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A REQUEST

Sirs:

I would appreciate it very much if you could find room for this letter in the Discussions column of Amazing Stories.

Many of your readers are familiar with that amazing book OAHSPE, and I feel sure that a lot of them would welcome an opportunity to carry through the principles outlined in it.

I am very desirous of contacting these parties, and any other interested parties, in an effort to get all concerned into communication with each other.

The object of this is to be able to get a collective idea for the formation of an independent community on the lines given in OAHSPE, and to be able to ascertain exactly the best location for such a community, as well as a list of prospective members and their abilities.

Consequently I would be very glad to hear from any and all who have read this book, and also from those who would like to contact others regarding it.

Sounds like a good idea, Roy.—Ed.



(Continued from page 9) death at approximately 70 years of age. (It was more in those days, because beneficial rays and machines could combat the age poisons to a certain extent.) These creatures who found their way back into the underground cities, or who were left there, guarded their havens jealously from those who did not have access to them, and this secrecy has been maintained for thousands of years. However, the secrecy has been far from complete, as witness the incredible number of legends we have of underground races. These "leaks" were covered up by creating a belief in "supernatural" things, such as ghosts and spirits, so that surface people, catching a glimpse of an underground dweller, temporarily emerging from his dwelling, would not search for them, but believe they were only phantasms.

Communication between these underground races (because they have the mechanical means to do so) and peoples who travel space in space ships, and sometimes venture near a sun-planet for raiding purposes (to steal ancient machines and supplies and to procure slaves), is postulated by Mr. Shaver, and borne out by the incredible number of reports we have and have had in the past, of visiting "ships" in the sky (such as the mysterious "air raid" suffered by Los Angeles during the war, and which the army now reveals has never been explained, except that it was no private