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Science Fiction Fan, v. 5, issue 9, whole 56, April 1941
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FAN..................................................................11 PURE HACK BY PERRI BY LEW MARTIN To begin with, let me assure you I'm not the type that sadistically pursues stories for errors, I myself plan to write someday and feel an author gets enough knocks from the readers without other writers taking off on them, but when such an abortive effort as Leslie Perri's is published, I can no longer remain silent. Such a story as this should never have been written, let alone published. The story in question is SPACE EPISODE in the December 1941 issue of FUTURE FICTION by Leslie Perri. Perri's style is quite acceptable, but she had absolutely no business writing a space story when she obviously knows so little about allied sciences applying to such circumstances as she sets forth. Let us take the situation, a space ship is struck by a meteor which rips off the primary air lock and clogs the deacceleration tubes at the bow. Right there is a glaring error. What designer or manufacture would produce a space ship without a meteor detector, and they already have one today, which without any improvements till the first space flight would still suffice. They are using it in London now. Perri mentions nowhere that they even had one, or even justified the collision by saying one was out of order. Another thing, I doubt very much that one piece of molten metal would reach the
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FAN..................................................................11 PURE HACK BY PERRI BY LEW MARTIN To begin with, let me assure you I'm not the type that sadistically pursues stories for errors, I myself plan to write someday and feel an author gets enough knocks from the readers without other writers taking off on them, but when such an abortive effort as Leslie Perri's is published, I can no longer remain silent. Such a story as this should never have been written, let alone published. The story in question is SPACE EPISODE in the December 1941 issue of FUTURE FICTION by Leslie Perri. Perri's style is quite acceptable, but she had absolutely no business writing a space story when she obviously knows so little about allied sciences applying to such circumstances as she sets forth. Let us take the situation, a space ship is struck by a meteor which rips off the primary air lock and clogs the deacceleration tubes at the bow. Right there is a glaring error. What designer or manufacture would produce a space ship without a meteor detector, and they already have one today, which without any improvements till the first space flight would still suffice. They are using it in London now. Perri mentions nowhere that they even had one, or even justified the collision by saying one was out of order. Another thing, I doubt very much that one piece of molten metal would reach the
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