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Fantascience Digest, v. 3, issue 3, whole no. 15, November-December 1941
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Page 22 Fantascience Digest big convention each year occupy themselves for a week or more with nothing but stf activities, I'm free. A fan like Ackerman or Widner probably would find his personal contacting with fans requiring more than an hour a day, on the average, over the course of a year. Reading fanzines takes little time. Occasionally a big batch arrives in a few days, but there are often periods of up to a month when almost none comes in. Three or four arrivals a week seems to be the average, and one or two of those are two or four-page affairs which can be scanned in a hurry. If you want to be exact about it, better put down ten minutes a day for reading fanzines. And that, friends, is about all. Not so much after all, is it? There are numerous other things, of course, that take up time, but for one reason or another they take very few hours over a course of a year, Filing away letters occupies a half-hour per month, filing away fanzines, perhaps the same amount of time. I used to spend some time writing—rather, trying to write—-for the promags, but haven't written a word aimed at them for nearly a year now. Fan articles for publication in fanzines take a little time, but not so much. I read some stf books each year, but not enough to amount up to a very big figure. I write perhaps four postals a week, on the average; it takes only ten minutes to write a postal. So, total time consumed on fan activities for me: less than three hours a day. I don't regret it. I'm positive that I get more pleasure out of spending that time on stf than I would on collecting antiques, planting a garden, or keeping a termitary. How about you? COVENTRY - a department - by Rust E. Barron ---- Coventry was a place for rebels and individualists. Anyone who did not wish to conform to the provisions of the Covenant was either given a psychological readjustment or sent to Coventry. The first scientific social document ever drawn up by man, the Covenant was an attempt to allow the greatest possible personal liberty for everyone in the United States. It simply made illegal any form of damage, physical or economic, to any person. Punishment was therefore made illegal by the very wording. Offenders were therefore offered two alternatives. Psychological readjustment or the complete withdrawal of society from him -- Coventry. A tract of land was set aside and all persons not abiding by the Covenant, and refusing to give up their individuality, were sent there. The above paragraph is evolved from "Coventry" by Robert Heinlein which appeared in the July 1940 issue of ASTOUNDING SCIENCE-
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Page 22 Fantascience Digest big convention each year occupy themselves for a week or more with nothing but stf activities, I'm free. A fan like Ackerman or Widner probably would find his personal contacting with fans requiring more than an hour a day, on the average, over the course of a year. Reading fanzines takes little time. Occasionally a big batch arrives in a few days, but there are often periods of up to a month when almost none comes in. Three or four arrivals a week seems to be the average, and one or two of those are two or four-page affairs which can be scanned in a hurry. If you want to be exact about it, better put down ten minutes a day for reading fanzines. And that, friends, is about all. Not so much after all, is it? There are numerous other things, of course, that take up time, but for one reason or another they take very few hours over a course of a year, Filing away letters occupies a half-hour per month, filing away fanzines, perhaps the same amount of time. I used to spend some time writing—rather, trying to write—-for the promags, but haven't written a word aimed at them for nearly a year now. Fan articles for publication in fanzines take a little time, but not so much. I read some stf books each year, but not enough to amount up to a very big figure. I write perhaps four postals a week, on the average; it takes only ten minutes to write a postal. So, total time consumed on fan activities for me: less than three hours a day. I don't regret it. I'm positive that I get more pleasure out of spending that time on stf than I would on collecting antiques, planting a garden, or keeping a termitary. How about you? COVENTRY - a department - by Rust E. Barron ---- Coventry was a place for rebels and individualists. Anyone who did not wish to conform to the provisions of the Covenant was either given a psychological readjustment or sent to Coventry. The first scientific social document ever drawn up by man, the Covenant was an attempt to allow the greatest possible personal liberty for everyone in the United States. It simply made illegal any form of damage, physical or economic, to any person. Punishment was therefore made illegal by the very wording. Offenders were therefore offered two alternatives. Psychological readjustment or the complete withdrawal of society from him -- Coventry. A tract of land was set aside and all persons not abiding by the Covenant, and refusing to give up their individuality, were sent there. The above paragraph is evolved from "Coventry" by Robert Heinlein which appeared in the July 1940 issue of ASTOUNDING SCIENCE-
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