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The Science Fiction Fan, v. 4, issue 9, whole no. 45, April 1940
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FAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ye Fantasie Bookes by ~ ye olde Booke Collector Strictly speaking these works are not classifiable as fantasy - at least not to the science-fiction fan but no one can doubt as yet that their general theme tends still to be fantastic. I refer to two books on astronautics by two persons known to stf - THE CONQUEST OF SPACE by David Lasser (Penguin Press, 1931) and ROCKETS THROUGH SPACE by P.E. Cleator (Simon & Schuster, 1936). Fans will remember Lasser for his editorship of WONDER STORIES FROM June 1929 to October 1933, and they will remember P.E. Cleator for his articles on rocketry in the first British stf magazine SCOOPS as well as for his stormy "Martian Madness" in the June 1934 WONDER. Both these persons became interested in rocketry and the science of space-flight (whose technical title is astronautics) through their connections with science-fiction. It was as editor of WONDER that Mr. Lasser came into agreement with the idea growing out of the Scienceers and out of Gernsback that a society should be formed for the specific purpose of research into space travel. Mr. Lasser was first president of the American Interplanetary Society now known as the American Rocket Society. Cleator became president of the British Interplanetary
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FAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ye Fantasie Bookes by ~ ye olde Booke Collector Strictly speaking these works are not classifiable as fantasy - at least not to the science-fiction fan but no one can doubt as yet that their general theme tends still to be fantastic. I refer to two books on astronautics by two persons known to stf - THE CONQUEST OF SPACE by David Lasser (Penguin Press, 1931) and ROCKETS THROUGH SPACE by P.E. Cleator (Simon & Schuster, 1936). Fans will remember Lasser for his editorship of WONDER STORIES FROM June 1929 to October 1933, and they will remember P.E. Cleator for his articles on rocketry in the first British stf magazine SCOOPS as well as for his stormy "Martian Madness" in the June 1934 WONDER. Both these persons became interested in rocketry and the science of space-flight (whose technical title is astronautics) through their connections with science-fiction. It was as editor of WONDER that Mr. Lasser came into agreement with the idea growing out of the Scienceers and out of Gernsback that a society should be formed for the specific purpose of research into space travel. Mr. Lasser was first president of the American Interplanetary Society now known as the American Rocket Society. Cleator became president of the British Interplanetary
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