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

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From The N. Y. Com. Office     SOUTHERN STAR     Page 37

be elected only by unanimous vote, while a visitor can be asked --- or otherwise induced -- to leave by two dissenting votes). It seems that Taurasi wasn't around.
Dan Buford just enlisted in the army; he's the 1st FSNY member to be gobbled up by the military machine.
October 5, that organization holds its second 1941 election of officers. Present staff consists of Wollheim, Michel, Lowndes, Kornbluth, and Pohl. There's a big to-do on, inasmuch as the Dorlists (Pohl, Perri, Wilson, etc) want to re-organize the club, change the constitution, and go into competition on a big scale with the QSFL, while the Centre (DAW, JBM, RWL, Kornbluth, etc) want the club to stay exactly as it is, and continue along its path of solid stf achievement instead of wasting time with putting on a big show. October 5th will decide which shall prevail.
Here's 1941's record on pro mags, and it will probably stay the same for the rest of the year, so far as issues dated 1941 go. At the beginning of the year there were 22 stf and weird/fantasy titles. Two more were added during the year to make 24. ([[underline]]Uncanny Stories[[end underline]] and [[underline]]Fantastic Adventures Quarterly[[end underline]]). Four title changes occured: [[underline]]Super Science[[end underline]] Stories to [[underline]]Super Science Novels[[end underline]] then back; [[underline]]Cosmic Stories[[end underline]] to [[underline]]Cosmic Science Fiction; Unknown Fantasy Fiction[[end underline]] to [[underline]]Unknown Worlds[[end underline]] and [[underline]]Future Fiction[[end underline]] to [[underline]]Future combined with Science Fiction[[end underline]]. Six titles have definitely been dropped: [[underline]]Marvel Stories[[end underline]], [[underline]]Uncanny Stories, Strange Stories, Fantastic Novels, Comet,[[end underline]] and [[underline]]Science Fiction[[end underline]] magazine. And two titles are in temporary suspension: [[underline]]Stirring Science Stories[[end underline]] and [[underline]]Cosmic Science Fiction[[end underline]]. Of these two, the former will definitely be resumed, the latter may be continued. Sic transit gloria scientifictionis.

[[underline]]Mumblings  Concluded from page 19[[end underline]]

dropped a bomb. Would that bomb fall to earth in 1941, or, because of the speed of the ship thru the year, would that bomb [[underline]]drift[[end underline]] a year or two into the future before it fell? Pro scientists please advise. ((Tucker and I have exchanged several letters on this subject since his column was received, and a number of interesting points have been brought up; f'r'instance, suppose that there was a twilight zone between years, a dividing point, so to speak, like the border between state lines. This zone would, of necessity, be the fourth dimension, since that dimension is said by the scientists to be time. And what if the bomb landed in this border line and blew up a few of the inhabitants, and the inhabitants decided to throw something back. . . . Oh, it's a lovely pipe-dream all right. Anybody wanta add their own brain blisters to this screwy -- and fascinating -- argument? JG)).

After re-reading that August column of ours over and over again, on the trail of something elusive, we suddenly stumbled over it. It was too long! And why was it that way? Well, blame it on the dopey editors again. We sent them two columns. Two separate and distinct columns so that we wouldn't have to write [[underline]]this[[end underline]] one for about four months after the first appeared. And damned if they didn't combine the two and stick them in print at once. Which was why that first one was over-long. Good night all.

[[underline]]THE END[[end underline]]

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From The N. Y. Com. Office SOUTHERN STAR Page 37 be elected only by unanimous vote, while a visitor can be asked --- or otherwise induced -- to leave by two dissenting votes). It seems that Taurasi wasn't around. Dan Buford just enlisted in the army; he's the 1st FSNY member to be gobbled up by the military machine. October 5, that organization holds its second 1941 election of officers. Present staff consists of Wollheim, Michel, Lowndes, Kornbluth, and Pohl. There's a big to-do on, inasmuch as the Dorlists (Pohl, Perri, Wilson, etc) want to re-organize the club, change the constitution, and go into competition on a big scale with the QSFL, while the Centre (DAW, JBM, RWL, Kornbluth, etc) want the club to stay exactly as it is, and continue along its path of solid stf achievement instead of wasting time with putting on a big show. October 5th will decide which shall prevail. Here's 1941's record on pro mags, and it will probably stay the same for the rest of the year, so far as issues dated 1941 go. At the beginning of the year there were 22 stf and weird/fantasy titles. Two more were added during the year to make 24. ([[underline]]Uncanny Stories[[end underline]] and [[underline]]Fantastic Adventures Quarterly[[end underline]]). Four title changes occured: [[underline]]Super Science[[end underline]] Stories to [[underline]]Super Science Novels[[end underline]] then back; [[underline]]Cosmic Stories[[end underline]] to [[underline]]Cosmic Science Fiction; Unknown Fantasy Fiction[[end underline]] to [[underline]]Unknown Worlds[[end underline]] and [[underline]]Future Fiction[[end underline]] to [[underline]]Future combined with Science Fiction[[end underline]]. Six titles have definitely been dropped: [[underline]]Marvel Stories[[end underline]], [[underline]]Uncanny Stories, Strange Stories, Fantastic Novels, Comet,[[end underline]] and [[underline]]Science Fiction[[end underline]] magazine. And two titles are in temporary suspension: [[underline]]Stirring Science Stories[[end underline]] and [[underline]]Cosmic Science Fiction[[end underline]]. Of these two, the former will definitely be resumed, the latter may be continued. Sic transit gloria scientifictionis. [[underline]]Mumblings Concluded from page 19[[end underline]] dropped a bomb. Would that bomb fall to earth in 1941, or, because of the speed of the ship thru the year, would that bomb [[underline]]drift[[end underline]] a year or two into the future before it fell? Pro scientists please advise. ((Tucker and I have exchanged several letters on this subject since his column was received, and a number of interesting points have been brought up; f'r'instance, suppose that there was a twilight zone between years, a dividing point, so to speak, like the border between state lines. This zone would, of necessity, be the fourth dimension, since that dimension is said by the scientists to be time. And what if the bomb landed in this border line and blew up a few of the inhabitants, and the inhabitants decided to throw something back. . . . Oh, it's a lovely pipe-dream all right. Anybody wanta add their own brain blisters to this screwy -- and fascinating -- argument? JG)). After re-reading that August column of ours over and over again, on the trail of something elusive, we suddenly stumbled over it. It was too long! And why was it that way? Well, blame it on the dopey editors again. We sent them two columns. Two separate and distinct columns so that we wouldn't have to write [[underline]]this[[end underline]] one for about four months after the first appeared. And damned if they didn't combine the two and stick them in print at once. Which was why that first one was over-long. Good night all. [[underline]]THE END[[end underline]]