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Fan Slants, v. 1, issue 1, September 1943
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FAN SLANTS..............................................................25 [title in large bubble letters] MOSTLY ABOUT PROS [author's name in smaller type] BY CHARLES D DYE UNKNOWN [right side of page] JUNE 1943 It seems that for the past few months Unknown has been going around in circles. December was poor, February good, April excellent (with [underlined] Conjure Wife highlighting the issue). Unfortunately, the la-test issue is, like the December number, at the bottom of the circle. Perhaps because this particular issue has more stories than usual---ten in all. Boucher's [underlined] Sriberdegebit would easily have been best if it had not been a steal from W. S. Gilbert's fantasy operetta [underlined] Ruddi-gore. Biggest disappointment was the Cartmill opus, [underlined] Wheesht. This tale would have been right up Fantastic Adventures alley. It con-cerned a none too funny pixie, some nazis, and the usual scraps which the pixie, who also was none too brilliant, got the hero into and out of. [underlined] Whoosht was the most undistinguished Cartmill story to appear in Unknown. The only two really worthwhile stories in the June issue---if your time is rationed---are Jameson's [underlined] Blind Alley and Moses (M.B) Schere's [underlined] A Bargain in Bodies. UNK [right side of page] AUGUST 1943 If you read and liked [underlined] Prelude to Armageddon, and perhaps [underlined] A Bit of Tapestry by Cleve Cartmill, you are certain to shout over his latest novel, [underlined] Hell Hath Fury, which leads off this issue. It has everything its predecessors had, and perhaps more. Cartmill is truly back in his rarely-abandoned groove. This story is recommended to everyone who likes detailed characterization and conflict. Two other enter-taining stories are Babette Rosmond's [underlined] One Man's Harp and newcomer James Schmitz's [underlined] Greenface. [underlined] One Man's Harp is a bit reminiscent of Saari's famed [underlined] The Door. [underlined] Greenface----the same type of story as [underlined] The Black Farm and It---is a highly intriguing tale---all about what hap-pens when a tiny seedling (animal or vetable----exact na ture unre-vealed) comes from somewhere below the equator to North America in a bunch ofbannas, a nd is affected by climatic and other factors. The rest of the stories, I suppose, make good reading, but areUt overly thrilling. The yellow a nd blue cover this issue is just about the most beautiful Unknown has had. UNK [right side of page] OCTOBER 1943 A.E. Vam Vogt, to me, is the most powerful writer in science fic-tion. His fa ntasy, has however as yet to prove itself as compell-ing, with the posible exeption of The Ghost-which was not strictly a antasy yarn as time factors were involved. Come to think of it, he has written only two other stories for Unknown----The Sea Thing and The Witch. His fourth and latest the Book Of Ptath, which is over a hundred pages long, is to m[e] his least distinguished fantasy opus. Ptath follows the trail broken by De Camp in the Harold Shea series, concerning itself with the adventures of a 20th-century human in a yet-to-be land where one finds magic and non-Linnacan animals--where in short, almost anything can happen. Perhaps it would have been good
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FAN SLANTS..............................................................25 [title in large bubble letters] MOSTLY ABOUT PROS [author's name in smaller type] BY CHARLES D DYE UNKNOWN [right side of page] JUNE 1943 It seems that for the past few months Unknown has been going around in circles. December was poor, February good, April excellent (with [underlined] Conjure Wife highlighting the issue). Unfortunately, the la-test issue is, like the December number, at the bottom of the circle. Perhaps because this particular issue has more stories than usual---ten in all. Boucher's [underlined] Sriberdegebit would easily have been best if it had not been a steal from W. S. Gilbert's fantasy operetta [underlined] Ruddi-gore. Biggest disappointment was the Cartmill opus, [underlined] Wheesht. This tale would have been right up Fantastic Adventures alley. It con-cerned a none too funny pixie, some nazis, and the usual scraps which the pixie, who also was none too brilliant, got the hero into and out of. [underlined] Whoosht was the most undistinguished Cartmill story to appear in Unknown. The only two really worthwhile stories in the June issue---if your time is rationed---are Jameson's [underlined] Blind Alley and Moses (M.B) Schere's [underlined] A Bargain in Bodies. UNK [right side of page] AUGUST 1943 If you read and liked [underlined] Prelude to Armageddon, and perhaps [underlined] A Bit of Tapestry by Cleve Cartmill, you are certain to shout over his latest novel, [underlined] Hell Hath Fury, which leads off this issue. It has everything its predecessors had, and perhaps more. Cartmill is truly back in his rarely-abandoned groove. This story is recommended to everyone who likes detailed characterization and conflict. Two other enter-taining stories are Babette Rosmond's [underlined] One Man's Harp and newcomer James Schmitz's [underlined] Greenface. [underlined] One Man's Harp is a bit reminiscent of Saari's famed [underlined] The Door. [underlined] Greenface----the same type of story as [underlined] The Black Farm and It---is a highly intriguing tale---all about what hap-pens when a tiny seedling (animal or vetable----exact na ture unre-vealed) comes from somewhere below the equator to North America in a bunch ofbannas, a nd is affected by climatic and other factors. The rest of the stories, I suppose, make good reading, but areUt overly thrilling. The yellow a nd blue cover this issue is just about the most beautiful Unknown has had. UNK [right side of page] OCTOBER 1943 A.E. Vam Vogt, to me, is the most powerful writer in science fic-tion. His fa ntasy, has however as yet to prove itself as compell-ing, with the posible exeption of The Ghost-which was not strictly a antasy yarn as time factors were involved. Come to think of it, he has written only two other stories for Unknown----The Sea Thing and The Witch. His fourth and latest the Book Of Ptath, which is over a hundred pages long, is to m[e] his least distinguished fantasy opus. Ptath follows the trail broken by De Camp in the Harold Shea series, concerning itself with the adventures of a 20th-century human in a yet-to-be land where one finds magic and non-Linnacan animals--where in short, almost anything can happen. Perhaps it would have been good
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