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Cosmic Tales, v. 2, issue 1, Summer 1939
Page 40
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40, COSMIC TALES THE NEW SCIENCE FICTION By C.S YOUD Something was bound to happen you know. It was impossible that science-fiction should remain static, and when the balance hung between extinction and triumph, fans did their bit towards keeping it alive. With the result that now, science-fiction has gone ahead with a bound though not, perhaps, the same science-fiction. There can be nothing to quibble about -- there are too many magazines. Only one, Astounding, caters in any way for the comparatively intelligent fans; the rest are only hiding among their trash an occasional good story which obviously and rightly belongs in the pages of Astounding. The Remedy? There is none, of course. Truck drivers and football fans, excellent fellows though they may be, have little in common with the fantast, and though we may be lovers of children, we like them not as dictators of our reading. Let us leave them to their "popularized" s-f magazines. There we have the crux of the matter, neatly nut-shelled (Con't on next column) SING A SONG Sing a song of FooFoo, The bravest of the brave; The followers of FooFoo They rave and rave and rave Of quanta and philosophy (The silly little pests!) Of Cosmic Tales and Mickey Mouse And Wollheim's undervests You wonder why the FooFoo Is therefore thought so brave? Why anyone but FooFoo 'Twould drive into the grave! --Finis-- C.S.Youd and ripe for picking. Fans should leave the professional magazines to their own devices --yes-- even Weird and the Street & Smith's. Read them by all means, criticise them in correspondence and fan magazines if you will, but do not otherwise interfere. For the editors have realized at last the golden truth that they must cultivate the readers. And to hell with the fans, say they. What, then, shall we do? Well, I have appealed for a unification of forces but place little hope in that. No, all I ask you to do is to give fan organizations and magazines your best assistance -- publish a magazine yourself if you feel like it! Fan mag editors are independent and uncommercialized. They put more hours in on their own little productions than any pro editor would think of doing, and suffer perpetual anxiety over lack of money and material. Perhaps you have a low opinion of fan material but it will improve and YOU can help it. Who is with me in the drift away from pro s-f? Let's make fandom worthwhile. And to hell with the pro mags say we! The End SWORDSMEN OF EARS (con't from page 32) again. They laughed so hard that tears trickled down their celluline shirts and stained the decking, "Wha--what's the matter?" demanded Fatty Hammond indignatly, "Oh you poor fool!" gasped Ace. "You can't jump a bit farther because of weak gravity. Gravity only affects motion in a vertical direction. You aren't moving against gravity when you move horizontally and your mass remains the same, whether on Earth, Mars or the more. -The End-
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40, COSMIC TALES THE NEW SCIENCE FICTION By C.S YOUD Something was bound to happen you know. It was impossible that science-fiction should remain static, and when the balance hung between extinction and triumph, fans did their bit towards keeping it alive. With the result that now, science-fiction has gone ahead with a bound though not, perhaps, the same science-fiction. There can be nothing to quibble about -- there are too many magazines. Only one, Astounding, caters in any way for the comparatively intelligent fans; the rest are only hiding among their trash an occasional good story which obviously and rightly belongs in the pages of Astounding. The Remedy? There is none, of course. Truck drivers and football fans, excellent fellows though they may be, have little in common with the fantast, and though we may be lovers of children, we like them not as dictators of our reading. Let us leave them to their "popularized" s-f magazines. There we have the crux of the matter, neatly nut-shelled (Con't on next column) SING A SONG Sing a song of FooFoo, The bravest of the brave; The followers of FooFoo They rave and rave and rave Of quanta and philosophy (The silly little pests!) Of Cosmic Tales and Mickey Mouse And Wollheim's undervests You wonder why the FooFoo Is therefore thought so brave? Why anyone but FooFoo 'Twould drive into the grave! --Finis-- C.S.Youd and ripe for picking. Fans should leave the professional magazines to their own devices --yes-- even Weird and the Street & Smith's. Read them by all means, criticise them in correspondence and fan magazines if you will, but do not otherwise interfere. For the editors have realized at last the golden truth that they must cultivate the readers. And to hell with the fans, say they. What, then, shall we do? Well, I have appealed for a unification of forces but place little hope in that. No, all I ask you to do is to give fan organizations and magazines your best assistance -- publish a magazine yourself if you feel like it! Fan mag editors are independent and uncommercialized. They put more hours in on their own little productions than any pro editor would think of doing, and suffer perpetual anxiety over lack of money and material. Perhaps you have a low opinion of fan material but it will improve and YOU can help it. Who is with me in the drift away from pro s-f? Let's make fandom worthwhile. And to hell with the pro mags say we! The End SWORDSMEN OF EARS (con't from page 32) again. They laughed so hard that tears trickled down their celluline shirts and stained the decking, "Wha--what's the matter?" demanded Fatty Hammond indignatly, "Oh you poor fool!" gasped Ace. "You can't jump a bit farther because of weak gravity. Gravity only affects motion in a vertical direction. You aren't moving against gravity when you move horizontally and your mass remains the same, whether on Earth, Mars or the more. -The End-
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