Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 77

Catalog Note: *Authentic Science Fiction* #77 (February 1957) This issue features Jonathan Burke's novel *The Recusants*, which explores a future society where children born under "radiation blankets" develop superior intelligence and legally control their households. Henning and Myrna, themselves early-generation Newmen shaped by rebellious fathers, reject this regime and contemplate escape before having children who would dominate them. The narrative presents their attendance at a dinner with colleagues Paul and Lucille Marsh, whose two-year-old daughter Rowena already exhibits advanced intellect and makes household decisions, causing visible discomfort to the visiting couple. Burke examines the psychological tension between parental instinct and enforced deference to superintelligent offspring. The issue also contains Kenneth Bulmer's novelette *Twin's Play*; short stories by Edward Mackin, Philip E. High, A. Bertram Chandler, John Kippax, and William E. Bentley; and features including "Evolution of Man—Part 5" and "Men Behind the Atom." Editor E.C. Tubb announces a complete redesign of the magazine's format for the next issue.