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Pluto, v. 1, issue 4, September 1940
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BRIGHT STUFF BY CHILDREN Sitting here at our ornately carved teakwood desk, watching the slow progress of a waterbeetle crawling toward our typewriter, we brood over human destinies. It may be a cock-roach Anyway, we think of how much water has gone under the bridge since we launched the first issue of SAL, amid the shrieking plaudits of an admiring crowd, where we ask, are the snows of yesteryear? Time Flies. The cockroach is now crawling over the space-bar of this typewriter, and we are a little touched. News continually breaks. Many rumors are in the wind. We could tell you lots of things that would surprise you, but, just to be nasty we won't. Only when that 300 page, slick-paper, super--fantasy magazine appears---the one with the three dimensional illustrations and the portrait of Ackerman on the cover--don't say we didn't mention it. We are brimming with news and chuckling as we hug our secrets to our bosom. But, as we have always contended, SAL is a different magazine, even, perhaps a little peculiar. So we are going to maintain that standard. We're not like a lot of editors who tell their readers what's coming up next month, and what they may expect. SPRING----- SWEETNESS & LIGHT Variety, its author, agent, publisher and editor, not mention his family, urge and request that you attend the 1940 Chicago World Science Fiction Convention. There you will have the time of your life, get your toes tramped on, your pockets picked, your tie stolen, your favorite fanmags smeared, your own publication, boo'd your intelligence, outraged your family and relatives, insulted and everything; but by golly, you'll have fun which is about all that counts. BOB TUCKER in SCI-FIC-Variety. At the present time ASTOUNDING and UNKNOWN head the list of Science--fiction as Literature---can they hold the pace with the stiff competition of STARTLING? .....the fans, panned the sex angle until MARVEL ceased to use it--the result is that MARVEL ceased to use it and has gone down rapidly and may disappear from the stands. .....Science Fiction needs the sex angle badly----ASTOUNDING has been weak therein-------but an improvement has sat in. ---Thos S. Gardner in "A Critiqe of Science Fiction"---appearing--in May NEW FANDOM Selected by JOE GILBERT - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [image] THIS LITTLE FELLER IS FILLER
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BRIGHT STUFF BY CHILDREN Sitting here at our ornately carved teakwood desk, watching the slow progress of a waterbeetle crawling toward our typewriter, we brood over human destinies. It may be a cock-roach Anyway, we think of how much water has gone under the bridge since we launched the first issue of SAL, amid the shrieking plaudits of an admiring crowd, where we ask, are the snows of yesteryear? Time Flies. The cockroach is now crawling over the space-bar of this typewriter, and we are a little touched. News continually breaks. Many rumors are in the wind. We could tell you lots of things that would surprise you, but, just to be nasty we won't. Only when that 300 page, slick-paper, super--fantasy magazine appears---the one with the three dimensional illustrations and the portrait of Ackerman on the cover--don't say we didn't mention it. We are brimming with news and chuckling as we hug our secrets to our bosom. But, as we have always contended, SAL is a different magazine, even, perhaps a little peculiar. So we are going to maintain that standard. We're not like a lot of editors who tell their readers what's coming up next month, and what they may expect. SPRING----- SWEETNESS & LIGHT Variety, its author, agent, publisher and editor, not mention his family, urge and request that you attend the 1940 Chicago World Science Fiction Convention. There you will have the time of your life, get your toes tramped on, your pockets picked, your tie stolen, your favorite fanmags smeared, your own publication, boo'd your intelligence, outraged your family and relatives, insulted and everything; but by golly, you'll have fun which is about all that counts. BOB TUCKER in SCI-FIC-Variety. At the present time ASTOUNDING and UNKNOWN head the list of Science--fiction as Literature---can they hold the pace with the stiff competition of STARTLING? .....the fans, panned the sex angle until MARVEL ceased to use it--the result is that MARVEL ceased to use it and has gone down rapidly and may disappear from the stands. .....Science Fiction needs the sex angle badly----ASTOUNDING has been weak therein-------but an improvement has sat in. ---Thos S. Gardner in "A Critiqe of Science Fiction"---appearing--in May NEW FANDOM Selected by JOE GILBERT - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [image] THIS LITTLE FELLER IS FILLER
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