Astounding Science Fiction/Volume 54/Number 06/In Times to Come

In Times to Come

Next month, Mark Clifton's personnel psychologist who challenged the Army to supply him with six poltergeists, male type, gets his bluff called. Van Dongen's done a lovely cover on it; you'll find the Swami from Brooklyn precariously mounted on his Flying Bath Mat gracing you local newsstand next month. One of the best of our recent covers, I think. And Clifton, as usual, has fun with his "Sense From Thought Divide"—and, while he's having fun, makes a considerable amount of solid sense. If a medium insists he has to have a dim blue light to make his strange phenomena develop, how does he differ from a photographer who insists he has to have a dim reddish light to make his phenomena develop properly?

Astounding is also breaking a tradition next month; for the first time, we will publish a full page photograph of the author of one of our articles. Sylvia Jacobs has a piece on "Hold That Helium!" concerning the proper atmosphere for spaceships. I fear, however, that few readers are apt to recognize.Mrs. Jacobs from her published picture. But you'll see next month. . . .

The Editor.