Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 56 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION have some results for you next month. Meanwhile, there is one result that stands out very clearly—a great many readers want serials—not the kind that go on and on, but in just two or three instalments. So, bowing to your wishes, as we So often do, I am arranging to get a few serials for you. This is not going to be easy, for few authors write stories that can be published in so few parts. Hcwever, we are lucky with our first, which will be published in two instal- ments starting next month. This will be ““‘The Big Hop” by well-known author J. T. McIntosh. Many of you have asked for stories by J. T. Now you've got ’em! : As you read this, the National Science Fiction Con- vention for 1955 will have just about drawn to a close. Next year, maybe, things will have “‘*hotted up’’ considerably in the convention field, for the wheels are turning to make London the site of the World Science Fiction Convention. All of these so far have been held in one of the major American cities. When I went to the 1953 World Conven- tion in Philadelphia, I sug- gested that London would make a good place, too Nobody out there seemed to have thought of it before. Anyway, the word went around and it became obvious that very many American fans would welcome the chance to come to England, using the Convention as a convenient excuse! Just about now a number of prominent fans in England and my good friend John Carnell are “‘rooting”’ for it in no mean manner. Propaganda is winging its way across the Atlantic and spreading throughout the States. Quite a furore is being worked up. With a bit of luck, the stout yeoman work of British fans may see fruition and the cry will be a definite “‘London in *56!”’ If that happens, I can promise you that London will never have seen the like of next year’s convention. With masses of Americans and continental Europeans con- verging on the city, taking over a whole first-class hotel, it will be the finest piece of advertising that science fiction has ever had. So, if you have any means at all of spreading the word, I advise you to do so. Write to your American friends, tell everybody what a wonderful time they’ll have if they come to ““London in *56!” ecomiclooolks.conn