ioned opinion,
authors must eat--and how will they eat, and lead respectable lives, and
keep out of jail, if we keep reprinting their _old_ stories and turning
down their _new_ ones? After all, eating is very important; those who
wouldn't simply refrain from eating would have to get jobs as
messengers, and errand boys, etc.--with the result that much of our
fascinating modern Science Fiction would never be written!

It would be much cheaper for us to buy once-used material. It would
greatly reduce our task of carefully reading every story that comes to
our office, in hopes to finding a fine, new story, or a potentially good
author. But it would be very unwise, and very unfair, as you have seen.

Many more reasons could be given, but these few are the more important
ones back of our policy of avoiding reprints. Enough said!--_The
Editor._

_Wants Reprints_

Dear Editor:

In you April issue, in answer to a correspondent, you stated that
you were avoiding reprints. Now, that's too bad. Some of the best
Science-Fiction tales are reprints. Witness:

"The Blind Spot," by Homer Eon Flint and Austin Hall; "The War In
The Air," by H. G. Wells; "The Purple Sapphire," by John Taine;
"The Conquest of Mars," by Garrett P. Serviss; "Darkness and Dawn,"
and "Into the Great Oblivion," and "The After-Glow," and "The
Air-Trust"--all by George Allan England.

You are proud--and rightfully so--of your great author, Ray
Cummings. Why not give us several stories which helped to build his
glory? Here are several:

"Tarranto the Conqueror," "The Man on the Meteor," "The Girl in the
Golden Atom," "The Man Who Mastered Time," "The Fire People."

Guess I'll sign off now and give the other fellows a
chance.--Isidore Manyon, 544 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

_What Think You All?_

Dear Editor:

There is one question I would like to ask. Perhaps some of the
other readers of Astounding Stories can answer it.

Could a person remember his own death in a former incarnation?
Some say "no," and some say "yes." If it is true that you can't,
the whole fabric of the wonderful story, one of the most beautiful,
if not the most beautiful I have ever read, "The Moon Maid," by
Edgar Rice Burroughs, is built on a fallacy. You see, I am a
believer in reincarnation and I would surely like to correspond
with others who