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Fantasy News Annual, v. 7, issue 1, whole no. 150, July 27, 1941

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FANTASY NEWS     SECOND NEWS SECTION    Page Eleven

[text in two columns]
[first column]ODD ITEMS CONT:
THE FEATURE NOVEL of the October UNKNOWN, the first of the large-size issues, will be "The Land of Unreason" by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. This novel will be revised and somewhat enlarged for book publication by Henry Holt & Co. and appear sometime next winter or spring. The same authors have "The Incomplete Enchanter", a book based on the Harold Shea stories, appearing on or about September 25th. Pratt's monumental "The Nav A History" will be reissued shortly as a low-priced reprint.
ANTHONY BOUCHER, whose real name is A. P. White, was a recent visitor to New York. He is the popular detective-story author and fantasy fan. Mr. White, who lives in Los Angeles, recently sold an article on Nostradamus' prohecies to UNKNOWN WORLDS, and is now working on a 'whodunnit" in which the characters will be science fiction fans and writers. He says that his characters will not (with one or two exceptions) be fictional portrayals of real people.
The L. Sprague de Camp's will pass the latter half of August at Middlebury, Vermont, where e Camp has received a fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
L. (for Lafayette) Ronald Hubbard, the Scarlet-Thatched Satyr of Seattle, has received a specialist's commission in the U.S. Navy, where he will be in charge of magazine publicity. It is feared that he will not be able to do much science fiction and fantasy writing until after the war is over. Mr. Hubbard comes of a traditionally Navy family; his father is commander of the USS Astoria (a heavy cruiser), and Hubbard himself served a stretch in the Marines years ago.
A NEW BIOGRAPHY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE is just being finished by Arthur Robson Quinn.
E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM, 74 year old writer of mysteries, is writing his memoirs.

[second column] SCIENCE FICTION & MUSIC Cont: the unknown, and all heroes are not six feet high or higher and named O'Brien.

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FANTASY NEWS SECOND NEWS SECTION Page Eleven [text in two columns] [first column]ODD ITEMS CONT: THE FEATURE NOVEL of the October UNKNOWN, the first of the large-size issues, will be "The Land of Unreason" by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. This novel will be revised and somewhat enlarged for book publication by Henry Holt & Co. and appear sometime next winter or spring. The same authors have "The Incomplete Enchanter", a book based on the Harold Shea stories, appearing on or about September 25th. Pratt's monumental "The Nav A History" will be reissued shortly as a low-priced reprint. ANTHONY BOUCHER, whose real name is A. P. White, was a recent visitor to New York. He is the popular detective-story author and fantasy fan. Mr. White, who lives in Los Angeles, recently sold an article on Nostradamus' prohecies to UNKNOWN WORLDS, and is now working on a 'whodunnit" in which the characters will be science fiction fans and writers. He says that his characters will not (with one or two exceptions) be fictional portrayals of real people. The L. Sprague de Camp's will pass the latter half of August at Middlebury, Vermont, where e Camp has received a fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. L. (for Lafayette) Ronald Hubbard, the Scarlet-Thatched Satyr of Seattle, has received a specialist's commission in the U.S. Navy, where he will be in charge of magazine publicity. It is feared that he will not be able to do much science fiction and fantasy writing until after the war is over. Mr. Hubbard comes of a traditionally Navy family; his father is commander of the USS Astoria (a heavy cruiser), and Hubbard himself served a stretch in the Marines years ago. A NEW BIOGRAPHY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE is just being finished by Arthur Robson Quinn. E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM, 74 year old writer of mysteries, is writing his memoirs. [second column] SCIENCE FICTION & MUSIC Cont: the unknown, and all heroes are not six feet high or higher and named O'Brien.