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Their courtship was secret, their wedding a surprise, then- partnership a miracle in the upper ranks of Russian science. Our group was small. Beside myself, there were six girls. Miss Luptik had given them names. I became Blue Bear, according to the custom. URSULA K. LEGUIN:The Rule of Names, Fant, Apr. It was one of those days when cheer came out of a rubbery sky in great splotches and globs of half-snow and eased down the windowpanes like breakups of little glaciers. I decided it was as good a time as any to talk to them about Geryl. "Dont knock it," I told him. "When I was a kid, all I had was an ant-colony. I got my infantile Weltanschauung watching a bunch of bugs running around between two plates of glass. I think I would have been better prepared by a couple of hungry rats on a treadmill. Or maybe a torus-shaped fish tank alternating sharks with schools of piranhas: Get them all chasing around after each other real fast— " At first she thought it was the river that worked the transformation. Seen from the tower, it might have been time, without beginning and without end, flowing from and to eternity. To watch it was like being hypnotized, surrendering the mind to the river as a swimmer might surrender the body. On and on, her mind drifted in musing such as she rarely had allowed it, because she could not afford the habit. Suddenly she became aware that at some point she had left the river and was on the verge of a strange country. Words and music by Theodore R. Cogswell Clarice said,Have another potato, at regular intervals. Id hidden the picture of the old Charlie Gordon from myself because now that I was intelligent it was something that had to be pushed out of my mind. But today in looking at that boy, for the first time I saw what I had been.I was just like him! John had been to the office sometime yesterday, evidently with the intention of preparing his report on Featherstone for delivery to Mr. Sutton. Sabina discovered this by checking his desk. The ink-stained blotter had been empty when she left for the bank and Voting Rights for Women; the Featherstone file now sat in the middle of it. She opened it and read through the contents. The evidence it contained, as his note had indicated, seemed mostly complete, but whether or not it was damning enough to satisfy their client she couldnt be certain. R. UNDERWOOD:The Crazy Mathematicians, F&SF, Apr. The same. As I write, Ballards newest novel.The Crystal World, is about to appear in both countries (Cape and Farrar), and Berkley has just released a new collection. TheImpossible Man, and other Stories. Another collection is forthcoming from Cape, and Doubleday is planning the first American hardcover collection. Finally, I should like to express my considerable gratitude to those who assisted in compiling this volume—most notably James Blish and Merril Zissman, who revised and copied the music for the songs; Ann Pohl, who did most of the cataloging; and Barbara Norville, Oriole Kingston, Mae Sugrue, and Bob Bone, for a marvellous assortment of miscellany. "Some hope," she said with deliberate coarseness. "Surely even you must have noticed that ancient dress his wife is wearing! He wont give much away to strangers." "Do you suffer pains?" I ask him, curiously. Miss Hutton sat at her desk in the lower Sixth formroom and watched the girl pass the half-open door. Then she called softly, knowing she would hear. What is to be done with it eventually? she asked..
