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AN ADMIRER OF H. G. WELLS GIVES HIS VIEWS ON TIME TRAVEL Editor, AxAZzING StoRtas: After having read your magazine regularly for Over a year, I nm sending you, for the first time, ny readers’ vole of preference and a few re- marks. L have been ronding your ‘Discussions’ de- Binrnent and fave noted with surprise the num- ber of people who do not like the stories of H. G. Wells, when, na « matter of fact, there is no writer in the scientifiction field with a more ab- sorbing style, oy with more imagination and origi- nality. His tendency to detail and his keenness of observation only testify to the greatness of his marvelous mind, lt is my opimion that the veople who dislike his work pre usually of the sind whose idea of a good story is a hectic melo- drama glorifying action—preferubly absurd action —wid without a single worthwhile thought to commend {et to the intelligent render. T should like to udd.n word to the “time travel” discussion which “The Astounding -Discoveries of Doctor Mentiroso” aud “Che Time Machine” seem tothave started, The incredible thing about traveling in time seems to me to be the indefinite extension of the span of life of any human being undertaking a time journey. In “The Time Ma- chine,” Mr. Wells projects himself so far into the future that jie sees the world stationary, with one face ulways toward the sun. And yet he liver; When, logically, be should have killed himself at the very start by passing the par- ticular peyiod in time when his death would naturally have occurred, T am twentyeaix years of age. I may live to be Re cty six. Let us suppose that a time ma- chine could be invented meh would enable me fo travel fifty yours iuto the future. I would then be seventy six, Jf 1 traveled farther, I should die und be aujomaticstly incapacitated for further travel in time—or space. If my con- actousness could live on and continue traveling after the doath of my hody, it is. possibie that T could reach that far-distant time of which Wells tetli, but IT would not then-have any such adventures aa those of which he tells. Were I, on thé other hand, to. travel into the past, could only travel to the extent of twenty-six yeurs, Did I travel farther than that, I should ve WNbora—non-existent—and again incapable of further travel, If I out my travels short after, guy, twenty yenrs of “pagtward” progress, should undoubtedly see things ss they were twenty years ago, but by the same token IT should see them with the eyes of a six-year-old child, Is not that self-evident? : However, by all menns, continue giving us stich storics, Even though they may be impos- sible, they are tremendously interesting, And do tiot cnt down our rations of Wells. Give us more, if anything, Such olijcctlons as those which Mr. Butler of Taft, California, advances against “The War of the Worlds,” seem to_me childish. He speaks of the impossibility of slugs or mice developing in- telligence, and ‘cites, as proof, the fact that the human race has outstripped such creatures, on earth. Jf IT understand Wells, however, one of the things he most desires to make plain, is that other forms may have developed our own dominant characteristics, mentally speaking, on other worlds: in, fact, that this is.more likely than not, John A. Stahlberg. Outlook, Montana. (What you say about Time Travel is so well put that it shuts out any criticism by us. No comment stems necessary. You will have noticed in all of Mr. Wells’ Stories im Which onimal life plays 3 part, that there breathes through it a suggestion of reality or possibility. however extravagant it may ap- pear —EDITOR.] A GOOD SEQUEL TO “SMOKE RINGS" Ediiov, Asaztna Stonres: Talk whout some of the staries in A atazInc Stories Magazine coming true in the near future, Tn the February, 1928, issue of the above maga zine there wos a story entitled, “Smoke Rings,” hy George MeLociard, In this story it mentions the destruction of a dirigible through the aid of these amoke rings. Well, the other day while rending the Chicago Daily Tribung 1 came across the enclosed article, Read it and be convinced. Keep up the good work, let us have plenty of both the short and the serial stories, on the order of “The Second Deluge.” and others, DANES CLAIM INVENTION TO KNOCK OUT WAR PLANES (Chicago Tribune Press Service). COPENHAGEN, Jan. 20.—A sensational Danish invention was revealed today which, it is believed, may eliminate air wars. "The totating poison gas typhoon,” the title of the invention, is claimed, by a special artillery ‘tornado of gas, to be able to be hurled at airplanes, putting them out of commission and rendering the pilots helpless. H. CG. Sctimidt, B.Sc., : Chicago, Tl, {The alleged Danish invention, to a certain ex: tent, carries out the idea of “Smoke Rings,” Smoke rings have been found hy. experiment to he very wonderful things, and they have even heen taken by leading scientists as giving the represetitation of the atom: But this point of view fias been upset by the modern conception of the planetary atom, for the smoke ring has no central nucleus, no representatives of protons, although the ring may in a Way, suggest planc- tary cléctrons—EDITOR.] AMAZING. 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