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Fantasy & Science Fiction V028n05 o THE MAGAZINE 0 E Fantasy Science fiction A/1 A y 50<r ZENNA HENDERSON L SPRAGUE DE CAMP ROBERT F, YOUNG ISAAC ASIMOV \ MAY Including Venture Science Fiction The Earth Merchants {novelet) MOSMAN KAGAN 4 Cartoon GAHAN WnSON 25 Romance In An Eleveath-Century Recharging Station BOB^T r. YOUNG 26 Mammoths and Mastodons U SPBAGUB Iffi CAMP 35 The Gtitsch System ROBIN SOOTT 48 Short Cut {verse) DEBORAH CRAWFORD 67 Books JUDITH MOIRU. 70 Sonny SOBeST L. FISH 76 Science: To Tell A Chemist ISAAC ASIMOF 87 No Different Flesh {novelet) ZENNA HENDERSON 97 Coming soon , . , 66 F&SF Marketplace 129 Cover by Mel Hunter Joseph W. Ferman, editor and publisher Isaac Asimov, science editor Ted White, assistant editor Edward L. Ferman, managing editor Judith Merril, book editor Robert P. Mills, consulting editor The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Volume 2S, No. 5, Whole No. 168, May 1965. Published monthly by Mercury Press, Inc., at 50f a copy. Annual subscription %5.00; |5.50 m Canada ana the Pan American Union; $6.00 in all other countries. Publu cation office. 10 Ferry Street, Concord, N. H. Editorial and general mail should be sent to $47 Bast 5$rd St., New York, N. Y. 10022. Second Class postage paid at Concord, N. H. Printed t» U.S.A. © 1965 by Mercury Press, Inc. All rights, including translations into other languages, reserved. Submissions must be accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelopes; Publisher assumes no responsibUity for return of unsolicited mauuscripts. Urtlifce a recently semt-defunet paperback book house whose en*- photic motto was to the effect that th^r imprint “Means Contro- versy” we here are content merely if our stories are good. Some- times, though, they are controoersicd as well. Robert A. HekUeinS GLORY ROAD (July-Sept. 1963), for example, and Ray Nelson*s TURN OFF THE SKY (August 1963) were both in this class. We predict with confidence that this second story by math student Horman Kagan (FOUR BRANDS OF IMPOSSIBLE, Sept. 1964) wUl prove mote controversial than either. Asked if he believed in immortcdUy, Aaron Burr (and who more eontroversial than he!) replied, “On that subjeet I am coy.” Do not aek, then, where we ours^es stand on the viewpoint set forth in this shaking, furious, outraged tale of our space program: on that subject we are coy. Read—rage, then, if you will. But—read. THE EARTH MERCHANTS by Norman Kagan “They (engineers) will find that tennis. It was an indication that it is much more enthusing to solve his mind was still reasonably flexi- the problems of the lack of water in ble, and hence that he might still the United States than to. send an ex- be able to learn to make love. pedition to the moon, that it is more I could only infer this, but it exciting to work towards the solution seemed fairly plausible. Obsoles- of . (the) needs of the seven old are the billion people who will live on this cence and age primary fears of most people in the Age of planet . then to make sure a EDcket stk) can stand a fifty-megaton Playboy, no matter what field you bomb.” study. And the carefully calcu- — Professor M. G. Salvadori lated build-up we'd given the Cohunbia Univessity, New York space scientist would’ve at least have pitted his mind with the I burning acids that’ve scarred most The young man was very of us. What I was going to do now happy when he learned to play would really gouge him. 4 a THE EARTH MERCHANTS 5 Thou^ it wouldn’t be hard. first. Dr. Manheimer. Rrst of aH, Most engineers are cowards these I’m a — or, rather, I was— days. clinical psychologist, but not from I let him beat me twice, then N.A.S.A. I’m from the Agency of licked him four times running. He State.” was puffing and sweating at the I could see the phrase “clod- end of the final set, so I led him hugger” jumped through his mind, over to the tables on the side of lickety-split. Then his voice came the hospital’s sundeck. He said out, flat and dead; “I thought the nothing at the view, which on this matter of my parents was settled. bright day illuminated every foot There were no remains after that of the thirty miles or so which mob of Asiatics got dirough with separated the hospital from the them.” gantries and blockhouses of Cape “That’s correct,” I told him. “I Kennedy Spaceport. was only tangentiafly involved in “All right, doctor,” said the your case, through our Psycholog- young man. His face and body ical Stalemate Branch. But it were an angry red, partly from the seems I’m the only clinician who exorcise, more from too much sun is qualified to talk to you any in the month he’d been recovering more. Scientists in classified work from a nervous breakdown. He who’ve had mental illnesses are brushed his blond hair back from automatically considered security his forehead, and squinted at me, risks. No one in (he Defense almost angrily. “When are you go- Branch of the government will ing to let me out of here, and talk to you any more.” back on Project Leviathan?" I let him think about that for a This had to be done exactly while. It was embarrassing, it was right. I had to have another vector so easy to read him. The brilliant to work with; his anger and impa- creative space engineer, looking tience had to be composed with for the fascinating challenge of something exterior. But I had it, modern technology. No North of course. I always insure myself; American Dynamics or General my favorite psychiatrist joke is Aviation or International Busi- about the headshrinker who had ness Mechanisms to guarantee just cured a patient of klepto- pensions and paid vacations and mania. “I’ve totally eliminated whisper that genocide was patriot- yoiur morbid desire to steal,” he ism. told his patient confidently. “But “The F.B.I. has made the usual just in case, be sure to pick me up suggestion that you commit sui- a transistor radio.” cide,” I added, offering him a ‘Td better clear some things up government issue poison needle. ” 6 FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION His eyes widmed, and his band gers. But he had no real choice, of trembled, but I closed my fist in eoHvse. Those defense hotshots time. So he stood by the rmling would soon learn the cost of their for a whde, staring at laiaicbing “security systems." pads of the filthy lunacy across “There’s a number of things I the Banana River. don’t understand,” he said slowly, Fresently he recalled that I was the Texas burr soft in, his voice. a psychologist, and spoke the The broiling sun was making his thou^t that had been cycling face sweat. “What’s ‘spin-off,’ and through his crippled mind. I don’t recall— exactly what the “What will I do now?” he wWs- Agency of p»ed. “That’s easy enough to answer," “Not much,” I told him flady. I rephed, and allowed myself to “You can’t do any sort of indus- relax a little. "Spin-off are the trial work, and no one in the sci- products of space flight science entific branch of government will which turn out to have applica- have you. You realize of course tions on the ground.” He was nod- that nearly every multiversity in ding wisely, but my voice tight- Fortress America is involved in ened as I said; “And the Agency of classified research — so that lets State? Why, even a space scien- teaching out. I suppose you could tist like you should’ve remembered —” and I let my voice trail efif. that. We’re the part of the govern- Only an insane therapist would ment charged with investigating talk in such a manner, of course. the surface of Terra external to “Or,” I said quietly, “you could Fortress America. You know— like come to work for us.” the rest of the earth.” “What’re you?” he said after a momeiH. His eyes were still dazed. With the kid inside the project, I writed a precise four seconds I let the deep probers chop into —I'm not a master vector psychol- him. He’d work over the reports ogfiet for nothing. "My name is Ar- we’d dummied up, or Miswer the lan Kadison,” I told him briskly, carefully phrased questions that “and Tm head of a new depart- passed for conversation in his sec- ment in the Agenoy of State. I’m tion. We also let him have a nice to set up better Raison between little Eurasian secretary, named N.A.S.A., the Defense Branch of Chien-Shiung. Darkly smoulder- government, and the Agency. We ing, vridi riun like golden parch- hope that more space Bight and ment, and fragile features. A real defease ^in-off can be apj^ed to jHece of class. She eould apfdy her the agency’s functions.” own special brand of intuition, Mis face wrinkled up. Clodhug- while we built up the annoyances — — ” ” THE EARTH MERCHANTS 7 and frastratkms for Hirase Two, "Well, of course we started with consckms co-operation. all the public statements; ‘the des- Meanwhile, I was busy. A seven tiny of mankind', ‘endless conquest million dollar Lunar supply mis- of the cosmos’,’noblest challenge to sion had exploded cm the Vanden- our species’.
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