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Spaceways, v. 3 issue 3, whole no. 19, March 1941
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22 SPACEWAYS THE READERS ALWAYS WRITE be italicized. Typers lack italics, and underlining is the accepted substitute. HW) Because of the changing of tenses and other grammatical errors in The End of the world I'll give it only a 6...Who's Tate Spalmetto? Started out like an outline of a Wellsian novel...changed tenses in the middle and blooped out at the end. Oh...I forgot to give Kraft's fine poem a 10. 6 for Sullivan's stuff. And a great big 10 for the Professor. He is quite amusing. At least he amused me. That's my type of article...good, thick satire.....'''''Back cover was supercolossal. A 10 for it. Which reminds me I had intended to say this before... Bok's back cover in the preceding issue reminded me of an Artzybasheff cut for Orpheus...(???) 'Twas good tho. That's the monster I mean...not the poor unfortunate individual clinging to its leg...or rather waist. Harry Schmarze pens: Reporting on the Ann-ish:--Such a lot of swell articles! I'll give Campbell's article a rating of 10. It certainly provides a lot of information on how Astounding is edited. I didn't care for "Machines That Think". Mr. Lovecraft's poem is a bit heavy....'''''Somehow I do not care for biographies. They depress me. Also, I wish that you wouldn't waste so much space in Spaceways for fiction. Save the fiction for your other mag.....'''''' The Annish of Sun Spots is actually larger than that of Spaceways. S is slipping. (See that swell mag Fanfare.) That back cover--I didn't like it. Tom Wright's front cover is swell, though I believe Saturn is tipped too much. The ring, I mean. I don't see why the upper part only of the gentleman in the spacesuit was drawn into the pic.'''''I notice you had pro fiction--two stories, obviously rejects. (Not the one, and possibly not both. HW) I don't take the trouble to read fan mag fiction at all. The stuff is usually depressing ind injurious to the fan's delicate mind. For good fiction I read Ziff-Davis mags; Uncanny isn't bad at all; I quit Standard mags entirely. Joe Gilbert again: One Man's Viewpoint: The typical view of a not-too-intelligent outsider confronted with something he doesn't understand. Nothing is all-bad; nothing without redeeming features or compensations to make up for the unfortunate points. Fandom is certainly no exception, and to say that everything in it stinks, is not only stupid--which is excusable--but the infallible indication of a superiority complex--which is not. Rating: 6, and it is reasonably unprejudiced, I think.....'''''The Readers Always Write: 8. Honors to Chauvenet, this time. Tsk, tsk, friend Tarr seems to be raising in righteous indignation a bit. Self-righteous. In the first place fan material is seldom exceptional; certainly not enuf so for a really big AnnIssue, and in the second place it's hardly anything to go in for underscoring and fire-breathing about. And I like the pro material for a change. I warn you in advance, Harry, that when you submit the matter to the vote, mine will be for the pro. Encore Art Widner Jr: One Man's Viewpoint: 5. Evidently the work of some half-baked new fan wishing to get everybody's goat, stir up a stink, and thus get a lot of publicity for himself. If, as the "Professor" says (no more a Prof. than I am) Spaceways' material is childish, he has certainly helped the level come down even further. I shouldn't have paid even this much attention to him.... Poll Results: First the ratings. Stardust led everything, at 8.4. In the 11 issues ratings have been kept, it was 1st six times, and 2nd thrice, and winds up with a composite average for the 11 of 8.14. How To Write a Story second: 8.3. Then the letter section, with 7.8 and fourth the conclusion of Sullivan's article, 7.4. (It averaged 8.1 for the three parts.) Fifth is Control Room, 6.8, next End of the World, 6.6, and the seventh What They're About, 6.5. After these: The Mantle of Graag, 6.4. Adventure on Io: 6.24. The cover: 6.2; Viewpoint: 5.9; Not Yet: 5.85; To a Tramp Space-Frieghter: 5.5; back cover: 5.2. Five rated the ads at 7.4. Issue as a whole: 6.72, a considerable drop over the AnnIssue. 2 sets of ratings, from Goldman, Singleton, Chauvenet, Jenkins, Senour, Vogenitz, Swisher, Thompson, Rajocz, Farsaci, Speer, Bronson, Lowndes, Sullivan, Jones, Wright, Croutch, Mulrain, Gilbert and Widner. The poll about the
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22 SPACEWAYS THE READERS ALWAYS WRITE be italicized. Typers lack italics, and underlining is the accepted substitute. HW) Because of the changing of tenses and other grammatical errors in The End of the world I'll give it only a 6...Who's Tate Spalmetto? Started out like an outline of a Wellsian novel...changed tenses in the middle and blooped out at the end. Oh...I forgot to give Kraft's fine poem a 10. 6 for Sullivan's stuff. And a great big 10 for the Professor. He is quite amusing. At least he amused me. That's my type of article...good, thick satire.....'''''Back cover was supercolossal. A 10 for it. Which reminds me I had intended to say this before... Bok's back cover in the preceding issue reminded me of an Artzybasheff cut for Orpheus...(???) 'Twas good tho. That's the monster I mean...not the poor unfortunate individual clinging to its leg...or rather waist. Harry Schmarze pens: Reporting on the Ann-ish:--Such a lot of swell articles! I'll give Campbell's article a rating of 10. It certainly provides a lot of information on how Astounding is edited. I didn't care for "Machines That Think". Mr. Lovecraft's poem is a bit heavy....'''''Somehow I do not care for biographies. They depress me. Also, I wish that you wouldn't waste so much space in Spaceways for fiction. Save the fiction for your other mag.....'''''' The Annish of Sun Spots is actually larger than that of Spaceways. S is slipping. (See that swell mag Fanfare.) That back cover--I didn't like it. Tom Wright's front cover is swell, though I believe Saturn is tipped too much. The ring, I mean. I don't see why the upper part only of the gentleman in the spacesuit was drawn into the pic.'''''I notice you had pro fiction--two stories, obviously rejects. (Not the one, and possibly not both. HW) I don't take the trouble to read fan mag fiction at all. The stuff is usually depressing ind injurious to the fan's delicate mind. For good fiction I read Ziff-Davis mags; Uncanny isn't bad at all; I quit Standard mags entirely. Joe Gilbert again: One Man's Viewpoint: The typical view of a not-too-intelligent outsider confronted with something he doesn't understand. Nothing is all-bad; nothing without redeeming features or compensations to make up for the unfortunate points. Fandom is certainly no exception, and to say that everything in it stinks, is not only stupid--which is excusable--but the infallible indication of a superiority complex--which is not. Rating: 6, and it is reasonably unprejudiced, I think.....'''''The Readers Always Write: 8. Honors to Chauvenet, this time. Tsk, tsk, friend Tarr seems to be raising in righteous indignation a bit. Self-righteous. In the first place fan material is seldom exceptional; certainly not enuf so for a really big AnnIssue, and in the second place it's hardly anything to go in for underscoring and fire-breathing about. And I like the pro material for a change. I warn you in advance, Harry, that when you submit the matter to the vote, mine will be for the pro. Encore Art Widner Jr: One Man's Viewpoint: 5. Evidently the work of some half-baked new fan wishing to get everybody's goat, stir up a stink, and thus get a lot of publicity for himself. If, as the "Professor" says (no more a Prof. than I am) Spaceways' material is childish, he has certainly helped the level come down even further. I shouldn't have paid even this much attention to him.... Poll Results: First the ratings. Stardust led everything, at 8.4. In the 11 issues ratings have been kept, it was 1st six times, and 2nd thrice, and winds up with a composite average for the 11 of 8.14. How To Write a Story second: 8.3. Then the letter section, with 7.8 and fourth the conclusion of Sullivan's article, 7.4. (It averaged 8.1 for the three parts.) Fifth is Control Room, 6.8, next End of the World, 6.6, and the seventh What They're About, 6.5. After these: The Mantle of Graag, 6.4. Adventure on Io: 6.24. The cover: 6.2; Viewpoint: 5.9; Not Yet: 5.85; To a Tramp Space-Frieghter: 5.5; back cover: 5.2. Five rated the ads at 7.4. Issue as a whole: 6.72, a considerable drop over the AnnIssue. 2 sets of ratings, from Goldman, Singleton, Chauvenet, Jenkins, Senour, Vogenitz, Swisher, Thompson, Rajocz, Farsaci, Speer, Bronson, Lowndes, Sullivan, Jones, Wright, Croutch, Mulrain, Gilbert and Widner. The poll about the
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