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PHANTEUR Perpetrated Occasionally for FAPA VAPA BY D.B. Thompson Imperial, Nebr. May 1948 FAPA EDITION Number 5 contents Editorial pages first and last "As Time Goes By" pages two and three (Wherein I demonstrate that I can get something done "on Time.") Negroes In Science Fiction -- No. 2 page number four (by me, this time) "By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them" -- Mailing Reviews-- pages five - eleven --:oo)(oo:-- The intent of the cover should be clear enough this time. Again, it provides conclusive evidence that what skill I possess as a draftsman is still of little avail when I start working on a stencil. Some of the requirements for using a stencil are completely contrary to the rules for using a ruling pen, it seems. A few words about Russ Willison. Russ is a South Carolina Negro who, following his return from overseas after being wounded, found the restrictions of rural S.C. Negro life a little too irksome, and consequently, moved to Chicago. There, he soon became acquainted with a number of young Negroes who were interested in science fiction. They formed a club, called the Brownies, and held regular meetings, where science fiction stories and their significant ideas were discussed to abo ut the same extent as occurs in any other fan organization; that is to say, part of the time. Not surprisingly, one of the original members was a Communist organizer, and politics came to be a rather prominent item on the agenda of every meeting. The boys got real serious; had a few knock-down and drag-out fights, interspersed with various maneuvers by two factions to gain complete control of the clubhouse--such as expulsions by the President, who was given that power by the Constituion, and impeachment of the same President during his absence, so that others might take over; handy constituion, you must agree. Russ was a moderate, and for a long time, strove to serve as peacemaker and go-between for the two factions, while managing to maintain the support of a working majority of the membership so he couldn't be kicked out. Then he took a trip, and was removed from office in absentia. Meantime, he had fallen very hard for a girl who had been a nurse in the Loyalist army in Spain. A socialist, but no communist, she influenced his views a lot. Then a series of small misfortunes discouraged him in one way and another. He decided, about the time his articl e was published here, to join the Communist Party, and did so at once. When I received his letter, runningover with muddy-sounding communist propaganda, I informed him that it wouldn't prevent me from feeling very
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PHANTEUR Perpetrated Occasionally for FAPA VAPA BY D.B. Thompson Imperial, Nebr. May 1948 FAPA EDITION Number 5 contents Editorial pages first and last "As Time Goes By" pages two and three (Wherein I demonstrate that I can get something done "on Time.") Negroes In Science Fiction -- No. 2 page number four (by me, this time) "By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them" -- Mailing Reviews-- pages five - eleven --:oo)(oo:-- The intent of the cover should be clear enough this time. Again, it provides conclusive evidence that what skill I possess as a draftsman is still of little avail when I start working on a stencil. Some of the requirements for using a stencil are completely contrary to the rules for using a ruling pen, it seems. A few words about Russ Willison. Russ is a South Carolina Negro who, following his return from overseas after being wounded, found the restrictions of rural S.C. Negro life a little too irksome, and consequently, moved to Chicago. There, he soon became acquainted with a number of young Negroes who were interested in science fiction. They formed a club, called the Brownies, and held regular meetings, where science fiction stories and their significant ideas were discussed to abo ut the same extent as occurs in any other fan organization; that is to say, part of the time. Not surprisingly, one of the original members was a Communist organizer, and politics came to be a rather prominent item on the agenda of every meeting. The boys got real serious; had a few knock-down and drag-out fights, interspersed with various maneuvers by two factions to gain complete control of the clubhouse--such as expulsions by the President, who was given that power by the Constituion, and impeachment of the same President during his absence, so that others might take over; handy constituion, you must agree. Russ was a moderate, and for a long time, strove to serve as peacemaker and go-between for the two factions, while managing to maintain the support of a working majority of the membership so he couldn't be kicked out. Then he took a trip, and was removed from office in absentia. Meantime, he had fallen very hard for a girl who had been a nurse in the Loyalist army in Spain. A socialist, but no communist, she influenced his views a lot. Then a series of small misfortunes discouraged him in one way and another. He decided, about the time his articl e was published here, to join the Communist Party, and did so at once. When I received his letter, runningover with muddy-sounding communist propaganda, I informed him that it wouldn't prevent me from feeling very
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