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Spaceways, v. 4, issue 6, whole no. 29, 1942
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22 SPACEWAYS THE READERS ALWAYS WRITE "Russian Rugcutter" supposed to be about? If it's a take-off on something, I fail to recognize it. Surely no one could have written anything like that while in a state of sobriety. " I'd say something about your front cover and your poetry, but yours is a nice, clean magazine, and who am I to defile it? Art Widner Jr, 25 Arnold St., Quincy, Mass., returns: Gosh, I haven't had my name in Spaceways' raters' list for a long time. Too long. People will be forgetting me. I will write to VOM and people will say "Art Widner? Who's he?" " And so I remedy this deplorable situation: Ave Atque Vale! 9. If only to bring back to memory the little tear jerker about Sam Perkins. Which I'd had the brains to do this first. You'd've probly beat me to it anyway. 'Course I read it in the Olympian, but I skimmed thru it again, or I started to, but found myself slowing up and enjoying it as much as at first. Cole really has paid him the greatest tribute that anyone could. A masterpiece in the almost-compulsorily stuff field that is eulogy. " Rugcutter, 7. Better than Croutch's usually corny brand of whimsy. Gotta give him credit for the work he's doing with Light tho. At a time when world conditions are most unfavorable for such things he has practically raised an entirely new, budding fandom from cloth. And I alwaysthot that he'd never make a real, dyed-in-the-wool fan like us. " .....Extra-Terrestrial Life. This is the kind of article that should be in a fanzine and it's worth a 5, but would be worth more if not for the sloppy writing and editing. I'm turning the following beauts in to Koenig. You could have caught them just as well, and you deserve it for letting them thru with all the experience you've had blah blah blah etc: " First line: "The Thesis of life on other planets has been discussed almost completely thoroughly." Hates like hell to commit himself, eh? Third pgf: "Einstein is a great genius,....but the popular fallcy that no one is able to understand him is definitely quite mistaken. They do not understand him." Geez, Einstein ain't got a thing on Gergen. 5th pgf: "Consider earth a few millenia in the future. It, too, will probably be run-down and almost dead." A millenium is 1000 yrs, right? Shux, we haven't even come to the tropical age following the last ice age, yet. "Mars, as according to the article...." 'Smatter? Using two-letter words as space-filler now? " But cheer up, Harry, you have good company. The other day the Boston Herald had "Proberly" in inch-high secondary headlines! Louis Russell Chauvenet, 1920 Thomson Road, Charlottesville, Virginia, decides: Ave Atque Vale! 5 (written in an incredibly adulatory spirit, methinx. Maybe that is only natural, since the writer was a close friend & admirer of HPL. I'm neither of those things, and besides, I've heard more about HPL already than I really ever wanted to know! Obviously this piece is getting marked down more because I dislike the Lovecraftian style, and especially the Lovecraftian cult, and am annoyed to some slight extent to find you spending 5 pages and more on this reprint.) " .....Book Review: 5. The point is, it's not a book review at all, it's just a summary of the differences between the Unknown & book versions of that decampain tale, long winded, to boot. Out of date also. ..... " Extra-Terrestrial Live. 5. Phenomenal beating around the bush & saying nothing at great lenght. Length. Length. Length. Could have been cut to one sentence, "I dunno, I just think so." I like Gergen, but he certainly didn't take much pains with this article! " .....Back cover: 1. The fact that the circle in the center is almost a true circle saves this from 0. 2nd Lieutenant Donn Brazier, now changing to new, unknown address, remarks: S. Brown makes too much ado about something that ought to be forgotten entirely. I may be cast out of s-f grace but the writings of E. E. Smith give me one big pain in the neck. I agree with what Stong said about Smith in his introduction to "The Other Worlds". IN fact, contrary to most people, I believe Stong did a pretty good job on his selection, with minor omissions. " "Lest Darkness Fall" review brought back vivid recollections of my library, probably gathering
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22 SPACEWAYS THE READERS ALWAYS WRITE "Russian Rugcutter" supposed to be about? If it's a take-off on something, I fail to recognize it. Surely no one could have written anything like that while in a state of sobriety. " I'd say something about your front cover and your poetry, but yours is a nice, clean magazine, and who am I to defile it? Art Widner Jr, 25 Arnold St., Quincy, Mass., returns: Gosh, I haven't had my name in Spaceways' raters' list for a long time. Too long. People will be forgetting me. I will write to VOM and people will say "Art Widner? Who's he?" " And so I remedy this deplorable situation: Ave Atque Vale! 9. If only to bring back to memory the little tear jerker about Sam Perkins. Which I'd had the brains to do this first. You'd've probly beat me to it anyway. 'Course I read it in the Olympian, but I skimmed thru it again, or I started to, but found myself slowing up and enjoying it as much as at first. Cole really has paid him the greatest tribute that anyone could. A masterpiece in the almost-compulsorily stuff field that is eulogy. " Rugcutter, 7. Better than Croutch's usually corny brand of whimsy. Gotta give him credit for the work he's doing with Light tho. At a time when world conditions are most unfavorable for such things he has practically raised an entirely new, budding fandom from cloth. And I alwaysthot that he'd never make a real, dyed-in-the-wool fan like us. " .....Extra-Terrestrial Life. This is the kind of article that should be in a fanzine and it's worth a 5, but would be worth more if not for the sloppy writing and editing. I'm turning the following beauts in to Koenig. You could have caught them just as well, and you deserve it for letting them thru with all the experience you've had blah blah blah etc: " First line: "The Thesis of life on other planets has been discussed almost completely thoroughly." Hates like hell to commit himself, eh? Third pgf: "Einstein is a great genius,....but the popular fallcy that no one is able to understand him is definitely quite mistaken. They do not understand him." Geez, Einstein ain't got a thing on Gergen. 5th pgf: "Consider earth a few millenia in the future. It, too, will probably be run-down and almost dead." A millenium is 1000 yrs, right? Shux, we haven't even come to the tropical age following the last ice age, yet. "Mars, as according to the article...." 'Smatter? Using two-letter words as space-filler now? " But cheer up, Harry, you have good company. The other day the Boston Herald had "Proberly" in inch-high secondary headlines! Louis Russell Chauvenet, 1920 Thomson Road, Charlottesville, Virginia, decides: Ave Atque Vale! 5 (written in an incredibly adulatory spirit, methinx. Maybe that is only natural, since the writer was a close friend & admirer of HPL. I'm neither of those things, and besides, I've heard more about HPL already than I really ever wanted to know! Obviously this piece is getting marked down more because I dislike the Lovecraftian style, and especially the Lovecraftian cult, and am annoyed to some slight extent to find you spending 5 pages and more on this reprint.) " .....Book Review: 5. The point is, it's not a book review at all, it's just a summary of the differences between the Unknown & book versions of that decampain tale, long winded, to boot. Out of date also. ..... " Extra-Terrestrial Live. 5. Phenomenal beating around the bush & saying nothing at great lenght. Length. Length. Length. Could have been cut to one sentence, "I dunno, I just think so." I like Gergen, but he certainly didn't take much pains with this article! " .....Back cover: 1. The fact that the circle in the center is almost a true circle saves this from 0. 2nd Lieutenant Donn Brazier, now changing to new, unknown address, remarks: S. Brown makes too much ado about something that ought to be forgotten entirely. I may be cast out of s-f grace but the writings of E. E. Smith give me one big pain in the neck. I agree with what Stong said about Smith in his introduction to "The Other Worlds". IN fact, contrary to most people, I believe Stong did a pretty good job on his selection, with minor omissions. " "Lest Darkness Fall" review brought back vivid recollections of my library, probably gathering
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