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Books

'A Kind of History' D 0 you 'enjoy reading letters? Would you like to read 6,000 of them, all to or from the same person? If so, you have only ten years to wait. Professor W. S.......

The Higher S.f.

Best S.F.: Science Fiction' Stories. Edited by Edmund Crispin. (Faber, 15s.) IT is dangerous to praise science fiction publicly, as I have once before found to my cost. Friends,......