future? Who can answer that? They may
return in force, this may have been a step which was taken before. Those
pylons may still stand in the future above a deserted sea and island. We
shall probably never know."

That was also their own truth. For them also there had been a
substitution of journey tapes by Fate, and this was now their Hawaika.
Ross Murdock, Gordon Ashe, Karara Trehern, Tino-rau, Taua--five Terrans
forever lost in time--in the past with a dubious future. Would this be
the barren, lotus world, or another now? Yes, no--either. They had found
their key to the mystery out of time, but they could not turn it, and
there was no key to the gate which had ceased to exist. Grasp tight the
present. Ross looked about him. Yes, the present, which might be very
satisfying after all....

* * * * *

SCIENCE FICTION by ANDRE NORTON

THE DEFIANT ANGENTS

Operation Cochise: a carefully planned Western move to colonize a planet
ahead of the Reds. Travis Fox had been an eager volunteer, but the
morning he dragged himself half-conscious from the wrecked spaceship on
the planet Topaz, he sensed the terror which would threaten the project.
Travis never learned why the ship had crashed, nor why he and the other
Apache agents had been shot into space without warning and under Redax
control, a machine which had returned them to ancestral mentality.

But the dangers on Topaz demanded free minds, for Travis soon realized
that if the Reds already encamped beyond the mountains--a horde of
barbaric Mongols completely dominated by their masters--discovered the
secret of the eerie underground chamber in the towers hidden in a valley
of mists, not only Topaz but Terra itself would be destroyed.

Andre Norton's ability to grip the reader and transport him to other
worlds in space and time is well known. In this fast-paced adventure in
which the struggle for domination of men's minds ranges from control of
their prehistoric memories to the risk of unleashing a horror never
meant for the hands of men, the author again proves to be "a superb
storyteller whose skill draws the reader completely into a fantastic
other-world," (_Chicago Tribune_). A companion book to _Galactic
Derelict_.

STORM OVER WARLOCK

"Fleeing from Throg invaders, Shann Lantee and Ragnar Thorvald enter the
world of beautiful women. Immensely powerful as they are lovely, these
witches control men by thought domination. Sha