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Fantascience Digest, v. 2, issue 3, March-April 1939
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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST Page 19 evidence could be fitted together into a fantastic but logical whole. Gold--bronze--pig-iron--brass--and rabbits. There seems no visible connection between these. . . yet we wonder. And now the last act of the tragedy. The ill-fated Geech was seen in Griffith Park, and, later, at the swimming pool there. Hundreds saw him rush in, a strange poignant figure made, apparently, of wood, with a leaf or two sprouting from his ears and an unripe orange pendant from his nose. A lifeguard tried to halt him, but Geech spat sawdust at the terrified man and fled on. At the edge of the pool he flung wide his arms, shrieked for the last time, "The rabbits have risen," and leaped. He immediately turned into blotting-paper, sank rapidly, and disintegrated before efforts to rescure him were successful. To what conclusions does the history of the wretched Geech lead us? Obviously, there are things in this world of which we have never dreamed. We live on the brink of an abyss which is governed by laws that are not our laws, and which to us would be fantastic and beyond imagination. It is not a pleasant thought. Happy is the reader who can believe that such horrors exist only in fiction. For myself, i know only too well that in the midst of life we tread a perilous pathway, and that the slightest deviation from normality may lead to unspeakable horror. Moreover, I am afraid. How does the goat get into my kitchen? And what does this visitation mean? It is leading up to something, I am sure of that. I think of Geech--and I am afraid, afraid. . . . FINIS TEN YEARS AGO in SCIENCE FICTION By MILTON A. ROTHMAN The March, 1934, issue of Wonder Stories had a very handsome cover by Paul, illustrating "children of the Ray," by J. Harvey Haggard. "Xandulu," a novel by Jack Williamson, was starting.. This was rather on the order of the A. Merritt novels, and was very good. "The Brain-Eaters of Pluto," a comedy by Kenneth Sterling had some excellent jokes in it, but as a whole was rather cheap. The cover story was fairly good. Likewise "Martian Madness," by P. E. Cleater; nothing to remember. "Caverns of Horror," by Lawrence Manning, was very poor. Dr. Keller's "Literary Corckscrew" was very good, and Richard Vaughan's very excellent "Exile of the Skies" was just concluding. Forrest J. Ackerman, P. Schuyler Miller, Raymond Peel Mariella, and Milton A. Rothman had letters. Who remembers the third? He may return, some day. The April issue of Wonder Stories had an exceedingly excellent cover by Paul for "The Moon Devils," by John Beynon Harris, a mediocre story. The Science Fiction League was announced for the first time. A novelette by A.C. Stimson, "The Land of Mighty Insects," was featured. One John Edwards had a story with the very original title of "The Menace from Space." A short-short, "The End of the Universe," by Milton Kaletsky, The Lats Planet," by R.F. Starzl, and part two of "Xandulu" complet-
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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST Page 19 evidence could be fitted together into a fantastic but logical whole. Gold--bronze--pig-iron--brass--and rabbits. There seems no visible connection between these. . . yet we wonder. And now the last act of the tragedy. The ill-fated Geech was seen in Griffith Park, and, later, at the swimming pool there. Hundreds saw him rush in, a strange poignant figure made, apparently, of wood, with a leaf or two sprouting from his ears and an unripe orange pendant from his nose. A lifeguard tried to halt him, but Geech spat sawdust at the terrified man and fled on. At the edge of the pool he flung wide his arms, shrieked for the last time, "The rabbits have risen," and leaped. He immediately turned into blotting-paper, sank rapidly, and disintegrated before efforts to rescure him were successful. To what conclusions does the history of the wretched Geech lead us? Obviously, there are things in this world of which we have never dreamed. We live on the brink of an abyss which is governed by laws that are not our laws, and which to us would be fantastic and beyond imagination. It is not a pleasant thought. Happy is the reader who can believe that such horrors exist only in fiction. For myself, i know only too well that in the midst of life we tread a perilous pathway, and that the slightest deviation from normality may lead to unspeakable horror. Moreover, I am afraid. How does the goat get into my kitchen? And what does this visitation mean? It is leading up to something, I am sure of that. I think of Geech--and I am afraid, afraid. . . . FINIS TEN YEARS AGO in SCIENCE FICTION By MILTON A. ROTHMAN The March, 1934, issue of Wonder Stories had a very handsome cover by Paul, illustrating "children of the Ray," by J. Harvey Haggard. "Xandulu," a novel by Jack Williamson, was starting.. This was rather on the order of the A. Merritt novels, and was very good. "The Brain-Eaters of Pluto," a comedy by Kenneth Sterling had some excellent jokes in it, but as a whole was rather cheap. The cover story was fairly good. Likewise "Martian Madness," by P. E. Cleater; nothing to remember. "Caverns of Horror," by Lawrence Manning, was very poor. Dr. Keller's "Literary Corckscrew" was very good, and Richard Vaughan's very excellent "Exile of the Skies" was just concluding. Forrest J. Ackerman, P. Schuyler Miller, Raymond Peel Mariella, and Milton A. Rothman had letters. Who remembers the third? He may return, some day. The April issue of Wonder Stories had an exceedingly excellent cover by Paul for "The Moon Devils," by John Beynon Harris, a mediocre story. The Science Fiction League was announced for the first time. A novelette by A.C. Stimson, "The Land of Mighty Insects," was featured. One John Edwards had a story with the very original title of "The Menace from Space." A short-short, "The End of the Universe," by Milton Kaletsky, The Lats Planet," by R.F. Starzl, and part two of "Xandulu" complet-
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