SciFi/Fantasy Magazine CoversJun 25, 2025

Fantastic Story Magazine vol. 4, no. 1 (1952)

"Why do these rocket-ship-like vehicles need roads at all?", is my first question, followed much more urgently by "OMG what's happened to the earth, it's grey?"!

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Story_Magazine_v04n01_1952-Summer_Damaged_ibcbc_El_PM

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Show threadPeter Kisner ≈

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Very few people are aware that SLAN was originally an acronym for:

Slot Led Astro-Navigation

Van Vogt's first draft of the story dealt primarily with the private lives and personal dramas of Lunar rocket-slot-car pilots. With the obvious implied metaphor regarding powerful men frustratingly confined to a predefined "track", where any social or career deviation would end disastrously.

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Jun 25, 2025 at 3:39amWeb