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Tycho, v. 1, issue 2, November 1942

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Page 14                                           TYCHO
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"The Blue Men of Yrano" does all right in technicolor when produced b van Vogt Crosby, whose grandfather sits around and mumbles about some extinct animals known as "horses."

   Cowboy pictures are a thing of the past, and without that inspiration, the youngsters have discarded their game of "Cowboy and Indian". Thry call their modernized version Tellurian & Martian. When an astronomer peeks at Mars through the new 400-inch telescope, and announces that there are definitely no humanoid beings on that planet, it provokes the greatest riot since Galileo defiantly murmured "E pur si Muov!"

   And fandom -- how it has changed! Altogether it boasts of twenty million men, women and children, but it is divided into three main groups, with a number of small factions. The Film Fantasy Fans, the Radio Fantasy Fans and the Fantasy Fiction Fans. The last are by far the most powerful. The NFFF is still trying to unite them all into one big body, but is having only indifferent success. The election of Mrs Esther Hestor Bester of Fried Flats, Nevada (a plump milliner who's in the category of the RFF) causes five million Fantasy Fiction Fans to bolt out of the federation and set up their own National Fantasy Fiction Fan Full-Fledged Federation. (The NFFFFFF)

   Another book anthology has been compiled, titled "Another Other Worlds - by Fil Stunk". It has been met with indifferent approval.
   Fantasy has gone high - brow too. Many high-schools and colleges include classic stf tales in their literature courses...the students delve into Weinbaum and Lovecraft, Williamson and Simak, and for book reports, study the Skylark Trilogy and "Captain Future and the Seven Space-Stones". For their term papers, they are required to ryt on such subjects as "Second Stage Lensman -- a satirical epic", "The Early Fan--Man or Mess?" or "Comparing Ray Cummings and Shakespeare."

   The pioneers in the early fantasy field haven't been forgotten, though. There are statues of L. Sprague deCamp in 19 states of the U.S., Nelson S. Bond's bust has been placed in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner, and Los Angeles becomes the first city to name a high-school after Heinlein. Famed author Joseph Gilbert paws his beard and tells hero-worshiping visitors to his Argentine rancho how he came about writing his favorite tale: "The Man Who Knew Roger Stanley".

   The Smithsonian Institute preserves many copies of early fanmags and millionaires pay fortunes to obtain rare copies of certain fanzines. A wealthy New Zealander for instance, pays $209,333 for Tycho #2, issued in 1942. The first Amazing is worth more than the key to Hitler's Anarctica prison cell.

   Ghod, I think I better stop, this is getting too fantastic!
                   -finis-

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Page 14 TYCHO ________________________________________ "The Blue Men of Yrano" does all right in technicolor when produced b van Vogt Crosby, whose grandfather sits around and mumbles about some extinct animals known as "horses." Cowboy pictures are a thing of the past, and without that inspiration, the youngsters have discarded their game of "Cowboy and Indian". Thry call their modernized version Tellurian & Martian. When an astronomer peeks at Mars through the new 400-inch telescope, and announces that there are definitely no humanoid beings on that planet, it provokes the greatest riot since Galileo defiantly murmured "E pur si Muov!" And fandom -- how it has changed! Altogether it boasts of twenty million men, women and children, but it is divided into three main groups, with a number of small factions. The Film Fantasy Fans, the Radio Fantasy Fans and the Fantasy Fiction Fans. The last are by far the most powerful. The NFFF is still trying to unite them all into one big body, but is having only indifferent success. The election of Mrs Esther Hestor Bester of Fried Flats, Nevada (a plump milliner who's in the category of the RFF) causes five million Fantasy Fiction Fans to bolt out of the federation and set up their own National Fantasy Fiction Fan Full-Fledged Federation. (The NFFFFFF) Another book anthology has been compiled, titled "Another Other Worlds - by Fil Stunk". It has been met with indifferent approval. Fantasy has gone high - brow too. Many high-schools and colleges include classic stf tales in their literature courses...the students delve into Weinbaum and Lovecraft, Williamson and Simak, and for book reports, study the Skylark Trilogy and "Captain Future and the Seven Space-Stones". For their term papers, they are required to ryt on such subjects as "Second Stage Lensman -- a satirical epic", "The Early Fan--Man or Mess?" or "Comparing Ray Cummings and Shakespeare." The pioneers in the early fantasy field haven't been forgotten, though. There are statues of L. Sprague deCamp in 19 states of the U.S., Nelson S. Bond's bust has been placed in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner, and Los Angeles becomes the first city to name a high-school after Heinlein. Famed author Joseph Gilbert paws his beard and tells hero-worshiping visitors to his Argentine rancho how he came about writing his favorite tale: "The Man Who Knew Roger Stanley". The Smithsonian Institute preserves many copies of early fanmags and millionaires pay fortunes to obtain rare copies of certain fanzines. A wealthy New Zealander for instance, pays $209,333 for Tycho #2, issued in 1942. The first Amazing is worth more than the key to Hitler's Anarctica prison cell. Ghod, I think I better stop, this is getting too fantastic! -finis-