13th Anniversary ALL STAR THE MAGAZINE 0 E Fantasy FANTAiy and Science Fictio SCIENCE The Journey of Joenes fiCTION a new novel by ROBERT SHFCfCtfY A Kind of Artistry BRIAN W. ALDISS 6 There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe ROBERT F. YOUNG 28 24 Hours in a Princess’s Life> With 'Fe6gs DON WHITE 34 Inquest in Kansas {verse) ;/ HYACINTHE HILL 38 Measure My Love ' MILDRED CLINGERMAN 39 Science', Slow Burn ISAAC ASIMOV 52 Books AVRAM DAVIDSON 63 The Unfortunate Mr. Morlcy VANCE AANDAHL 68 Ferdinand Feghoot: LV GRENDEL BRIARTON 70 The Journey of Joenes {1st 6j 2 parts ) ROBERT SHECKLEY 71 ^ Editorial > /* 4 / • In this issue . Coming si/on 5 F&SE Marketplace ' 129 Cover by Ed Emsh {illustrating ^'The Journey of Joenes”) The Magasine of Fantasy and Sciffiice Fiction, Vclume 23, No. 4, Whole No. 137, Oct. 1962. P-ttblisked monthly by Mercury Press, Inc., at 40^ a copy. Annual subscription S4 50 in U. S. and Possessions, $5.00 in Canada and the Pan American Union; $5.50 m all other countries. Publicaiion office, IQ Ferry Street, Concord, N. //. Editorial and general mail should be sent to 347 East 53rd St., New York 22, N. Y. Second Class postage paid at Concord, N. H. Printed in U. S. A. © 2^62 by Mercury Press, Inc. Ail rights, including translations into other languages, reserved. Submissions mtist be accom- panied by stamped, self-addressed envelopes; the Publisher assumes no responsibility for return of unsolicited manuscripts. Joseph W. Forman, publisher Avram Davidson, executive editor Robert P. Mills, consulting editor Edward L- Forman, managing editor Isaac Asimov, contributing science editor . EDITORIAL In this issue . First of all, a clip into The Question Box. Is Raitdall Garrett . tliat SF really Randall Jarrell? No, he really isn’t. He is incredible enough . The complaint, often made, and often justly, many just being Randall Garrett. Whatever happened to fantasy stories stories of the future deal with technological changes only, and the present one, with the element of terror or horror in them? An answer will be present a social outlook essentially unaltered from found on the front pages of your daily newspaper; in addition, we is certainly not applicable to BRIAN ALDISS’S long story—the have excellent such stories coming up by Israel Zangwill, P. M. same whose ending, which gave us such surprised pleasure, we after an Hubbard, and Russell Kirk. Were we serious is saying (August spoke of in an earlier editorial. ROBERT F. YOUNG, absence as long as it was imdesired, returns witli a wry tale of over- issue) that if we obtained a juvenile who reviewed books %ve would present review at least one juvenile? We were. Will we consider appUca- population and outer space; VANCE AANDAHL is and on tions from Macon, Georgia (age 16), and Georgian Bay, Ontario paradoxical in a short satire mathematical (or something); fans will find cause (age 14)? We will. Will we,, since we mentioned Mr. Boucher’s pages 39 to 51 MILDRED CLINGERMAN is course, and red-hot; your nice letters of rejection, consider a story once nicely rejected by for rejoicing. DR. ASIMOV hete, of editor rattles on about books (havihg been absent in this capacity Mr. Boucher? Yes; and if we reject it, too, we will try to do so just from the previous issue); newcomer WHITE gives us a as nicely. Since the Pope has d legislature of 13, tvhich is bad be- DON rococo glimpse into the lives 6f princesses; and IIYACINTHE cause only the number 1 is divisime into it, will ive support a U.N. think. Resolution requiring every state to have a 1080 man legislature in HILL provide.s poetic balance — alw'ays a good thing, we of fat tilings is Part One 360 man weekly shifts for 5 days, Saturday, Sunday, and Reserve, And of course the biggest item in this feast two-part serial wild, witty, and de- in 3 split 8 hour, 120 man daily shifts, 60 on duty, 60 reserve? of ROBERT SJiECKiEY’S — We will not. We have enough troubles, and so has the U.N. For lightfully different. - - that matter, so has the Pope. We attended the 1 5th Annual West Coast Science Fantasy Con- ference (Wester-Con XVj in Los Angeles, June 30'31, together with our lovely wife, Crania, and oiir unborn child; Jack Vance Coming soon ... / was Guest of Honor, Anthony Botlcher was MC; they and Foul Anderson, Mark Clifton, Piay Bra^Wry, A. E. Van Vogt, and . is R. BRETNOR, of /he memorable Tlie G/nnrs Come From Robert Bloch, among the speakers, helped make the occasion a very The Voodvork Out, witli something which might have been entitled isn’t. vivid, and con- pleasant one. It was the first time we met A. E. Van Vogt. All we The Man Who Loved Lions, but Also a sad, vincing in our opinion, his best -et. Tlie could think of to say was, “Hi, there,” Mr. Van Vogt, we are happy story by TERRY CARR— 5 moral of to report, said, “Hi.” We intend, D.^., to have been at the World ever-depeiidable GORDON R. DICKSON has a drama SF Convention in Chicago, Labor Day Weekend. Watch tins space regression and death; JOHP^ BRUNNER takes a grim look at tele- for further fascinating details of our insouciant hobnobbings and patliy through a telcpath’s “eyes”; FRITZ LEIBER looks at current sophisticated conversations with The Great. events through an Old Norse glass —and grimaces. There are novels by MACK REYNOLDS and SIR L. E. JONES and articles by — Avram Davidson FREDERIK POHL and L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP. And, more- over, a first story by poet KAREN ANDERSON, a novelet by RICHARD McKENNA of Casey Agonistes, droll verse by RAN- DALL GARRETT, the first Japanese SF in The Magazine, and a rich —remarkable —relation by P. M. HUBBARD, who has been several times here reprinted from Punch: Warning: This one isn’t funny. 5 The kind of artistry found in this story by Brian W. Aldiss A KIND OF ARTISTRY will surprise no one except those who are about to read him the time. story Derek Ende, his brave—or for first This of by Brian W, Aldiss bootless—voyage to a future and hazardous Ultima Thule; his adventuring in the fleshpots, relations with his Lady, and. that Lady’s own singtdar (and deeply significant) experiments, is I Between the building and the the work Item . The Literary Editor of the Oxford Mail, of: fjord, where the garden contrived the in an erudite daily tohose hook reviews are arnong top A GIANT RISING FROM THE itself into a parade, stood My Britain. Item . The President of the'British Science Fiction fjord, from the grey arm of sea in Lady's laboratory, and My Lady’s the fjord, could have peered over pets and, indeed. Lady her- Association. Item . The editor of PENGUIN SCIENCE — My the crown of its sheer cliffs and self at this time, her long hands FICTION ONE (1961)^ an unprecedented success, and of discovered Endehaaven there on busf with tlic minicoypu and the PENGUIN SCIENCE FICTION TWO (forthco7ning). Item the edge, sprawling at the very agoutinis. I stood with her, at- . author PRIMAL URGE (Ballantine Books), The of THE start of tlie island. tending the animals’ cages or novel somewhat too hot for British publishers to handle;” Derek Flamifew Ende saw passing her instruments or stir- THE BRIGHTFOUNT DIARIES (bibliophilia); THE LONG much of his sprawl from his high ring the tanks, doing always what AFTERNOON OF EARTH (Signet), based on his HOT- window; indeed, a growing ill- she asked. And tlie eyes of Derek ease, apprehensions of a quarrel, Ende looked down on us; no, they HOUSE series-F^SF, (FIOTHOUSE, Feb., 1901; NOMANS- forced him to see everything with looked down on her only. LAND, Apr., 1961; UNDERGROWTH, July, 1961; TIMBER- particular clarity, just as a land- LINE, Sept., 1961; a^ul EVERGREEN, Dec., 1961); and his scape takes on an intense actinic Derek Flamifew Ende stood latest, A GARDEN WITH FIGVJIES, just completed, a plot- visibility before a thunderstorm. with his face over the receptor less novel, which (says his British agent, whose name ought Although he was warmseeing \^ith bowl, reading the message from his face, yet his eye vision wan- Stay One. It played lightly over to be Ashenden, but is aUually \arnell) "'will give reviewers dered over the estate. his countenance and over the and psychiatrists food for discussion for years to come.” Item All was bleakly neat at Ende- boscises of his forehead. Though . The star, in whole and in part, of two BBC TV shows. haaven — as I should know, for its he stared down across that ach- Item . The possessor of a great sense of humor, not evident neatness is my care. The gardens ingly familiar stage of his life out- in, because not appropriate to, the story belotv; but evident are made to support evergreens side, he still warrasaw the com- in one of our own most favorite stories, the one about hunting and shrubs that never flower; diis munication clearly. When it was is My Lady’s whim, that likes a finished, he negated the receptor, a brontosaurus, POOR LITTLE WARRIOR! (F&SF, April, sobriety to matcli the furrowed pressed his face to it, and flexed 1958). Whenever, in the uture, we think of this newest Brian f brow of the coastline. The build- his message back. Aldiss story, shall think a refrain hauntinghj we of from a ing, gaunt Endehaaven itself, is “I will do as you message, Star beautiful old Scots ballad—sung by the hauntingly beautiful tall and lank and severe; earlier One.