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Science Fiction Fan, v. 5, issue 9, whole 56, April 1941
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14..............................................FAN dizzying violence knocked her clear of their rockets". I weep. Granting that the ship was corkscrewing down all along, how could it 'suddenly' swerve? She mentions no power of any type turned on. The ship falling at a normal curve just 'suddenly' swerves and knocks the heroine out of the way of the rocket venturi. I doubt that. I have two suggestions which Perri might have done well to consider. Firstly, what prevented the heroine from climbing back into the doorless chamber of the air lock and riding the ship down that way, which wouldn't have been bad if they slowed the ship down as they would have had to do to escape incineration. Or (2), what prevented the two men from donning space suits (she says Erik got out his space suit, therefore they all had suits; had there been but one suit, Perri would have said Erik got out the space suit) and one going out, permitting all the air to escape and clear the obstruction while the two remained in the airless cabin in their suits. Then he could come back, they could close the door and ride it down airless until they reached heavy atmosphere. Next comes another equally absurd paragraph. After the heroine jumps, Perri says the heroine will fall into an orbit around the Earth till a meteor hits her. Not on your life. If the ship was within the gravitational field enough to be drawn down when it lost its locomotion, why wouldn't the heroine be affected by the same laws? She would. Also, she still retains the ship's forward inertia as well as her side motion. She also implies that the ship is plunging straight down. It wouldn't. It would fall in a long parabolic curve as meteors do. If the heroine was from the Earth far enough she would fall into an orbit, but under these circumstances it is inane to conceive of the body doing anything but fall. And now the final and crowning bonehead error
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14..............................................FAN dizzying violence knocked her clear of their rockets". I weep. Granting that the ship was corkscrewing down all along, how could it 'suddenly' swerve? She mentions no power of any type turned on. The ship falling at a normal curve just 'suddenly' swerves and knocks the heroine out of the way of the rocket venturi. I doubt that. I have two suggestions which Perri might have done well to consider. Firstly, what prevented the heroine from climbing back into the doorless chamber of the air lock and riding the ship down that way, which wouldn't have been bad if they slowed the ship down as they would have had to do to escape incineration. Or (2), what prevented the two men from donning space suits (she says Erik got out his space suit, therefore they all had suits; had there been but one suit, Perri would have said Erik got out the space suit) and one going out, permitting all the air to escape and clear the obstruction while the two remained in the airless cabin in their suits. Then he could come back, they could close the door and ride it down airless until they reached heavy atmosphere. Next comes another equally absurd paragraph. After the heroine jumps, Perri says the heroine will fall into an orbit around the Earth till a meteor hits her. Not on your life. If the ship was within the gravitational field enough to be drawn down when it lost its locomotion, why wouldn't the heroine be affected by the same laws? She would. Also, she still retains the ship's forward inertia as well as her side motion. She also implies that the ship is plunging straight down. It wouldn't. It would fall in a long parabolic curve as meteors do. If the heroine was from the Earth far enough she would fall into an orbit, but under these circumstances it is inane to conceive of the body doing anything but fall. And now the final and crowning bonehead error
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