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Spaceways, v. 4, issue 4, whole no. 27, April 1942
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SPACEWAYS 19 [Centered] EMERGENCY FLARE in similiar channels, since [underlined in black ink: Milty recently expressed the same unanswerable bit of logic] [handwritten note in black ink in right margin] "Milty was quoting me!" So he left, promising to come back some time and, I believe, inviting me to buying the back issues, I believe, inviting me to drop around. He gave his address, since had subscribed to [underlined] Spaceways while writing to Jack Speer, and happened to remember my doubts. I gave Jack RMB's address, and told him to look him up; if it wasn't Singleton, Brown seemed like a very nice intelligent person who'd be good company for Speer, del Rey, and Rothman; and if it was Earl, all the loose ends of the psuicide could be wound up. Speer investigated, found Earl (whom he'd met at the Chicon), and all part-ies concerned in the matter are at present living happily ever after. This is as good a place as any to issue an ultimatum. I have several arti-cles and a story floating around fandom which should have seen print ages ago and have apparently been forgotten or lost. Several fanzine editors are besieging me for material. I can't think of anything new to write about, and therefore: [Handwritten text in black ink in right margin, following the next paragraph: "What hap'd to it?"] If any fan editor has and intends to publish [underlined in black ink] "Toward Debabelization", "Re-coil", a book review of Ben Hect's "A Book of Miracles", or an article on the fan visitors to 303 Bryan Place, all by me, let him speak now or forever hold his peace. All were submitted and accepted long ago. The last I heard them, they were in the hands of [first two names underlined in black ink] Klingbiel or Schumann, Marconette, Pogo, and Beling, repsectively. If no word comes of them within the next month, I'm going to send them elsewhere; so beware! The news of "The Pocket Book of Scientific Romance", to be edited by Don Wollheim, is the best thing I've heard in a long while. This will be the first time pulp magazine stf. has had a real chance to circulate. Those Pocket Books sell fabulously--if a title sells only 150,000 copies, it has failed! All the stories selected are excellent ones, although it seems odd that the publishers should have insisted on six stories not originally from the stf. magazines, in order to have some "big names", when two or three of those six are by writers of whom I have never heard except in connection with the stories, and are certainly not famous enough to attract attention of the average persons. If this book sells well, perhaps the publishers will reprint a full-length novel or two ori-ginally published in a prozine. Imagine seeing "The Time Stream" or "Triplanet-ary" or the Weinbaum three-part novel displayed prominently on every newsstand, and in every drug store in town! The war hasn't done any damage thus far to fanzines, in quality or quanti-ty, but just recently it really smacked home. Mimeographs are now being r a-tioned; one must have a priority rating of A-9 or better in order to purchase a new one. As far as I know, there are no restrictions on the sale of used ones, so if you've been planning to buy one and start a fanzine, better hunt one up quick. This state of affairs could produce some fandom-millionaires: presuming that quite a few fans are left to carry on in the years to come, and the war rolls along, mimeos will become scarcer and scarcer. Finally only a few fans will have them, and control the fan press, charging fabulous sums to duplicate magazines for those who wish to edit, and becoming bloated pultocrats off the profits. First concrete trend toward such a deplorable situation is a collaboration between Louis Russell Chauvenet and me. We have borrowed Widner's glorious mot-to, "Fanzines by the Ton", and shall proceed to attempt to live up to it. Rus-sell will, in the future, be editor of [underlined] Frontier, the organ of the Frontier So-ciety, and is also going to issue a fanzine digest. (So is A. L. Schwartz, vul-garly known at times as Suddsy. A few more and we'll need a digest of fanzine digests.) [underlined] Frontier will be bi-monthly and the digest quarterly, according to the present plans, and Chauvenet will continue to issue his FAPA publication, [underlined] Sardo-nyx, quarterly. They should total about two hundred ten pages per year which is a right noble effort. These publications, of course, will be all Chauvenet's ex-cept for the actual crank-turning, which is where i fit into the picture. Then I myself emit some two hundred fifty pages of [underlined] Spaceways and [underlined] Horizons per annum,
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SPACEWAYS 19 [Centered] EMERGENCY FLARE in similiar channels, since [underlined in black ink: Milty recently expressed the same unanswerable bit of logic] [handwritten note in black ink in right margin] "Milty was quoting me!" So he left, promising to come back some time and, I believe, inviting me to buying the back issues, I believe, inviting me to drop around. He gave his address, since had subscribed to [underlined] Spaceways while writing to Jack Speer, and happened to remember my doubts. I gave Jack RMB's address, and told him to look him up; if it wasn't Singleton, Brown seemed like a very nice intelligent person who'd be good company for Speer, del Rey, and Rothman; and if it was Earl, all the loose ends of the psuicide could be wound up. Speer investigated, found Earl (whom he'd met at the Chicon), and all part-ies concerned in the matter are at present living happily ever after. This is as good a place as any to issue an ultimatum. I have several arti-cles and a story floating around fandom which should have seen print ages ago and have apparently been forgotten or lost. Several fanzine editors are besieging me for material. I can't think of anything new to write about, and therefore: [Handwritten text in black ink in right margin, following the next paragraph: "What hap'd to it?"] If any fan editor has and intends to publish [underlined in black ink] "Toward Debabelization", "Re-coil", a book review of Ben Hect's "A Book of Miracles", or an article on the fan visitors to 303 Bryan Place, all by me, let him speak now or forever hold his peace. All were submitted and accepted long ago. The last I heard them, they were in the hands of [first two names underlined in black ink] Klingbiel or Schumann, Marconette, Pogo, and Beling, repsectively. If no word comes of them within the next month, I'm going to send them elsewhere; so beware! The news of "The Pocket Book of Scientific Romance", to be edited by Don Wollheim, is the best thing I've heard in a long while. This will be the first time pulp magazine stf. has had a real chance to circulate. Those Pocket Books sell fabulously--if a title sells only 150,000 copies, it has failed! All the stories selected are excellent ones, although it seems odd that the publishers should have insisted on six stories not originally from the stf. magazines, in order to have some "big names", when two or three of those six are by writers of whom I have never heard except in connection with the stories, and are certainly not famous enough to attract attention of the average persons. If this book sells well, perhaps the publishers will reprint a full-length novel or two ori-ginally published in a prozine. Imagine seeing "The Time Stream" or "Triplanet-ary" or the Weinbaum three-part novel displayed prominently on every newsstand, and in every drug store in town! The war hasn't done any damage thus far to fanzines, in quality or quanti-ty, but just recently it really smacked home. Mimeographs are now being r a-tioned; one must have a priority rating of A-9 or better in order to purchase a new one. As far as I know, there are no restrictions on the sale of used ones, so if you've been planning to buy one and start a fanzine, better hunt one up quick. This state of affairs could produce some fandom-millionaires: presuming that quite a few fans are left to carry on in the years to come, and the war rolls along, mimeos will become scarcer and scarcer. Finally only a few fans will have them, and control the fan press, charging fabulous sums to duplicate magazines for those who wish to edit, and becoming bloated pultocrats off the profits. First concrete trend toward such a deplorable situation is a collaboration between Louis Russell Chauvenet and me. We have borrowed Widner's glorious mot-to, "Fanzines by the Ton", and shall proceed to attempt to live up to it. Rus-sell will, in the future, be editor of [underlined] Frontier, the organ of the Frontier So-ciety, and is also going to issue a fanzine digest. (So is A. L. Schwartz, vul-garly known at times as Suddsy. A few more and we'll need a digest of fanzine digests.) [underlined] Frontier will be bi-monthly and the digest quarterly, according to the present plans, and Chauvenet will continue to issue his FAPA publication, [underlined] Sardo-nyx, quarterly. They should total about two hundred ten pages per year which is a right noble effort. These publications, of course, will be all Chauvenet's ex-cept for the actual crank-turning, which is where i fit into the picture. Then I myself emit some two hundred fifty pages of [underlined] Spaceways and [underlined] Horizons per annum,
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