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Spacewarp, v. 5, issue 5, whole no. 27, June 1949

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OPEN FIRE! This is File 13's letter section, wherein the fans (which possibly should be singular) of this feature are invited to register their reactions to my comments. Brickbats, bouquets, corrections and comments are solicited. Sign your name, if you dare, or send your kicks anonymous. But I warn you: I'll print your name if I can possibly find it out. Remember, nothing is off the record when you write to 
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America's farthest East fan leads off this section. Says Ed Cox, referring to my "Going Down" item in the March 1949 Warp: "Another deep-sea stfyarn I can name is Paul Ernst's "Marooned Under the Sea' in the Sept. 1930 Astounding. It was quite good -- that is, I enjoyed it about as much as I enjoy any story. And didn't Norman L. Knight's 'Crisis in Utopia' have something to do with the theme of undersea life?" You've got me, Edmund. I've read the Knight yarn, but damn if I remember anything about it except that Rogers painted a lovely cover for it -- one of his very best. Anybody remember if "Crisis in Utopia" dealt with deep-sea intelligent beings?

PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR. At 16:12 p.m. PST, 28 January 1949, the sun turned into a fast nova, according to Philip Latham in "N Day", Astounding, January 1948.

ANOTHER PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR (I HOPE). Any of you former dogfans remember a book called Sgt. Terry Bull: His Ideas on War and Fighting in General, which was published in paperback form during the war, perhaps by Penguin, and circulated rather widely to army libraries? Willy Ley had an article in ASF about the book late in 1941, I believe. Since I don't have the 1939-42 issues of ASF indexed as yet, I will not look up the article, but it strikes me very vividly -- either from reading the Ley article or the book, which lay around our PRO cubby-hole for a long while -- that Sgt. Terry Bull chronicled a super-scientific war that too place in 1949-50. The chapter title "The Roving Boys of 1949" is the only exact quote I remember. Pray to FooFoo that in choosing 1949-50 for his hypothetic war, Sgt. Bull was merely living up to his surname.

NOTES THAT MISSED MY WASTEBASKET. Is it a trend? First Super Science Stories reappeared in one of the worst printing jobs the stf field has seen in ten years. Now the August 1949 TWS has burst forth with one of the dirtiest printing jobs ever performed on that venerable standby. What happened? Standard must have switched printers, as Ziff-Davis is rumored to have done. Thank ghod I don't read Amz. Three pulps printed so execrably would be too much for my artistic soul. # I see in Proteus that young Russ Woodman blames your file clerk for his decision not to join FAPA. I have two letters on file from Good Old Woody in which he blames his withdrawal from the FAPA waiting list on his inability to finance his general fanzines and a FAPAzine, too. Very strange. # Woodman also sneers at an article in my FAPA publication Sky Hook titled "Clang, Clang, Clang, Went the Trolley," which he terms "fandom poop" and which he avers tells fans they won't become homos if they indulge in fandom activities. Since in a sense Woodman's inane remarks blacken the name of FAPA, which certainly is a helluva lot better than our boy Russell seems to think, I'll toss modesty out of the window for a moment to quote two reviews of the article in question, both by people whose opinions I value more highly than young Woodman's. Francis T. Laney said in Morpheus #2: "Redd Boggs takes a sensible middle-of-the-road approach with which I cannot take issue..."

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OPEN FIRE! This is File 13's letter section, wherein the fans (which possibly should be singular) of this feature are invited to register their reactions to my comments. Brickbats, bouquets, corrections and comments are solicited. Sign your name, if you dare, or send your kicks anonymous. But I warn you: I'll print your name if I can possibly find it out. Remember, nothing is off the record when you write to File 13. America's farthest East fan leads off this section. Says Ed Cox, referring to my "Going Down" item in the March 1949 Warp: "Another deep-sea stfyarn I can name is Paul Ernst's "Marooned Under the Sea' in the Sept. 1930 Astounding. It was quite good -- that is, I enjoyed it about as much as I enjoy any story. And didn't Norman L. Knight's 'Crisis in Utopia' have something to do with the theme of undersea life?" You've got me, Edmund. I've read the Knight yarn, but damn if I remember anything about it except that Rogers painted a lovely cover for it -- one of his very best. Anybody remember if "Crisis in Utopia" dealt with deep-sea intelligent beings? PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR. At 16:12 p.m. PST, 28 January 1949, the sun turned into a fast nova, according to Philip Latham in "N Day", Astounding, January 1948. ANOTHER PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR (I HOPE). Any of you former dogfans remember a book called Sgt. Terry Bull: His Ideas on War and Fighting in General, which was published in paperback form during the war, perhaps by Penguin, and circulated rather widely to army libraries? Willy Ley had an article in ASF about the book late in 1941, I believe. Since I don't have the 1939-42 issues of ASF indexed as yet, I will not look up the article, but it strikes me very vividly -- either from reading the Ley article or the book, which lay around our PRO cubby-hole for a long while -- that Sgt. Terry Bull chronicled a super-scientific war that too place in 1949-50. The chapter title "The Roving Boys of 1949" is the only exact quote I remember. Pray to FooFoo that in choosing 1949-50 for his hypothetic war, Sgt. Bull was merely living up to his surname. NOTES THAT MISSED MY WASTEBASKET. Is it a trend? First Super Science Stories reappeared in one of the worst printing jobs the stf field has seen in ten years. Now the August 1949 TWS has burst forth with one of the dirtiest printing jobs ever performed on that venerable standby. What happened? Standard must have switched printers, as Ziff-Davis is rumored to have done. Thank ghod I don't read Amz. Three pulps printed so execrably would be too much for my artistic soul. # I see in Proteus that young Russ Woodman blames your file clerk for his decision not to join FAPA. I have two letters on file from Good Old Woody in which he blames his withdrawal from the FAPA waiting list on his inability to finance his general fanzines and a FAPAzine, too. Very strange. # Woodman also sneers at an article in my FAPA publication Sky Hook titled "Clang, Clang, Clang, Went the Trolley," which he terms "fandom poop" and which he avers tells fans they won't become homos if they indulge in fandom activities. Since in a sense Woodman's inane remarks blacken the name of FAPA, which certainly is a helluva lot better than our boy Russell seems to think, I'll toss modesty out of the window for a moment to quote two reviews of the article in question, both by people whose opinions I value more highly than young Woodman's. Francis T. Laney said in Morpheus #2: "Redd Boggs takes a sensible middle-of-the-road approach with which I cannot take issue..." 12