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Centauri, issue 4, Summer 1945
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Page 22 Opposites --- React! Danie's article is rather amusing, just as are all other articles dealing with an organization of all fans. I don't see any sense in the idea. Why must there be one compact organization? Why must we all unite under one title? To form an extra large sort of Fapa? Utter nonsense. Fandom is perfectly all right as it is, as far as I can see. What differences would there be if this herculean project were ever a reality? - Fanzines would still go on unchanged, save perhaps for some minor details. So would fan activity. Let the dreamers dream. There is little I can say about the first part of Warner's column, but as for the bit on microfilming books -- Oh boy! It seems to me that such a situation as he suggests could be corrected. If magazines and books were ever produced in this manner I should think they would resort to using the method employed by our present day radio. Each book or magazine would be sponsored, the production costs being paid for by advertisers, and the products themselves sent free to subscribers. Perhaps this idea is too far fetched, though. I can think of several reasons why it might not succeed. It pains me to say that I didn't like No Greater Warrior. I think perhaps I would have appreciated it more were it not for the last two paragraphs, which throw the whole effect away. I think it would have been improved greatly if they were omitted, and the preceding one changed slightly to accomodate it. I think Conner is a trifle too optimistic in his inference that today's comic book fiends are tomorrow's s-f fans. The true s-f fan has a certain amount of intelligence which can safely be called abnormal. There is nothing in comic books to suggest intelligence or advance a person's mentality. As a matter of fact even the most uneducated person can understand comic magazines, not so with s-f. Science fiction requires so much more thought than the comics that I could hardly say that they are potential fans. But then it's hard to tell. Comic magazines have only been in vogue for about five years. As yet I can't see what possible use Evans' articles listing dates and publications of old fantasy can be to anyone unless they have access to a large supply of the magazines he mentions. In me they only incur a very unsatisfactory drool session. They belong in the "Interesting --- so what?" category. Not that he doesn't deserve credit for the terrific amount of work he must put into them, but i just don't see of what use they are. Summarizing my opinion of Centauri as a whole, I would say it is a well-rounded out, well-balanced fanzine with an obvious appeal to quality of material. In policy, similar to Wilimezyk's Paradox, it is neither too serious, like Laney's Acolyte, nor too lackadaisical, like Chanticleer. Of the fan mags I have seen, I would consider it about fifth. Don Jalbert 13 Highland Street Winchendon, Massachusetts
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Page 22 Opposites --- React! Danie's article is rather amusing, just as are all other articles dealing with an organization of all fans. I don't see any sense in the idea. Why must there be one compact organization? Why must we all unite under one title? To form an extra large sort of Fapa? Utter nonsense. Fandom is perfectly all right as it is, as far as I can see. What differences would there be if this herculean project were ever a reality? - Fanzines would still go on unchanged, save perhaps for some minor details. So would fan activity. Let the dreamers dream. There is little I can say about the first part of Warner's column, but as for the bit on microfilming books -- Oh boy! It seems to me that such a situation as he suggests could be corrected. If magazines and books were ever produced in this manner I should think they would resort to using the method employed by our present day radio. Each book or magazine would be sponsored, the production costs being paid for by advertisers, and the products themselves sent free to subscribers. Perhaps this idea is too far fetched, though. I can think of several reasons why it might not succeed. It pains me to say that I didn't like No Greater Warrior. I think perhaps I would have appreciated it more were it not for the last two paragraphs, which throw the whole effect away. I think it would have been improved greatly if they were omitted, and the preceding one changed slightly to accomodate it. I think Conner is a trifle too optimistic in his inference that today's comic book fiends are tomorrow's s-f fans. The true s-f fan has a certain amount of intelligence which can safely be called abnormal. There is nothing in comic books to suggest intelligence or advance a person's mentality. As a matter of fact even the most uneducated person can understand comic magazines, not so with s-f. Science fiction requires so much more thought than the comics that I could hardly say that they are potential fans. But then it's hard to tell. Comic magazines have only been in vogue for about five years. As yet I can't see what possible use Evans' articles listing dates and publications of old fantasy can be to anyone unless they have access to a large supply of the magazines he mentions. In me they only incur a very unsatisfactory drool session. They belong in the "Interesting --- so what?" category. Not that he doesn't deserve credit for the terrific amount of work he must put into them, but i just don't see of what use they are. Summarizing my opinion of Centauri as a whole, I would say it is a well-rounded out, well-balanced fanzine with an obvious appeal to quality of material. In policy, similar to Wilimezyk's Paradox, it is neither too serious, like Laney's Acolyte, nor too lackadaisical, like Chanticleer. Of the fan mags I have seen, I would consider it about fifth. Don Jalbert 13 Highland Street Winchendon, Massachusetts
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