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Fantods, whole no. 9, Winter 1945
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page 10 EFTY-NINE "The science in 'Roadside Strategy' lay in the fact that kerosene alone will not drive a car. It is a great pity that cars cannot be constructed to burn kerosene, as it has a great many more thermal units in a given volume than gasoline. Gasoline is definitely a very expensive fuel. The Diesel engine owes its success and its application to steam navigation [eh, how's that again?] to the fact that it burns a fuel of high specific gravity, one which contains far more thermal units per volume than gasoline contains, so if you see there is quite a bit of science in the story you complain of. 'Measuring a Meridian' apparently contained more science than you could stomach. A very interesting point brought out in it was the measurement of a meridian from Dunkirk to the Balearic Islands. An editor of such a magazine as ours, has to learn one lesson--that 'one man's meat is another man's poison.' We are sorry that you find so much, of what you consider poison, in our stories. We hope you will survive." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, Sept. 1934 -o- "This story, depicting the escape of two of the characters from being burned alive in the atmosphere of the earth as they are resting on a meteorite, will hold you in suspense to the very end." --blurb for "Universal Merry-Go-Round" (Bird), Amazing Stories, Apr. 1933 -o- "There would be no glory in refusing to believe in space traveling and then to have someone go off and do it. Personally, we do not believe in its possibility." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, May 1934 -o- "Our readers will be very glad to hear more about the wonderful Jameson travellers with their invincible bodies,the beings still living after arm and legs have been pulled off." --blurb for "On the Planet Fragment" (NRJones), Amazing Stories, Oct. 1937 -o- "If we had the least idea of how many communists abide in your state, we would at least have the grounds for a good guess in answer to your question. Is not marriage communistic? The writer of these few lines is anti-communistic in the strongest sense. But he does believe in marriage." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, Dec. 1937 -o- "This is a story of a little man with a wife who did not share that peculiarity." --blurb for "Mr. Bowen's Wife Reduces" (Breuer), Amazing Stories, Feb. 1938 -o- "Meteors, as far as we know, are very uncertain in their ways; asteroids are definite." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, May 1935 -o- "Sometimes an edition de luxe book is published with rough end and bottom edges, so your view is to that degree justified, i.e., rough edges are all right." --discussions, Amazing Stories, May 1935 -o- "You must know that we have no control over the selection of magazines by authors - they send their stories to any publication they want to, and are glad to have them accepted." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, June 1935 ***********
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page 10 EFTY-NINE "The science in 'Roadside Strategy' lay in the fact that kerosene alone will not drive a car. It is a great pity that cars cannot be constructed to burn kerosene, as it has a great many more thermal units in a given volume than gasoline. Gasoline is definitely a very expensive fuel. The Diesel engine owes its success and its application to steam navigation [eh, how's that again?] to the fact that it burns a fuel of high specific gravity, one which contains far more thermal units per volume than gasoline contains, so if you see there is quite a bit of science in the story you complain of. 'Measuring a Meridian' apparently contained more science than you could stomach. A very interesting point brought out in it was the measurement of a meridian from Dunkirk to the Balearic Islands. An editor of such a magazine as ours, has to learn one lesson--that 'one man's meat is another man's poison.' We are sorry that you find so much, of what you consider poison, in our stories. We hope you will survive." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, Sept. 1934 -o- "This story, depicting the escape of two of the characters from being burned alive in the atmosphere of the earth as they are resting on a meteorite, will hold you in suspense to the very end." --blurb for "Universal Merry-Go-Round" (Bird), Amazing Stories, Apr. 1933 -o- "There would be no glory in refusing to believe in space traveling and then to have someone go off and do it. Personally, we do not believe in its possibility." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, May 1934 -o- "Our readers will be very glad to hear more about the wonderful Jameson travellers with their invincible bodies,the beings still living after arm and legs have been pulled off." --blurb for "On the Planet Fragment" (NRJones), Amazing Stories, Oct. 1937 -o- "If we had the least idea of how many communists abide in your state, we would at least have the grounds for a good guess in answer to your question. Is not marriage communistic? The writer of these few lines is anti-communistic in the strongest sense. But he does believe in marriage." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, Dec. 1937 -o- "This is a story of a little man with a wife who did not share that peculiarity." --blurb for "Mr. Bowen's Wife Reduces" (Breuer), Amazing Stories, Feb. 1938 -o- "Meteors, as far as we know, are very uncertain in their ways; asteroids are definite." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, May 1935 -o- "Sometimes an edition de luxe book is published with rough end and bottom edges, so your view is to that degree justified, i.e., rough edges are all right." --discussions, Amazing Stories, May 1935 -o- "You must know that we have no control over the selection of magazines by authors - they send their stories to any publication they want to, and are glad to have them accepted." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, June 1935 ***********
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