Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, Issue 45 — page 156: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION Anyway, we hope somebody writes you—and how is the Beach these days? FAN FUND Have received the cover from Authentic No. 31. Thank you very much! That gives the Trans- atlantic Fund four covers at present, Don Ford, 129 Maple Ave., Sharonville, Ohio, U.S.A. To readers who want to know what all this is about, we'll point out that Home EXCELLENT Really, I’m ashamed of you! You produce the best story ever seen in Authentic—ignoring THE Rose, which is in a category by itself—then slide it forward apolo- getically, muttering about lack of action! I’m talking about OLD ~ MAN OF THE STARS, of course. It is excellent, and coming from me, you will know that that is unusual, and really deserved. Paul L. Sowerby, 21 Lansdowne Road, West Didsbury, Manchester 20. the Transatlantic Fund is a fan organisation that is trying to raise enough money to take a British fan to America for the 13th World Science Fiction Convention, being held in San Francisco this year. The Authentic cover will be auctioned, and the money devoted to the cause. The British end of the Fund is being handled by Walter A. Willis, 170 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, N. Ireland, to whom all enquiries and contributions should be addressed. Section apologetic about stories we put into Authentic. We simply pointed out that it wasn’t space opera, but that it had some real worth. Thanks for agreeing with us—this once! ANSWER I was gratified to see my letter in print, but you did not touch on the salient point, which is the question: Is the knowledge neces- sary for the building of a Moon rocket already in existence? R. C. Hope, 266 Pershore Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 5, Paul! We're ashamed of you! You should know that we are never Yes. 155 comiclooks.cormn