Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 47 — page 140: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION EN GARDE AGAIN! I realise now what a blundering, idiotic thing it was to send in that letter which told how I was not of this world. And to have it published in Projectiles was a great mistake. You see, I don’t believe the in- telligences of other worlds which are on Earth knew of my presence here. If this was so, I may quite possibly have caused great alarm amongst them, and I may be in danger of being destroyed, to put it mildly, I should please like you to give me space in the next Authentic to make good my error by apolo- gizing to these intelligences, etc., and telling them that I am an independent intelligence, helped by intelligences on other planets, etc. Michael Jenkinson, 20 Range Green, Tipner, Portsmouth, Hants. All right. There’s your apology. This correspondence is now closed! MERCER MERCY Oh, no, it’s too much! The Lever and the Fulcrum, though short for a lead, is a GOOD sToRY. But worse is to follow. Addict is EVEN BETTER. I wouldn’t dream of accusing you of having changed policy and started publishing good stuff at long last, but at least this issue is worth having. Consider yourself heartily congratulated, even if it is only a flash in the pan. Re the Revolt Against Space- Flight—a couple of citations: 139 Lever[Fulcrum is another good example of how space flight SHOULD be used—i.e., purely and simply as a form of transport. First Down, on the other hand, though admittedly good, is an excellent example of the sort of Bow Down To The Great Space story that I am fulminating against. Archie Mercer, 434 Newark Road, North Hykeham, Lincoln. Will have your little joke, won't you, Archie? Imagine you liking the stories in Authentic! Though we see what you are getting-at, you'll just have to go on fulminating. When we get stories like First Down, we'll publish ’em. Maybe you'll settle down some time, become intellect- ually mature and understand these stories better. (You don’t mind us having a dig at you, do you?) ENEMIES Why are people from other planets always enemies? It’s not always the same, but this is the basic type of thing. Brian M. Light, 13 Vine Crescent, Gt. Sankey, Warrington, Lancs. It’s a sad reflection on humanity, Brian, that the people. of foreign lands have always in the past been treated as enemies. One of the things that science fiction is doing is making people aware of this, giving them the thoughts you are having, so that when the time comes we may behave in a rather more sensible fashion. Worthwhile ? Comicbooks.conm