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Science Fiction Fan, v. 5, issue 9, whole 56, April 1941
Page 17
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FAN.....................................................17 usually run, but with characteristic originality fans have always found something just a little more different; something just a little more surprising to shock you with as every Autumn ominously approaches. You're liable to hear any number of things portend. Elaborate announcements of printed fan mags have always been predominant; your worst enemy who you thought you had gotten rid of once and for all suddenly reappears just long enough to announce some astounding new project that it seems will singe the hair off your head' leventy seven new fan mags are announced from every corner of the land and often globe, and each and every one seems to have set up an array of features that will put those appearing in your fan mag to shame. Even the pros prefer to send lightning bolts of thought consternation into our midst just about early Autumn. In fact things often seem to be changing with such astonishing rapidity that I have known many fans to quit at this time merely because they believed that they and their project had been completely showered under by new projects. When such things happen one must watch closely the psychological effect not only upon others but upon ones self. Though you may think otherwise fans are actually slow workers. They don't like to be rushed and they may, often or not, lose their head and their interest in fantasy if it seems to them that they are being unduly harrassed by conditions beyond their control. When one considers this point, it is not too hard to comprehend how "The Greater Plan Season" in science-fiction fandom can at times prove a disturbing, if not actually damaging phenomenon. Usually, the larger part of this bombardment of suggestions and intentions takes the form of proposed fan magazines. In late 1936 the most
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FAN.....................................................17 usually run, but with characteristic originality fans have always found something just a little more different; something just a little more surprising to shock you with as every Autumn ominously approaches. You're liable to hear any number of things portend. Elaborate announcements of printed fan mags have always been predominant; your worst enemy who you thought you had gotten rid of once and for all suddenly reappears just long enough to announce some astounding new project that it seems will singe the hair off your head' leventy seven new fan mags are announced from every corner of the land and often globe, and each and every one seems to have set up an array of features that will put those appearing in your fan mag to shame. Even the pros prefer to send lightning bolts of thought consternation into our midst just about early Autumn. In fact things often seem to be changing with such astonishing rapidity that I have known many fans to quit at this time merely because they believed that they and their project had been completely showered under by new projects. When such things happen one must watch closely the psychological effect not only upon others but upon ones self. Though you may think otherwise fans are actually slow workers. They don't like to be rushed and they may, often or not, lose their head and their interest in fantasy if it seems to them that they are being unduly harrassed by conditions beyond their control. When one considers this point, it is not too hard to comprehend how "The Greater Plan Season" in science-fiction fandom can at times prove a disturbing, if not actually damaging phenomenon. Usually, the larger part of this bombardment of suggestions and intentions takes the form of proposed fan magazines. In late 1936 the most
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