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Rh mystery, and science, and action, and human situation. In short, Repp can still burn up the spacelanes for our money!

LD favorite Ray Cummings is back once more with a fascinating time-travel yarn. We all like this kind of story, and this is one you'll enjoy for its romantic, refreshing treatment so expected from the old master.

OHN YORK CABOT'S latest effort to come from his effortless typewriter is another Sergeant Shane story, based on the character that made such an unexpected hit in a recent issue. This big palooka of the Space Marines has an uncanny faculty for getting into trouble, and getting out of it by his wit, used in a rather witless fashion. You'll like his clever (?) managing of an important race between members of the crews of the two biggest warships in the fleet! But you'll have to forgive him for pulling a few fast ones—a sailor has to have some fun, doesn't he?

SPECIALLY do we want to point out the latest space story by Duncan Farnsworth. Your editors think this one is something for the books. We can't exactly tell you what it has that makes it "sing," but you'll understand what we mean when you read it.

CIENTIST L. TAYLOR HANSEN|L. TAYLOR HANSEN does our Scientific Mystery this month, and if you remember his story "Lords of the Underworld," you'll be mighty interested in what he has to say about those ancient cities he described in his story, because they do exist, and are probably South America's crowning mystery.

NCE again we put in a call for gags for our very popular cartoons. We can't understand why a country as cartoon-conscious as this can't produce science fiction cartoonists who can ring the bell more than once in not-very-often. Come on, you smart readers, earn yourselves some easy money. We pay for cartoon gags and ideas, and we assign 'em to cartoonists to finish.

UR recent "blasts" at the fans and the fan magazines have created quite a stir. The August issue of one of these magazines, circulated to a small reader group, has several comments we would like to pass on. We quote, in the next paragraph, exactly as we read it in Lynn Brieves' column:

NOTHER brief quote from the column by Artiste reads as follows: "Krupa changes to Johnson in the latest ."

A NSWERING the latter we admire Artiste's imagination. For it is sheer imagination. Ralph Johnson is not Krupa. Who told you he was? Your editor received no letter from any columnist asking if this "news" was true, yet it is definitely stated as true, and artist Johnson is wronged with no chance to defend himself. Why not check these facts before you publish them?

We will ask Mr. Wilcox to write us a few words for publication in this column, as to what he honestly thinks about what editors do to him.

The Widner poll interests us. But since it is the opinion, even though it were unanimous, of only a few dozen people, it isn't logical to accept its results. We keep a close poll, and checked by circulation figures, we have an accurate guide. Several hundred thousand fans read our magazines, and when we conduct a poll, we get results from all walks of life and all over the world.