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Wavelength, v. 1, issue 4, January-March 1942
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Along with this letter you'll find three MSS of mine, "Science-Fiction Ifs", "Interesting Facts", and "The Science Fiction Experimenter" are their names. "Interesting Facts" is composed of real honest-to-goodness facts that, I think, will be of interest to stfans because it is composed of scientific facts and the only relation between it and stf is that it proves that quite a few of the stf authors' stories are not as fantastic as they seem to be. "The Science Fiction Experimenter" is composed, as the title implies instructions, simple, for conducting a few experiments. You might be interested to know that I got the idea from the science articles in Bill Hamling's "Stardust." (He only kept "Science Fiction Ifs.") Any writing I do is when I'm in the "mood" and probably shows it. Once I get an idea for the story or article I have to sit down and write it at the moment or poof! I forget about it and don't feel so good. Maybe it would be better for everyone if I did ignore the "urge" and "mood" and not write anything. At present I don't have an idea as to what great work of literature I will produce next. (In the riddle) The key words are crystal and cotton. The first wedding anniversary is the cotton anniversary and the fifteenth the crystal. Therefore adding them together we arrive at the total of sixteen. As I wrote before, an Ellery Queen Broadcast inspired that little riddle. However, when I wrote that it was quite a while ago, about six or seven months. My natal day is August the eighteenth in the year of 1923. (Finishing with May 25, I think I've recorded more than enough of my petard for posterity. Don't you?) -----:------:----- EDITOR'S NOTE Any mistakes in typography noticed in the above article are to be credited to the author of the article. As stated in the foreword, the "sayings" were copied exactly as they were originally written. Also, the names of persons and literary articles mentioned have nothing, whatever, to do with the magazine, "Wavelength." - EDITOR. WHEN MARS WAS NEAR THE EARTH ^7 Near, in the summer night, Mars rises red; Southward, past hills, the darkness fills with stars. Take, with this sleeping child, our thoughts to bed; Men have survived a darker time of wars, And nights and history both must bury their dead. This infant girl, so innocent soft with sleep, May watch all Europe burning to the walls- Nations too hotly latched with death to week- Or see these heavens when a great peace falls And men are brothers in a brother's keep. To-morrow, light will wake the crowing bird; The darkest thought may with the darkness pass. Drowsing, now dream for her the lovely word Spoken in summer on the blowing grass, In a green stillness where no gun is heard. ..Lawrence Lee..
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Along with this letter you'll find three MSS of mine, "Science-Fiction Ifs", "Interesting Facts", and "The Science Fiction Experimenter" are their names. "Interesting Facts" is composed of real honest-to-goodness facts that, I think, will be of interest to stfans because it is composed of scientific facts and the only relation between it and stf is that it proves that quite a few of the stf authors' stories are not as fantastic as they seem to be. "The Science Fiction Experimenter" is composed, as the title implies instructions, simple, for conducting a few experiments. You might be interested to know that I got the idea from the science articles in Bill Hamling's "Stardust." (He only kept "Science Fiction Ifs.") Any writing I do is when I'm in the "mood" and probably shows it. Once I get an idea for the story or article I have to sit down and write it at the moment or poof! I forget about it and don't feel so good. Maybe it would be better for everyone if I did ignore the "urge" and "mood" and not write anything. At present I don't have an idea as to what great work of literature I will produce next. (In the riddle) The key words are crystal and cotton. The first wedding anniversary is the cotton anniversary and the fifteenth the crystal. Therefore adding them together we arrive at the total of sixteen. As I wrote before, an Ellery Queen Broadcast inspired that little riddle. However, when I wrote that it was quite a while ago, about six or seven months. My natal day is August the eighteenth in the year of 1923. (Finishing with May 25, I think I've recorded more than enough of my petard for posterity. Don't you?) -----:------:----- EDITOR'S NOTE Any mistakes in typography noticed in the above article are to be credited to the author of the article. As stated in the foreword, the "sayings" were copied exactly as they were originally written. Also, the names of persons and literary articles mentioned have nothing, whatever, to do with the magazine, "Wavelength." - EDITOR. WHEN MARS WAS NEAR THE EARTH ^7 Near, in the summer night, Mars rises red; Southward, past hills, the darkness fills with stars. Take, with this sleeping child, our thoughts to bed; Men have survived a darker time of wars, And nights and history both must bury their dead. This infant girl, so innocent soft with sleep, May watch all Europe burning to the walls- Nations too hotly latched with death to week- Or see these heavens when a great peace falls And men are brothers in a brother's keep. To-morrow, light will wake the crowing bird; The darkest thought may with the darkness pass. Drowsing, now dream for her the lovely word Spoken in summer on the blowing grass, In a green stillness where no gun is heard. ..Lawrence Lee..
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