Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 143: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION winded for once in my life. Ch, just remembered—Projectiles is slipping: no letter from me in this month! Calamity! You can tell fame (?) has gone to my head... wait till I get a story published! Paul L. Sowerby, 21 Lansdowne Road, West Didsbury, Manchester 20. Nice to hear from you again, Paul. Fere’s another letter to go to your head. The fan group thing is out— not enough response. What soured you, friend? TOPS I must congratulate you on Authentic, as, in my opinion, it is easily the “tops” in the U.K. and again in my opinion, is a better monthly buy than the American S.F. Magazine Galaxy. I find your short stories really excellent, and have drawn up a list of the best. I find your covers extremely good. I am looking forward to the day when Authentic will come out as a large mag so that it can be bound. Peter Dent, 18 Lynwood Avenue, Egham, Surrey. Thank you for the good work, Peter. Your list is most useful. We only wish more readers would take the trouble to do that. Might im- prove our magazine no end. FOURTH In my five years of reading science fiction; I-have bought only one copy of Authentic. This has a place in my collection of over 100 s.f. books and magazines only because I cannot get rid of it. The other day my sister, in a misguided moment, wasted a precious Is. 6d. on Authentic No. 41, the January issue, and I can truthfully say that as a collection of sheer, unadul- 142 terated rubbish it is unsurpassed. If you claim Authentic to be Britain’s best, surely you should print some Rayer and Tubb, Russel and Temple, McIntosh, etc., or cannot you pay high enough rates? Personally, I rate Authentic the fourth best British mag. A. W. Rees, 6 Highland View, Twynyrodyn, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. That copy you can’t get rid of— tried burning it? We've never claimed to be Britain’s best, but we have published Tubb and Temple. Read more than two copies before you stick your long neck out, feller! WRETTING I am a regular reader of your journal and I find it by far the best of its kind published in this country, and definitely better than the general run of science fiction magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. May I suggest that the proportion of non-fiction is about right—enough to whet the appetite to investigate the local library, but sufficiently smail to make the book easily . readable. I am interested in getting in touch with other fans, and I won- dered if you might be able to put me in touch with a fan club in this area (West Herts.) if such an organisation exists. P. D. Walker, 54 Deaconsfield Road Hemel Hempstead, Herts. We do not know of any fan club in that area, Mr. Waiker. Why don’t you start one? No doubt other of our readers who live near you would also like to get together. We hope they will write to you about it. Keep us informed, please, of any de- velopments. comiclbooks.corn