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Fantascience Digest, v. 2, issue 4, May-June 1939

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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST                   Page 25

READER"S COMMENTS

CHARLES D. HORNIG: I just finished reading the March-April issue of Fantascience Digest this minute, and I couldn't wait to tell you how much I enjoyed it. 
   I lauded the previous issue, but this one is so much superior that I consider it the best collection of fan articles under one cover that has appeared in many years. 
   I won't commit upon any particular item, because I thought they were all very excellent. Your fan magazine is undoubtedly tops in the field now, and I hope your circulation jumps so much that you can have it printed. As it is now, you fellows do a perfect job of mimeographing.
   My only suggestion for your future policyis to keep amateur fiction our of your pages. I have yet to read a fiction story in a fan magazine (since Fantasy Magazine) that is worth reading.
   As long as you continue to put out such a fine book as Fantascience Digest, you can depend upon my support in THE FANTASY FAN department of SCIENCE FICTION. (All I can say, Mr. Hornig, is I thank you! In regards to the fan fiction, I believe you will change your mind after reading some of the stories slated to appear in FD. For instance, try "Space Log--Y 486 G" in the current issue-RAM)

   HELEN CLOUKEY: The current FD is swell. Methinks Giuntta improves Moskowitz' tale was well told with an almost psychological approach. Bristol's research convincing. That's the kind of stuff I eat up. I think I'll try an article like that sometime. I think, perhaps, you're in for trouble. If you're going to allow a civil war within the covers of the mag (about AMAZING), it will be interesting. But think of the space it will waste. Can you afford it? I hope so. By the way, is that rock in the man's head on the cover coming out or going in? I suspect the former, but I'm not sure. (I wouldn't know, but I think it's going in--RAM)
   I can truly say without reservations that your magazine has reached heights that never could have been anticipated from the first two issues. I think I found more undiluted enjoyment and less flys in the ointment in the last issue than ever before. I think that more improvement is impossible, but you can do it!

   JOE RIPA: The big thing on my mind right now is that outrageous attack that Harry Warner made on AMAZING STORIES. 
   In his first paragraph he puts a question mark after AMAZING STORIES and leaves TWS and ASTOUNDING free from such punctuation marks. Perhaps AMAZING STORIES has a few stories that are written scientifically, and not like the fantastic, impossible tales published so often in the other mags.
   Page ten, 2nd paragraph: "Follow the fine tradition set for him...." Warner had just finished berating T. O'Connor Sloane for incapable editing of the "Aristocrat."
   Just below that: "He has ac-

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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST Page 25 READER"S COMMENTS CHARLES D. HORNIG: I just finished reading the March-April issue of Fantascience Digest this minute, and I couldn't wait to tell you how much I enjoyed it. I lauded the previous issue, but this one is so much superior that I consider it the best collection of fan articles under one cover that has appeared in many years. I won't commit upon any particular item, because I thought they were all very excellent. Your fan magazine is undoubtedly tops in the field now, and I hope your circulation jumps so much that you can have it printed. As it is now, you fellows do a perfect job of mimeographing. My only suggestion for your future policyis to keep amateur fiction our of your pages. I have yet to read a fiction story in a fan magazine (since Fantasy Magazine) that is worth reading. As long as you continue to put out such a fine book as Fantascience Digest, you can depend upon my support in THE FANTASY FAN department of SCIENCE FICTION. (All I can say, Mr. Hornig, is I thank you! In regards to the fan fiction, I believe you will change your mind after reading some of the stories slated to appear in FD. For instance, try "Space Log--Y 486 G" in the current issue-RAM) HELEN CLOUKEY: The current FD is swell. Methinks Giuntta improves Moskowitz' tale was well told with an almost psychological approach. Bristol's research convincing. That's the kind of stuff I eat up. I think I'll try an article like that sometime. I think, perhaps, you're in for trouble. If you're going to allow a civil war within the covers of the mag (about AMAZING), it will be interesting. But think of the space it will waste. Can you afford it? I hope so. By the way, is that rock in the man's head on the cover coming out or going in? I suspect the former, but I'm not sure. (I wouldn't know, but I think it's going in--RAM) I can truly say without reservations that your magazine has reached heights that never could have been anticipated from the first two issues. I think I found more undiluted enjoyment and less flys in the ointment in the last issue than ever before. I think that more improvement is impossible, but you can do it! JOE RIPA: The big thing on my mind right now is that outrageous attack that Harry Warner made on AMAZING STORIES. In his first paragraph he puts a question mark after AMAZING STORIES and leaves TWS and ASTOUNDING free from such punctuation marks. Perhaps AMAZING STORIES has a few stories that are written scientifically, and not like the fantastic, impossible tales published so often in the other mags. Page ten, 2nd paragraph: "Follow the fine tradition set for him...." Warner had just finished berating T. O'Connor Sloane for incapable editing of the "Aristocrat." Just below that: "He has ac-