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Fantascience Digest, v. 2, issue 5, July-September, 1939
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Page 15 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST to mention: "THREE AGAINST THE STARS". I'll here and now go on record as saying I liked it, come what may. Unfortunately, it seems that quite a few fans didn't share my sentiments. It was a conglamoration of stf, weird, fantasy, astrology, and practically everything else under the sun. So I shan't say anything more about this, lest I arouse a general controversy. And thus endeth the tale. . . ************* But a few more words of explanation may be appended. For one thing, it was hard to decide whether to include or omit certain stories in these listings. For example, one little yarn might have had a disintegrator in it; I left that out. And then too, there were several little short-shorts that might have deserved recognition, outstanding among them being "ROUND TRIP". Finally, there were some stories that seemed to be stf., but turned out otherwise. Nearly everything written by Theodore Roscoe falls into this calassification ; as one example, "THE HEADS OF SERGEANT BAPTISTE". To digress a little at this point: has anyone noticed the relation between this story and H.G. Wells' "POLLOCK AND THE PORROH MEN"? Not, of course, any suggestion of a plagiarism, for the endings are different. But in both yarns a man in a foreign land is haunted by the head of a murdered man, which persists in following him about no matter how many times he destroys it. Even the methods he uses to rid himself of the unpleasant cranium are similar. It might possibly be that Roscoe tried to work out the same theme in his own style --- and succeeded remarkably well. At any rate, the endings are entirely different, one being rational and the other not. Another almost-included: "BOARD FENCE" by Murray Leinster. A marvelous study in suspense, this! Summing up the year: not quite as good as it might have been, but at the same time certainly not disappointing. And 1939 promises to be even better: witness already masterpieces which have been published by authors such as A. Merritt, Paul Ernst, Jack Williamson, Arthur Leo Zagat, Eando Binder, and a brand new discovery who almost seems to be (incredible as it may seem) another Weinbaum! If your name appears here, your subscription with this issue; R.D. Swisher; Donald A. Wollheim; Kobert G. Thompson; Sam Moskowitz; Louis Kuslan; Bob Tucker; Geore Pl Calvert; Bernard Quinn; Donald Ford; Human Vinnusky; Sylvester Brown, Jr.; Paul Freehafer; Abraham Oshinsky; Thomas Hinmon; J.J. Fortier; Henry D. Goldman; Samuel D. Russell; Lee Blatt; T.A. Hoguet; Thomas Watson; P.J. Searles; ------ Resubscribe as soon as possible to insure receiving the gala second anniversary issue of FANTASCIENCE DIGEST. If you send stamps, please make them of low denominations. Join the ILLINI FANTASY FICTIONEERS and get in with the gang. The IFF is the organization formed expressly to sponsor the 1940 WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION in Chicago. If you are the slightest bit interested, send to Richard I. Meyer, 3156 Cambridge Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, for full details. ----------------------
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Page 15 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST to mention: "THREE AGAINST THE STARS". I'll here and now go on record as saying I liked it, come what may. Unfortunately, it seems that quite a few fans didn't share my sentiments. It was a conglamoration of stf, weird, fantasy, astrology, and practically everything else under the sun. So I shan't say anything more about this, lest I arouse a general controversy. And thus endeth the tale. . . ************* But a few more words of explanation may be appended. For one thing, it was hard to decide whether to include or omit certain stories in these listings. For example, one little yarn might have had a disintegrator in it; I left that out. And then too, there were several little short-shorts that might have deserved recognition, outstanding among them being "ROUND TRIP". Finally, there were some stories that seemed to be stf., but turned out otherwise. Nearly everything written by Theodore Roscoe falls into this calassification ; as one example, "THE HEADS OF SERGEANT BAPTISTE". To digress a little at this point: has anyone noticed the relation between this story and H.G. Wells' "POLLOCK AND THE PORROH MEN"? Not, of course, any suggestion of a plagiarism, for the endings are different. But in both yarns a man in a foreign land is haunted by the head of a murdered man, which persists in following him about no matter how many times he destroys it. Even the methods he uses to rid himself of the unpleasant cranium are similar. It might possibly be that Roscoe tried to work out the same theme in his own style --- and succeeded remarkably well. At any rate, the endings are entirely different, one being rational and the other not. Another almost-included: "BOARD FENCE" by Murray Leinster. A marvelous study in suspense, this! Summing up the year: not quite as good as it might have been, but at the same time certainly not disappointing. And 1939 promises to be even better: witness already masterpieces which have been published by authors such as A. Merritt, Paul Ernst, Jack Williamson, Arthur Leo Zagat, Eando Binder, and a brand new discovery who almost seems to be (incredible as it may seem) another Weinbaum! If your name appears here, your subscription with this issue; R.D. Swisher; Donald A. Wollheim; Kobert G. Thompson; Sam Moskowitz; Louis Kuslan; Bob Tucker; Geore Pl Calvert; Bernard Quinn; Donald Ford; Human Vinnusky; Sylvester Brown, Jr.; Paul Freehafer; Abraham Oshinsky; Thomas Hinmon; J.J. Fortier; Henry D. Goldman; Samuel D. Russell; Lee Blatt; T.A. Hoguet; Thomas Watson; P.J. Searles; ------ Resubscribe as soon as possible to insure receiving the gala second anniversary issue of FANTASCIENCE DIGEST. If you send stamps, please make them of low denominations. Join the ILLINI FANTASY FICTIONEERS and get in with the gang. The IFF is the organization formed expressly to sponsor the 1940 WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION in Chicago. If you are the slightest bit interested, send to Richard I. Meyer, 3156 Cambridge Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, for full details. ----------------------
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