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The Science Fiction Fan, v. 4, issue 5, whole no. 41, December 1939
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FAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Ye Fantaisie Bookes by Ye Olde Booke Collector We are living in times of great stress and change when it is proper to say that the future is in the making. Perhaps is we want to look at it in that way we might even say that a future era was overlapping with a past and as a result of this conflict in time-periods, we now have war, growing chaos in most of the world, and general crisis in the lives of man. Be that as it may, no library of science-fiction could be complete without at least some small collection of non-fiction. What might be termed science-fiction non-fiction to use a paradoxical term. Such works as are science fictional in scope and nature in that they cover what are usually considered fantasy topics but nevertheless are not fictional romances themselves. One type of this would be such a volume as TOURING UPTOPIA by Frances T.Russell or Lewis Mumford's early volume on Utopian romancing. But less obvious than this are volumes which deal individually with the topics of science-fiction, books which might be said to correspond with the sort of articles Mr. Campbell is fond of presenting in ASTOUNDING -- books dealing with
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FAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Ye Fantaisie Bookes by Ye Olde Booke Collector We are living in times of great stress and change when it is proper to say that the future is in the making. Perhaps is we want to look at it in that way we might even say that a future era was overlapping with a past and as a result of this conflict in time-periods, we now have war, growing chaos in most of the world, and general crisis in the lives of man. Be that as it may, no library of science-fiction could be complete without at least some small collection of non-fiction. What might be termed science-fiction non-fiction to use a paradoxical term. Such works as are science fictional in scope and nature in that they cover what are usually considered fantasy topics but nevertheless are not fictional romances themselves. One type of this would be such a volume as TOURING UPTOPIA by Frances T.Russell or Lewis Mumford's early volume on Utopian romancing. But less obvious than this are volumes which deal individually with the topics of science-fiction, books which might be said to correspond with the sort of articles Mr. Campbell is fond of presenting in ASTOUNDING -- books dealing with
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