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Fantasy Aspects, issue 2, November 1947

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584 E. Monroe St. Little Falls, N.Y. Fantasy Aspects Issue 2 November 1947 Editorial Let us lead off this editorial with a thank-you note to all the swell fans who wrote about the first ish. You seemed to like the idea of a reprint mag. Hope You like this issue. There are a few changes this issue. As you requested we have double-columened the whole issue. Sorry that the cover is one color, next issue we'll have two colors. A real innovation, we believe, is our interior foremat. We have begun all the articles, etc. in the front of the mag. This is the foremat followed in the slick fiction mags. Do you like it? Instead of a variety in headings, we have made them all similar, to form a rythymic pattern. Rythym cam turn to momotony, tho. Let us know what you think. Our selection committee is working now and here are its choices: D.B. Thompson; Synthesis, How Not To Believe A Critic, The Devil To Pay, 'Snow Use, Collecting, It's Fiction But Is It Science. Art Widner; Pumping Station. Joe Kennedy; Death Into Life, Eblis in Bakelite. Harold Cheney, Jr.; Metropolis. Don't get the idea that the picking of material is a closed matter. All your suggestions will recieve close consideration. Next issue will introduce a feature that has benn practically begged for. Fandom's Hall of Fame; an article picked from the best of yesteryear. Any Nominations? And how about a better name for the feature. Suggestions are welcom. Don't know as we should talk about a next issue. If we maintain this schedule, it will be some time 'ere #3 come out. To put it bluntly, our laziness coupled with our activites (8 hrs. work, 4 hrs. of p. g. high school, 8 hrs sleep, & eating, dressing, going to and from here ant there) make the printing of Fantasy Aspects a long drawn out affair. If some Nffans would like to help with the typing, we might do better. Purely Personal the Editor At the Philcon last august, Jack Speer attempted to have a resolution passed putting the Philcon on record against the Shaver Stories and the magazine featuring them. Geo. Caldwell in his last Lunacy, expressed a forget-about-it, its-their-business attitude. I would like to take a stand mid-way between these. Certainly, as fans and enthusiasts of fantasy fiction, it is essential that we take an interest in the mags that present it. By virtue of having read varying amounts of stf, we can also feel able to criticize the stories they print. It is to our interest to discuss the Shaver saga, and do all logical and ethical to surpress them. However as somewhat sensible people, we must realize that no protest from a few hundred fans is going to dissuade the publishers from a policy that has boosted the mag to a circulation well over 200,00. Miss Gnaedinger would like nothing more than to give us the old Munsey reprints. Sam Merwin would leap with joy if he could abolish the Bergey covers. John Campbell would like nothing more than to give us a large size Astounding. They can't. Popular pubs is bound to a no-reprint policy. Standard is devoted to its lurid, hack covers. Street & Smith can't spare the paper for Ast. It seems certain that Mr. Palmer has almost free hand with his two mags. He wants paper? ZD's art staff is one of the best. Palmer is in a position to give s-f fans the dream mag. What do we get? Shaver. No I'm not mad. Just sick when I think of what Amazings Stories could be, then what it is. The sponsorship of this magazine by the N.F.F.F. does not necessarily mean that the NFFF or its Officers and members approve the views expressed in this magazine. Page 2
 
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