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Sci-Fic Variety, issue 4 and issue 5, December 1941 and March 1942
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(4) He informed me of the existence of the mag New Fandom, for which fact I have never forgiven Mosky. (( And, we might add slyly, neither has the rest of fandom -editor )) So the name was switched to Urania, which sounded better and was easier to letter. This also flopped, as 43 knew of an English mag named Urania. (( We sometimes think 4e sees fanzines in his sleep. -editor )) After many sleepless nights and constant worrying, the name Centaur was conceived. LRChauvenet tells me I should have included in t he first editorial an item about how I chose Centaur as "subtly symbolic of the union of lower and higher forms (fiction and science) into a splendid & different whole". (science-fiction). To tell the truth I picked Centaur because it sounded good; without even knowing its real meaning. (( Bravo ... an honest man. Diogenes, blow out that lantern! -editor )) I had it confused with what they call a man who has reached the age of 100. For four months, Centaur and the idea of a fanzine by that name was battered around from pillar to post, and practically scrapped several times as page after page was sloppily hectoed, with enormous lapses of time between each. At first there were to be fifty copies of the mag, but the fact that upon one particular date every sheet after the 36th had not only ink upon it, but gelatin dessert as well, changed my mind. The number published was finally reduced to 34, most of which were sold or traded, to my profound surprise. This was on the 15th of January (1941) and with its publication the entire family rejoiced. For two months more then, they would be spared the sight of purple, green and red-spattered bathroom walls, purple, green and red in the washbowl, and purple, green and red on every other concievable spot I could lay my hands down. NOTES TO YOU DEPT: What, you ask, has the little to do with the above article? The title on page 3, we mean. Well, chum, very little, as it stands. You see, this article was written back in the days when there were two fanzines in Wisconsin. Now there aren't any as far as we know. Klingbiel and his Frontiers moved to Chicago; Centaur bit the dust. We thought the article worth publishing however, and after cutting like hell ... pardon-- after some judicious editing, whipped it into form as you see above. We unblushingly admit that most of the material submitted to, but not quite up to the standard of, Le Zombie, will find its way into these pages. Why not? These fans want to be published as well as you, and they must learn their trade somewhere. Too, it will serve as a partial means of entree if the fan wants to join the FAPA. You'd hardly call it space wasted ... ghod no, not in the FAPA ! Someone might tell Art Joquel that we are sitting anxiously around waiting the publication of his various fanzines. We haven't seen a FMZ Digest in a coons age; and we have begun to wonder if that magazine containing those ten or twelve chain letters ever will appear! We note that Joe Gilbert has taken up our idea about a fanzine catering to the fan editor and publisher. Come to think of it, the number of titles accredited to the Columbia Camp sounds like a registry of ships sailing the Atlantic. What in the name of Loki are they going to do with all those fanzines they've announced or started? Oh well, we should worry about someone else's spilled mimeo ink. Question: Will "the war" and the resultant economies make inroads upon fanzine production, in and out of the FAPA?
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(4) He informed me of the existence of the mag New Fandom, for which fact I have never forgiven Mosky. (( And, we might add slyly, neither has the rest of fandom -editor )) So the name was switched to Urania, which sounded better and was easier to letter. This also flopped, as 43 knew of an English mag named Urania. (( We sometimes think 4e sees fanzines in his sleep. -editor )) After many sleepless nights and constant worrying, the name Centaur was conceived. LRChauvenet tells me I should have included in t he first editorial an item about how I chose Centaur as "subtly symbolic of the union of lower and higher forms (fiction and science) into a splendid & different whole". (science-fiction). To tell the truth I picked Centaur because it sounded good; without even knowing its real meaning. (( Bravo ... an honest man. Diogenes, blow out that lantern! -editor )) I had it confused with what they call a man who has reached the age of 100. For four months, Centaur and the idea of a fanzine by that name was battered around from pillar to post, and practically scrapped several times as page after page was sloppily hectoed, with enormous lapses of time between each. At first there were to be fifty copies of the mag, but the fact that upon one particular date every sheet after the 36th had not only ink upon it, but gelatin dessert as well, changed my mind. The number published was finally reduced to 34, most of which were sold or traded, to my profound surprise. This was on the 15th of January (1941) and with its publication the entire family rejoiced. For two months more then, they would be spared the sight of purple, green and red-spattered bathroom walls, purple, green and red in the washbowl, and purple, green and red on every other concievable spot I could lay my hands down. NOTES TO YOU DEPT: What, you ask, has the little to do with the above article? The title on page 3, we mean. Well, chum, very little, as it stands. You see, this article was written back in the days when there were two fanzines in Wisconsin. Now there aren't any as far as we know. Klingbiel and his Frontiers moved to Chicago; Centaur bit the dust. We thought the article worth publishing however, and after cutting like hell ... pardon-- after some judicious editing, whipped it into form as you see above. We unblushingly admit that most of the material submitted to, but not quite up to the standard of, Le Zombie, will find its way into these pages. Why not? These fans want to be published as well as you, and they must learn their trade somewhere. Too, it will serve as a partial means of entree if the fan wants to join the FAPA. You'd hardly call it space wasted ... ghod no, not in the FAPA ! Someone might tell Art Joquel that we are sitting anxiously around waiting the publication of his various fanzines. We haven't seen a FMZ Digest in a coons age; and we have begun to wonder if that magazine containing those ten or twelve chain letters ever will appear! We note that Joe Gilbert has taken up our idea about a fanzine catering to the fan editor and publisher. Come to think of it, the number of titles accredited to the Columbia Camp sounds like a registry of ships sailing the Atlantic. What in the name of Loki are they going to do with all those fanzines they've announced or started? Oh well, we should worry about someone else's spilled mimeo ink. Question: Will "the war" and the resultant economies make inroads upon fanzine production, in and out of the FAPA?
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