g in a
magazine of this type, but in a detective story magazine,
because that is all it was--a detective story. And when are
you going to have a sequel to "The Gray Plague," by L. A.
Eshbach which appeared in the November issue? It deserves
one.

The best author on your staff is Captain S. P. Meek, whose
Dr. Bird stories cannot be equalled. They are science
stories plus.

A few suggestions: an occasional reprint. It would not
affect the living conditions of our present day authors and
would give us all a chance to read a classic of yesterday.

Do not change the size (i. e. width and length); but as for
enlarging it in the thickness direction, you have my
heartiest encouragement. I notice that one of the other
magazines has changed its size, so now you are not alone.
Evening up the edges of the sheets would improve the looks,
however. And now that you have had your first birthday, when
are you going to start a quarterly? In it you could publish
a complete book length novel and seven novelettes. By novel,
I mean a story of about one hundred pages or more of your
present size, and novelettes fifty pages or more. You could
double the price because a quarterly is worth double what a
monthly is worth.

Your artists are great, but you could still improve by
having them make a full page illustration at the start and
one more exciting one as the story progresses.

Well, I think I've said enough good things about you and
enough suggestions, so until January 1932, adios, au revoir,
etc.--Henry Benner, Cowithe, Wash.

_Ouch!_

Dear Editor:

Personally I would rather read a good short story than the
ten pages of instructions by Readers published in the March
issue. Two pages are plenty, especially when half the
criticisms concern paper, size, edges of paper, etc. A. S.
is O. K!

How about that other short?--Don Ward, 6 Ketchel St.,
Auburn, N. Y.

_Likes Action_

Dear Editor:

I have just finished the February issue of Astounding
Stories. All of the stories were so good I couldn't tell you
which one is the best. "The Phalanxes of Atlans" and "The
Tentacles from Below" were very good. I liked "The Black
Lamp," too. It is up to the standard of the rest of the Dr.
Bird stories. "The Pirate Planet