 Conversely, the readers who might have been interested in the more sedate topics covered by the non-fiction were probably discouraged by the lurid cover artwork.Gernsback was unable to obtain enough fiction to make "Scientific Detective Monthly" a true mixture of the two genres, and the result was a magazine that failed to fully appeal to fans of either genre.It was, in a historian Robert Lowndes' words, a "fascinating experiment", but a failed one.