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Wavelength, v. 1, issue 2, Summer 1941
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Science Fiction Conscience SCIENCE FICTION, 1941 (Continued From Page 10) sees the peak of commercialism in science fiction pulps on the stands. All are unworthy of the heritage they hold; none have more tan an antrophied vestige of the spirit of science fiction. But this spirit, this comph! has lived on, and science fiction, even in its twisted, commercialized from, has gathered to it a body of fans who, although they don't realice it, are full of the spirit of science fiction. In fact, so obscure and interlarded have their motives for Reading and enjoying science fiction become almost synonymons in their minds! ----- And so we arrive at the present, a bewildering state of chaos that is Little short of laughble. One critic points out that science fictions authors are not using he opportunities which science fiction presents to the fullest, and he is called a science-fiction-must-save-the-world sap. Just what is sappy about science fiction doing something which Will make this world a better place to live in, the erstthing critic of the critic failled to make apparent, but such an overssight seems to be characteristic of the shallow viewpoint which has become fashionable in present-day science fiction fandom. We find ourselves confronted by the distasteful task of viewing the lgloomy future which these tendencies Will bring to science fiction fandom. What can be the future of any ideal, however high-born, which has been twisted into a ridiculous caricature, debauched into a pitiful yes! pitiful shadow and prostituted into an insipid, childish, worthless husk, destitute even of the Elementary flamour of readable literatura? We can hope for nothing better in the future than that which has traspired in the past. Or can we? The tensión between the two opposing forces in s.f. has reached its peak. No matter how warped and crippled s. f. has become under the ministrations of pulpdom, it still retains that spark of vitallity which has perpetuated the fan field in the face of all adversity; and no matter how hard well-meaning but bad-mannered altruists like my self struggle and fight to bring to s.f. its full-fledged, world-imporant maturity, the perversión persists. The balance is delicate and the touch of a Finder Will turn it one way or the other. The s.f. fan field holds the key to the situation. The final decisión rest with them. They all have eyes to see, and brains with which to reason. It seems logical, therefore, that they Will choose for science fiction the future they think best, for it lies within their power to do so. If they are satisfied with the s.f. of the "Buck Rogers" and "The Golden Amazon" type, the Will continue to tolerate the mercenaries and their grist-mill editorial policies; then the end of the Minoutaur's labryrinth is in sight. Let's leave it up to them, shall we? COMING THE COLUMBIA CAMP TRIES BECOME WISE; SPACESHIPS ARE FEMINE.
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Science Fiction Conscience SCIENCE FICTION, 1941 (Continued From Page 10) sees the peak of commercialism in science fiction pulps on the stands. All are unworthy of the heritage they hold; none have more tan an antrophied vestige of the spirit of science fiction. But this spirit, this comph! has lived on, and science fiction, even in its twisted, commercialized from, has gathered to it a body of fans who, although they don't realice it, are full of the spirit of science fiction. In fact, so obscure and interlarded have their motives for Reading and enjoying science fiction become almost synonymons in their minds! ----- And so we arrive at the present, a bewildering state of chaos that is Little short of laughble. One critic points out that science fictions authors are not using he opportunities which science fiction presents to the fullest, and he is called a science-fiction-must-save-the-world sap. Just what is sappy about science fiction doing something which Will make this world a better place to live in, the erstthing critic of the critic failled to make apparent, but such an overssight seems to be characteristic of the shallow viewpoint which has become fashionable in present-day science fiction fandom. We find ourselves confronted by the distasteful task of viewing the lgloomy future which these tendencies Will bring to science fiction fandom. What can be the future of any ideal, however high-born, which has been twisted into a ridiculous caricature, debauched into a pitiful yes! pitiful shadow and prostituted into an insipid, childish, worthless husk, destitute even of the Elementary flamour of readable literatura? We can hope for nothing better in the future than that which has traspired in the past. Or can we? The tensión between the two opposing forces in s.f. has reached its peak. No matter how warped and crippled s. f. has become under the ministrations of pulpdom, it still retains that spark of vitallity which has perpetuated the fan field in the face of all adversity; and no matter how hard well-meaning but bad-mannered altruists like my self struggle and fight to bring to s.f. its full-fledged, world-imporant maturity, the perversión persists. The balance is delicate and the touch of a Finder Will turn it one way or the other. The s.f. fan field holds the key to the situation. The final decisión rest with them. They all have eyes to see, and brains with which to reason. It seems logical, therefore, that they Will choose for science fiction the future they think best, for it lies within their power to do so. If they are satisfied with the s.f. of the "Buck Rogers" and "The Golden Amazon" type, the Will continue to tolerate the mercenaries and their grist-mill editorial policies; then the end of the Minoutaur's labryrinth is in sight. Let's leave it up to them, shall we? COMING THE COLUMBIA CAMP TRIES BECOME WISE; SPACESHIPS ARE FEMINE.
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