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Meet the fan THE VULCAN Page 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Raynes, Russell Gale and Darrel G. LeFever for their financial aid, encouragement and advice. Gee, what a screwy autobiography! Can you beat it? /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_ ADVENTURES OF A STF FAN Darrel LeFever HAVING ONCE OR twice edited small, amateur newspaper I know what a godsent it is to and editor to have copy---any kind of copy----appear when he's struggling to fill that empty space. So this, if it makes the VULCAN, will have to stand more as an ameliorant of editorial suffering and fullfullment of a promise I once made to write and article for the magazine than a timely, pertinent document of any phase of the science-fiction movement. It is, in fact, no more than a recounting of my reading adventures through the years----real and vivid to me, but perhaps not so to another. Perhaps it is slightly "off-the-trail" in that it is designed for publication in a s-f magazine and despite the fact I've been seeking out and reading s-f for years, not one tenth of my reading has been in that field. But reading and the world of books interest you then any failure of this to do so is my shortcoming and not that of the subject, I believe. It was in '30 or '31---exact time and details forgotten----but the principle character has not since that first copy of Astounding came into his hands experience the same feelings of enchantment which transported him to another time and the depths of another world, into the presence of alien creatures awakened from a long sleep, back to earth and safety by rocket ship. I think the new concepts of excitement and adventure contained in that story literally shocked my uninitiated mind into a desire for more. Often since I've speculated as to wether I'd ever felt the interest [illegible] from that time did in the action magazines, I read and still read if that one copy of Astounding Stories had not come to my attention at that particular moment. Which brings up interesting conjectures. Would I have adapted reading as probably the greatest influencing factor in my life if beginning events had been otherwise? Was I predestined through any combination of natural inclinations and tendencies to turn to diversion, however events might have been? Folowed [illegible] of the most helter-skelter reading orgy. The pulps----- Shadow, Spider, Doc Savage, Phantom, Secret-Agent "X", Operator #6, [illegible, overwritten]ding, Amazing, Fight, Sport, horror, detective, western. There must have been thousands. I followed the adventures of certain characters avidly in many magazines, reading the detective magazines like Shadow, Spider, etc., in practically consecutive order, seldom missing an issue. I could name all characters participating in any series and give the
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Meet the fan THE VULCAN Page 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Raynes, Russell Gale and Darrel G. LeFever for their financial aid, encouragement and advice. Gee, what a screwy autobiography! Can you beat it? /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_ ADVENTURES OF A STF FAN Darrel LeFever HAVING ONCE OR twice edited small, amateur newspaper I know what a godsent it is to and editor to have copy---any kind of copy----appear when he's struggling to fill that empty space. So this, if it makes the VULCAN, will have to stand more as an ameliorant of editorial suffering and fullfullment of a promise I once made to write and article for the magazine than a timely, pertinent document of any phase of the science-fiction movement. It is, in fact, no more than a recounting of my reading adventures through the years----real and vivid to me, but perhaps not so to another. Perhaps it is slightly "off-the-trail" in that it is designed for publication in a s-f magazine and despite the fact I've been seeking out and reading s-f for years, not one tenth of my reading has been in that field. But reading and the world of books interest you then any failure of this to do so is my shortcoming and not that of the subject, I believe. It was in '30 or '31---exact time and details forgotten----but the principle character has not since that first copy of Astounding came into his hands experience the same feelings of enchantment which transported him to another time and the depths of another world, into the presence of alien creatures awakened from a long sleep, back to earth and safety by rocket ship. I think the new concepts of excitement and adventure contained in that story literally shocked my uninitiated mind into a desire for more. Often since I've speculated as to wether I'd ever felt the interest [illegible] from that time did in the action magazines, I read and still read if that one copy of Astounding Stories had not come to my attention at that particular moment. Which brings up interesting conjectures. Would I have adapted reading as probably the greatest influencing factor in my life if beginning events had been otherwise? Was I predestined through any combination of natural inclinations and tendencies to turn to diversion, however events might have been? Folowed [illegible] of the most helter-skelter reading orgy. The pulps----- Shadow, Spider, Doc Savage, Phantom, Secret-Agent "X", Operator #6, [illegible, overwritten]ding, Amazing, Fight, Sport, horror, detective, western. There must have been thousands. I followed the adventures of certain characters avidly in many magazines, reading the detective magazines like Shadow, Spider, etc., in practically consecutive order, seldom missing an issue. I could name all characters participating in any series and give the
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