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Fantasy Fiction Field, v. 2, issue 17, whole no. 40, Denvention Issue
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Fantasy Fiction Field Illustrated News Weekly (Denvention Issue) Page 8 FFF's Prize Contest (from pge 1) The rules are very simple. FFF will award the prizes listed on page one to the writers of the best three stories, not to exceed one thousand words in length, written around the cover photograph. This cover was drawn by Frank R. Paul, but was never used on a professional magazine, and probably never will be used. Stories should be either typed or handwritten neatly on one side of the paper. Naturally, they must be of the science-fictional or fantastic variety. The judges in the contest will select the best three and their decision will be final. Judges are: Julius Unger, Doc Lowndes, and Bob Studley. This contest is for amateurs only. No entry from any person who has stories in professional magazines will be considered. It is limited to subscribers (or exchange editors) of Fantasy Fiction Field Illustrated News Weekly. If you are not a subscriber, and would like to enter the contest, you may submit your mss. along with a 6-issue subscription to FFF. (25¢ for 6 issues.) Contestants may submit as many mss. as they like. Contest closes midnight July 31st, 1941, and no entry postmarked later than that date will be considered. Winners will be announced in some August (or early September, inasmuch as we date ahead slightly,) issue of FFF. Best wishes to all of you - - JULIE UNGER * FFF's julie unger: - (continued) was not until 1937 that I again became interested in active fandom. I personally contacted the few fans in Greater New York City that were still active -- Don Wollhein, Sam Moskowitz, Jimmy Taurasi, Will Sykora, Julie Schwartz, Charlie Hornig, Mort Weisinger, Johnny Michel, etc. Things were at a lull then, but soon gena to pick up -- new fanmags and pros began to appear. First came Marvel Science Stories, then Dynamic Science Stories, Startling Stories, Strange Stories, Science Fiction, Unknown, Fantastic Adventures ... and then the Nycon. Here was the climax. In the midst of such frenzied activity, I found that I was enjoying myself to the fullest. I took the fateful step -- after avoiding it for more than 14 years, I became, with much foreboding, the editor of a fanmag. This is my story. Julie Unger, F. F. F. * A. Merritt (cont) why, as to Wordsworth, the same flower is a home of enchantment. Which is the real? Whichever is, the poet does open a new world to us -- the other observer certainly does not. Fantasy is one key to this new world. But many people are not travelers and do not want to roam in new worlds and they prefer to see the primrose as just a yellow flower. And this is why, I think, many people are so violently opposed to anything that seems to them fantasy. It makes them feel insecure, irritatingly bewildered; unsafe. I know that in my case, readers either like the books so well that they get ragged with use -- Or dislike me so intensely that they hurl me into a furnace or even some less sanitary limbo. This is always a very comforting thought to me. (continued page 10)
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Fantasy Fiction Field Illustrated News Weekly (Denvention Issue) Page 8 FFF's Prize Contest (from pge 1) The rules are very simple. FFF will award the prizes listed on page one to the writers of the best three stories, not to exceed one thousand words in length, written around the cover photograph. This cover was drawn by Frank R. Paul, but was never used on a professional magazine, and probably never will be used. Stories should be either typed or handwritten neatly on one side of the paper. Naturally, they must be of the science-fictional or fantastic variety. The judges in the contest will select the best three and their decision will be final. Judges are: Julius Unger, Doc Lowndes, and Bob Studley. This contest is for amateurs only. No entry from any person who has stories in professional magazines will be considered. It is limited to subscribers (or exchange editors) of Fantasy Fiction Field Illustrated News Weekly. If you are not a subscriber, and would like to enter the contest, you may submit your mss. along with a 6-issue subscription to FFF. (25¢ for 6 issues.) Contestants may submit as many mss. as they like. Contest closes midnight July 31st, 1941, and no entry postmarked later than that date will be considered. Winners will be announced in some August (or early September, inasmuch as we date ahead slightly,) issue of FFF. Best wishes to all of you - - JULIE UNGER * FFF's julie unger: - (continued) was not until 1937 that I again became interested in active fandom. I personally contacted the few fans in Greater New York City that were still active -- Don Wollhein, Sam Moskowitz, Jimmy Taurasi, Will Sykora, Julie Schwartz, Charlie Hornig, Mort Weisinger, Johnny Michel, etc. Things were at a lull then, but soon gena to pick up -- new fanmags and pros began to appear. First came Marvel Science Stories, then Dynamic Science Stories, Startling Stories, Strange Stories, Science Fiction, Unknown, Fantastic Adventures ... and then the Nycon. Here was the climax. In the midst of such frenzied activity, I found that I was enjoying myself to the fullest. I took the fateful step -- after avoiding it for more than 14 years, I became, with much foreboding, the editor of a fanmag. This is my story. Julie Unger, F. F. F. * A. Merritt (cont) why, as to Wordsworth, the same flower is a home of enchantment. Which is the real? Whichever is, the poet does open a new world to us -- the other observer certainly does not. Fantasy is one key to this new world. But many people are not travelers and do not want to roam in new worlds and they prefer to see the primrose as just a yellow flower. And this is why, I think, many people are so violently opposed to anything that seems to them fantasy. It makes them feel insecure, irritatingly bewildered; unsafe. I know that in my case, readers either like the books so well that they get ragged with use -- Or dislike me so intensely that they hurl me into a furnace or even some less sanitary limbo. This is always a very comforting thought to me. (continued page 10)
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