Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 66 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION help me or not, I am going to try, in my own way, to turn out an issue which, even though it may not be perfect, will be as near it as I can get. This issue, for example, is a little different from the last. Do you like the changes? The next issue again may be a little different, and the one after that different again. So, little by little, we shall try and mould the magazine until we are pleasing all our readers all of the time. The point is, there is nothing static about the magazine. There is no part of it that isn’t subject to alteration if you, the readers, want it so. For Authentic isn’t a cold, emotionless production. It is composed of the help and friendliness of the readers and authors, it is a magazine which you can be proud to pass, with your recommenda- tion, to your friends so that they, too, can enjoy the warm affinity between readers, authors and editor which we have known so long. And by widening our circle of regular ' readers we, all of us, will benefit from the influence of ethers who will have interest- ing and constructive criti- cisms to put forward. Now, for a word to all potential authors. I am always pleased to carefully read any material submitted to me, but for your guidance, may I make a few suggestions? Please type your story on quarto sized paper, double spaced and with a margin of at least one inch width down the left-hand side. Num- ber your pages, and see that the Mss. bears your name, address title of story and length in words. See that the pages are fastened together, and please enclose a stamped addressed envelope for its return should it prove unsuitable. And now, let me join with | you in wishing H. J. Campbell, the brilliant personality who for five years was your editor, all success and happiness in his new sphere of research. You all know how much he did for the magazine, and I know how much he ap- preciated all of you for the interest you took in Authentic under his editorship. May I hope for the same interest ? comiclooks.com