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Fanfare, v. 2, issue 2, whole no.8, February 1942
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thud and blunder 15 nounced that a prize of one dollar, cash, will be awarded to anyone supplying "written, documentary proof, or other clearly authoritative evidence of the inaccuracy of any item published as straight news - not editorial, advertising, or feature copy, or copy clearly marked 'unconfirmed report'." Although in this and one subsequent issue - perhaps more by the time you read this - FN has dropped its policy of innaccuracies. I advice all readers of issues appearing after this announcement, to send the proof requested of any obvious innaccuracies in the sheet, to William S. Sykora, P.O. Box 84, Elmont, N.Y. - and clean up If you do so and FANTASY NEWS fails to come across, please send the data to me, Ritter Conway % Julius Unger, 1702 Dahill Road, Brooklyn, New York. It will be published in Unger's news-weekly, FANTASY FICTION FIELD. Warning to would-be writers: Don't accept payment for first publication rights to a story which has previously been published, even in a slightly different form, in a fanzine without advising the pro publisher of the fact. Two fan-writers re in warmish water right now for doing just that. My friend Joe Gilbert has a beautiful little piece of fantasy about professional magazines in his latest SLAN!DER column in FANFARE. Joe says he forsees an inevitable collapse of the pro-stf field in the near future, and gives as reason the desertion of the field en masse by the backbone of its writers. And the reason for this, in turn, he says, is the greater opportunities offered by detective and western pulps! It seems safe to say, on the strength of this, that Joe has never tried to write for a detective or western pulp. Fans may breathe easily again: Competition is keen in the stfield, surely; slanting is necessary, although the problem is nowhere near as bad as Joe describes it; but the detective and western fields are each at least twice as big as the stfield, and the competition is twice as heavy. There won't be any wholesale desertion of stf, and any losses that do occur can be filled up with no trouble from the ranks of the crowded-out. Take your fingers out of your ears; there isn't going to be any explosion today. f i n i s "Who'll go get a glass of water?" asked Lee FOR WHOM THE BELLS TOLL (continued from page 12) "I had an uncle who went for a glass of water once." Mac said. "Not the one with the horse." Gilbert was awake. "Yeh, the one with 13 horses," Mac replied. "$13, 13 horses. Uncles .. fone calls .. Trudy. Oh-h-h-h." Gilbert's head made a soothing sound as it struck the floor. * the end
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thud and blunder 15 nounced that a prize of one dollar, cash, will be awarded to anyone supplying "written, documentary proof, or other clearly authoritative evidence of the inaccuracy of any item published as straight news - not editorial, advertising, or feature copy, or copy clearly marked 'unconfirmed report'." Although in this and one subsequent issue - perhaps more by the time you read this - FN has dropped its policy of innaccuracies. I advice all readers of issues appearing after this announcement, to send the proof requested of any obvious innaccuracies in the sheet, to William S. Sykora, P.O. Box 84, Elmont, N.Y. - and clean up If you do so and FANTASY NEWS fails to come across, please send the data to me, Ritter Conway % Julius Unger, 1702 Dahill Road, Brooklyn, New York. It will be published in Unger's news-weekly, FANTASY FICTION FIELD. Warning to would-be writers: Don't accept payment for first publication rights to a story which has previously been published, even in a slightly different form, in a fanzine without advising the pro publisher of the fact. Two fan-writers re in warmish water right now for doing just that. My friend Joe Gilbert has a beautiful little piece of fantasy about professional magazines in his latest SLAN!DER column in FANFARE. Joe says he forsees an inevitable collapse of the pro-stf field in the near future, and gives as reason the desertion of the field en masse by the backbone of its writers. And the reason for this, in turn, he says, is the greater opportunities offered by detective and western pulps! It seems safe to say, on the strength of this, that Joe has never tried to write for a detective or western pulp. Fans may breathe easily again: Competition is keen in the stfield, surely; slanting is necessary, although the problem is nowhere near as bad as Joe describes it; but the detective and western fields are each at least twice as big as the stfield, and the competition is twice as heavy. There won't be any wholesale desertion of stf, and any losses that do occur can be filled up with no trouble from the ranks of the crowded-out. Take your fingers out of your ears; there isn't going to be any explosion today. f i n i s "Who'll go get a glass of water?" asked Lee FOR WHOM THE BELLS TOLL (continued from page 12) "I had an uncle who went for a glass of water once." Mac said. "Not the one with the horse." Gilbert was awake. "Yeh, the one with 13 horses," Mac replied. "$13, 13 horses. Uncles .. fone calls .. Trudy. Oh-h-h-h." Gilbert's head made a soothing sound as it struck the floor. * the end
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