Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 67 — page 160: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION Let us have plenty of short stories and you can be certain of at least one loyal reader. J. Palfrey, 31 St. Joseph’s Road, London, N.18. Thank you, but isn’t it a little unfair to complain about the readers’ department? To do that is to blame yourself, for unless the readers write the letters, how can they be printed? ASSESSMENT I read the articles on “‘Desirable Residence, 1995” with some inter- est because, as a housewife myself, I am interested in anything science can do to lighten the burden of running a home. But it wouldn’t be necessary to wait that long for the kind of house described in the article. Eeverything mentioned is available today—or was that the point of the article? As a woman, I would like to see more. stories told from the feminine viewpoint. All the heroes are seemingly without wives, mothers, sisters or girl-friends, and the little problems, the ones that are so important to women, are completely ignored. I know that it is interesting to read of a space pilot repairing his atomic pile, but it would be nice, for a change, to read of a young mother trying to wash her baby’s nappies while in free fall. The problem, to her, would be just as important and as essential of 159 solution. Still, we women are very conservative, and I suppose that is why science fiction attracts so few of us. Mrs. Michael Smith, The Yard, Lyndhurst, Hants. There is always a time-lag between new discoveries and their general acceptance or availability. While, - as the author knew, most of the ap- purtenances mentioned in the article are in production, yet the houses to contain them are not. Even today, long after radiant heaters and electric fires have been available, houses are still warmed by burning coal in open grates. To make full use of scientific progress as applied to the home, the home should be designed to contain them. SWAPS Noticed an advertisement in the letter column of a recent issue in which you said that you’d publish any letter which dealt with mag- swapping. Well, I run a trading bureau and will swap mags with anyone who cares to drop me a line. Rules are simple. Just drop me a letter stating what you have for swapping and the type of stuff you read or want in exchange. Gavin Brown, 47 Causeyside Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Anyone interested ? comicloooks.corn