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Science Fiction Collector, v. 4, issue 4, whole no. 22, September 1938
Page 13
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-- S-F Collector -- Page Thirteen magazine is somewhat better than that of TWS and infinitely better than the [[underline]]clean[[end underline]] fiction of MSS. The galling thing about AMAZING is the loss of its dignity, and the advent of cheap commercialism and more juvenile departments. The editor's page was adorned with a "humorous" drawing; the editr goes on at great length about a conglomerate miscellany of scientific discoveries, etc., all of which are better and more interestingly given in scientific magazines or text books, where I personally prefer to find them. The illustrations are horrible mistakes; the cover is fakish and sensational as well as most inappropriate. In short, given sufficient time, we shall soon have another TWS. The author is, of course, restricted in his writing by editorial policies; however, it has been shown time and time again that the authors, with only a few exceptions ,r only too willing to write trash, their main concern being not to write stories that will be remembered as [[underline]]literature[[end underline]], but to simply write stpries that will sell, [[underline]]sell[[end underline]], SELL, with a minimum of effort. Authors like Fearn, Kruse, Haggard, Hamilton, Binder, Van Lorne, and so forth, are only detriments to the ideal of someday having interesting, wholesome stories that are absorbing and are literature, too! Ray Palmer, in his "Spilling the Atoms with RAP" column in FANTASY MAGAZINE once averred that the best way for an author to turn out good stories would be to write constantly -- a constant stream of trash, I gather. No statement, to my way of thinking, has ever been more fallacious. A. Merritt, for example, is generally considered the peer of fantasy authors-- and he has written just
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-- S-F Collector -- Page Thirteen magazine is somewhat better than that of TWS and infinitely better than the [[underline]]clean[[end underline]] fiction of MSS. The galling thing about AMAZING is the loss of its dignity, and the advent of cheap commercialism and more juvenile departments. The editor's page was adorned with a "humorous" drawing; the editr goes on at great length about a conglomerate miscellany of scientific discoveries, etc., all of which are better and more interestingly given in scientific magazines or text books, where I personally prefer to find them. The illustrations are horrible mistakes; the cover is fakish and sensational as well as most inappropriate. In short, given sufficient time, we shall soon have another TWS. The author is, of course, restricted in his writing by editorial policies; however, it has been shown time and time again that the authors, with only a few exceptions ,r only too willing to write trash, their main concern being not to write stories that will be remembered as [[underline]]literature[[end underline]], but to simply write stpries that will sell, [[underline]]sell[[end underline]], SELL, with a minimum of effort. Authors like Fearn, Kruse, Haggard, Hamilton, Binder, Van Lorne, and so forth, are only detriments to the ideal of someday having interesting, wholesome stories that are absorbing and are literature, too! Ray Palmer, in his "Spilling the Atoms with RAP" column in FANTASY MAGAZINE once averred that the best way for an author to turn out good stories would be to write constantly -- a constant stream of trash, I gather. No statement, to my way of thinking, has ever been more fallacious. A. Merritt, for example, is generally considered the peer of fantasy authors-- and he has written just
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