Science fiction -- Periodicals; Science fiction, American -- Periodicals
Do not change the size (i. e. width and length); but as for
enlarging it in the thickness direction, you have my
heartiest encouragement. I notice that one of the other
magazines has changed its size, so now you are not alone.
Evening up the edges of the sheets would improve the looks,
however. And now that you have had your first birthday, when
are you going to start a quarterly? In it you could publish
a complete book length novel and seven novelettes. By novel,
I mean a story of about one hundred pages or more of your
present size, and novelettes fifty pages or more. You could
double the price because a quarterly is worth double what a
monthly is worth.
Your artists are great, but you could still improve by
having them make a full page illustration at the start and
one more exciting one as the story progresses.
Well, I think I've said enough good things about you and
enough suggestions, so until January 1932, adios, au revoir,
etc.--Henry Benner, Cowithe, Wash.
_Ouch!_
Dear Editor:
Personally I would rather read a good short story than the
ten pages of instructions by Readers published in the March
issue. Two pages are plenty, especially when half the
criticisms concern paper, size, edges of paper, etc. A. S.
is O. K!
How about that other short?--Don Ward, 6 Ketchel St.,
Auburn, N. Y.
_Likes Action_
Dear Editor:
I have just finished the February issue of Astounding
Stories. All of the stories were so good I couldn't tell you
which one is the best. "The Phalanxes of Atlans" and "The
Tentacles from Below" were very good. I liked "The Black
Lamp," too. It is up to the standard of the rest of the Dr.
Bird stories. "The Pirate Planet" ended very beautifully.
However, I did not like that about Sykes getting killed.
"Werewolves of War" was good. It ended differently from most
of the other stories. Most of them end with the hero
escaping, but in this the hero was killed. It had a very
good plot.
I got my first copy of Astounding Stories last July and I
haven't missed a copy since. Why not put out Astounding
Stories twice a month, or make it a weekly? I hate to have
to wait a whole month before I get another copy.
I believe that the best story I have ever read in this
magazine was "The Invisible Death," by Victor Rousseau.
The reason I like Astounding Stories better than any other
Science Fiction magazine is that most of the other magazines
have too much science and not enough action.--Dale Griffith,
437 Carson St., San Antonio, Texas.
"_To Satisfy Myself_"
Dear Editor:
It has been long since I read the February issue of your
magazine and I'm waiting anxiously for the March issue.
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