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Fantasite, v. 1, issue 2, February 1941
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18, THE FANTASITE He went there to write; he stayed to fish. When it rains or the fish don't bite there's always some puttering-around to do; and he did it. From latest reports not one yarn has come from the cabin on Red Cedar Point. Speaking of places to write reminds me of August Darleth's new home near Sauk City, Wisconsin. The writing desk is a quarter circle in one corner of a room with stone fireplace and knotty pine walls. There are enough shelves, bookcases, and hidden cupboards to delight a score of bibliophiles. According to the flow of words proceeding from Derleth's typewriter, he unhumanly must not spend all his time under the 750 trees on his ten acre estate. Besides the trees, there is the garden in the rear of the house; and, according to nature-lover Derleth, a little grass snake lives under one of the stones of the terrace. Before I leave this subject of authors and "human and inhuman attributes" , I want to mention the whiskers of Ralph Winns Farley. IN the first issue of Centaur, Farley describes exactly from start to finish, how he shaves. It's really inhuman the way he methodically prepares to slice his bear. Is that why he hides under a pen name? A few briefer sips: Cliff Simak and Carl Jacobi have collaborated on a story sold to COMET. The story is called "The Street That Wasn't There."...... Oliver Saari has sold a story to ASTOUNDING, There is a short history connected with this story, which is called "The Door" For years all the Minneapolis fans had discussed a story with hundreds of ramifications developed throughout the years. They called it "The Door"; but, a strangely or perhaps not since I do not know the story, no one ever wrote it. Then Saari wrote it on a dare to read it before the Minneapolis Fantasy Society. He was so pleased with it that he sent it to Campbell and nearly keeled over when the check came....Cliff Simak has just finished another yarn called "Space Ship in a Flask" and he tells me that he and Jacobi are trying to cook up a few more tales besided their COMET story which will probably be published in May.... I guess these sups will deal mostly with Simak, for here's another WONDER has accepted a robot satire called "Earth for Inspiration" Did you know that Simak's popular "Rule 18" in ASTOUNDING was written as a take-off on a time travel story, and that no one caught on, including your columnist? Reunion on the frontiers of knowledge! Undoubtedly you have heard of THE FRONTIER SOCIETY , a group of fellows with a purpose; well, this reunion which I am about to mention was a direct result of that society. Some years ago in Shanghai two Americans attended high school together. One graduated first and came to America, severing the connections until...Then, unknown to the first, te second student came to America, St Paul to be exact. This fellow, Charles Jarvis, joined the society and received a copy of FRONTIER. In that issue he saw the name Charles Chandler, who had been listed as an interested, prospective member. Said Jarvis to me: "If that's the same Chandler I knew in Shanghai, he'll make a good member" To make a short story shorter, it was the same Chandler, and he is a good member! If that isn't an example of the powerful bonds of scientifantasy what is? Robert Moore Williams has recently sold stories to ASTOUNDING, COMET and PLANET. The story for his latter mag was written on order as a sequel to "Quest on Io". Also, while he was in New York, he wrote a story about the taming of the first horse which Wort Weisinger will use in THRILLING ADVENTURE..... Burton Filut, author of several fan stories and poems, is applying for patents on a new style notebook index which appears pretty handy for science-fiction fans. I visited him one night and saw the table loaded down with accres of different types and modifications of his notebook idea. Incidentally, Burt teaches school in a Wisconsin Town, and all the pupils in his class employ his system ........ In the current issue of the Writer's Digest, Campbell says that any author who can give him an idea of culture in an anthropological sense will find it very easy to click in ASTOUNDING. This accounts for the acceptance of D.H. Thompson's a "Eccentric Orbit" which was a nice bit of "crea
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18, THE FANTASITE He went there to write; he stayed to fish. When it rains or the fish don't bite there's always some puttering-around to do; and he did it. From latest reports not one yarn has come from the cabin on Red Cedar Point. Speaking of places to write reminds me of August Darleth's new home near Sauk City, Wisconsin. The writing desk is a quarter circle in one corner of a room with stone fireplace and knotty pine walls. There are enough shelves, bookcases, and hidden cupboards to delight a score of bibliophiles. According to the flow of words proceeding from Derleth's typewriter, he unhumanly must not spend all his time under the 750 trees on his ten acre estate. Besides the trees, there is the garden in the rear of the house; and, according to nature-lover Derleth, a little grass snake lives under one of the stones of the terrace. Before I leave this subject of authors and "human and inhuman attributes" , I want to mention the whiskers of Ralph Winns Farley. IN the first issue of Centaur, Farley describes exactly from start to finish, how he shaves. It's really inhuman the way he methodically prepares to slice his bear. Is that why he hides under a pen name? A few briefer sips: Cliff Simak and Carl Jacobi have collaborated on a story sold to COMET. The story is called "The Street That Wasn't There."...... Oliver Saari has sold a story to ASTOUNDING, There is a short history connected with this story, which is called "The Door" For years all the Minneapolis fans had discussed a story with hundreds of ramifications developed throughout the years. They called it "The Door"; but, a strangely or perhaps not since I do not know the story, no one ever wrote it. Then Saari wrote it on a dare to read it before the Minneapolis Fantasy Society. He was so pleased with it that he sent it to Campbell and nearly keeled over when the check came....Cliff Simak has just finished another yarn called "Space Ship in a Flask" and he tells me that he and Jacobi are trying to cook up a few more tales besided their COMET story which will probably be published in May.... I guess these sups will deal mostly with Simak, for here's another WONDER has accepted a robot satire called "Earth for Inspiration" Did you know that Simak's popular "Rule 18" in ASTOUNDING was written as a take-off on a time travel story, and that no one caught on, including your columnist? Reunion on the frontiers of knowledge! Undoubtedly you have heard of THE FRONTIER SOCIETY , a group of fellows with a purpose; well, this reunion which I am about to mention was a direct result of that society. Some years ago in Shanghai two Americans attended high school together. One graduated first and came to America, severing the connections until...Then, unknown to the first, te second student came to America, St Paul to be exact. This fellow, Charles Jarvis, joined the society and received a copy of FRONTIER. In that issue he saw the name Charles Chandler, who had been listed as an interested, prospective member. Said Jarvis to me: "If that's the same Chandler I knew in Shanghai, he'll make a good member" To make a short story shorter, it was the same Chandler, and he is a good member! If that isn't an example of the powerful bonds of scientifantasy what is? Robert Moore Williams has recently sold stories to ASTOUNDING, COMET and PLANET. The story for his latter mag was written on order as a sequel to "Quest on Io". Also, while he was in New York, he wrote a story about the taming of the first horse which Wort Weisinger will use in THRILLING ADVENTURE..... Burton Filut, author of several fan stories and poems, is applying for patents on a new style notebook index which appears pretty handy for science-fiction fans. I visited him one night and saw the table loaded down with accres of different types and modifications of his notebook idea. Incidentally, Burt teaches school in a Wisconsin Town, and all the pupils in his class employ his system ........ In the current issue of the Writer's Digest, Campbell says that any author who can give him an idea of culture in an anthropological sense will find it very easy to click in ASTOUNDING. This accounts for the acceptance of D.H. Thompson's a "Eccentric Orbit" which was a nice bit of "crea
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