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Centauri, issue 4, Summer 1945
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Opposites --- React! Page 21 A few words on this issue (#3). I think the cover is careful and dashing for a fanmag, though marred by a lack of knowledge of human anatomy. The wheel shading behind the CENTURAI lettering on the title-page is also attractive; the lettering itself being of course far too ornate. Only a little experience was needed to show me fan stories, poems, and illustrations are better if not looked at, and those in C. hear [[bear?]] me out. On the other hand, I enjoyed Laney's short descriptions, and, perhaps more so, the discussion on music for Fantasia -- the different approaches & viewpoints here were very interesting taken together, &, what is more unusual in fan discussions of topics of interest to normal intelligent people, the viewpoints were worth reading in themselves. I fear the rest of the mag left me cold; needless to say (I hope) this is as much a description of my own temperament as of the merits or otherwise of the magazine. Doug Webster Idlewild, Fountainhall Road Aberdeen, Scotland I don't think the use of micro-filming will damage the sale of books and magazines particularly, but perhaps it will. Cost will be important of course. Doesn't seem likely that it would be as cheap to micro-film a whole book as it would be to buy it, but I don't know much about the matter. And I know very well that if micro-copies were on sale at bookstores, I'd certainly rather pay two dollars for the ready-prepared version than to spend one dollar and an hour of time making my own. The story of yours is good; didn't really think about the ending until I reached it, but then I never do. Don't think I ever looked at the back of a book in my life, before finishing the story, unless it seemed to be very poor, and I just skipped to the end to see if maybe there might be something in the story -- usually, in such case, there wasn't, and thus I saved myself a lot of reading to no end. Agree with Conner on the comics. Some potential fans get their first taste for stf and fantasy out of the comics. If they don't tire of the comics and look for something better along the same line, then they aren't potential fans, anyway; the comics represent the highpoint in their fantastic education. If they have any possibilities as fans, they eventually turn to magazines and books, and forget the comics. In that respect, they are to good fantasy as the "Dead Eye Dick" stories of the last century were to the better quality adventure stories, toward which their readers turned as they got older. Post item is Gray's poem; that is as good a science-fiction poem as I've ever seen. I've seen quite a bit of Gray's poetry, and like it all. D. B. Thompson 705 Scott Street Alexandria 2, Louisiana
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Opposites --- React! Page 21 A few words on this issue (#3). I think the cover is careful and dashing for a fanmag, though marred by a lack of knowledge of human anatomy. The wheel shading behind the CENTURAI lettering on the title-page is also attractive; the lettering itself being of course far too ornate. Only a little experience was needed to show me fan stories, poems, and illustrations are better if not looked at, and those in C. hear [[bear?]] me out. On the other hand, I enjoyed Laney's short descriptions, and, perhaps more so, the discussion on music for Fantasia -- the different approaches & viewpoints here were very interesting taken together, &, what is more unusual in fan discussions of topics of interest to normal intelligent people, the viewpoints were worth reading in themselves. I fear the rest of the mag left me cold; needless to say (I hope) this is as much a description of my own temperament as of the merits or otherwise of the magazine. Doug Webster Idlewild, Fountainhall Road Aberdeen, Scotland I don't think the use of micro-filming will damage the sale of books and magazines particularly, but perhaps it will. Cost will be important of course. Doesn't seem likely that it would be as cheap to micro-film a whole book as it would be to buy it, but I don't know much about the matter. And I know very well that if micro-copies were on sale at bookstores, I'd certainly rather pay two dollars for the ready-prepared version than to spend one dollar and an hour of time making my own. The story of yours is good; didn't really think about the ending until I reached it, but then I never do. Don't think I ever looked at the back of a book in my life, before finishing the story, unless it seemed to be very poor, and I just skipped to the end to see if maybe there might be something in the story -- usually, in such case, there wasn't, and thus I saved myself a lot of reading to no end. Agree with Conner on the comics. Some potential fans get their first taste for stf and fantasy out of the comics. If they don't tire of the comics and look for something better along the same line, then they aren't potential fans, anyway; the comics represent the highpoint in their fantastic education. If they have any possibilities as fans, they eventually turn to magazines and books, and forget the comics. In that respect, they are to good fantasy as the "Dead Eye Dick" stories of the last century were to the better quality adventure stories, toward which their readers turned as they got older. Post item is Gray's poem; that is as good a science-fiction poem as I've ever seen. I've seen quite a bit of Gray's poetry, and like it all. D. B. Thompson 705 Scott Street Alexandria 2, Louisiana
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