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Farnham’s Freehold, by Robert A. Heinlein. Putnam, $4.95 A Pail of Air, by Fritz Leiber. Ballantine U2216, 50₵ Trader to the Stars, by Poul Anderson. Doubleday, $3.50 Herewith bridge, cum War III and time travel; chess with automation; and finally, that game of games, commerce.

Grandmaster (in science fiction, if not in bridge) Robert Heinlein has produced yet another of his crisp, swift, assured fictions, and takes us thereby through an atomic holocaust, some forthright sex, a couple thousand years into the future, a feudal civilization complete with slaves (handled rather as if slaveholding is as much of an advance as technology and medicine) and at last back to the present—at least, to a present. Bridge, and bridge strategy, is present and commanding throughout; its introduction to a satrap of the future society is the joiliest thing since the Connecticut Yankee ran that locomotive through King Arthur’s court.

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Theodore Sturgeon

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Farnham’s Freehold, by Robert A. Heinlein. Putnam, $4.95 A Pail of Air, by Fritz Leiber. Ballantine U2216, 50₵ Trader to the Stars, by Poul Anderson. Doubleday, $3.50 Herewith bridge, cum War III and time travel; chess with automation; and finally, that game of games, commerce.

Grandmaster (in science fiction, if not in bridge) Robert Heinlein has produced yet another of his crisp, swift, assured fictions, and takes us thereby through an atomic holocaust, some forthright sex, a couple thousand years into the future, a feudal civilization complete with slaves (handled rather as if slaveholding is as much of an advance as technology and medicine) and at last back to the present—at least, to a present. Bridge, and bridge strategy, is present and commanding throughout; its introduction to a satrap of the future society is the joiliest thing since the Connecticut Yankee ran that locomotive through King Arthur’s court.