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Fantascience Digest, v. 3, issue 3, whole no. 15, November-December 1941
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Page 23. FICTION. This column will be a place for the rebels and individualists of fandom. if you have a non-conformist suggestion which you think may be in benefit to fandom, send it in. The purpose of this column will be to find out what is wrong in fandom and to try to determine why the condition exists and is tolerated. Regardless of how rebellious your beef is, if it is something which might eventually be made to benefit fandom as a whole, it is wanted in "Coventry". Any beef or suggestion made herein is subject to discussion and all the berating anyone wishes to send in. Opinions are definitely wanted. Straightforward opinions and suggestions may sometimes damage the sensitiveness of some groups and individuals in fandom, but this column is offered to give those who want to complain a chance to make their complaint and express their reasons. ----- The first complaint occurring to the mind of this rebel is regarding the attitude taken by some individuals and groups on the question of convention sites. An infant movement has at last reached the point of nationwide organization. This national cooperation has enabled fantasy fandom to hold three World Conventions. The city for each convention, it has been decided, is to be chosen by the delegates present at the preceding convention. This has been done. The Nycon chose Chicago as the site of the 1940 Convention. Being more centrally located, it wasn't quite as successful, as far as attendance went, as the first attempt. The fans who attended the second convention finally selected Denver as the next convention city. Certain eastern fans were "hurt" by this moving of the convention away from them. They wanted it where they could be able to attend without going to any excessive amount of trouble to get there. Rival conventions were suggested. Even the professional magazines were uncertain who or what locality to support for the 1941 convention. It seems that these dissenting fans who tried to start rival conventions must not have remembered the difficulties encountered by the few fans of the far west in coming to the first two conventions. Perhaps they did not realize there were other western fans and readers who would become fans if a convention were made available to them. Well --- the Denvention came off. It was almost unanimously agreed that it was the best convention of the three. No, not many authors & editors that attended, but it brought out several new fans who could manage to travel a third of the way across the country, but not all the way. It showed newcomers that a fan convention was worth coming to. They will want to attend the next conventions even if they have to make further sacrifices to do so. As it was supposed to be, the delegates who were interested enough to attend this convention chose the site for the next years get-together. After considerable wrangling, they selected Los Angeles by over a two-thirds vote. Immediately there was trouble. What about the (Cont. on Page 29)
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Page 23. FICTION. This column will be a place for the rebels and individualists of fandom. if you have a non-conformist suggestion which you think may be in benefit to fandom, send it in. The purpose of this column will be to find out what is wrong in fandom and to try to determine why the condition exists and is tolerated. Regardless of how rebellious your beef is, if it is something which might eventually be made to benefit fandom as a whole, it is wanted in "Coventry". Any beef or suggestion made herein is subject to discussion and all the berating anyone wishes to send in. Opinions are definitely wanted. Straightforward opinions and suggestions may sometimes damage the sensitiveness of some groups and individuals in fandom, but this column is offered to give those who want to complain a chance to make their complaint and express their reasons. ----- The first complaint occurring to the mind of this rebel is regarding the attitude taken by some individuals and groups on the question of convention sites. An infant movement has at last reached the point of nationwide organization. This national cooperation has enabled fantasy fandom to hold three World Conventions. The city for each convention, it has been decided, is to be chosen by the delegates present at the preceding convention. This has been done. The Nycon chose Chicago as the site of the 1940 Convention. Being more centrally located, it wasn't quite as successful, as far as attendance went, as the first attempt. The fans who attended the second convention finally selected Denver as the next convention city. Certain eastern fans were "hurt" by this moving of the convention away from them. They wanted it where they could be able to attend without going to any excessive amount of trouble to get there. Rival conventions were suggested. Even the professional magazines were uncertain who or what locality to support for the 1941 convention. It seems that these dissenting fans who tried to start rival conventions must not have remembered the difficulties encountered by the few fans of the far west in coming to the first two conventions. Perhaps they did not realize there were other western fans and readers who would become fans if a convention were made available to them. Well --- the Denvention came off. It was almost unanimously agreed that it was the best convention of the three. No, not many authors & editors that attended, but it brought out several new fans who could manage to travel a third of the way across the country, but not all the way. It showed newcomers that a fan convention was worth coming to. They will want to attend the next conventions even if they have to make further sacrifices to do so. As it was supposed to be, the delegates who were interested enough to attend this convention chose the site for the next years get-together. After considerable wrangling, they selected Los Angeles by over a two-thirds vote. Immediately there was trouble. What about the (Cont. on Page 29)
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