Here is a column where you write to the zine and tell us what you think of it.  People who have done so have expressed themselves as satisfied by the editorial attitude.  If you want to provide us thus with feedback or see your name up on the screen elsewhere than at your blog, write to us here:

Surprising Stories thiel@dcwi.com

And now, the popular attitudes we received this tri-annum.

WTA Junior wrote via the SciFi Forum topic on SG1:  I checked out your link and didn't find anything wrong with it like everyone else was complaining about.  Although, I wasn't able to find the Stargate story.  Was I looking in the wrong place?  Oh, and I posted a comment in your thread in defensive of you.  Don't let Deb get to you.  She's a *****, a control freak and she loves to nit pick.

     She's the Belligerent Belle, O'Cose.  The others were complaining about the entrance method in the last issue where readers had to click on a semi-nude.  I didn't get this kind of feedback from any of the topics except Stargate. They started to flame about it and the topic was locked after a couple of hundred views and such-and-such a number of comments.  Lockdown ordered, I presume.  The “Stargate Story” was in our review section and was a review.  Thanks for the defensive comment.  I never got to read it.  The topic couldn't even be accessed by the time you made it.

     All review topics are link-posted in appropriate places.

Paul Carlson commented via the Analog Forum:  Holy Moley.  I think we'll need dark glasses to finish the whole cover page!  Seriously, that is a whole lotta great content.

     The Williamson interview is so “colorful” it's very difficult to read.  A snazzy index is one thing, but that is “serious” text, know what I mean?

     Sure, I did the interview.

Taral Wayne saara@netscape.ca:  What is now called the Merrill Collection in Toronto was for many years known as The Spaced Out Library.  I didn't like the name at the time.  It was obviously trying to seem “groovy” and “far out”, though by the early 70s that sort of hippie-speak was already beginning to seem passé.  Some time in the 80s or early 90s, though, the last vestiges of SOL's desire to seem cool had worn off.  The new paradigm was to appear respectable and academic.  The new Merrill Collection was meant to impress aging professors of literature, and the grey bureaucrats who controlled the government purse-strings, not funky young iconoclasts.  Of course, they were probably the same people…human beings get older, after all.  And just as much as I hated the old name, I hated the new one.

     This probably wasn't the right contact address, but you made finding it just about as humanly impossible as you could.  I strongly suggest the editorial address be somewhere plainly visible in the future.

     I sold piles of fanzines to the Spaced Out Library quite some time ago (for about $600.00), and I could have told Kraemer that.  His talk about changing the title shows that he's been sensing it.  But I like his title and I don't think it's likely the Canadian firm had that no-longer-used name copyrighted; I assume they consider it in the public domain.

     Right up at the top, now that you've called it to my attention, is an address to which to send e-mail.

They say no news is good news, but I don't know if that applies to reader reaction to something one has up.  Above is all the commentary the issue received that I saw or received.  But then, the last issue speaks for itself.  Anyone wishing to write, feel free to do so.  This place is as busy as the Weird Tales forum, anyway