Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 44 — page 154: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION Let us know how your brother gets along, reading Authentic in the swamps! BACK NUMBERS I wish to obtain the following back numbers of Science Fiction Fortnightly and Authentic. I am willing to pay a premium price over the cover price for copies of these numbers: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11. F. H. Way, Sungei Lembing, Pahang, Malaya. Readers: We are holding Mr. Way’s cash. If you wish to sell any of these back numbers to him, send us the details and price, not the books. If business can be done, we will send you the money and you can send Mr. Way the books. UNFIT Although I do not normally write letters to editors, I feel that I must do so now. You see, I have to bid you farewell, as our illustrious government has decided that your literature is morally unfit for us to read. This means that, after reading all your ‘books from Number 10 onwards, I, together with many others, am to be deprived of the pleasure and enjoyment of your stories. I write this mainly to thank you on behalf of all South Africans for your stories, which, although I have not agreed with all, have, nevertheless, been a source of great enjoyment. Please don’t print my name and address. E.K.B., Johannesburg, South Africa. AND ANOTHER It is with the deepest regrets that I find I must say goodbye to your really fine magazine. This goodbye is forced upon me by the government, which has placed all sf magazines on the banned list. I first read one of your magazines at Nkana in Northern Rhodesia, where it went on sale the week I left for South Africa— American sf was unobtainable up there. Then I started buying them up down here. And now.... Fred van A., Johannesburg, South Africa. We feel it too, Fred. It’s like losing good friends, because that’s how we looked upon our readers in S.A. But let’s keep hoping. Maybe we'll be back with you in no time at all. . 153 Conniclooolkks.comn)