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Snide, issue 1, May 1940
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As if it were not bad enough to have battles between the two factions of science fiction, the surviving fans who returned home were startled to hear of a great upheaval in the directing ranks of New Fandom. It seemed that while preparing for the convention, Taurasi and Sykora had signed Moskowitz's name to numerous checks. Moskowitz was mad enough when he received a bill for three hundred dollars for the convention, but when he received a bill for $150 marked 'incidentals,' something seemed to snap. He suddenly remembered rumors of wild parties at Sykora's on the nights when the committee was supposed to meet. (I ought to know, I was there.) Fandom awoke one morning to read in FANTASY NEWS that Will Sykora had been killed by Moskowitz and that there would be no more issues of FANTASY NEWS, as the editor found it expedient to leave for parts unknown. That was the last we ever heard from JVT. It was rumored that Moskowitz caught up with him in the wilds of the Flushing dumps while mulling over a volume of FANTASY NEWS - but I will not go into the ghastly details. However, the final and decisive blow had not been struck. When it did come, it came with a shock that rocked the world of science fiction to its very base.. News of the goings-on at the convention had reached the ears of the Government (and what big ears you have, Uncle S.), which immediately appropriated $10,000,000 to be used to investigate science fiction in the United States. After two and a half years had passed and seven government investigators had gone mad from reading science fiction, the government swung into action. Science fiction was outlawed in our fair land. All science fiction literature was confiscated by the government and destroyed. The fans were told that they must forget all about science fiction, but they had been infected. Secretly, they organized themselves and continued to publish their fan mags. All went well until one fan who had indulged a bit too deeply (as is often their cus- 17
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As if it were not bad enough to have battles between the two factions of science fiction, the surviving fans who returned home were startled to hear of a great upheaval in the directing ranks of New Fandom. It seemed that while preparing for the convention, Taurasi and Sykora had signed Moskowitz's name to numerous checks. Moskowitz was mad enough when he received a bill for three hundred dollars for the convention, but when he received a bill for $150 marked 'incidentals,' something seemed to snap. He suddenly remembered rumors of wild parties at Sykora's on the nights when the committee was supposed to meet. (I ought to know, I was there.) Fandom awoke one morning to read in FANTASY NEWS that Will Sykora had been killed by Moskowitz and that there would be no more issues of FANTASY NEWS, as the editor found it expedient to leave for parts unknown. That was the last we ever heard from JVT. It was rumored that Moskowitz caught up with him in the wilds of the Flushing dumps while mulling over a volume of FANTASY NEWS - but I will not go into the ghastly details. However, the final and decisive blow had not been struck. When it did come, it came with a shock that rocked the world of science fiction to its very base.. News of the goings-on at the convention had reached the ears of the Government (and what big ears you have, Uncle S.), which immediately appropriated $10,000,000 to be used to investigate science fiction in the United States. After two and a half years had passed and seven government investigators had gone mad from reading science fiction, the government swung into action. Science fiction was outlawed in our fair land. All science fiction literature was confiscated by the government and destroyed. The fans were told that they must forget all about science fiction, but they had been infected. Secretly, they organized themselves and continued to publish their fan mags. All went well until one fan who had indulged a bit too deeply (as is often their cus- 17
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