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Fantasite, v. 2, issue 5, whole 11, May-June 1943

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THE FANTASITE ..... 31 FANTA Scripts JULIE UNGER It's impossible, but you've done it again! FFF again awards its bimonthly award to Fantasite for being Fantasite--congrats. Current issue really up to snuff--just the type of stuff for the typical fan. Best item in issue: "Via StfNash". Fanta-Notes next. As to FFF--t'will keep coming even if I'm the only one who buys it. Am not interested in quality of paper or right hand edges--all I'm interested in is for FFF to appear once a week, and I don't care how it shows up--as long as it shows up! SHELDON ARAAS The cover on the November issue is good. Not unusually so, but definitely good. Art Osterlund has the difficulty to be measured against the unusually fine cover on the preceding issue. "The Captains and the Kings Depart" fails as a story as a result of Yerke's evident love of atmosphere. It is a hunk of Effect, not much more. "Recommended Reading" is good, and I'm going to get a hold of "that Thayer book" at the first opportunity. My only gripe is against Tucker for giving away the end. "Take a Break" is good, very good; the writing is as fine as the news contained therein. If we could get something like that every issue--but then, that would be too much of a good thing. "Via StfNash" made my mouth water. I envy every mark in the dust on the StfNash's hide. I miss out on everything--everything! "Flans a La Convention" doesn't help the matter any either. Why didn't you put the two articles close together--side by side--though? It would have made the comparison of notes much easier. Squanchfoot on Manse is excellent; I've never read or heard a better description of the editor of Br-r-rack!. Donn Brazier's "A Few Moments of Idle Thought" is just that. Interesting to a psychologist, no doubt. "Among the Hams and Pros" is as usual.... And now to get down to the one part of the issue that really soured me. It's that Fan Scratchings column by Dickson. It starts no place at all, and it ends God knows where. I can see some reason for open criticism, but none for egotistic gripings. The intention of this column to conduct safe, long-range warfare with fans is a poor position to retaliate while soft-soaping the tougher members of the home crowd, is only too plain. It isn't news, it isn't criticism, it isn't anything but Dickson wasting good type writer paper. The attempts at humor are so feeble, they don't even register until you've read the column twice, and the "we are not modest" is a weak attempt to obviate a colossal ego. If this is the best Dickson can do in the way of writing, he had better go back to scribbling D themes for the English Department in the stilled English that part of the University glories in. ((Whew! Fan Scratchings can't be as bad as all that now, Shel! Oi Weh! it gives dissension in the MFS yet! Eds.)) FRANCIS T. LANEY The cover on #10 is the best technical job of mimeographing I've seen yet, though I've seen a lot better pictures. Yerke's story dropped me off--either I'm too utterly dense, or else he didn't make things plain enough. Also (first typo I've noticed in Fantasite, too), Foster must have been a scrambled mess with "his high forehead covered with nervous sweat and his blue eyes"! ((....."his blue eyes, hard and grim" was the intended meaning, of course! Eds.)) Tucker was okay, although I could wring the lad's neck for giving such a detailed tip-off on "The Greek"; if I ever get that book I'll lose the shock effect of it. This sounds, incidentally, like a darb; I'm putting it down in my little notebook as one to watch
 
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