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CONTENTS ...Moreover..., 3
Moebius, 5
The New Tales of the Arabian Nights, Sindbad in the Land of Ginn,by Corben and Strnad, 6
Rochberny, by Rochberny, 47
Galactic Geographic, by Kofoed, 48
Only Connect: A Sequence, by Alias, 51
More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon, Douglas Moench, and Alex Nino, 59
Heilman, by Voss, 71
Peaceful in the Country, by Alexis, 80
Somewhere, Sometime, by Workman, 84
Chain Mail, 84
Planet of Terror, by Caza and La Montellerie, 85
Age of Ages, by Akbar del Piombo and Rubington, 93
Front cover by Clyde Caldwell
Back cover by Michel Gueranger
"More Than Human," by Sturgeon, Moench, and Nino. The graphic story version of "More Than Human," copyright 1978 Byron Preiss Visual :
"The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornell us," by Moebius, "Mission on Saturn," by Petillon, "Gail," by Druillet. "Off-Season by Zha and Claveloux,
"Only Connect," by Alias, and "Heilman," by Voss are all from Metal Hurlant copyright c 1976, 1977, 1978 Metal Hurlant is published by
L, F, Editions. Les Humanoides Associes. Paris Reprinted by permission.
Editors: Sean Kelly, Valerie Marchanl Design Director: Peter Kleinman An Director: John Workman
Copy Editor: Susan Devlns Managing Editor: Julie Simmons Circulation Director: George S. Agoglla, Sr.
Foreign Rights Manager: Barbara Sabatino Production Manager: George Agoglia, Jr. Publishing Directors: Matty Simmons and Leonard Mogel
Publisher: Richard it. Barlhelmes
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Lone's next conscious thought was, Well, that's finished. . . . and now: death-cries in the wood. Lonely
Cooking and warmth and work. A birthday cake. A hunter, solitary prey. He had been alone the whole time.
bed. . .
Mrs. Prodd hadn't raised him; she'd been raising her
Jack, and for eight years he had been wrong.
It was cold at the foot of the Little animals ran on her face. They On the other side, something
dwarf oak, and as dark as the whispered and cooed. One stroked her soft snuggled against her. It said,
chambers of a dead man's heart. cheek. "Ho~ho," it said. "Hee-hee,"and she put one arm
Something had happened, and around Bonnie and one around
Janie had broken. Beanie and began to cry.
Lone came back to borrow an ax. He could do just so Horse dropped dead. Truck's all right, but I wish 3
much with his bare hands. When he came out from the could keep this from happening. Spend half my time
woods he saw the difference in the farm. All the colors "
it out.
Lone. Man, I thought I wouldn't see you again, going You'd think that would bother me, losing the horse,
off like you did. Come help me get unstuck, Lone-boy! but nothing bothers me these days. Wait'll Ma sees you!
Had breakfast?
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When Ma saw Lone, she hugged him hard. Something Prodd asked, "What you doing now, Lone?" Lone said,
uncomfortable stirred in Lone. He wanted an ax. He "Working.Up there." He moved his hand. "In the woods,
thought ail these other things were settled. "You sit right Lone? Doing what-trapping?"
down there and I'll get you some breakfast.
Lone knew he was Janie read as slowly and as carefully as she could. She Down in the cold
not good with conver- didn't have to read aloud, but only carefully enough so the dark cellar rooms,
sation, sounds, and twins could understand. She reached the part where the they had found can-
laughter so hejust said woman tied up the man and want the one with the pictures, ned vegetables and
yes, ate, asked Prodd came the silent message. So she changed books and they bottles of wine, which
for the ax, and went were happy again. they smashed. It tasted
out. bad but smelled just
wonderful.
This house was just the happiest thing of all. It was a big
house on a hill with a big wall around it. Bonnie had found
it.They'd had a terrible time Finding some way to get Janie
in, though, until Beanie fell into the brook where it went
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They had been happy ever since they got here and The best thing they had learned, though, was the way the
much of the hectic time before that. They had learned twins could attract attention when someone was chasing
that the twins could appear inside a space, like a store at
Janie appearing under their feet to trip them, be sud-
night, and unlock the door from the inside when it was denly sitting on their shoulders, and wetting into their
fastened with some kind of lock that Janie couldn't move. collars while Janie was just ordinarily running. Ho-ho.
It went much faster with the ax. Lone wanted to be able to more he looked at his hidden place, the more homey it
be only what he knew he was alone. But eight years at seemed. At First, his work on it was primitive, but soon he
the farm had changed his life. He needed shelter. The had a wonderful cabin-cave.
He was hunting for stones for the fireplace when an For half an hour he tried to ignore the call .and. .
invisible something began to tug at him. He recoiled as if he failed. He rose, and began to walk to the call in a
burned. It was sweet and needful, yes; but it was also the dreamlike world. The longer he walked, the more ir-
restimulation of a stinging lash, a crushing kick, and the resistible the call became, the deeper his
greatest loss he had ever known. enchantment. . .
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. . and by the time he reached the
.
Yes, the opening was still here, and the call like the one he had
. . .
It said, Who will take care of me now? She was looking directly at him.
"Bonnie!" she called sharply, and he felt a great surge of relief. She did
not want him.
Away went the restimulation. Back into the past went the whip and
the bellowing, the magic and the loss remembered still, but back
where they belonged, with their raw-nerve tendrils severed so that
never again could they reach into his present.
He had not known . he had notknown the size of his burden! The
. .
call was no maelstrom of blood and emotion, but the aimless chunter-
ings of a hungry brat.
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When he got back to his shelter, there "Ho-ho." Now there were Lone possessed an advantage; he had
was a small, naked child, about four years two little girls. no impulse whatever to question his san-
old, squatting in front of his door. "Hee- ity,but when he reached out to grab
"'
she said happily. them. . .
... he was astonished a strange thing in itself, for Once, years ago, he had run to catch a deer. Once he
he had seldom been interested enough in anything to be had reached up to catch a bird. Once he had plunged into
astonished. "Ho-ho," and "Hee-hee!" a stream after a trout. Once.
Inside, Lone So did the little girls with the big eyes who He would be crafty this time, ignoring them,
wished he had were sometimes not there. . . letting them come closer and closer to the seeth-
more carrots. ing pot. . .
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Then, when they . . . they were gone, He put on the inner bar and slowly circled the room.
fairly drooled. . .
Nothing. He shrugged.
And at length he ate. He had reached the point of Good evening. I was passing by and thought I would
licking his fingers when a sharp knock on the door come to call. You are at home? You see being good
caused him to bolt upright, so utterly unexpected was neighbors, we are willing to share dinner with you
Please? We' rehungry. Thestuff in the "You're a real cheap, stingy son of a bitch. Hesaw Mrs. Prodd. "Now you set right
cans, it's all gone. Please. we didn't want any ofyour old.
Well, ."
. .
down and have some breakfast." He leapt
.
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"
The corn should have been husked. Out in the fallow Well, Lone, boy. Corn's for husking. Ain't missed a mil-
field, the truck lay forlornly, bogged. The half-door into kin'. Sure miss that horse, though. Bothers me. Ma's
the barn, askew and perverted amid the misery, hollowly gone east. Come inside the house?
applauded.
Have a look, Lone boy. Go right on in, have a look. Fine See, he's not Jack, that's the one blessing. What that in
little feller, just fine. But Ma, she had to go off lookin' for there is, that's what the doctor calls a mongoloid. Can't
Jack, I reckon. . . . shovel him into the ground now, can you? That was all
right for Ma, way she loved flowers and all.
Too many words. Lone brought his The night was sun-stained by the time Lone put it down carefully. "It's a
eyes to Prodd'sand found out what he got home. Janie jumped up. baby," said Janie. "Is it a baby?" Lone
Prodd wanted. When he was finished "What's that? What'd you bring?" nodded.
he rasped, "Mindyoufix that barn door,
I'll come back.
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One afternoon Lone watched for a while and then
prodded Janie with his toe. "What's going on there?"
She looked. "Baby's talking to them."
Lone pondered. "I used to hear babies."
Bonnie says all babies can do it, and you were a baby,
weren't you?"
"What I mean is," said Lone laboriously, "when I was
growed I could hear babies."
"You must've been an idiot, then," said Janie. "Idiots
can't understand peoplebutcan understand babies. Bon-
nie told me."
"Baby's s'posed to be some kind of idiot."
"Yes, Beanie says he's different. He's like an adding
"You're a kidnapper," said Janie. "Know that?" machine."
"What's a kidnapper?" "What's a adding machine?"
"Man that steals babies, that's what!" Janie exaggerated her patience. "It's a thing you push
"Well," said Lone, "ain't nobody going to find out. buttons and it gives you the right answer. If you have
Only man knows about it, I fixed it so he's forgotten. three cents and four cents, you push a button for three
That's the daddy. The ma, she's dead, but he don't know and a button for four and then you pull a handle. The
that either. He thinks she's back East." machine tells you how many you got altogether."
The baby lay still with its dull button eyes open, breath- Lone sorted all this out, then waved toward the'orange
ing too loudly. Janie stood before the fire, staring crate that was now Baby's bassinet. "He got no buttons."
thoughtfully at the stewpot. Finally she dipped into it "That was just a finger of speech," Janie said loftily.
with a ladle and dribbled the juice into a tin can. "Milk," "Look, you tell Baby some things and he will put the
she said while she worked. "You got to start swiping milk somethings together and tell you what they come out to,
for him, Lone." just like the adding machine does with numbers. I got to
Janie slopped the broth on the baby's disinterested tell you every little thing four times. Now listen, if you
mouth. "He's getting some," Janie said optimistically. want to know something, you tell me and I'll tell Baby
"Maybe through his ears," said Lone, without humor. and he'll get the answer and tell the twins and they'll tell
Janie pulled at the baby's shirt and half sat him up. She me and I'll tell you."
frowned, then suddenly said, "Oh, maybe I can!" as if Lone sat and thought. "Suppose I got a truck," he said
answering a comment. The twins giggled and jumped up a half hour later. "It gets stuck in a field all the time; the
and down. ground's too tore up. Suppose I want to fix it so it won't
Janie drew the tin can a few inches away from the stick no more. Baby tell me a thing like that?"
baby's face and narrowed her eyes. The baby im- "Of course," said Janie sharply. She turned and looked
mediately started to choke. at Baby. In a moment.she looked at the twins. "He says
"That's not quite right but I'll get it," said Janie. She stop driving on the field and you won't get stuck. You
spent half an hour trying. Then the baby went to sleep. could have thought of that yourself, you dumbhead."
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Lone said, "Well, suppose you got to use it there, then The truck stood bogged in the field. Lone unwound
what?" the device from around his neck and shoulders and
Janie sighed. The next answer was, "Put great big began to attach it according to Baby's instructions. There
wheels on it." wasn't much to do. Just the little box with its four silvery
"Suppose you ain't got time nor money nor tools for cables: the box clamped to steering post, and each cable
that?" leading to a corner of the frame.
This time it was, "Make it real heavy where the ground He got in and pulled the knob toward him. The frame
is hard and real light where the ground is soft." creaked as the truck seemed to raise itself on tiptoe. He
Janie very nearly went on strike when Lone demanded pushed the knob forward. The truck settled its front axle
to know how this could be accomplished. Lone rejected and differential housing on solid ground with a bump
the suggestion of loading and unloading rocks. The day's that made his head rock. He scanned the other controls
impasse was reached when it was determined that there there, the ones that came with the truck: pedals and
was a way, but it could be expressed only by facts not in knobs and sticks and buttons. He sighed. He wished he
Lone's or Janie's possession. Janie said it sounded like had wit enough to drive a truck.
radio tubes and with that to go on, Lone proceeded by Lone got out and climbed the hill to Prodd's house. He
entering a radio service shop the next night and stealing wasn't there. The kitchen door swung in the breeze.
a heavy armload of literature. For days, Janie scanned There was a smell of mildew. Otherwise it was fairly the
elementary electricity and radio texts, which meant noth- same as the last time he was here. The only new thing was
ing to her but which apparently Baby could absorb faster a paper nailed to the wall by all four corners. It had
than she scanned. writing all over it. Lone sighed. He wished he had sense
At last the specifications were met: something which enough to read.
Lone could make himself, which would involve only a He plunged into the forest without looking back. He
small knob you pushed to make the truck heavier and never returned. The truck stood out in the sun, slowly
pulled to make it lighter according to Baby, a sine qua deteriorating, slowly falling to pieces around the bright,
non. strange silver cables. Powered by the slow release of
With the help of two tongue-tied infants, a mongoloid atomic binding energy, the device was the practical solu-
baby, and a sharp-tongued child who seemed to despise tion of flight without wings, the simple key to a new era in
him but never failed him, Lone built the device. He did it transportation and interplanetary travel. Made by an
because an old man who had taught him something he idiot, harnessed to replace a spavined horse, stupidly left,
could not name was mad with bereavement and needed numbly forgotten . earth's first anti-gravity generator.
. .
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Lone made Janie read the letter four times in a three- Ask Baby what is a friend.
week period. He had believed that Prodd was his only
contact with anything outside himself, and that the chil-
dren were merely fellow occupants of a slag dump at the
edge of mankind. The loss of Prodd was the loss of life
itself. At the very least, it was the loss of everything
conscious.
i i
ma m*iv i\ i ag&*a u 1
But then, Prodd and his wife had shucked him off when
he was in the way. You can't say you're a part of anything,
^ anybody, that feels free to do that to you. But friends
. maybe they just didn't like him for a while; maybe
. .
they loved him all the way through. "Ask Baby if you can
be truly part of someone you love."
"He says only if you love yourself."
His bench mark, his goal point, had for years been that
guards or screens or barriers no language to stumble
thing which happened to him on the bank of the pool. If over, no ideas to misunderstand, nothing at all but a
he could understand that, he was sure he could under- merging. What had he been then? What was it Janie had
stand everything. Because for a second there was this said? Idiot. An idiot.
Waitingfor the end of innocence and an idiot is waiting for the end of
So each ends in their meeting! What am I doing? he thought
idiocy, too.
am and what I belong to
wildly. Trying to find out what I is this another . . .
"Ask Baby what kind of people are constandy trying to find out what they
areand what they belong to."
"He says, wery kind."
"What kind," Lone whispered, "am /?" A minute later he roared, "What
kind?"
brain and I am a body and the twins are arms and legs and you are the head.
He says the T
is all of us."
Lone thought his heart would burst. "I belong! Part of you, you, and you,
too! And we'll grow! We just got born!"
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I just finished reading my room- hookers- let themselves fuck your
mate's copy of this month's HM. I fathers only for Hershey bars or other
thought I'd let whoever wrote "Bar- things to eat? It was because their
barella" know that a light year is a babies were hungry or their kids were
measurement of distance, not time.... in danger of dying of malnutrition,
Peter A. Smith and the only way to get something to
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April 1978, mention was made of the those women or soldiers who fucked
storyboards for the Dune film, drawn the devil out of their souls only to have
by Moebius. Do such exist? And if so. some hours of human warmth, feel-
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