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Tesseract, v. 2, issue 4, April 1937
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tesseract 5 IN MEMORIAM H.P. LOVECRAFT Howard Phillips Lovecraft passed away on March 15th, after a month of painful illness. HIs death will be a personal bereavement to all lovers of fine imaginative writing as well as to the friends who were privileged to know and esteem and love him. Among these friends must be counted many who never met him face to face, but who found in him the princeliest of all correspondents: a mind of unequalled brilliance and erudition, fired with manifold enthusiasms, given to the "noble pleasure" of praising where praise was in any wise due; a source of never-failing inspiration, illumination, generosity, helpfulness, enheartenment to others. he loss is profound and irreparable for us who remain behind: for it is safe to say that his peer will not be found again. His published writings require no encomium, since they are familiar to all who will read this page. They are comparable to Poe on the grounds of merit but are wholly individual and unique. Their classic style, their consummate realism of detail, their intense distillation of atmosphere, their sustained power of wing-flight on the black outer cosmos or into stark prehuman antiquities, all combine to the creation of a new literary dimension. Like the personality that produced them, they will never be duplicated. CLARK ASHTON SMITH STORY WRITING HINTS by Roy A. Squires, II After completing his correspondence course the would-be science fiction writer is still inconvenienced by having to think up his own plots. However, with the interests of my fellow members at heart I have succeeded in discovering a whole new field of thought-variants. As they are so unlimited, I will not list them here but instead will give an example from which the authors should be able to work out their own themes. The Incredible Submersion When Kern L. Churchmu bought his submarine, he certainly did not think that he would discover Atlantis. So when he began his first voyage it was intended to be just a pleasure trip. After having roamed the Pacific for many days we find our hero on the way home. As he approaches within a few miles of his port we discover the fact that the entire trip was made without incidence. And so we see him safely home with his submarine intact. Thus are thought-variants written. Never before in the history of science fiction has any submarine ever completed a trip without stumbling upon Atlantis. THE READER CHOOSES TESSERACT wishes to present each month an accurate, tabulated survey of the best liked stories for each month. To assist us in making this survey, we ask you to send us your choice for the best story in each science fiction magazine. (A postcard ballot will do). Favorites this month, as shown by your votes, are: Astounding Stories March 1937 Life Disinherited by Eando Binder Within the Pyramid by R. DeWitt Miller The Second Cataclysm by Don Elstar Amazing Stories April 1937 Shifting Seas by Stanley G. Weinbaum Twin Worlds by Neil R. Jones The science features in Astounding Stories are also drawing a great deal of praise. It looks like Editor Tremaine has scored another bullseye. The story of The Moon Hoax, the greatest scientific fraud ever perpetrated, is running serially in the February to April issues of The Sky magazine. JOIN THE S.F.A.A. !
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tesseract 5 IN MEMORIAM H.P. LOVECRAFT Howard Phillips Lovecraft passed away on March 15th, after a month of painful illness. HIs death will be a personal bereavement to all lovers of fine imaginative writing as well as to the friends who were privileged to know and esteem and love him. Among these friends must be counted many who never met him face to face, but who found in him the princeliest of all correspondents: a mind of unequalled brilliance and erudition, fired with manifold enthusiasms, given to the "noble pleasure" of praising where praise was in any wise due; a source of never-failing inspiration, illumination, generosity, helpfulness, enheartenment to others. he loss is profound and irreparable for us who remain behind: for it is safe to say that his peer will not be found again. His published writings require no encomium, since they are familiar to all who will read this page. They are comparable to Poe on the grounds of merit but are wholly individual and unique. Their classic style, their consummate realism of detail, their intense distillation of atmosphere, their sustained power of wing-flight on the black outer cosmos or into stark prehuman antiquities, all combine to the creation of a new literary dimension. Like the personality that produced them, they will never be duplicated. CLARK ASHTON SMITH STORY WRITING HINTS by Roy A. Squires, II After completing his correspondence course the would-be science fiction writer is still inconvenienced by having to think up his own plots. However, with the interests of my fellow members at heart I have succeeded in discovering a whole new field of thought-variants. As they are so unlimited, I will not list them here but instead will give an example from which the authors should be able to work out their own themes. The Incredible Submersion When Kern L. Churchmu bought his submarine, he certainly did not think that he would discover Atlantis. So when he began his first voyage it was intended to be just a pleasure trip. After having roamed the Pacific for many days we find our hero on the way home. As he approaches within a few miles of his port we discover the fact that the entire trip was made without incidence. And so we see him safely home with his submarine intact. Thus are thought-variants written. Never before in the history of science fiction has any submarine ever completed a trip without stumbling upon Atlantis. THE READER CHOOSES TESSERACT wishes to present each month an accurate, tabulated survey of the best liked stories for each month. To assist us in making this survey, we ask you to send us your choice for the best story in each science fiction magazine. (A postcard ballot will do). Favorites this month, as shown by your votes, are: Astounding Stories March 1937 Life Disinherited by Eando Binder Within the Pyramid by R. DeWitt Miller The Second Cataclysm by Don Elstar Amazing Stories April 1937 Shifting Seas by Stanley G. Weinbaum Twin Worlds by Neil R. Jones The science features in Astounding Stories are also drawing a great deal of praise. It looks like Editor Tremaine has scored another bullseye. The story of The Moon Hoax, the greatest scientific fraud ever perpetrated, is running serially in the February to April issues of The Sky magazine. JOIN THE S.F.A.A. !
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