A CALIFORNIAN BOOSTER
Have been reading Amazing Stories since the first publication; this is very unusual, for I never did like to read magazines, outside of Science and Invention, which I have bought since 1915, at that time known as the Electrical Experimenter.
I can truthfully say I have spent over two hundred dollars in experiments of ideas I have gleaned through the reading of some stories in this magazine. I was going to send in a story at the time of your cover contest, after spending some ten dollars to follow out a theory I received from the picture of that spherical float, and failing, I did not have the heart to send in a story based on nothing.
I have just purchased the August issue, and for some unusual reason, looked the Discussions section over first, and it is with alarm that I see so many readers in favor of a semi-monthly issue. That is fair enough, but I hope you do not publish this magazine but once a month, this magazine is too good a thing for that, it is like watching an act of ventriloquism or "Mind Reading," ten or fifteen minutes is enjoyable; more, no.
I believe there are many people who buy this magazine once a month, and if it were printed oftener, rather than lose an issue, would stop entirely, I among them, for I run myself on a budget.
Concerning the stories of Amazing Stories, they can't be beaten. I will admit there were two stories published in this magazine over which I went to sleep, and at the same time, there were two that gave me such night-mares I could not sleep, so that the good and the bad were mutual, but as a whole, the short stories and the serials are wonderful, I congratulate you upon the choice of authors.
After completing the reading of the story entitled "The Moon Pool," by A. Merritt, I am of the opinion it is the ULTRA-DE LUXE of written or printed stories, it is perfect in all detail.
Mr. A. Merritt, A. Hyatt Verrill, Garrett P. Serviss, Murray Leinster and H. G. Wells are sure the CREAM of SCIENTIFICTION. I remain,
An Amazing Stories and Science & Invention
Long Branch, Cal.
[Here is a most refreshing letter. When a man backs up his conviction by $200.00 in cash to experiment on ideas stimulated through the reading of Amazing Stories, the editors feel that they have indeed done a public service, and have perhaps helped the world in its progress. This is the sort of testimony that speaks far more eloquently than words ever could. It is this sort of letter that enlivens the humdrum existence of the editor.—Editor.]
DESCRIPTION IN SCIENTIFIC STORIES
Editor, Amazing Stories:
I have just finished perusing with the utmost enjoyment the July issue of Amazing Stories.
Would it be possible to have less scientific descriptions, which are usually uninterpretable to the layman, and more action? This I find to be the only fault in your magazine. However, its pleasing and soul-satisfying qualities are of such an overwhelming majoritythat such a small matter makes not a great deal of difference.
The stories, "The Runaway Skyscraper," "The Second Deluge," and "The Moon Pool," were among the best you have yet published. But then, practically everything you have yet published has been so excellent, that it seems unnecessary to eliminate any.
I most heartily agree with Mr. P. J. Lydon, who asks that you reprint in "Amazing Stories," the Ray Cummings stories that have appeared in "Science and Invention." And the suggestion that your masterpiece be issued twice monthly has proved so agreeable to so many of your readers that it is now almost a necessity. Let me cast my vote in favor of it. That you print not enough in one issue is my despair, for when I bought the first copy you issued, "Amazing Stories," was promoted immediately to first place in the ranks of reading matter.
Again let me ask that your magazine may hold Ray Cummings' very interesting stories, and that it may be issued just as often as your authors can keep you supplied with material and your presses can print the great number of copies I predict will be necessary.
Could not Mr. A. B. Chandler, your English correspondent, overlook the stories he has read before, when he realizes that you are giving us who have not had the opportunity of reading them, that pleasure? His is the only letter I have seen which complains of stories from Science and Invention magazine.
Mr. Thomas O'Neill says that we, who do not like over-descriptive stories, do not know how to read. I have read, I can safely say, all the better authors, some of them I have read over and over again, and even some of the dryest books interest me greatly. But in a periodical like yours, descriptions, especially of scientific facts or improbabilities, become rather poor reading.
Thanking you for your attention in reading this.
Winnipeg, Can.
[We do not feel it would be best to reduce the number of scientific descriptions which appear in Amazing Stories; as they are imaginary they are to a considerable extent, uninterpretable, and we do not feel that they make the stories deficient in action. We thank our correspondent for his very luminous criticism, even though we do not agree with him in many respects, and he will find that his views seem not to be shared by a majority of our correspondents and readers.—Editor]
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