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WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN All correspondence to this column should be addressed c/o Letter Editor, Rober E. Briney, 561 West Western Ave., Muskegon, Michigan. No letter should exceed 250 words in length. Hmm, lots of mail this month. Mayhap our exhortation in the last issue did some good, even though these missives arrived before said issue left the mimeo. There must be some truth in that ESP, after all! It even reaches into Canada: Dear Lonely Editor: (A letter-editor with a dearth of letters must be lonely, so lower your eyebrows to half-mast again.) You've got a couple of promising authors in the Duanes, especially Toby. I have a suggestion about them. I expect it to be ignored, but I'll make it regardless: persuade Toby to write some of Andy's stories for him! A. can think up good plots, but his writing style could stand much improvement. T., on the other hand, writes well, but his plots aren't so good. Together they should make a nice balance. ###### The new Littlechip story was better than the first. Why has Lee Gann stopped writing all the book reviews? No time to read enough books, or did those other reviewers bribe their way onto the page? [What's wrong with the other reviewers? Don't you trust their opinions? We accept any good book reviews, no matter who writes them, and print them according to available space. Sometimes we editors are forced to write some ourselves when backlog runs low!] I wish the "poets" would watch the metre in their verse. Most of them have lo-sided lines... [The poems or the poets?] I take back that "most." The metre in Atom War and Second Chance in the current issue was smooth. Not bad poems either: better than any in previous issues. ---Helen Soucy, 106 Forest Avenue, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. Hmm, again. This next letter seems to have been caught in Jonathan Summers' time-warper. Two months behind the times. The third issue of F-F- is easily the best going away. [Where?] The printing is marvelous and the story calibre improves steadily. Duane's story isn't too hot but his style is magnificent. I could use a little of his descriptive power. And Al Leverentz's story is one of the first I have ever read that packs power and sense into the time-travel stuff. He has a loosely-connected style, but he can inject a power that is both strange and compelling. And in a fanzine! ####### The two shorts were fair, proving my point again--a story needs room in order to develop naturally. There are exceptions but they rarely happen in a fanzine. #### Book reviews are welcome and well-received. I'll skip the art-work (out of kindness), although (hint hint) I sure would love an illustrated story of my own. [Hints are unethical; but in this case they bore fruit--prickly pear--Your story is in this issue as you can see, and it has an interior illustration.] ###### With practice, Leverentz has a good chance of becoming a pro. Who can tell? ###### One request: keep F-F- on a mimeographed basis as long as possible. [F-F will be completely mimeographed from now on and the illustrations will improve.] --- Larry Saunders, 170 Washington Avenue, Stamford, Connecticut. With a minimum of comment, we pass to our old standby, Tom Covington (who is now not only an author but a fellow editor): Somewhere I heard that the story quality of F-F has improved, but the fact wasn't apparent in the 4th issue. Maybe you're saving the page 3
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WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN All correspondence to this column should be addressed c/o Letter Editor, Rober E. Briney, 561 West Western Ave., Muskegon, Michigan. No letter should exceed 250 words in length. Hmm, lots of mail this month. Mayhap our exhortation in the last issue did some good, even though these missives arrived before said issue left the mimeo. There must be some truth in that ESP, after all! It even reaches into Canada: Dear Lonely Editor: (A letter-editor with a dearth of letters must be lonely, so lower your eyebrows to half-mast again.) You've got a couple of promising authors in the Duanes, especially Toby. I have a suggestion about them. I expect it to be ignored, but I'll make it regardless: persuade Toby to write some of Andy's stories for him! A. can think up good plots, but his writing style could stand much improvement. T., on the other hand, writes well, but his plots aren't so good. Together they should make a nice balance. ###### The new Littlechip story was better than the first. Why has Lee Gann stopped writing all the book reviews? No time to read enough books, or did those other reviewers bribe their way onto the page? [What's wrong with the other reviewers? Don't you trust their opinions? We accept any good book reviews, no matter who writes them, and print them according to available space. Sometimes we editors are forced to write some ourselves when backlog runs low!] I wish the "poets" would watch the metre in their verse. Most of them have lo-sided lines... [The poems or the poets?] I take back that "most." The metre in Atom War and Second Chance in the current issue was smooth. Not bad poems either: better than any in previous issues. ---Helen Soucy, 106 Forest Avenue, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. Hmm, again. This next letter seems to have been caught in Jonathan Summers' time-warper. Two months behind the times. The third issue of F-F- is easily the best going away. [Where?] The printing is marvelous and the story calibre improves steadily. Duane's story isn't too hot but his style is magnificent. I could use a little of his descriptive power. And Al Leverentz's story is one of the first I have ever read that packs power and sense into the time-travel stuff. He has a loosely-connected style, but he can inject a power that is both strange and compelling. And in a fanzine! ####### The two shorts were fair, proving my point again--a story needs room in order to develop naturally. There are exceptions but they rarely happen in a fanzine. #### Book reviews are welcome and well-received. I'll skip the art-work (out of kindness), although (hint hint) I sure would love an illustrated story of my own. [Hints are unethical; but in this case they bore fruit--prickly pear--Your story is in this issue as you can see, and it has an interior illustration.] ###### With practice, Leverentz has a good chance of becoming a pro. Who can tell? ###### One request: keep F-F- on a mimeographed basis as long as possible. [F-F will be completely mimeographed from now on and the illustrations will improve.] --- Larry Saunders, 170 Washington Avenue, Stamford, Connecticut. With a minimum of comment, we pass to our old standby, Tom Covington (who is now not only an author but a fellow editor): Somewhere I heard that the story quality of F-F has improved, but the fact wasn't apparent in the 4th issue. Maybe you're saving the page 3
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