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Fantascience Digest, v. 2, issue 4, May-June 1939

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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST                       Page 15

   People are interested in people. How would you feel if you knew positively that ten days from now a comet would utterly destroy the coverage if he left out your emotional disturbances from his account and contented himself with merely a paragraph or so stating that the population was in an uproar but some few escaped in a space-ship?

   DARKNESS AND DAWN, THE MOON POOL, THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM, and TRIPLANETARY are generally too familiar to scientifiction fans to summarize or explain. I liked them all, just because. THE RETURN OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, by George F. Worts, may not be so well known to fansd. It was published in book form under the title of NO MORE A CORPSE, by Loring Brent. The story deals with a plot from which GIANTS FROM ETERNITY? BY Manly Wade Wellman, must have derived its inspiration.

   The world finds that an inventor can bring back from the dead a single famous personage, and a poll is conducted to determine whom the immortal will be. John L. Sullivan, Abe Lincoln, and numerous others are considered, but the Father of Our Country leads the list. He is revived and tours the United States, seeing the modern marvels and dipping his fingers into various political pies -- and falls in love with a modern girl. The stort entertains, amuses, and lingers in the memory of the reader.

   That it all turns out to be a gigantic hoax is no deterrent to my claim that it is excellent scientifiction. It is more scientific, for instance, than all those putrid stories which end when the hero wakes up at home in bed. I've read about a hundred since 1920 which were labeled scientifiction and in the last lines proved to be just bad dreams induced from too much gastronomic activity.

   THE SECOND DELUGE is a famous and familiar story, also. I think my arguments in regard to WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE apply here. It is real, vivid, and NATURAL! 

   Every time a fellow fan reads this article my ears will burn. But thank heavens this is the United States and I can have my opinions -- you -- you RED RIVER VALLEY admirers, you!

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                     HOW DOES BLOCH DO IT?
                    By Ralph Milne Farley

   In search of an answer to this question I interviewed the mighty mite, who wrote and 85,000 word complete novel, including revisions and retypings in 8 hours in New Orleans earlier this winter. 
   Robert A. Bloch, public author No. 1, occupies a whole bloch on Knapp street, Milwaukee. In fact, he is a syndicate, most of his work being done by robots, built for him in the lavatories of Prof. Schmidt of Marquette where I also am a Lecturer in Physics. That's very singular, isn't it?
   The leader of these robots is named, after its creator, Robot A. Bloch. The next is Robot B. Bloch, etc. They do all the real work for

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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST Page 15 People are interested in people. How would you feel if you knew positively that ten days from now a comet would utterly destroy the coverage if he left out your emotional disturbances from his account and contented himself with merely a paragraph or so stating that the population was in an uproar but some few escaped in a space-ship? DARKNESS AND DAWN, THE MOON POOL, THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM, and TRIPLANETARY are generally too familiar to scientifiction fans to summarize or explain. I liked them all, just because. THE RETURN OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, by George F. Worts, may not be so well known to fansd. It was published in book form under the title of NO MORE A CORPSE, by Loring Brent. The story deals with a plot from which GIANTS FROM ETERNITY? BY Manly Wade Wellman, must have derived its inspiration. The world finds that an inventor can bring back from the dead a single famous personage, and a poll is conducted to determine whom the immortal will be. John L. Sullivan, Abe Lincoln, and numerous others are considered, but the Father of Our Country leads the list. He is revived and tours the United States, seeing the modern marvels and dipping his fingers into various political pies -- and falls in love with a modern girl. The stort entertains, amuses, and lingers in the memory of the reader. That it all turns out to be a gigantic hoax is no deterrent to my claim that it is excellent scientifiction. It is more scientific, for instance, than all those putrid stories which end when the hero wakes up at home in bed. I've read about a hundred since 1920 which were labeled scientifiction and in the last lines proved to be just bad dreams induced from too much gastronomic activity. THE SECOND DELUGE is a famous and familiar story, also. I think my arguments in regard to WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE apply here. It is real, vivid, and NATURAL! Every time a fellow fan reads this article my ears will burn. But thank heavens this is the United States and I can have my opinions -- you -- you RED RIVER VALLEY admirers, you! _______________________________________ -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o _______________________________________ HOW DOES BLOCH DO IT? By Ralph Milne Farley In search of an answer to this question I interviewed the mighty mite, who wrote and 85,000 word complete novel, including revisions and retypings in 8 hours in New Orleans earlier this winter. Robert A. Bloch, public author No. 1, occupies a whole bloch on Knapp street, Milwaukee. In fact, he is a syndicate, most of his work being done by robots, built for him in the lavatories of Prof. Schmidt of Marquette where I also am a Lecturer in Physics. That's very singular, isn't it? The leader of these robots is named, after its creator, Robot A. Bloch. The next is Robot B. Bloch, etc. They do all the real work for