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FMS Digest, v. 1, issues 1-5, February - July 1941
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F M Z DIGEST Page 5 ME, BRADBURY, AND TWO DOZEN OTHERS By Joe J Fortier condensed from ECLIPSE June, 1941 Honestly, it's a kick. We write in to a dozen professional magazines or so to kick about hack writers polluting the magazine. We complain about the mass production and yell to the high heavens for authors who carefully construct their material. That's a laugh! Have we ever paused to look at our 'model' magazines that are published by you, you, and you, the fans? let's see who is on the contents page. Hmm, this issue has Ackerman, Warner, and some others. let's see this issue--Warner, Fortier, and a couple more. Another: Fortier, Ackerman, and others. Bradbury, Ackerman, Warner, Fortier, and others, in this issue. How many times have you seen an advertisement similar to that which advertised a Fm? Yet, we have the unbalanced gall to complain about promags prominently displaying 'names.' Try to tell someone that Fmz do not boast 'names' each issue. A group of two dozen or so fans are always urged to send something for the next issue of some such magazine. Fandom has more hacks than the professionals. Ask Warner: he's trained dry of ideas after writing a couple hundred fan articles. Get Ackerman: he hasn't the time to turn them out. Ask Bradbury: well, he's about as popular as Kuttner or Hamilton. Ask ME: that's what a few editors did, thus resulting in todays third article. I'll admit that I don't do as many as some others, but I'm much busier with outside activities. I'm rapidly catching up, though. Fandom has a hundred unknown authors waiting to write for the Fmz, but who asks them? The editors seem to fear bringing in a little new blood. As a result, Widner's bewailed deluge of new Fmz. What else can the new fans do who wish to become active and find that they are unwelcome in the pages of the tried and true Fmz? They have to let their ambitions seep out through some channel. Little did we ever expect fandom to become overcrowded, but it has. Give the older fans a brief respite by asking the new fans, urging them, to send in material. A wealth of new ideas lies in the new cliche of 'sunspots-fanatic-etc' type of material. Naturally, the material will not be presented in a veteran style; are the veteran editors not capable of doing a little sensible editing? These new fan writers must learn someday! someway! somehow! Let's skip the 'names', or we are going to be behind in the times. For once the promags are beating the fans to the draw. We've clamored to the promags to get merely interesting material, regardless of author, and now that we have it we are carrying on the discarded mode in our own affairs which are supposedly the experimenters. You new writers--don't hang back for that is half of the trouble. Before you bring out your dream-Fm, which is liable to give the veterans convulsions, try getting some really constructive experience in the successful Fmz. Okay? Okay. DEPTS OF THE INTERIOR Condensed from LEZOMBIE June, 1941 HERE WE GO AGAIN DEPT: Unknown (our favorite) we see, is about to shift again. The mag is almost as erratic as LeZ. We can't help but feel that there will be much more for the money in the large size it proposes to change to. But... (there's always a but!) ...will it help any? We still hold (and broadcast) the opinion that Campbell must change, not the magazine, to put it on as firm a footing as would be desirable. One can see the fancy hand of JWC in every blurb, in every story. One can see the same hand in Astounding...pick up any one issue and count the number of Space-operas therein. Too darn many of 'em. Or, maybe s-f isn't anything but Space-operas now?? Unknown, we believe, suffers from too much Campbell-opera.
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F M Z DIGEST Page 5 ME, BRADBURY, AND TWO DOZEN OTHERS By Joe J Fortier condensed from ECLIPSE June, 1941 Honestly, it's a kick. We write in to a dozen professional magazines or so to kick about hack writers polluting the magazine. We complain about the mass production and yell to the high heavens for authors who carefully construct their material. That's a laugh! Have we ever paused to look at our 'model' magazines that are published by you, you, and you, the fans? let's see who is on the contents page. Hmm, this issue has Ackerman, Warner, and some others. let's see this issue--Warner, Fortier, and a couple more. Another: Fortier, Ackerman, and others. Bradbury, Ackerman, Warner, Fortier, and others, in this issue. How many times have you seen an advertisement similar to that which advertised a Fm? Yet, we have the unbalanced gall to complain about promags prominently displaying 'names.' Try to tell someone that Fmz do not boast 'names' each issue. A group of two dozen or so fans are always urged to send something for the next issue of some such magazine. Fandom has more hacks than the professionals. Ask Warner: he's trained dry of ideas after writing a couple hundred fan articles. Get Ackerman: he hasn't the time to turn them out. Ask Bradbury: well, he's about as popular as Kuttner or Hamilton. Ask ME: that's what a few editors did, thus resulting in todays third article. I'll admit that I don't do as many as some others, but I'm much busier with outside activities. I'm rapidly catching up, though. Fandom has a hundred unknown authors waiting to write for the Fmz, but who asks them? The editors seem to fear bringing in a little new blood. As a result, Widner's bewailed deluge of new Fmz. What else can the new fans do who wish to become active and find that they are unwelcome in the pages of the tried and true Fmz? They have to let their ambitions seep out through some channel. Little did we ever expect fandom to become overcrowded, but it has. Give the older fans a brief respite by asking the new fans, urging them, to send in material. A wealth of new ideas lies in the new cliche of 'sunspots-fanatic-etc' type of material. Naturally, the material will not be presented in a veteran style; are the veteran editors not capable of doing a little sensible editing? These new fan writers must learn someday! someway! somehow! Let's skip the 'names', or we are going to be behind in the times. For once the promags are beating the fans to the draw. We've clamored to the promags to get merely interesting material, regardless of author, and now that we have it we are carrying on the discarded mode in our own affairs which are supposedly the experimenters. You new writers--don't hang back for that is half of the trouble. Before you bring out your dream-Fm, which is liable to give the veterans convulsions, try getting some really constructive experience in the successful Fmz. Okay? Okay. DEPTS OF THE INTERIOR Condensed from LEZOMBIE June, 1941 HERE WE GO AGAIN DEPT: Unknown (our favorite) we see, is about to shift again. The mag is almost as erratic as LeZ. We can't help but feel that there will be much more for the money in the large size it proposes to change to. But... (there's always a but!) ...will it help any? We still hold (and broadcast) the opinion that Campbell must change, not the magazine, to put it on as firm a footing as would be desirable. One can see the fancy hand of JWC in every blurb, in every story. One can see the same hand in Astounding...pick up any one issue and count the number of Space-operas therein. Too darn many of 'em. Or, maybe s-f isn't anything but Space-operas now?? Unknown, we believe, suffers from too much Campbell-opera.
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