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Fantascience Digest, v. 3, issue 1, whole no. 12, January-February 1940
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Page 28 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST SCIENCE FICTION Spotlight ROBERT A. MADLE MARK REINSBERG What is undoubtedly the most important occurrence of the past month was the dismissal of Farnsworth Wright as editor of Weird Tales. Yes, the man who piloted WT through thick and thin, who made the magazine what it is today, who discovered and developed such writers are Robert Bloch, C.L. Moore, Henry Kuttner, and many others, was fired unceremoniously. The new editor is Dorothy Mollwraith, who edits the other magazines published by the present publishers of Weird Tales. -------------------------------------- At last! It is believed that the solution to the partially-solved Weinbaum trilogy is at hand. It is true that all three stories ("Dawn of Flame," "Black Flame," and "The New Adam") were once one tremendous novel. A reading of "The New Adam" indicates that this story came first in order, followed by "Dawn of Flame", and concluded by "The Black Flame." Readers of all three stories cannot help but arrive at the conclusion that the three stories are connected. And that just about winds up the Weinbaum "trilogy". However, news of another (perhaps more than one) unpublished manuscript is at hand. So be on the lookout for "The Mad Brain", and others, eventually to be published somewhere. Incidentally, sales on "The New Adam" have been pitifully small among fans; the fans who demanded the book and finally got it. Get your copy now; it is an epic which belongs on every fan's shelf. ------------------------------------- After all said and done, Charles D. Hornig's Science Fiction Quarterly may never be published. Hornig says, "Whether or not the Quarterly will be published will depend entirely upon the drawing power of the advertisements places in the March issues of Science Fiction and Future Fiction." Incidentally, Hornig is now living in Los Angeles, and will be the first stf editor to carry on his work via long distance. He also intends to operate a manuscript-criticism bureau for authors. ----------------------------------- Two novelettes head the March issue of Astounding; "Cold" by Nat Schachner, and the return of Johnny Black in "The Emancipated" by L. Sprague de Camp. Johnny meets up with McGinty, the talking ape, and then the fun starts....Alexander M. Phillips' "Chapter from the Beginning", and "In the Good Old Summertime" and "The Dwindling Sphere" round out the short stories. The former is by Miller and the latter
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Page 28 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST SCIENCE FICTION Spotlight ROBERT A. MADLE MARK REINSBERG What is undoubtedly the most important occurrence of the past month was the dismissal of Farnsworth Wright as editor of Weird Tales. Yes, the man who piloted WT through thick and thin, who made the magazine what it is today, who discovered and developed such writers are Robert Bloch, C.L. Moore, Henry Kuttner, and many others, was fired unceremoniously. The new editor is Dorothy Mollwraith, who edits the other magazines published by the present publishers of Weird Tales. -------------------------------------- At last! It is believed that the solution to the partially-solved Weinbaum trilogy is at hand. It is true that all three stories ("Dawn of Flame," "Black Flame," and "The New Adam") were once one tremendous novel. A reading of "The New Adam" indicates that this story came first in order, followed by "Dawn of Flame", and concluded by "The Black Flame." Readers of all three stories cannot help but arrive at the conclusion that the three stories are connected. And that just about winds up the Weinbaum "trilogy". However, news of another (perhaps more than one) unpublished manuscript is at hand. So be on the lookout for "The Mad Brain", and others, eventually to be published somewhere. Incidentally, sales on "The New Adam" have been pitifully small among fans; the fans who demanded the book and finally got it. Get your copy now; it is an epic which belongs on every fan's shelf. ------------------------------------- After all said and done, Charles D. Hornig's Science Fiction Quarterly may never be published. Hornig says, "Whether or not the Quarterly will be published will depend entirely upon the drawing power of the advertisements places in the March issues of Science Fiction and Future Fiction." Incidentally, Hornig is now living in Los Angeles, and will be the first stf editor to carry on his work via long distance. He also intends to operate a manuscript-criticism bureau for authors. ----------------------------------- Two novelettes head the March issue of Astounding; "Cold" by Nat Schachner, and the return of Johnny Black in "The Emancipated" by L. Sprague de Camp. Johnny meets up with McGinty, the talking ape, and then the fun starts....Alexander M. Phillips' "Chapter from the Beginning", and "In the Good Old Summertime" and "The Dwindling Sphere" round out the short stories. The former is by Miller and the latter
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