Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 43 — page 157: what you’re looking at

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best. This story’s plot too closely approximates to the old space opera formula. And personally, I feel that four short stories is too many; I would prefer a longer novel and only two shorts. I have several American mags I would like to swap for English books and mags. Anyone with an SF col- lection care to sell some of his books to me? Allan A. Fabig, 228 van Heerden Street, Capital Park, Pretoria, South Africa. POEMS Got any space for this poem— besides the waste paper basket? If you have I can let you have as many more as you want. This was one of my experimental models. Adam Chester, 111 Fitzgerald Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand.. Sorry Adam. Our policy says no _ poems...until readers clamour for them. Write us a story instead, eh? UNSATISFIED Up until recently I could always look forward to an_ enjoyable evening with Authentic, but the last two issues left me vaguely un- satisfied. Whose fault was it, Authentic’s or mine? So in fairness to us both I browsed through the two issues again and found quite a few faults in your stories and a few on your mag in general. But I still think Authentic is tops. J. S. Milson, 34 Crown Street, East Sydney, Australia. 156 The faults couldn’t have been all that bad if you had to go back and search for them, Mr. Milson! Still, thanks for your letter and criticisms. That’s what keeps us on our tozs. BRITISH ALONE In your issue No. 37 you proudly state that all the stories are British. Surely if an American, French, German—or any other nationality come to that—science fiction story comes up to the standard of your magazine, slap it in. 4041600 LAC Smith, c/o Post Office, 128 M.U., R.A.F., Abu Sultan, M.E.A.F. 25. You're right, of course. Indeed, we’ve already published one Swedish and two Canadian stories, and we'd love to see some from other European sources. But it is nice, after all, to have a complete issue made up of British writers. There are not many of them, you know. Besides, we are trying to build up a distinct British science fiction genre—something that no other British science fiction magazine has ever tried to do. Occasionally we publish original American stories, but only when they lean more towards the British style than towards the kind of American science fiction that is so very, very plentiful. Let’s have at least one magazine that encourages home talent! Ccomiclooks.comn-~