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Fantaseer, v. 2, issue 4, August 1940
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prophecies that pertain to matters or current interest. He has been remember arkably accurate so far, having predicted the rise of the dictatory and the Nazi War. Ingland is referred to as the "Lion" & she will eventually win a great victory, but there will be many social changes. This country, tho, will in the end enter into the war and our Navy will be destroyed. However, of more interest to far-sighted fans whose perspective covereternity due to the reading of science-fiction are Nostradamus prophecies of the future up until the fortieth century... Mr. "Bandwoe Cinder,"who wrote "Battem Blink, Champion Athlete" for SUN SPOTS evidently thinks he has a sense of humor. We think differently! As is being outrid was not enough, we don't see where a satire on basebally, of all things, has any place in a fantasy publication... We have at hand the September POLARIS, as neat and verdant as its three predecessors. We have only the greatest praise for "The Tree on the Hill", by Duane W. Rimel. Here is fan fiction as it should be. damon knight contributes a well-written short story. Well-written, we say, but not so terribly interesting. In fact, all that is printed in POLARIS is rather well done as far as the flow and quality of English gpes, but some of the material cannot hold our interest. We have a feeling that Freehafer is accepting material because of the person that wrote it, not only on merit alone... With the deluge of pseudo-scientific cartoon magazines it was evidently certain that a fan-mag of this nature should finally result. Phil Bronson of 224 w,6th St., Hastings, Minn., has finally produced such an item. The first issue has 20 small-size hectographed pages and is fairly novel Besides a cover, a page of cartoons, and a back page notice, there is a 17 page strip called "Robot Doom, "dealing with the adventures of some earthlings who land on Mars and find that the real Martians have been placed in suspended animation and super-intelligent robots rule in their place. Naturally there are plans to conquer the earth and the usual hack stuff follows. ON AMATEUR JOURNALISM --- By The Editor. The writing for and publishing of fan magazines is at best a limited field. If one has ambitions to become a writer fan writing does not serve as a particularly good trial school because its scope is so limited. Many fans have yearned to also write matter of a more general nature, the subject I shall deal with here. The urge to publish newspapers had been inherent in young men for many years, finally seventy year afo it was culminated when the first low-priced printing presses were brought out. Boys all over America got the urge to publish and thousands of amateur journals sprang up. Organization was necessary if anything was to be accomplished, so in 1876 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia the Nacional Amauter Press Association was organized and it exists to this day. At first amauter journalism was a hobby for boys alone, but as it aged many of its Alumni & others remained and later women and girls affiliated with the organization. today amateur journalists, more popularly known as "ajays, "range anywhere between 12 and 87. Those fans who belong to the FAPA can get a general idea of how the amateur press assins. work. They have bundles of papers mailed monthly by a central mailing bureau, official organs, annual conventions, local chapters, laureate awards, recruiting contests, and so on. The main difference between fandom and ajay is that there are quite a few printed journals in the latter, some of a very high quality. To any fan who feels a desire to perhaps try his hand at writing & publishing of a more general nature than the fan movement permits I should be glad to send full information about one of the prominent amateur press associations of the day for a stamp. And if you would, perhaps, like to have a sample bundle of our papers these will be sent on receipt of an added stamp. Write to William H. Groveman, 18 Maryland Avenue, Hempetead, New York for full information.
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prophecies that pertain to matters or current interest. He has been remember arkably accurate so far, having predicted the rise of the dictatory and the Nazi War. Ingland is referred to as the "Lion" & she will eventually win a great victory, but there will be many social changes. This country, tho, will in the end enter into the war and our Navy will be destroyed. However, of more interest to far-sighted fans whose perspective covereternity due to the reading of science-fiction are Nostradamus prophecies of the future up until the fortieth century... Mr. "Bandwoe Cinder,"who wrote "Battem Blink, Champion Athlete" for SUN SPOTS evidently thinks he has a sense of humor. We think differently! As is being outrid was not enough, we don't see where a satire on basebally, of all things, has any place in a fantasy publication... We have at hand the September POLARIS, as neat and verdant as its three predecessors. We have only the greatest praise for "The Tree on the Hill", by Duane W. Rimel. Here is fan fiction as it should be. damon knight contributes a well-written short story. Well-written, we say, but not so terribly interesting. In fact, all that is printed in POLARIS is rather well done as far as the flow and quality of English gpes, but some of the material cannot hold our interest. We have a feeling that Freehafer is accepting material because of the person that wrote it, not only on merit alone... With the deluge of pseudo-scientific cartoon magazines it was evidently certain that a fan-mag of this nature should finally result. Phil Bronson of 224 w,6th St., Hastings, Minn., has finally produced such an item. The first issue has 20 small-size hectographed pages and is fairly novel Besides a cover, a page of cartoons, and a back page notice, there is a 17 page strip called "Robot Doom, "dealing with the adventures of some earthlings who land on Mars and find that the real Martians have been placed in suspended animation and super-intelligent robots rule in their place. Naturally there are plans to conquer the earth and the usual hack stuff follows. ON AMATEUR JOURNALISM --- By The Editor. The writing for and publishing of fan magazines is at best a limited field. If one has ambitions to become a writer fan writing does not serve as a particularly good trial school because its scope is so limited. Many fans have yearned to also write matter of a more general nature, the subject I shall deal with here. The urge to publish newspapers had been inherent in young men for many years, finally seventy year afo it was culminated when the first low-priced printing presses were brought out. Boys all over America got the urge to publish and thousands of amateur journals sprang up. Organization was necessary if anything was to be accomplished, so in 1876 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia the Nacional Amauter Press Association was organized and it exists to this day. At first amauter journalism was a hobby for boys alone, but as it aged many of its Alumni & others remained and later women and girls affiliated with the organization. today amateur journalists, more popularly known as "ajays, "range anywhere between 12 and 87. Those fans who belong to the FAPA can get a general idea of how the amateur press assins. work. They have bundles of papers mailed monthly by a central mailing bureau, official organs, annual conventions, local chapters, laureate awards, recruiting contests, and so on. The main difference between fandom and ajay is that there are quite a few printed journals in the latter, some of a very high quality. To any fan who feels a desire to perhaps try his hand at writing & publishing of a more general nature than the fan movement permits I should be glad to send full information about one of the prominent amateur press associations of the day for a stamp. And if you would, perhaps, like to have a sample bundle of our papers these will be sent on receipt of an added stamp. Write to William H. Groveman, 18 Maryland Avenue, Hempetead, New York for full information.
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