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Fanorama, issue 1, Spring 1946

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FANTASY CRITIC: I was unaware, until I read "Mars and the Monroe Doctrine". that science-fiction exerts such a profound influence of the great American public. I would like to find out what evidences the writer has to support his claims that the stf pulps could have been even an important minor factor in the wave of reaction to isolationism which supposedly struck this country in the late thirties. -- Sam's scholarly book reviews are all too rare these days.

MAG WITHOUT A NAME: It isn't Webster's or Bok's or Dunkelberger's definition of obscene that the fapa has to worry about; it's the one that some petty post office official thinks is the right one. The official editor shares the responsibility with the publishers for what is distributed in the mailings; if the individual editor can't eliminate anything which might not pass that petty official, the oe, for his own protection, must. This doesn't constitute a form of dictatorship -- the oe is only in office for a year and is, after all, elected by the membership, with whom the responsibility for getting a good ones rests. Regarding the Bok litho, I must say that anyone who can't immediately spot the "phallic symbolism" that Hannes "subconsciously" puts into his work must be as naive as the newborn daughter of a nun...I like Bok's work, and I thought the Le Zombie litho was a fine piece of art, and I deplore the narrowmindedness of many employees of the United States Postal Service, but the fact remains that it is quite possible that inclusion of such an item in the mailing is quite likely to get us into hot water. Dunk misses the point in citing the Esquire case on second class mailing rights. Obscenity is quite a different matter, Walter, my boy, or has your lawyer already told you that? Hannes, apparently, either didn't understand or wasn't informed or Speer's actual motives in refusing, or, rather accepting with protest the item under question for mailing. And that parting fling about noses in the gutter leaves things wide open for a wonderful crack, but I do not desire to start a feud with Dunk...I don't have the necessary energy to carry one on. Besides, Laney will probably say it anyway.

FAN-TODS: Van Vogt tells us that Gardner came as close to hitting the nail on the head in his appraisal of the World of A as anyone outside of Van Vogt himself is likely to do. More than one term for the S/T and oe? You betcha hey. -- Yesterday's 10,000 Years and Stoneleigh worth half the mailing, as per usual.

SCIENCE*FICTION: Wot's this, a popular mechanics fapamag?
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iamanoptimistsaidheatomscientistibelievethatthefutureisuncertain.
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And that, little kiddies, winds things up for this time. And to round out this page, here are a couple or 3 laureate nominations: Editing/publishing -- (1) Ashley (2) Wesson (3) Speer. Fiction -- (1) Crane ("Mr Pobbles and the Djovial Djinn"). Humor -- (1) Speer (cartoon, SusPro, p 5); (2) Laney (Fan-Danging Program); (3) Stanley (Y 10,000 Y). Art -- (1) Widenbeck (Timebinder cover); (2) Ashley (En Garde covers); (3) Wesson? (The...Thing cover, the simple one with the wonderfully horrid green.)

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FANTASY CRITIC: I was unaware, until I read "Mars and the Monroe Doctrine". that science-fiction exerts such a profound influence of the great American public. I would like to find out what evidences the writer has to support his claims that the stf pulps could have been even an important minor factor in the wave of reaction to isolationism which supposedly struck this country in the late thirties. -- Sam's scholarly book reviews are all too rare these days. MAG WITHOUT A NAME: It isn't Webster's or Bok's or Dunkelberger's definition of obscene that the fapa has to worry about; it's the one that some petty post office official thinks is the right one. The official editor shares the responsibility with the publishers for what is distributed in the mailings; if the individual editor can't eliminate anything which might not pass that petty official, the oe, for his own protection, must. This doesn't constitute a form of dictatorship -- the oe is only in office for a year and is, after all, elected by the membership, with whom the responsibility for getting a good ones rests. Regarding the Bok litho, I must say that anyone who can't immediately spot the "phallic symbolism" that Hannes "subconsciously" puts into his work must be as naive as the newborn daughter of a nun...I like Bok's work, and I thought the Le Zombie litho was a fine piece of art, and I deplore the narrowmindedness of many employees of the United States Postal Service, but the fact remains that it is quite possible that inclusion of such an item in the mailing is quite likely to get us into hot water. Dunk misses the point in citing the Esquire case on second class mailing rights. Obscenity is quite a different matter, Walter, my boy, or has your lawyer already told you that? Hannes, apparently, either didn't understand or wasn't informed or Speer's actual motives in refusing, or, rather accepting with protest the item under question for mailing. And that parting fling about noses in the gutter leaves things wide open for a wonderful crack, but I do not desire to start a feud with Dunk...I don't have the necessary energy to carry one on. Besides, Laney will probably say it anyway. FAN-TODS: Van Vogt tells us that Gardner came as close to hitting the nail on the head in his appraisal of the World of A as anyone outside of Van Vogt himself is likely to do. More than one term for the S/T and oe? You betcha hey. -- Yesterday's 10,000 Years and Stoneleigh worth half the mailing, as per usual. SCIENCE*FICTION: Wot's this, a popular mechanics fapamag? *********************** iamanoptimistsaidheatomscientistibelievethatthefutureisuncertain. ************************ And that, little kiddies, winds things up for this time. And to round out this page, here are a couple or 3 laureate nominations: Editing/publishing -- (1) Ashley (2) Wesson (3) Speer. Fiction -- (1) Crane ("Mr Pobbles and the Djovial Djinn"). Humor -- (1) Speer (cartoon, SusPro, p 5); (2) Laney (Fan-Danging Program); (3) Stanley (Y 10,000 Y). Art -- (1) Widenbeck (Timebinder cover); (2) Ashley (En Garde covers); (3) Wesson? (The...Thing cover, the simple one with the wonderfully horrid green.)