Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 48 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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I think we’ve done rather well with the line-up this month. Our lead story is in rather a different style from usual, but intriguing, none- theless. Tom Carson is a newcomer to these pages; when you’ve read his Tabarni Document, let me know if you want him again. Recoil is a powerful little tale by another author who is new to you—H. Warner, Jnr. I really believe that almost everyone will like this story, and that says a lot for it. (Now don’t go and tell me you hated it just out of cussedness!) Veronica Welwood, another new author who gives us Last Journey, is an Australian lass who has been reading Authen- tic for quite a while, liking it and wanting to write for it. I’m very glad to welcome her among the growing ranks of readers turned contributors, HCAMPO EG g OH and hope that she will give us some more of her stuff. It does give us great pleasure to introduce new authors to the field, and we tend to feel that we’ve certainly done our share. Whereas some science fiction magazines, both here and in the States, go on print- ing stories by the same old people—under the same or different names—we are con- tinually adding to our writer- list. Of course, some turn up more frequently than others, but that’s because you like them more. We now have a sizeable team of regular con- tributors, all of whom made their science fiction debut in this magazine. The more the team swells, the more we have to stop our head swelling! New author is a label we cannot apply to Thelma D. Hamm, who wrote the little , piece called Servant Problem. comiclbooks.conn