Most of it's standardized formula-stuff; what's known to the trade
as space-operas. My best stuff goes to _Astonishing_. Parenthetically,
you mustn't judge any of these magazines by their names. It seems to be
a convention to use hyperbolic names for science-fiction magazines; a
heritage from what might be called an earlier and ruder day. What I do
for _Astonishing_ is really hard work, and I enjoy it. I'm working now on
one for them, based on J. W. Dunne's time-theories, if you know what they
are."
"I think so," Rand said. "Polydimensional time, isn't it? Based on an
effect Dunne observed and described--dreams obviously related to some
waking event, but preceding rather than following the event to which they
are related. I read Dunne's _Experiment with Time_ some years before the
war, and once, when I had nothing better to do, I recorded dreams for
about a month. I got a few doubtful-to-fair examples, and two
unmistakable Dunne-Effect dreams. I never got anything that would help
me pick a race-winner or spot a rise in the stock market, though."
"Well, you know, there's a case on record of a man who had a dream of
hearing a radio narration of the English Derby of 1933, including the
announcement that Hyperion had won, which he did," Pierre said.
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