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Science Fiction Fan, v. 2, issue 8, March 1938
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D. A. WOLLHEIM CONDUCTING FANPARADE "Space travel is not a dream of the far future, you idealists! And none of the practical problems is insoluble, you technicians! A voyage to the moon is possible at this very moment. If the rest of the BIS had worked as hard as certain members of it have, if but a fraction of the money thrown away on armaments had been devoted to this purpose, the lunar trip would be an historical feat by now. Man would be conquering new worlds instead of destroying his own..." So reads part of the thrilling editorial in the January 1939 issue of the JOURNAL OF THE BIS. This issue, which may someday be ranked as one of the milestones of man's progress, contains a description and diagrams of the BIS Spaceship-- a fully workable non-fantastic machine which could, if built as is, conquer space. There is absolutely nothing stopping space flight now but the economic factor. And the economic factor depends entirely upon the vagaries of the political factor. It is more and more becoming inescapably obvious to the intelligent stf reader than the only way in which a fan may actually work to make the future that he dreams of come true, is by working in a political sense. Today, in the grim chaos that grows over all the world, when wars and threats of war are the order of the day, and terror grows almost hourly, nothing else can be important, nothing else can be permanent, nothing else
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D. A. WOLLHEIM CONDUCTING FANPARADE "Space travel is not a dream of the far future, you idealists! And none of the practical problems is insoluble, you technicians! A voyage to the moon is possible at this very moment. If the rest of the BIS had worked as hard as certain members of it have, if but a fraction of the money thrown away on armaments had been devoted to this purpose, the lunar trip would be an historical feat by now. Man would be conquering new worlds instead of destroying his own..." So reads part of the thrilling editorial in the January 1939 issue of the JOURNAL OF THE BIS. This issue, which may someday be ranked as one of the milestones of man's progress, contains a description and diagrams of the BIS Spaceship-- a fully workable non-fantastic machine which could, if built as is, conquer space. There is absolutely nothing stopping space flight now but the economic factor. And the economic factor depends entirely upon the vagaries of the political factor. It is more and more becoming inescapably obvious to the intelligent stf reader than the only way in which a fan may actually work to make the future that he dreams of come true, is by working in a political sense. Today, in the grim chaos that grows over all the world, when wars and threats of war are the order of the day, and terror grows almost hourly, nothing else can be important, nothing else can be permanent, nothing else
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