Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 53 — page 144: what you’re looking at

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THE AUTHENTIC ALPHABET POLL Please read the Editorial before looking at this page Below are twenty-five suggestions for the improvement of Authentic. Please tick those with which you agree, and do nothing about those with which you disagree. For example, if you think that we now carry the right balance of fiction and non-fiction you will not tick either c or d. We shall then know what you mean. If you think Authentic can’t be improved, then don’t tick anything! Authentic could be improved by having: a Fewer, longer stories....... o More psychological b More, shorter stories...... stories......... c More fiction......... p More sociological d More non-fiction......... stories......... e More illustrations......... q More Projectiles......... f Less illustrations......... r Less Projectiles......... ET TIRES: peccsss s Some kind of puzzle h More science in the feature......... stories......... t Author biographies......... i Articles on the elements of u Story ratings......... various sciences......... v More stories by...........+« . j Single columns......... w More American stories...... k marrower margins......... x Reprints of ‘‘classics’’...... | Less science in the y A “‘sales and wants’’ stories......... section......... m More space stories......... z A ‘‘questions answered”’ n More time travel section......... Stores: ...,..5- * insert here the name of any one author who has appeared in Authentic. Now list here the letters you have ticked, in what you consider is their Order Of IMPOrtance...............cssecesscosncedacensasechesosioi lf you have an additional suggestion, make it here SRST SESE SHS ESSERE EEE SST eee SHH SES Se See HEHEHE HHH Tee See Hee Now rip out this page, write your name and address in the margin and send it in an unsealed envelope (I¢d. stamp) to: Poll Checker, Hamilton and Co. Ltd. 30 Lancelot Place, London, S.W.7, to arrive not later than 28th February, 1955. conmmicloooks.comn