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The Science Fiction Fan, v. 4, issue 8, whole no. 44, March 1940
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8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAN ON THE DOODLING OF SPACE-SHIPS By Jack F. Speer, N Tm Every true scientifictionist doodles spaceships when he has a pencil and paper and a vacant mind. The opposite page shows a number of models designed by me at various ages, arranged in no particular order. a is the ordinary sphereship which I felt obliged to make a rendition of in the long ago, tho I made little use of it. b is drawn from memories of the dear old Geryon of Otto Willi Gail's Shot Into Infinity. c is just a decent space-ship. d is my pet, the testseract. The one on your left is in battle action, the other just drifting along. (they use the warp of space for propulsion). The genial old tramp chugging along above the planetoid, at e, just growed. It lands on that skid at its bottomost part, which is adjusted by the little arm that reaches out to the bowed spring between the landing skid and the bottom of the main part of the ship. The light-rays with which it propels itself were stuck in somewhat later. The conning tower which raises and lowers, was also an afterthot and those guns don't look like they were in the original design. The skeeter ship skimming along at f was intended, I believe, only for atmosphere combats. Its wickedly gleaming proboscis, which is wiggleable, is a terrible weapon in locked combat and ramming, tho it also has rays (as who doesn't). The spaceship g, in spite of its Skylark-worthy screens, was always being successfully attacked by the ships h, at the time I was in the habit of doodling it. The shape of h is curious, being drawn after an illustration of the two-mile-long Skylark, III, which,
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8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAN ON THE DOODLING OF SPACE-SHIPS By Jack F. Speer, N Tm Every true scientifictionist doodles spaceships when he has a pencil and paper and a vacant mind. The opposite page shows a number of models designed by me at various ages, arranged in no particular order. a is the ordinary sphereship which I felt obliged to make a rendition of in the long ago, tho I made little use of it. b is drawn from memories of the dear old Geryon of Otto Willi Gail's Shot Into Infinity. c is just a decent space-ship. d is my pet, the testseract. The one on your left is in battle action, the other just drifting along. (they use the warp of space for propulsion). The genial old tramp chugging along above the planetoid, at e, just growed. It lands on that skid at its bottomost part, which is adjusted by the little arm that reaches out to the bowed spring between the landing skid and the bottom of the main part of the ship. The light-rays with which it propels itself were stuck in somewhat later. The conning tower which raises and lowers, was also an afterthot and those guns don't look like they were in the original design. The skeeter ship skimming along at f was intended, I believe, only for atmosphere combats. Its wickedly gleaming proboscis, which is wiggleable, is a terrible weapon in locked combat and ramming, tho it also has rays (as who doesn't). The spaceship g, in spite of its Skylark-worthy screens, was always being successfully attacked by the ships h, at the time I was in the habit of doodling it. The shape of h is curious, being drawn after an illustration of the two-mile-long Skylark, III, which,
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