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From The Star Port Page 8 SOUTHERN STAR At least, all four of us in Britain are! However, that isn't what jaded me from my inertia. Thing that rather surprised me was your encounter with "The Perfect World." I had thought that Ella Scrymsour's (ye Gods, what a name!) effort into stf. was exclusively a British product. I don't know whether you'd think it blasphemy, but I must confess I didn't find "Perfect World" as inspiring as did you. I prefer something like Bohun Lynch's "Menace from the Moon" or Odle's "Clockwork Man" or David Lindsay's "Voyage to Arcturus" or H.M. Vaughan's "Meleager". Hope these aren't just names to you. The tragedy of my life at the moment is U.S. mags have stopped coming through. And our home-grown product is now, as you no doubt know, reduced to on solitary speciman: TALES OF WONDER. Of FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES (and this is the major tragedy) I have only managed to salvage nos. 1, 3, and 5. What wouldn't I give for the others! Haven't even seen a Pohl magazine. At the moment, I'm hunting around for a kind fan who will send me magazines direct, so you see this letter is not entirely altruistic. By the by, there are a number of U.S. editions that I'd like to lay my hands on some day. Are copies of Burroughs' MOON MAID very common over there? If so, perhaps we could arrange an exchange or something............................ ............with an apology for troubling you. As yet I haven't undertaken to respond to Mr. Medhurst's letter inasmuch as a variety of misfortunes (Heaven forfend!) might have overtaken this staunch British fan ere now. But as soon as the situation has been one bit clarified abroad I will not only shoot him a long answer, but a few of the items for which he and other foreign fans must be quite apparently starving, in a literary way. The authors of Dr. Barrett's favorite stories were: J. Schlossel, E. R. Edison, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Eric Frank Russell, and John Taine. Did you get them all? Good! Most of these fan magazines hibernate in the Summer rather than in the Winter. Kind of peculiar, isn't it? It would seem that the editors would be busier during cold weather while schools are in session, than the good old Summer time. Perhaps it's not the heat, but the stupidity. We wonder what this journal will do -- hurray along or halt, during the hot months? Wait and see. The human body is a marvelous thing. A trite phrase, a million times repeated. But still marvelous because of its exceptional adaptability. Not so adaptable as it could be, of course, because, for one thing, when it loses a leg another limb will not immediately begin to grow forth to replace it, as among some fortunate insects. It can't
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From The Star Port Page 8 SOUTHERN STAR At least, all four of us in Britain are! However, that isn't what jaded me from my inertia. Thing that rather surprised me was your encounter with "The Perfect World." I had thought that Ella Scrymsour's (ye Gods, what a name!) effort into stf. was exclusively a British product. I don't know whether you'd think it blasphemy, but I must confess I didn't find "Perfect World" as inspiring as did you. I prefer something like Bohun Lynch's "Menace from the Moon" or Odle's "Clockwork Man" or David Lindsay's "Voyage to Arcturus" or H.M. Vaughan's "Meleager". Hope these aren't just names to you. The tragedy of my life at the moment is U.S. mags have stopped coming through. And our home-grown product is now, as you no doubt know, reduced to on solitary speciman: TALES OF WONDER. Of FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES (and this is the major tragedy) I have only managed to salvage nos. 1, 3, and 5. What wouldn't I give for the others! Haven't even seen a Pohl magazine. At the moment, I'm hunting around for a kind fan who will send me magazines direct, so you see this letter is not entirely altruistic. By the by, there are a number of U.S. editions that I'd like to lay my hands on some day. Are copies of Burroughs' MOON MAID very common over there? If so, perhaps we could arrange an exchange or something............................ ............with an apology for troubling you. As yet I haven't undertaken to respond to Mr. Medhurst's letter inasmuch as a variety of misfortunes (Heaven forfend!) might have overtaken this staunch British fan ere now. But as soon as the situation has been one bit clarified abroad I will not only shoot him a long answer, but a few of the items for which he and other foreign fans must be quite apparently starving, in a literary way. The authors of Dr. Barrett's favorite stories were: J. Schlossel, E. R. Edison, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Eric Frank Russell, and John Taine. Did you get them all? Good! Most of these fan magazines hibernate in the Summer rather than in the Winter. Kind of peculiar, isn't it? It would seem that the editors would be busier during cold weather while schools are in session, than the good old Summer time. Perhaps it's not the heat, but the stupidity. We wonder what this journal will do -- hurray along or halt, during the hot months? Wait and see. The human body is a marvelous thing. A trite phrase, a million times repeated. But still marvelous because of its exceptional adaptability. Not so adaptable as it could be, of course, because, for one thing, when it loses a leg another limb will not immediately begin to grow forth to replace it, as among some fortunate insects. It can't
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