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Fantasy Times, v. 2, issue 20, whole no. 51, May 18, 1947
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Page 58 Fantasy-Times ------------------------------------------------- _____________________________ The Cosmic Reporter edited by Lane Stannard _____________________________ The Astounding part of Astounding SCIENCE FICTION will be dropped sometime late this summer tho no definite date has as yet been set. The first issue of a British reprint of Fantastic Adventures will appear in a few weeks. Also the Fearn serial from Amazing Stories, Liners of Time has been reprinted in book form in England. –D Kishi Forever is too Long by Chester S. Geier, which appeared in the March issue of Fantastic Adventures is now being considered for pocket-book publication. (NNS) Robert Bloch hints: Watch out for Weird Tales 25th Anniversary issue of March 1948. (NNS) The next Burroughs novel will be Tarzan and the Foreign Legion. –Ackerman The two pager science-fiction feature, Just Imagine, of Real Fact Comics, returns to that magazine in the current #9 issue. This time it is about, If The-Moon Fell. It is well illustrated by a Finlay-like artist. Also in the same issue a two page cartoon like story, The Lost Secret, about Orffyreus and his secret of perpetual motion. Classics Illustrated, who in their 34th issue published in picture form the fantasy, Mysterious Island, has a two page article in their current No. 35 issue titled That Others Might Live. It’s about the death of a scientist in the Los Alamos Atomic Laboratory. Fans who read Otto Binder’s story in the current issue of Startling Stories will be interested in knowing that Otto Binder has had numerous two page stf stories in comic magazines like, Captain Marvel, Mary Marvel, etc. Many of the Marvel comics are written by Otto. -ls 2nd British Fantasy Rev. by David Kishi The second issue of Fantasy Review contains an excellent condensation of the Introduction and Preface to The Best Of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin, giving the arguments for and against the question Can Science Fiction Prophesy? Editor John Campbell on the affirmative, leads off with It Does, while Groff Conklin starts off at a tangent and ends with an emphatic It Shouldn’t. Editor Gillings’ column Fantasia is a bright spot in this magazine. Altho many news-sheets have chances to out-scoop the Review, this column is still actively informative and isn’t too repetitious of commonly known information. Also in this issue is an interview with author Arthur C. Clarke, whose story Technical Error won wide acclaim in the first issue of Fantasy, England’s latest stf magazine; book reviews of Van Vogt ‘s Slan, Puzzle Box, The Murder of the USA, and other recent publications; and among the regular columns, Nigel Lindsay’s Among the Magazines, and Rosenblum’s About Books; as well as news items, advertisements and announcements. –dk ((Editorial note: copies of the British Fantasy Review, nos. 1 & 2, may be obtained from David Kishi, 171 West End Ave., New York 23, New York, at 25¢ each.)) ____________________________ STURGEON IN BRITISH ARGOSY As a follow-up to the story that appeared in Fantasy-Times fort April 6th (Vol. 2, No. 14) about Theodore Sturgeon’s prize winning story Bianca Hands, it has appeared in the May 1947 issue of British Argosy. Sturgeon copped the $1000 prize in a contest primarily for English authors. –ljs
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Page 58 Fantasy-Times ------------------------------------------------- _____________________________ The Cosmic Reporter edited by Lane Stannard _____________________________ The Astounding part of Astounding SCIENCE FICTION will be dropped sometime late this summer tho no definite date has as yet been set. The first issue of a British reprint of Fantastic Adventures will appear in a few weeks. Also the Fearn serial from Amazing Stories, Liners of Time has been reprinted in book form in England. –D Kishi Forever is too Long by Chester S. Geier, which appeared in the March issue of Fantastic Adventures is now being considered for pocket-book publication. (NNS) Robert Bloch hints: Watch out for Weird Tales 25th Anniversary issue of March 1948. (NNS) The next Burroughs novel will be Tarzan and the Foreign Legion. –Ackerman The two pager science-fiction feature, Just Imagine, of Real Fact Comics, returns to that magazine in the current #9 issue. This time it is about, If The-Moon Fell. It is well illustrated by a Finlay-like artist. Also in the same issue a two page cartoon like story, The Lost Secret, about Orffyreus and his secret of perpetual motion. Classics Illustrated, who in their 34th issue published in picture form the fantasy, Mysterious Island, has a two page article in their current No. 35 issue titled That Others Might Live. It’s about the death of a scientist in the Los Alamos Atomic Laboratory. Fans who read Otto Binder’s story in the current issue of Startling Stories will be interested in knowing that Otto Binder has had numerous two page stf stories in comic magazines like, Captain Marvel, Mary Marvel, etc. Many of the Marvel comics are written by Otto. -ls 2nd British Fantasy Rev. by David Kishi The second issue of Fantasy Review contains an excellent condensation of the Introduction and Preface to The Best Of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin, giving the arguments for and against the question Can Science Fiction Prophesy? Editor John Campbell on the affirmative, leads off with It Does, while Groff Conklin starts off at a tangent and ends with an emphatic It Shouldn’t. Editor Gillings’ column Fantasia is a bright spot in this magazine. Altho many news-sheets have chances to out-scoop the Review, this column is still actively informative and isn’t too repetitious of commonly known information. Also in this issue is an interview with author Arthur C. Clarke, whose story Technical Error won wide acclaim in the first issue of Fantasy, England’s latest stf magazine; book reviews of Van Vogt ‘s Slan, Puzzle Box, The Murder of the USA, and other recent publications; and among the regular columns, Nigel Lindsay’s Among the Magazines, and Rosenblum’s About Books; as well as news items, advertisements and announcements. –dk ((Editorial note: copies of the British Fantasy Review, nos. 1 & 2, may be obtained from David Kishi, 171 West End Ave., New York 23, New York, at 25¢ each.)) ____________________________ STURGEON IN BRITISH ARGOSY As a follow-up to the story that appeared in Fantasy-Times fort April 6th (Vol. 2, No. 14) about Theodore Sturgeon’s prize winning story Bianca Hands, it has appeared in the May 1947 issue of British Argosy. Sturgeon copped the $1000 prize in a contest primarily for English authors. –ljs
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