SCIENCE FICTION
SLR,—Mr. Kingsley Amis takes a rather de haat bas attitude to my article on Soviet SF. He deck I have made some misstatements about American This js, he adds, because mine is a `non-professic statement.' I do not know what he means by this is true that I am not a practising SF or SiF wri but my own library of science fiction contains sr rare collector's items.
I describe myself as a grand amateur (i1'1,1 French sense) of science fiction. Arthur Clarke. Camel, John Wyndham, etc., all know me and advocacy of science fiction—not only for entertain' ment but also for teaching about science.
Clearly, Mr. Amis's reading of science fiction led him to draw conclusions different from minc The adverbial phrases he uses in his letter—'har ever,' in most cases,' not as a rule,' much more ofle —indicate how subjective we are.
I suppose the distinction between 'authoritarianis and 'democratic conservatism' is that under the lati system we are free to deny that we've 'never had so good.'
I agree that Galaxy is a good magazine, but point was that no magazine has had the intellit impact that Astounding had.—Yours faithfully.
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