Science Fiction Quarterly, November 1957

Science Fiction Quarterly, November 1957 This issue features the novelet "Escape to Earth" by Manly Banister, in which narrator Gil Bradley, an advertising account executive, is unexpectedly contacted by Cleo Parker—his former sweetheart who now works as assistant to Coleman the Great, a stage magician. Cleo offers Bradley a lucrative publicity job to replace a predecessor who died of pneumonia in New York. The mystery deepens when three bodyguards accompany Cleo, and she hints at unspecified dangers. Bradley, conflicted about his feelings for Cleo and suspicious of Coleman's true nature, must decide whether to accept. The issue also contains the novel "The Conduit" by Noel Loomis, involving a protagonist named Tommy Distal struggling with an extended period of mortality and displacement, complicated by extraterrestrial invaders. Additional short fiction includes works by Paul Janvier, A. Bertram Chandler, Russ Winterbotham, and Milton Lesser, alongside Isaac Asimov's feature article "The Clock Paradox."