Destiny No, 4 «, 5 F" ^(Taoidd H©©Ib WHERE the EDITORS BLOW up J Guess That We Should Start This with an Apology and an Explanation
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SUMMER Pali destiny No, 4 «, 5 f" ^(TaoiDD H©©ib WHERE THE EDITORS BLOW UP J guess that we should start this with an apology and an explanation. It seems that we have taken one long time to get this issue out and for that we’re sorry; so in order to make A EDITORS up for it we have combined the fourth VOLUME I SUMMER & FALL 1951 NUMBER IV & V issue with the fifth issue and have partly ZA JIM BRADLEY & MALCOLM WILLITS COVER Hannes Bok caught up with the schedule by doing so. We THE END Henry Chabot 4 hope to have one more issue out this year and Ill. by Jim Bradley from then on stay to the schedule . THE DYING EARTH (book review) Robert Briney 8 One of us editors, Jim Bradley, suddenly FIRST CONTACT Lee Ramsey 9 got the idea that he wanted to make the No la- SCIENCEFICTION PROZINE ART J im Brad ley 10 con so one day later he started to hitch-hike Ill. by Arfstrom from Portland to New Orleans. By the time he CTHULHU WHO'S WHO IN SCIcNCEFICTION Lawrence 12 arrived at Del Close’s home in Manhattan , THE HILL Malcolm Willits 14 Ill. by Willits Kansas, the Nalacon had just started; thus he Andrew Duane 16 concluded that to go on would be hopeless and stayed with Del over night. ASSOCIATE editor THE INVADERS Alien Keeney Ill. by Bradley It seems that Del somehow got involved with his own murder and at the time, SANDLEWOOD AND JADE & NORTH OF CALLISTRO (book reviews) 20 with all the reporters and such, it was quite exciting. ADVERTI8IN3 M3R. SPORTS: 2,000 A. D. Charles Stuart 21 We have a lot of wonderful people to thank this issue. First Hannes Bok Lee Ramsey Ill. by Miles *aton who did the superb cover that this issue boasts, George T Wetzel who did all INTRUDER (poem) D. Bruce Berry 22 of the research on Lovecraft for us, Mr. Searles who let us print it. Then HEAD OF RESEARCH Ill. by D. Bruce Berry we want to thank Lawrence for hie autobiography and photograph that appears Robert Briney LOVEJ RAFT'S AMATEUR PRESS WORKS George Wetzel 2? in "Who's Who in Sciencefiction", also Ralph Phillips for his mcarbre and Ill. by R. R. Phillips, U.W.A. humorous art. Then our thanks goes to Don Day who contributed much of his WELL KNOWN FaCTS aBOUT LITTLE KNOWN PEOPLE 26 FINAL APPEARANCE pat Eaton 27 back log of the flanscient, which has ceased publication. Too, our thanks go LUST FOR GOLD Allen Keeney 28 to Pat Eaton, Miles Eaton, D. Bruce Berry, Bill McCraw (editor of Fungus), Ill. by Jim Bradley Henry vhabot, Waible, our staff, and everyone else who helped to make this CARTOON Waible JO issue possible. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 51 In our third issue we tried to start a department in which we would featur e HIGH PRIEST'S LaMENT Malcolm Willits >2 a fan club, but was unsuccessful. We would still like to keep teat depart Ill. by Malcolm Willits ment and if any club would like to be featured, just drop us a note and we'll give you what imformation we need. Another department that we are starting is nWho's Who in Scienefictiorf DESTINY fan-zine, number 4 and 5, Summer-Fall 1951* Destiny beginning with Lawrence. We would like to feature either an artist, is published quarterly by the Galactic Publishing Company. a writer or a fan with an interesting "activity" history. Any one with sug This is an amateur magazine published on a non-profit basis gestions or ideas are welcomed to voice them. and all material will be paid for by a copy in which it ap We also would like to bring to your attention the fact that DESTINYcost B pears. Advertising rates are: one page, 9"/7"-l5.OO. Half J50.00 per issue to put out. Ms adds up to S200.00 per year; the only way 9"/?i“ or 7"/4&"- 11.50. One fourth page, 5i"/4|"~75/. 50/ ve canmeet this cost is to receive at least fifty new subscribers per issue. for smaller.ads. Subscriptions are: 25/ per copy $1.00 for Won't you please let your friends know about DESTINY? five issues. Send all material and ads to Jim Bradley, publishing after our next issue, and the only way to make thisj^sslble is to 545 N.E. San Rafael, Portland 12, Oregon. Send subscriptions to Malcolm Willits, 11848 S.E. Powell Blvd., Portland lJ,Ore. ask your help. Sincerely, your editors, SUMMER-FALL 2. even so much as a whisper of sound. Why?* Dr. Henris was sitting at one of •Henry, do you remember the his calculators punching the key electromagnetic circuits I used to board furiously and aimultaneous- calculate? The ones that were ly studying a tape of mathematical published in the INTERGALACTIC equations lying on a table at his SCIcNCE BULLETIN?* side. *Yes.* Henry remembered well A brief survey of .the room showed how his father had called them the filing cabinets, the microfilm brilliant. He'd read them thru, projector, the reels of film. not understanding the math, but Dr. Henris looked up at him, knowing it was correct and admiring squinting in the bright light from the genius of the man that had the ceiling. He was an old nan, made them. The calculations had Henry saw. An old, wrinkled , explained how the human mind worked white - haired madman-. A madman on an “action produces an equal who had once been the greatest reaction* basis. The electro mathematician in the galaxy. magnetic circuits expressed in •Henry*, the old man muttered mathematical terms had explained and tears began to run down his schizophrenia, memory,subconscious cheeks. •Henry”, is it really mind, sixth sense, everything. you?” Henry remembered that the articles “les. I-----" written by Dr. Henris had revo The old man rose and shook hands lutionized the sciences of psychol with him, then waved him to a ogy-and encephalography. chair. Henry offered him a cigar Dr. Henris leaned forward in his ette, and was vaguely surprised chair and studied the blank floor when the other accepted. as he spoke. "From my work on They smoked in silence for a few those articles, I began to wonder The matter transmitter depos minutes and then Dr. Henris ask^d, about the possiblility of calcu ited him at the end of a long, loud as ne walked. Curiously, he "Why did you come, Henry?* lating the paraphysical powers of narrow corridor. Behind him was a glanced in a few of the cell rooms Henry smiled faintly. It would the human mind. As you know, some large oval window barred by an in as he passed by. He noticed one be best to tell the truth, perhape. people have the powers of tele visible energy screen. Before him, man sitting on the edge of a cot. *1 wanted to see what you were up pathy, telekinesis, clairvoyance there were twelve cell doors along His mouth was open and he was ttf*. Before my father died, he and so forth. Others don't. I the corridor walls. And behind screaming, but from the corridor, told me a hundred times he could made studies of various cases and those twelve doors, twelve mad men. he couldn’t hear the sound. Some n’t-understand why they'd sent you found the root of all the para A shriek from behind made him how, sounds from the cell rooms here. He was convinced you were physical powers." were blocked from the corridor. look thru the window in time to sane.* Henris looked up, at him, studied see the Andromeda express hurtling He reached the last cell on the Dr. Henris smiled. *In a way, I hie face. *Can you guess what the toward the star-filled sky. He right and pressed his thumb against suppose I am sane, but in the eyes root is?* the small key-disc. The door slid had a brief glimpse of the two of the average man-, I’m insane. "No.* mile-*long form and then it was away. Look at me, Henry. For fourteen "Temporal sense; that was what Stepping into the cell, he gone... swallowed by the dark years, I've eat in this cell and my.calculation proved. Cases of glanced over his shoulder to see night. worked on equations a dozen math telepathic, telekinetic, all para- the door sliding back into place. It was quiet in the corridor and ematicians couldn't understand.* physical ability were linked to his footsteps sounded unusually The operation was done without •Why?* Henry asked softly. the temporal sense of the human 6 DESTINY SUMMER-FALL 1 mind. For each power, the human the future and somehow sent itself sanity, he had accidentally been It didn’t sound possible. And mind’s sense of the passing of back into time, to the beginning watching the stars when they still, it didn’t sound impossible. time had been warped in in one way of nothingness, .there to explode started to vanish! With the speed of light involved, the stars must have vanished ages another. But in each case, the in a fantastic nova of energy, Whole clusters of stars vanished creating the Universe." even then as he continued to watch. ago and the absence of their light person with the paranormal capacity Soon, the brightest ones, the was just reaching the Earth which Henry rose from his chair, looked was not aware of the change in'his nearest ones left and the sky was meant.