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[Illustration: _The Readers' Corner_

_A Meeting Place for Readers of_
Astounding Stories]

_Our Thanks_

Three months ago the Clayton Magazines presented to lovers of Science
Fiction everywhere a new magazine with a brand-new policy--Astounding
Stories--and now it is the Editor's great pleasure to announce to our
thousands of friends that this new magazine is enjoying a splendid
success.

Within twenty-four hours of the time that Astounding Stories was
released for sale, letters of praise began pouring into our office,
and--and this is significant--many of them clearly revealed that their
writers had grasped the essential difference of the new Science Fiction
magazine over the others.

We cannot better state this difference, this improvement, than by
quoting what the Reader whose letter appears under the caption, "And
Kind to Their Grandmothers," says in his very first paragraph: "And I
was still more pleased, and surprised, to find that the Editor seems to
know that such stories should have real story interest, besides a
scientific idea." It is exactly that. Every story that appears in
Astounding Stories not only must contain some of the forecasted
scientific achievements of To-morrow, but must be told vividly,
excitingly, with all the human interest that goes to make any story
enjoyable To-day.

The Editor and staff of Astounding Stories express their sincere thanks
to all who have contributed to our splendid start--especially to those
who had the kindness to write in with their helpful criticism.

Already one of your common suggestions has been taken up and embodied in
our magazine, and so we have this new department, "The Readers'
Corner," which from now on will be an informal meeting place for all
readers of Astounding Stories. We want you never to forget that a
cordial and perpetual invitation is extended to you to write in and talk
over with all of us anything of interest you may have to say in
connection with our magazine.

If you can toss in a word of praise, that's fine; if only criticism,
we'll welcome that just as much, for we may be able to find from it a
way to improve our magazine. If you have your