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Horizons, v. 2, issue 4, June 1941
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12 HORIZONS INTERIM spines of the magazines. Therefore, let us state that the present backlash of Unknown present the best appearance, all-around, of any pro fantasy, weird or stf magazine so far. Think how nice a five-foot shelf of Astounding would look if it had some similar backing! As it is, the almost-eight years of Astounding present a most formidable line-up, when they're all in a row with the spines to the front, but the appearance is quite another story. Unknown meets all the requirements of containing essential information -- date and year -- with pretty colors and not-too-gaudy printing. Think we should start up a petition to keep the same scheme when it turns over to the large-size format! ---------------------------- Which reminds that there'll have to be some searching and thinking on our part for material for Horizons during 1942, what with Unknown and the Munney magazines putting out only half as many issues as in 1940. Of course, we could just go into it in twice as much detail, but the idea doesn't strike us as too hot. --------------------------------- At Mons the Angels of the Lord arrived / To see that Britain's sons survived. / Times change: when high explosive fails / Among the precincts of St. Paul's / It takes a bomb-disposal squad / To extricate the House of God. -- G. F. Dudman, from The New Statesman and Nation --------------------------------- Further startling information is that we've at last gotten our bottle of hekto ink open (with an ice-pick) and sooner or later it'll start being applied. In fact, if Walt Marconette doesn't get that cover for this issue here in a few days, we'll have to try to find something to trace to put as a frontispiece to this issue. Therefore, if you find a nice pretty picture in colors on this cover, it's by Walter Earl Marconette, and if it's just in violet, it'll be a tracing of ours from somewhere. -------------------------------- You're quite right in surmising that we're having a terrible time filling up this last page. We'd intended to use quotes from letters, but demurred because we neglected copying them as received, and it'll take hours to dig them all up. Next time, doubtless. And speaking of quotes reminds us to tell you that FAPA Correspondent, of which we published one issue and no more a little more than a year ago, is not completely dead. We still have vague plans for issuing it upon occasion now and then, and if that blessed period of time we've been expecting in which we'll be caught up with all fan work ever materializes, we'll crank another one out. We've started up three magazines so far: Spaceways, this one, and that one, and we'll be darned if we're going to drop any of them! ------------------------------ Yesterday the dummy for Bonfire arrived, and we plan starting stenciling as soon as this thing is tucked away for another three months. You will probably have seen it by now, we devoutly hope, but maybe not. Just in case you have not, it will be definitely out by the time -- or rather, before the time -- you have to leave for Denver, if you're going there, so you can talk over the NFFF at any dive you may be. One note about it would be appropriate here: Doc Lowndes' proposal for a mailing bureau for it, somewhat similar to the FAPA's. It sounds like an excellent idea to us, but we insist that shouldn't by anything like a prime function. Such a thing would, as Doc said, help to eliminate bossing of the club by whoever issues the Bonfire, but we think it should remain merely a service for members, to be utilized by any who wish, and not emphasized as a main activity. The NFFF, we're happy to report, is the fan club. No doubt about it, little chums; now let's get all behind and shove! So long until the middle of Sept., don't forget, we want to be Proxy by then!
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12 HORIZONS INTERIM spines of the magazines. Therefore, let us state that the present backlash of Unknown present the best appearance, all-around, of any pro fantasy, weird or stf magazine so far. Think how nice a five-foot shelf of Astounding would look if it had some similar backing! As it is, the almost-eight years of Astounding present a most formidable line-up, when they're all in a row with the spines to the front, but the appearance is quite another story. Unknown meets all the requirements of containing essential information -- date and year -- with pretty colors and not-too-gaudy printing. Think we should start up a petition to keep the same scheme when it turns over to the large-size format! ---------------------------- Which reminds that there'll have to be some searching and thinking on our part for material for Horizons during 1942, what with Unknown and the Munney magazines putting out only half as many issues as in 1940. Of course, we could just go into it in twice as much detail, but the idea doesn't strike us as too hot. --------------------------------- At Mons the Angels of the Lord arrived / To see that Britain's sons survived. / Times change: when high explosive fails / Among the precincts of St. Paul's / It takes a bomb-disposal squad / To extricate the House of God. -- G. F. Dudman, from The New Statesman and Nation --------------------------------- Further startling information is that we've at last gotten our bottle of hekto ink open (with an ice-pick) and sooner or later it'll start being applied. In fact, if Walt Marconette doesn't get that cover for this issue here in a few days, we'll have to try to find something to trace to put as a frontispiece to this issue. Therefore, if you find a nice pretty picture in colors on this cover, it's by Walter Earl Marconette, and if it's just in violet, it'll be a tracing of ours from somewhere. -------------------------------- You're quite right in surmising that we're having a terrible time filling up this last page. We'd intended to use quotes from letters, but demurred because we neglected copying them as received, and it'll take hours to dig them all up. Next time, doubtless. And speaking of quotes reminds us to tell you that FAPA Correspondent, of which we published one issue and no more a little more than a year ago, is not completely dead. We still have vague plans for issuing it upon occasion now and then, and if that blessed period of time we've been expecting in which we'll be caught up with all fan work ever materializes, we'll crank another one out. We've started up three magazines so far: Spaceways, this one, and that one, and we'll be darned if we're going to drop any of them! ------------------------------ Yesterday the dummy for Bonfire arrived, and we plan starting stenciling as soon as this thing is tucked away for another three months. You will probably have seen it by now, we devoutly hope, but maybe not. Just in case you have not, it will be definitely out by the time -- or rather, before the time -- you have to leave for Denver, if you're going there, so you can talk over the NFFF at any dive you may be. One note about it would be appropriate here: Doc Lowndes' proposal for a mailing bureau for it, somewhat similar to the FAPA's. It sounds like an excellent idea to us, but we insist that shouldn't by anything like a prime function. Such a thing would, as Doc said, help to eliminate bossing of the club by whoever issues the Bonfire, but we think it should remain merely a service for members, to be utilized by any who wish, and not emphasized as a main activity. The NFFF, we're happy to report, is the fan club. No doubt about it, little chums; now let's get all behind and shove! So long until the middle of Sept., don't forget, we want to be Proxy by then!
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