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Fantasite, v. 1, issue 3, April 1941
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miss Keller's quiet and masterful little snort. Clark Ashton does well by the Smith name, and the issue as a whole is well worth your while. Cosmic Stories: Cover gaudy, but Bok's portion is all right. The Riddle of Tayne is an atavism; a throwback to the days when stories were dull and obvious. Skip it. Good article. Tanner is best in issue. Wells --- not H. G.; Basil! -- writes the sort of stuff I dislike most, but you may like it. Blish, Gottesman, Corwin, Bellir, Raymond and Wilson in that order. Not an especially good issue, but far better than the tripe Standard prints, at any rate. Super Science Novels: Cover mediocre. Lead novel amusing and quite readable, but the tone is more than a little objectionable, as would be inevitable in a Miller-DeCamp collaboration. Jones is positively stinkyfied, as we lowbrows say, but then I never cared for Jones. Asimov's little tale best of the shorts. Astonishing: Cover best passed over in silence. Stories uniformly good, with the exception of MacCreigh's. A darn good issue with "Heredity", and "Our Director" leading the list. Marvel Stories: Cover by Scott, and consequently rotten, of course. Wiliamson is as delightfully melodramatic and impossible as ever, and you should like Sharp's story, too. Manchester's tale not bad; the rest of the stories are. Uncanny Stories: Miller's "Beyond Hell", quite good; Keller has, of course, never written a bad story in his life, and doubtless never will. No comment on the cover; it shrieks for itself. Overholser readable. The rest of the mag is really sufficient to send one fumbling blindly for a basin. Comet: A most unfortunate issue. One that not only hits bottom, but scrapes a hole in it and goes on down. Fair Paul cover. Usually I dislike Miller muchly, but his short is fair reading, and this, with Chapman's splendid little short is all that's worth your while. Buy the mag for your collection, but as far as reading anything outside of the two above mentioned tales goes, save your time and temper; this number wouldn't compare with TWS at its worst, and that's saying a lot. Personally, I hope it'll improve and recover from the blow this issue will give it, because Tremaine is a swell guy, but I dunno . . . --Joseph Gilbert. Thrilling Wonder Stories: Accompanying the sade (?) announcement that TWS had gone bi-monthlyh is a very bad Kuttner novel. The plot is old and the writing portrays too much Hank Kuttner. "Who was Thomas Morrow" is heartily recommended as a fine Williams short. The only other thing worth reading was "Earth For Inspiration"; excepting the ads, of course! Drool! Drool! Fantastic Novels: There is only one A in the alphabet, and there is only one A. Merritt. "The Dwellers in the Mirage" is a typical Merritt; long, beautifully written, enchanting descriptions with a superb plot. One of the best by A. Merritt, it leaves a lasting impression. A must if you haven't read it. And the Finlay cover --- words fail me. That ought to be adequate comment. Amazing: The voluminous Anniversary issue was rather dutifully assimilated, after many pauses to dispose of a little excess food. To pick out the best story in the issue would be impossible, for there are none. All are the same. But David Wright O'Brien, after a rather good beginning, is showing the re-
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miss Keller's quiet and masterful little snort. Clark Ashton does well by the Smith name, and the issue as a whole is well worth your while. Cosmic Stories: Cover gaudy, but Bok's portion is all right. The Riddle of Tayne is an atavism; a throwback to the days when stories were dull and obvious. Skip it. Good article. Tanner is best in issue. Wells --- not H. G.; Basil! -- writes the sort of stuff I dislike most, but you may like it. Blish, Gottesman, Corwin, Bellir, Raymond and Wilson in that order. Not an especially good issue, but far better than the tripe Standard prints, at any rate. Super Science Novels: Cover mediocre. Lead novel amusing and quite readable, but the tone is more than a little objectionable, as would be inevitable in a Miller-DeCamp collaboration. Jones is positively stinkyfied, as we lowbrows say, but then I never cared for Jones. Asimov's little tale best of the shorts. Astonishing: Cover best passed over in silence. Stories uniformly good, with the exception of MacCreigh's. A darn good issue with "Heredity", and "Our Director" leading the list. Marvel Stories: Cover by Scott, and consequently rotten, of course. Wiliamson is as delightfully melodramatic and impossible as ever, and you should like Sharp's story, too. Manchester's tale not bad; the rest of the stories are. Uncanny Stories: Miller's "Beyond Hell", quite good; Keller has, of course, never written a bad story in his life, and doubtless never will. No comment on the cover; it shrieks for itself. Overholser readable. The rest of the mag is really sufficient to send one fumbling blindly for a basin. Comet: A most unfortunate issue. One that not only hits bottom, but scrapes a hole in it and goes on down. Fair Paul cover. Usually I dislike Miller muchly, but his short is fair reading, and this, with Chapman's splendid little short is all that's worth your while. Buy the mag for your collection, but as far as reading anything outside of the two above mentioned tales goes, save your time and temper; this number wouldn't compare with TWS at its worst, and that's saying a lot. Personally, I hope it'll improve and recover from the blow this issue will give it, because Tremaine is a swell guy, but I dunno . . . --Joseph Gilbert. Thrilling Wonder Stories: Accompanying the sade (?) announcement that TWS had gone bi-monthlyh is a very bad Kuttner novel. The plot is old and the writing portrays too much Hank Kuttner. "Who was Thomas Morrow" is heartily recommended as a fine Williams short. The only other thing worth reading was "Earth For Inspiration"; excepting the ads, of course! Drool! Drool! Fantastic Novels: There is only one A in the alphabet, and there is only one A. Merritt. "The Dwellers in the Mirage" is a typical Merritt; long, beautifully written, enchanting descriptions with a superb plot. One of the best by A. Merritt, it leaves a lasting impression. A must if you haven't read it. And the Finlay cover --- words fail me. That ought to be adequate comment. Amazing: The voluminous Anniversary issue was rather dutifully assimilated, after many pauses to dispose of a little excess food. To pick out the best story in the issue would be impossible, for there are none. All are the same. But David Wright O'Brien, after a rather good beginning, is showing the re-
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