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FANTASY FICTION FIELD illustrated News Review #40 The National Fantasy News Weekly Published for Julius Unger, 1702 Dahill Road, Brooklyn, New York. 5¢ per issue; 6 for 25¢; one year for $2. FFF will exchange with any other fan magazine. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Julius Unger ASSOCIATES Bob Studley John B. Michl Robert W. Lowndes * A. Merritt (continued from page 8) The Cosmos is real -- or seems to be Yet, to return to relativity, the whole measurement of time as a part of the 4-dimensional continuum is by means of a wholly imaginary unit -- a second multiplied by the square root of minus 1. "If," says Sir James Jeans, one of th greatest of physicists, "we are asked why we adopt these weird methods of measurement, the answer is that they appear to be nature's own system of measurement." So what is real and what is unreal? "Nothing is real but the power to open the windows of the mind." Thinking along these lines, I was much interested the other day when a friend told me he had met a certain Professor of Mathematics in one of ours leading colleges, who had read and greatly liked my books. He had said that fantasy interested him quite as much as calculus. He was distressed because he had found that fantasy and clarity of style seldom went together. Then he said that to his mind all fantasy is poetry, no matter what the construction might be, prose or otherwise. There, he made the point that in his mind true fantasy is poetry plus mathematical clarity. "Higher mathematics and higher physics are both in the "realm of the true fantastic", said he. It was disconcerting, but the professor continued that what had impressed him in my stories had been the style rathan the content. In fact, he read them only for style, he said. This style he felt was outstanding in that there was a "clearness", and the "not normal", the "not familiar" made normal and familiar to the reader. He held, and this is really the kernel of the whole thing, that writing, in the fantastic field "has to be either good or worthless; it cannot be fair." And I think that is wholly true. There are too many stories being written today which are labelled fantastic - when they are not truly that. They are good stories, many of them, but most of them are not fantastic. - - A. MERRITT * FFF's Magazine Price List - - Amazing Stories: 1926-1930 (50¢); 1931-1937 (35¢); 1938-1940 (25¢) Wonder Stories: 1929-1931 (50¢); 1932-1937 (35¢); 1938-1940 (25¢) Astounding: 1930-1932 (50¢) 1933-1937 (35¢); 1938-1940 (25¢) - note exceptions are made in the cases of those issues containing installments of the "Moon Pool", "Skylark" stories, or Vol 1 No 1 of any of the big three - for these are special prices. Weird Tales: 1926 ($1); 1927-1930 (50¢); 1931-1934 (40¢); 1935-1937 (35¢); 1938-1940 - (25¢). All copies of the following magazines are priced at 25¢ each: Marvel Science Stories, Dynamic Science Stories, Strange Stories, Unknown, Fantastic Adventures, Startling Stories, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Planet Stories, Captain Future, Astonishing Stories, Super Science Stories, Marvel Tales, Science Fiction Magazine, Future Fiction, Science Fiction Quarterly, Super Science Novels, Stirring Science Stories, Cosmic Stories, Comet, Uncanny Stories, and Cosmic Science Fiction. All copies of Strange Tales (Clayton magazine 1931-1933) @ 50¢. Oriental Stories & Magic Carpet magazine also @ 50¢. * CITY DESK As we close volume two of FFF, we feel that this is the time and place to thank, publicly all those fans and professionals who have given us such splendid cooperation. Without the aid of innumerable unofficial associates, no news weekly can exist. There isn't space to mention you all, so, everyone, just thanx.
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FANTASY FICTION FIELD illustrated News Review #40 The National Fantasy News Weekly Published for Julius Unger, 1702 Dahill Road, Brooklyn, New York. 5¢ per issue; 6 for 25¢; one year for $2. FFF will exchange with any other fan magazine. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Julius Unger ASSOCIATES Bob Studley John B. Michl Robert W. Lowndes * A. Merritt (continued from page 8) The Cosmos is real -- or seems to be Yet, to return to relativity, the whole measurement of time as a part of the 4-dimensional continuum is by means of a wholly imaginary unit -- a second multiplied by the square root of minus 1. "If," says Sir James Jeans, one of th greatest of physicists, "we are asked why we adopt these weird methods of measurement, the answer is that they appear to be nature's own system of measurement." So what is real and what is unreal? "Nothing is real but the power to open the windows of the mind." Thinking along these lines, I was much interested the other day when a friend told me he had met a certain Professor of Mathematics in one of ours leading colleges, who had read and greatly liked my books. He had said that fantasy interested him quite as much as calculus. He was distressed because he had found that fantasy and clarity of style seldom went together. Then he said that to his mind all fantasy is poetry, no matter what the construction might be, prose or otherwise. There, he made the point that in his mind true fantasy is poetry plus mathematical clarity. "Higher mathematics and higher physics are both in the "realm of the true fantastic", said he. It was disconcerting, but the professor continued that what had impressed him in my stories had been the style rathan the content. In fact, he read them only for style, he said. This style he felt was outstanding in that there was a "clearness", and the "not normal", the "not familiar" made normal and familiar to the reader. He held, and this is really the kernel of the whole thing, that writing, in the fantastic field "has to be either good or worthless; it cannot be fair." And I think that is wholly true. There are too many stories being written today which are labelled fantastic - when they are not truly that. They are good stories, many of them, but most of them are not fantastic. - - A. MERRITT * FFF's Magazine Price List - - Amazing Stories: 1926-1930 (50¢); 1931-1937 (35¢); 1938-1940 (25¢) Wonder Stories: 1929-1931 (50¢); 1932-1937 (35¢); 1938-1940 (25¢) Astounding: 1930-1932 (50¢) 1933-1937 (35¢); 1938-1940 (25¢) - note exceptions are made in the cases of those issues containing installments of the "Moon Pool", "Skylark" stories, or Vol 1 No 1 of any of the big three - for these are special prices. Weird Tales: 1926 ($1); 1927-1930 (50¢); 1931-1934 (40¢); 1935-1937 (35¢); 1938-1940 - (25¢). All copies of the following magazines are priced at 25¢ each: Marvel Science Stories, Dynamic Science Stories, Strange Stories, Unknown, Fantastic Adventures, Startling Stories, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Planet Stories, Captain Future, Astonishing Stories, Super Science Stories, Marvel Tales, Science Fiction Magazine, Future Fiction, Science Fiction Quarterly, Super Science Novels, Stirring Science Stories, Cosmic Stories, Comet, Uncanny Stories, and Cosmic Science Fiction. All copies of Strange Tales (Clayton magazine 1931-1933) @ 50¢. Oriental Stories & Magic Carpet magazine also @ 50¢. * CITY DESK As we close volume two of FFF, we feel that this is the time and place to thank, publicly all those fans and professionals who have given us such splendid cooperation. Without the aid of innumerable unofficial associates, no news weekly can exist. There isn't space to mention you all, so, everyone, just thanx.
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