Dear Editor:
Since you invite criticism as well as praise, I am impelled to state that by far the worst story I ever read in any Science Fiction magazine was "Vampires of Venus," by Anthony Pelcher, which appeared in your April issue. It was so idiotic, so flat and inane, that it might have pa.s.sed for a burlesque rather than a straight story, were it not painfully evident that the author was serious. The yarn was unworthy of Astounding Stories and did not belong in this magazine.
The other stories, except for an amateurish attempt called "The Man Who Was Dead," were deeply engrossing and of unusual merit.--Sears Langell, 1214 Boston Road, New York.
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