by Various
Y's for the Yarn which will suit everyone; We hardly believe it can ever be done.
Z is for Zagat--whom else could it be? It's lucky for us his name starts with Z!
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Come over to "Our Readers Say" and "The Boiling Point" and have aword.
SEQUELS--BY POPULAR DEMAND
by Walt Z. Russjuchi
Part Two
Ray Cummings' first story, in 1919, "The Girl in the Golden Atom,"practically shrieked to the skies for a sequel, and Cummings obliged ayear later with "The People of the Golden Atom."
Then, in 1921, Austin Hall, and Homer Eon Flint collaborated to writethat remarkable story, "The Blind Spot," and what a fervor thatcreated! The mystery of the "Blind Spot" was left unexplained,loopholes were hanging in the air, and it had one of the mostunsatisfactory endings of them all. Readers entreated and implored theeditor and the authors for a sequel. But alas! Just about this timeHomer Eon Flint died, and it wasn't until 11 years later that the fansread Austin Hall's sequel, "The Spot of Life."
Ralph Milne Farley's "The Radio Man" created another sensation when itappeared in the 1924 Argosy-All Story, and it was followed by seven"radio" novels (only three of which, however, are related to theoriginal story.)
"The Face in the Abyss" by A. Merritt was received mildly by thereaders of the same magazine in 1923. It wasn't until Amazing StoriesAnnual reprinted this story in 1927 that a sequel was asked for.Ironically enough, though these readers were responsible for thesequels, "The Snake Mother," being written, it appeared in Argosy in1930.
With the publication of Edward Elmer Smith's "The Skylark of Space" in1928, the editorial offices of Amazing Stories were swamped withbeseechings for the further adventures of the Skylark. Dr. Smithobliged with "Skylark Three" in 1930, and according to the discussionscolumns the readers won't object to the third in the series, which isnow being written.
[Part three, next month, will be the conclusion of this article.]
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