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Fantasite, v. 1, issue 2, February 1941
Page 21
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21, THE FANTASITE cure place. Many great stories have been written but I believe the greatest still are to be written. The horizon grows broader as time goes on. Each new idea is a springboard for a dozen other ideas all derivatives of the first but each a separate theme in its own right. If this be true, how can we help but have the greatest stories yet to come? RECOMMENDED READING "Three Go Back" by J. Leslie Mitchell Published 1932 by Bobbe-Merrill Co. $2.00 A book that is quietly written; not a ray gun, sinister scientist, bombs before breakfast, or comet crashing into the world in it.. but still a darn nice story. The Atlantis theme, expertly handled (the author is an archaeologist and explorer) and in a different way from what you have read so many times in the past. Atlantis does not sink while our main characters are there .. but knowing it will, sometime in the future gives them some bad moments. It is basically a time-travelling tale; three people, a man who is a pacifist, another who is a munitions maker, and a girl who writes racy novels for a living are thrown back into Atlantis 20,000 years ago when their dirigible cracks up in mid-Atlantic. And it is damn cold! The three hit Atlantis just a skip and a jump ahead of the Ice Age! They adventure on that now lost land meet and defeat the saber-tooth, the Neanderthal. the mammoth (the last is not ferocious, but followed them about like a domesticated animal!) and also meet the Cro-Magnards, neatly destroying another myth. These people were simple and childish, not destroyers or masters of the Neanderthal. Indeed they had to fight for their lives when those latter gents came raiding. The author, thru one of his characters decries the mass of filth and propaganda that is taught in the schools today regarding these remote ancestors of mankind, and their alleged "war-thumping"; claims instead they were a remarkably peaceful race. The book follows the southward migration of the Cro-Magnards as they flee the iwe from the north, and the slowly sinking land that precedes the ice. Eventually they land up on the coast of Portugal; were apparently they are safe while their Neanderthal enemies die on the sinking continent behind them. If you can pick it up, try it for a different, absorbing yarn. -BOB TUCKER Scientifiction's latest established institution of fun, wows them all in the fourth issue. The greatest master of humor visits Carlton J. Fassbender in a seance and dictated. FISH AND GIPS by THORNE SMITH deceased author of "Topper", "Turnabout" , "The Stray Lamb" and other fantastic humour. Along with the usual raccous belllicosity, the 4th TDT should be a **** ish 10cts to: THE DAMN THING, BOX 6475 METRO STA LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
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21, THE FANTASITE cure place. Many great stories have been written but I believe the greatest still are to be written. The horizon grows broader as time goes on. Each new idea is a springboard for a dozen other ideas all derivatives of the first but each a separate theme in its own right. If this be true, how can we help but have the greatest stories yet to come? RECOMMENDED READING "Three Go Back" by J. Leslie Mitchell Published 1932 by Bobbe-Merrill Co. $2.00 A book that is quietly written; not a ray gun, sinister scientist, bombs before breakfast, or comet crashing into the world in it.. but still a darn nice story. The Atlantis theme, expertly handled (the author is an archaeologist and explorer) and in a different way from what you have read so many times in the past. Atlantis does not sink while our main characters are there .. but knowing it will, sometime in the future gives them some bad moments. It is basically a time-travelling tale; three people, a man who is a pacifist, another who is a munitions maker, and a girl who writes racy novels for a living are thrown back into Atlantis 20,000 years ago when their dirigible cracks up in mid-Atlantic. And it is damn cold! The three hit Atlantis just a skip and a jump ahead of the Ice Age! They adventure on that now lost land meet and defeat the saber-tooth, the Neanderthal. the mammoth (the last is not ferocious, but followed them about like a domesticated animal!) and also meet the Cro-Magnards, neatly destroying another myth. These people were simple and childish, not destroyers or masters of the Neanderthal. Indeed they had to fight for their lives when those latter gents came raiding. The author, thru one of his characters decries the mass of filth and propaganda that is taught in the schools today regarding these remote ancestors of mankind, and their alleged "war-thumping"; claims instead they were a remarkably peaceful race. The book follows the southward migration of the Cro-Magnards as they flee the iwe from the north, and the slowly sinking land that precedes the ice. Eventually they land up on the coast of Portugal; were apparently they are safe while their Neanderthal enemies die on the sinking continent behind them. If you can pick it up, try it for a different, absorbing yarn. -BOB TUCKER Scientifiction's latest established institution of fun, wows them all in the fourth issue. The greatest master of humor visits Carlton J. Fassbender in a seance and dictated. FISH AND GIPS by THORNE SMITH deceased author of "Topper", "Turnabout" , "The Stray Lamb" and other fantastic humour. Along with the usual raccous belllicosity, the 4th TDT should be a **** ish 10cts to: THE DAMN THING, BOX 6475 METRO STA LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
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