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Fantasite, v. 2, issue 2, May-June 1942
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THE FANTASITE 19 won't like it. I enjoy it very much, and like to see parallel comments by two reviewers in one issue. I hope Fanta-Scripts is longer this time. I must confess that, after your remark in Ackerman's letter with your initials, I tried for five minutes to figure out who in the MFS had as initials EDS and had written the other notes to the letters. And that, I think, takes care of about everything in the issue; what I didn't mention wasn't particularly good or bad. Congratulations are useless; you know you've done a wonderful job. One more thing: I wouldn't mind seeing Hell Fire back now that Fortier is apparently back in fandom full tilt once more. 303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown, Maryland. ------------------------------------------------------------- DONN BRAZIER: The Annish of your magazine is one of the best mags I've ever seen; and you can imagine how good it looked to me, for a fm is like a mirage on the desert to a faraway soldier-boy. Science fiction fandom is a long distant world. Contacts dissolve; I can't keep them up. Fandom thrives on rapid exchange of news and ideas, and for me a month lag between receipt and answer is relatively swift. However, Phil, your mag has jarred me loose from my military books-- It's a real contribution to fandom. ((Ratings follow, which are excluded for lack of space.)) Air Corps Officer Candidate School, Miami Beach, Florida. -------------------------------------- D. W. BOGGS: Wait a minute till I pull out my trusty Thesaurus. I'll undoubtedly need its assistance to adequately describe most of the items contained in the last FANTASITE. To be conventional, I'll start with Morrie Dollens' front cover, which is a true harbinger of things within. The conception is fine, the craftsmanship nearly perfect. The only thing I don't like about it is the guy in tights. He's more muscle-bound than Superman. The celestial display is magnificent. A great pic. "The Incredible Years" is the sort of article I've sometimes considered writing. Good thing RWL beat me to it; he did it much better than I could have. I liked that ending and will take it over any final comment like "Thank heaven, this evenful year has ended peacefully" or some such stock comment. "A Proposal" interests me, although I scarcely agree with Jacobi on most points. No doubt such a scheme would lend a sharp reality to stf stories -- if it would work, and I don't think it has the thinnest chance of doing so...No "Handbook" -- even one the size of a set of the Encyclopedia Brittannica -- could fully describe and catalog every essential detail of a future world through one decade, let alone several centuries. The best the Handbook could hope to do would be to build a framework, and let the author fill in most of the details. Obviously, numerous inconsistencies would soon be evidenced, most of them quite minor, but undoubtedly some of them very large. Two stories, both set in "NEW NEW YORK", capital of the Martio-Terrestial Solar Empire, in 2932, would probably differ in many details of background. I think this would be even worse than inconsistencies seen in today's stf, since the situation, the incongruity would be framed by the pseudo-realism around it. Then, too, such a plan would thoroughly hamstring those authors who have already compiled their own private Handbooks -- writers like Heinlein, Bond, and Wellman...I think this plan might succeed if used in just one magazine --some new magazine. Writers submitting stories to this one mag would be forced to fit their stories to one common background. 'Twould be an interesting experiment..."Critique": Simak's right, of course. Write to the authors and tell them off. But where do the authors live? I, for one, know only generally where most authors live--New York, L.A., etc. F'rinstance, where does Duncan Farnsworth live exactly? I'd certainly enjoy blasting a few of his stories! But Cliff's wrong in his initial statement: "In s-f three personalities are involved -- the fan, the editor, and the author." I count four: add to those the reader. I mean by that the general reader who buys just
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THE FANTASITE 19 won't like it. I enjoy it very much, and like to see parallel comments by two reviewers in one issue. I hope Fanta-Scripts is longer this time. I must confess that, after your remark in Ackerman's letter with your initials, I tried for five minutes to figure out who in the MFS had as initials EDS and had written the other notes to the letters. And that, I think, takes care of about everything in the issue; what I didn't mention wasn't particularly good or bad. Congratulations are useless; you know you've done a wonderful job. One more thing: I wouldn't mind seeing Hell Fire back now that Fortier is apparently back in fandom full tilt once more. 303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown, Maryland. ------------------------------------------------------------- DONN BRAZIER: The Annish of your magazine is one of the best mags I've ever seen; and you can imagine how good it looked to me, for a fm is like a mirage on the desert to a faraway soldier-boy. Science fiction fandom is a long distant world. Contacts dissolve; I can't keep them up. Fandom thrives on rapid exchange of news and ideas, and for me a month lag between receipt and answer is relatively swift. However, Phil, your mag has jarred me loose from my military books-- It's a real contribution to fandom. ((Ratings follow, which are excluded for lack of space.)) Air Corps Officer Candidate School, Miami Beach, Florida. -------------------------------------- D. W. BOGGS: Wait a minute till I pull out my trusty Thesaurus. I'll undoubtedly need its assistance to adequately describe most of the items contained in the last FANTASITE. To be conventional, I'll start with Morrie Dollens' front cover, which is a true harbinger of things within. The conception is fine, the craftsmanship nearly perfect. The only thing I don't like about it is the guy in tights. He's more muscle-bound than Superman. The celestial display is magnificent. A great pic. "The Incredible Years" is the sort of article I've sometimes considered writing. Good thing RWL beat me to it; he did it much better than I could have. I liked that ending and will take it over any final comment like "Thank heaven, this evenful year has ended peacefully" or some such stock comment. "A Proposal" interests me, although I scarcely agree with Jacobi on most points. No doubt such a scheme would lend a sharp reality to stf stories -- if it would work, and I don't think it has the thinnest chance of doing so...No "Handbook" -- even one the size of a set of the Encyclopedia Brittannica -- could fully describe and catalog every essential detail of a future world through one decade, let alone several centuries. The best the Handbook could hope to do would be to build a framework, and let the author fill in most of the details. Obviously, numerous inconsistencies would soon be evidenced, most of them quite minor, but undoubtedly some of them very large. Two stories, both set in "NEW NEW YORK", capital of the Martio-Terrestial Solar Empire, in 2932, would probably differ in many details of background. I think this would be even worse than inconsistencies seen in today's stf, since the situation, the incongruity would be framed by the pseudo-realism around it. Then, too, such a plan would thoroughly hamstring those authors who have already compiled their own private Handbooks -- writers like Heinlein, Bond, and Wellman...I think this plan might succeed if used in just one magazine --some new magazine. Writers submitting stories to this one mag would be forced to fit their stories to one common background. 'Twould be an interesting experiment..."Critique": Simak's right, of course. Write to the authors and tell them off. But where do the authors live? I, for one, know only generally where most authors live--New York, L.A., etc. F'rinstance, where does Duncan Farnsworth live exactly? I'd certainly enjoy blasting a few of his stories! But Cliff's wrong in his initial statement: "In s-f three personalities are involved -- the fan, the editor, and the author." I count four: add to those the reader. I mean by that the general reader who buys just
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