Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 48 — page 137: what you’re looking at

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p | a “> _ OVERSEAS SECTION CONSISTENT I would like to congratulate you on the consistently high standard of Authentic, Being now a reader and collector of some fifteen years’ standing, it needs to be a really good story to draw any praise from me, and such a story was Tomorrow is Another Day by K. H. Brunner in No. 43. There have been many other landmarks previous to this, but this one was really good. Please keep to your style of covers; they are a real feature and amongst the best of any on the prozines today. Your departments are very much a feature, too. Donald H. Tuck, 17 Audley Street, North Hobart, Tasmania. Thank you for the kind words, Donald, Coming from a man with your experience, they really mean something. Let’s hear from you again, please. yf: roye EE a ae a ——_ —o- stiles ATROCIOUS—ONCE! For twenty-eight issues your covers were atrocious and the stories were pretty crook, too. I kept on buying them, mostly because they were about the only STF available in Australia. I got the first 12 issues in England before I emmigrated down under. With the advent of No. 29 the covers underwent a tremendous improve- ment and there appeared in the next nine issues a number of stories comparable with the best in American sf. Imagine my annoy- ance when, on returning from National Service and catching up on issues 39-42, I find that once again the covers have changed and you are now using a cross between the original and second type. If you are going to keep on doing this will you do us poor fans a favour and keep the same type and colour of spine? One of the great pleasures of my day is to wake up in the morning and see the rows of mags in my _ bookcase, each nicely separated and distinctive by its spine. If you print this, you might 136 connicloooks.corn |