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Readers' Corner

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_Now In Book Form_

Readers of Astounding Stories will be interested to hear
that two of the continued novels which appeared in our pages
during last year are coming out in book form.

The first of these is "Murder Madness," by Murray Leinster.
It is due sometime in February, so by the time this issue is
on the newsstands it will no doubt be already out. The
publishers are Brewer and Warren, and the price is $2.00.
Here's your chance, collectors, and those who missed an
instalment or two.

The other book is "Brigands of the Moon," by--everyone
knows--Ray Cummings. It should be coming along in a month or
so. Watch out for it!

_Mr. Cummings Sits In_

Dear Editor:

Thank you for the opportunity to address our Readers on
certain side-lights of my tale, "The Exile of Time." I
particularly welcome it, for the theme of Time-traveling is,
I think, the most interesting of any upon which I have
written.

Some of you will no doubt recall my stories "The Man Who
Mastered Time" and "The Shadow Girl." In "The Exile of
Time," I present the third of the trilogy. It has no
fictional connection with the others; it is in no sense a
sequel, but rather a companion story.

To write about Time-traveling is for me a difficult but
fascinating task. The opportunities are endless; and I hope
you may think I have taken advantage of them with a measure
of success.

I wrote those conceptions of Time and Space and the Great
Cosmos, which you will find in the text of the story,
because I feel them very deeply. Each occasion upon which
circumstances allow me to present my theories, I eagerly
welcome. How much of the conception is original with me, I
cannot say. It is the product of my groping interpretation
of the theories of many brilliant scientific minds of
today--humbly combined with perhaps some originality of my
own. The mind flings far afield when it starts to grope with
the Unknown. Try it! Read what I have written and then let
your mind roam a little further. Probe a little deeper.
Perhaps we may contribute something. It is only by that
process--each mind following some other's cleared path and
pushing forward a little on hi