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Voice of the Imagination, Denvention Special, 1941
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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 11 in the sense that future developments of them play a part of stf tales written today. But they are not stf in the sense that straight articles on them, as they are in the present stage, or might be in the immediate future, or again articles drumming up trade for them, as it were, really have a place in the imagination. '' And that is why I'm reluctant to put articles on the subject, or run a course on the subject in FF. Esperanto just isn't future fiction. Perhaps you, Morojo & Fojak, and your co-esperantists can persuade me different. That's why I'm opening the subject here. Of course, interesting letters on the subject are meat for Station X. By interesting letters, I mean letters telling of what esperantically-minded fans are doing with the two. Are there any Esperanto-stf clubs? Are es-fans translating stf yarns into the language? Stuff along that line seems to me to be right in the fanfare. (Latest developments in the esp-stf movement include Morojo's introduction of Guteto into the FAPA; the appearance in England of the 2d esp-stf fan-revue--Jen, the first being Rovelo's Novaj Horizontoj; Alojo plans to present a stf story in Esp along side the original Eng in Specula; Fojak has accepted Fan-Atic's invitation to conduct an Esperanto course in its pgs; Harry Turner's "Creed of an Atheist" is being translated from Fantast for presentation in Satana Bulteno (circulation, 750); & Karolo Hornig is Esperanticizing "Alice in Wonderland"!) -- Much the same can be said about Technocracy. Only, of course it is much nearer to being stf today than Esperanto. Technocracy really is part of a possible future. In that sense it is futurian, a dynamic concept of tomorrow -- but, again, to have a place in stf books, it must be tied in with stf or fandom in some definite manner. All clear?" READ AT YOUR OWN RISK: This exposition from an Awakend Fan seems to be an immediate response to Doc's request for controversial material. From "VOMOSWOTH", 'Del Monte', Kangeroo Pt Rd, Sylvania, NSW, AUSTRALIA: 5 May 41: "Today, I read the complete files of Futurian Observer, Cosmos, Ultra and The Voice. And today I am an enlightened fan. After many years of fandom, Fojak will have probably correctly surmised the reason. A two year old baby suddenly realizes he doesn't have to yell to mama for his toys; he can go and find them himself. Intelligence dawns, or rather calculating thought--reason--is obtained. I think that likewise, fans sometime wake up to themselves. I have awakened. I shall outline my case and ask Vom-readers to draw their own conclusions. '' Before the Ban (you have all heard of this--a measure enforced by wartime economy--as Friedlander says, we must sacrifice the-stf magazines without resentment because we know it is indirectly helping a British victory) twenty-two prozines poured into Australia, and ultimately into our collections. Someone in Sun Trails No. 1 (The 2d Himself) gave the actual figures, but from memory of my own transactions with the newsagents before the ban, I purchased six prozines every third Wednesday. Besides these, I bought numerous back-numbers and received fanmags. '' Right: All my spare time (time not taken up by eating, sleeping, working, and editing fanmags) was spent in the perusal of these magazines. Current Astoundings, old Amazings, and Wonders, the latest VoM and three FANS--all slung helter-skelter into empty cells in the gray matter. Reading stf going to work, and coming from work; before going to sleep, at interval in the flickers, between cases at the court (I am a cub-reporter), in meal times--& often neglecting the ham-and-tomato sandwich to digest the method propulsion in the rocket in such-and-such a story--and elsewhere too personal to mention with gals reading. '' So the fan's brain is deluged with pro-fiction; is not allowed to absorb other mundane knowledge. It becomes simpler to solve the square of minus one than to explain the elementary laws of Euclid; or to solve an ultra-dimensional Non-Euclidean eclipse than to repeat Pythagora...you can talk bit but not small...I even found myself spelling 'pseudocosmic' and 'hypergalactic' correctly but 'unanamously' and 'amount' wrong. Clogged jets won't work. Neither will clogged cells in Mr. Brain. '' The fan falls off at work. The fan's social & home-life is radically altered. Friends scoff at stf, and are immediately snubbed. (You can't reason with them--so let them go to--er--Mars!) The general drift of this so far is that, in my case at least (that's to frustrate Rothman & Gang), too much of anything (including stf) is bad medicine. '' Oh Fort! The muck I wrote. Yes, muck! What fan will look up his records of Death's Head Through the Void, or Ages, or Patrol. Of course, the journalist in me arises and cries (I know this sounds like a plug, but I'm trying to illustrate a point) what about Strangest is Space? Why, even Miske said it was just a little bit good, so there---but you do see what I mean, nitch wahr? Oh, I shouldn't have spoken in the hated language, should I Jim? '' The idea I'm trying to put across is this: In the mad haste
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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 11 in the sense that future developments of them play a part of stf tales written today. But they are not stf in the sense that straight articles on them, as they are in the present stage, or might be in the immediate future, or again articles drumming up trade for them, as it were, really have a place in the imagination. '' And that is why I'm reluctant to put articles on the subject, or run a course on the subject in FF. Esperanto just isn't future fiction. Perhaps you, Morojo & Fojak, and your co-esperantists can persuade me different. That's why I'm opening the subject here. Of course, interesting letters on the subject are meat for Station X. By interesting letters, I mean letters telling of what esperantically-minded fans are doing with the two. Are there any Esperanto-stf clubs? Are es-fans translating stf yarns into the language? Stuff along that line seems to me to be right in the fanfare. (Latest developments in the esp-stf movement include Morojo's introduction of Guteto into the FAPA; the appearance in England of the 2d esp-stf fan-revue--Jen, the first being Rovelo's Novaj Horizontoj; Alojo plans to present a stf story in Esp along side the original Eng in Specula; Fojak has accepted Fan-Atic's invitation to conduct an Esperanto course in its pgs; Harry Turner's "Creed of an Atheist" is being translated from Fantast for presentation in Satana Bulteno (circulation, 750); & Karolo Hornig is Esperanticizing "Alice in Wonderland"!) -- Much the same can be said about Technocracy. Only, of course it is much nearer to being stf today than Esperanto. Technocracy really is part of a possible future. In that sense it is futurian, a dynamic concept of tomorrow -- but, again, to have a place in stf books, it must be tied in with stf or fandom in some definite manner. All clear?" READ AT YOUR OWN RISK: This exposition from an Awakend Fan seems to be an immediate response to Doc's request for controversial material. From "VOMOSWOTH", 'Del Monte', Kangeroo Pt Rd, Sylvania, NSW, AUSTRALIA: 5 May 41: "Today, I read the complete files of Futurian Observer, Cosmos, Ultra and The Voice. And today I am an enlightened fan. After many years of fandom, Fojak will have probably correctly surmised the reason. A two year old baby suddenly realizes he doesn't have to yell to mama for his toys; he can go and find them himself. Intelligence dawns, or rather calculating thought--reason--is obtained. I think that likewise, fans sometime wake up to themselves. I have awakened. I shall outline my case and ask Vom-readers to draw their own conclusions. '' Before the Ban (you have all heard of this--a measure enforced by wartime economy--as Friedlander says, we must sacrifice the-stf magazines without resentment because we know it is indirectly helping a British victory) twenty-two prozines poured into Australia, and ultimately into our collections. Someone in Sun Trails No. 1 (The 2d Himself) gave the actual figures, but from memory of my own transactions with the newsagents before the ban, I purchased six prozines every third Wednesday. Besides these, I bought numerous back-numbers and received fanmags. '' Right: All my spare time (time not taken up by eating, sleeping, working, and editing fanmags) was spent in the perusal of these magazines. Current Astoundings, old Amazings, and Wonders, the latest VoM and three FANS--all slung helter-skelter into empty cells in the gray matter. Reading stf going to work, and coming from work; before going to sleep, at interval in the flickers, between cases at the court (I am a cub-reporter), in meal times--& often neglecting the ham-and-tomato sandwich to digest the method propulsion in the rocket in such-and-such a story--and elsewhere too personal to mention with gals reading. '' So the fan's brain is deluged with pro-fiction; is not allowed to absorb other mundane knowledge. It becomes simpler to solve the square of minus one than to explain the elementary laws of Euclid; or to solve an ultra-dimensional Non-Euclidean eclipse than to repeat Pythagora...you can talk bit but not small...I even found myself spelling 'pseudocosmic' and 'hypergalactic' correctly but 'unanamously' and 'amount' wrong. Clogged jets won't work. Neither will clogged cells in Mr. Brain. '' The fan falls off at work. The fan's social & home-life is radically altered. Friends scoff at stf, and are immediately snubbed. (You can't reason with them--so let them go to--er--Mars!) The general drift of this so far is that, in my case at least (that's to frustrate Rothman & Gang), too much of anything (including stf) is bad medicine. '' Oh Fort! The muck I wrote. Yes, muck! What fan will look up his records of Death's Head Through the Void, or Ages, or Patrol. Of course, the journalist in me arises and cries (I know this sounds like a plug, but I'm trying to illustrate a point) what about Strangest is Space? Why, even Miske said it was just a little bit good, so there---but you do see what I mean, nitch wahr? Oh, I shouldn't have spoken in the hated language, should I Jim? '' The idea I'm trying to put across is this: In the mad haste
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