Are We All “Morons?”
Dear Editor:
Having perused three issues of your magazine, I must agree that its title is well chosen. The stories are nearly all “astounding”; astounding in that they utterly ignore every scientific fact and discovery of the past ten centuries.
The cold of inter-stellar space; its lack of oxygen; the interplanetary effects of gravitation—all are passed over as if non-existent.
An “anti-gravity ovoid”—of which no description is given—if worn in a man’s hat, makes his whole body weightless.
Men, buildings and cities float through the air or become invisible, yet not the least semi-scientific explanation is made as to the how of it all.
In other words, the pattern of your stories appears to have been taken from the Arabian Nights and from Grimm’s Fairy Tales—but with not a millionth part of the interest.
How anyone, save a young child or a moron, can read and enjoy such futile nonsense is incredible.
If your writers would (like Jules Verne) only invent some pseudo-scientific explanation for their marvels, your publication might then be read with pleasure—but why do so when trash is acceptable without thought behind it!—M. Clifford Johnston, 451 Central Avenue, Newark, N. J.