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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 3, August 1941
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From the Passenger List SOUTHERN STAR Page 37 ERE IS FISCHER'S COLUMN? I REPEAT -- WHERE IS FISCHER'S COLUMN??? ...Gad, imagine the way I felt: so anxious to read it I was foaming at the mouth, and then to find it missing! Naturally, after all that is off my chest, I feel better. So a few comments on this issue wouldn't be amiss. The issue as a whole except for the generally mixed up continuations and page-numbers, and such, has improved in format over last time, I believe -- mimeoing exceptionally good for a first try with the mimeo. Front cover excellent, except for the lettering which I somehow didn't like; back one not quite. (And by the way, if it's possible for you to stencil all or almost all the issue before mimeoing anything, why not leave "Continuedon's" minus the page numbers until you have the whole thing stenciled, and then fill in the right pages? ((An excellent suggestion, and one that will be followed in this and future numbers. Mimeoing before stencils were all finished, is the reason for the majority of errors in the previous issue. JG)) Material: Best are Panurge, Chauvenet, and Rothman. I'm not going to go into detail on the various items because (a) I'm getting sick and tired of seeing letters from me in the letter section of every fanzine; (b) I want to go back to Spaceways and it would take four pages to go into everything in detail; (c) I'm getting a headache, and to think would naturally make it worse!; and (d) my opinions aren't worth much to me, and I'm sure they mean even less to you. ((Pardon the contradiction, please, but you are very wrong indeed on that last point! JG)). Golly, I sound as morbid as Tucker does sometimes. Anyway, since you want ratings, here goes; from the contents page -- that is the way they're listed on the contents page: 6; 4; 8; 7; ???; 8; 6; 5; 6, 6, 4, 4, 3, 5; 6; 7; 7; 6; 5; 2; Front cover 6; back one: 3. All of which means it was a very good issue, for the most part in my opinion, for I'm conservative with ratings -- far more than the average guy -- and an eight from me means about as much as a 10 from someone else. A few words about some of the items I can't resist. Panurge's feature is swell, but somehow it isn't quite what it should be. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but I think its main fault is that of the intrinsic nature of it: cataloging. A little is all right but no one can possibly remember what so many stories were about, and the good introduction, interlude, and ending don't quite enliven it enough. But I still like it immensely all the same; it's just that it suffers from the same troubles as any such list, no matter how well done. ((Personally I believe that with the article comes into the very fertile field of really famous classics that most of us have heard of, but have no way of reading, the cataloging and reviews become most valuable and welcome. This in addition to pointing out the little known but very fine fantasies that pop up now and then -- such as the Norman Douglas: "An Unnatural Feud" classic mentioned in the last issue. As Panurge has said the search for these old fantasies is all-inclusive and misses nothing. A search as unique as it is varied and interesting. JG)). Glad to have someone say some things about Burroughs although he's always left me completely cold. Probably it's because I didn't read any of his work until I'd been reading the prozines for three or four years, but I certainly don't enjoy it; just couldn't finish several of his books, and yet can't get sore at him the way I get sore at Cummings... And with that I leave you. Swell work, all the same, the Star is certainly one of the best half-dozen fanzines right now, and with a few more issues it should go right to the top. -- HARRY WARNER, JR.
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From the Passenger List SOUTHERN STAR Page 37 ERE IS FISCHER'S COLUMN? I REPEAT -- WHERE IS FISCHER'S COLUMN??? ...Gad, imagine the way I felt: so anxious to read it I was foaming at the mouth, and then to find it missing! Naturally, after all that is off my chest, I feel better. So a few comments on this issue wouldn't be amiss. The issue as a whole except for the generally mixed up continuations and page-numbers, and such, has improved in format over last time, I believe -- mimeoing exceptionally good for a first try with the mimeo. Front cover excellent, except for the lettering which I somehow didn't like; back one not quite. (And by the way, if it's possible for you to stencil all or almost all the issue before mimeoing anything, why not leave "Continuedon's" minus the page numbers until you have the whole thing stenciled, and then fill in the right pages? ((An excellent suggestion, and one that will be followed in this and future numbers. Mimeoing before stencils were all finished, is the reason for the majority of errors in the previous issue. JG)) Material: Best are Panurge, Chauvenet, and Rothman. I'm not going to go into detail on the various items because (a) I'm getting sick and tired of seeing letters from me in the letter section of every fanzine; (b) I want to go back to Spaceways and it would take four pages to go into everything in detail; (c) I'm getting a headache, and to think would naturally make it worse!; and (d) my opinions aren't worth much to me, and I'm sure they mean even less to you. ((Pardon the contradiction, please, but you are very wrong indeed on that last point! JG)). Golly, I sound as morbid as Tucker does sometimes. Anyway, since you want ratings, here goes; from the contents page -- that is the way they're listed on the contents page: 6; 4; 8; 7; ???; 8; 6; 5; 6, 6, 4, 4, 3, 5; 6; 7; 7; 6; 5; 2; Front cover 6; back one: 3. All of which means it was a very good issue, for the most part in my opinion, for I'm conservative with ratings -- far more than the average guy -- and an eight from me means about as much as a 10 from someone else. A few words about some of the items I can't resist. Panurge's feature is swell, but somehow it isn't quite what it should be. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but I think its main fault is that of the intrinsic nature of it: cataloging. A little is all right but no one can possibly remember what so many stories were about, and the good introduction, interlude, and ending don't quite enliven it enough. But I still like it immensely all the same; it's just that it suffers from the same troubles as any such list, no matter how well done. ((Personally I believe that with the article comes into the very fertile field of really famous classics that most of us have heard of, but have no way of reading, the cataloging and reviews become most valuable and welcome. This in addition to pointing out the little known but very fine fantasies that pop up now and then -- such as the Norman Douglas: "An Unnatural Feud" classic mentioned in the last issue. As Panurge has said the search for these old fantasies is all-inclusive and misses nothing. A search as unique as it is varied and interesting. JG)). Glad to have someone say some things about Burroughs although he's always left me completely cold. Probably it's because I didn't read any of his work until I'd been reading the prozines for three or four years, but I certainly don't enjoy it; just couldn't finish several of his books, and yet can't get sore at him the way I get sore at Cummings... And with that I leave you. Swell work, all the same, the Star is certainly one of the best half-dozen fanzines right now, and with a few more issues it should go right to the top. -- HARRY WARNER, JR.
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