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INSPIRATION     23

     I have a personal regard for SCIENCE FICTION which is out of all proportion to its actual merit, because it was thru it that I was introduced to organized fandom. The inevitable happened, and I eventually wrote a letter to a prozine, the letter was published, and from then on I was lost. It just so happened that SCIENCE FICTION was the magazine I picked for that first letter.
     That first issue was practically all space-opera, and not very good space-opera. The second issue, June 1939, had one of Paul's best covers, and some stories which were quite a bit better. Best was Binder's "Where Eternity Ends", and also good were Gardner's "The Traitor" and Coleridge's "The Black Comet". I'm not even trying to unravel the host of psuedonyms which dotted SCIENCE FICTION's pages, but just listing the name given on the contents page.
     More space-opera in the August 1939 issue, best of them being Gallun's "Strange Creature". October had nothing in particular. December is another blank. Liked Jacobi's "Sky Trap" in March 1940. The June 1940 issue has fair adventure in Clive's "The voice Commands", and some pretty good space-opera in "Proxies on Venus" by Bond and "Castaways in Space" by A. R. Long. The space-opera stuff in October 1940 wasn't so good.
     January 1941 had one story of merit, Barnes' "Forgotten Future". March and June were equally unimportant. The September 1941 SCIENCE FICTION, now under the editorship of Lowndes, ad some good space-opera shorts, Gordon's "Revolving World", Keletsky's "Heavy Cargo", and Morley's "A Matter of Philosophy".
     AT this point, for purposes of this review, SCIENCE FICTION ended. Actually, it was combined with FUTURE FICTION, altho at a later date it was FUTURE which was combined under the name of SCIENCE FICTION. But that was after 1941.
     SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY generally had one reprinted novel, together with a group of new shorts, and the first issue was dated Summer 1940. The reprinted novel was Romans' "The Moon Conquerors". Kaletsky's "Space-Ship Derby" was best of the shorts. The Winter 1941 issue was reprinted Gails "The Shot into Infinity", already mentioned in SCIENCE WONDER.
     The 3rd issue, the Spring 1941, had a new story as lead novel, Repp's "Rescue from Venus", which wasn't too good. There was also nothing exceptional about any of the shorts. The Summer 1941 Quarterly reprinted Cummings' best story, "Tarrano The Conqueror". I also enjoyed Woods' "Earth Does not Reply."

FUTURE
FICTION

     FUTURE FICTION, companion to SCIENCE FICTION, first appeared in November 1939, and featured much the same sort of general space-opera as did the latter. In the first issue, Haggard's "World Reborn" was fair. In March 1940 I liked both Williamson's "As in the Beginning" and Asimov's "Ring Around the Sun". Best in July was probably Rocklynne's "Prophecy of Doom". Olsen's humorous little shirt "Our Robot Maid" is the only story in November that stands out in retrospect, altho at the time I'd probably have rated a couple of the oth-

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INSPIRATION 23 I have a personal regard for SCIENCE FICTION which is out of all proportion to its actual merit, because it was thru it that I was introduced to organized fandom. The inevitable happened, and I eventually wrote a letter to a prozine, the letter was published, and from then on I was lost. It just so happened that SCIENCE FICTION was the magazine I picked for that first letter. That first issue was practically all space-opera, and not very good space-opera. The second issue, June 1939, had one of Paul's best covers, and some stories which were quite a bit better. Best was Binder's "Where Eternity Ends", and also good were Gardner's "The Traitor" and Coleridge's "The Black Comet". I'm not even trying to unravel the host of psuedonyms which dotted SCIENCE FICTION's pages, but just listing the name given on the contents page. More space-opera in the August 1939 issue, best of them being Gallun's "Strange Creature". October had nothing in particular. December is another blank. Liked Jacobi's "Sky Trap" in March 1940. The June 1940 issue has fair adventure in Clive's "The voice Commands", and some pretty good space-opera in "Proxies on Venus" by Bond and "Castaways in Space" by A. R. Long. The space-opera stuff in October 1940 wasn't so good. January 1941 had one story of merit, Barnes' "Forgotten Future". March and June were equally unimportant. The September 1941 SCIENCE FICTION, now under the editorship of Lowndes, ad some good space-opera shorts, Gordon's "Revolving World", Keletsky's "Heavy Cargo", and Morley's "A Matter of Philosophy". AT this point, for purposes of this review, SCIENCE FICTION ended. Actually, it was combined with FUTURE FICTION, altho at a later date it was FUTURE which was combined under the name of SCIENCE FICTION. But that was after 1941. SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY generally had one reprinted novel, together with a group of new shorts, and the first issue was dated Summer 1940. The reprinted novel was Romans' "The Moon Conquerors". Kaletsky's "Space-Ship Derby" was best of the shorts. The Winter 1941 issue was reprinted Gails "The Shot into Infinity", already mentioned in SCIENCE WONDER. The 3rd issue, the Spring 1941, had a new story as lead novel, Repp's "Rescue from Venus", which wasn't too good. There was also nothing exceptional about any of the shorts. The Summer 1941 Quarterly reprinted Cummings' best story, "Tarrano The Conqueror". I also enjoyed Woods' "Earth Does not Reply." FUTURE FICTION FUTURE FICTION, companion to SCIENCE FICTION, first appeared in November 1939, and featured much the same sort of general space-opera as did the latter. In the first issue, Haggard's "World Reborn" was fair. In March 1940 I liked both Williamson's "As in the Beginning" and Asimov's "Ring Around the Sun". Best in July was probably Rocklynne's "Prophecy of Doom". Olsen's humorous little shirt "Our Robot Maid" is the only story in November that stands out in retrospect, altho at the time I'd probably have rated a couple of the oth-