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Discussions—

NATURAL HISTORY IN FICTION

Editor, Amazing Stories:
I wish to tell you that I have read with deep interest your various issues of Amazing Stories. I have always been interested in medicine and scientific subjects and your handling of these matters has proved most interesting.

The story of the "Second Deluge" was very well written and its description of the flood and the chaos which it caused in my mind rank with the best literature in its descriptive passages. "The Island of Dr. Moreau," seemed a bit horrible in spots, but of course was entertaining. I really prefer something like the "Red Dust." One can easily close his eyes and imagine himself threading these dusky forests with the people of a thousand years hence. Let us hope that civilization may go forward and not backward.

Some months ago, your article on the attack of the ants on a Brazilian gunboat aroused my curiosity and by consulting encyclopedias, I found every one of your statements correct. I think such articles with a real scientific basis and giving some true facts about natural history or science are a real help in the study of science and should prove good supplementary reading for the high school and college students who too often spend their time in reading trashy books with no real value to them. May Amazing Stories continue to grow as it has in the past.

Herbert H. Smith,⁠
Brooklyn, N. Y.

[We agree with our correspondent that the natural history features of "Red Dust" and of the giant ant of South America are most interesting and striking. We believe that such stories as the ones cited contain valuable bits of science which can be assimilated and made a part of the equipment as well as if they came out of a dry text-book.— Editor.]

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THE MOON HOAX "ROTTEN"!

Editor, Amazing Stories:
I have just finished reading, with great interest, the discussions, in your January, 1927 number. It is not with great surprise, therefore, that I find one fault with Amazing Stories that I have long noticed in Science and Invention. I have read the latter since 1923, and the first named since it's first issue, and believe I am qualified to make this criticism. When you receive a letter praising your magazine, you unqualifiedly agree with it; while when you receive a letter criticizing the publication, you declare that the critic is wrong, but you do not say why. I will not desert the stand that I wish to take, however, and, knowing, from the experience of others that you will not agree with me, I will say, together with Mr. Spurling, of Elgin, Ill," that the "Moon Hoax" was—rotten. All it presented was a string of facts, describing an unusual phenomenon. This, in a Scientifiction magazine. True, it was fiction, in that it was a colossal hoax, but, I believe, in the manner in which Scientifiction is supposed to be interpreted, this is not exactly correct.

I would certainly like to see Amazing Stories in semi-monthly form, as this would afford an opportunity for Mr. A. B. Maloir's plan to be put into execution. To me, at least, Jules Verne's stories are not "old stuff," as only two or three of them are obtainable at the library that I use, and in this respect I quite disagree with R. H. Campbell, of Toledo, Ohio,

Yours for bigger and better Amazing Stories.

Howard Bowman,⁠
Los Angeles, Calif.

[We are pleased to print the above, because it gives us an excellent chance to show why, for instance, the 'Moon Hoax," while from Mr. Bowman's standpoint it may be rotten, still was good enough to fool hundreds and thousands of people, who actually believed the hoax in question. A bit of psychology enters into all controversies of this kind, because what one man likes the other one will condemn. Very few people ever agree on anything completely. It is, for instance, a simple matter to prove that black is not black at all, but something else. You can take a black inkspot on a sheet of white paper, which most people may call black, but when you hold it against strong sunlight it becomes grey. Consequently black is not black, but grey, and so on ad infinitum. Scientifiction, to our mind, is fiction plus science. Both of these requirements, we believe, were represented in a most unusual manner in "The Moon Hoax." We agree with our correspondent that regarded as a story perhaps it is not like the kind that would be written today. It is old-fashioned, as some of Jules Verne's stories are old-fashioned. Nevertheless, they are classics, and so was "The Moon Hoax."—Editor.]

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