IF SCIENCE FICTION. December 1967. Cover art: Douglas Chaffee. Editor: Frederik Pohl. Overall rating: **½.

JAMES WHITE “All Judgment Fled.: Serial, part 1 of 3. See report following my review of the February 1968 issue.

JAY KAY KLEIN “On Conquered Earth.” Another story of unsuspecting aliens being outsmarted by dumb Earthlings. (2)

FRITZ LEIBER “Answering Service.” An old woman who says she is dying of a heart attack needs help. (4)

C. C. MacAPP “When Sea Is Born Again.” Novelette. Life on an alien world, well-pictured, complicated by the forces of an unknown sea and by visitors from space. (3)

TERRY CARR “City of Yesterday.” The control of humans by machines reaches its final stages, (4)

ROBERT E. MARGROFF &ANDREW OFFUTT “Swordsmen of the Stars,” Novelette. A typical story of mercenary swordsmen hired to fight each other to decide quarrels between rulers of worlds. (2)

ROGER DEELEY “The Time Travellers.” Napoleon revisited. (3)

HAL CLEMENT “Ocean on Top.” Serial, part 3 of 3. See report to be posted soon here.

— May 1969.