lassify the stories as follows:

"Beyond the Heaviside Layer," good; "Earth, the Marauder,"
excellent, best in issue; "From an Amber Block," fairly
good; "The Terror of Air-Level Six," very good; "The
Forgotten Planet," excellent; "The Power and the Glory,"
good; "Murder Madness," very good, but not so much so as
preceding chapters.

Now for a few criticisms:

1. Your magazine (or should I say "our" magazine?) is too
small. Of course, it would be a radical change to make it
larger, but, like others, I think in the end you would gain
rather than lose by it. Most small magazines are cheap
affairs, and to have Astounding Stories small brands it as a
cheap type of magazine. Small magazines are more likely to
be hidden on the newsstands by larger ones, and in most
stores the large magazines have the more advantageous
positions.

2. The edges of your pages are uneven. You look in the index
and find an interesting story is on, for example, page 56.
You skim the pages to find it, and from page 43 you find
yourself suddenly at page 79. Make the paper more even,
please.

3. Don't have advertisements before the stories. Have them
in the rear.

4. Have a full page illustration facing the beginning of
each story. If at the end of a story you find pages won't
turn up right, continue the last page to the back of the
book.

Wesso is excellent. Another good artist is Paul, who draws
for another Science Fiction magazine. Your cover
illustrations are fine.

Summary: Enlarge size of magazine, smooth edges of paper,
have advertisements in rear of book, use full page
illustrations.

If this is expensive, you could charge twenty-five cents
instead of twenty cents, and I, for one, would be glad to
pay the extra nickel as I do for other magazines of Science
Fiction.--Robert Baldwin, 1427 Judson Ave., Evanston,
Illinois.

_"The Readers' Corner"_

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Although from time to time the Editor may make a comment or so, this
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