A complete issue · 162 pages · 1957
Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 77
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1957 — all 162 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 162 pages · 1957
This issue features Jonathan Burke's novel The Recusants, which explores a future society where children born under "radiation blankets" develop superior intelligence and legally control their households. Henning and Myrna, themselves early-generation Newmen shaped by rebellious fathers, reject this regime and contemplate escape before having children who would dominate them. The narrative presents their attendance at a dinner with colleagues Paul and Lucille Marsh, whose two-year-old daughter Rowena already exhibits advanced intellect and makes household decisions, causing visible discomfort to the visiting couple. Burke examines the psychological tension between parental instinct and enforced deference to superintelligent offspring. The issue also contains Kenneth Bulmer's novelette Twin's Play; short stories by Edward Mackin, Philip E. High, A. Bertram Chandler, John Kippax, and William E. Bentley; and features including "Evolution of Man—Part 5" and "Men Behind the Atom." Editor E.C. Tubb announces a complete redesign of the magazine's format for the next issue.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.