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Welcome to the N.F.F.F!, October 1945
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THE LIFE OF THE FAN -or- What Science Fiction Fans Do In Their Spare Time by Milton Alpha Rothman YOU, who receive this; have just joined the NFFF, and now you are wondering what you are going to do about it. The old timers and the big shots are doing all the activity, and all you can do is to receive the monthly publication and pay dues. THAT'S not much fun, so we'll have to remedy the situation. LET'S analyze the activities open to a science fiction fan and see how you can get started in them. First we must understand one thing. We're going to list a large number of activities here; you don't have to do them all at once, for you'll find yourself burning away your interest in science fiction. IN brief, the activities are as follows: 1. Reading 2. Collecting 3. Writing letters 4. Meeting fans 5. Writing articles for fan magazines 6. Club activities 7. Publishing fan magazines 8. Writing for the professional magazines THAT seems like a lot, but there are many fans who have done all of that at some time or another. Let's take them up in detail. 1. READING: You've already read some magazines; probably the current issues as they come off the newsstand. You've also discovered more to science fiction or to pure fantasy, the fact is that this type of story is very interesting to you. The ideas of the strange things happening in the future or on other planets or in other spaces and time are more breathtaking to you than they are to other people. THAT'S why you like to read these books and magazines. Keep on reading them. Don't stop reading them, as some fans do, and then claim that you are still a fantasy fan. Don't give up other types of literature, either. Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, and a few other people write good things, too. My only point in these two paragraphs is that reading of science fiction and fantasy is the foundation of our fandom. 2. COLLECTING: You notice that the magazines have been going on for a long time. Amazing Stories was a fine magazine in 1926 when Hugo Gernsback started it, and Wonder Stories was magnificent under the title of Science Wonder Stories, in 1929.
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THE LIFE OF THE FAN -or- What Science Fiction Fans Do In Their Spare Time by Milton Alpha Rothman YOU, who receive this; have just joined the NFFF, and now you are wondering what you are going to do about it. The old timers and the big shots are doing all the activity, and all you can do is to receive the monthly publication and pay dues. THAT'S not much fun, so we'll have to remedy the situation. LET'S analyze the activities open to a science fiction fan and see how you can get started in them. First we must understand one thing. We're going to list a large number of activities here; you don't have to do them all at once, for you'll find yourself burning away your interest in science fiction. IN brief, the activities are as follows: 1. Reading 2. Collecting 3. Writing letters 4. Meeting fans 5. Writing articles for fan magazines 6. Club activities 7. Publishing fan magazines 8. Writing for the professional magazines THAT seems like a lot, but there are many fans who have done all of that at some time or another. Let's take them up in detail. 1. READING: You've already read some magazines; probably the current issues as they come off the newsstand. You've also discovered more to science fiction or to pure fantasy, the fact is that this type of story is very interesting to you. The ideas of the strange things happening in the future or on other planets or in other spaces and time are more breathtaking to you than they are to other people. THAT'S why you like to read these books and magazines. Keep on reading them. Don't stop reading them, as some fans do, and then claim that you are still a fantasy fan. Don't give up other types of literature, either. Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, and a few other people write good things, too. My only point in these two paragraphs is that reading of science fiction and fantasy is the foundation of our fandom. 2. COLLECTING: You notice that the magazines have been going on for a long time. Amazing Stories was a fine magazine in 1926 when Hugo Gernsback started it, and Wonder Stories was magnificent under the title of Science Wonder Stories, in 1929.
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