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Spaceways, v. 4, issue 4, whole no. 27, April 1942

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22 SPACEWAYS [centered] THE READERS ALWAYS WRITE Nell" are interesting bits (tho I fail to see how one could sing the latter as they did in NSB's "Lucky Logan" in one of the Z-D pubs.) . . . "Mood" irritates due to that third line. Ghood ghod, can't these poets say "No" instead of "Nay"? No matter how modern they are in most of the phrasing, they can't cut out the archaic stuff when they want to dramatically reject [underlined] (Alas, poor infini-tive! HW) something. Oh, well, give "Mood" a 6 and "Legerdemain" a 7...... ' ' I usually enjoy JNRosenblums' "What They Are About", altho I don't believe any of the books he reviews are in libraries around here. I'll give a 6 to JNR. Incidentally, a new book that should interest fantasy fans is "Open the Door!" by Osbert Sitwell, the lil brother of Edith Sitwell, I believe. It's a volume of short stories, all more or less fantastic. There's even a story about an "accident prone"--shades of L.Ron Hubbard. Another little book with fantast-ic leanings is "Mr. Limpet" by Theodore Pratt. ' ' "Beacon Light" was only a lit-tle too harsh on the Lensmenovel, which certainly didn't measure up with "Gray Lensman". A contradiction I've pondered over is this: Mentor is supposedly a Know-It-All, yet he was undubitably incredulous when Kim revealed "Fossten" as an Arisian. Later, when Kim rationalisingly says he doesn't believe there could be a more important Boskonian than a born Arisian, Chris asks, "Why don't you find out from Mentor?" If he didn't know about Fossten, how would he know of someone higher up? . . .My guess is that Mentor doesn't know as much as Kim thinks he does. Once in a while, M. gets info from some secret source that the Boskies are getting dangerous again. He calls Kim, and Kim does the brain and physical work. The times Kim is stuck or calls for help, Mentor solves the riddle from facts Kim gives him or from facts already known. Not even Ment-or can solve a problem he knows only a few facts about. If he did know all about Boskonia, he [underlined] could solve the entire problem. ' ' I don't remember that EES said that the basic difference between Civilization and Boskonia was that "we" recog-nize the equality of women and the Boskies do not. Ghod, I'm a semi-Boskonian! As for Mack being a nincompoop, just gimmer her and you can have Suarra, Naia, Beta, Belphebe, and all of Cummings' so-sweet heroines fro your harem. Seven points for Beacon Light. ' ' In regards to the thinner paper, I haven't noticed any difference except for the limpness of the pages. I vote the experiment a success. If it's possible to enlarge [underlined] S., why not sue some of the extra space to spread the usual load of material out a little? Leave a wider margin on the bottom of each page, leave a space between each letter in the Readers' Dept., etc. [underlined] (Done regardless. HW) [name underlined] Frank Robinson, 6636 South Sacramento, Chicago, Illinois, notes: Fantasy on the Air rates an 8. How come Boggs left out "Dark Fantasy" when he listed programs featuring fantasy? "The Kraken" happened to be featured on some prog-ram some time ago ("T.X." was from [underlined] Unknown). Boggs had the same idea concerning "Fear" that I did. It would have made a wonderful radio program...... ' ' Bea-con Light not bad. Lack of criticism of [underlined] Future & Stirring now explained. What a story it would be if Civilization and Arisia were the actual villians with Kinnison as a tool; and Boskone as the goody-goodies. Fantastic, [rest of sentence underlined] but what a story! I've often wondered why Smith doesn't write a really encompassing sci-ence-war involving [underlined] all the macrocosmic worlds, and the story having the war being fought from one end of time to the other. Perhaps it's rather an asinine plot, but the possibilities are staggering. Williamson's "After World's End" came near to this idea. [name underlined] John L. Gergen, 221 Melbourne Avenue, Southeast, Minneapolis, Minn., says: Log of the FooFoo Special was a nifty! The fan who quaintly remarked, " 'Twasn't fantasy" was obviously drunk or 8 years old. Shucks, [underlined] Spaceways is a [underlined] fan mag-azine!!! Fout!......Into the Fourth - And Beyond was most entertaining, but con-troversial. For all we know, time might be non-existent. For such a long per-iod we measured time, we know no different, no? Well, maybe not, but For-
 
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