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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 4, December 1941

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FROM THE [[underline]]N E W  Y O R K[[end underline]] COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE

by [[underline]]Morley[[end underline]]

Look for an announcement of good news emanating from Street & Smith's offices soon, concerning Campbell's magazines. This source is bound to secrecy at the moment, but, if you hear the details before we are permitted to spill it, just remember that Morley tipped you off first.
Hannes Bok is doing a cover for the next issue of [[underline]]Science Fiction Quarterly[[end underline]], illustrating Cummings' famous tale "Into the Fourth Dimension". This is one of his most unusual stories, and one which has rehashed but once to our recollection -- and that was back in 1931. It's different, we think, from any other stf author's concept of the fourth dimension you've seen.
Martin Pearson, author of the popular Ajax Calkins series, ((In Doc's [[underline]]Future Fiction[[end underline]]. Morley, himself, has a neat little story in the latest ish of the mag, and there's what we believe is the finest story Cummings ever wrote, "Around The Universe", plus lots of other stuff by well-known fans. Gallop out and grab one; the mag is goin' places.JG)) recently crashed [[underline]]Astounding[[end underline]] with an unusual tale called "The Embassy". The general idea is that if there are such things as Martians, they are most likely [[underline]]here[[end underline on earth somewhere. The story deals with a person who sets out to find the Martian Embassy.
Walt Kubilius has clicked again with editor Norton with a short entitled "Atrakin and the Man"; Bok has done a nifty drawing for his "Voice in the Void", due for an early issue of either [[underline]]Astonishing[[end underline]] or [[underline]]Super Science[[end underline]].
The coming issue of [[underline]]Planet Stories[[end underline]] will contain the last work that Bok is doing for that publication, by the by. It's just a case of incompatability between Hannes and Fiction House's art staff.
Bob Studley posed for the figure on the coming Planet Cover, incidentally.
Fred Pohl and Doc Lowndes have a sort of monthly contest on revolving around the stf agencies. Loser pays off with drinks at the end of each month.
We'd like to know what has happened to Walt Daugherty's Pacificon news. Supposed to be out every other week, it's been over a month since the first number came out. Shucks, Walt, can't you break the jinx on Convention Committee publicity pubs?
Isaac Asimov's "Christmas on Ganymede" was originally scheduled for [[underline]]Astonishing's[[end underline]] issue due out around December, but was withdrawn when Pohl departed.
It will probably be several more issues before the new [[underline]]Astonishing[[end underline]] and [[underline]]Super  Science[[end underline]] can be judged as the work of a new editor. In the November issues, only four stories were accepted by A. H. Norton: they are "The Biped Reegan", "Pendulum", "My Lady of the Emerald" (original title "Whisper of Wings"), and "The Man Who Didn't Breathe". Norton just returned a novelette by Hugh Raymond and Mallory Kent with the comment that the writing was excellent, but that the theme was too utterly depressing. So, despite the fact that he's overstocked with novelettes, they're trying it on Campbell. ((If the story referred to is "The Enemy", it apparently did not fit Campbell's tight policy. Don Wollheim sez that it -- "The Enemy" -- will appear in a future [[underline]]Stir---ring Science Stories[[end underline]].  JG)).
Barbara Daniel Hall, who illustrated "The Grey One" in [[underline]]Stirring[[end underline]], and "Dead man's Planet", in [[underline]]Planet[[end underline]], expects to waltz down the aisle in the near future. And Dick Wilson and Jessica Gould will be married come the first of October. The Wilsons have taken an apartment at Knickerbocker Village. Columbia Camp members will be happy to learn

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FROM THE [[underline]]N E W Y O R K[[end underline]] COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE by [[underline]]Morley[[end underline]] Look for an announcement of good news emanating from Street & Smith's offices soon, concerning Campbell's magazines. This source is bound to secrecy at the moment, but, if you hear the details before we are permitted to spill it, just remember that Morley tipped you off first. Hannes Bok is doing a cover for the next issue of [[underline]]Science Fiction Quarterly[[end underline]], illustrating Cummings' famous tale "Into the Fourth Dimension". This is one of his most unusual stories, and one which has rehashed but once to our recollection -- and that was back in 1931. It's different, we think, from any other stf author's concept of the fourth dimension you've seen. Martin Pearson, author of the popular Ajax Calkins series, ((In Doc's [[underline]]Future Fiction[[end underline]]. Morley, himself, has a neat little story in the latest ish of the mag, and there's what we believe is the finest story Cummings ever wrote, "Around The Universe", plus lots of other stuff by well-known fans. Gallop out and grab one; the mag is goin' places.JG)) recently crashed [[underline]]Astounding[[end underline]] with an unusual tale called "The Embassy". The general idea is that if there are such things as Martians, they are most likely [[underline]]here[[end underline on earth somewhere. The story deals with a person who sets out to find the Martian Embassy. Walt Kubilius has clicked again with editor Norton with a short entitled "Atrakin and the Man"; Bok has done a nifty drawing for his "Voice in the Void", due for an early issue of either [[underline]]Astonishing[[end underline]] or [[underline]]Super Science[[end underline]]. The coming issue of [[underline]]Planet Stories[[end underline]] will contain the last work that Bok is doing for that publication, by the by. It's just a case of incompatability between Hannes and Fiction House's art staff. Bob Studley posed for the figure on the coming Planet Cover, incidentally. Fred Pohl and Doc Lowndes have a sort of monthly contest on revolving around the stf agencies. Loser pays off with drinks at the end of each month. We'd like to know what has happened to Walt Daugherty's Pacificon news. Supposed to be out every other week, it's been over a month since the first number came out. Shucks, Walt, can't you break the jinx on Convention Committee publicity pubs? Isaac Asimov's "Christmas on Ganymede" was originally scheduled for [[underline]]Astonishing's[[end underline]] issue due out around December, but was withdrawn when Pohl departed. It will probably be several more issues before the new [[underline]]Astonishing[[end underline]] and [[underline]]Super Science[[end underline]] can be judged as the work of a new editor. In the November issues, only four stories were accepted by A. H. Norton: they are "The Biped Reegan", "Pendulum", "My Lady of the Emerald" (original title "Whisper of Wings"), and "The Man Who Didn't Breathe". Norton just returned a novelette by Hugh Raymond and Mallory Kent with the comment that the writing was excellent, but that the theme was too utterly depressing. So, despite the fact that he's overstocked with novelettes, they're trying it on Campbell. ((If the story referred to is "The Enemy", it apparently did not fit Campbell's tight policy. Don Wollheim sez that it -- "The Enemy" -- will appear in a future [[underline]]Stir---ring Science Stories[[end underline]]. JG)). Barbara Daniel Hall, who illustrated "The Grey One" in [[underline]]Stirring[[end underline]], and "Dead man's Planet", in [[underline]]Planet[[end underline]], expects to waltz down the aisle in the near future. And Dick Wilson and Jessica Gould will be married come the first of October. The Wilsons have taken an apartment at Knickerbocker Village. Columbia Camp members will be happy to learn