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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Futuria Fantasia, Winter 1940 - -Author: Ray Bradbury - -Release Date: December 15, 2012 [EBook #41627] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FUTURIA FANTASIA, WINTER 1940 *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - - FUTURIA FANTASIA - - Winter 1940 - - By Ray Bradbury - - - - -LAST ISSUE: We made a mistake that we will try not to repeat again very -soon. We printed the editorial page three weeks ahead of the remainder -of Futuria Fantasia, thereby creating no end of humorous confusion. We -babbled glibly, in the editorial, about two or three yarns that we later -decided were unprintable, and, at the same time, threw in some horrible -mistakes in grammar that must have left Shakespeare doing nip-ups in his -shroud. - -[Illustration] - -THIS ISSUE; J. Harvey Haggard bows into what we hope will be a regular -spotlight in Futuria Fantasia.... Emil Petaja, whose verses have -appeared in Weird Tales, makes his self known with a neat little weird -yarn and a poem.... Again H.V.B. comes to the fore with a sequel to THE -GALAPURRED FORSENDYKE--THE VOICE OF SCARILIOP ... and, in case you have -wondered about or will wonder about these two unusual yarns, we are -printing them for no other reason than that we like their description, -they tickle our mental palate, they are word pictures of surrealistic -dreams ... and anyone who guesses who H.V.B is will get the next edition -of Futuria Fantasia gratis.... Henry Hasse blows in and blows up with a -rebuttle against Foo E. Onya and does himself right proud by -science-fiction.... Ross Rocklynne, prominent Eastern schlameel, offers -us a pitiful excuse for an article, HOW TO GET ABOUT.... Ron Reynolds, -we have no doubt, will manage to get into the magazine somehow with his -horrendous FIGHT OF THE GOOD SHIP CLARISSA, but if we can do anything at -all we'll print it on invisible paper.... Anthony Corvais, if you start -guessing who did it, wrote the short story in the rear by the title of -THE SYMPHONIC ABDUCTION.... Hannes Bok, who has another cover on Weird -Tales for March, has drawn our cover again and many inside -illustrations, including a large advertisement for Hell, under which you -will find a descriptive poem written by Guy Amory. Unlike Finlay, who -draws pictures from poems, we procure pictures from Bok and write poems -about them. In fact, I blushingly admit, I even wrote a ten thousand -word novelette around that little creature on the cover of the first -Futuria Fantasia ... which, no doubt, will have its share of rejections -very soon, in which case I will foist on my poor unsuspecting public, -both of them, this story now titled LORELEI. I would have included it in -this issue, but Russell J. Hodgkins threatened me so venemously that I -gave in told him to put down his gun. It might be a good idea, by the -way, if more of you readers wrote us letters criticizing FuFa. So far we -have heard nothing from Madle, Baltadonis, E.E. Smith, Kuslan, -Marconette, Taurasi, Dikty, Wilson, or Speer. How in hell, we ask you -guys, can we improve if you won't write in and tell us if and why we -stink? Co-operation, please.... - - * * * * * - -NEXT ISSUE: Robert A Heinlein, of the LA SFL, whose _noval_ is now -current in Astounding, will begin the first of a series of short stories -written on order for Futuria Fantasia. Ross Rocklynne, also, takes an -encore with a thot-provoking, accent on provoking, story or article. -Henry Hasse will be here in company with Ross Hodgkins. Hodgkins -possibly writing on Technocracy. And, if schedules go through, an -article to end all articles, by Charlie Hornig, fresh and sassay from -New Yawk. Other possible bets are Fred Shroyer, Guy Amory, Anthony -Corvais, Emil Petaja, Willy Ley, Doug Rogers, August Derleth, Ackerman -and T. Bruce Yerke. Send your dime for the Spring Edition now--or a -quarter for the Spring, Summer and Fall issues. Introduce FuFa to your -friends and help us grow. - - - - -THE VOICE OF SCARILIOP - -H. V. B. - - -Four pillars, arising out of the stone like strange growing things of -demoniac shape--these Redforth saw and comprehended, knowing full well -that Tarath had always abounded in monstrosities. "But what," he asked -himself, "will knowing of such as this, be of use to me, as I search for -Ghiltharmie?" For he had at last come to realise, to admit even to -himself, that he was a lost thing. The Yulphog had taken his soul. They -had exiled him to this lost land of dread. But they'd hinted of escape, -if he could find it. "Si Yamlon," he had told him, pointing to a -writhing belt of suns, lifting and lowering at the horizon like the -yellow crest of a flaming wave. And he had nodded his head. They had -vanished, disintegrating, it seemed. He didn't then know that they were -related to Topper's friends and the jeep in one thing: that their -Typonisif and Tregoifer was applicable to the atmosphere. - -The four pillars were bending from their own weight. Strange -colors--like an idiot's conception of a spectrum, spectrally rippled -like irid waves across the columns. Like music in color. Assailed by -their complex harmonies, Redforth could only stand speechless, hands -thrust defensively forward. IT WAS THEN THAT HE SAW EIRY. - -The pillars split. From each of then drifted a whiff of steam. They -united into a wavering cloud which shimmered an instant in mid-air, then -settled to the ground. And as it touched the metallic grass blades which -stretched on and on like the upraised swords of a midget army, the -vapor-cloud condensed into a woman's body. EIRY. Queen of Scariliop! - -He recognized her at once, tho he had only read of her. She was not -human. Her body was like a snake's, and she had bat wings. From a -cluster of writhing worm-tentacles leered her face, like a mask in the -heart of a seething flower. It was oval, and the scarlet mouth was like -a velvet cushion--disproportionate--waiting for some priceless burden. -Her nose was negligible, but her lone eye was vast and blue; like a -doorway opening upon a sky too blue to belong to our world. Like blue -incarnate: and blue is the color of MYSTERY. - -She opened her mouth, and her tongue unrolled, uncoiled toward Redforth. -Three feet long, the tongue was filamental, like a strand of red cobweb, -tipped by a touch of fluff like a dandelion's seed. This member wandered -lightly over Redforth's cheek, and for the first time EIRY spoke: "It -comes to me that here is the man for whom we have been seeking, -Yasgorphitove." Her voice was soft as clouds. Redforth in vain peered to -behold her companion. "Now shall we enlighten him as to the ways of -escape? In return for a favor, of course." - -The air about her, for a fleeting instant, had turned blue. Then she -nodded. She leaned forward, to whisper, but suddenly there was a -crackling. "The rock!" she cried. "The rock! I must return before it is -too late and I too am trapped!" She writhed, became coiling wreathes of -smoke, and the smoke flowed back to the rocks, hovered over it. The four -pillars quivered and joined into one and then, in a twinkling, had -crumbled to powder. - -But there was an uncanny blueness in the air about Redforth. And that -night he had a dreadful dream. - -For he had become--Yrthicaol! And EIRY had been merely--THE BAIT! - - - - -AW G'WAN! - -_HENRY HASSE_ - - -THERE! If "Foo E. Onya", in the last issue, could use a pseudonym so can -I. I read his article, I'M THROUGH, with varying degrees of interest. If -an answer were really necessary, it could be found more appropriately in -the two words of my title above, than in any words that might follow. -And that brings up my first point in my rebuttal-- - -Why is it that people, including the lowly science-fiction fan, (to -paraphrase Mr. Onya) always feel it necessary to hide behind a pseudonym -when they have something to say which they think will displease someone? -I've seen this happen so many times! And, coincidently, why SHOULD Mr. -Onya take such pains to be unpleasent in print? Why should he feel it -necessary to make one final, grand broadcast to the effect that he will -no longer read paltry science-fiction? Does he think that any real lover -of sci-fic gives a damn whether there is one less reader, especially a -reader who crawls behind such a silly pseudonym as "Onya"? I've seen -other broadcasts such as Mr. Onya's, and they always puzzled me. It -surely can be nothing else but the egotistical urge. - -But I'm convinced that Onya isn't half so bitter really against -sci-fiction as he tries to pretend. He's not really through. Because -anyone really bitter against and through with sci-fic would simply stop -reading it, not start deriding it! And I doubt if any person, once a -fan, has ever completely broken away from sci-fic, THEY ALWAYS COME -BACK. - -And right here I'd like to say that a good deal of my doubt as to Onya's -sincerity is because I'm fairly certain of the fellow's real identity. -The general tone of his article, and several clues he divulged, convince -me I'm right. And if I AM right, I can assure you, Brad, and any other -readers who nay have been picqued at Onya's tone, that he shouldn't be -taken seriously, and the less attention paid to his rantings, the -better. I'm sure Onya would feel flattered if he thot someone took his -article so seriously as to answer it. Yet here I am answering it, and -damned if I know why, except that I think I took some of Mr. Onya's -phrasing personally, almost. I don't think he should have gone to the -extent of calling names and using words such as "moronic", "arrogant", -etc. - -Aside from this his piece seemed to me a conglomeration of -contradictions, inconsistencies, praises here, derisions there, pats on -the back, exaggerations, sneers and scorn, and, oh yes, a book review. -Yes, I liked and appreciated and mostly agreed with Onya's comments on -BRAVE NEW WORLD. It's a book which I'm sure sure many of the _moronic_ -sci-fic fans appreciated as well as Mr, Onya. But here's where Mr. -Onya's and my tastes differ slightly, for I _also_ liked PLANET OF THE -KNOB HEADS in the Dec. issue of SCIENCE FICTION, whereas Mr. Onya -probably wouldn't deign to read it because it's in one of the pulp mags. -that he so deplores; thereby Mr. Onya would be missing a really -entertaining and meaningful piece of writing, but that's all right, -since Mr. Onya's own words said: "There is so much else of importance -that has been written--". - -You know, somehow I cannot bring myself to be as vitriolic against Mr. -Onya as he was against sfn at moments. He tried hard to work up a case -against sfn, poor fellow, and became (to me at least) amusing instead of -convincing. Do you know what I saw? I saw a person who is temporarily -_satiated_, as he said, with sfn,--but more than that, a person who is -merely trying to persuade _himself_, more than other people, that sfn is -as bad as he painted it! Naturally every fan has his likes and dislikes -of the various stories, authors and magazines. Some have more _dislikes_ -than likes. I think even I do. But it must be admitted that every once -in a while, usually unexpectedly, there pops up a story which is a -delectable gem and a masterpiece, either of ingenuity or writing or -both. Then one is exultant, and one continues reading sfn, even some -trite and bad sfn, knowing that regularly he will encounter one of the -gems which he wouldn't have missed reading for the world! Meanwhile we -have with us Clark Ashton Smith, C. L. Moore, Stanton Coblentz -(delightful sometimes, not always), A. Merritt, and an occasional few -others, whose work I doubt if even Mr. Onya could glibly pronounce as -ordinary pulp. And we did have Lovecraft, Weinbaum, Howard, and others -of whom the same thing can be said. - -Naturally, too, a lot of criticism can be directed against sfn and sfn -readers. A lot of criticism can be directed against _everything_, and -usually is, by certain people who take an unholy delight in it. I myself -have sometimes snorted in wrath at the gross egotism and, yes, stupidity -and childishness, of certain fans. I would have taken great delight in -kicking their blooming teeth down their bloody well bally throats. But -did I do this? Did I succumb to this desire? No, I did not. I never got -close enough. A more important reason is that I had the patience to -realize this type of fan is a minority (_not_ a majority, Mr. Onya, by -any means!). But what I did _not_ do was write bitter articles about it. - -Here is only one of Mr. Onya's inconsistencies: he makes such -statements as "fans are arrogant, blind, critically moronic", etc.--and -"editors and writers as well cannot see anything beyond their own -perverted models." In virtually the next breath he admires P. Schuyler -Miller's intellectuality. Yet P. Schuyler Miller continues to write -sfn, reads it, and is one of the active fans. - -Furthermore, I disagree outright and violently with Onya's statement, -"When literature becomes possessed of _ideas as such_, it is no longer -literature." And I'd like to challenge Onya to a further debate on this, -if he _dares_. Also his statement about Wells' early stories. It so -happens (what a coincidence!) that I also read Wells' EXPERIMENT IN -AUTOBIOGRAPHY--and yes, while Wells did admit his early sfn stories were -a preparation for his later and more serious writing, he did _not_ -disclaim them as not being literature of their own type. The trouble -with Mr. Onya, I'm afraid, is that he has (deliberately?) lost sight of -the fact that there is literature _and_ literature. Instead, he wants -everything to conform precisely to his own rather peculiar conception of -literature. I'll make a statement right here that will undoubtedly shock -Mr. Onya: I'll go so far as to say that pulp fiction, even the pulpiest -of pulp fiction, is really and truly LITERATURE, insofar as it has its -own special niche, its own certain purpose for being. There, I've said -it! I'll admit, Mr. Onya, that it took a little courage to say it. But I -ask all who read this, isn't it true when you come to think of it? - -I have not dealt with Onya's article nearly to the extent that I might, -but I don't think it's really necessary, mainly because, as I said, I -have a very strong idea who Foo E. Onya is. I wish I could hazard my -suspicion right here, but I'm so sure I'm right, and both the editor and -Onya seem so determined to keep it secret, that I cannot be otherwise -than silent. I will merely conclude by reiterating my doubt that you, -"Foo E. Onya", are really disclaiming sfn. At least I hope you will -continue both reading and writing it. But I swear, if I ever hear of you -doing so, I shall feel sorely tempted to broadcast what a hypocrite you -were with that article! - - - - -THE FIGHT OF THE GOOD SHIP CLARISSA - -by one who should know better - - -The space rocket Clarissa was nine days out from Venus. The members of -the crew were also out for nine days. They were hunters, fearless -expeditionists who bagged game in Venusian jungles. At the start of our -story they are busy bagging their pants, not to forget their eyes. A -sort of lull has fallen over the ship (Note: a lull is a time warp that -frequently attacks rockets and seduces its members into a siesta). It -was during this lull that Anthony Quelch sat sprawled at his typewriter -looking as baggy as a bag of unripe grapefruit. ANTHONY QUELCH, the -Cosmic Clamor Boy, with a face like turned linoleum on the third term, -busy writing a book: "Fascism is Communism with a shave" for which he -would receive 367 rubles, 10 pazinkas and incarceration in a cinema -showing Gone With The Wind. - -The boys upstairs were throwing a party in the control room. They had -been throwing the same party so long the party looked like a worn out -first edition of a trapeze artist. There is doubt in our mind as to -whether they were trying to break the party up or just do the morning -mopping and break the lease simultaneously. Arms, legs and heads -littered the deck. The boys, it seems, threw a party at the drop of a -chin. Sort of a space cataclysm with rules and little regulation--kind -of an atomic convulsion in the front parlor. The neighbors never -complained. The neighbors were 450 million miles away. And the boys were -tighter than a catsup bottle at lunch-time. The last time the captain -had looked up the hatch and called to his kiddies in a gentle voice, -"HELL!" the kiddies had thrown snowballs at him. The captain had -vanished. Clever way they make these space bombs nowadays. A few minutes -previous the boys had been tearing up old Amazings and throwing them at -one another, but now they contented themselves with tearing up just the -editors. Palmer was torn in half and he sat in a corner arguing with -himself about rejecting a story for an hour before someone put him -through an orange juice machine killing him. (Orange juice sorry, now?) - -And then they landed on Venus. How in heck they got back there so quick -is a wonder of science, but there they were. "Come on, girls!" cried -Quelch, "put on your shin guards, get out there and dig ditches for good -old W.P.A. and the Rover Boys Academy, earth branch 27!" - -Out into the staggering rain they dashed. Five minutes later they came -back in, gasping, reeling. They had forgotten their corsets! The -Venusians closed in like a million land-lords. "Charge, men!" cried -Quelch, running the other way. And then--BATTLE! "What a fight; folks," -cried Quelch. "Twenty thousand earth men against two Venusians! We're -outnumbered, but we'll fight!" BLOOSH! "Correction--ten thousand men -fighting!" KERBLOM! "One hundred men from earth left!" BOOM! "This is -the last man speaking, folks! What a fight. I ain't had so much fun -since--Help, someone just clipped my corset strings!" BWOM! "Someone -just clipped me!" - -The field was silent. The ship lay gleaming in the pink light of dawn -that was just blooming over the mountains like a pale flower. The two -Venusians stood weeping over the bodies of the Earthlings like onion -peelers or two women in a bargain basement. One Venusian looked at the -other Venusian, and in a high-pitched, hoarse, sad voice said: "Aye, -aye, aye--THIS--HIT SHOODEN HEPPEN TO A DOG--NOT A DOIDY LEEDLE DOG!" -And dawn came peacefully, like beer barrels, rolling. - - - - -_The Intruder_ - -_emil petaja_ - - -It was in San Francisco, on the walk above the sand and surf that -pounded like the heart of the earth. There was wind, the sky and sea -blended in a grey mist. - -I was sitting on a stone bench watching a faint hint of distant smoke, -wondering what ship it was and from what far port. - -Mine was a pleasent wind--loneliness. So when he came, wrapped in his -great overcoat and muffler, hat pulled down, and sat on my bench I was -about to rise and leave him. There were other benches, and I was not in -the mood for idle gossip about Hitler and taxes. - -"Don't go. Please." His plea was authentic. - -"I must get back to my shop," I said. - -"Surely you can spare a moment." I could not even to begin to place the -accent in his voice. Low as a whisper, tense. His deep-set eyes held -me ... his face was pale and had a serenity born of suffering. A placcid -face, not given to emotional betrayels, yet mystical. I sat down again. -Here was someone bewilderingly strange. Someone I wouldn't soon forget. -He moved a hand toward me, as tho to hold me from going, and I saw with -mild curiosity that he wore heavy gloves, like mittens. - -"I am not well. I ... I must not be out in the damp air," I said. "But -today I just had to go out and walk. I had to." - -"I can understand." I warmed to the wave of aloneness that lay in his -words. "I too have been ill. I know you, Otis Marlin. I have visited -your shop off Market Street. You are not rich, but the feel of the -covers on a fine book between your hands suffices. Am I right?" - -I nodded, "But how...." - -"You have tried writing, but have had no success. Alone in the world, -your loneliness has much a family man, harassed might envy." - -"That's true," I admitted, wondering if he could be a seer, a fake -mystic bent on arousing in me an interest in spiritism favorable to his -pocket-book. His next words were a little amused, but he didn't smile. - -"No, I'm not a psychic--in the ordinary sense, I've visited your shop. I -was there only yesterday," he said. And I remembered him. In returning -from my lunch I had met him coming out of my humble place of business. -One glimpse into those brooding eyes was not a thing to soon forget, and -I recalled pausing to watch his stiff-legged progress down the street -and around the corner. - -There was now a pause, while I watched leaves scuttling along the oiled -walk in the growling wind. Then a sound like a sigh came from my -companion. It seemed to me that the wind and the sea spoke loudly of a -sudden, as tho approaching some dire climax. The sea wind chilled me as -it had not before, I wanted to leave. - -"Dare I tell you? DARE I!" His white face turned upward. It was as -though he questioned some spirit in the winds. - -I was silent; curious, yet fearful of what it might be he might not be -allowed to tell me. The winds were portentously still. - -"Were you ever told, as a child, that you must not attempt to count the -stars in the sky at night--that if you did you might _lose your mind_?" - -"Why, yes. I believe I've heard that old superstition. Very reasonable, -I believe; based on the assumption that the task would be too great for -one brain. I...." - -"I suppose it never occurred to you," he interrupted, "that this -superstition might hold even more truth than that, truth as malignant as -it is vast. Perhaps the cosmos hold secrets beyond comprehension of man; -and what is your assurance that these secrets are beneficent and kind? -Is nature rather not terrible, than kind? In the stars are -patterns--designs which if read, might lure the intrepid miserable one -who reads them out of earth and beyond ... beyond, to immeasurable -evil.... Do you understand what I am saying?" His voice quivered -metallically, was vibrant with emotion. - -I tried to smile, but managed only a sickly grin. "I understand you, -sir, but I am not in the habit of accepting nebulous theories such as -that without any shred of evidence." - -"There is, sad to say, only too much evidence. But do you believe that -men have _lost their minds_ from incessant study of the stars?" - -"Perhaps some have, I don't know," I returned. "But in the South of this -state in one of the country's leading observatories, I have a friend who -is famous as an astronomer. He is as sane as you or I. If not saner." I -tacked the last sentence on with significant emphasis. - -The fellow was muttering something into his muffler, and I fancied I -caught the words "danger ..." and "fools ..." We were silent again. Low -dark clouds fled over the roaring sea and the gloom intensified. - -Presently, in his clipt speech, the stranger said, "Do you believe that -life exists on other planets, other stars? Have you ever wondered what -kind of life might inhabit the other stars in this solar system, and -those beyond it?" His eyes were near mine as he spoke, and they -bewitched me. There was something in them, something intangible and -awful. I sensed that he was questioning me idly, as an outlander might -be questioned about things with which the asker is familiar, as I might -ask a New Yorker, "What do you think of the Golden Gate Bridge?" - -"I wouldn't attempt to guess, to describe, for instance, a Martian man," -I said. "Yet I read with interest various guesses by writers of -fiction." I was striving to maintain a mood of lightness and ease, but -inwardly I felt a bitter cold, as one on the rim of a nightmare. I -suddenly realized, with childish fear, that night was falling. - -"Writers of fiction! And what if they were to _guess too well_? What -then? Is it safe for them to have full rein over their imaginations? -Like the star-gazers...." I said nothing, but smiled. - -"Perhaps, man, there have been those whose minds were acute beyond most -earthly minds--those who have guessed too closely to truth. Perhaps -_those who are Beyond_ are not yet ready to make themselves known to -Earthlings? And maybe THEY, are annoyed with the puny publicity they -receive from imaginative writers.... Ask yourself, _what is -imagination_? Are earth-minds capable of conceiving that which is not -and has never been; or is this imagination merely a deeper insight -into worlds you know not of, worlds glimpsed dimly in the throes of -dream? And whence come these dreams? Tell me, have you ever awakened -from a dream with the sinister feeling that all was not well -inside your mind?--that while you, the real you, were away in -Limbo--_someone_--some_thing_ was probing in your mind, invading it and -reading it. Might not THEY leave behind them in departure shadowy -trailings of _their_ own minds?" - -Now I was indeed speechless. For a strange nothing had started my -neck-hairs to prickling. Authors who might have guessed too well.... -Two, no three, writers whose stories had hinted at inconceivable yet -inevitable dooms; writers I had known; had recently died, by accident. - -"What of old legends? Of the serpent who shall one day devour the sun. -That legend dates back to Mu and Atlantis. Who, man, was and is Satan? -Christ? And Jehovah? benevolent and all-saving, were but a monstrous -jest fostered by THEY to keep man blindly content, and keep him divided -among himself so that he strove not to unravel the stars?" - -"Man, in my foolish youth I studied by candleflame secrets that would -scorch your very soul. Of women who with their own bare hands have -strangled the children they bore so that the world might not know.... -Disease and sickness at which physicians throw up their hands in -helpless bafflement. When strong men tear at their limbs and heads and -agony--seeking to drive forth alien forces that have netted themselves -into their bodies. I need scarcely recount them all, each with its own -abominable significance. It is THEM. Who are eternal and nameless, who -send their scouts down to test earth-man. Don't you realize that they -have watched man creep out of primal slimes, take limbs and shamble, and -finally walk? And that they are waiting, biding their time...." I -shivered with a fear beyond name. I tried to laugh and could not. Then, -bold with stark horror, I shouted quite loudly: "How do you know this? -Are you one of THEM?" He shook his head violently. "No, no!" I made as -to go, feeling an aching horror within me. - -"Stay only a moment more, man. I will have pity on you and will not tell -you all. I will not describe _them_. And I will not assay that which, -when upon first seeing you here by the sea, _I first intended_...." I -listened. Not daring to look at him; as in the grip of daemonaic dream. -My fingers clutched at the edges of the bench so tightly that I have -been unable to write with them until now. He concluded thus: - -"So you see that I am everywhere a worldless alien. Sometimes this -secret is too great for one mind to contain, and I must talk. I must -feel the presence of someone human near me, else I shall attempt to -commit suicide and again fail. It is without end--my horror. Have pity -on me, man of earth, as I have had pity on you." - -It was then that I gripped him by the shoulders and looked with pleading -desperation into his staring eyes. "Why have you told me? What--" My -voice broke. My hands fell to my sides. I shuddered. - -He understood. Shrieked one word: "PITY!" into my insensible ear, and -was gone. - -That was 3 nites ago and each nite since has been hell. I cannot -remember how long it was after the STRANGER left that I found myself -able to move, to rise, hobble home, suddenly ancient with knowledge. And -I cannot--WILL NOT--reveal to you all that I heard. - -I thot myself insane, but after an examination, a physician pronounced -me that I had been strained mentally. I am competent. But I wonder if he -is wrong. - -I view the silken stars tonight with loathing. HE sought to master their -inscrutable secret meaning, and succeeded. He imagined, he dreamed; and -he fed his sleep with potions, so that he might learn where his mind -might be during sleep, and himself probe into the mind that wandered -from space into his resting body-shell. I am no scientist, no -bio-chemist, so I learned little of his methods. Only that he did -succeed in removing his mind from Earth, and soaring to some remote -world over and beyond this universe--where THEY dwell. And THEY knew him -to be a mind of Earth, he told me. He but hinted of the evil he beheld, -so potent with dread that it shattered his mind. And THEY cured him, and -sent him back to earth.... "They are waiting!" he shrieked, in his -grating skeleton of a voice. "They are contemptuous of man and his -feeble colonies. But they fear that some day, like an overgrown idiot -child, he may do them harm. But before this time--when Man has -progressed into a ripeness--THEY will descend! Then they will come in -hordes to exploit the world as THEY did before!" - -Of his return, and his assuming the role of a man, the Alien spoke -evasively. It was to be assurred that this talk of his was not some -repulsive caprice; to know that all of it was true, that I gripped him -and beheld him. To my everlasting horror, I must know. Little in itself, -what I saw, but sufficient to cause me to sink down on the stone bench -in a convulsive huddle of fear. Never again in life can I tear this -clutching terror from my soul. Only this: That when I looked into his -staring eyes in the dimness of murky twilight, and before he understood -and quickly avaunted, I glimpsed with astoundment and repugnance that -between the muffling of his coat and black scarf _the INTRUDER wore a -meticulously painted metal mask--to hide what I must not see_.... - - - - -[Illustration] - -ASPHODEL: - -by E. T. PINE - - - Down where skies are always dark, - Where is ever heard the bark - Of monstrous ebon hounds of hell, - In a dreadful fearsome knell, - Never fading, ever bright, - With a weird and spectral light, - Blooms a flower of ancient days, - Shining in a crimson maze; - When the black bat shrilly screams - Asphodel, you haunt my dreams-- - - From the lands of distant death - Steals the perfume of your breath: - - Some night soon the wind will blow - Saffron seeds to fall and grow - By my casement window, where, - Sleeps my loved one, still and fair; - Then, the night you are to bloom - I shall creep from out my room, - From your blossom by the wall - Shall I hear her dear voice call: - Mournfully the wind will cry, - And shadows cover all the sky-- - My lips will touch the loved dead - When where you nod I lay my head.... - - - - -MARMOK - -by Emil Pataja - - - Sleep that doth harbour a dream of dread, - Whence come the fingers that beckoned and led - My dream-stung soul from my canopied bed-- - Whither dost take me, ere I am dead? - Beyond the skull-grinning mid-March moon - Over the phosphorous-lit lagoon - Out past the darkest pits of the night, - Fast thru the stars in this evil flight; - Lead thee me out past the rim of space, - Show me that ravenous, pain-black face, - Marmok, whose myrmidons ever are questing - For souls who wander at nite, unresting. - Then shall I know an ultimate bliss - Tasting the fury of that cosmic kiss, - Whilst my earth-cloak lies limply on the floor - To waken and gibber forevermore. - - * * * * * - -What is the dim monstrosity that shimmers across the stars, what hand is -that to cradle planets, earth and mars. What misshapen gargantuan of -nebulous formed flesh, hurls out its flood of darkness, the systems to -enmesh. What is it walks across the universes chanting cosmic choruses -with endless verses--what thing unutterable has visited our Earth long -years ago, and now, tonite, returns, in the shadows lurking glow. What -ancient fear is with me, cold and terrible? Is that the shape of man -upon the constellations, blotting out the light--or something gasping in -hideous delight, plucking at the planets in insanity, at play, causing -suns to boil like cauldrons, meteors to sing upon their way with -mournful voices, lost ghosts upon lonely trails--wailing--wailing. Is -tonight our rendezvous with the Cosmos Thing, the Colossus bigger than -Andromeda that sits upon the throne of space--or are these fantasies -upon my aged eyes? - - - - -HADES - -[Illustration] - - - Upon the shores of molten seas stand men, stand men alone, - - And down below, in the molten flow, in the waves that cry and moan - - Are women bare with flaming hair, whose passions have no surcease. - - And in the air, midst the scarlet glare, are more who will never - know Peace. - - - - -THE BEST WAYS TO GET AROUND - - -I don't mean socially; I mean off the Earth and between the planets. -There are a few really good ways, as invented by perspiring authors in -science-fiction magazines. And if I miss any, which is extremely -doubtful, remember that I'm writting from memory, that I hadn't read -_all_ the scientifiction magazines from 1926 and on, and that I am not -going to go researching through the tremendous stacks of old -scientifiction magazines that I now have in my possession. - -Now, what DO I mean by THE BEST WAYS TO GET AROUND? Briefly, by the word -BEST, I mean so pseudo-logical that you could almost leave off the -"pseudo". See? (No) - -For instance, Jack Williamson's geodesic machinery, wherein he warps -space around, appeals to me as being pure fairy tale stuff. He just -gives a lot of verbal hocus-pocus, and runs off reams of litterary -fertilizer until we throw up our hands in disgust and say; "O.K., O.K., -Jack, to hell with that, let's get on with the 'story'. We'll grant you -that you _can_ get around."--And we're willing to grant E.E. Smith the -same privilege. He _DOES_ get around--anybody disagree? The question is; -how? Oh, by useing "X", and the inertialess drive. The same with brother -Burroughs. What do we care if dear old John Carter "yearns" himself to -Mars? He gets there, and we are happy, or were happy. - -So, we exclude all those from THE BEST WAYS TO GET AROUND. They are very -nice and convenient to get people places; but, when we run across one of -the "BEST WAYS" we often wonder if it REALLY WOULDN'T be possible, -provided----. Of course, that word "provided" is the catch--the reason -why we really aren't going around that way. - -Again--So, way back there, Edmond Hamilton, and a hundred others, have -used the idea of _light-preasure_ in an attempt to get away from -rockets. But he didn't tell us how, scientifictionaly. In direct -contrast to vauge statements made regarding the use of _light-preasure_ -as propulsion, I remember the MOON CONQUORS, by R.H. Romans, in a 1931 -(I think) (You're right, 4SJ) quarterly. You've seen radiometers. The -things with black and white vanes placed in a vacuum. The theory is that -the opposite shades cause unbalanced light preasure, so that the vanes -go around and around. Romans invented a pseudo-scientifically logical -way to use _light-preasure_, once he got his ship in space. His -scientist invented a compound of _absolute black_. (Which is also -obtainable in a darkroom) A small square of darkroom--or, I mean, -absolute black painted on the posterior of the ship, and regulated at -will, gave the same ship quite respectable speeds. Certainly it won't -work outside of a story--but, I'm talking scientifictionally. Romans -used his imagination, and we all had fun. - -In the same story, Romans used a swell device to get the ship off the -earth. He used a mile-long tube, composed of circular magnets. It was a -_magnetic gun_. Each magnet pulled the ship towards it, and then, as the -ship passed it, the magnet's poles were reversed, and made to repel the -ship. With each magnet at maximum charge, either pulling or pushing the -ship, according to whether it was in front or behind the latter, the -same erupted from the tube with the necessary 7 M.P.S. velocity of -escape, and so was off on the way to the moon. What's wrong with the -idea? I dunno. - -John W. Campell (Jr.) used to have brainstorms: in fact, he invented -_two_ of THE BEST WAYS TO GET AROUND. One, in the first of the ARCOT, -MOREY, and WADE stories, "PIRACY PREFERRED", was that of molecular -motion. All the little molecules in a bar of metal go madly around in -every possible direction. If you could invent, as Campbell did in the -story, an electro-magnetic vibration that would force all the mollecules -to go in the same direction, then the bar of metals would go in that -direction, since it would be them. So Mr. Campbell hooked the thing up -to his ship, and off he went to Venus, or some other planet. Well, it -_would_ work, wouldn't it, _provided_ (ah yes!) you could make all the -mollecules go into one directional flow. - -And the other brainstorm was when Aarn Munro, in the MIGHTIEST MACHINE, -decided that momentum and velocity were wave formations, and therefore, -one should be able to _tune into them_! (Anyone should be able to think -up a simple theory like that.) Not a bad WAY TO GET AROUND--in a -science fiction story. - -Back in 1930, or some such year, Charles R. Tanner wrote THE FLIGHT OF -THE MERCURY, in the old WONDER STORIES. In that story he told you just -how to go ahead and make an ETHERPROPELLER, provided there is such a -thing as ether, and Osmium B. The theory is: you use water screws, air -propellers, and so why not an ether propeller? Put a cork in motionless -water. Start a wave motion in the water with your hand. If the length of -the wave is greater than the diameter of the cork, the cork just bobs up -and down and stays where it is. If the lengths of the waves are shorter -than the diameter of the cork, the waves go around it, and the cork still -stays right where it is. If the length of the wave is exactly the -diameter of the cork, tho cork rides right off, in the trough of the -wave, at the same speed as that of the wave formation. Now invent an -electro-magnetic vibration--by useing the metal Osmium B--exactly the -length of a Copper atom. Make your ship of copper, putting the ether -propeller, that which causes vibration in the ether, at the end of the -ship, and presto! all the copper atoms move along in the trough of the -ether waves, at the same speed as the other waves, which is the speed of -light. And, Mr. Tanner is off for Mars, in a super-plausibly -scientifictional way. - -HELL SHIP, in last year's ASTOUNDING, Arthur J. Burks put forth an idea -which had been discussed by engineers before he had ever used It. They -just didn't know how to do it. Mr. Burks did--didn't he write the story. -At least, the idea gave him more earthly benifit than it gave the -engineers. Maybe he thinks he invented it--I don't know, nor does it -matter: He used it, the idea of gravatic lines of force, forming a -spider web throughout the solar system. With the proper machinery, -which he ascribed with good attention to detail, you could crawl up -those lines of force like a spider. This idea is so plausable that it -might be placed in the same catagory as rocket propulsion, which is -fact. - -THE MOTH, in this year's ASTOUNDING, contains another of those ideas of -interplanatary locomotion which I call one of THE BEST WAYS TO GET -AROUND. Don't worry, I'm not pointing to myself with pride. I just wrote -the story, Charles R. Tanner conceived the idea. He tossed it off -paranthetically one night, and promptly forgot about it. The idea----If -all objects are in motion, according to the Lorentz-Fitzgerald -contraction theory, lose length in the direction of motion, why couldn't -an artificialy produced cause instantaneous motion, why couldn't an -artificialy produced contraction cause instantaneous motion, -proportional to length-loss? Not a thing in the world against it, my -friends, all you have to do is to find a way to cause the artificial -contraction of the ship in question. Of course, in my story, I invented -a force-field----very handy when you're in a tight spot!----which caused -tho electrons to flatten out. This force acted on the ship and -everything within. Therefore, any speed up to a little below that of -light could be obtained, and that bogey man so often ignored in -scientifiction, acceleration, was disposed of at the start, since there -was nothing that had a tendancy to stay behind. There is the real -inertialess drive, which E.E. Smith talked of, but never used. - -(Paranthetically: When Charles R. Tanner saw the story containing his -idea in print, he became enthused, and promptly invented and named all -machines used in the process, discovered a new and ultimate particle -called the "graviton", that which makes the proton 1846 times heavier -than the electron, and practically drew plans for the force field which -caused the contraction. When he finished we knew exactly _how_ to obtain -speeds far exceding both those of Smith and Campbell. Our inventions -were plausable, and they'd work, provided----) - -I've just about reached the end of the list, though there are one or two -others that might be mentioned right here at the tail end of the -article. Jules Verne, I suppose, has to be credited with the first ship -fired from a canon, in ONCE AROUND THE MOON. Wells takes the bow for -gravity plates, which Willy Ley so neatly disposed of, only he called it -"cavorite" in THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON., and Roy Cummings used it -effectivly in AROUND THE UNIVERSE (and a hundred others). In a story in -the old WONDER Donald Wolheim put his rocket ship on a huge wheel, -rotated the wheel and flung it off into space. Fair, except that the -acceleration would be killing. - -AND THAT'S ABSOLUTLY ALL THE BEST WAYS TO GET AROUND. Unless there are -some of those which I haven't heard of. If you know of some, I would -like to be enlightened. - ---ROSS ROCKYLYN - - - - ---THE SYMPHONIC ABDUCTION-- - - -"I suppose you've heard about what happened to my brother Jerry?" Ray -Spencer asked me; I shook my head. "The whole family was worried about -him for a while: couldn't tell whether he had sleeping-sickness, or -what. All we knew was that he'd gone coma listening to some phonograph -records when he was alone in the house. Perhaps the intense emotional -effect of the music, plus its stentor, was the cause. - -"When I returned home, he lay cold on the floor in front of the -radio-phonograph. The automatic release had shut off the record, but the -current was still on, and the volume dial was turned full strength. -Nothing I could do would rouse my brother, so--scared--I put him to bed -and called a doctor, who had him taken to a hospital for observation. No -one could determine what was the trouble, and since we couldn't afford -to keep him at the hospital indefinitely, we brought Jerry back home. -And although it wasn't exactly appropriate, I couldn't help remembering -the story of the Sleeping Beauty whenever I looked into his room and saw -him, apparently only napping. - -"Then one day I heard him--still in his trance--whisperingly singing. -The indistinct notes were reminiscent of one of Chaikovsky's ballet -pieces. I tried vainly to wake him. He sighed on and on until the faint -breath of a voice softened into silence.... - -"When at last he did awake, I had been listening to some continental -communiques in the adjoining room, with the door open so that I could -look in on him in case of emergency. The program ended and was followed -by concert music. I don't care much for symphony, so I arose and went to -the radio to switch it off. At the same time, Jerry stirred: I heard his -bed creak. Turning to look his way, I twisted the wrong dial, and the -music thundered: my brother began to toss on his bed. Disregarding the -racket for a moment in excitement at seeing him move, I ran in to him, -shouting, shaking him a little. His hands groped, found mine, and clung -to them. Painfully he endeavored to raise himself, dropped back -perspiring and panting. Then he screamed--horribly!--as if all Hell's -devils were shovelling all Hell's coals on him, and opened his eyes, his -face taut with dread. He recognized me. In a moment I had soothed him -back to normalcy. He was perfectly all right from then on. - -"Or at least we thought so. But since you're so interested in -metaphysics, get him to tell you about the vision he had during his -catalepsy. He won't feel embarrassed; he's told it to others. Just say -that I mentioned it to you." Ray had finished. Later, when I chanced -upon Jerry Spencer, I brot him up to my apartment for dinner. The meal -over, he smiled at my query concerning his comatose dream, and related: - -"None in my family are as interested in music as I: my belief is that to -realize its full magic you must leave off talking--better still, listen -to it alone--and, closing your eyes, open your mind to it. Relax--forget -yourself. All of my folks poke fun at me when I sit on the floor by the -radio during the concert broadcasts, my ears close to the speaker. But -that is the only way by which I can really enjoy music. The very -loudness, blasting at my hearing, emphasizes the tone-magic, -overwhelming everything else. And sometimes, if my eyes are shut, I can -see fantastic dream worlds, fiery pageants inspired by thundrous -harmonies. - -"I had never dared to turn on the amplifier as loud as I'd have wished. -My family said that it would annoy the neighbors. So that day when I was -alone at home, I thot that then was my chance, if ever, and proceeded -to play my favorite record; the first scene of Chaikovsky's SWAN LAKE -ballet, as loudly as possible. The sound was not so deafening -as--maddening, or better still, intoxicating. How I Loved it! I sat -cross-legged, eyes shut, dreaming, at last absolutely happy. More: -ecstatic. - -"The first notes were like an invitation emanating from a lost -dimension, calling me, wheedling. Promising haven, peace. The call of -the unknown: not the lure of dashing adventure but of mystery, mournful -sorcery, epic splendors.... - -"Deep in my heart there's a sort of innate Slavic sadness which -responded to the music's plaint, and my thought traveled with the melody -effortlessly on and on. The warm darkness of my closed eyes lightened to -infinities of cold, deep-blue emptiness, through which I felt myself -gliding as the theme progressed. - -"Each harmonic burst, every wailing echo, dominated me. My thought was -borne farther and farther like a leaf in a tempest.... There were base -chords which made my throat quiver, and tears burned under my lowered -eyelids. I felt a tingling at my shoulders, and with eyes still closed -but discerning by a sort of dream-vision, I half-consciously turned, -beheld luminous yellow--draperies?--fluttering behind me, bouying me: -like scarf-wings, whipping comet-tails. - -"An instinctive transient fright gripped me, admonishing me to withdraw -from this blue region into the calid darkness from which I had come--but -the melody's urge was stronger than my feeble urge to retreat. The azure -became flecked with diamond points of light which augmented into great -white moons, and from one to another in a vast network rayed pulsing -filaments, vascular channels of fluid light. - -"A stupendous chorus of clear unhuman voices, as from diamond throats, -emanated from these linked moons, of which the music which had conveyed -me was only a distorted, ghostly echo.... In tangible waves this greater -music rippled around the webbed moons, beating against me as though to -force me away on its tides I know not whither. - -"Beneath me was a limitless tract of grey slime which rose and fell -torpidly as with the breathing of a somnolent subterranean thing. The -moonlight burned brightly on it, and crawling across it from some remote -place came--trees?--snaky-rooted things whose prehensile branches bore, -instead of leaves, flexible lenses.... They left behind them red trails -on the slime, and excrementory ribbons of thin blue vapor streamed from -their topmost appendages. Occasionally they paused to feed, focussing -their lenses upon the gelatinous ground, which became luminously white -under the concentrated light. The sucking mouths of the serpentine roots -absorbed this matter, and red viscosity seeped into the eaten places, -greying rapidly under the moon's effulgence, chemically affected by it. - -"And the trees mated. Gynandrous, they converged in pairs or groups, -pressing close together, thrusting their limbs into one enormous -cluster, aggregating their lenses into a series of complex, compact -forms ... shuddering with a violent ardor.... From erectile -protuberances rimming the lenses ruby liquid spurted, bursting with -incandescence under the condensed moonlight. - -"Spent, drooping, the trees separated, and the radiant orgasmic matter -drifted lightly down to the slime, burning fitfully as the trees moved -away indifferently. - -"Apparently these flickering radiances fed, for gradually they grew, -dulling, becoming opaque, substantial----thrusting out probing roots, -developing limbs, wandering like their parents. They snailed onward out -of sight, all of them. - -"Silently, a phosphorescent green river raced like a bolt of furcate -lightning over the green wastes. It was composed not of water but of -myriad tiny luminous crawling insects. A conscious river, altering its -tortuous course at will, small streams deviating from the main body and -meandering erratically, then rejoining the general current. This river's -end drew into sight, flashed under me and into the distance, leaving -fast-greying red paths on the slime. - -"The moon's music assailed me; simultaneously I felt those man-measures, -which had carried me so long, cease, leaving me without a link to my own -world--helpless against the inexorable tide of the lunar melody, which, -bursting more loudly, swept me higher, through an interstice of the -circulatory web, into blue infinity. And there it left me; fading -ripples of it would lap me, but were too dissapated then to sweep me -farther. - -"I floated aimlessly in the void, it seemed for ages, less a body than a -mind, aware of neither hunger nor thirst nor ill of any sort other than -a dreadful sapping weariness. - -"There was no way of reckoning time, but after an eternity of loneliness -and self-boredom, I heard a glissando of mellow tintinabulations. A -troop of small stars flashed toward me like a scattered handful of -sparkling white gems, whirling in interweaving dance of enchantment, -tinkling glad clear tunes like the babbling of crystal brooks. The -joyous, youthful essence of their song so charmed me that I forgot my -weariness and vocally ventured to imitate it. - -"At last they broke their circle and swept away, single-file, out of -sight, diminishing with distance. - -"For awhile I hummed their song, but with every repetition it lost some -of its starry quality and gained a human-ness, earthiness, -animalism--until it impressed me no longer beautiful, and I was -silent.... Wearily the sluggish ages passed ... in the illimitable blue -solitudes.... - -"Eventually I heard the man-music, again like a summons--its vibrations -piercing the moon-net, receding, drawing me with it. Its power increased -with every unit of retregression, dragging me with it. Over the wastes -of slime it dragged me, all in a fraction of seconds. Wind tore at me, -racketing in my ears, drowning music of both moons and man. - -"In a flash of cataclysm, of cosmic pandemonium, the moons, jostled out -of their places by my abrupt passage through the web, strained apart, -snapping their pulsant filamental arteries. White, searing drops of -blood of light oozed from the severed ducts, hissing as they fell, and -splashed on the slime, which heaved torturedly. The crawling trees -reared upon their writhing roots, flailing their lensed limbs, and the -phosphorescent rivers halted suddenly, piling into swiftly -disintegrating mounds. - -"The rain of light blood thinned and ceased: the moons dimmed and -plunged earthward, lusterless. As they touched the tempestuously tossing -slime, it shrieked stridently, deafeningly--_cosmically_! An outcry -voicing all life's inherent dread of the horror of pain and death, which -arose from all sides, like an auditory vise, tightening upon and -crushing me. The blue chaos was wiped away by utter blackness; the -shriek weakened, ceased. - -"I opened my eyes, shut them--dazzled by daylight, and opened them -again, but cautiously. My brother Ray was standing over me, shaking me, -calling my name ... AND IT WAS I WHO HAD SCREAMED!" - - - - -as i remember---- - -[Illustration] - - -As I remember, August Derleth wrote, a time back: "My personal favorite -of the Lovecraft stories is THE RATS IN THE WALL, followed by DUNWICH -HORROR, COLOUR OUT OF SPACE, THE OUTSIDER, WHISPERER IN DARKNESS." H.P.L. -liked MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN as well as anything he did, COLOUR next. -Donald Wandrei is busy in St. Paul writing plays and shorts. "My average -day brings me anywhere from ten to fifty letters that must be answered." - -As I remember one night in Coney Island found seven strange looking -fellows, fans and authors, crowded into a car for a posed picture. Ross -Rocklynne, freshly freckled by a New Yawk sun, at the steering wheel, -Jack Agnew at his side with Mark (I'm makin' my mark in pulps) Reinsburg -and immediately in back of Rocklynne a fellow with too much hair, a tan -that would make an Ethiopian blush, and teeth, Bradbury, augmented by -the humorously verbose Erle Korshak, the professorly nice Bob Madle and -one V. Kidwell. I recall also a night at Mort Weisinger's home during -July with Rocklynne, Ackerman, Morojo, Hornig, Binder, Schwartz, Darrow -and again Bradbury. A picture was taken that night and the only ones -with decent smiles were Ackerman and the under-done personality who -edits this magazine. Hornig looked strangely thoughtful with his hand to -his chin, Mort had a cigarette drooping from his lip and Darrow, -Schwartz and Binder all were lost in profound contemplation of the -little birdie which Mort's brother held. I remember also a night on -Central Park, a stag night, when it was raining convulsively and Binder, -Bradbury, Hornig, Rocklynne and Darrow all clambered into a rocking boat -and swished out onto the glittering water, yodeling popular tunes at the -way-way top of their corny contraltos. Binder has a pleasing bath-tub -baritone, while Hornig can imitate a frog at the drop of a body. Darrow -was strangely silent, but that man Bradbury and Rocklynne set up such a -howl that the Park authorities came out in a submarine, thinking that -the Loch Ness monster had turned up again. This was all settled when -someone pulled the plug and everyone drowned peacefully. - -Going way back in the cobwebs I seem to recall a letter arriving at an -Eastern post-office addressed to Mars. It was returned marked: -Insufficient Postage. - -As I remember Charlie Hornig wrote, on January 9th: "On Tuesday, -February 20th, 1940, I'll be in Los Angeles. I will write for Futuria -Fantasia, but my rates are 12 cents a word, before acceptance. I haven't -seen GONE WITH THE WIND yet, but if I stop off to see it on the road, -expect me two days later than heretofore planned. If I walk it, expect -me at the city limits on the R car-line, Whittier, the same time of the -morning, only about 18 months later. I'll bring my overcoat and shovel -along for the annual sun showers and orange blizzards." And later, from -Hornig: "I liked the latest issue of Futuria Fantasia very much, -especially the page of conventional descriptions over which I laughed -myself sick and silly. The note about Bradbury and the mask and the -blonde in the Paramount is the funniest thing I've ever read in a -fan-mag." - -I seem to remember being at someone's house not so long ago and glancing -thru a thick manuscript under submission to John W. Campbell. I seen to -remember that the author was Robert A. Heinlein, member of our LaSfl. -And the other day that story popped up in Astounding as a Nova, "IF THIS -GOES ON--" And it seems to me that here and now Bob should take a bow -for a swell story. And thanks to Campbell for providing it with a Rogers -cover and Rogers interiors. OMEGA---- - - * * * * * - - _COMING in MAY_ - - "DARKNESS AND DAWN" - - FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES - - MARCH - - 15¢ - - "BLIND SPOT" - - THE IMMORTAL - HALL _and_ FLINT - FINLAY - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Futuria Fantasia, Winter 1940, by Ray Bradbury - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FUTURIA FANTASIA, WINTER 1940 *** - -***** This file should be named 41627-8.txt or 41627-8.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/6/2/41627/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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