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Fantasy Fan, v. 1, issue 4, December 1933
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52 THE FANTASY FAN December, 1933 MY SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION by Forrest J. Ackerman Part Four In my collection are the manuscripts of such stories as "West of the Earth" (renamed "In Martian Depths")by Juve, Miss Long's"The LastMan"("Omega") "The Egg from the Lost Planet"("Girl from Mars," by Breuer-Williamson), Skidmore's "Romance of Posi and Nega" "Lancer int he Crystal".."The Cities of Ardathia".."In the Land of the Bipos".."The Machine Man of Ardathia" "By the Hands of the Dead".."Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds".."The Head of Apex," and others all by Francis Flagg. ."The Golden Bough," by Dr. Keller, Ed Earl Repp's "Metal World", Bob Olsen's "My Martian Sweetheart", pages from different Edmond Hamilton stories, and others, plus the entire serial by C. Willard Diffin, "Two Thousand Miles Below." I have, in addition, a translation into French of David H. Keller's "Stenographer's Hands," which originally appeared in Amazing Stories Quarterly. The French version is known as "Les mains et la machine." Also, there are four letter files and a large cabinet--all chock full of correspondence from authors and fans. There is one portion of my collection yet to be described: the scientifilms. In a large box are advertisements, press-sheets, reviews, write-ups, publicity copy, photos, "cuts," and all similar material from dozens of movie magazines, newspapers, other periodicals, film companies and all parts of the world on the scientific from long years ago up to even those to be produced in the future. The weird fiction. Why do you encourage superstition with all the pronouncements of science against it? I like the magazine fine, all except the weird part. I never have read a good weird tale. Why do they print the science fiction and interplanetary stories of Kline, Hamilton, and Williamson in Weird Tales, for weird tales, interplanetary stories are not weird."--Lloyd Fowler. Now, considering the two above letters, what is the poor editor to do? For the present, we will continue to use both stf and weird material, leaning toward the weird and printing only weird stories--except, of course, in the January issue, which will be chiefly weird. By the way, we believe that the January number will have quite opposite effects upon Messrs. Petaja and Fowler. We are sorry to hear that Mr. Fowler has never read a good weird story. We must pity him. Has he never tried a magazine known as Weird Tales by any chance? But all kidding aside, we will take his suggestions into consideration. For some reason known only to themselves, Weird Tales has refused to accept the TFF ad for their January, 1934 issue. Perhaps they think they have competition! We had intended to make our January number entirely weird with 24 pages, but now find it inadvisable, because of the rejection of our ad. We find that it would be best to conserve the Fantasy Fan Fund for future issues, rather than put everything into one issue. amount of material covered in this file is impossible to describe. (In the installments Mr. Ackerman tells us about his scientifilm "stills")
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52 THE FANTASY FAN December, 1933 MY SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION by Forrest J. Ackerman Part Four In my collection are the manuscripts of such stories as "West of the Earth" (renamed "In Martian Depths")by Juve, Miss Long's"The LastMan"("Omega") "The Egg from the Lost Planet"("Girl from Mars," by Breuer-Williamson), Skidmore's "Romance of Posi and Nega" "Lancer int he Crystal".."The Cities of Ardathia".."In the Land of the Bipos".."The Machine Man of Ardathia" "By the Hands of the Dead".."Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds".."The Head of Apex," and others all by Francis Flagg. ."The Golden Bough," by Dr. Keller, Ed Earl Repp's "Metal World", Bob Olsen's "My Martian Sweetheart", pages from different Edmond Hamilton stories, and others, plus the entire serial by C. Willard Diffin, "Two Thousand Miles Below." I have, in addition, a translation into French of David H. Keller's "Stenographer's Hands," which originally appeared in Amazing Stories Quarterly. The French version is known as "Les mains et la machine." Also, there are four letter files and a large cabinet--all chock full of correspondence from authors and fans. There is one portion of my collection yet to be described: the scientifilms. In a large box are advertisements, press-sheets, reviews, write-ups, publicity copy, photos, "cuts," and all similar material from dozens of movie magazines, newspapers, other periodicals, film companies and all parts of the world on the scientific from long years ago up to even those to be produced in the future. The weird fiction. Why do you encourage superstition with all the pronouncements of science against it? I like the magazine fine, all except the weird part. I never have read a good weird tale. Why do they print the science fiction and interplanetary stories of Kline, Hamilton, and Williamson in Weird Tales, for weird tales, interplanetary stories are not weird."--Lloyd Fowler. Now, considering the two above letters, what is the poor editor to do? For the present, we will continue to use both stf and weird material, leaning toward the weird and printing only weird stories--except, of course, in the January issue, which will be chiefly weird. By the way, we believe that the January number will have quite opposite effects upon Messrs. Petaja and Fowler. We are sorry to hear that Mr. Fowler has never read a good weird story. We must pity him. Has he never tried a magazine known as Weird Tales by any chance? But all kidding aside, we will take his suggestions into consideration. For some reason known only to themselves, Weird Tales has refused to accept the TFF ad for their January, 1934 issue. Perhaps they think they have competition! We had intended to make our January number entirely weird with 24 pages, but now find it inadvisable, because of the rejection of our ad. We find that it would be best to conserve the Fantasy Fan Fund for future issues, rather than put everything into one issue. amount of material covered in this file is impossible to describe. (In the installments Mr. Ackerman tells us about his scientifilm "stills")
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