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Page 10 BIZARRE Fantasy Footnotes A Favorite Variety Column by Harry Warner, Jr. Just to give you something to think about, here's something for you: this year there will be something like 100 issues of science fiction magazines appearing! That is, barring a catastrophe in the pulp publishing field, and that doesn't appear likely to happen before all the magazines dated 1940 are on the stands. It means also that there will probably be at least 500 science fiction stories published in them this year, is a considerable advance over last year's total. That doesn't include the 24 issues of Unknown, Weird, and Strange, either. Taking the science fiction magazines alone, this year's output is going to far exceed the total output for three years just recently—1935-1937. And then some guys wonder why all the stories aren't masterpieces! This issue of Bizarre will undoubtedly reach scores of people who don't usually read the fan magazines. They therefore don't know about Art Widner's polls, which are the most comprehensive things of the kind ever attempted in the fan field. If you've not voted in any or all of them, drop him a postal at Box 122, Bryantville, Mass., giving your preferences on the following subjects: ten favorite authors (living or dead) of fantasy—they may be from either the pulps or books— ; ten top fans; five favorite cover artists; five favorite inside artists; five favorite all-around artists; and ten top fan magazines. These polls are the real thing: well over a hundred votes have been cast in some of them. Campbell-Stuart is top author, at the present writing, by a large margin. Ackerman's well out in front for favorite fan, and Paul leads the cover artists. Finlay cops the interior and all-around artist gonfalons. Not enough results on the fan magazines to list, yet. Stuff: The Philadelphia Record prints each Sunday a book-length yarn in tabloid form and distributes it with the newspaper. Once in a long while it's fantasy; twice it's been that within two months. The one yarn was "The Edge of Running Water," the yarn which incited so much favorable comment when it was published in book form about a year ago (Earlier, the Record had published an earlier fantasy by the same author). Then they printed soon after "The Invasion of America." I've not yet read it, but it looks pretty terrible. (I realize Mr. Koenig thinks this is a poor way to judge a yarn, and I don't think it's possible to tell when a story's good by looking at it. But the other way around is different. All I have to do to decide about a Hamilton epic is smell it!) . . . Swiped from Winchell's column: Eugene O'Neill's next play will be a fantasy. The title is to be "The Ice-Man Cometh," and is laid in Madison Square where Death is disguised as an ice-man. No further details are available. . . Lost Horizon, the motion picture adapted from the book of the same name by James Hilton, was recently brought back to a revival theatre in Philadelphia, after receiving more requests for such a revival than any other picture in years. It's showing to very good houses too, I understand. . . Nomination for the Forgotten Man of Fandom: Neil A. Lafferty, Jr. Who's he? Ah, that's for you to figure out! A hint: he spoke words which have been read by more people than any other fan words in history. If you think you know, write to the editor of Bizarre saying who it is. Answer will be given here next issue. I'm sorry that some of the information in this column recently was incorrect—about
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Page 10 BIZARRE Fantasy Footnotes A Favorite Variety Column by Harry Warner, Jr. Just to give you something to think about, here's something for you: this year there will be something like 100 issues of science fiction magazines appearing! That is, barring a catastrophe in the pulp publishing field, and that doesn't appear likely to happen before all the magazines dated 1940 are on the stands. It means also that there will probably be at least 500 science fiction stories published in them this year, is a considerable advance over last year's total. That doesn't include the 24 issues of Unknown, Weird, and Strange, either. Taking the science fiction magazines alone, this year's output is going to far exceed the total output for three years just recently—1935-1937. And then some guys wonder why all the stories aren't masterpieces! This issue of Bizarre will undoubtedly reach scores of people who don't usually read the fan magazines. They therefore don't know about Art Widner's polls, which are the most comprehensive things of the kind ever attempted in the fan field. If you've not voted in any or all of them, drop him a postal at Box 122, Bryantville, Mass., giving your preferences on the following subjects: ten favorite authors (living or dead) of fantasy—they may be from either the pulps or books— ; ten top fans; five favorite cover artists; five favorite inside artists; five favorite all-around artists; and ten top fan magazines. These polls are the real thing: well over a hundred votes have been cast in some of them. Campbell-Stuart is top author, at the present writing, by a large margin. Ackerman's well out in front for favorite fan, and Paul leads the cover artists. Finlay cops the interior and all-around artist gonfalons. Not enough results on the fan magazines to list, yet. Stuff: The Philadelphia Record prints each Sunday a book-length yarn in tabloid form and distributes it with the newspaper. Once in a long while it's fantasy; twice it's been that within two months. The one yarn was "The Edge of Running Water," the yarn which incited so much favorable comment when it was published in book form about a year ago (Earlier, the Record had published an earlier fantasy by the same author). Then they printed soon after "The Invasion of America." I've not yet read it, but it looks pretty terrible. (I realize Mr. Koenig thinks this is a poor way to judge a yarn, and I don't think it's possible to tell when a story's good by looking at it. But the other way around is different. All I have to do to decide about a Hamilton epic is smell it!) . . . Swiped from Winchell's column: Eugene O'Neill's next play will be a fantasy. The title is to be "The Ice-Man Cometh," and is laid in Madison Square where Death is disguised as an ice-man. No further details are available. . . Lost Horizon, the motion picture adapted from the book of the same name by James Hilton, was recently brought back to a revival theatre in Philadelphia, after receiving more requests for such a revival than any other picture in years. It's showing to very good houses too, I understand. . . Nomination for the Forgotten Man of Fandom: Neil A. Lafferty, Jr. Who's he? Ah, that's for you to figure out! A hint: he spoke words which have been read by more people than any other fan words in history. If you think you know, write to the editor of Bizarre saying who it is. Answer will be given here next issue. I'm sorry that some of the information in this column recently was incorrect—about
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