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Inspiration, v. 4, issue 1, April 1946
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Inspiration VOLUME FOUR FAPA APRIL 1946 FAPA Yes, chilluns, this is the fapazine written, edited, and published by one Lynn Bridges, 7815 Navy, Detroit 9, Michigan. It is done whenever the mood strikes, usually once each 3 months, is supposedly for the benefit and enlightment of FAPA member only (altho non-members have been known to get copies upon receipt of a stamped, self-addressed envelope and a crisp ten dollar bill), and the editor disclaims responsibility for anything he may have said herein. The usual procedure of starting with one page and writing straight thru has been changed for the issue of INSP, and this is the last page to be done. However, other pages were done in order, and the INSP policy of being typed directly on the stencil with no previous writing or dummying has been strictly adhered to. I hadn't expected this large an issue, but the thing just kept growing. INSPIRATION is written to satisfy just one person, myself -- and based on those grounds this issue is a success because I had a lot of fun doing it. If anyone else should happen to like it, so much the better. I'm finally getting the duplicator licked, altho it put up a stubborn fight, and think that I can promise a better job along those lines in the future. However, after spotting a number of typographical errors upon mimeographing, I've made a mental note to proof-read stencils after this. This issue is much more like the sort of think I've wanted to do for a long time, and future issues will be somewhat similar in appearance, altho they'll hardly be this size. A standard of about 20 pages will probably be set. Reason for the bulk this issue is that I'd greatly underestimated the number of pages taken up by the "history" which did manage to squeeze out almost every thing else. I could have presented it in installments, but wanted to get the whole thing out of the way at once. It was written for my own amusement anyhow, and I doubt if very many will find it interesting. I never did finish the last issue, but just sent on what I had completed in time to make the deadline. So I didn't get around to thanking all those who helped out in the preparation of INSP during the years I was in the army. So many thanks to Harry Warner, Jack Speer, Russell Chauenet, and Dick Kuhn for turning mimeograph handles and to Don Thompson for cutting stencils. The mastheads in the history didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, partly because it was almost my first experience at attacking a stencil with anything over than a typewriter, and partly because I was in a hurry and did a lost of work free-hand that I should have done with a straight-edge. A few lines, left so I'll indulge in the current fad of rating the previous mailing according to school marks. I can do that without violating my principle of never reviewing a mailing. A is reserved for truly exceptional mags, B is for those whose material I found very interesting, and C is for those whose material didn't appeal so much. D, I won't go into that. A - Fan Tods, Sustaining Program, Phanteur, Horizons, a. B - Science Fiction, En Garde, Browsing, A Tale of the Evans, The Timebinder, Walts Wramblings, Glom, Fan Dango, Elmurmurings, C - Beyond, Full Length Articles, The Fantasy Critic, BT, S-F Savant, Light, Phantagraph. D - Falling Portals, Guteto
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Inspiration VOLUME FOUR FAPA APRIL 1946 FAPA Yes, chilluns, this is the fapazine written, edited, and published by one Lynn Bridges, 7815 Navy, Detroit 9, Michigan. It is done whenever the mood strikes, usually once each 3 months, is supposedly for the benefit and enlightment of FAPA member only (altho non-members have been known to get copies upon receipt of a stamped, self-addressed envelope and a crisp ten dollar bill), and the editor disclaims responsibility for anything he may have said herein. The usual procedure of starting with one page and writing straight thru has been changed for the issue of INSP, and this is the last page to be done. However, other pages were done in order, and the INSP policy of being typed directly on the stencil with no previous writing or dummying has been strictly adhered to. I hadn't expected this large an issue, but the thing just kept growing. INSPIRATION is written to satisfy just one person, myself -- and based on those grounds this issue is a success because I had a lot of fun doing it. If anyone else should happen to like it, so much the better. I'm finally getting the duplicator licked, altho it put up a stubborn fight, and think that I can promise a better job along those lines in the future. However, after spotting a number of typographical errors upon mimeographing, I've made a mental note to proof-read stencils after this. This issue is much more like the sort of think I've wanted to do for a long time, and future issues will be somewhat similar in appearance, altho they'll hardly be this size. A standard of about 20 pages will probably be set. Reason for the bulk this issue is that I'd greatly underestimated the number of pages taken up by the "history" which did manage to squeeze out almost every thing else. I could have presented it in installments, but wanted to get the whole thing out of the way at once. It was written for my own amusement anyhow, and I doubt if very many will find it interesting. I never did finish the last issue, but just sent on what I had completed in time to make the deadline. So I didn't get around to thanking all those who helped out in the preparation of INSP during the years I was in the army. So many thanks to Harry Warner, Jack Speer, Russell Chauenet, and Dick Kuhn for turning mimeograph handles and to Don Thompson for cutting stencils. The mastheads in the history didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, partly because it was almost my first experience at attacking a stencil with anything over than a typewriter, and partly because I was in a hurry and did a lost of work free-hand that I should have done with a straight-edge. A few lines, left so I'll indulge in the current fad of rating the previous mailing according to school marks. I can do that without violating my principle of never reviewing a mailing. A is reserved for truly exceptional mags, B is for those whose material I found very interesting, and C is for those whose material didn't appeal so much. D, I won't go into that. A - Fan Tods, Sustaining Program, Phanteur, Horizons, a. B - Science Fiction, En Garde, Browsing, A Tale of the Evans, The Timebinder, Walts Wramblings, Glom, Fan Dango, Elmurmurings, C - Beyond, Full Length Articles, The Fantasy Critic, BT, S-F Savant, Light, Phantagraph. D - Falling Portals, Guteto
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