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Science Fiction Weekly, v. 1, issue 1, February 18, 1940

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Science Fiction Weekly

THE NATIONAL FAN REVIEW

Published every Monday at 2574 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Volume One Number One; Whole Number One. Feb. 18, 1940. Five cents per single copy; three issues for ten cents; eight issues for twenty-five cents. Full-page ads accepted at flat rate of seventy-five cents, only; each time such ad. is received, an extra page of reading matter for that issue is gaurenteed.

Editor - in - Chief
Robert W. Lowndes

Associates
Leslie Perri                Dick Wilson

PLANET-MOVING
   Mr. Malcom Reiss, genial editor of Planet Stories tells us that that magazine is coming along at a distinctly encouraging rate. Mr. Reiss wants to build up an individual atmosphere by the use of new artists and writers; Plnet Stories is an open market. While not desiring "heavy" science stories, the editor is still looking for writers who can balance wisely the element of science and fiction; above all, common sense and proportion is desired. 
   Planet Stories prefers tales of other worlds and dimensions; an occasional stf story that is sheerly terrestrial in nature may be used, but for the most part, they'd like to leave Terra for the other magazines to treat as they like.

FAPA FUNDS RECOVERED
   As we go to press, Milton A. Rothman, President of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, has just paid a call during the course of which he showed us the funds and records of the FAPA; these he had recovered that morning from ex-Secretary-Treasurer, James V. Taurasi, on whom he had made an early call. Mr. Rothman personally guarantees a mailing in March; it will be a large one. Taurasi's abode was arrived at by the President through the guidance of our own Cyril Kornbluth.

            CITY DESK
   Ray Cummings' thirteen - year - old daughter, whom you may have seen at the Nycon last July, recently sold a short story to Liberty magazine at 13¢ a word. Ray claims he taught her how to write by showing her his stories & telling her to do the opposite. It is because of his daughter that Cummings will no longer permit his name to be used on his writings in the horror and terror field; he says that she has begun to go out with Harvard boys, and she can't bear the Shame of It All when they ask her what her father does for a living and she says he's a horror author. (There's an inaccuracy there; two, in fact. But that's the way Cummings tells it.)
   Edward E. (Skylark) Smith, who has differed with Don Wollheim more times than we can tell, recently wrote him an unsolicited testimonial, backing up Wollheim's stand on the "New Adam", which review was printed in the March Super Science Stories.
   The New Yorker's "review" of Captain Future, in its January 19th issue, still has science fiction fans rolling in the aisles. Written by S.J. Perelman, it purports to be a serious examination into the eisinger-mag, treating very seriously of the hazards encountered by Hamilton's heroes. "Captain Future and his Creepy Constabulary" is an outstanding phrase in Mr. Perelman's outline. Altogether delightful, and we are very glad we're not Mort Weisinger.
   Sam Moskowitz's actions continue to be inexplicable. It has just now come to light that Frederik Pohl, attempting to make the Science Fictioneers as broad and impartisan an organization as possible, offered Moskowitz a place on the Advisory Board of the club. Moskowitz accepted -- which is understandable because he would have been in pretty good company on the Board. But where the inexplicability enters in is the fact that Moskowitz, a day after accepting the post, reconsidered, giving no reason, promising to explain the matter to Pohl "next time he was in town." Apparently he has not been in town since, (this was the beginning of December, 1939) because Pohl is still waiting for the promised explanation.

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Science Fiction Weekly THE NATIONAL FAN REVIEW Published every Monday at 2574 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Volume One Number One; Whole Number One. Feb. 18, 1940. Five cents per single copy; three issues for ten cents; eight issues for twenty-five cents. Full-page ads accepted at flat rate of seventy-five cents, only; each time such ad. is received, an extra page of reading matter for that issue is gaurenteed. Editor - in - Chief Robert W. Lowndes Associates Leslie Perri Dick Wilson PLANET-MOVING Mr. Malcom Reiss, genial editor of Planet Stories tells us that that magazine is coming along at a distinctly encouraging rate. Mr. Reiss wants to build up an individual atmosphere by the use of new artists and writers; Plnet Stories is an open market. While not desiring "heavy" science stories, the editor is still looking for writers who can balance wisely the element of science and fiction; above all, common sense and proportion is desired. Planet Stories prefers tales of other worlds and dimensions; an occasional stf story that is sheerly terrestrial in nature may be used, but for the most part, they'd like to leave Terra for the other magazines to treat as they like. FAPA FUNDS RECOVERED As we go to press, Milton A. Rothman, President of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, has just paid a call during the course of which he showed us the funds and records of the FAPA; these he had recovered that morning from ex-Secretary-Treasurer, James V. Taurasi, on whom he had made an early call. Mr. Rothman personally guarantees a mailing in March; it will be a large one. Taurasi's abode was arrived at by the President through the guidance of our own Cyril Kornbluth. CITY DESK Ray Cummings' thirteen - year - old daughter, whom you may have seen at the Nycon last July, recently sold a short story to Liberty magazine at 13¢ a word. Ray claims he taught her how to write by showing her his stories & telling her to do the opposite. It is because of his daughter that Cummings will no longer permit his name to be used on his writings in the horror and terror field; he says that she has begun to go out with Harvard boys, and she can't bear the Shame of It All when they ask her what her father does for a living and she says he's a horror author. (There's an inaccuracy there; two, in fact. But that's the way Cummings tells it.) Edward E. (Skylark) Smith, who has differed with Don Wollheim more times than we can tell, recently wrote him an unsolicited testimonial, backing up Wollheim's stand on the "New Adam", which review was printed in the March Super Science Stories. The New Yorker's "review" of Captain Future, in its January 19th issue, still has science fiction fans rolling in the aisles. Written by S.J. Perelman, it purports to be a serious examination into the eisinger-mag, treating very seriously of the hazards encountered by Hamilton's heroes. "Captain Future and his Creepy Constabulary" is an outstanding phrase in Mr. Perelman's outline. Altogether delightful, and we are very glad we're not Mort Weisinger. Sam Moskowitz's actions continue to be inexplicable. It has just now come to light that Frederik Pohl, attempting to make the Science Fictioneers as broad and impartisan an organization as possible, offered Moskowitz a place on the Advisory Board of the club. Moskowitz accepted -- which is understandable because he would have been in pretty good company on the Board. But where the inexplicability enters in is the fact that Moskowitz, a day after accepting the post, reconsidered, giving no reason, promising to explain the matter to Pohl "next time he was in town." Apparently he has not been in town since, (this was the beginning of December, 1939) because Pohl is still waiting for the promised explanation.