Science Fiction Quarterly, Summer 1942

SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY, SUMMER 1942 ---------------------------------------------- Arthur J. Burks "The Great Mirror" (nv) © Science Fiction Quarterly, Summer 1942 Not that great... Something about looking at the universe through an alien high-tech mirror and hunting for it in the deserts of East Asia, but really quite unreadable. review: 07-Jul-06 (read in 2006) ---------------------------------------------- Martin Pearson "Up There" © Science Fiction Quarterly, Summer 1942 --/ cool sf story --/ humour award Ridiculous story - to the point of being great. A truly rebellious uncle maintains that the starry sky is a firmament after all, and sets up to prove it in his rickety airplane. I could only gasp at the audacity of the author. review: 07-Jul-06 (read in 2006) ---------------------------------------------- John L. Chapman "Stroke" © Science Fiction Quarterly, Summer 1942 --/ cool time sf story Average piece about time paradoxes: learning about oneself being dead in the future, and getting a heart-stroke in the present as a result of it. review: 07-Jul-06 (read in 2006) ---------------------------------------------- Hannes Bok "Starstone World" (nv) © Science Fiction Quarterly, Summer 1942 --/ cool sf novel --/ rare find Illustrations by Damon Knight!! What a surprise! By the way this is a novel written by a famous sf artist, with artwork painted by a famous sf writer - quite funny. But also unfortunately, both are of an average quality. This is a very "visual" but totally un-involving novel by Hannes Bok, in contrast to his other wonderful novels. I could not really follow the plot and soon got tired of descriptive passages. However, this must be a total rarity, as it wasn't reprinted, to my knowledge. review: 07-Jul-06 (read in 2006) ----------------------------------------------

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