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Fantasite, v. 1, issue 6, November-December 1941
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FANTA*SCRIPTS Wherein the readers have their say. -------------------------------------- We open this time, with a long letter from Doc Lowndes, from which we only have space to print excerpts, unfortunately. Doc says: Thanx for a dandy issue of Fantasite, full of controversial material such as I love. I shall now contreverse on on aforementioned material. And we'll start with the Columbia Capers. There's an amount of misinformation in that little paragraph on Future, for example. First of all, Columbia is by no means the only company which uses reprints. Have the lads forgotten Famous Fantastic so soon? Moreover, Standard's Startling Stories and Captain Future have a re-print in every issue. And while there may have been a campaign against Fiction House, Munsey was the company to draw the deepest censure from various writer's societies. Nothing could or can be done -- nor, frankly, should it. When Ray Cummings first started writing, for example, he had to compete against reprints of every variety and translations from nearly every language. His stories had to be good to stand up against the run of reprints, and they were. The proportion of reprints today is very small when compared with that if 25 or so years ago. **** And finally, I object to this insistence on the part of Gilbert that I write the "Beacon Light" column. The Science Fiction Critic has sound reasons for remaining anonymous, and, unless in the opinion of Gilbert and others he abuses that privilege, the boys might show a little sportsmanship about the matter. **** In regard to "X", the lads are blowing off without any knowledge of the facts. I am not Roger Conway period unquote. As for the article on Speer which they say is "so obviously prejudiced as to be completely worthless" what evidence have they to state so? I, personally, do not object to Gilbert's slamming anything he does not like. In this case, however, they have made a positive statement without giving reasons therefor, implying that one side is wrong and the other right. Now I happen to know that Gilbert and the rest are in no position to make such a conclusion: that they have not investigated the matter to any appreciable degree. (I don't know whether or not they questioned Speer, but I do know that they never asked me anything about it.) Therefore, their statement is so obviously prejudiced as to be completely worthless. **** When Fantasite came in, I dashed into the next room where Gottesman was busy finishing a novelet saying "Look, Cyril, you're coming up in the world. Now they place you on the same level with Sykora." He read the item in "Hell Fire" then we both laughed and looked around to see if we could find any of the hate which is supposed to envelop him. **** Well, at last the truth has come out. Hellfire Joe sayeth (Joe Doe): Look how detrimental the Futurian group as a whole has been to stfandom. Yes, begad, look! Here follows a brief list of detriments: 1. The FSNY has always fought dirty work in fandom and sought to protect new fans from being played for suckers. 2. The FSNY has always championed square shooting. 3. FSNY members have edited at one time or another stories, many of which were well-liked. 5. FSNY members started the Fantasy Amateur Press Association. 6. FSNY editors gave Bok and Dolgov their first real chances in stf illustrating. 7. FSNY agents are developing new writers from the fan field among whihc are Tucker and Gilbert. 8. FSNY editors contributed the great majority of the items for auction at the Denver convention, the successful sale of which kept said convention from going on the rocks financially -- while a terrific success otherwise, the lack of mass attendance made things dif-
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FANTA*SCRIPTS Wherein the readers have their say. -------------------------------------- We open this time, with a long letter from Doc Lowndes, from which we only have space to print excerpts, unfortunately. Doc says: Thanx for a dandy issue of Fantasite, full of controversial material such as I love. I shall now contreverse on on aforementioned material. And we'll start with the Columbia Capers. There's an amount of misinformation in that little paragraph on Future, for example. First of all, Columbia is by no means the only company which uses reprints. Have the lads forgotten Famous Fantastic so soon? Moreover, Standard's Startling Stories and Captain Future have a re-print in every issue. And while there may have been a campaign against Fiction House, Munsey was the company to draw the deepest censure from various writer's societies. Nothing could or can be done -- nor, frankly, should it. When Ray Cummings first started writing, for example, he had to compete against reprints of every variety and translations from nearly every language. His stories had to be good to stand up against the run of reprints, and they were. The proportion of reprints today is very small when compared with that if 25 or so years ago. **** And finally, I object to this insistence on the part of Gilbert that I write the "Beacon Light" column. The Science Fiction Critic has sound reasons for remaining anonymous, and, unless in the opinion of Gilbert and others he abuses that privilege, the boys might show a little sportsmanship about the matter. **** In regard to "X", the lads are blowing off without any knowledge of the facts. I am not Roger Conway period unquote. As for the article on Speer which they say is "so obviously prejudiced as to be completely worthless" what evidence have they to state so? I, personally, do not object to Gilbert's slamming anything he does not like. In this case, however, they have made a positive statement without giving reasons therefor, implying that one side is wrong and the other right. Now I happen to know that Gilbert and the rest are in no position to make such a conclusion: that they have not investigated the matter to any appreciable degree. (I don't know whether or not they questioned Speer, but I do know that they never asked me anything about it.) Therefore, their statement is so obviously prejudiced as to be completely worthless. **** When Fantasite came in, I dashed into the next room where Gottesman was busy finishing a novelet saying "Look, Cyril, you're coming up in the world. Now they place you on the same level with Sykora." He read the item in "Hell Fire" then we both laughed and looked around to see if we could find any of the hate which is supposed to envelop him. **** Well, at last the truth has come out. Hellfire Joe sayeth (Joe Doe): Look how detrimental the Futurian group as a whole has been to stfandom. Yes, begad, look! Here follows a brief list of detriments: 1. The FSNY has always fought dirty work in fandom and sought to protect new fans from being played for suckers. 2. The FSNY has always championed square shooting. 3. FSNY members have edited at one time or another stories, many of which were well-liked. 5. FSNY members started the Fantasy Amateur Press Association. 6. FSNY editors gave Bok and Dolgov their first real chances in stf illustrating. 7. FSNY agents are developing new writers from the fan field among whihc are Tucker and Gilbert. 8. FSNY editors contributed the great majority of the items for auction at the Denver convention, the successful sale of which kept said convention from going on the rocks financially -- while a terrific success otherwise, the lack of mass attendance made things dif-
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