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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1962
Digest Magazine. Cover art by MEL HUNTER. Contains "The Man Who Made Friends With Electricity" by Leiber; "Jonathan and the Space Whale" by Young; "A War of No Consequence" by Pangborn; "Shadow on the Moon" by Henderson; "Wonder As I Wander", featuring SILVER JOHN, by Wellman, and other stories.
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First published January 1, 1962
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July 28, 2018
Nothing bad in this issue and it finishes up with Zenna Henderson. What could be better?
Robert F. Young - Jonathan and the Space Whale - 4 stars
- An immense lifeform is detected in space as it eats up one of the moons of Mars. When a military craft is sent to destroy it, the pilot intentionally misses and is, in turn, absorbed into the creature. Inside it he finds - a world.
Manly Wade Wellman - Wonder As I Wander - 3 stars
- Several little vignettes of John, the traveling troubador/defender of those in need. They're intended to be used as links between the various stories when collected in a single volume. By themselves, they're largely meaningless.
Fritz Leiber - The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity - 5 stars
- A man discovers that he can understand what electricity is saying, and ultimately comes to regret it.
Grendel Briarton - Ferdinand Feghoot: XLIX - 3 stars
- The lead-in rates 2 or 3 stars, the pun gets 4.
Edgar Pangborn - A War of No Consequence - 4 stars
- Not too much really happens, but the tie-in to the previous story and the style rate it a 4.
Avram Davidson - The 63rd St. Station - 4 stars
- A man has spent his life living with his sister. When he finds a woman that he wants to marry and prepares to move on and leave his sister, he changes his mind and decides to return to his sister but, instead, ends up at the 63rd St. station.
Isaac Asimov - Science: That's Life! - 4 stars
- What is life? How do you define it?
Zenna Henderson - Shadow on the Moon - 5 stars
- Almost anything by Zenna Henderson rates 5 stars. In this story, two teenage members of "the people" find an old man who's final days are dedicated to building a spaceship to fly to the moon to complete his dead son's dream. They end up helping him and gain a lot for themselves.
Robert F. Young - Jonathan and the Space Whale - 4 stars
- An immense lifeform is detected in space as it eats up one of the moons of Mars. When a military craft is sent to destroy it, the pilot intentionally misses and is, in turn, absorbed into the creature. Inside it he finds - a world.
Manly Wade Wellman - Wonder As I Wander - 3 stars
- Several little vignettes of John, the traveling troubador/defender of those in need. They're intended to be used as links between the various stories when collected in a single volume. By themselves, they're largely meaningless.
Fritz Leiber - The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity - 5 stars
- A man discovers that he can understand what electricity is saying, and ultimately comes to regret it.
Grendel Briarton - Ferdinand Feghoot: XLIX - 3 stars
- The lead-in rates 2 or 3 stars, the pun gets 4.
Edgar Pangborn - A War of No Consequence - 4 stars
- Not too much really happens, but the tie-in to the previous story and the style rate it a 4.
Avram Davidson - The 63rd St. Station - 4 stars
- A man has spent his life living with his sister. When he finds a woman that he wants to marry and prepares to move on and leave his sister, he changes his mind and decides to return to his sister but, instead, ends up at the 63rd St. station.
Isaac Asimov - Science: That's Life! - 4 stars
- What is life? How do you define it?
Zenna Henderson - Shadow on the Moon - 5 stars
- Almost anything by Zenna Henderson rates 5 stars. In this story, two teenage members of "the people" find an old man who's final days are dedicated to building a spaceship to fly to the moon to complete his dead son's dream. They end up helping him and gain a lot for themselves.
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