Here are the answers to the questions we asked you in September. How
many could you answer without looking them up?
1. David H. Keller's first story was "The Revolt of the Pedestrians"
in the February, 1928 issue of Amazing.
2. Tom Jenkins was the leading character in "In 20,000 A.D." and "Back
to 20,000 A.D." by Schachner and Zagat, in the Sept., 1930 and March,
1931 issues of Wonder, respectively.
3. A. Hyatt Verrill lays most of his plots in Central and South
America.
4. "Through the Veil" by Leslie F. Stone in May, 1930 Amazing, gave a
scientific explanation of the fairy myth.
5. Clement Fezandie wrote the "Dr. Hackensaw's Secrets" stories, a
series in the old Electrical Experimenter, and early issues of Science
and Invention.
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Not so much in rebuttal to Mr. Ackerman as to toss another stick
onto the fire, let me confess that the scientific fiction type of
literature seems to me among the dullest written. I avoid whenever
possible, except in such cases where it passes the boundaries into
the weird and horrible. Of course, the work of Wells is an exception.
This may be blasphemy to most of your readers, but there it is. To
return to Mr. Ackerman's complaint: I fail to see why it is any more
deplorable for Wonder Stories to publish Clark Ashton Smith's
horror story than for Weird Tales to publish Edmond Hamilton's
pseudo-scientific effusions. And it was Amazing Stories that had the
honor to publish "The Colour Out of Space" by America's master of the
weird, Lovecraft. Richard E. Morse.