From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   C. E. Gee wrote:   
   > On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 3:01:44 PM UTC-7, William Vetter wrote:   
   >> C. E. Gee wrote:   
   >>> I've had too many stories rejected because of some first (slush) reader or   
   >>> an  editor not being familiar technical or scientific words.   
   >>>   
   >> Thanks for answering, Chuck.   
   >>   
   >> I don't think I've ever got anything except the form letter from a   
   >> first reader.   
   >   
   > I'd recommend submitting to BEWILDERING STORIES.  And be sure to read their   
   > mission statement (although I don't think they call it that).   
   >   
   > Other magazines that have given me personal and very helpful guidance are   
   > PLASMA FREQUENCY MAGAZINE, PERIHELION ONLINE SCIENCE FICTION, THE MAGAZINE OF   
   > FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION.   
   >   
   Van Gelder gave me a couple personal ones, and the new guy they have   
   now...I've never submitted to the others you like.   
      
   Once afternoon I got one of Van Gelder's letters, and I crumpled it   
   into a ball into the pocket of my jacket.  Then, a little later, I was   
   in the gogo bar near my home.  This was perhaps 15 years ago, and there   
   was a Russian woman I drank with there because she made me laugh.  I   
   took out the letter and said, "Maybe _you_ wanna read this," because I   
   was feelin' grumpy.  Her lips moved some while she read English.   
      
   After that, whenever she saw me walk into a bar, she'd point at me and   
   shout, "Alas!"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)