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Science Fiction Fan, v. 2, issue 8, March 1938
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What's New with NEW FANDOM? F. W. Lowndes Excellent as Olon F. Wiggins' article in a recent issue of FAN in debunking the hypocritical claims of NEW FANDOM is, there are still a a few items which the article did not cover, and which are particularly pertinent today. NEW FANDOM does represent at least one new phase in the field of fandom---an open, reactionary axis, designed to represent stf and stf fandom to the world (through the medium of the World's Fair convention) as a meaningless mass of juvenile escapism, blissfully unaware of what is happening outside of the covers of current stf magazines. While the failures of relatively honest editors such as Campbell to take definite sides with the progressive Michelist element in stf and fandom is not reprehensible (no editor can justly be blamed for not sticking his neck out
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What's New with NEW FANDOM? F. W. Lowndes Excellent as Olon F. Wiggins' article in a recent issue of FAN in debunking the hypocritical claims of NEW FANDOM is, there are still a a few items which the article did not cover, and which are particularly pertinent today. NEW FANDOM does represent at least one new phase in the field of fandom---an open, reactionary axis, designed to represent stf and stf fandom to the world (through the medium of the World's Fair convention) as a meaningless mass of juvenile escapism, blissfully unaware of what is happening outside of the covers of current stf magazines. While the failures of relatively honest editors such as Campbell to take definite sides with the progressive Michelist element in stf and fandom is not reprehensible (no editor can justly be blamed for not sticking his neck out
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