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issues and any that they have missed, I am willing to sell the ones that I have, which is more than one hundred. I have two of several issues.

Anyone who desires to buy any issue prior to 1932 can communicate with me and get the list of magazines that I have, and I wish they would do so as soon as possible

I also have back issues of several other science-fiction magazines.

I would be very thankful to you, my dear Editor, if you would print my letter in your reader's column, for I would like to give someone else a chance to read the stories of those long ago issues. I offer to sell these old issues only because I have read them so much and because I believe that I ought not to be the only one to enjoy their wonderful science-fiction.

In advance, I thank you for publishing my letter in your reader's column, for is it not for the benefit of the readers? And is not my offer a chance to please many a science-fiction fan beyond all hopes of retribution?

(We are very glad to publish your letter. If the Editor succeeds in keeping up the standard of the magazine to a proper level, perhaps he should be content, but it is much nicer to feel that our definite efforts and improvements are telling their story.—Editor.)

Editor, Amazing Stories:

I have been reading Amazing Stories ever since I saw one in a News Kiosk in Shafterabury Avenue leading from Picadilly Circus. It costs me 2/6d, 60c in your money, that is before they could be got in Woolworths for 3d (6 cents).

A great number of your readers moan about some of your stories. Well, they can think they are lucky they don't live this side. If they tried to read the stuff we get dished up here in the only paper that even attempts to publish scientifiction, they would crawl painfully away to a quiet hole and slowly expire. The hero sits in a rocket plane and flies at about 3,000 miles an hour and shoots the villain down, but the villain continues to save his skin and pinches the hero's girl. Will she escape?—See Next Week. The airplane doesn't even get warm through flying at this speed through the atmosphere. Or else a tribe of schoolboys go to Mars in the proper space ship, they conquer the Martians during the struggle. One-half of the plane is made red hot by the external heat generated by the Martians, it cools off, however, in an hour or so—idiotic. Of course, as you know, authors do not get so much money in this country as in America and as an old saying goes, "You can't get something for nothing in this world."

With regard to the scientifiction in the pictures (movies) I am afraid our present-day producers are not broad-minded enough to conceive anything other than girls' legs and violent love affairs with a scandal or two. I hardly ever go to the pictures now; they get my goat. If you were to have one of your authors write a story in which a young scientist is shot to Venus in a bullet to find it filled with beautiful women who wear nothing but their own hair, with a powerful love affair (or better still two love affairs), our marvelous producers would most probably call it a good story and consider its production. As for the love affairs in your stories, well, every one likes a little romance, but as our picture producers fail to see, one can have too much of a good theory.

As for your stories, I have not come across anything so good as "Skylark" and its sequel "Skylark Three." It is difficult to pick holes in either, at least in the instalments which I read. I also like "The Green Girl." I think that was the title although I can hardly imagine a gas with the property of holding up an enormous volume of water. The story "Power" was very good, too.

(We appreciate your kind letter. It is an Interesting feature of our Discussions Columns that we get so many letters from foreign countries. Amazing Stories is a very good traveler. There is an idea here that the producers of moving pictures and talkies, as they are called with us, are awaking to the value of scientific productions and we hope to see, in the future, some of our stories on the screen—one is already in the hands of one of the great firms; so you see that in America, at least, we have hopes for the future—Editor.)

Editor, Amazing Stories:

We observe in the August Amazing Stories an article under the heading "Discussions" having reference to the nature of "Gravity" as "pushing" the atoms together.

For the information of every one concerned allow us to broadcast the statements made relative to "Gravity" by the "Gravity-Control," a new school of universal mechanics recently organizing.

The "Gravity-Control" proves that the temperature in space using Newton's law of radiation on the figures supplied by Professor Piccard, would be minus 780 degrees Fahrenheit (below zero) 40 miles away from the earth and using the same system even a few hundred miles from the earth the temperature would drop several thousand degrees below zero. At about 750 below zero Fahrenheit matter is proved to shrink out of existence, resulting in a vacuum as great as the displacement of matter, it being the case that the "Space" holds a condition as if it were filled with solid stone, then stopping the vibration of the atoms because of there being nothing to agitate them. The bottomless cold sets in and the "matter" shrinks away and in its place is the vacuum which is then a greater force of static electricity or suctional hungers. The "Gravity-Control" proves further that this "Space Gravity," because of its furious cold, drove the atom, these later traveling under stark fear, to seek the various planetary centers in the universe existent and that the space is lying out there with threatening overpower to hold the planets down in form and order, while the natural mechanisms of the space are operating the elements to bring intellect oat of the "matter."

The "Chapter A" of the "Gravity-Control's" "General Universe" deals with this at some length and the remaining chapters of the "Gravity-Control's" "Alphabetically Vibratory Universe" explains the balance so as to connect the beings themselves up with the universe. The "Gravity-Control" is prepared to prove its every statement, using every scientist on earth to prove it and all the philosophers and all the facts that every one knows. "The Gravity-Control" does not merely "believe" it to be so, it proves and shows how men came to live, what they live from and why, and precisely how "gravity" is made and why.

(This letter we publish and leave it to tell its own story as there is not detail enough given to bring out anything like an adequate criticism.—Editor.)

Editor, Amazing Stories:

Morey did a fine piece of work for the July cover of Amazing Stories. In fact the issue as a whole was very good.

"Sheridan Becomes Ambassador" would have made a fine long story. I am hoping for a sequel.

"The Metal Doom" ended as I had hoped it would. It should have been published in two parts as it was rather short.

Harl Vincent continues to give Amazing Stories his best works.

"The Lemurian Documents," I hope, will continue for a long time to come.

Morey has done some fine work for our magazine, but I do not think that you should be partial to him. Some time ago you mentioned that you rather liked many artists to illustrate Amazing Stories. I like several artists provided they are good ones. Paul, Wesso, Marchioni, Jno. Ruger and Morey have all done good work in science-fiction illustrating. Why not use them all? I think you would then satisfy all readers in the matter of illustrations.

I hope that Edmund Hamilton and A. Hyatt Verrill will return soon.

(We are very glad that our work pleases you. An Editor occupies the peculiar posi-