Transcribe
Translate
Bay Area News, issue 3, April 31, 1946
Page 1
More information
digital collection
archival collection guide
transcription tips
BAY AREA NEWS No. 3 strictly local news and the GGFS 31st April A CASE FOR THE COLLECTOR The most important news of the moment seems to be a trifle wider in scope than our byline "local news and the GGFS" warrants. The "Open Letter" to the NFFF has attracted a tremendous amount of criticism, almost all unfavorable. Prime purpose of the "Open Letter" being to announce to the fan world that the GGFS was not defunct, nonoperating concern; with added destructive criticism of the manner in which the NFFF is presently being conducted. Fans are a highly individualistic, superior minded group of frustrated intellects; as a whole that is. The NFFF has succeeded in enrolling a comparatively large number of fans on its roster. It will always encounter violent opposition because of the nature of certain individuals precludes their identities being submerged in a group. STF, fantasy and weird fiction are hobbies with most of us and we are fans only because we are furthering our hobby that way. For instance one gets leads from various fanzines on odd, out-of-the-way stf that you wouldn't ordinarily encounter in the course of every day reading. The latest books that contain fantastic fiction are reviewed. Check-lists are published; check-lists of authors, artists, magazines, periodicals and books. Back issues of magazines, out of print books and excerpted fantasy from non-stf magazines can be bought, traded or sold to others interested in the same line. Conventions, both large and small, are held, enabling the reading public to meet personally their favorite authors, artists, poets and occasionally publishers or their representatives. All this is furthering your hobby. Anything else is more or less trivial; albeit interesting at times. How any intelligent person can be so completely absorbed in his hobby that he would take offense at anything no matter how trivial, stupid, or downright nasty, is utterly beyond my comprehension. It just isn't that important to me. If anyone circulated a thousand open letters denouncing the GGFS or any individuals belonging to it, I would laugh at it. How can it harm me personally, or dampen my enthusiasm for my hobby? Some of the replies to the admittedly juvenile atmosphere contained in the "open letter" were just as humorously moronic. Below are excerpts from some of the missives received. (Nothing personal boys; but some of your letters were really funny. In retrospect, I'm sure you'll agree. ed.)
Saving...
prev
next
BAY AREA NEWS No. 3 strictly local news and the GGFS 31st April A CASE FOR THE COLLECTOR The most important news of the moment seems to be a trifle wider in scope than our byline "local news and the GGFS" warrants. The "Open Letter" to the NFFF has attracted a tremendous amount of criticism, almost all unfavorable. Prime purpose of the "Open Letter" being to announce to the fan world that the GGFS was not defunct, nonoperating concern; with added destructive criticism of the manner in which the NFFF is presently being conducted. Fans are a highly individualistic, superior minded group of frustrated intellects; as a whole that is. The NFFF has succeeded in enrolling a comparatively large number of fans on its roster. It will always encounter violent opposition because of the nature of certain individuals precludes their identities being submerged in a group. STF, fantasy and weird fiction are hobbies with most of us and we are fans only because we are furthering our hobby that way. For instance one gets leads from various fanzines on odd, out-of-the-way stf that you wouldn't ordinarily encounter in the course of every day reading. The latest books that contain fantastic fiction are reviewed. Check-lists are published; check-lists of authors, artists, magazines, periodicals and books. Back issues of magazines, out of print books and excerpted fantasy from non-stf magazines can be bought, traded or sold to others interested in the same line. Conventions, both large and small, are held, enabling the reading public to meet personally their favorite authors, artists, poets and occasionally publishers or their representatives. All this is furthering your hobby. Anything else is more or less trivial; albeit interesting at times. How any intelligent person can be so completely absorbed in his hobby that he would take offense at anything no matter how trivial, stupid, or downright nasty, is utterly beyond my comprehension. It just isn't that important to me. If anyone circulated a thousand open letters denouncing the GGFS or any individuals belonging to it, I would laugh at it. How can it harm me personally, or dampen my enthusiasm for my hobby? Some of the replies to the admittedly juvenile atmosphere contained in the "open letter" were just as humorously moronic. Below are excerpts from some of the missives received. (Nothing personal boys; but some of your letters were really funny. In retrospect, I'm sure you'll agree. ed.)
Hevelin Fanzines
sidebar
