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...Spacemen, Beware! Finally Tripp had delusions: he thought the marathon was over, but that the investigators were playing a game with him to keep it running. At one point he imagined he was broadcasting from another building miles away. These changes in mental functioning reminded psychiatrists of breakdowns under sleep deprivation and round-the-clock questioning in Iron Curtain countries. To psychologists thinking of spaceships, his crackup on the lighted-panel tests were a significant warning...
Evading the technological mumbo jumbo of most spacemen of letters, Author Bradbury concentrates instead on the post-atomic-war homesickness of displaced Earthlings, or the pioneering wonder of planet hopping. An unexpected religiosity mars several of these tales and suggests that science fiction may be catering to a new brand of heresy ("If there's any way to get hold of that immortality men are always talking about, this is the way-spread out-seed the universe...
...fails to grasp the cold-war challenge of space, the prediction of Hungarian-born Physicist Edward Teller may come dismally true. Asked what he expected the first U.S. spacemen to find when they get to the moon, Teller gave the grim reply: "Russians...
...public-relations fiction, all written more or less from the inside, is that people, plots and other parts are virtually interchangeable. If ad fiction can become plentiful and anesthetic enough, it may yet rival science fiction: the bug-eyed monsters will be replaced by tyrannical clients, the clean-cut spacemen by bright-eyed space-buyers, and the half-dressed blondes by other half-dressed blondes...
...spacemen of the world met in Amsterdam last week for the ninth Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, they were the most sought-after scientists on earth. They obliged by plotting dozens of ways to leave it. Items...