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Spaceways, v. 4, issue 1, whole no. 24, December 1941
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3 SPACEWAYS FROM THE CONTROL ROOM Three years gone! We were, naturally, reasonably optimistic when Spaceways was started. But we'd have thought a long, long time before risking any money on the proposition that the magazine would still be kicking at the end of 1941. And not that we like to brag, but do you know that Spaceways is now the oldest fanzine, of those that have appeared regularly? Several others still existing were started before Spaceways, but those have all seen periods of suspended animation at one time or another. There have been more than two months between consecutive issues of Spaceways. End no-false modesty department. As an innovation to begin the fourth year, look at all the pretty pictures! Some of you have been yipping for more illustrations, and who are we to deny such innocent pleasure? Of course, it's merely an experiment, and if you don't like them we'll go back to the pages of unbroken typing. Let us know your opinion, won't you A few words of explanation: all illustrations in this and future issues, unless otherwise credited, will be the work of that great artist, Ann O'Nemuss. They'll be taken from magazines, newspapers, art-service sheets, and anywhere else we can find some. Of course, we don't give an iron-clad guarantee that they'll always be completely appropriate. For instance, we are quite aware that the animal on page ten is a lion when the text calls for a tiger. But we didn't have a tiger handy, and a perfectly good lion was going to waste and might never be used otherwise. Maybe in the future we'll succeed in figuring out a foolproof way to have some fan artist do our illustrations for us without the usual troubles of sending to the artist dummies or manuscripts, worrying about whether he'll get the drawings to us on time, what to do if he decides he can't think of anything for a certain item or we don't like something he sends and it's too late to have it changed, and so on. We're also going to pester someone for some new department headings, and hope to have them here in time for the next issue. In fine, if by any chance you have some lettering guides for stencil work and would care to sell at a reasonable price, will you get in touch with us? We'd like to use some decent letterings for titles, but can't get used to the idea of paying the tremendous sums the guides cost when new. Not much room left; will it be all right to dispense with the formality of paragraphing? It will? That's fine....In case you expected a super-super big issue like last anniversary and are wondering we decided against it. After our frenzied appeal for financial aid several issues ago, we disliked the idea of asking for booster ads so soon, aren't affluent enough to make up the difference between an average and a big issue-besides, think of the chaos if every fanzine asked for booster ads every time it had a birthday! Once every two years should suffice....Sorry almost all the material in this issue is continued in one way or another. We wanted to publish Widner's article all in one part—but there just wasn't room, since the whole thing occupies ten pages. Naturally we had to finish off Farsaci's article, and were afraid Chauvenet would do something dreadful if we didn't use his in installment of "If I Werewolf" this time after the frenzied way we insisted he get it there on time. Speer will do the next section of it.... Sorry too that "What They Are About" is so meagre. We've run out of J. Michael's reviews now, have asked for more, and hope to have them here in time for next issue....If the word "expired" appears in the space to the left, your subscription has expired. Please don't forget the little formality of renewing; you don't want to miss an issue, we trust. Please send those ratings and best yarns of 1941 selections—see page 25—and Merry Christmas!
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3 SPACEWAYS FROM THE CONTROL ROOM Three years gone! We were, naturally, reasonably optimistic when Spaceways was started. But we'd have thought a long, long time before risking any money on the proposition that the magazine would still be kicking at the end of 1941. And not that we like to brag, but do you know that Spaceways is now the oldest fanzine, of those that have appeared regularly? Several others still existing were started before Spaceways, but those have all seen periods of suspended animation at one time or another. There have been more than two months between consecutive issues of Spaceways. End no-false modesty department. As an innovation to begin the fourth year, look at all the pretty pictures! Some of you have been yipping for more illustrations, and who are we to deny such innocent pleasure? Of course, it's merely an experiment, and if you don't like them we'll go back to the pages of unbroken typing. Let us know your opinion, won't you A few words of explanation: all illustrations in this and future issues, unless otherwise credited, will be the work of that great artist, Ann O'Nemuss. They'll be taken from magazines, newspapers, art-service sheets, and anywhere else we can find some. Of course, we don't give an iron-clad guarantee that they'll always be completely appropriate. For instance, we are quite aware that the animal on page ten is a lion when the text calls for a tiger. But we didn't have a tiger handy, and a perfectly good lion was going to waste and might never be used otherwise. Maybe in the future we'll succeed in figuring out a foolproof way to have some fan artist do our illustrations for us without the usual troubles of sending to the artist dummies or manuscripts, worrying about whether he'll get the drawings to us on time, what to do if he decides he can't think of anything for a certain item or we don't like something he sends and it's too late to have it changed, and so on. We're also going to pester someone for some new department headings, and hope to have them here in time for the next issue. In fine, if by any chance you have some lettering guides for stencil work and would care to sell at a reasonable price, will you get in touch with us? We'd like to use some decent letterings for titles, but can't get used to the idea of paying the tremendous sums the guides cost when new. Not much room left; will it be all right to dispense with the formality of paragraphing? It will? That's fine....In case you expected a super-super big issue like last anniversary and are wondering we decided against it. After our frenzied appeal for financial aid several issues ago, we disliked the idea of asking for booster ads so soon, aren't affluent enough to make up the difference between an average and a big issue-besides, think of the chaos if every fanzine asked for booster ads every time it had a birthday! Once every two years should suffice....Sorry almost all the material in this issue is continued in one way or another. We wanted to publish Widner's article all in one part—but there just wasn't room, since the whole thing occupies ten pages. Naturally we had to finish off Farsaci's article, and were afraid Chauvenet would do something dreadful if we didn't use his in installment of "If I Werewolf" this time after the frenzied way we insisted he get it there on time. Speer will do the next section of it.... Sorry too that "What They Are About" is so meagre. We've run out of J. Michael's reviews now, have asked for more, and hope to have them here in time for next issue....If the word "expired" appears in the space to the left, your subscription has expired. Please don't forget the little formality of renewing; you don't want to miss an issue, we trust. Please send those ratings and best yarns of 1941 selections—see page 25—and Merry Christmas!
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