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Page Two FANTASY NEWS [[two columns]] [[right column]] [[underline]] FANTASY NEWS [[/underline]] is published every week by William S. Sykora. [[underline]] Address [[/underline]]: P.O. Box 84, Elmont, N.Y. [[underline]] Editor [[/underline]]: Will Sykora. [[underline]] Associates [[/underline]]: Jimmy Taurasi, Sam Moskowitz, Mario Racic, Jr. [[underline]] Rates [[/underline]]: 3 issues 10 [cents], 8 issues 25 [cents], 32 issues $1.00. [[underline]] Ad Rates [[/underline]]: Full page $2, 1/2 page $1, 1/4 p. 50 [cents] minimum. (NO STAMPS PLEASE) [[underline]] NOTE [[/underline]]: Please make all checks and money-orders payable to W. Sykora. -------------------------------------- BOOST SCIENCE FICTION ------------------------------------- [[underline]] EDITORIAL [[/underline]] by Will Sykora. Does a rabid, fanatical pursuit of science fiction fan activities result in suicide? On the basis of four known suicides in the fantasy field, no sweeping conclusion such as this could be reached. Some fans, whose lack of a sense of values or who appear to have lost a sense of proportion causing them to see things out of focus with some aspects of the question looming huge and other aspects appearing as through Alice's wrong end of a telescope, seem to reach conclusions not borne out by a sufficiency of facts. On the other hand, neuroses of one sort or another might conceivably develope. Novae in the fan field are common. A fan may start small. He may have only read stf for a year or two. He gets a few sample fan mags. He begins writing for them. Though a mere child, possibly, he is treated as a mature intellect. His ego bloats, and bloats, and finally --- bursts. Linus Hogenmiller is the earliest case I can recall. G.G. Clark, Willis Conover, Corwin Stickney, Jim Avery, Claire P. Beck, C. Hamilton Bloomer, Wilson Shepherd, and a few others seem to be typical cases. Merely as a matter of opinion I would say that Joe Gilbert and some of the Westwood boys are going the same way. There are certainly similarities evident in Earl Singleton's case, as witness his super-activity in the Stranger Club. All this of course is conjecture, and I hope no one will feel hurt by these surmises. [[/right column]] [[left column]] [[underline]] FAN MAG REVIEW [[/underline]] by Harry Warner, Jr. [[underline]] Specula [[/underline]]: vol. 1, no. 1. [[underline]] 86 [[/underline]] small, finely mimeod pp for a dime. One of the most professional looking fan mags I've ever seen, with even margins, excellent illustrations, and contents mostly very excellent fiction. Best newcomer of 1941. [[underline]] Sun Trails [[/underline]]: vol. 1, no. 1. 10 lg mimeod pp of most interesting articles for a nickel. Another nice beginning; both are available from 1426 W. 38th St, Los Angeles, Calif, and most definitely recommended. [[underline]] Le Zombie [[/underline]]: vol. 4, no. 1. 20 lg mimeod pp with photo on cover, Fan gossip, articles, and such. this copy a dime. Box 260, Bloomington, Illinois. [[underline]] Frontier [[/underline]]: vol. 1., no. 4. "The magazine of significance", containing "different" articles and features. If you're a bit tired of the usual fan scandal, this ought to perk you up. 28 lg, excellently hektoed pp, a magazine no fan should be without. A dime; 3031 N. 36th St, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ----------------------------------------------- [[underline]] BEG PARDON [[/underline]] Recent material published in [[underline]] FANTASY NEWS [[/underline]] re the Chicago S-F Convention (1940) seems to have been in error, although based on an eye witness report made at a meeting of the Queens SFL by Director Hyman Tiger, and Julius Unger. According to an article in the last issue of [[underline]] Le Zombie [[/underline]], written by Bob Tucker. the register of the Chicon was signed 128 times, not 92 as reported in an editorial in FN, No. 131. Rumors that Bob Tucker, Mark Reinsberg, and Erle Korshak, promoters of the Chicago Convention pocketed the proceeds of the affair withouth authorization, are also without foundation according to Tucker, writing in [[underline]] Le Zombie [[/underline]]. Actually, writes Bob, the members of [[underline]] The Illini Fantasy Fictioneers [[/underline]], in special session had VOTED to "give" all Chicon profits to the officers named. Also contrary to a remark made by the editor of [[underline]] FANTASY NEWS [[/underline]] in the above mentioned editorial, [[underline]] all [[/underline]] questions were put to a vote.
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Page Two FANTASY NEWS [[two columns]] [[right column]] [[underline]] FANTASY NEWS [[/underline]] is published every week by William S. Sykora. [[underline]] Address [[/underline]]: P.O. Box 84, Elmont, N.Y. [[underline]] Editor [[/underline]]: Will Sykora. [[underline]] Associates [[/underline]]: Jimmy Taurasi, Sam Moskowitz, Mario Racic, Jr. [[underline]] Rates [[/underline]]: 3 issues 10 [cents], 8 issues 25 [cents], 32 issues $1.00. [[underline]] Ad Rates [[/underline]]: Full page $2, 1/2 page $1, 1/4 p. 50 [cents] minimum. (NO STAMPS PLEASE) [[underline]] NOTE [[/underline]]: Please make all checks and money-orders payable to W. Sykora. -------------------------------------- BOOST SCIENCE FICTION ------------------------------------- [[underline]] EDITORIAL [[/underline]] by Will Sykora. Does a rabid, fanatical pursuit of science fiction fan activities result in suicide? On the basis of four known suicides in the fantasy field, no sweeping conclusion such as this could be reached. Some fans, whose lack of a sense of values or who appear to have lost a sense of proportion causing them to see things out of focus with some aspects of the question looming huge and other aspects appearing as through Alice's wrong end of a telescope, seem to reach conclusions not borne out by a sufficiency of facts. On the other hand, neuroses of one sort or another might conceivably develope. Novae in the fan field are common. A fan may start small. He may have only read stf for a year or two. He gets a few sample fan mags. He begins writing for them. Though a mere child, possibly, he is treated as a mature intellect. His ego bloats, and bloats, and finally --- bursts. Linus Hogenmiller is the earliest case I can recall. G.G. Clark, Willis Conover, Corwin Stickney, Jim Avery, Claire P. Beck, C. Hamilton Bloomer, Wilson Shepherd, and a few others seem to be typical cases. Merely as a matter of opinion I would say that Joe Gilbert and some of the Westwood boys are going the same way. There are certainly similarities evident in Earl Singleton's case, as witness his super-activity in the Stranger Club. All this of course is conjecture, and I hope no one will feel hurt by these surmises. [[/right column]] [[left column]] [[underline]] FAN MAG REVIEW [[/underline]] by Harry Warner, Jr. [[underline]] Specula [[/underline]]: vol. 1, no. 1. [[underline]] 86 [[/underline]] small, finely mimeod pp for a dime. One of the most professional looking fan mags I've ever seen, with even margins, excellent illustrations, and contents mostly very excellent fiction. Best newcomer of 1941. [[underline]] Sun Trails [[/underline]]: vol. 1, no. 1. 10 lg mimeod pp of most interesting articles for a nickel. Another nice beginning; both are available from 1426 W. 38th St, Los Angeles, Calif, and most definitely recommended. [[underline]] Le Zombie [[/underline]]: vol. 4, no. 1. 20 lg mimeod pp with photo on cover, Fan gossip, articles, and such. this copy a dime. Box 260, Bloomington, Illinois. [[underline]] Frontier [[/underline]]: vol. 1., no. 4. "The magazine of significance", containing "different" articles and features. If you're a bit tired of the usual fan scandal, this ought to perk you up. 28 lg, excellently hektoed pp, a magazine no fan should be without. A dime; 3031 N. 36th St, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ----------------------------------------------- [[underline]] BEG PARDON [[/underline]] Recent material published in [[underline]] FANTASY NEWS [[/underline]] re the Chicago S-F Convention (1940) seems to have been in error, although based on an eye witness report made at a meeting of the Queens SFL by Director Hyman Tiger, and Julius Unger. According to an article in the last issue of [[underline]] Le Zombie [[/underline]], written by Bob Tucker. the register of the Chicon was signed 128 times, not 92 as reported in an editorial in FN, No. 131. Rumors that Bob Tucker, Mark Reinsberg, and Erle Korshak, promoters of the Chicago Convention pocketed the proceeds of the affair withouth authorization, are also without foundation according to Tucker, writing in [[underline]] Le Zombie [[/underline]]. Actually, writes Bob, the members of [[underline]] The Illini Fantasy Fictioneers [[/underline]], in special session had VOTED to "give" all Chicon profits to the officers named. Also contrary to a remark made by the editor of [[underline]] FANTASY NEWS [[/underline]] in the above mentioned editorial, [[underline]] all [[/underline]] questions were put to a vote.
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