Regarding the art work: I like both the front and back covers. They appeal to my fancy for bright colors. (That's how we spell it here.) I'm beginning to think that it is the covers that fascinate me into buying Amazing. As for the interior illustrations, well, you've got something there! I refer, of course, to Finlay and Magarian: they're perfect! Fuqua, Krupa, Ruth and Paul are all okay, but Jackson and St. John leave me cold. Newman and Glueckstein are a fine pair of cartoonists: I am very much in favor of having cartoons in Amazing. Humor is a serious neglect of many stf. magazines.
And what about the writers? Well, strange as it may seem, I am not very keen on Burroughs and Wilcox, but after E. R. B.'s "Tarzan of the Apes", all his later works seem to pale in comparison. I like Wilcox, but I'm afraid I can't rave about him like some of his fans do. My favorite authors in Amazing are McGivern, Bond, Binder, Burroughs and Wilcox. The main thing, of course, is that the general standard of the writers is consistently high.
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We're glad to hear from "down under" again. And we appreciate your comments. They are well thought out and we know you'll be glad to know (as you must by now) that our special large size issues are no longer special, but regular.—Ed.
PRAISE FOR O'BRIEN
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I thought I would like to let you know how much I enjoyed reading one of the yarns you featured in your July issue of Amazing Stories. I am referring to Squadron of the Damned, by David Wright O'Brien.
It is undoubtedly a story of the type of exciting action which easily manages to saturate the easy-chair adventurer's love of a rare treat. A truly fascinating and interesting story, capable of having arrested my undivided attention from beginning to end, I found it fascinating in all respects without it becoming at all fantastic. I like Mr. O'Brien's work and am eagerly awaiting his future stories.
There is one fault I found with his last story, however, which I thought stood out like the proverbial 'sore thumb'. After he carefully refrained from the use of su realism for almost all of the story, he happened to mention a patrol ship out in space climbing for altitude, and gaining speed in a dive. How can you determine whether a ship in space is diving, climbing or flying on a level course? I always pictured space as the region beyond the gravitational attraction of all planets and other heavenly bodies, where there is no gravity present. How then, while in a region void of all physical attraction from any direction whatsoever, could a space ship attain greater speed in any one direction than in another? Frankly, I don't get it.
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