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Science Fiction Collector, v. 4, issue 3, whole no. 21, August 1938
Page 19
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-- S - F Collector --- Page Nineteen _____________________________________ fan world from their live-wire activity and after a little shouting plunged the entire field into doldrums. The fan field has not yet recovered from that event yet! At least, not the American fans. As I once stated in another article, the death of FANTASY MAGAZINE proved the end of a wall-knit fan world and left scattered, struggling, somewhat isolated groups. There was no place where the fans could meet on common ground and have a basis focus of discussion and ideal. England has been a little more fortunate inasmuch as their FANTASY MAGAZINE -- SCIENTIFICTION -- was just beginning to arouse activity over there. There were just starting, and yet, after all is said and done, the English, for all their bluff and show and their one of two finely printed journals, have nothing to show but "a well-printed job." Fans who state that the English fan publications are superior to the American in other than form of reproduction (and, event hen we have our "Critic, Unique, Correspondent," etc.) know in their hearts that they ware not telling the truth. I have read all the issues of SCINETIFICTION, TOMORROW and NOVAE TERRAE, and I can honestly say that for interest, they cannot even begin to compare with such hectographed journals as the Collector, Fan, etc. It's not so long ago that the American fan field was at its height. The envy of England. Now the fan field is again having a sort of "recession" of its own; and I still believe we can say that as far as obtaining the "best" in science fiction we do not have to seek beyond our shores. I have always maintained that the fan field of two years back was the result of a sense of being "unsatisfied" that the fans obtained when they read the professional pub-
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-- S - F Collector --- Page Nineteen _____________________________________ fan world from their live-wire activity and after a little shouting plunged the entire field into doldrums. The fan field has not yet recovered from that event yet! At least, not the American fans. As I once stated in another article, the death of FANTASY MAGAZINE proved the end of a wall-knit fan world and left scattered, struggling, somewhat isolated groups. There was no place where the fans could meet on common ground and have a basis focus of discussion and ideal. England has been a little more fortunate inasmuch as their FANTASY MAGAZINE -- SCIENTIFICTION -- was just beginning to arouse activity over there. There were just starting, and yet, after all is said and done, the English, for all their bluff and show and their one of two finely printed journals, have nothing to show but "a well-printed job." Fans who state that the English fan publications are superior to the American in other than form of reproduction (and, event hen we have our "Critic, Unique, Correspondent," etc.) know in their hearts that they ware not telling the truth. I have read all the issues of SCINETIFICTION, TOMORROW and NOVAE TERRAE, and I can honestly say that for interest, they cannot even begin to compare with such hectographed journals as the Collector, Fan, etc. It's not so long ago that the American fan field was at its height. The envy of England. Now the fan field is again having a sort of "recession" of its own; and I still believe we can say that as far as obtaining the "best" in science fiction we do not have to seek beyond our shores. I have always maintained that the fan field of two years back was the result of a sense of being "unsatisfied" that the fans obtained when they read the professional pub-
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