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Diablerie, v. 1, issue 1, January 1944
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diablerie fantasy element so cavalierly and matter-of-factly as to be the next thing to ignoring it altogether. Obviously this does not lead to plausibility. On the other hand, if the author is engaged in building up mood, the necessary atmosphere will of itself come very near making plausible the most far-fetched violations of cosmic law. Picture of a woman that seems to be startled. The woman is drawn holding her face and possibly the back of her dress with her other hand. The woman's is in an awkward position with one leg extended as if she walking while the other is behind the extended foot. Next to her is a monster who is smiling and looking at apiece of text that states -that old perennial-. The other, and much less common, type of fantasy-science-fiction is "atmosphere" story. Lovecraft says( cf. Notes on Interplanetary Fiction) that the sole purpose of the author should be to create a mood, and that the principle characters of a fantastic yarn should be merely a set of phenomena. This view is rather radical, and it is somewhat doubtful if a 50,000 word stf novel would sustain reader interest if built wholly around the phenomena; but certainly these should have the center of the stage, with any human characters in a (next page)
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diablerie fantasy element so cavalierly and matter-of-factly as to be the next thing to ignoring it altogether. Obviously this does not lead to plausibility. On the other hand, if the author is engaged in building up mood, the necessary atmosphere will of itself come very near making plausible the most far-fetched violations of cosmic law. Picture of a woman that seems to be startled. The woman is drawn holding her face and possibly the back of her dress with her other hand. The woman's is in an awkward position with one leg extended as if she walking while the other is behind the extended foot. Next to her is a monster who is smiling and looking at apiece of text that states -that old perennial-. The other, and much less common, type of fantasy-science-fiction is "atmosphere" story. Lovecraft says( cf. Notes on Interplanetary Fiction) that the sole purpose of the author should be to create a mood, and that the principle characters of a fantastic yarn should be merely a set of phenomena. This view is rather radical, and it is somewhat doubtful if a 50,000 word stf novel would sustain reader interest if built wholly around the phenomena; but certainly these should have the center of the stage, with any human characters in a (next page)
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