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Milty's Mag, June 1941
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Milty's Mag Page eleven ________________________________________ STUFF about the last mailing The mailing looked like it was going to be pretty slim, but after one or two supplements floated in it turned out to be a pretty fair package. The Fantasy Amateur: Interlineatios starting to get too personal. The secretary took up too much room, but since he mimeographed it, who was going to stop him? Horizons: Milty should never have made that issue of Milty's Mag so small. Millions of people wept at its near-exclusion from the mailing, and it made him as conceited as all hell. Comments on the previous mailing agree in a mold sort of way with my own thots. But that Year of Astounding! Milty Thot he was a bug on talking to himself, but this takes the cake. I did read some of it. Reaction on Slan is probalby typical. The first few parts roared upward terrifically. The climax came with the death of Kathleen, after one of the most beautiful passages in science fiction, when for the first time in my life I sat there cussing out an author. The end of the story came several pages before Von Vogt stopped writing. That's why the last installment seemed such a letdown. Between the three of us, Elmer, Lester del Rey and myself had figured out what was what, and the only thing we didn't get was that business with the genes and chromosomes, so Elmer and I were sore because the author hadn't been smarter than us. So Warner has the Hampdenshire Wonder. I'll have to start figuring how to steal it. So far Odd John is by far the best superman in my reading. The Time Scanner: Enjoyed the contents very much, especially because of being so involved in them. A masterpiece of understatement was the sentence: "We dined at the 'Purity Restaurant' -- what a dive that was." What a dive that was! Some day I'll tell you. Or better, Elmer should tell you. He knows the proper words better. You people must have a pretty awful impression of Elmer by the various descriptions that have gone around. It looks like I'll have to have a picture of him somewhere in this issue. He really looks almost human sometimes. (Particularly after a haircut.) Fantaseer: Thompson's story not bad. Perhaps a bit too subtle. The point had to be searched for among the words. Typical. Strange Fantasy: Look, if you people don't use your own names, you're just not going to get any activity credit. I presume this is put out by Farsaci, but I don't know who the others are. Except Clark Ashton Smith, of course. To think that some
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Milty's Mag Page eleven ________________________________________ STUFF about the last mailing The mailing looked like it was going to be pretty slim, but after one or two supplements floated in it turned out to be a pretty fair package. The Fantasy Amateur: Interlineatios starting to get too personal. The secretary took up too much room, but since he mimeographed it, who was going to stop him? Horizons: Milty should never have made that issue of Milty's Mag so small. Millions of people wept at its near-exclusion from the mailing, and it made him as conceited as all hell. Comments on the previous mailing agree in a mold sort of way with my own thots. But that Year of Astounding! Milty Thot he was a bug on talking to himself, but this takes the cake. I did read some of it. Reaction on Slan is probalby typical. The first few parts roared upward terrifically. The climax came with the death of Kathleen, after one of the most beautiful passages in science fiction, when for the first time in my life I sat there cussing out an author. The end of the story came several pages before Von Vogt stopped writing. That's why the last installment seemed such a letdown. Between the three of us, Elmer, Lester del Rey and myself had figured out what was what, and the only thing we didn't get was that business with the genes and chromosomes, so Elmer and I were sore because the author hadn't been smarter than us. So Warner has the Hampdenshire Wonder. I'll have to start figuring how to steal it. So far Odd John is by far the best superman in my reading. The Time Scanner: Enjoyed the contents very much, especially because of being so involved in them. A masterpiece of understatement was the sentence: "We dined at the 'Purity Restaurant' -- what a dive that was." What a dive that was! Some day I'll tell you. Or better, Elmer should tell you. He knows the proper words better. You people must have a pretty awful impression of Elmer by the various descriptions that have gone around. It looks like I'll have to have a picture of him somewhere in this issue. He really looks almost human sometimes. (Particularly after a haircut.) Fantaseer: Thompson's story not bad. Perhaps a bit too subtle. The point had to be searched for among the words. Typical. Strange Fantasy: Look, if you people don't use your own names, you're just not going to get any activity credit. I presume this is put out by Farsaci, but I don't know who the others are. Except Clark Ashton Smith, of course. To think that some
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