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Fantascience Digest, v. 2, issue 3, March-April 1939
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Page 24 FANTASCIENCE THE READER COMMENTS [[underline]]CHARLES D. HORNIG[[end underline]]: I jut received a copy of your Jan.-Feb. Fantascience Digest, which you sent to SCIENCE FICTION. I read your little journal thoroughly, and must say that I enjoyed every bit of it. It is the best fan-article publication that I have seen since Julius Schwartz ran Fantasy Magazine. All of your articles are interesting, and many are informative. I got a good kick out of "Something Different" by Conover. It also pleased me to see such a fine job of mimeographing. That makes the digest readable in both ways! Congratulations on your fine work, and I wish you much success in the future. [[underline]]Harry Warner, Jr:[[end underline]] Congragulations on the superb mimeoing! In my opinion you'll have to go a long way to find any that's better, and very, very few are even this good. Every page has just the right amount of ink, and in the right places, too---not in the form of spots on the edges! Illustrations are pretty good, too, 'though the cover shows a little lack of experience with the stylus. Oh, well--that's only natural, especially when you have only one to work with. As for material, most of the fiction is good, especially Dennis' piece. Hang on to that fellow. Mand hasn't enough room to expand, and Thompson does a fair job with about the worst plot I've ever witnessed. Your new department is very good, but keep the news news, and don't put things several weeks old in it. Leave it for the last stencil, is possible. Is Conover trying to be funny? Reinsberg running as usual---much the same, and [[underline]]good[[end underline]]. Questions a lot better this time; I suppose I could show my ignorance by trying to answer them, but won't as there's no point in getting an extra FD as I'm getting it regularly. Various other articles are swell, and I like the little "Favorite Science Fiction Story" fillers scattered here and there. Why not keep them up, using fans outside of Philly too? Also, keep the letter department good and long. Fear I must disagree with Dick about the "Flash Gordon" cartoon. The art is okay---but that's the case with most cartoons. Rather it's the plot (or what is called 'plot') that I think so lousy. As for Burroughs: he can rarely do anything but amuse me. I almost suffocated from laughter over "The Synthetic Men of Mars." Oh, well.. while I think of it, Buck Rogers has disappeared from the Washington Newspapers, but is back in the Philadelphia Record. [[underline]]JIM AVERY[[end underline]]: I hate to say it, but I'm afraid Fantascience Digest surpasses Spaceways in many ways-- mostly in reader interest--if not in literary excellence. Beginning with the editorial: I don't think, as you do, that your illustrations are inferior to the regular fare. It's really an amazing job for one stylus and probably no scope. By the way, if Agnew is available, I'd like to have him do a heading or two for some of Funtasy's departments. His for "The Science
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Page 24 FANTASCIENCE THE READER COMMENTS [[underline]]CHARLES D. HORNIG[[end underline]]: I jut received a copy of your Jan.-Feb. Fantascience Digest, which you sent to SCIENCE FICTION. I read your little journal thoroughly, and must say that I enjoyed every bit of it. It is the best fan-article publication that I have seen since Julius Schwartz ran Fantasy Magazine. All of your articles are interesting, and many are informative. I got a good kick out of "Something Different" by Conover. It also pleased me to see such a fine job of mimeographing. That makes the digest readable in both ways! Congratulations on your fine work, and I wish you much success in the future. [[underline]]Harry Warner, Jr:[[end underline]] Congragulations on the superb mimeoing! In my opinion you'll have to go a long way to find any that's better, and very, very few are even this good. Every page has just the right amount of ink, and in the right places, too---not in the form of spots on the edges! Illustrations are pretty good, too, 'though the cover shows a little lack of experience with the stylus. Oh, well--that's only natural, especially when you have only one to work with. As for material, most of the fiction is good, especially Dennis' piece. Hang on to that fellow. Mand hasn't enough room to expand, and Thompson does a fair job with about the worst plot I've ever witnessed. Your new department is very good, but keep the news news, and don't put things several weeks old in it. Leave it for the last stencil, is possible. Is Conover trying to be funny? Reinsberg running as usual---much the same, and [[underline]]good[[end underline]]. Questions a lot better this time; I suppose I could show my ignorance by trying to answer them, but won't as there's no point in getting an extra FD as I'm getting it regularly. Various other articles are swell, and I like the little "Favorite Science Fiction Story" fillers scattered here and there. Why not keep them up, using fans outside of Philly too? Also, keep the letter department good and long. Fear I must disagree with Dick about the "Flash Gordon" cartoon. The art is okay---but that's the case with most cartoons. Rather it's the plot (or what is called 'plot') that I think so lousy. As for Burroughs: he can rarely do anything but amuse me. I almost suffocated from laughter over "The Synthetic Men of Mars." Oh, well.. while I think of it, Buck Rogers has disappeared from the Washington Newspapers, but is back in the Philadelphia Record. [[underline]]JIM AVERY[[end underline]]: I hate to say it, but I'm afraid Fantascience Digest surpasses Spaceways in many ways-- mostly in reader interest--if not in literary excellence. Beginning with the editorial: I don't think, as you do, that your illustrations are inferior to the regular fare. It's really an amazing job for one stylus and probably no scope. By the way, if Agnew is available, I'd like to have him do a heading or two for some of Funtasy's departments. His for "The Science
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