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Fantascience Digest, v. 1, issue 1, November-December 1937

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Today in[[?]] Space Travel " I don't like to "pouf" air-castles as a general rule, but I'm afraid that atomic energy will never be used for space travel. To a stf. fan that is like saying that space travel is impossible, because, if he has probed beneath the surface of the subject,he has gained the impression that rockets are clumsy, inadequate things of weak power and low efficiency. So, to bring hearer the bounds of possibility, those[[?]] immensly powerful and speedy drea[[?]] of the void that are pictured rearing through the pages of stf, magazines, he holds up the hope that great gobs of energy will result from the deconstruction of matter. Probably his [[?]] on this score will be upheld and his dreams trebled[[?]], I do not gainsay[[?]] that. However, granting the energy release from his source will be tremendous, there is still a fly in the ointment. Pure energy is non-existant; it must
 
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