Authentic Science Fiction, December 1951 — page 4: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

2 projectiles COMPLAINT I think your stories are all very good and I like the Old Growler series. I like H. J. Campbell’s stories, but I have one complaint: he spoils it by using ‘you did this” and “you did that.” Personally, it bores me. I like all your authors, especially Roy Sheldon and his characters Spear and Manners, and the way he leaves one of them in a precarious position at the end of a chapter and goes on to the other, leav- ing you in suspense. R. PRIOR (Bognor Regis) * SUMMARY The International Science Fiction Club has recently been reviewing your books and here is a summary of its opinidns. (Membership of our Club is open to anyone over 14 and under 30 who sends his or her name and age to this address for details.) Summary: No. 1. quality 61%. No. 2 quality 94%. No. 3 quality 10%. No. 4 quality 89%. No. 5 quality 51%. No. 6 quality 18%. No. 7 (We did not read this. We are sick of Roy Sheldon.) No. 8 58%. No. 9 69%. No. 10 52%. No. 12 51%. No. 11 70%. P. D. HAMILTON (Lanark) Thank you for a very use- ful letter, Peter. We wish your Club every success and hope that you will send us other summaries from time to time. We know from letters that we have several readers in your area; ‘we hope they join. * QUERIES Is there an Earth Satellite Vehicle Programme in work? When can we expect the first space flight? What of the atomic reactors being experimented with in the States? S.J.A. (Chadderton) America has been working on a_ Satellite Vehicle Pro- gramme for some time; it is almost certain that the Russians are doing the same thing. And of course, our own British experts have been dealing with the question. The American atomic reactors are being used to obtain electrical power from turbines for ordinary factory use and for marine propulsion. The first space flight (un- manned) will probably take place within the next ten years, in our opinion. comicbooks.com