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SCHUG CEDlUATzCN ’ ...... 3 PERSPECTI YE______Page3 EDITORIAL.. * • ...... 4 IN OUR NEXT ISSUE- ...... 27 . — DEDICATE— DFPARTMKIT t x to Doctor Lubowe Tv- Literary Conner...... 23 the General Science' teacher that intro duced me to Science Fiction years ago. A^JIGLES^ - „„ .'cience Fiction and Now York...... 1'3 by Harvey Segal to Peter Schug Hook Club, Bewarel...... 7 a fan whp renewed my Interest’in Sci by Anonymous ence Fiction, and suggested the title EIUiXONa # -, "Perspective” for this fanzine. • ybr. Trap, a snort story...... by Sol Garner to Fandora’ s Box a fanzine review'column in Imagination, .he locket Books of 1954...... wherein I first heard of fanzines. ARTWORK?- - _o to Lee Riddle Cartoons, by Lubin and owei oK.. .1^ editor of "Peon", who was the first ed~* Art Bago, by Peter Schug...... _. . . .17 itor of a fanzine to correspond with me, •13 Portrait of the Editor, by PALIN to Maurice Lubin Managing Editor: c^N^rr,., - who features my column in his fanzine, hh.iV EY SEGAL PER Ji j. UWE The Actifari, and whose fanzine convin Aft ?;■*rectors APRIL 1955, NO. 1 ced me that I must put" out one myself. rd*r"ER 3 CHUG Published by Pox— A s s o c. a a t ess spective Public?.— B. Jav CRONIN tions, 2105 Naiton and to ABRAHAM PALIN ADFAHAM PALIN Aver, New York 51, a fan I introduced to fandom, and with C Ji t o"J — "L3Mt S • BIMONTHLY J 10L B * Q/33SER 3/ per- line, or to ^A^vl.Ch LUM subscribers, free. X3CMI I? .>.30 PERSPECTIVE Pc geC Page 4 PERSPECTIVE EDITORIAL, cont...

We will continue to feature at least one or two stories per issue. We require stories*of not more than eight hundred words, contain ing a twist ending or unusual idea. Also wan After a year and a half of planning to put ted are*cartoons, fan humor, and poems. Much out a fanzine, I and my staff have finally of this will be appearing in 'Spec in future come out with PERSPECTIVE, "the Lit or airy - issues e Amateur Science-Fiction Publication. »»e Letters from our readers are welcome.. Wo es Plan to make this fanzine differrent from pecially want letters criticizing the maga any other in this field, both in editori zine and olfering suggestions about contents al’ policy and format. or editorial policy. Every fan who sends in This magazine will remain a nimeographc., a letter will receive free, a beautiful fan half-sized publication until the circula tasy print with his next issue. Also requir ed are letters dealing with ’SPECulattons in tion increases enough to put it out science and plot forms, to be published in a photo—offset process. Until then, .u., ..ilu- special column beginning next issuet Each feature some printing by press, and color pictures by a new duplication process, to fan whose letter we print will receive the next issue of ‘Spec free as well as a free, begin In the next issue. If wc revive- a nicture we deem good enough, iJ Will app beautiful fantasy print. ear on our cover in photo-offset. The price of PERSPECTIVE will remain at ten All the articles appearing in this maga cents per issue, and each issue will certain zine will be about Science Fiction; arti from 26 to 42 pages, depending at the amount cles about fandom will rarely be included. of material we have at the time. If the ! mag All material in PERSPECTIVE will be from goes well it will be changed to a monthly. a literary point of view. Articles will be about books, authors and writing; Columns Much advertising will appear in future Issu will contain hows and views of the publi es offering the readers a chance to obtain shers world; and useful indexes of boolcs any item they need. All subscribers will be and other features will appear in all iss entitled to a free ad in the classified col ues. Other features will be added as tne umn, not exceeding five lines. magazine progresses. PERSPECTIVE Page6 PERSPECTIVE ______PageZ FEATURE ARTICLE *** by AnOnymuog EDITORIAL, concl.... Since I have been quite active in the fan 1 BOOKCLU3. BEWARE’ field, I have lined up many top names to * A revolution is now in the making in write for PERSPECTIVE. Issues are being the SclencepFantasy field, a revolution of sent gratis to many,top professional auth bound-book publishers against Book-Club ed ors and leading fan personalities in the itions. Since the Science-Fiction Book-Club hope of getting material from them. Fans has been issueing books for cne dollar each- from England have been contacted and are the same books that sell for prices ranging writing worthwhile articles for future is from $2.50 to £4.00 in original publishers sues of ’Spec. editions—the bookdealers have slowly been The major aim of PERSPECTIVE is to be of. crowing angry enough to revolt. The oooks great value to the Science Fiction world. put out by the Club are supposed to be prin The articles and indexes we feature should ted on cheaper paper, with cheaper binding, help the fan to learn more about his field and in most cases they are. However, some and have information about each topic com books offerred to club members at the low plete at his disposal. The advertisements price of £1.00 aren't cheaper editions, but will help the fan to locate anything need the same book stores are selling for as ed by him in the way of STF. The columns much'aT'U.00. Take "Across the Space Fron will keep him informed about the very lat tier". for example. The book club is somehow est happenings., and the stories and humor able to offer this book to its members for will keep him well entertained. This mag one dollar, even though the dealers have to azine is for your benefit—please support pay £2^35 for this book, and sell It for it by sending in subscriptions, letters, £3,95. The edition the club offers is the material, etc. And please recomment It to same one as the dealers have to buy. Others other, fans you might know. such as "Double Jeopardy , House of Many Worlds", "West of the Sun", and especially As our followers grow, PERSPECTIVE will books published by Doubleday, are sold in expand, and be able to bring you more, and, their original editions at a price cheaper better material about the "Literary aspe than the dealer has to pay. cts" of Science Fiction, a subject th a t As a result, many books have been re there has been a great lack of material on duced from their former prices, ranging from in the amateur magazines. And as PERSPEC- £2.50 to £5.00, down to the price of v1.00 TZVE' grows, so will your knowledge, enjoy r to compete with the Club and the huge quah titles of paperbacks now being distributed. Normally/ books are reduced in price because they come out in paper covered editions, or they were poor novels and didn PERSPECTIVE______ZageS perspective _------—, BOOK*CLUB, BEWARE, cont.. BOOK-CLUB, B&v'AREl , cont---- A few months later, the book is reduced, Exampt les o-fp t+hviep 1f ormmesrr ars n Space On My and the collector loses money. If this happens repeatedly, the avid collector re "““Jr thaA YOU Think" , "The House that solves never to buy new science fiction -T t, ?mi" and "The Mislaid Chara". books again, unless he is assured that it Nov tc^boois as "Who Goes There’;'Man W won’t be reduced. Srld the Moon”, "Robots Have No Tales , The average reader doesn’t care and many others such as these that sold a what type of edition the book is in, so 7-eat quantity of copies, have been redu- long as he gets to read it, so he joins Sd to *1. Also, books that have appeared the book club and receives their select in book-club editions such as "Children of ions. After a few months he finds those Wonder", "The Mixed Men", and Player Pi~ books out in 25d paper editions. He has ano" have been reduced to *1., and some lost money. If he is willing to spend a have been reduced to price., even o^loW. dollar f5r an inferior Club edition, he The books listed above are only a lew ex might as well get the paper edition. The amples of books so reduced. Others sucn issueing of rarer editions in many cases as "Best From Startling Stori^ , book doesn’t affect the collector who paid a ing Forward", "judgement Nig - XT large sum for the good bound edition—he Ballantine books as popular a. coJf wanted the good, permanent edition anyway chants" have been reduced. Latest ngures Such Club selections as "The Lights in’ show that over 100 books ka’wheen thus the Sky are Stars", "CostigarJs Needle , > reduced, and many more will follow. "The Altered Ego", "Ring Around the Sun, and others have come out in pocket-book Nowthen, who benefits from the Science- form. Fiction Book Club? The Book Club bene V.’hen now books come out, the de fits and the Readers, Collectors, Deal al er buys them and stocks them to sell to ers (and perhaps Authors;) lose. The collectors. A book that retails 2.75 costs collector buys a new stf book when it the average-dealer $1.65. After he nas comes out, for *2.75. He buys the book be bought the book, he finds it is a Club cause he wants to save it, perhaps to re selection for $1. He has thus lost some read or to loan, or just to build up a of his customers. If the club.edition is library. If he wranted a book just to read, the same as the publishers edition, he he would take it out from a public library has lost even more customers. Later, 11 or wait for a pocket edition. Even if the the-book is reduced to $1. because oi tne book is out in a Club edition the collect competition .from the book club, the deal or might prefer to have it in the more ex er has.now actually lost a sum of money. pensive Edition for the better quality. PERSPECTIVE Pag3 11 perspective Pagel0 BOOK-CLUB, EEWARE1, cont. ■ , BOOK-CLUB, BEWARE*., cont.. . It was believed that Ballantine had A book reduced to §1. costs a dealer only 60^ had the answer to this situation when they Because of this, the majority of dealers on started to issue bound science fiction and ly sell reduced science fiction, or the item paperback originals simultaneously, inis i that they know will never be reduced. Thus, dea doesn’t seem to have worked out, however1 when new books come out, the publishers have because many Ballantine oound stf have been loss dealers to whom they could sell their deduced to 60q5. Also, Ballantine has ceased bookc They begin to put out less and less of to Issue every single paperback with bound of science fiction. No wonder so many paper editions. Ballantine has Issued some paper backs are being issued, many of which are backs simultaneously with Gnome' Press bound originals. The bound-book publishers must is • books. It would be Interesting to see what sue less science fiction, so paperback comp eventually become's of the Ballantine idea. anies buy up many stf novels, and tn so; e cases offer the author even more for a book When types other tnan science—ilc — than ? bound publisher would. Those paper tlon are reduced, It matters little because: backs prove to bo even greater compftition the number of reduced books Is a very '^^11 to the publishers and even to the Club. uercent of the total number Issued; and tne large quantity of readers assures the Po Eventually, even the authors arc go lisher of a large sale. With novels soling ing to lose in many cases. Only the top nov- elb are Oeln^ published bounds and there are- in the loo,000s where stf sells in the ten not as many sold bec.ause of the excess of thousands, the general novel publisher has writings circulating in this media. hany little to worry aboitt concerning boox cluco. books were issued first a few years ay4 in a The detective novel was faced witn auch a bound edition. When they ceased to be such situation,, the paperback novel made up^-or good sellers, they were issued' in a paper the publishers josses on bound books, oci- back edition. The author made a profit from ence-fictlon is not yet accepted by^the gen each of the two typos of sales. Nov.', because oral public, and no amount of paperca?x many books ord binate in paper editions, the sales on the average stf book can make up author makes profit from sale thru one media for the publishers losses. only. This accounts far the big drop in the The crisis over the Science Fiction amount of bound books that have been publish Book Club is soon going to break, and one of ed recently, the huge increase in paperback two things will happen- either the club wall novels, and the absence of many very good go, or the majority of new novels will go. novels to appear in thq last year. -And If this happens to the bound novel, toe club will disappear anyway. FINIo T Ke

LISTED BY MONTH IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

AN INDEX FOR PUBLISHERS, EDITORS, BOOK STORES, AND READERS CF SCIENCE FICTION.

A PERSPECTIVE .V .■ 1CANION INDEX

KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS: A Anthology, C-Collection, N-NgvoI, Ed-Editor, Abrg-Abridged, Originals BRAND NAMES: A2-Ace Double Novel, Al-Ace Single Novel, Av-Avon, Bo/' Ballantine, Bm-Bantam, C-Cardinal, DI-Dell, Ln-Lion, LL-Lion Library, Pt-Pennent, Pe-Perma, Pc-Pocket, PL-Popular Library, Sg-Signet, SK- Slgnet Key, GM-Jold Medal*

CA- TOONS by Lubim & SMENSonJ 1. C City, by Clifford D. Simak Pe-25/ 2. C Expedition to Earth, by Arthur C. Clarko *Be-35«f 3. A Star S.F. Stories #2, by Frederik Pohl (Ed) *3e-35/ 4. N Riders to the Stars, by Curt Siodmak *Be-35/ 5* N Conjure Wife, by Fritz Lieber Ln-25/ 6. A Great Short Novels of S.F., by G. Conklin (Ed) *Dl-35/ 7. C Away and Beyond, by A.E. van Vogt Av-25/ Conan the by Robert Howard 8. N Conqueror, A2-35/ N Sword of Rhiannon, by Leigh Brackett

9. N Outpost Mars, by Cyril Judd DI-25/ 10. N The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester Sg-25/ 11. N Prelude to Space, by Arthur C. Clarke Be-35/ 12. N Search the Sky, by F. Pohl and C.M. Kombluth *Be-35/ 13. N Sentinels of Space, by Eric Frank Russell A The Ultimate Invader & Others, by D.W ollheim (Ed) “ •

14. N The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pe-25/ 15. N Sands of Mars, by Arthur C. Clarke Po-25/ 16. N Hero’s Walk, by Robert Crane _ *Be-35/ 17. C Untouched by Human Hands, by Robert Sheckley *Be-35/ 18. N Weapon Shops of Isher, by A.E. van Vogt A2-35/ N Gateway to Elsewhere, by Murray Leinster 19. A Adventures ’in' Time & Space (Abrg), by Healy (Ed) Pt-25/ 20. N ’Dark Dominion, by David Duncan *Be~35/ 21. A Human7, by Judith Merril (Ed) *Ln-25/

22. N Ring Around the Sun, by Clifford D. Simak A.2-3B8 N Cosnflc TT^hhunt, by L. Sprague de Camp 23. A Children of Wonder, by William Tenn (Ed) Pe-35/ 24. N Brain Wave, by Poul Anderson *Be-35/ 25. A My Best S.F. Story (Abrg), by L. Margulies (Ed) Po-25/ 26. C Beyond Infinity, by Robert Spencer Carr Dl-25/ C No Time Like the Future/ *by Nelson Bond *Av-35/ 28^ A Beyond Human Ken (Abrg),1-’by Judith Merril (Ed) Pt-25/

29. N Return ’to Tomorrow, by L.r Ron Hubbard *Al-25/ 30. N The Time' Masters, by Wilson Tucker Sg-25/ 31. N The Long. Loud Silence, by Wilson Tucker Dl-25/ 32. C Line to Tomorrow, by Lewis Padgett *Bm-25/

33. N Daybreak: 2250 AD, by Andre Norton A2-3R

38. N Against the Fall of Night, by Arthur C. Clarke Pe-25/ 39. A Star S.F. Short Novels, by Frederik Pohl (Ed) *Be-55/ 40. N Year of Consent, by Kendell Foster Crossen *Dl-25/ in in in in mintn in mm £ in in in tn mmcu m gj mtn CM CM © m m m m i I i i I I i i £ I I I J i I i Q O M O © © e to sj asd CD CM o o m m ra Ph Ph co ♦ ♦ co o § £ £ o £ o © E« © £ co £ £ co cd £ o © o £ o £ £ © m £ o cd m o © co s £ £ K © •H © £ 0) co s cd cd m rn cd A cd > £ © co © CD CD E co O M o CD £ £ o s cd O Q ,£ £ cd CD O CT £ £ © co W r~ 1’ £ CO (£ CD co © m cd o xl MP o £_ b0 £ > © © >> o--- --© m S CT £ ‘Cd £ © cd - cd CT <0 £ cd cd o £ cd S o ■ S £ m co cd £ © £ >3 CD ftp © rn

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• » • • •• •• -r4d- -inS rinl / PERSPECTIVE .Page 18 PERSPECTIVE ______/ ------FS-fLS-A? S.F. .&'H.Y. , cont.. . A 3™ N^York The greatest pleasure in buying stf Within the last two years, many book In New York is the finding of a rarity- a stores have begun to feature science fiction magazine that is worth much more than the pocketbooks, bound volumes, and magazines. 10/ or 15/ you pay an unsuspecting dealer In New York, practically every bookshop that for it. Ocasslonally one can pick up cld ma cainies magazines carries stf, and there are gazines from as far baqk as 1940, for a sere shops that don’t stock any mags but stf. paltr- sum. A few years; ago many suer, rar- * It is Amazing, howeveV, how the price could'be gotten. Within the last two years, varies, depending on the store that* carries dealers have begun to realise that, tr ey can the megazine. The cheapest the average stf get fron five to ten times the amount of mon mag van be picked up for is 10/ each or 3/25/. ey they'expect if they display them proper “These stor®s usually carry other stock, and ly. Such bargains can still be obtained a yer can find occasionally some older items In long the book row, butythis won’t be for long. Vue piles of magazines. If you purchase by There are now hup-dreds of booxstorea ruanTity^ prices could go even lower# in Manhattan that. have, taken in a c L_g' The majority of places charge 15/ per line of science fictlbn pocketbooks , zney magazine, and have quite a selection to chose report that they sell- these in greater a- from- Many of these stores have their mage in mounts than any othefpocketbooks, except very good condition. They have a steady trade, bestsellers. The majority of these .tores and many completists ’can get all current mags have oven gone so far^as to import PO^- in new condition about one month after they books from'Great Britain!, There are 1-J^dreds arc issued at this low price. of British pocketbooks;-that can be uGxx U - Some of the better stores, l.e., the eluding mags such as/Authentic /, and tno ones m good locations carrying expensive £oWeSlSg-let no ^ce slip-by. 1 hove hicks, charge 20/ for reoent mags, and prices not seen any store yet a that cairi .. y rist? trfe farther back you go. There are sev-. t’-in^ in British pocketbodks but science era1 places of this type that carry only stf, fiction (except Penguin books, and have stocks going back to the thirties. hero in America). There, are even some that All the back-number specialists now carry* Galaxy .Novels now. I have seen one ca”^y stf at prices from (the original) 55/ store that carries British editions oi up, and have every mag Issued. These places four leading American magazines. ^nese report that they make quite a large amount of developments have come- about only mci-y on the science”*fiction trade. last six months or so,-along wit.i - S Stores are now beginning to realise pocketbook 'sales boom. Some pocketbook pub th?t there Is a large science-fiction market, ??Abers are paying more for novels than the anl are starting*to take this branch of lit- bound book publishers; due to thfes market. ei-atai'e seriously, even reading j.tl Page21 PERSPECTIVE Page 20 PERSPECTIVE

S.F. & N.Y., cont..« ,hort story by SOL GARNER The big boom in paperbacks has also He was trapped! He had been in been affecting bound book sales, causing them to drop. As a result, many stores keep that field of work for year,s, and in stock only publisher’s overstock science thought the Masters would never find him 'as long as he remained close to fiction (Books that have been reduced to fl. or 60^ from their former prices). There are that branch of the factory. , over 100 such books now in distribution, and sat in his prison and thougnt auosu hl- hunted and tormented life. To eat bookstores are cashing in selling these to w!jl he had to kill. Although he ha a great many science fiction fans. Between the sales of Pocketbooks ted that business of killing,, he ..nw he mu-t if he was to be respected by (both British and American), Magazines, and the others. After each kill he prayed reduced Bound Books, dealers are giving’ over his vlct.hu, as did the others he. science fiction much publicity, as well as S. Montis 'mew that the Masters increasing their sales tremendously. It is much easier now for the average science fic were aware of bis praying, and 1- he_ tion fan to get reading material. It can be was ever caught he would be sent to said that science fiction is really beginn the labs to be expercmonted on. In ing to be accepted by mass distributors, most cases, this meant death . here in New York, anyway. By keeping close watch on the New York scene, the future of Ho and the others he I”®*®* J*1** large scale science fiction sales can accur two enemies—the other groups like aim ately be determined. FINIS expectation. Mantle rev A NOTE ABOUT "BOOK-CLUB" , BEWARE* , our anon- ered the day he was working hi to ymous article commencing on page seven: Mtel!n- Because of 'the nature of that article, its ^T^tTi^t^ see hl. author has instructed me not to reveal his name. He is a well-known personality, prob £ captured^now^ ably known by the majority -(if not all) of did no

LITERARY CORNER, cont...... a LITERARY CORNER Feature 2’ The.Magazines: Ever since last year sales THE SCIENCE FICTION POCKETBOOKS_of -l W of Science Fiction magazines have fallen Part One: January, February, anu. — - -J off tremendously. Astounding is leading in circulation with only about 72,OCC0 •..Ihc three Thrilling" publication mag JANUARY azines have combined into one cuarterlv ma^ 1. Lights in the Sky are Stars Bants' which still may fold entirely if it'doesn’t by Frederik Brown A reprint novel,. become digest size. Button, 1954 Book-Club, Jan -boo »»«No new digest-size mags are scheduled to 2. The Altered Ego, by Jerry Sohl _ no commence in 1955, and a few are bound to print novel. 1954 Rinehart, no^k- fold* Jim Harmon plans to put out a profes Club Sept 1954. TT.m. icnal stf nag in a "Quick" size format, to 3< The Chaos Fighters, by R.M. Williams for ten or fifteen cents. Ace Original Novel. 3 2 .UHs.-Eooks? Since the summer of 1954 very 4. False Night, by A.J. Budrys Ace few good books have been issued, and there Original novel. - _ ha- been a snarp decline in the number of 5. Star Science Fiction Stories, . c, .> ?^od novels to be issued. The best ones cur Edited by Frederik Pohl Balla. • rent..y being issued are anthologies and/ or Original collection 01 10 n^v u - collections. One very ^ood novel has appear 6. The Body Snatchers, by Jack a bound edition so far in 1955. ’ It Dell original novel, (serialized- , ) 3-->-ne; , by Charles Eric Maine, from mneharz publishers. - FEBRUARY books: So far there have been as many pocketbooks issued this year as 7. War With The Newts, by Karel Cai ux tnere were .last year at this time.' Only • Eantam reprint of a Classi c . o ■ one or two vex-y good original novels ap- 8. Third From The Sun, by R. Aatuesen. ' Bantam reprint of 14 stories ouu 01 form, however. They are 7/ '7/-n' Hell's Pavement". To "Born of Man and Woman . } ,e '-arch 51) 17 pocketbooks were issu- 'o. The Deluge, by Leonardo Da V.-ncl. so fax- in 1955, two of which are Ace Lien reprint of a Classic i.ovox- (.cu.de novels, 5? are originals, 2 origin- IC. Escape to Nowhere by David Lapp. A collections, and 2 original antholog- Lion Library reprint 01 One , a of Month Club alternate novel. '’b-*1"9 01assl= novels reerln- te.-l. and 5 modern novel reprints. 2 anth- 11. Earthlight, by Arthur C. Clark- Ballantine original nove_. "®re, tinted, none of which have ribtbU” °f tho °rlSlnal edition. Ij- Oi A^ 1955 POCKETBOOKS NEXT PAGE. (..con’t on next pg) PERSPECTIVE Page26

' J CERARY CORNER: Pocketbooks of 1955.* An INDEX of all the articles about Science fiction and Space Travel FEBRUARY, cont.... appear in general magazines in 1954.

An Ace Double Novel: An ARTICLE about Science Fiction and ...One Against Eternity, by A. E. Histopy., plus at least one more arti van Vogt. Reprint of "Weapon Mak cle about the S.F. field- ers. ...Other Side of Here , by Murray Leinster. An original. Another STORY by Sol Garner, a disco I very of this magazine, plus a second MARCH story by another fan author 13 o Science Fiction Terror Tales, ed More CARTOONS by Lubin and Swenson , ited by Groff Conklin. Pocket and by other cartoonists. anthology of 15 stories. Gnome 14. Hell’s Pavement, by Damon Knight A beautiful ARTWORK by a new discov Lion Library original novel. ery, for our cover illustration - 15. An Ace Double Novel: ...The Last Planet, by Andre Nor A LETTER COLUMN, with letters on var ton. Reprint of "Star Rangers". ious subjects of interest to Science ...Man Obsessed, by A. Nourse Or. Fiction Fans, written by top nam^Sc 16. Of All Possible Worlds, by Will iam Tenn. Ballantine original.., A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY COLUMN, indexing Collection of 7 short stories. the works of a leading author, plus 17. More Adventures in Time & Space, a biographical sketch and portrait. ♦edited by Healy and McComas. 8 more s lories from the original J Our regular COLUMNS and DEPARTMENTS, 19^6 Anthology. Bantam books. plus a new feature column by a well known fan. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Also, PERSPECTIVE has contacted fans ■ from’Great Britain that are very well RATES: 3/ ’per line, free to subscriber. known to fandom, for some articles. uo»..12 Photos of famous stf personal ities taken at METROCON . Price $1.00, f^om II. LUBIN, 14 Jones Street, Worces- it-n, Mass. Includes Asimov, Del Rey, Leinster, Nourse, others. IVE

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