yesteryear. I could almost remember those days when I started to read a novel, a war couldn't dislodge me, but now it's inversely.
There is one good rule I always follow and that is, when I'm tired, irritable or disgusted I start reading A.S. and before I know it, I'm in the pink—it worked wonders with me.
Classification of stories are a bit ticklish, but here goes:
No. 1. Peace Mission on Planetoid X—A slow starter at the beginning and winding up with plenty of action to end a good novel.
No. 2. The Vengeance of Martin Brand—Unfortunately I had to rate this story as second best because I missed last month's instalment. Had I read the entire novel I would select it as No. 1.
No. 3. Blitz Against Japan—Propaganda—it is swell reading matter—science-fictionally it doesn't live up to its expectations. Imagine a flyer learning the rudimentary of rocketry in a few hours, it's fantastically fantastic.
No. 4. Captain Stinky—An amusing story, plenty of laughs, never a dull moment.
No. 5. Convoy In Space—Keep those spacefem's out, especially those who can’t take it.
No. 6. The Love Song of Lancelot Biggs.
No, 7. Robotcycle For Two.
No. 8. Vengeance on Venus—It is as good as Venusian stew, it stunk.
No. 9. Giants Beyond Pluto.
Pvt. Wm. Sadownick, Jr.,
A. A. A. Board,
Camp Davis, N. C.
Well, that makes us old Doc' Amazing, doesn't! it?—Ed.
NOT AS GOOD?
Sirs:
I'll bet I could safely wager that for every issue you've published of Amazing for the last year, at least, you have received a letter from some old reader filled with anguish and appeal, begging you to try something—something—to improve the quality of your stories. Perhaps, because you've gotten so many pats-on-the-back from relatively new readers, you haven't taken the former citizenry very seriously.
Frankly, your stories aren't as good as they were two years ago; much less than they were three years ago. In a little over a year and a half, Amazing hasn't had anything which was really a smash-hit. That used to be your specialty.
Of course, you have had some yarns that were popular enough to reach the top of your list. There was "John Carter and the Giant of Mars", a very nostalgic yarn for those who remembered Burroughs' Carter. For the rest of this series, though, he swept off on a new pace. He wasn't half so good as of old, but he did succeed in capturing this pace and making it interesting, as in "The Invisible Men of Mars".
Then there was "Battering Rams of Space", about the best of Wilcox's that I—a space-yarn fan—have seen. Top that off with the "Test Tube Girl", and you have the only yarns worth mentioning. Subtract by three downright tear-
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