| Article Abstracts: #34 (1412 words) |
 | It was its entertainment value which, in the context of the economic pressures and blandishments of modern book-marketing, led it into prostitution, demeaning to its rational inheritance and also to its genetic integrity (in all senses of the word). |
| Antoni Slonimski's The Torpedo of Time (1924) stands as a poignant reminder of SF's now-lost innocence. |
| What Slonimski's book offers is not a slick idea more or less loosely attached to an otherwise sensational (if not prurient) tale, but a thought profoundly embedded in the very substance of the fiction--a thought about the nature of history, about the futility of human historical ambition. |
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