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Phanny, v. 3, issue 4, Spring 1945

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11    PHANNY    11
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Thoughts on space travel and on unintelligent, high-speed space-dwellers are intriguing, but 'way out of my line. People didn't discuss Einstein much when I was attending college; they just said "only seven people in the world can comprehend the Einstein Theory" and let it go at that. Ignoramuses, weren't we?

FANTASY COMMENTATOR (#5) --. FC is better without [underlined] Devil Take The Hindmost [/underlined]. The personalities didn't fit in too well with the tone of the rest of the magazine. As usual, the issue is solid stuff, well worth while, with a slight overtone of dullness, although the laterr is considerably lessened by HCK's roundhouse swing at Fandom. The old Harsh Cautic Commentator his several marks, but does not succeed in changing any of my views or intoposts. I still like to [underlined] read [/underlined] science fiction for entertainment, and [underlined] discuss [/underlined] ideas derived from or suggested by such fiction. Nor can I see any reason why a writer of [underlined] science fiction [/underlined] should make an obviously false statement concerning a well-known phenomenon. This does not preclude his setting up a theory or a condition in which the established facts do not apply so long as he makes the matter clear. On the other hand, in straight fantasy, or in pseudo-science like "Descent Into The Maelstrom," there can be no valid objection to invalid statements. -- I liked best in the issue Searles' "Past Decades of Science Fiction." Also excellent, in addition to HCK's effort, were Merritt's "Am I See It" and the reprint of "Space-Time in Literary Form."
a #2. -- This is a rather unique affair, with five pages of quotations from FAN-DANGO for the purpose of answering one question put by Laney in the same F-D.

Being one of the non-latin scholars (?) I had to content myself with the shortype rendition of the gem by Anon. And whatever good old Anonymous may have said, I'm sure it was not as edifying and soul-satisfying as Art's wonderful transcircumlescription.
INSPIRATION -- Lynn's statement that "Capitalism is most nearly in line with teh principle of individual freedom of all economic systems...." is certainly goinng to draw a lot of fire, and well it should. Just where he got the idea that [underlined] labor shortage [/underlined] was much more common in this country than a [underlined] labor surplus [/underlined] , is something I can't fathom. Sure, there is a shortage from time to time of very highly skilled men in almost every field; but at the same time, the demand for sch highly skilled men is entirely insufficient to justify millions of additional mon ind

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11 PHANNY 11 [line across page] Thoughts on space travel and on unintelligent, high-speed space-dwellers are intriguing, but 'way out of my line. People didn't discuss Einstein much when I was attending college; they just said "only seven people in the world can comprehend the Einstein Theory" and let it go at that. Ignoramuses, weren't we? FANTASY COMMENTATOR (#5) --. FC is better without [underlined] Devil Take The Hindmost [/underlined]. The personalities didn't fit in too well with the tone of the rest of the magazine. As usual, the issue is solid stuff, well worth while, with a slight overtone of dullness, although the laterr is considerably lessened by HCK's roundhouse swing at Fandom. The old Harsh Cautic Commentator his several marks, but does not succeed in changing any of my views or intoposts. I still like to [underlined] read [/underlined] science fiction for entertainment, and [underlined] discuss [/underlined] ideas derived from or suggested by such fiction. Nor can I see any reason why a writer of [underlined] science fiction [/underlined] should make an obviously false statement concerning a well-known phenomenon. This does not preclude his setting up a theory or a condition in which the established facts do not apply so long as he makes the matter clear. On the other hand, in straight fantasy, or in pseudo-science like "Descent Into The Maelstrom," there can be no valid objection to invalid statements. -- I liked best in the issue Searles' "Past Decades of Science Fiction." Also excellent, in addition to HCK's effort, were Merritt's "Am I See It" and the reprint of "Space-Time in Literary Form." a #2. -- This is a rather unique affair, with five pages of quotations from FAN-DANGO for the purpose of answering one question put by Laney in the same F-D. Being one of the non-latin scholars (?) I had to content myself with the shortype rendition of the gem by Anon. And whatever good old Anonymous may have said, I'm sure it was not as edifying and soul-satisfying as Art's wonderful transcircumlescription. INSPIRATION -- Lynn's statement that "Capitalism is most nearly in line with teh principle of individual freedom of all economic systems...." is certainly goinng to draw a lot of fire, and well it should. Just where he got the idea that [underlined] labor shortage [/underlined] was much more common in this country than a [underlined] labor surplus [/underlined] , is something I can't fathom. Sure, there is a shortage from time to time of very highly skilled men in almost every field; but at the same time, the demand for sch highly skilled men is entirely insufficient to justify millions of additional mon ind