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Wavelength, v. 1, issue 2, Summer 1941
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WAVELENGTH Science Fiction Conscience 7 [line break]///////////////////////////// [large, cursive script] The Science Fiction Conscience Has No Conscience! [line break]:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: by The Staff [line break]-----:------:----- THE SCIENCE FICTION CONSCIENCE has just been "born". The editor, Henry Andrew Ackermann, will manage and edit this section of WAVELENGTH in slang and in English with capable Assistance of a staff of untrained editors, us. We do not expect to perform miracles immediately...perhaps never. We are modest, diffident, rather negative on the whole, except that we intend to boost, baste and lambast when and wherever possible. Mostly we shall boost. We like to boost, and, of course, to begin with we are going to boost ourselves. In each issue, in this section, we shall boost or lambast ( "slam" to you! ) somebody or something, alive or dead, as it suits our fancy. We are also looking for entertaining contributors. Naturally we do not pay for contributions, but we are willing to accept old stuff as well as new, particularly if it is a little ripe. We are not especially contemporary. The SCIENCE FICTION CONSCIENCE is not the last word in periodicals...and we know it! On the whole we are rather modest; we don't expect to create a cyclone. We are not one hundred per cent American, nor a hundred per cent anything. We are mostly renegade, [underlined] meteque, treacherous. No sound moral fiber, no stamina, no honesty, no loyalty, no principles. We beg, beseech, cavil, whine, whimper, wheedle, whistle and cajole as much as possible. We make no bones about it. Our issues will not be uniformly good...nothing can be uniformaly [sic] good, nor even uniformly bad. When we lack material we will borrow from the newspapers, or from other magazines, or even from that morgueof information, the [underlined] Encyclopaedia Brittancia. Why not? We are not afraid to dish up second-hand stuff. [line break]-----:------:----- This first appearance of the SCIENCE FICTION CONSCIENCE is not particularly brilliant or spectacular...just so-so... There isnothing [sic] b Forrest J. Ackerman, Bob Tucker, Sam Moskowitz or... [underlined] nor by Joseph Gilbert. Incidently, we are for literary science fiction and against pseudo-science fiction! In general we are [underlined] for things. But in our own cute way... But this is what we really want to say: We need your subscription...for one year or for two years, or if you are rich, for [underlined] life...the life of the fanzine. We make special rates for life subscriptions...or get us by the year, six issues for 50c in the United States and 75c abroad. But life subscriptions...maybe we better wait until we give [underlined] that rate out. All subscriptions are payable in carefully wrapped coin of the realm, [underlined] good checks ( Beware ye swindlers...we have a
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WAVELENGTH Science Fiction Conscience 7 [line break]///////////////////////////// [large, cursive script] The Science Fiction Conscience Has No Conscience! [line break]:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: by The Staff [line break]-----:------:----- THE SCIENCE FICTION CONSCIENCE has just been "born". The editor, Henry Andrew Ackermann, will manage and edit this section of WAVELENGTH in slang and in English with capable Assistance of a staff of untrained editors, us. We do not expect to perform miracles immediately...perhaps never. We are modest, diffident, rather negative on the whole, except that we intend to boost, baste and lambast when and wherever possible. Mostly we shall boost. We like to boost, and, of course, to begin with we are going to boost ourselves. In each issue, in this section, we shall boost or lambast ( "slam" to you! ) somebody or something, alive or dead, as it suits our fancy. We are also looking for entertaining contributors. Naturally we do not pay for contributions, but we are willing to accept old stuff as well as new, particularly if it is a little ripe. We are not especially contemporary. The SCIENCE FICTION CONSCIENCE is not the last word in periodicals...and we know it! On the whole we are rather modest; we don't expect to create a cyclone. We are not one hundred per cent American, nor a hundred per cent anything. We are mostly renegade, [underlined] meteque, treacherous. No sound moral fiber, no stamina, no honesty, no loyalty, no principles. We beg, beseech, cavil, whine, whimper, wheedle, whistle and cajole as much as possible. We make no bones about it. Our issues will not be uniformly good...nothing can be uniformaly [sic] good, nor even uniformly bad. When we lack material we will borrow from the newspapers, or from other magazines, or even from that morgueof information, the [underlined] Encyclopaedia Brittancia. Why not? We are not afraid to dish up second-hand stuff. [line break]-----:------:----- This first appearance of the SCIENCE FICTION CONSCIENCE is not particularly brilliant or spectacular...just so-so... There isnothing [sic] b Forrest J. Ackerman, Bob Tucker, Sam Moskowitz or... [underlined] nor by Joseph Gilbert. Incidently, we are for literary science fiction and against pseudo-science fiction! In general we are [underlined] for things. But in our own cute way... But this is what we really want to say: We need your subscription...for one year or for two years, or if you are rich, for [underlined] life...the life of the fanzine. We make special rates for life subscriptions...or get us by the year, six issues for 50c in the United States and 75c abroad. But life subscriptions...maybe we better wait until we give [underlined] that rate out. All subscriptions are payable in carefully wrapped coin of the realm, [underlined] good checks ( Beware ye swindlers...we have a
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