eprints would not help
your friendly connections with a lot of your Authors. The
stories that are written now I find good. Let the present
authors make their living from the stories their brains
think up.

As for more science, bah!--your present amount is enough. In
another magazine I read a story and just as it reached its
climax they started explaining something! If any Reader
wants to write to me my address is below.--Arthur Mann, Jr.,
San Juan, California.

_Wants Interplanetary Cooperation_

Dear Editor:

C'n y'imagine, I have my Astounding Science magazine two
whole hours and the cover is still on!

Let's have some more stories like "Beyond the Vanishing
Point," by Ray Cummings in the March issue.

Another thing, let's have more interplanetary stories than
we do. I think they give you something to really think
about.

Why is it that in every interplanetary story the other race
is always hostile. Just think, would we, if we received
visitors from space, make war on them? Also, when our people
make an interplanetary flight, would we go with intent to
kill? Let's have some stories, where the first
interplanetary flight leads to cooperation between the
planets involved.--Dave Diamond, 1350--52nd St., Brooklyn,
N. Y.

_In Every Way, True_

Dear Editor:

I want to rejoice again over Astounding Stories. Reprints or
no:--and I hunger for them--the magazine must be described
in superlatives.

The reasons is pretty clear to me. After years in an
experimental stage, Science Fiction suddenly turned up with
a clash of cymbals in the shape of a definite magazine. It
had to cover the whole field, and its successors tried to do
the same. Due to its ancestry its logical scope was the more
technical Science Fiction farthest removed from sheer
fantasy, but, none-the-less, one of the most important
branches. Now it is specializing in that type.

When Astounding Stories appeared many of us were apt to be
skeptical, particularly when we noticed that an established
corporation was backing it, one that had been limited to
westerns and the like. The first few issues came and there
was a dubious tinge of the occult, the "black-magical." This
petered out, and we noticed that no matter how poor the
su