Sci-Fi Sundays: Amazing Science Fiction, April 1958

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Might be a futuristic super alloy, rather than iron. Might be a low-gravity world. Might be equipped with an anti-gravity unit.

Heck, the kid probably wanders around with it floating on a string…

Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!

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“. . . and waking up 30 years younger than your sweetheart.”

Six years off on Laika:

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So… what happened to their city?

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I just watched a man struggling while carrying a bin, and then 10 minutes of him putting books on a shelf. I’d have been better off watching myself put books on a bookshelf. That way, at least my office would be picked up a little.

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Either kidnapped by aliens, or a lone scientist has discovered antigravity and flown it away.

There are four blokes illustrated, two called Jerry and George; two, Anton and Boris . . . 1950s.

Just guessing but probably Communism stole Jerry and Georges’ city?.

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…Where the space-pooch bites it hard when that silly projection gets busted.

It’s a shame there’s so little illustration anymore. I suppose they can’t afford it. The cover burns the budget.

Young Glen Beck, before the radiation got to his brain?

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Actually the title for that illustration is what the parent in the background is yelling: “Johnny you forgot your suit’s sleeves!”

“One of our cities is missing” is a really good read.

The World of Tomorrow doesn’t include wireless?

Still a bubblehead, though.

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