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Le Zombie, v. 4, issue 1, whole no. 36, January 1941

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OVER THE OCEAN DEPT

Some reports from active fans
-- actively dodging bombs

MAURICE K. HANSON: "Just received your letter of Sept 25th! (( on Dec. 4th )) Amongst other places, it's been to Bill Temples' bombed house in London. The somewhat knocked about his house is still standing & only four records out of his collection of four hundred were broken. Fortuneately the house was empty at the time since Temple is a gunner in Lancashire just now & all his people were evacuated. As the house is now empty will you please send all future communications to me to my house address above for forwarding? (( For benefit of others, now address Hanson mail as follows. Pte. M. K. Hanson, #98921 R.A.S.C., c/o 95 Mere Road, Leicester, England. - editor)) .
I'm curious to hear which of you American fans, if any, has drawn a winner in your local conscription lottery. When I was called up in our very first patch a year last July I should have been amazed to think that 18 months later you'd be following my example. Carnell, Temple , Birchby, & numerous others have already followed me & Youd is a Home Gurard corporal. Even (( author)) Fearn has had his medical, & like his twin Thornton Ayre, has been graded C3. Still, they don't use intelligence tests, I suppose. "

Only late fanmags from England received here are Futurian War Digest #3, and The Gentlest Art #1, both gossip-and-news sheets, from which we reprint news tidbits below: (all quotes direct, and verbatim)

"Latest news of Tales of Wonder from Wally Gillings, is that the 13th issue, whilst still a doubtful proposition, is yet a probability. In any case it will not see the light till the end of January; making it a month late.

"Via R.G. Medhurst, a note from S. Fowler Wright: "A difficulty of copy right is keeping 'The World Below" out of print at present, & I believe copies are hard to get. But I hope that the position will shortly be cleared up so that it may appear again". "

"Just one of those ironies of fate: A piece of shrapnel which passed thru George's bookcase voyaged via his 'Things To Come'. And Ron Holmes too had a present from Adolf, when an incendiary bomb landed on the roof of the Holmes' residence. It bounced onto the ground where the irrepressable Ron promptly put the ash-bin on top of it.

"Messers G. Swan Ltd., who before the war were large dealers in American remainder magazines, are now issuing a series of "Yankee Shorts". No.3 in this series, entitled "Yankee Science Fiction" contains a novel by Milton Kaletsky -'Spaceship Derby', and 3 other stories. (( Editor's note: evidently Digest doesn't know that the stories mentioned are out of the first Science Fiction Quarterly. ))

"Yours truly (( S.L. Birchby )), the last of the Mohicans, plods home each night and mournfully apostrophises the shades of Bill Temple, now placed Crusce-like on a ruined papermill in Lancs[[?]]; of Ted Carnell, vanished into the blue; of Maurice Hanson, philosophising Buddha-like in the shade of his petrol pump; and the mad scientist of Colwyn Bay (Ego Clarke) dreaming of a new heaven and a new B.I.S."

(( The other paper, Gentlest ARt, is a long gabfest by its editor and concerns itself mostly with a lengthy dissertation to the belief that Editor Campbell, and Astounding's article-writer Arthur McCann, are one and the same person, because they are both nuts on atomic power & etc.))

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OVER THE OCEAN DEPT Some reports from active fans -- actively dodging bombs MAURICE K. HANSON: "Just received your letter of Sept 25th! (( on Dec. 4th )) Amongst other places, it's been to Bill Temples' bombed house in London. The somewhat knocked about his house is still standing & only four records out of his collection of four hundred were broken. Fortuneately the house was empty at the time since Temple is a gunner in Lancashire just now & all his people were evacuated. As the house is now empty will you please send all future communications to me to my house address above for forwarding? (( For benefit of others, now address Hanson mail as follows. Pte. M. K. Hanson, #98921 R.A.S.C., c/o 95 Mere Road, Leicester, England. - editor)) . I'm curious to hear which of you American fans, if any, has drawn a winner in your local conscription lottery. When I was called up in our very first patch a year last July I should have been amazed to think that 18 months later you'd be following my example. Carnell, Temple , Birchby, & numerous others have already followed me & Youd is a Home Gurard corporal. Even (( author)) Fearn has had his medical, & like his twin Thornton Ayre, has been graded C3. Still, they don't use intelligence tests, I suppose. " Only late fanmags from England received here are Futurian War Digest #3, and The Gentlest Art #1, both gossip-and-news sheets, from which we reprint news tidbits below: (all quotes direct, and verbatim) "Latest news of Tales of Wonder from Wally Gillings, is that the 13th issue, whilst still a doubtful proposition, is yet a probability. In any case it will not see the light till the end of January; making it a month late. "Via R.G. Medhurst, a note from S. Fowler Wright: "A difficulty of copy right is keeping 'The World Below" out of print at present, & I believe copies are hard to get. But I hope that the position will shortly be cleared up so that it may appear again". " "Just one of those ironies of fate: A piece of shrapnel which passed thru George's bookcase voyaged via his 'Things To Come'. And Ron Holmes too had a present from Adolf, when an incendiary bomb landed on the roof of the Holmes' residence. It bounced onto the ground where the irrepressable Ron promptly put the ash-bin on top of it. "Messers G. Swan Ltd., who before the war were large dealers in American remainder magazines, are now issuing a series of "Yankee Shorts". No.3 in this series, entitled "Yankee Science Fiction" contains a novel by Milton Kaletsky -'Spaceship Derby', and 3 other stories. (( Editor's note: evidently Digest doesn't know that the stories mentioned are out of the first Science Fiction Quarterly. )) "Yours truly (( S.L. Birchby )), the last of the Mohicans, plods home each night and mournfully apostrophises the shades of Bill Temple, now placed Crusce-like on a ruined papermill in Lancs[[?]]; of Ted Carnell, vanished into the blue; of Maurice Hanson, philosophising Buddha-like in the shade of his petrol pump; and the mad scientist of Colwyn Bay (Ego Clarke) dreaming of a new heaven and a new B.I.S." (( The other paper, Gentlest ARt, is a long gabfest by its editor and concerns itself mostly with a lengthy dissertation to the belief that Editor Campbell, and Astounding's article-writer Arthur McCann, are one and the same person, because they are both nuts on atomic power & etc.))