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Reader and Collector, v. 2, issue 4, December 1941
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NOTES AND QUERIES [Bolded and Underlined] The fueding still continues. Messrs. TAURASI, MOSKOWITZ and OSHEROFF, Editors of a NEWS MAGAZINE, appear to specialize in news (?) items [aginl?] the FUTURIANS. At least, that is the general impression I got reading Volume 1 check-up; but if memory serves me correctly I have found little or no ammunition for my anti-hissing campaign in ASTOUNDING, UNKNOWN OR WEIRD TALES. Have I been overlooking something or is it possible that the Writers in and the Editors' of these magazines operate in different social circles than so many of the guys I come across in the other scientific-fiction magazines? If you know what I mean--and I think you do------. How many of the readers of "ASTOUNDING" caught the "boner" in their recent subscription advertisement? Part of it read thusly: "THE ARGON GLOW LAMP needs no special attachments, operates on AC or DC current------". The expressions "AC current" and "DC Current" always "get under my skin". They are absolutely incorrect, of course. Someone should ask EDITOR CAMPBELL what the "C" means------. I wonder how many fans looked at the illustrations for GARDNER'S story "IN THE DAYS OF THE GIANTS", published (Gawd only knows why) in "COSMIC TALES"? Read the description of the MONSTERS found on the derelict (Page 6) and compare it with PAUL'S conception on the cover. Then take a gander (Page 6) at TAURASI'S idea of what one of the sleeping female monsters (?) looks like. It's a liberal education. I like illustrations; but the more I see of them, the more I become convinced that we could struggle along very nicely if most of the so-called artists took up plumbing for a trade. ----- The NATAL issue of "NOVA" landed on my desk a few days ago. Congratulations Messrs ASHLEY, EVANS AND COMPANY. A very auspious start, with a promise of better things to come. The editors-a group of comparative new-comers and unknowns in fandom; the magazine-a first effort which puts to shame many older magazines issued by old timers in fandom. The articles were by far the best items in "NOVA"; particularly the one by E. E. SMITH. LITTLE FORRIE'S two pages entitled "REPUTATION" weren't half bad. And, yet, In spite of his attempt to write in a self-effacing, apologetic tone; I still get a picture of BALLOON PANTS ACKY standing on a platform reciting in a very self-satisfied manner, "What a Big Boy am I". If he lives to be 80, I'm afraid, ACKERMAN will never realize that it is articles like "REPUTATION" that cause him to be a source of amusement to some folks and a source of irritation to others. He never seems to have outgrown those Juvenile days when he was writing around the country in an attempt to get autographs and proclaiming in no uncertain terms that his English teacher had patted him on the back for his ability in essay-writing. The damnable fact is that ACKERMAN can write and write interestingly, too. (Years ago, I wrote him to that effect) If he would only cut out his screw-ball ideas and write in a normal manner (as the rest of us try to do) he would earn that "FAIR REPUTATION" and not bask in the reflected glory he writes about in his article------. -----And, while on the subject of writing. Why don't we see more of F. B. LONG'S stories in the scientific-fiction and fantasy magazines? To me, he has always been one of the best of the short-story writers and yet his efforts appear so infrequently. He usually has a refreshingly new idea in
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NOTES AND QUERIES [Bolded and Underlined] The fueding still continues. Messrs. TAURASI, MOSKOWITZ and OSHEROFF, Editors of a NEWS MAGAZINE, appear to specialize in news (?) items [aginl?] the FUTURIANS. At least, that is the general impression I got reading Volume 1 check-up; but if memory serves me correctly I have found little or no ammunition for my anti-hissing campaign in ASTOUNDING, UNKNOWN OR WEIRD TALES. Have I been overlooking something or is it possible that the Writers in and the Editors' of these magazines operate in different social circles than so many of the guys I come across in the other scientific-fiction magazines? If you know what I mean--and I think you do------. How many of the readers of "ASTOUNDING" caught the "boner" in their recent subscription advertisement? Part of it read thusly: "THE ARGON GLOW LAMP needs no special attachments, operates on AC or DC current------". The expressions "AC current" and "DC Current" always "get under my skin". They are absolutely incorrect, of course. Someone should ask EDITOR CAMPBELL what the "C" means------. I wonder how many fans looked at the illustrations for GARDNER'S story "IN THE DAYS OF THE GIANTS", published (Gawd only knows why) in "COSMIC TALES"? Read the description of the MONSTERS found on the derelict (Page 6) and compare it with PAUL'S conception on the cover. Then take a gander (Page 6) at TAURASI'S idea of what one of the sleeping female monsters (?) looks like. It's a liberal education. I like illustrations; but the more I see of them, the more I become convinced that we could struggle along very nicely if most of the so-called artists took up plumbing for a trade. ----- The NATAL issue of "NOVA" landed on my desk a few days ago. Congratulations Messrs ASHLEY, EVANS AND COMPANY. A very auspious start, with a promise of better things to come. The editors-a group of comparative new-comers and unknowns in fandom; the magazine-a first effort which puts to shame many older magazines issued by old timers in fandom. The articles were by far the best items in "NOVA"; particularly the one by E. E. SMITH. LITTLE FORRIE'S two pages entitled "REPUTATION" weren't half bad. And, yet, In spite of his attempt to write in a self-effacing, apologetic tone; I still get a picture of BALLOON PANTS ACKY standing on a platform reciting in a very self-satisfied manner, "What a Big Boy am I". If he lives to be 80, I'm afraid, ACKERMAN will never realize that it is articles like "REPUTATION" that cause him to be a source of amusement to some folks and a source of irritation to others. He never seems to have outgrown those Juvenile days when he was writing around the country in an attempt to get autographs and proclaiming in no uncertain terms that his English teacher had patted him on the back for his ability in essay-writing. The damnable fact is that ACKERMAN can write and write interestingly, too. (Years ago, I wrote him to that effect) If he would only cut out his screw-ball ideas and write in a normal manner (as the rest of us try to do) he would earn that "FAIR REPUTATION" and not bask in the reflected glory he writes about in his article------. -----And, while on the subject of writing. Why don't we see more of F. B. LONG'S stories in the scientific-fiction and fantasy magazines? To me, he has always been one of the best of the short-story writers and yet his efforts appear so infrequently. He usually has a refreshingly new idea in
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