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Fantascience Digest, v. 3, issue 1, whole no. 12, January-February 1940
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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST Page 39 My, my -- what won't Wollheim try next? Now he's going to be a prophet. A mighty dismal one and one who regrets making a certain statement about S&S by this time, I bethcha my boots....Mackley interesting.... "The Spotlight" is very good.... Fischer is quite a good reviewer. But I wonder how popular such reviews are?.... Bradbury could be funnier....Warner's article quite good....and Agnew deserves a good deal of praise for a very commendable effort on the cover. Incidentally, the Los Angeles circular is a bunch of lies. I already have signed statements from Korshak & Reinsberg saying that the manner in which the questions were asked by the LASFL'ers was unfair, and that they misinterpreted the meanings, that they were contacted, that they did make affirmative statements. _________________________________________ EDITOR'S NOTE: Moskowitz is referring to a certain circular distributed by the LASFL which asked several questions pertaining to the actions of the Michelists at the recent Philly Conference. Incidentally, it might interest some to learn that most of the Michelists have denounced their communistic ideals and have decided to become Technocrats. And some the Los Angeles Technocrats have become Futurians. Isn't it amazing? _____________________________________ RAY J. SIENKIEWICZ: The illustrations in the last issue of FD were very good. "Science Fiction Spotlight" is the best feature of FD. "Retelling the Old Timers" comes next. In fact, all reviews are tops with me and that's why I also liked "Argosy: 1938", "It's Astounding", and "Case History". ROBERT W. LOWNDES: The new issue of FD just arrived and contents noted with pleasure. Commenting generally, may I congratulate you on a particularly neat layout, including the cover? And, while you have my sympathy at having been clipped, it did have one good result: the thinner paper. By all means, keep this: it is far better than the heavy stuff you used before. As before, you stand sadly in the need of even right-hand edges. I might suggest that your contents page would give a better appearance if you used about two-thirds for the listings and the other one-third for statistics. It is difficult to grasp at sight when spread all across the page this way. Now for the ratings: Cover 8 Contents Page 6 Illustration for story 7 Dawn of Death 3 Plausibility or Super-Science 10 Author's Dream (50 5 Future for Fan Magazines 10 Argosy: 1938 8 Science Fiction Spotlight 10 Review 10 Questions -- too easy -- 6 Why Ghouls Leave Home 8 Case History 8 It's Astounding! 9 Reader's Comments 10 Mimeographing 10 General Appearance 9 Average: About 8.0 which is above average. Comment in particular: How odd that Donald's article should have been written just a few days before the outbreak of the war. Already, a few of these predictions have come true: ((Which ones, Doc?--The Editor)) others, however, seem to have stated the reverse of reality. Professional magazines appear (with the exception of Marvel and Dynamic) to be straonger than ever. But the writer cannot help but comparing this burst of vigour with the deceptive-appearing face of the consumptive. Fred Fischer shows some interesting thoughts, but, as Speer remarks, most of them are new only to FF. However, he does show ability to put words together
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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST Page 39 My, my -- what won't Wollheim try next? Now he's going to be a prophet. A mighty dismal one and one who regrets making a certain statement about S&S by this time, I bethcha my boots....Mackley interesting.... "The Spotlight" is very good.... Fischer is quite a good reviewer. But I wonder how popular such reviews are?.... Bradbury could be funnier....Warner's article quite good....and Agnew deserves a good deal of praise for a very commendable effort on the cover. Incidentally, the Los Angeles circular is a bunch of lies. I already have signed statements from Korshak & Reinsberg saying that the manner in which the questions were asked by the LASFL'ers was unfair, and that they misinterpreted the meanings, that they were contacted, that they did make affirmative statements. _________________________________________ EDITOR'S NOTE: Moskowitz is referring to a certain circular distributed by the LASFL which asked several questions pertaining to the actions of the Michelists at the recent Philly Conference. Incidentally, it might interest some to learn that most of the Michelists have denounced their communistic ideals and have decided to become Technocrats. And some the Los Angeles Technocrats have become Futurians. Isn't it amazing? _____________________________________ RAY J. SIENKIEWICZ: The illustrations in the last issue of FD were very good. "Science Fiction Spotlight" is the best feature of FD. "Retelling the Old Timers" comes next. In fact, all reviews are tops with me and that's why I also liked "Argosy: 1938", "It's Astounding", and "Case History". ROBERT W. LOWNDES: The new issue of FD just arrived and contents noted with pleasure. Commenting generally, may I congratulate you on a particularly neat layout, including the cover? And, while you have my sympathy at having been clipped, it did have one good result: the thinner paper. By all means, keep this: it is far better than the heavy stuff you used before. As before, you stand sadly in the need of even right-hand edges. I might suggest that your contents page would give a better appearance if you used about two-thirds for the listings and the other one-third for statistics. It is difficult to grasp at sight when spread all across the page this way. Now for the ratings: Cover 8 Contents Page 6 Illustration for story 7 Dawn of Death 3 Plausibility or Super-Science 10 Author's Dream (50 5 Future for Fan Magazines 10 Argosy: 1938 8 Science Fiction Spotlight 10 Review 10 Questions -- too easy -- 6 Why Ghouls Leave Home 8 Case History 8 It's Astounding! 9 Reader's Comments 10 Mimeographing 10 General Appearance 9 Average: About 8.0 which is above average. Comment in particular: How odd that Donald's article should have been written just a few days before the outbreak of the war. Already, a few of these predictions have come true: ((Which ones, Doc?--The Editor)) others, however, seem to have stated the reverse of reality. Professional magazines appear (with the exception of Marvel and Dynamic) to be straonger than ever. But the writer cannot help but comparing this burst of vigour with the deceptive-appearing face of the consumptive. Fred Fischer shows some interesting thoughts, but, as Speer remarks, most of them are new only to FF. However, he does show ability to put words together
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