dignitaries from Orion. Cygnus and other far away stars through out the universe. Urth is supposed to be a planet of barbarians who, among other things, have the horrible habit of eating eggs. With Pollux, her fiance(she met him in a love park when she was seventeen), she goes to Urth. There in and near the city of Lun-dun, she manages to get mixed up as Tom Bryssons nurse and then the fun begins. Having much difficulty in making the poor ignorant natives understand her, she has a terrible time trying to obtain camels to use in a egg-hunting trip. (Where they were going I never found out). She loses track of Pollux and her party which helps and then she has many fantastic escapades in Lun-dun. She also meets up with a rival party from Venus(after eggs of course) and has many a delightful skirmish. In some ways the author goes too far in his satire. In one instance: "... the ship is probably a few hundred light years up in the stratosphere..."! And then the continuel search for camels(and yaks) in London, when all the cars and things must have been evident. But still it is a good enough book with some real humor at times.I haven't started to write what is in this book, so; if you like a fantastic satire, like a story flavored with a Thorne Smithian spice ( Sharron has a habit of divesting herself of all her clothers ) and like to read a story that is really different, get a copy of this book! You'll enjoy it! ED COX.. DONOVANS BRAIN by Curt Sidomak Donovan's Brain is quite a famous book which is very popular among fantasy fans and well deserves the praise heaped upon it. The book not only is an enthralling fantast, but it also contains well written suspense. A vertible battle of wits and the battle takes place inside of one man's head between two brains. Not quite fast moving or filled with quick action, but rather a story with a plot that moves along spinning its thread of suspense and sometimes terror in a way that keeps on on the edge of his chair, until the book is finished.