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Fantascience Digest, v. 3, issue 1, whole no. 12, January-February 1940
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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST Page 11 fortunately situated. He hasn't stirred out of twon [town] once, but everybody who makes a trip anywhere seems to pass through Hagerstown, and thus through Harry's house. California, Chicago, Texas, anybody that goes further west than Ohio. Anyhow, as I was saying, the thought came to me that the rising trend in fandom is travel, instead of correspondence. I see a time when science fiction fans will be swarming all over the countryside visiting one another. They will coming carloads, and train load, over hill and dale, making the Grand Canyon ring with the reverberation of their strange cries. I foresee science fiction fans making a living by operating special busses [buses] for the purpose of carrying delegates from one convention to another. The trailer business will boom, for fans will discover that it's more fun to live in the trailer and go around visiting their erstwhile correspondence than to sit prosaicaly at home and be content with writing letters. It will be easy to do this when the time comes that all fans will have hit the market and make their money by writing stories. All authors living trailers. Airplanes will zoom through space carrying commuters from the Queens SFL to the Los Angeles SFL. I can even foresee a time when fan feuds have become so intense that their leaders will travel around and armored cars. One sees the other approaching, insignia raised on high. Armor tight, gas mask adjusted, cannon pointed, and when the smoke clears away there will be a few less fan magazines on the market. Oh, I can foresee lots of things to come in the future, but it gets rather nauseating, so I shan't go any further. Anyway --- I'll be seeing you! HOW ABOUT ESPERANTISM? By Charles D. Hornig The adherents of every political "ism" Believe that their particular theory is the one to save the world -- Fascism, Communism, Nazism, etc. In the big three (actually two), above mentioned "isms" that are so much in the headlines today, the followers want to rid the objectors in some forceful or violent manner. There are probably many good points to all popular "isms" but they are all to be condemned on the one ground that they do not permit freedom -- of thought or action. Let me offered for consideration an "ism" that you may not have heard much about -- Esperantism. It may seem funny to you that there can be many millions of Esperantists throughout the world, and yet they never get into the headlines. This is because Esperantism is a nonpolitical and does not seek to overthrow governments or political doctrines -- yet it is a world force to bring about peace amongst the nations. Esperanto and Esperantism has a definite place in the world of science fiction, because it concerns the future of Mankind -- a sane future where science can soar unbridled in a world of understanding -- where science will mean progress instead of retrogression in the hands of the war-lords, and the dreams of the science fiction ideal - --next page-- SCIENTIFICTIONAL REPTILES - concluded - The greatest of all scientificus fanaticus reptiles. Their chief criticism is: "You've killed the villain twice, tryi not to do it again." This very prevalent order should be protected by law.
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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST Page 11 fortunately situated. He hasn't stirred out of twon [town] once, but everybody who makes a trip anywhere seems to pass through Hagerstown, and thus through Harry's house. California, Chicago, Texas, anybody that goes further west than Ohio. Anyhow, as I was saying, the thought came to me that the rising trend in fandom is travel, instead of correspondence. I see a time when science fiction fans will be swarming all over the countryside visiting one another. They will coming carloads, and train load, over hill and dale, making the Grand Canyon ring with the reverberation of their strange cries. I foresee science fiction fans making a living by operating special busses [buses] for the purpose of carrying delegates from one convention to another. The trailer business will boom, for fans will discover that it's more fun to live in the trailer and go around visiting their erstwhile correspondence than to sit prosaicaly at home and be content with writing letters. It will be easy to do this when the time comes that all fans will have hit the market and make their money by writing stories. All authors living trailers. Airplanes will zoom through space carrying commuters from the Queens SFL to the Los Angeles SFL. I can even foresee a time when fan feuds have become so intense that their leaders will travel around and armored cars. One sees the other approaching, insignia raised on high. Armor tight, gas mask adjusted, cannon pointed, and when the smoke clears away there will be a few less fan magazines on the market. Oh, I can foresee lots of things to come in the future, but it gets rather nauseating, so I shan't go any further. Anyway --- I'll be seeing you! HOW ABOUT ESPERANTISM? By Charles D. Hornig The adherents of every political "ism" Believe that their particular theory is the one to save the world -- Fascism, Communism, Nazism, etc. In the big three (actually two), above mentioned "isms" that are so much in the headlines today, the followers want to rid the objectors in some forceful or violent manner. There are probably many good points to all popular "isms" but they are all to be condemned on the one ground that they do not permit freedom -- of thought or action. Let me offered for consideration an "ism" that you may not have heard much about -- Esperantism. It may seem funny to you that there can be many millions of Esperantists throughout the world, and yet they never get into the headlines. This is because Esperantism is a nonpolitical and does not seek to overthrow governments or political doctrines -- yet it is a world force to bring about peace amongst the nations. Esperanto and Esperantism has a definite place in the world of science fiction, because it concerns the future of Mankind -- a sane future where science can soar unbridled in a world of understanding -- where science will mean progress instead of retrogression in the hands of the war-lords, and the dreams of the science fiction ideal - --next page-- SCIENTIFICTIONAL REPTILES - concluded - The greatest of all scientificus fanaticus reptiles. Their chief criticism is: "You've killed the villain twice, tryi not to do it again." This very prevalent order should be protected by law.
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