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Science Fiction Critic, v. 1, issue 6, December 1936

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11 THE SCIENCE FICTION CRITIC

9 years ago and express a preference for the former? If there be one among you who would do that, let him come forth! We will match his ray guns, fields of force, thought
levers, every one, with an honest discourse on hypotheses or observation.
What better parallel of the "advance" of scientific fiction can one find than music over a comparative period? Certainty Wagner was a stumbling giant beside the "plenty-of-nuthin'" of the Great Gershwin!
Who would care for the elementary orchestrations of Rimsky-Korlakov when the cinema musicale's "let yourself go" offers convenient inspiration? Of what avail for H. P. Lovecraft to write a story when Fearn and Binder bask in the plaudits of the crowd? What the use of a James A. White when Ackerman and Schwartz flourish, leading their legions in support of maudlin "scientificinematoria", Skidmorean balderdash?
The added essay (it is planned to have two in each issue) is welcome.
Now to a statement of Editor
Tremaine I wish to add an emphatic "'Question!" If I may quote: "Top Notch magazine has served as the cradle of modern literature..." It is difficult to take such a presumption other than as an affront to common sense and good taste. It is a laughable misrepresentation. Coming as it does, however, from the
editor of Top Notch magazine, we have reason to believe that no one will take the contention seriously.
(please see next page)

MIND OF MAN
FANTASTORY MAGAZINE
THE MUTANT
EGO Publications, 89-17 215 St.
Queens Village, N. Y.

He was an editorial writer on the New York Sun until 1892; after that devoting his life to lecturing. He obtained greatest note as an authority on astronomy, and wrote a
number of popular treatises on the subject. Five scientific romances by him have been published;-The Conquest if Mars, 1898; The Moon Metal, 1900; A Columbus of Space, 1911; The Moon Maiden, 1915; and The Second Deluge.

The writer had the pleasure of
reading a series of articles from the San Francisco Bulletin by Mr. Serviss, which were published about twenty years ago. One of these articles suggested that the Great Nebula of Andromeda was another universe already formed, due to the properties of its spectrum analysis. Again, he explained the behaviour of Algol and her dark companion.
Contributed.

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11 THE SCIENCE FICTION CRITIC 9 years ago and express a preference for the former? If there be one among you who would do that, let him come forth! We will match his ray guns, fields of force, thought levers, every one, with an honest discourse on hypotheses or observation. What better parallel of the "advance" of scientific fiction can one find than music over a comparative period? Certainty Wagner was a stumbling giant beside the "plenty-of-nuthin'" of the Great Gershwin! Who would care for the elementary orchestrations of Rimsky-Korlakov when the cinema musicale's "let yourself go" offers convenient inspiration? Of what avail for H. P. Lovecraft to write a story when Fearn and Binder bask in the plaudits of the crowd? What the use of a James A. White when Ackerman and Schwartz flourish, leading their legions in support of maudlin "scientificinematoria", Skidmorean balderdash? The added essay (it is planned to have two in each issue) is welcome. Now to a statement of Editor Tremaine I wish to add an emphatic "'Question!" If I may quote: "Top Notch magazine has served as the cradle of modern literature..." It is difficult to take such a presumption other than as an affront to common sense and good taste. It is a laughable misrepresentation. Coming as it does, however, from the editor of Top Notch magazine, we have reason to believe that no one will take the contention seriously. (please see next page) MIND OF MAN FANTASTORY MAGAZINE THE MUTANT EGO Publications, 89-17 215 St. Queens Village, N. Y. He was an editorial writer on the New York Sun until 1892; after that devoting his life to lecturing. He obtained greatest note as an authority on astronomy, and wrote a number of popular treatises on the subject. Five scientific romances by him have been published;-The Conquest if Mars, 1898; The Moon Metal, 1900; A Columbus of Space, 1911; The Moon Maiden, 1915; and The Second Deluge. The writer had the pleasure of reading a series of articles from the San Francisco Bulletin by Mr. Serviss, which were published about twenty years ago. One of these articles suggested that the Great Nebula of Andromeda was another universe already formed, due to the properties of its spectrum analysis. Again, he explained the behaviour of Algol and her dark companion. Contributed.