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Phanteur, issue 5, May 1948
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10 PHANTEUR 10 -------------------------- FAPASNIX -- Well, when multilith works well, it beats mimeo, but judging from the "slipped" pages in my copy of SNIX, it is like the little girl with the curl that hung right down in the middle of the forehead. -- The Lady Coslet apparently favors making the best of a bad situation, but there is a lot of stuff in that last line. -- Your speeches to the Toastmaster's Club -- particularly this one -- look like the kind of publicity the Atomic Age needs. All familiar stuff, of course -- but not to your listeners, I'll wager. -- Review comments generally interesting. The "Fantasy Only" argument comes up regularly; you're in the minority, Pal. -- And you wouldn't talk so glibly of "unlimited membership" if you had to turn out your stuff on my ultra-simple duplicator; two or three pages constitute a big evening's job as it is. -- Your arrangement of the Laureate Report suggestions is the best yet; if I decide to drop the name of the mag and the item from my own selections, I'll probably adopt it. -- "Dick Armstrong and the Martians" must have been a feature of the FAPA before I became a member; I think my first bundle contained the No. 1 "Blitzkrieg" production of Speer, Rothman, and Purdue. The "Armstrong" thing is a good take-off on some of the pro stuff in the early days, as well as the fan fiction of the period. Well worth reprinting, I'd say. THE RATING OF ROCKET FUELS -- This is intensely interesting. I once suggested (via Dunkelberger's Fanews, I think) the idea of using lead wire in an atomically heated chamber, as a rocket fuel. Apparently, judging from the data on Mercury given here, lead would be very poor. Anyway, I'm very glad to see some figures on the same general type of propulsion unit. OLD AND RARE -- noted. LIGHT -- Very nice job on the cover; too bad about the subject, Cthulhu, isn't of some interest. The mimeod pic opposite the TOC is remarkably good; excellent shading. "The Laughing Dog" is rather good. "Corpsebound" -- comes closer to achieving a mood of real horror than most of Lovecraft, it says here; but then, I don't think HPL ever succeeded in achieving such a mood. This almost does. "That Time In My Life" -- well enough, but I like this time better; I knew those old 'zines too, except WT, which I bought from time to time, and, after reading maybe one story, threw away. The others were better. -- There is only one error than I can find in Tigrina's review of "An Andalusian Dog." The sentence "Unfortunately, the film is seldom, if ever, shown," should read "Fortunately...." If it were shown frequently, I might run into it accidentally some time, and waste half a buck. -- Lamb reviews the three books so convincingly that I'm sure I don't care to read any of them. -- There is much truth, and some poetry, in "The Old Gods." A better than usual issue of LIGHT.
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10 PHANTEUR 10 -------------------------- FAPASNIX -- Well, when multilith works well, it beats mimeo, but judging from the "slipped" pages in my copy of SNIX, it is like the little girl with the curl that hung right down in the middle of the forehead. -- The Lady Coslet apparently favors making the best of a bad situation, but there is a lot of stuff in that last line. -- Your speeches to the Toastmaster's Club -- particularly this one -- look like the kind of publicity the Atomic Age needs. All familiar stuff, of course -- but not to your listeners, I'll wager. -- Review comments generally interesting. The "Fantasy Only" argument comes up regularly; you're in the minority, Pal. -- And you wouldn't talk so glibly of "unlimited membership" if you had to turn out your stuff on my ultra-simple duplicator; two or three pages constitute a big evening's job as it is. -- Your arrangement of the Laureate Report suggestions is the best yet; if I decide to drop the name of the mag and the item from my own selections, I'll probably adopt it. -- "Dick Armstrong and the Martians" must have been a feature of the FAPA before I became a member; I think my first bundle contained the No. 1 "Blitzkrieg" production of Speer, Rothman, and Purdue. The "Armstrong" thing is a good take-off on some of the pro stuff in the early days, as well as the fan fiction of the period. Well worth reprinting, I'd say. THE RATING OF ROCKET FUELS -- This is intensely interesting. I once suggested (via Dunkelberger's Fanews, I think) the idea of using lead wire in an atomically heated chamber, as a rocket fuel. Apparently, judging from the data on Mercury given here, lead would be very poor. Anyway, I'm very glad to see some figures on the same general type of propulsion unit. OLD AND RARE -- noted. LIGHT -- Very nice job on the cover; too bad about the subject, Cthulhu, isn't of some interest. The mimeod pic opposite the TOC is remarkably good; excellent shading. "The Laughing Dog" is rather good. "Corpsebound" -- comes closer to achieving a mood of real horror than most of Lovecraft, it says here; but then, I don't think HPL ever succeeded in achieving such a mood. This almost does. "That Time In My Life" -- well enough, but I like this time better; I knew those old 'zines too, except WT, which I bought from time to time, and, after reading maybe one story, threw away. The others were better. -- There is only one error than I can find in Tigrina's review of "An Andalusian Dog." The sentence "Unfortunately, the film is seldom, if ever, shown," should read "Fortunately...." If it were shown frequently, I might run into it accidentally some time, and waste half a buck. -- Lamb reviews the three books so convincingly that I'm sure I don't care to read any of them. -- There is much truth, and some poetry, in "The Old Gods." A better than usual issue of LIGHT.
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