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Experimenter Publishing Co., Inc. »230 Fifth Avenue New York, N. Y. + he ee Se — — AMAZING STORIES DRAGGING JULES VERNE OUT OF OBSCURITY z Editor, AMAzING STORIES: I have been taking AmazinG Stories since I first discovered it on the market. I must say it is unique in the place it holds in my regard. ; “The Second Deluge’ is one of the most grip- ping stories I have ever read. Somehow, in read- ing of the monster nebula, I .came to a greater realization than ever before _of what a mote, what an infinitesimal speck, this world of ours is. I have not words to praise this story highly enough. Mr. Serviss almost displaces Kipling as my favorite author. “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” is my ideal of a humorous scientific tale, But, on the other hand, Clement Fezandié’s attempt at humor seems rather forced, although he uses some excel- lent science. ‘‘Blasphemer’s Plateau” and ‘‘Station X*”’ were very interesting. ‘‘Beyond the Pole,” “The Island of Doctor Moreau,’ ‘‘In the Abyss,” and ‘‘Moon Metal” were good. : There is only one set of stories that I object to. Such are (exclusive of “A Trip to the Center of the Earth’’) those tedious and uninteresting narra- tives by Jules Verne. It seems to me they had better been left in the obscurity from which they were dragged. I close with “more Serviss.’’ Manion F. Jones, Oklahoma City, Okla, [Again we publish a letter merely to show the apparent discord among readers in regard to some of our stories. In the present case the author evidently does not like Jules Verne’s “A Trip to the Center of the Earth,’? and he goes so far as to call it uninteresting. Against this letter we have dozens who laud this story very highly. The thing has been troubling us a great deal and we have come to the conclusion that to American minds the Jules Verne type of story, or, rather the treatment thereof, is not as fully appreciated by the present generation as it was when the story first was written. The reason is easy to find. Due to the rush of our present generation, people have no time to read the lengthy stories which were in vogue years ago, and it is to be doubted that Jules Verne himself would have consumed as much space in telling his stories had he lived at the present time. Nevertheless, these stories are classics and we suggest to those readers impa- tient with the longer narratives that they train themselves to skip over some apparently unimport- ant pages—a simple way to solve the problem.— EDITOR,] MORE ABOUT INVISIBILITY Editor, AMAzING StorIEs: Was a bit surprised to find a rather large scien- tific “hole” in “The Man Who Could Vanish,” by A. Hyatt Verrill. While the story itself showed teal writing ability as well as story interest, the means by which Dr. Unsinn managed his disap- pearance would not, scientifically, be workable. Quite plainly the explanation is given that the Doctor’s little invention merely changed all reflected visible light waves. which impinged upon the object to be made invisible to the invisible ends of the spectrum. Consequently the object could not be seen nor ifs presence be detected by the human eye. It sounds quite possible and reasonable, but is it? Indeed not. For an object to become invisible it is necessary that the light be in no way deflected by its presence. It must, instead, flow smoothly about 1t as a brook would flow about a stone, closing completely on all sides, _ Should the “invisible” Dr. Unsinn stand, for instance, before an intricate scarlet tapestry he would be plainly visible to an observer who glanced at the hanging. And the reason is that, obviously, all the rays of light reflected from this tapestry would not reach the observer’s eye, but would instead be stopped by the Doctor’s body and turned hack invisible by the machine, Consequently, as there can be no vision without light, a large blank will appear in the fabric on the wall. And also, Plainly enough, it will be of the exact outline of the invisible body of the man which stopped the reflected scarlet light waves and prevented their teaching the obseryer’s eye. So the invisible man must remain “‘visibly invisible’? against whatever background he stangls before. In ending let a newsstand subscriber say that AMAZING Stories is like a keen, clear draft of in- vigorating literature amongst the ruck of poorly written magazines wltich seem to be swamping the reading public today. May we not hope that some- time in the future we will find this draft available twice monthly instead of but once. TI am quite sure that such an expopure will not cause any of the reading public to catch a literary cold and lose interest. In fact, the -result ought to be quite to the contrary. a Ricuarp V. Happs, ; Pittsfield, Mass, [This letter is quite interesting in view of other letters on invisibility which we have received, and some of which we have published. Of course the story was entirely fanciful. We suggest that vou look in your German dictionary and see what the name of our hero, Dr. Unsinn, means. 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