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Sunspots, v. 6, issue 6, whole no. 26, Fall 1945
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Fall, 1945 SUN SPOTS Page 25 MALCOLM JAMESON -- A TRIBUTE By Manly Wade Wellman Malcolm Jameson, voyager, naval officer, cosmopolite, masterly writer of scientific fact and fiction, and a very gallant gentleman, died in April of an agonizing throat ailment which he endured to the end with a grace and courage that may well have been the greatest achievement of his varied and triumphant career. The son of a distinguished Southern family, Malcolm Jameson was born in Texas and from boyhood pursued the trail of adventure. As a professional musician he visited cities throughout the nation, worked as a cowhand, railroader and mechanic, and during the first World War was a naval lieutenant, remaining in the Navy until the illness that finally killed him necessitated his retirement. Master of several languages, he visited and was at home in both Europe and the Far East. When he turned to the writing of science fiction, his rich experience and considerable education helped him to make an immediate success of a new adventure, the adventure of imagination. His understanding of mechanics and ordinance enabled him to write "The Giant Atom", a science novel published in Stating Stories, which so ably foretold the newly-developed atomic power that it is being rushed into book form. Jameson's chief success was in stories of science and the supernatural published in Astounding Science Fiction, Unknown Worlds, Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, and Weird Tales. Both his children have fought ably in the Second World War--his son Malcolm as a major in the infantry, fight the Japanese in the South Pacific, and his daughter Vida as a Corporal in the WAC, in an important assignment at Washington which, now that the war is over, will perhaps be revealed to the public as a service as interesting as her father's fiction. Much more might be said about Malcolm Jameson's character and career. To those of us who knew him best, he was supremely a good friend and good comrade, and there has been no filling of the very empty place left by his passing. Men like him have always been too few for the great need of them. Nobody who knew him will ever forget him. finis
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Fall, 1945 SUN SPOTS Page 25 MALCOLM JAMESON -- A TRIBUTE By Manly Wade Wellman Malcolm Jameson, voyager, naval officer, cosmopolite, masterly writer of scientific fact and fiction, and a very gallant gentleman, died in April of an agonizing throat ailment which he endured to the end with a grace and courage that may well have been the greatest achievement of his varied and triumphant career. The son of a distinguished Southern family, Malcolm Jameson was born in Texas and from boyhood pursued the trail of adventure. As a professional musician he visited cities throughout the nation, worked as a cowhand, railroader and mechanic, and during the first World War was a naval lieutenant, remaining in the Navy until the illness that finally killed him necessitated his retirement. Master of several languages, he visited and was at home in both Europe and the Far East. When he turned to the writing of science fiction, his rich experience and considerable education helped him to make an immediate success of a new adventure, the adventure of imagination. His understanding of mechanics and ordinance enabled him to write "The Giant Atom", a science novel published in Stating Stories, which so ably foretold the newly-developed atomic power that it is being rushed into book form. Jameson's chief success was in stories of science and the supernatural published in Astounding Science Fiction, Unknown Worlds, Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, and Weird Tales. Both his children have fought ably in the Second World War--his son Malcolm as a major in the infantry, fight the Japanese in the South Pacific, and his daughter Vida as a Corporal in the WAC, in an important assignment at Washington which, now that the war is over, will perhaps be revealed to the public as a service as interesting as her father's fiction. Much more might be said about Malcolm Jameson's character and career. To those of us who knew him best, he was supremely a good friend and good comrade, and there has been no filling of the very empty place left by his passing. Men like him have always been too few for the great need of them. Nobody who knew him will ever forget him. finis
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