Now, about the magazine. I think it is a good publication and I like it werra, werra mooch. I bought it on impulse and happened to be lucky enough to get the first issue, and nary an issue have I missed since. Although I possess an abject horror of any kind of insect, I enjoyed "The Beetle Horde" to the fullest extent. But here's hoping nothing like that will really happen. Another thing I'd like to state is this: Some reader made a remark about not publishing any of Verne's works. I say you should. Why should any such great author be disregarded in so good a magazine? And is it not interesting to note that some of his stories have become actual realizations? Even Poe's should be published. All those dead authors whose stories would be considered good were they living. Why should any person ask not to have such good stories in your magazine? Perhaps there are some people who would enjoy them, but do not have the means nor time to buy these great works in book form. Think it over, ye Ed., think it over. And now, to finish up, I'll say: are there any readers like me--a girl--or do only men and boys read Astounding Stories?--Gertrude Hemken, 5730 So. Ashland Ave., Chicago, Ill. _Short--and Sweet_ Dear Editor: Congratulations! Have followed up every issue of Astounding Stories and have found them the best yet. I have one fault to find and that is you do not publish Astounding Stories often enough. Thirty days is too far between.--Bernard Bauer, 235 Holland St., Syracuse, N. Y. _Yes Sir!_ Dear Editor: I read Astounding Stories all the time, although I'm just a boy. I think they're O. K. They give me a great "kick." I think "The Moon Master" was the best story I ever read. Please ask Mr. Diffin to write more like it. But then all the stories are really peppy.--Jack Hudson, St. Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts. _"Undoubtedly the Best"_ Dear Editor: Your magazine is undoubtedly the best Science Fiction "mag" on the stands. Why? Because of your authors. There is not another Science Fiction book on the stands that has stories by Victor Rousseau, Murray Leinster Ray Cummings, A. T. Locke, A. J. Burks, C. W. Diffin, S. W. Ellis and many others. Some of your readers want stories by Dr. David H. Keller, Ed Earl Repp and Walter Kately. Well, I just wanted to tell you that I have stopped reading all other Science Fiction "mags" on account of the frequency of these authors in them. So please, please, don't destroy my last stronghold.