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The Science Fiction Fan, v. 4, issue 8, whole no. 44, March 1940
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FAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 satisfied with the present situation, in so far as the financial end of it is concerned. However, since 1936, people have begun to take these fantastic ideas, so called, to heart, and now commence to listen to the "Utopian Skipwits" of the last decade. "Tomoro's City" was a picture that the Depression people laughed at, too far fetched. Now the big oil companies vie with each other to see who can make the most pleasing version, and of course, Muddle Oil or Tuxedo Fur Chief Gasoline has solved the traffic problem of that happy day. It all leads up to the conclusion that people of today have thrown off their derision, and actually do believe that some day New York will look like Norman BelGeddes version. Mr. Everyman actually has a smug conviction that someday man will conquer space. He likes to think of atomic power as other than a mad dream of Prof. Googenslotcher. Gold from the sea, and such similar plans strike him as plausible. After all, he reasons, it could be done. He didn't have that optimistic view even five years ago. He said "Baah", and hurried back to get his place in the bread line. It all might reason up to the fact that, Scientifiction is purely an aesthetical art, its good or bad periods have no bearing on the vital question of "Shall we eat?" However, the question of "Shall we eat?" does have a most decided bearing on the outcome of scientifiction. You can't talk in vague terms of the glorious world of the future to a people who are in a general financial depression. But, a people who have in general a good outlook, and who are on the "road to recovery", or at least, who don't have to worry about the next month's rent; etc. they are ready to listen to the words of the
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FAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 satisfied with the present situation, in so far as the financial end of it is concerned. However, since 1936, people have begun to take these fantastic ideas, so called, to heart, and now commence to listen to the "Utopian Skipwits" of the last decade. "Tomoro's City" was a picture that the Depression people laughed at, too far fetched. Now the big oil companies vie with each other to see who can make the most pleasing version, and of course, Muddle Oil or Tuxedo Fur Chief Gasoline has solved the traffic problem of that happy day. It all leads up to the conclusion that people of today have thrown off their derision, and actually do believe that some day New York will look like Norman BelGeddes version. Mr. Everyman actually has a smug conviction that someday man will conquer space. He likes to think of atomic power as other than a mad dream of Prof. Googenslotcher. Gold from the sea, and such similar plans strike him as plausible. After all, he reasons, it could be done. He didn't have that optimistic view even five years ago. He said "Baah", and hurried back to get his place in the bread line. It all might reason up to the fact that, Scientifiction is purely an aesthetical art, its good or bad periods have no bearing on the vital question of "Shall we eat?" However, the question of "Shall we eat?" does have a most decided bearing on the outcome of scientifiction. You can't talk in vague terms of the glorious world of the future to a people who are in a general financial depression. But, a people who have in general a good outlook, and who are on the "road to recovery", or at least, who don't have to worry about the next month's rent; etc. they are ready to listen to the words of the
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