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jerkers; "Big Man", "Mystery of the Martian Pendulum" (which features the best illust. in Krupa's career), and "The Last Hours". Which doesn't leave much.
You've been accused time and again of using yarns which are nothing but cheap adventure, and having very little science-fiction to show. My guess is that you've been too lenient with these authors! When the war came along, they were absorbed with the hatred of it all, and as result their yarns became comic-strip action with spineless, sniveling, pull-his-hair-in-desperation jerks for heroes. And, following your policy of letting the authors have free rein with their imaginations, you let them get away with it. That's darned nice of you, but to think that these authors—these creators of the reckless, Hell-for-breakfast, space-roving he-men of bygone days—would let a thing like a horde of stinking, filthy Japs do this to them is horrible!
Naturally, any story with a good "atmosphere" about it will turn out twice as good as one jammed with all the action its author is capable of. Very few of your stories have atmosphere now. Nor are there very many "idea" stories.
Joe Gibson,
224 North High,
Albuquerque, N. M.
You certainly are choosey! Only three stories you actually liked, Burroughs, Wilcox, Patton. Well, at least you picked three boys who know how to write! We'll keep those three working on more stories to add to your lean list.—Ed.
FROM DOWN UNDER
Sirs:
It's about time I dropped you a line about your magazine, since I've been reading it ever since it came under the Ziff-Davis banner. Sometimes I wonder why I do read it. Perhaps I like it! But seriously, I've come across some 1933-1938 issues, and it's evident that you've come a long way since then. Now I won't say it's the best science-fiction magazine on the market, but it is good. I can always depend on it for some good, workmanlike science stories, even though they sometimes come wrapped up in unnecessary romantic and "cowboys and Injuns" trimmings. One beneficial result of this, however, is that it is never brain-fagging to go through an issue, and I very seldom have to re-read a story to get the science behind it.
Incidentally, the spur to this unwonted literary activity on my part consists of your 240 page January number. And I don't mean that May, 1940 issue: one expects something like that after those IS long years. (I myself am only 3 years older than Amazing.) No, what interested me was the fact that for no special occasion at all you put out such a bumper number. The three "novels" were good; the other six stories were good enough. That faint praise coming from me is quite a compliment; I very seldom come across an issue with which I am more than half-satisfied. Those 240 pages could spare 100 bad ones and still leave a magazine—full of good stuff.
