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Rh years old and also that I understand science fiction quite well.

''Our readers have voted approval on our present size type. We'll keep it. Also, we'll maintian all our departments except the Quiz, which has slipped in recent months. You'll notice that occasionally we have quite a few additional feature-fillers.—Ed.''

Sirs: [sic]

Your editorial blast at a certain section of the fan magazines has me standing up and cheering. It appears to me that the fan editors never get humps in their back until an editor has rejected a few of their stories. That seems to bring out the literary critic in them.

You have rejected a story of two of mine, in fact, who hasn't. But I still like your magazine.

Why don't you quote circulation figures? That should prove something.

I see good things coming up. Is that promise of Bok just an idle hope. He is more suitable to a science fiction magazine than Finlay.

Nice to see Coblentz. He conjures the atmosphere that made stf what it was 15 years ago. How about L. Taylor Hansen, Gelula, Harl Vincent? We could use more of that solid stuff. A Morey cover would not hurt either.

''You're wrong about tha "blast." We were just presenting an angle that had never before appeared in our columns, and we want to be fair. We seem to have opened up a battle-royal, but it's a fine thing all around. After all, this is "discussions" and we have a reputation to consider—that of having a real "round-table" where the editor isn't God, just "one of the boys who likes to argue too."—Ed.''



books of science and came up with a couple of Scientific Mysteries which that quince of editors, RAP, (Obviously Mr. Millard means "prince."—Ed.) amazed me by buying. He suggested I write fiction, lived to regret that rash suggestion, and finally BOUGHT—A—STORY!

After that, inspired by success, I wrote some more and sold some of them and found myself moving to New York as a full-time fiction writer. Which is where and what I am now.

When not writing, I'm a collecting maniac. My collections cover darn near everything from stamps and insects to Americana, maps, queer facts and mysteries of science and nature, microscopic specimens, advertising pieces of the Gay Nineties and money-making schemes—none of which ever work for me. But it's fun!—Joseph J. Millard.