They Will!
Dear Editor:
I am a monthly reader of your Astounding Stories and I am greatly interested in them.
The best story I have so far read is "Creatures of the Light." It is a story of Super-science indeed. If the author of this story would write more like it, I am sure they would be greatly appreciated.
Here is hoping that more of their kind appear in the very near future. Your for more good stories.—Quenton Stockman, 245 Dixon Street, Portland, Oregon.
"Surpasses the First"
Dear Editor:
I hare just finished the February issue of your magazine. It surpasses the first issue by far. I am glad to see that you have eight stories in this issue. What is just enough. I like one serial (not too long), one or two novelettes, and five or six short stories in each issue. Tell Captain S. P. Meek to write more adventures of Dr. Bird.
I have arranged the stories of the first two issues according to my own liking. Excellent: "The Beetle Horde" and "Phantoms of Reality." Good: "The Cave of Horror," "Tanks" and "Invisible Death." Fair: "The Stolen Kind" and "Compensation."
In the second issue: Excellent: "Creatures of the Light," "Old Crompton's Secret," "The Beetle Horde" and "Spawn of the Stars." Good: "The Thief of Time" and "Mad Music." Fair: "The Corpse on the Grating" and "Into Space."
I hope there will be more stories under "Excellent" next month.—Ward Elmore, 2012 Avenue J., Ft. Madison, Ia.
"Only One Trouble—"
Dear Editor:
I have just finished reading your new magazine and think it's great. The only trouble with it is that it doesn't have enough stories.
I liked "Phantoms of Reality," by Ray Cummings, best, and "The Cave of Horror," by Capt. S. P. Meek, next best. "The Beetle Horde," and "Tanks" were also good.
Ray Cummings and S. P. Meek are among my favorite Science Fiction authors.
I like best interplanetary stories and stories of the aircraft of the future. I would like to see a good interplanetary story by R. H. Romans in this magazine pretty soon.
Other good authors whose stories I would like to read are: Dr. David H. Keller, Dr. Miles J. Brewer, Lilith Lorraine, Ed Earl Repp and Walter Kateley.
In your editorial you mention the fact that some day in the future a person can disintergate his body in New York and reintergate it in China. I would like to see a good story about that by either Ray Cummings or S. P. Meek.
Something else: why not make your magazine a little bigger and include a scientific article or two once in a while?—J. W. Latimer, 1000 East 6th Street, National City, Calif.
"No Horror Stories"
Dear Editor:
I am taking this opportunity to let you know what I think of Astounding Stories. The worst fault is the tendency to print terror stories. Please don't do this. If I never see another story like "The Corpse on the Grating" in your magazine it will be too soon.
Don't print so many detective stories. Capt. Meek's splendid stories are plenty. Please start a discussion column and put Wesso's drawings inside the magazine, too.
Are you planning on any reprints? I would like to see some reprints of Ray Cummings' A. Merritt's, H. G. Wells', Garret Smith and George A. England's stories soon.
"Phantoms of Reality," "The Beetle Horde," "The Cave of Horror," "Into Space," "Creatures of the Light," and "Old Crompton's Secret" were splendid.
I hope for fewer detective stories and no horror stories.—Joe Stone, 123 20th Street, Toledo, Ohio.
We Liked It, Too!
Dear Editor:
Just a line to tell you that I bought my first copy of Astounding Stories and they certainly are good, especially "Creatures of the Light," by Sophie Wenzel Ellis. It's the best short story I've read in ages. I hope to read more by her in the future. Yours for success.—F. J. Michasiow, Battery "D," Ft Hancock, N. J.
"Strikes a Mystic Chord"
Dear Editor:
I think that your Astounding Story Magazine is a fine magazine. It seems to strike a mystic cord within me and makes me respond to it.
One thing lacking—I believe, that is—a department for letters from your readers.
"Spawn of the Stars" is certainly a fine scientific story.
I wish that the author of "Into Space" would write a sequel to his story.—Ronald Bainbridge, Rockford, Illinois.
We're Avoiding Reprints
Dear Editor:
I am writing again about Astounding Stories. It seems more people are interested in science to-day than ever before, and an easy and interesting way to gain this knowledge is through reading an entertaining science story.
Regarding stories in your February issue, will list them according to my likes and dislikes. "Into Space" and "Mad Music" contained science maybe not impossible in the future. "Spawn of the Stars," "The Beetle Horde," "Creatures of the Light," "The Thief of Time" and "Old Crompton's Secret" were very interesting science, and good reading, but "The Corpse on the Grating" did not appeal to me.
I like interplanetary stories and stories of what might be on other planets.
