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Fantasite, v. 2, issue 3, whole no. 9, August-September 1942
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away the copies of it. While not complete, it'd be better than nothing. ((We heartily second the motion and would be glad to reprint the index in The Fantasite or in pamphlet form is Smith so prefers. EDS.)) I prefer parallel reviews in "Among the Hams and Pros", as I said before -- after all, it wasn't Gilbert and Jenkins' column originally, so no traditions can be broken. I'm disturbed to note that Joe is tending more and more to consider each story as either very good or very bad, with no half-way points. Aside from his doubtful use of "miscegenation" and "transmigration", I can't agree at all with what he says about "Beyond This Horizon--". I found it intensely interesting, straight through, with the second half the better. However, I believe the story would have turned up as three or four short novels and novelettes if Heinlein hadn't been called up to active service. "Forgotten Mysteries", good, though such articles always leave me with a frustrated feeling, wondering why people are so dumb that they don't realize that even if 99% of such happenings are fakes, the remaining 1% wreck a lot of our beliefs and science. I can't see why you used "The Tale of the Hooten" -- enjoyable though it is in its own way, I don't think anyone in Minneapolis or St. Paul is mixed up in the business or needs to be. ((Why should it be necessary for one of us to be mixed up in a controversy in order to print an article concerning said controversy? The editors don't necessarily endorse or sponsor the views appearing in non-editorial matter unless they say so -- I think you'll find that that situation prevails in most magazines of any sort that discuss matters of opinion. Our policy toward controversial material will continue to be the same as that for all other sorts of submissions: our only criterion is that the material be sufficiently intelligent, interesting, and well-written to induce us to take the trouble to dummy, stencil, and mimeograph it. SDR)) Van Houten's attack was absurd, of course, and those who are arguing back at such great lengths are almost as ridiculous. I confess myself unable to understand the first part of "Exclusion Act -- No. 2!". To put it mildly, the article was outdated, but Ackerman's writing style is always interesting. As a whole -- a very good issue; if you can keep putting them out like this, I'll be thoroughly satisfied. I'd much rather see them like this and bi-monthly than mammoth ones semi-annually, a la Southern Star and Fanfare. 303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown, Md. ------------------------------------- CORP. DOUGLAS E. BLAKELY: Hang on to writers like Smith and Russell. Their stuff is consistently good. I never did care for Wackerman, myself; if the rest of the fans like him, and if it is a good policy to print his meanderings due to the drawing power of the name itself, all well & good. (There I go, dammit.) And let Morrie draw as much as he likes. ((Let him! The problem is to make him!)) It's pure prejudice on account of being in the MFS, but I think S.D. Russell puts one word after another with more craftsmanship than any other fan author writing at present; similarly, for my dough, Dollens is the best fanartist in the bizness. ((The reader may now pause for one minute and ponder the perplexing problem of why the Associate Editor and the Staff Artist, the moment they laid eyes on this letter, determined to print it. EDS.)) Hdq. Btry., 2nd Bn., 6th C.A., Ft. Baker, California. ------------------------------------- ARDEN R. BENSON: It was hideously boorish of me not to answer your letter. I have written three replies and two postcards, and turn them all up as being too gushy or inappropriate. Ah, but now fantasy is suffusing my being again, after my having read Creep, Shadow! and the last Unknown. However, Astounding is getting worse and worse. "Tools" is the only good story in three solid months. The covers are so degenerate I weep at their sight. Campbell is mad...mad.. Give my love to Fran and the Hastings gang. Especially Fran. I'll not be at any more Sunday meetings on acct. my new job. But there are always Fridays, unless you fouts have voted otherwise. From this day forward I am going to quit buying the Grand Old Mag, Astounding, until it gets down off its high horse and starts printing some stories. Also, why do they keep printing stuff by Jameson? He is unutterably putrid. Rogers' covers have become sloppy. Even Old Glory looks muddled. This new job of mine is mostly plumbing but some repair work. Really
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away the copies of it. While not complete, it'd be better than nothing. ((We heartily second the motion and would be glad to reprint the index in The Fantasite or in pamphlet form is Smith so prefers. EDS.)) I prefer parallel reviews in "Among the Hams and Pros", as I said before -- after all, it wasn't Gilbert and Jenkins' column originally, so no traditions can be broken. I'm disturbed to note that Joe is tending more and more to consider each story as either very good or very bad, with no half-way points. Aside from his doubtful use of "miscegenation" and "transmigration", I can't agree at all with what he says about "Beyond This Horizon--". I found it intensely interesting, straight through, with the second half the better. However, I believe the story would have turned up as three or four short novels and novelettes if Heinlein hadn't been called up to active service. "Forgotten Mysteries", good, though such articles always leave me with a frustrated feeling, wondering why people are so dumb that they don't realize that even if 99% of such happenings are fakes, the remaining 1% wreck a lot of our beliefs and science. I can't see why you used "The Tale of the Hooten" -- enjoyable though it is in its own way, I don't think anyone in Minneapolis or St. Paul is mixed up in the business or needs to be. ((Why should it be necessary for one of us to be mixed up in a controversy in order to print an article concerning said controversy? The editors don't necessarily endorse or sponsor the views appearing in non-editorial matter unless they say so -- I think you'll find that that situation prevails in most magazines of any sort that discuss matters of opinion. Our policy toward controversial material will continue to be the same as that for all other sorts of submissions: our only criterion is that the material be sufficiently intelligent, interesting, and well-written to induce us to take the trouble to dummy, stencil, and mimeograph it. SDR)) Van Houten's attack was absurd, of course, and those who are arguing back at such great lengths are almost as ridiculous. I confess myself unable to understand the first part of "Exclusion Act -- No. 2!". To put it mildly, the article was outdated, but Ackerman's writing style is always interesting. As a whole -- a very good issue; if you can keep putting them out like this, I'll be thoroughly satisfied. I'd much rather see them like this and bi-monthly than mammoth ones semi-annually, a la Southern Star and Fanfare. 303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown, Md. ------------------------------------- CORP. DOUGLAS E. BLAKELY: Hang on to writers like Smith and Russell. Their stuff is consistently good. I never did care for Wackerman, myself; if the rest of the fans like him, and if it is a good policy to print his meanderings due to the drawing power of the name itself, all well & good. (There I go, dammit.) And let Morrie draw as much as he likes. ((Let him! The problem is to make him!)) It's pure prejudice on account of being in the MFS, but I think S.D. Russell puts one word after another with more craftsmanship than any other fan author writing at present; similarly, for my dough, Dollens is the best fanartist in the bizness. ((The reader may now pause for one minute and ponder the perplexing problem of why the Associate Editor and the Staff Artist, the moment they laid eyes on this letter, determined to print it. EDS.)) Hdq. Btry., 2nd Bn., 6th C.A., Ft. Baker, California. ------------------------------------- ARDEN R. BENSON: It was hideously boorish of me not to answer your letter. I have written three replies and two postcards, and turn them all up as being too gushy or inappropriate. Ah, but now fantasy is suffusing my being again, after my having read Creep, Shadow! and the last Unknown. However, Astounding is getting worse and worse. "Tools" is the only good story in three solid months. The covers are so degenerate I weep at their sight. Campbell is mad...mad.. Give my love to Fran and the Hastings gang. Especially Fran. I'll not be at any more Sunday meetings on acct. my new job. But there are always Fridays, unless you fouts have voted otherwise. From this day forward I am going to quit buying the Grand Old Mag, Astounding, until it gets down off its high horse and starts printing some stories. Also, why do they keep printing stuff by Jameson? He is unutterably putrid. Rogers' covers have become sloppy. Even Old Glory looks muddled. This new job of mine is mostly plumbing but some repair work. Really
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