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Fantascience Digest, v. 3, issue 1, whole no. 12, January-February 1940

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Page 16                   FANTASCIENCE DIGEST  

strange thing pierces the hull of the ship and comes for him.......Beautiful, tragic, soul-shaking, and written only as the near-genius of Smith could write it. Then there is "The Visitors from Mlok", and how they transport an earthman from this planet to their world... how they change his sensory reactions so that their world, abominably disgusting to him in his natural state, is a world of unparalleled beauty to him now. He returns to earth and his once dependable sense organs carry back the once familiar and desirable scenes as hideous, nauseating horrors. Do I need to recount the qualities of "The Singing Flame", which Smith claimed to be his best work, and its sequel, "Beyond the Singing Flame"?......Then there is "Flight into Super-Time", a story of a man afloat in the fourth dimension, time. He drifts from world to world, trusting to the vagaries of fate. The strange experiences he encounters, never knowing whether next time there will be another world for him, but death in the embrace of a raging sun, all combine to make this a classic short.

   W.K. Sonneman, John Beynon Harris, D.D. Sharp, Stephen G. Hale, K.F. Ziska, and Clark Ashton Smith --- a list of deserving, but uncrowned, greats. All of them possessors of the fine ability of portrayal of human emotions; the most essential factor in fiction. Story upon immortal story they have written. Are they all destined to oblivion? I think not. If not now, perhaps some day in the future, scientifictionists and mayhaps even the [underlined] world will awake to the brilliance of their writings. And these are not all. Laurence Manning, Chester D. Cuthbert, Thos. S. Gardner, Clare Winger Harris, Francis Flagg, W. Alexander, Will H. Grey, Phillip Jacques Bartel, and many, many others have left a trail of brilliance, cleverness, and entertainment value. They should [underlined] not be left to obscurity. Arise and demand their return. If they are no longer as fine as of old, let us be shown so that we can believe and understand. But while a string of semi-classics paves their path, they cannot ever be denied or cast aside. They [underlined] will return!
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CAN YOU ANSWER THESE?
Conducted by Robert A. Madle
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   First off, thanks fellows for the response. I now have quite a few sets of questions ready for future issues of FD. Due to the fact that Arthur L. Widner, Jr., submitted his list of questions before anyone else, his appears this issue. You know; first come, first served. However, the answers to the previous set of questions are just about due, so here they are!

   1) Nat Schachner was the author of the first "thought-variant", "Ancestral Voices", and it appeared in the December, 1933 issue of ASTOUNDING STORIES.
   2) Hoy Ping Pong is, of course, a pseudonym for Bob Tucker, well-kown stf fan.
   3) The cover story of the October, 1929 AIR WONDER STORIES was "Through the Air Tunnel" by Harl Vincent.
   4) "Dream's End" by A. Connell
   5) Dane Milton is the pseudonym for Milton Kaletsky.
   6) "The Price of Peace"--November, 1933 AMAZING STORIES.
   7) Phillip Jacques Bartel and H.W. Guernsey.
   8) "Warriors of Space" by J.R. Marshall -- it was a sequel to "The World in the Balance".
   9) Harold Hersey
   10) "Anything Can Happen" by Peter Gordon.

   Of those who replied, Robert W. Lowndes received the highest rating--95%. Doc made one little

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Page 16 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST strange thing pierces the hull of the ship and comes for him.......Beautiful, tragic, soul-shaking, and written only as the near-genius of Smith could write it. Then there is "The Visitors from Mlok", and how they transport an earthman from this planet to their world... how they change his sensory reactions so that their world, abominably disgusting to him in his natural state, is a world of unparalleled beauty to him now. He returns to earth and his once dependable sense organs carry back the once familiar and desirable scenes as hideous, nauseating horrors. Do I need to recount the qualities of "The Singing Flame", which Smith claimed to be his best work, and its sequel, "Beyond the Singing Flame"?......Then there is "Flight into Super-Time", a story of a man afloat in the fourth dimension, time. He drifts from world to world, trusting to the vagaries of fate. The strange experiences he encounters, never knowing whether next time there will be another world for him, but death in the embrace of a raging sun, all combine to make this a classic short. W.K. Sonneman, John Beynon Harris, D.D. Sharp, Stephen G. Hale, K.F. Ziska, and Clark Ashton Smith --- a list of deserving, but uncrowned, greats. All of them possessors of the fine ability of portrayal of human emotions; the most essential factor in fiction. Story upon immortal story they have written. Are they all destined to oblivion? I think not. If not now, perhaps some day in the future, scientifictionists and mayhaps even the [underlined] world will awake to the brilliance of their writings. And these are not all. Laurence Manning, Chester D. Cuthbert, Thos. S. Gardner, Clare Winger Harris, Francis Flagg, W. Alexander, Will H. Grey, Phillip Jacques Bartel, and many, many others have left a trail of brilliance, cleverness, and entertainment value. They should [underlined] not be left to obscurity. Arise and demand their return. If they are no longer as fine as of old, let us be shown so that we can believe and understand. But while a string of semi-classics paves their path, they cannot ever be denied or cast aside. They [underlined] will return! ________________________________________ CAN YOU ANSWER THESE? Conducted by Robert A. Madle ________________________________________ First off, thanks fellows for the response. I now have quite a few sets of questions ready for future issues of FD. Due to the fact that Arthur L. Widner, Jr., submitted his list of questions before anyone else, his appears this issue. You know; first come, first served. However, the answers to the previous set of questions are just about due, so here they are! 1) Nat Schachner was the author of the first "thought-variant", "Ancestral Voices", and it appeared in the December, 1933 issue of ASTOUNDING STORIES. 2) Hoy Ping Pong is, of course, a pseudonym for Bob Tucker, well-kown stf fan. 3) The cover story of the October, 1929 AIR WONDER STORIES was "Through the Air Tunnel" by Harl Vincent. 4) "Dream's End" by A. Connell 5) Dane Milton is the pseudonym for Milton Kaletsky. 6) "The Price of Peace"--November, 1933 AMAZING STORIES. 7) Phillip Jacques Bartel and H.W. Guernsey. 8) "Warriors of Space" by J.R. Marshall -- it was a sequel to "The World in the Balance". 9) Harold Hersey 10) "Anything Can Happen" by Peter Gordon. Of those who replied, Robert W. Lowndes received the highest rating--95%. Doc made one little