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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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"I
think
we'd
better
go
and
find
father,"
she
said
at
length,
quietly.
"I
think
so
too!"
he
agreed.
As
they
headed
toward
the
laboratory,
a
fine,
powdery
dust,
like
volcanic
ash
was
falling.
It
continued
to
fall
until
the
city
streets
were
covered
to
a
depth
of
an
inch
or
more.
Thus
passed
the
menace
of
Vada.
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Dear
Editor:
I
hope
you
can
see
fit
to
print
this
letter
in
the
July
issue
of
Astounding
Stories.
This
letter
is
written
in
defence
of
Ray
Cummings
and
in
reply
to
the
letter
of
C.
Harry
Jaeger,
2900
Jordan
Road,
Oakland,
California.
Following
is
an
extract
of
Mr.
Jaeger's
letter:
"Also
I
like
my
authors
to
make
an
original
contribution
to
whatever
theory
of
science
they
develop
fictionally.
This,
Ray
Cummings
does
not
do
in
his
very
interesting
story,
"Phantoms
of
Reality."
His
beginning
is
palpably
borrowed
from
Francis
Flagg's
story,
"The
Blue
Dimension,"
which
appeared
in
a
Science
Fiction
magazine
in
1927."
Another
paragraph
is
devoted
to
explaining
his
claim.
He
claims
that
Cummings'
method
of
transporting
his
characters
from
one
dimension
or
planet
to
another
is
practically
copied
from
Flagg's
story.
The
method,
that
is,
not
the
narration.
I
hope
to
prove
that
if
any
borrowing
was
done,
it
was
done
by
Flagg.
Incidentally,
Flagg's
story
"The
Blue
Dimension"
was
printed
in
1928,
not
1927,
as
Mr.
Jaeger
says.
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