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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 10, December 1940

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VIOCE OF THE IMAGI-NATION

skool, so she took it on the.... Hhahahahahahahahaha. Fooey!
"Is Teknocracy pullng a FAPAct? Ltd memship or sumthng? I havnt herd enything from him. I should think hed b interested in gaining al th numems he coud 4 th great coz. (Aparaently Mr Hodgkins is too busy with Scottocracy to read VOM; or, at least, to read it atentivly; as wen this complaint was calld to his attn, he profest ignorance of your publisht request. --Efjay) -- Ive writn enuf now, oraos 2 much--so n & thnnx 2 Fogo 4 many interesng thots & ideas. C U N DENVER!" (Ditto)
Dated Draft Eve, excerpts from a letter from CHARLIE HORING, hi-lites of his 12th cross country trip: "Five days in Chicago--Erle Korshak reading 'CHICAGO FANS GREET HORING!' and shouting 'Extra!'all over the place. Made the night spots Saturday evening with them--also George Tullis. Met that fan who  plays the piano at Silver's. Soent considerable time inEvanston with Thelma Shull, the fan and Rosicrucian--also reincarnationist and occultist. ~~ Spent one of my night with Otto Binder. Met Trudy Hemken for the first time and the five of us (including Otto, his girl-friend (now wife), and Jack Darrow) took in the sights by motor...~~One and a half days in Cleveland--met Miske there, alsofor the first  time. What a driver! But I came through it all right. He blew me to some carbonated water--with you were there, Forrie. ~~ 'Cruck' Wright is the guy I met in the Chicago night spot playing the piano--I think his name was. He's planning to write a series of science-fiction songs to represent the various planets, for the Denvention! ~~ Back in New York--I've already shipped to the pronter the complete SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY for Winter, 1941. Contents: 'The Shot Intro Infinity' by O. W. Gail (but thoroughly degermanized--not cut all all)--'Double Destiny' by Helen Weinbaum--kaj 'The Wall of Water' by Raymond Z. Gallum (pronounced Ga-loon'). ~~ Here's the line-up for the March SCIENCE FICTION: 'TheLife Beyond' by John Coleridge (Eando Binder), 'Beings of the Ooze' by John M. Taylor, 'Baragain with Colossus' by Helen Weinbaum (plot by Schwartz), 'The World in Wilderness' by Thorton Ayre, 'Star of Blue' by Milton Kaletsky, 'Science from Syracuse' by Polton Cross (about Archimedes, one of the 'boys'), plus the usual departments. ~~ Well--give my love to the bunch in Brown's Thursday room, next Cliffton.
"S-F Forever!" declares Angelene authoress [Signature of Leigh] BRACKETT, & proceeds to take her stand on the Pro-Scientist situation & incidently defend on of her storys.2 Oct: "SCIENCE-FICTION FORWARD ids definitely a Book with a P P Purpose. A purpose, incidentally, with which I'm in sympathy--up to a point. Speaking as a fan, I think it's high time someof the hoary and dubiously scientific plots were retired permanently. ~~ Speaking as a writer, we arrive, by a curious coincidence, at 'The Treasure of Ptakuth'. (Pronounced Tah'kuth, rimes with Ruth.) I resent the implication that I am ANTI-SCIENCE. I am interested in science for its own sake, and just as thankful for, and appreciative of, its discoveriesas the next man. The Messrs. Houten and Bart are, of course, entitled to their own opinions. But I feel that they have gone a little out of their way in regard to my story. (This applies, of course, to Mister Duncan also.) ~~ The "fundemental statement" which they discovered in 'The Treasure' was never formulated. The invention which prolonged life at the expense of sleep was, as the editorial writer puts it on another page, neither good nor evil in itself. It had, like radium, X-rays, ultra-violet, and arsenic, a certain effect or combination of effects on the human organism. ~~ The people of Ptakuth didn't care for the effect. And this, I humbly submit, was not scientific theory but merely a reflection of my own opinion that I shouldn't care tp live indefinitely without sleep. My neighbors are attempting to break me into it gently, but I don't like it at all. ~~ If Ye Ed of SFF thinks he'd like it, he is certainly entitled to think so. For myself, a century or two would be quite enough. ~~ With respect to the final paragraph in SFF, I should like to ask a question. Are we, then, to be limited to scientists who are shinning crusaders in the cause of humanity? I'm not speaking of the ancient "mad-scientist" plot, which should be jettisoned in the interests of art if nothing else. In a yarn upon which I am currently working, the menace is a scientist--a renegade human being who cynically and callously uses his knowledge for his own ends, which are not philanthropic. ~~ This, I contend, is a perfectly logical state of affairs.

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VIOCE OF THE IMAGI-NATION skool, so she took it on the.... Hhahahahahahahahaha. Fooey! "Is Teknocracy pullng a FAPAct? Ltd memship or sumthng? I havnt herd enything from him. I should think hed b interested in gaining al th numems he coud 4 th great coz. (Aparaently Mr Hodgkins is too busy with Scottocracy to read VOM; or, at least, to read it atentivly; as wen this complaint was calld to his attn, he profest ignorance of your publisht request. --Efjay) -- Ive writn enuf now, oraos 2 much--so n & thnnx 2 Fogo 4 many interesng thots & ideas. C U N DENVER!" (Ditto) Dated Draft Eve, excerpts from a letter from CHARLIE HORING, hi-lites of his 12th cross country trip: "Five days in Chicago--Erle Korshak reading 'CHICAGO FANS GREET HORING!' and shouting 'Extra!'all over the place. Made the night spots Saturday evening with them--also George Tullis. Met that fan who plays the piano at Silver's. Soent considerable time inEvanston with Thelma Shull, the fan and Rosicrucian--also reincarnationist and occultist. ~~ Spent one of my night with Otto Binder. Met Trudy Hemken for the first time and the five of us (including Otto, his girl-friend (now wife), and Jack Darrow) took in the sights by motor...~~One and a half days in Cleveland--met Miske there, alsofor the first time. What a driver! But I came through it all right. He blew me to some carbonated water--with you were there, Forrie. ~~ 'Cruck' Wright is the guy I met in the Chicago night spot playing the piano--I think his name was. He's planning to write a series of science-fiction songs to represent the various planets, for the Denvention! ~~ Back in New York--I've already shipped to the pronter the complete SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY for Winter, 1941. Contents: 'The Shot Intro Infinity' by O. W. Gail (but thoroughly degermanized--not cut all all)--'Double Destiny' by Helen Weinbaum--kaj 'The Wall of Water' by Raymond Z. Gallum (pronounced Ga-loon'). ~~ Here's the line-up for the March SCIENCE FICTION: 'TheLife Beyond' by John Coleridge (Eando Binder), 'Beings of the Ooze' by John M. Taylor, 'Baragain with Colossus' by Helen Weinbaum (plot by Schwartz), 'The World in Wilderness' by Thorton Ayre, 'Star of Blue' by Milton Kaletsky, 'Science from Syracuse' by Polton Cross (about Archimedes, one of the 'boys'), plus the usual departments. ~~ Well--give my love to the bunch in Brown's Thursday room, next Cliffton. "S-F Forever!" declares Angelene authoress [Signature of Leigh] BRACKETT, & proceeds to take her stand on the Pro-Scientist situation & incidently defend on of her storys.2 Oct: "SCIENCE-FICTION FORWARD ids definitely a Book with a P P Purpose. A purpose, incidentally, with which I'm in sympathy--up to a point. Speaking as a fan, I think it's high time someof the hoary and dubiously scientific plots were retired permanently. ~~ Speaking as a writer, we arrive, by a curious coincidence, at 'The Treasure of Ptakuth'. (Pronounced Tah'kuth, rimes with Ruth.) I resent the implication that I am ANTI-SCIENCE. I am interested in science for its own sake, and just as thankful for, and appreciative of, its discoveriesas the next man. The Messrs. Houten and Bart are, of course, entitled to their own opinions. But I feel that they have gone a little out of their way in regard to my story. (This applies, of course, to Mister Duncan also.) ~~ The "fundemental statement" which they discovered in 'The Treasure' was never formulated. The invention which prolonged life at the expense of sleep was, as the editorial writer puts it on another page, neither good nor evil in itself. It had, like radium, X-rays, ultra-violet, and arsenic, a certain effect or combination of effects on the human organism. ~~ The people of Ptakuth didn't care for the effect. And this, I humbly submit, was not scientific theory but merely a reflection of my own opinion that I shouldn't care tp live indefinitely without sleep. My neighbors are attempting to break me into it gently, but I don't like it at all. ~~ If Ye Ed of SFF thinks he'd like it, he is certainly entitled to think so. For myself, a century or two would be quite enough. ~~ With respect to the final paragraph in SFF, I should like to ask a question. Are we, then, to be limited to scientists who are shinning crusaders in the cause of humanity? I'm not speaking of the ancient "mad-scientist" plot, which should be jettisoned in the interests of art if nothing else. In a yarn upon which I am currently working, the menace is a scientist--a renegade human being who cynically and callously uses his knowledge for his own ends, which are not philanthropic. ~~ This, I contend, is a perfectly logical state of affairs.