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Fanfare, v. 2, issue 2, whole no.8, February 1942
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6 fanfare SLAN!DER by joseph gilbert Maneuver your beard out of the soup, dear reader - no plural - and dry it out over the gas light. You old timers will need it to weep into soon, for this session of the crackerbox crusaders is going to reminisce like all get-out. Yowsah! My time-machine, Jeeves - no, no, not the alarm clock, dope! Never mind, I'll use copies of those old fan magazines Mr. E.B.Hanson so kindly sent. So climb down from the chandelier, Junior, and flap your ears gen-tly in this direction. Some excerpts from a few of those above mentioned old fanzines will be of interest to both new and old fans, I believe, in the light of present day knowledge. Feb-Mar FANTASY MAGAZINE, 1935: "Edward E. Smith, who is really a very modest man, has become member 750 of the Science Fiction League. On the back of his application he stated: "While I have written some scientific fiction, I can scarcely be classed as an author." "Modest" isn't the word. Positivel a shrinking violet, yet. FANTASY, Sept 1934: "Wonder Stories turned down Donald Wollheim's "The People of Planet P," but is offering to by the plot for one of its own authors." FANTASY, May 1935: "Dr. Keller's newest stories are "The Feminine World, " and "No More Friction." Wollheim's story appeared in the Fall 1940 issue of PLANET STORIES, under the tile "Planet that Time Forgot." Don't know whatever happened to Keller's "Feminine World," but "No More Friction" didn't see print until the Tenth Anniversary issue of TWS four years later. While "Into the Darkness," Rocklynne's really superb off-trail story, was printed in the June 1940 ASTONISHING. Writing, it seems, should be defined as "The world's most romantic way to starve to death." From RAP's "Spilling the Atoms" in the Sep 1935 FANTASY: "Yes, within a few years there will be two names blazoned on magazine covers with the frequency that makes success, both literary and financial. Those two names will be: David R. Daniels J. Francis Hatch . . . "
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6 fanfare SLAN!DER by joseph gilbert Maneuver your beard out of the soup, dear reader - no plural - and dry it out over the gas light. You old timers will need it to weep into soon, for this session of the crackerbox crusaders is going to reminisce like all get-out. Yowsah! My time-machine, Jeeves - no, no, not the alarm clock, dope! Never mind, I'll use copies of those old fan magazines Mr. E.B.Hanson so kindly sent. So climb down from the chandelier, Junior, and flap your ears gen-tly in this direction. Some excerpts from a few of those above mentioned old fanzines will be of interest to both new and old fans, I believe, in the light of present day knowledge. Feb-Mar FANTASY MAGAZINE, 1935: "Edward E. Smith, who is really a very modest man, has become member 750 of the Science Fiction League. On the back of his application he stated: "While I have written some scientific fiction, I can scarcely be classed as an author." "Modest" isn't the word. Positivel a shrinking violet, yet. FANTASY, Sept 1934: "Wonder Stories turned down Donald Wollheim's "The People of Planet P," but is offering to by the plot for one of its own authors." FANTASY, May 1935: "Dr. Keller's newest stories are "The Feminine World, " and "No More Friction." Wollheim's story appeared in the Fall 1940 issue of PLANET STORIES, under the tile "Planet that Time Forgot." Don't know whatever happened to Keller's "Feminine World," but "No More Friction" didn't see print until the Tenth Anniversary issue of TWS four years later. While "Into the Darkness," Rocklynne's really superb off-trail story, was printed in the June 1940 ASTONISHING. Writing, it seems, should be defined as "The world's most romantic way to starve to death." From RAP's "Spilling the Atoms" in the Sep 1935 FANTASY: "Yes, within a few years there will be two names blazoned on magazine covers with the frequency that makes success, both literary and financial. Those two names will be: David R. Daniels J. Francis Hatch . . . "
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