story, I'll cheer twice. When it comes to
writing that kind of a story, Flagg's the king of them all.
For sheer interested and originality, he's got his
contemporaries in that field outdistanced with a distance
that can only be counted by light-years.

A pat on the back for Booth Cody and Sears Langwell, two
staunch supporters.

All our magazine needs is a story about time crusaders, or a
planet of mechanical men.

Omitting the authors already mentioned, I considered my
favorites to be Rousseau, Eshbach, Diffin, Ernst, and Hal K.
Wells.

The best story you ever published? Who am I to answer? Why
not put it up to the Readers for popular vote?--Jerome
Siegel, 10522 Kimberley Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.

_Explanation Wanted_

Dear Editor:

This is my first letter to you, but I am a consistent Reader
of Astounding Stories, and look forward to all of the coming
issues. I have in mind a question, a friendly one, not one
that I expect to or hope will seem to be trying to dampen
any theories. This rocket-ship propulsion: as I understand
it, there is a void between all planets, etc. If this is the
case, how then can a rocket-propelled space ship go across
this void? Since the exhaust of the rockets must rely on
some material of a sort, or rather some sort of resistance
to push the ship along, how does it push on nothing? Of
course, near Earth it has the ground and then the atmosphere
to push from, but out in the void, why not cut off and save
fuel, therefore saving an extra heavy load of explosives, if
rocket-ships were really practical in space flying? Yours
for a thicker Astounding Stories--H. M. Crowson, Jr.,
Sumter, S. C.

_Better Than Love Stories_

Dear Editor:

I have started to read the Astounding Stories and enjoy it
very much, although I do not find very many girls writing in
to the "Corner." This mag is a thousand times better than
all those love story magazines, and besides these stories
are educational.

I would rather read Astounding Stories than eat. They are
not too scientific to be boresome, but they are just good
enough to be real interesting.

I wish you would publish some more stories like "The Lake of
Light," "Dark Moon," etc. I especially like stories of the
future and interpla