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Science Fiction World, issue 2, September 1945
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Page 3 S F World SUBVERSE by Jess Watt Yummean Lil fanpub, gun wiggle Cums sout wi stuffa troshus c ? Tammany troshus fanzeenz now Lil fanpub fluncsen ow ! OVER THE DESK by The Editor Well, fen, I hope you like this little effort. I'm going to try to make it bigger and better and the obly way I can do that is to receive material -- good materoal -- from you other fen. So how's about a prize fanzine? You send in your work subject to my acceptance and I'll pay a prize to the author of that peice which gets the widest acclaim from the readers. Anything goes which has good fanappeal although I anticipate a demand for articles which should run up to about a thousand or so words. The next issue od S F WORLD will be a full fledged fanpub Regular mimeo paper and anything else possible. Also starting next issue there will be a subscription price of fifteen cents per copy. In the event that enough subscriptions are forth coming each author in an issue will receive some compensation. At least, from subscriptions, we'll try to work in a second & third prize. The big prize will be cash -- possibly half a cent a word for articles. May I hear from YOU? TOPIC OF THE DAY From the first announcement of the development of atomic power two opinions have been widely broadcast concerning it. The first was vague but roseate for popular appeal; the second tended either to deprecate its importance to future generations or to throw obstacles in the way of its immediate development. Charley Tanner has called my attention to a David Dietz newspaper article in which Dietz remarks on a 1940 process for the reduction of U235 which was very slow. Dietz further concludes from the size of the factories which housed the US atomic bomb production facilities that that slow process of reduction must have been merely duplicated hundreds of times, which is a feat impossible to the ordinary commercial peacetime economy. As Tanner commented -- that sounds likely. But the reduction of U235 is not the whole story! What about the working of the bomb itself? They were surely unable to install a cyclotron in the Hiroshima devastator. We may be far enough along actually to warrant my going out on a limb and predicting the existence of commercially feasible atomic power -- with or without U235 -- in the next 15 years. The release of such a development is not altogether in public hands: the time of release will be subject to a mixture of statesman's caution and behind the scenes chicanery.
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Page 3 S F World SUBVERSE by Jess Watt Yummean Lil fanpub, gun wiggle Cums sout wi stuffa troshus c ? Tammany troshus fanzeenz now Lil fanpub fluncsen ow ! OVER THE DESK by The Editor Well, fen, I hope you like this little effort. I'm going to try to make it bigger and better and the obly way I can do that is to receive material -- good materoal -- from you other fen. So how's about a prize fanzine? You send in your work subject to my acceptance and I'll pay a prize to the author of that peice which gets the widest acclaim from the readers. Anything goes which has good fanappeal although I anticipate a demand for articles which should run up to about a thousand or so words. The next issue od S F WORLD will be a full fledged fanpub Regular mimeo paper and anything else possible. Also starting next issue there will be a subscription price of fifteen cents per copy. In the event that enough subscriptions are forth coming each author in an issue will receive some compensation. At least, from subscriptions, we'll try to work in a second & third prize. The big prize will be cash -- possibly half a cent a word for articles. May I hear from YOU? TOPIC OF THE DAY From the first announcement of the development of atomic power two opinions have been widely broadcast concerning it. The first was vague but roseate for popular appeal; the second tended either to deprecate its importance to future generations or to throw obstacles in the way of its immediate development. Charley Tanner has called my attention to a David Dietz newspaper article in which Dietz remarks on a 1940 process for the reduction of U235 which was very slow. Dietz further concludes from the size of the factories which housed the US atomic bomb production facilities that that slow process of reduction must have been merely duplicated hundreds of times, which is a feat impossible to the ordinary commercial peacetime economy. As Tanner commented -- that sounds likely. But the reduction of U235 is not the whole story! What about the working of the bomb itself? They were surely unable to install a cyclotron in the Hiroshima devastator. We may be far enough along actually to warrant my going out on a limb and predicting the existence of commercially feasible atomic power -- with or without U235 -- in the next 15 years. The release of such a development is not altogether in public hands: the time of release will be subject to a mixture of statesman's caution and behind the scenes chicanery.
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