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Atres Artes, v. 1, issue 3, 1946
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Fantasy Book Review THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD by S. Moskowitz THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD by H.P. Lovecraft and A.W. Derleth, 196 pages, Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisc., $2.50 "The Lurker" limps severely from too much Lovecraft rigamorole thrown in to cover up too little Lovecraft writing. What you have is a Lovecraft type technique and formula which is passable reading and little more. At intervals Derleth completely discards the Lovecraft hobble and speeds things up with dialogue, but the general impression is unconvincing. It's just another weird yarn. The cover jacket is effective red-orange and blue-green octipi-type of thing, the gold embossing on the black gives an almost beautiful effect to the book proper. You can take this one or leave it according to your notion. ********************************* ********************************* Fantasy Book Review THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME by Sam Moskowitz THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: by H. G. Wells, 431 pages, Macmillian, N. Y., $1.49 Reprinted for the first time in this country since 1933, the courrent edition of the "Shape" is high quality, the binding is strong and secure as a much more expensive book, the type sharp and clear. Here we have a semi-fictional "History of the Future" that takes off from 1929 and becomes speculation from 1933 on. The book has many fascinating facets of interests as Wells slided from subject to subject, presents acknowledged facts of interest and adds the whipped cream of speculation. If you can ignore the many wrong guesses in current years, you will enjoy this volume. ----------------------------------- 0000000000000000000 ----------------------------------- In front of the reading public, we wish to publicly thank and congradulate Johnny Nitka on his Volume Index of Science-Fiction mags. WE received a copy, published by Julie Unger and edited by Sam Moskowitz, at the Newark organizational meeting of the ESFA. Its compactness is amazing and the wealth of information you can put into it is nothing less than astounding. We also wish to apologize to Eddie Tomaszewski on the leaving blank of his name in our article, as we hadn't heard from him, we weren't sure of the spelling and we know how people hate to have their names spelt wrong. About this place every fmz editor looks at what he has so far and utters a groan over the marterial, ever see such variety -- hah, the format, we've sure managed to mess it up this issue a little, the spelling -- we'll keep quiet about this. We don't need to bring it to your attention, we're sure. --------------------------------- 000000000000000000 --------------------------------- [Sketch of a rocket with exhaust clouds and the words 'putt-putt' behind it.] [Sketch of a headstone with 'Mutan Mion 2760 2/7 B.C.' on it. The headstone says "I remember Lemurja!" in a speech bubble.]
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Fantasy Book Review THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD by S. Moskowitz THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD by H.P. Lovecraft and A.W. Derleth, 196 pages, Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisc., $2.50 "The Lurker" limps severely from too much Lovecraft rigamorole thrown in to cover up too little Lovecraft writing. What you have is a Lovecraft type technique and formula which is passable reading and little more. At intervals Derleth completely discards the Lovecraft hobble and speeds things up with dialogue, but the general impression is unconvincing. It's just another weird yarn. The cover jacket is effective red-orange and blue-green octipi-type of thing, the gold embossing on the black gives an almost beautiful effect to the book proper. You can take this one or leave it according to your notion. ********************************* ********************************* Fantasy Book Review THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME by Sam Moskowitz THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: by H. G. Wells, 431 pages, Macmillian, N. Y., $1.49 Reprinted for the first time in this country since 1933, the courrent edition of the "Shape" is high quality, the binding is strong and secure as a much more expensive book, the type sharp and clear. Here we have a semi-fictional "History of the Future" that takes off from 1929 and becomes speculation from 1933 on. The book has many fascinating facets of interests as Wells slided from subject to subject, presents acknowledged facts of interest and adds the whipped cream of speculation. If you can ignore the many wrong guesses in current years, you will enjoy this volume. ----------------------------------- 0000000000000000000 ----------------------------------- In front of the reading public, we wish to publicly thank and congradulate Johnny Nitka on his Volume Index of Science-Fiction mags. WE received a copy, published by Julie Unger and edited by Sam Moskowitz, at the Newark organizational meeting of the ESFA. Its compactness is amazing and the wealth of information you can put into it is nothing less than astounding. We also wish to apologize to Eddie Tomaszewski on the leaving blank of his name in our article, as we hadn't heard from him, we weren't sure of the spelling and we know how people hate to have their names spelt wrong. About this place every fmz editor looks at what he has so far and utters a groan over the marterial, ever see such variety -- hah, the format, we've sure managed to mess it up this issue a little, the spelling -- we'll keep quiet about this. We don't need to bring it to your attention, we're sure. --------------------------------- 000000000000000000 --------------------------------- [Sketch of a rocket with exhaust clouds and the words 'putt-putt' behind it.] [Sketch of a headstone with 'Mutan Mion 2760 2/7 B.C.' on it. The headstone says "I remember Lemurja!" in a speech bubble.]
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