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Scientifictionist, v. 1, issue 4, April 1946
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assertions. (Or maybe I am, hers) Anyway, there are very few new inventions that wouldn't put money in industry's pockets, so why should we throw them away? Calling all Technocrats! -- ed. As for tubeless radios, there's the granddaddy of them all, the crystal receiver. But you don't see them replacing the conventional type and I doubt if you ever will. They just aren't practical. DEDUCTION wasn't too good, and I'm sorry to say, Henry, that this issue as a whole was not as good as the others. -- Andy Lyon, 200 Williamsboro St., Oxford, North Carolina. Speaking of Classics... A word or so on #3 Scientifictionist. That thing by Wranek had no place in your otherwise excellent magazine. Every single fault he finds with other stf is not only a fault, it's a CRITERION of anything by Burroughs. Anybody gets a stab out of ERB, fine. But they should realize that other stuff exists, and even if they like ERB better they should try to dig up some logical reasons. Or else shut up. And this matter of classics. I was rather astonished when you omitted the ONE thing that a story has to have to be classic, AGE. I'll agree with you that emotional impact is probably the thing that makes a story remembered, but it is the length of time it is remembered that makes it a classic, neo-classic, or just a potentiality. An example or two by way of clarification: I'd say the Baldy series is potentially classic; SLAN
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assertions. (Or maybe I am, hers) Anyway, there are very few new inventions that wouldn't put money in industry's pockets, so why should we throw them away? Calling all Technocrats! -- ed. As for tubeless radios, there's the granddaddy of them all, the crystal receiver. But you don't see them replacing the conventional type and I doubt if you ever will. They just aren't practical. DEDUCTION wasn't too good, and I'm sorry to say, Henry, that this issue as a whole was not as good as the others. -- Andy Lyon, 200 Williamsboro St., Oxford, North Carolina. Speaking of Classics... A word or so on #3 Scientifictionist. That thing by Wranek had no place in your otherwise excellent magazine. Every single fault he finds with other stf is not only a fault, it's a CRITERION of anything by Burroughs. Anybody gets a stab out of ERB, fine. But they should realize that other stuff exists, and even if they like ERB better they should try to dig up some logical reasons. Or else shut up. And this matter of classics. I was rather astonished when you omitted the ONE thing that a story has to have to be classic, AGE. I'll agree with you that emotional impact is probably the thing that makes a story remembered, but it is the length of time it is remembered that makes it a classic, neo-classic, or just a potentiality. An example or two by way of clarification: I'd say the Baldy series is potentially classic; SLAN
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