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Fanfare, v. 1, issue 5, December 1940
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EAT IT -- STRANGERS! by William Lawrence Hamling Preface: ...I enclosed in this letter an article to be run in your next issue...Publish this article as is. Do not mutilate it a fraction. If you cut anything out, don't publish it. I wrote it as I want it printed. Those eggs deserve a little truth...I'll be watching for the next issue... -- William Lawrence Hamling, Editor, Stardust. (Editorial Note: Hamling's dissertational document, complete withgrammatical errors, as per his commands, follows below; and following it is a brief reply by es. This closes the discussion of Stardust as far as Fanfare is concerned, unless someone has something original to say on the subject.) The article by all-knowing Strangers concerning shyster Hamling's brain-baby, Sawdust, is very interesting. Especially when it is written by a bunch of saps who know as much about their subject as the worm knows about the inside of a cloud. But let's investigate the arguements by the know-it-alls. First of all we'll outline them for those who may have missed this highly informative piece. STARDUST (say the Strangers) is not a fanmag because: 1. It publishes professional fiction 2. It publishes only a few articles for the fans (active) -- who are the backbone of its circulation. (They say 200.) 3. Its fiction is rejected tripe. 4. Hamling's circulation figures are dubious. 5. If STARDUST does not alter its policy soon, it should not deserve the further support of fandom. Well, well. Here we have a nice little hunk of cheese to nibble into for the next few minutes. Let's go. First of all, the back room hob-nobs say that STARDUST is not a fan magazine because it publishes fiction -- and rejected tripe at that! All right wise guys -- how many of the fan magazines you read don't publish fiction! And you can bet your bottom dollar that the fiction the fan magazines publish has since its origin from the respective author's pens, seen the rounds of all the major publishing houses! Just to mention a few of the fan mags that publish fiction: SPACEWAYS, FANTASCIENCE DIGEST, SCIENTI-SNAPS, THE SCIENTIAL, etc. And we can go even further to say that there are some fan magazines that publish fiction exclusively!! E.g. HORIZONS, POLARIS, etc... But to get back. Where in the hell do these guys get the gall to say that because I publish fiction I am not editing a fan magazine! Now as to the tripe: Do you bright fellows recall the story CYCLE OF AGE by Robert Moore WIlliams, in the August STARDUST? Well boys, this yarn was bought by Teck Publications for the old AMAZING. When Teck folded, this story was returned to Bob. He shelved it for some unknown reason. I got it. Tripe? My readers didn't think so -- and neither did the
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EAT IT -- STRANGERS! by William Lawrence Hamling Preface: ...I enclosed in this letter an article to be run in your next issue...Publish this article as is. Do not mutilate it a fraction. If you cut anything out, don't publish it. I wrote it as I want it printed. Those eggs deserve a little truth...I'll be watching for the next issue... -- William Lawrence Hamling, Editor, Stardust. (Editorial Note: Hamling's dissertational document, complete withgrammatical errors, as per his commands, follows below; and following it is a brief reply by es. This closes the discussion of Stardust as far as Fanfare is concerned, unless someone has something original to say on the subject.) The article by all-knowing Strangers concerning shyster Hamling's brain-baby, Sawdust, is very interesting. Especially when it is written by a bunch of saps who know as much about their subject as the worm knows about the inside of a cloud. But let's investigate the arguements by the know-it-alls. First of all we'll outline them for those who may have missed this highly informative piece. STARDUST (say the Strangers) is not a fanmag because: 1. It publishes professional fiction 2. It publishes only a few articles for the fans (active) -- who are the backbone of its circulation. (They say 200.) 3. Its fiction is rejected tripe. 4. Hamling's circulation figures are dubious. 5. If STARDUST does not alter its policy soon, it should not deserve the further support of fandom. Well, well. Here we have a nice little hunk of cheese to nibble into for the next few minutes. Let's go. First of all, the back room hob-nobs say that STARDUST is not a fan magazine because it publishes fiction -- and rejected tripe at that! All right wise guys -- how many of the fan magazines you read don't publish fiction! And you can bet your bottom dollar that the fiction the fan magazines publish has since its origin from the respective author's pens, seen the rounds of all the major publishing houses! Just to mention a few of the fan mags that publish fiction: SPACEWAYS, FANTASCIENCE DIGEST, SCIENTI-SNAPS, THE SCIENTIAL, etc. And we can go even further to say that there are some fan magazines that publish fiction exclusively!! E.g. HORIZONS, POLARIS, etc... But to get back. Where in the hell do these guys get the gall to say that because I publish fiction I am not editing a fan magazine! Now as to the tripe: Do you bright fellows recall the story CYCLE OF AGE by Robert Moore WIlliams, in the August STARDUST? Well boys, this yarn was bought by Teck Publications for the old AMAZING. When Teck folded, this story was returned to Bob. He shelved it for some unknown reason. I got it. Tripe? My readers didn't think so -- and neither did the
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