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Centauri, issue 2, Winter 1944
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Centauri Page 25 Opposites -- React! our well and I decided to patent it upon my return to earth" is humor, then I'm a Hottentot. On the other hand, the finest example of humor in the magazine is labeled "verse". I just laughed and laughed and laughed while reading Baker's "poem", but Daniel's "humor" didn't even elicit a giggle. As regards Teleportation -- I'd advise Powlowski to obtain a text-book on atomic structure and then maybe he'd know what he's talking about. Reinhold is an engaging fellow, in the third paragraph: "Impossible? Not so much. The machine merely transforms matter into light radiations." That's all. Merely transforms matter into energy and then reforms the energy into matter. That's all. It's alright to read stuff like this in a story, but in a factual article...well, it's no wonder stf has been called "pseudo-science". Back to something more agreeable -- the half-page ads scattered thruout the magazine. I always enjoy reading fanads: They're sort of a combined news sheet and barometer of the field. Further comments: format is quite neat -- as a whole the mag is well set up...the art is ghastly, hideous, atrocious and a few other things, but that's the way it is with most fan mags...editorial is clearly written... I note on page six, the words "sample copy", and above, the sentence "if you want to continue getting this fanzine...send in your subscriptions." Andrew, you shock me. 1. I haven't got a dime. I'm broke. I'm even taking this letter over to Wright's to borrow a stamp. 2. I can always exchange Sappho for Centauri. 3. I offer two suggestions, either of which should be good for a subscription: call Warner's column ETCETERA and the reader's section "Opposites -- React!" Give the first subscription to some needy fan like Wright -- this ought to get me a six cent stamp, at least -- and send the other one to me. Come now, George -- I realize that I am the hideous monstrosity of the fan field, but I was sure that a fan, being so used to reading of them, could not be shocked by such a minor one as me. Anyway, you get your subscription. Tom isn't a needy fan, for (1.) he is no longer a fan, and (2.) he gets this, er, ah, this -- well he gets Centauri already. Werner's column is still The Unnamed because quite a number of letters remarked that the title was original and gives him lots of range. Besides, it saves me two-bits. I thought of that name myself. Speaking of Harry, let's hear what he has to say (303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown, Md): Centauri No. 1 was a pleasant surprise to me; very neatly done, and with very decent material. The only real trouble is that the staples have an annoying tendency to pull out, despite your commendable extravagance in sticking four of the precious things into each copy. The fan who invents a method of binding fat fanzines like these with an inexpensive, quick and substantial something, will be doing fan culture an inestimable service. Both stories were very decent, Rimel's being super-
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Centauri Page 25 Opposites -- React! our well and I decided to patent it upon my return to earth" is humor, then I'm a Hottentot. On the other hand, the finest example of humor in the magazine is labeled "verse". I just laughed and laughed and laughed while reading Baker's "poem", but Daniel's "humor" didn't even elicit a giggle. As regards Teleportation -- I'd advise Powlowski to obtain a text-book on atomic structure and then maybe he'd know what he's talking about. Reinhold is an engaging fellow, in the third paragraph: "Impossible? Not so much. The machine merely transforms matter into light radiations." That's all. Merely transforms matter into energy and then reforms the energy into matter. That's all. It's alright to read stuff like this in a story, but in a factual article...well, it's no wonder stf has been called "pseudo-science". Back to something more agreeable -- the half-page ads scattered thruout the magazine. I always enjoy reading fanads: They're sort of a combined news sheet and barometer of the field. Further comments: format is quite neat -- as a whole the mag is well set up...the art is ghastly, hideous, atrocious and a few other things, but that's the way it is with most fan mags...editorial is clearly written... I note on page six, the words "sample copy", and above, the sentence "if you want to continue getting this fanzine...send in your subscriptions." Andrew, you shock me. 1. I haven't got a dime. I'm broke. I'm even taking this letter over to Wright's to borrow a stamp. 2. I can always exchange Sappho for Centauri. 3. I offer two suggestions, either of which should be good for a subscription: call Warner's column ETCETERA and the reader's section "Opposites -- React!" Give the first subscription to some needy fan like Wright -- this ought to get me a six cent stamp, at least -- and send the other one to me. Come now, George -- I realize that I am the hideous monstrosity of the fan field, but I was sure that a fan, being so used to reading of them, could not be shocked by such a minor one as me. Anyway, you get your subscription. Tom isn't a needy fan, for (1.) he is no longer a fan, and (2.) he gets this, er, ah, this -- well he gets Centauri already. Werner's column is still The Unnamed because quite a number of letters remarked that the title was original and gives him lots of range. Besides, it saves me two-bits. I thought of that name myself. Speaking of Harry, let's hear what he has to say (303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown, Md): Centauri No. 1 was a pleasant surprise to me; very neatly done, and with very decent material. The only real trouble is that the staples have an annoying tendency to pull out, despite your commendable extravagance in sticking four of the precious things into each copy. The fan who invents a method of binding fat fanzines like these with an inexpensive, quick and substantial something, will be doing fan culture an inestimable service. Both stories were very decent, Rimel's being super-
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