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Imagination!, v. 1, issue 9, whole 9, June 1938

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IMAGINATION! #9  38 June     17

have a chance to make an off-the-record comment as well as the next guy. And I'd like to this time. (All x if we just run it anonymously?) ~~ I like your publication. It's amusing, and light enough to make the triviata interesting. I don't know exactly what your aims and plans are. The magazine represents the journal of the Los Angeles chapter, and as such is a good job. ~~ But in some ways it is exclusively Los Angeles chapter. You have---as many fan magazines do not---the facilities for a natural subscription list. Mimeo can turn out several hundred copies, where hecto is limited to about 50, or at most 75, good copies. The very change in medium should, to some extent, induce a change in mood. ~~ Shouldn't you, then, design your articles, your material in general, to appeal to the wider group of genuinely interested fans who are not yet the 'inner circle' fans?" (Thanx for Ur interest. &, knowing U, we know Ur advice woud b valuable--what woud U recommend to obtain the end of broadening our brain-child's appeal to the Imagi-Nation? --LASFL)


KELLER writes: "I enjoyed the account of the youthful Vodoso. Of course I regret being his Pet Peeve. How he must have suffered the night I met with you.Now it may just be that he was conditioned by reading one of my stories and since then has not tried to read any more. Has he read the Cornwall Tales? Or anything by Amy Worth?I am very much interested in his reaction, not in itself but just WHY he has me for the pet peeve." (Upon interrogation his anti-Keller complex becomes clear, Doc: The first & only fiction by u my boy ever read was...The Dead Woman! --Morojo.)
John J[[?]]. Baltadonis[[?]] editor Science Fiction Collector. 1700 Frankford Av --Philadelphia/Pa, comments "on the latest EE-MAJ' N'AYSHUN:------ Cover's quite odd - for fan mag, at any rate. Haven't you any other colored papers besides blue, tan and green? Whatabout some red, or violet, or black? Howabout some orange? (Havent U any ideas for saving some money rather'n suggestions for our spending more? Lead us to that pot of gold & we'll give u all the colors in the rainbow. Otherwise, we can't afford prismaticovers--U'll have to b content with the hues & crys each critc cupplys, til our reams of green, blue & buff have been utilized.)  No matter what you say, I still detest your simplified spelling. The whole thing is positively disgusting! (I hear Wiggy echoing "Ain't it the truth!" --Ack) If and when you come 'back to earth' with unmutilated English, I think you'll have a good magazine. ...Why Stf Editors Go Nutz is a darn good item, and should be used as often as possible.....Notice Wellheim blabbing about Michelism again in your pages. Too bad. My opinion is that Michelism is the bunk. And, until proved different, that'll remain my opinion......The larger readers' dept you have, the better. Cant have too much to suit me!"
Jack Robinson[[?]] 51 Humboldt St. Bklyn/NY: "I have just read the article by Eric Freyer attacking the ideals of World Brotherhood, Peace, and Scientific Advancement. I always thought Esperantists and all real Science Fiction fans should honestly favor these things. I cannot see why you publish such wild nonsense as Mr. Freyer's ravings. ~~ Yours for a better world,"
BRAXTON WELLS of NYC: "I don't think it's correct of you to publish Freyer-Shreyer's antisocial articles - if there is one thing that ought to be reasonable it is that these pulbications put out by progressives should not publish anti-progressive article. It is not a question of free speech. It is a matter of practical economics. There are literally thousands andthousands of conservative publications that are willing at all times to publish attacks on esperante, pacificsm, Marx, or progressive ideas of any form or type. There are only a very few publications on 'our' side. For us to give them of our valuable space to articles attacking us is too much to be asked. Shreyer would have had no difficulty getting his maudlin manuscripts of your May issue published in any of a dozen fan magazines whose editors do not like Michelism. But for a progressive fan mag to carry his attacks is unfair and bad tactics."

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IMAGINATION! #9 38 June 17 have a chance to make an off-the-record comment as well as the next guy. And I'd like to this time. (All x if we just run it anonymously?) ~~ I like your publication. It's amusing, and light enough to make the triviata interesting. I don't know exactly what your aims and plans are. The magazine represents the journal of the Los Angeles chapter, and as such is a good job. ~~ But in some ways it is exclusively Los Angeles chapter. You have---as many fan magazines do not---the facilities for a natural subscription list. Mimeo can turn out several hundred copies, where hecto is limited to about 50, or at most 75, good copies. The very change in medium should, to some extent, induce a change in mood. ~~ Shouldn't you, then, design your articles, your material in general, to appeal to the wider group of genuinely interested fans who are not yet the 'inner circle' fans?" (Thanx for Ur interest. &, knowing U, we know Ur advice woud b valuable--what woud U recommend to obtain the end of broadening our brain-child's appeal to the Imagi-Nation? --LASFL) KELLER writes: "I enjoyed the account of the youthful Vodoso. Of course I regret being his Pet Peeve. How he must have suffered the night I met with you.Now it may just be that he was conditioned by reading one of my stories and since then has not tried to read any more. Has he read the Cornwall Tales? Or anything by Amy Worth?I am very much interested in his reaction, not in itself but just WHY he has me for the pet peeve." (Upon interrogation his anti-Keller complex becomes clear, Doc: The first & only fiction by u my boy ever read was...The Dead Woman! --Morojo.) John J[[?]]. Baltadonis[[?]] editor Science Fiction Collector. 1700 Frankford Av --Philadelphia/Pa, comments "on the latest EE-MAJ' N'AYSHUN:------ Cover's quite odd - for fan mag, at any rate. Haven't you any other colored papers besides blue, tan and green? Whatabout some red, or violet, or black? Howabout some orange? (Havent U any ideas for saving some money rather'n suggestions for our spending more? Lead us to that pot of gold & we'll give u all the colors in the rainbow. Otherwise, we can't afford prismaticovers--U'll have to b content with the hues & crys each critc cupplys, til our reams of green, blue & buff have been utilized.) No matter what you say, I still detest your simplified spelling. The whole thing is positively disgusting! (I hear Wiggy echoing "Ain't it the truth!" --Ack) If and when you come 'back to earth' with unmutilated English, I think you'll have a good magazine. ...Why Stf Editors Go Nutz is a darn good item, and should be used as often as possible.....Notice Wellheim blabbing about Michelism again in your pages. Too bad. My opinion is that Michelism is the bunk. And, until proved different, that'll remain my opinion......The larger readers' dept you have, the better. Cant have too much to suit me!" Jack Robinson[[?]] 51 Humboldt St. Bklyn/NY: "I have just read the article by Eric Freyer attacking the ideals of World Brotherhood, Peace, and Scientific Advancement. I always thought Esperantists and all real Science Fiction fans should honestly favor these things. I cannot see why you publish such wild nonsense as Mr. Freyer's ravings. ~~ Yours for a better world," BRAXTON WELLS of NYC: "I don't think it's correct of you to publish Freyer-Shreyer's antisocial articles - if there is one thing that ought to be reasonable it is that these pulbications put out by progressives should not publish anti-progressive article. It is not a question of free speech. It is a matter of practical economics. There are literally thousands andthousands of conservative publications that are willing at all times to publish attacks on esperante, pacificsm, Marx, or progressive ideas of any form or type. There are only a very few publications on 'our' side. For us to give them of our valuable space to articles attacking us is too much to be asked. Shreyer would have had no difficulty getting his maudlin manuscripts of your May issue published in any of a dozen fan magazines whose editors do not like Michelism. But for a progressive fan mag to carry his attacks is unfair and bad tactics."