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Shangri-la, issue 6, May-June 1946
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this, so far, the actual Ackerman has not tried to imitate except in my historical gem, "The Eugenic Fan," which can be read in Andy Lyon's FANOMENA, Sept., 1947. For a while, I thought that the friendship of a lifetime was going to be shattered. Ackerman wrote me that I was deliberately trying to replace him as the World's No. I Fan. I am confident that when he reads and digests my article, "What Is A Fan?" in the National Fantasy Fan, Feb., 1948, he will realize how very groundless this fear is. In closing, I would advise you to be on the lookout for the new fanzine to be issued soon by Russ Manning and his associates centered around Orcutt, California. This fanzine promises to replace the late and lamented VORTEX, published by Cowie & Kull of Frisco. And, while I regret the violent storm that has, for the time, so shattered the harmony of Southern California Fandom, I feel that no one is to blame. It's just the result of the climate---anything can happen to anybody in southern California. * * * FJA speaking: Dr Keller wuz so right when he said "anything can happen to anybody in Southern California." That is, if you consider me anybody in California--a prophet is always without honor in his own home state, as has been stated, and there are those locally who regard me as a total loss. Tennyrate, I have been put behind the clim-8-ball by Editor Hart, who has ordered me to climb on the ball and supplement this Keller article with some reminiscences. I remember rather well the evening in '38 or '39 when DAVID H KELLER MD addressed our club, then the Los Angeles Chapter (#4) of the Wonder-sponsored Science Fiction League. The advent of an author in those there days was an e-vent. Remember, this was before teenage fans traveled to science fiction conventions and shook hands and rubbed elbows with Big Name Authors, and before BNAs were regular adjuncts of every sizable local society. So us youngsters were properly awed when the legendary Dr Keller came down from Mount Olympus to address us. I am sure no fan present that memorable evening will ever forget that address. Five immortal words. Dr Keller's address then (as now): 55 Broad St., Stroudsburg, Pa. A street-forward address, if there ever was one. FANTASY FOCUS (Ad) Weaver Wright, Box 6151 Metropolitan Stn., Los Angeles 5 Cal FINAL BLACKOUT, signed by Ron Hubbard........$3 TRIPLANETARY, with about 40,000 new words, by "Doc" Smith......$3 THE PEOPLE OF THE COMET, first Austin Hall in hard covers.......$2 THE SYNTHETIC MEN OF MARS, Burroughs.......$1 -14-
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this, so far, the actual Ackerman has not tried to imitate except in my historical gem, "The Eugenic Fan," which can be read in Andy Lyon's FANOMENA, Sept., 1947. For a while, I thought that the friendship of a lifetime was going to be shattered. Ackerman wrote me that I was deliberately trying to replace him as the World's No. I Fan. I am confident that when he reads and digests my article, "What Is A Fan?" in the National Fantasy Fan, Feb., 1948, he will realize how very groundless this fear is. In closing, I would advise you to be on the lookout for the new fanzine to be issued soon by Russ Manning and his associates centered around Orcutt, California. This fanzine promises to replace the late and lamented VORTEX, published by Cowie & Kull of Frisco. And, while I regret the violent storm that has, for the time, so shattered the harmony of Southern California Fandom, I feel that no one is to blame. It's just the result of the climate---anything can happen to anybody in southern California. * * * FJA speaking: Dr Keller wuz so right when he said "anything can happen to anybody in Southern California." That is, if you consider me anybody in California--a prophet is always without honor in his own home state, as has been stated, and there are those locally who regard me as a total loss. Tennyrate, I have been put behind the clim-8-ball by Editor Hart, who has ordered me to climb on the ball and supplement this Keller article with some reminiscences. I remember rather well the evening in '38 or '39 when DAVID H KELLER MD addressed our club, then the Los Angeles Chapter (#4) of the Wonder-sponsored Science Fiction League. The advent of an author in those there days was an e-vent. Remember, this was before teenage fans traveled to science fiction conventions and shook hands and rubbed elbows with Big Name Authors, and before BNAs were regular adjuncts of every sizable local society. So us youngsters were properly awed when the legendary Dr Keller came down from Mount Olympus to address us. I am sure no fan present that memorable evening will ever forget that address. Five immortal words. Dr Keller's address then (as now): 55 Broad St., Stroudsburg, Pa. A street-forward address, if there ever was one. FANTASY FOCUS (Ad) Weaver Wright, Box 6151 Metropolitan Stn., Los Angeles 5 Cal FINAL BLACKOUT, signed by Ron Hubbard........$3 TRIPLANETARY, with about 40,000 new words, by "Doc" Smith......$3 THE PEOPLE OF THE COMET, first Austin Hall in hard covers.......$2 THE SYNTHETIC MEN OF MARS, Burroughs.......$1 -14-
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