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Sun Spots, v. 7, issue 1, whole no. 27, Spring 1946
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Spring, 1946 SUN SPOTS Page 4 *********************************** SIX YEARS OLD! An Editorial This is our sixth anniversary issue. Six years is quite an age for one fanzine, as more than one fan will testify. However, dispite the fact that Sun Spots was born back in 1940, this is actually only the fourth annish we have produced. We celebrated our first anniversary in 1941 with a 40-page mimeographed issue and our second in 1942 with a 16-page printed number. In 1943 and the early part of '44, Sun Spots was in a state of suspended animation. We started up againin the fall of 1944 and last year put out the fifthe annish. There is nothing pretentious about this issue. The contents are rather slim but of good quality. The reproduction is up to par, barring a few crooked pages due to the failure of our typewriter rollers. The magazine appears to have slipped into a aemi-annual schedule, which friends, is nothing to complain about as long as you continue to receive the 'zine free. . . But you won't continue to receive it after this issue unless you comply with our requirement- that you write a few comments on this issue. In the past we have been rather lax about this, allowing certain fans to remain on the mailing list whether we have heard from them or not. After this, write us. Fanzine exchanges are also acceptable. *** This issue we present a new writer -- new to the ranks of stf fandom, at any rate. He is James Breckenridge, who has contributed a few short articles. Breckenridge was a member of the old Solaroid Club and is a resident of Westwood. In recent years he has become an avid follower of weird fiction and, contrary to any impression you may gather from his article "The Communication of Horror", is rather fond of H. P. Lovecraft. Jimmy is a graduate of Cornell University and is at present employed by the New York Daily News. *** The latest "dream" of science fiction to come true as the announcement that Army scientists have retched the moon with radar impulses. Newspapers in this area carried this important news release in various manners. The New York Mirror, a tabloid paper, devoted its entire front page to the yarn. The usually sensational Daily News featured the strike news and gave the radar story a fairly large "play" on page 3. The conservative New York Times ranked the story is second only to the strike situation and place it in the left hand column on the front page. The New York Tribune, also a rather conservative publication ran a picture of the radar station on the front page along with the stoy. The remaining papers we came across gave the story spots ranging from fair to poor. May we call your attentio to the notices on the back pafe of this issue. The Weinbaum Memorial booklet has met with favorable success throughout fandom and is a "must for any stf fan. This is the only fan memorial ever published to honor Weinbaum, who is still rated as one of the top science fictions authors of all time
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Spring, 1946 SUN SPOTS Page 4 *********************************** SIX YEARS OLD! An Editorial This is our sixth anniversary issue. Six years is quite an age for one fanzine, as more than one fan will testify. However, dispite the fact that Sun Spots was born back in 1940, this is actually only the fourth annish we have produced. We celebrated our first anniversary in 1941 with a 40-page mimeographed issue and our second in 1942 with a 16-page printed number. In 1943 and the early part of '44, Sun Spots was in a state of suspended animation. We started up againin the fall of 1944 and last year put out the fifthe annish. There is nothing pretentious about this issue. The contents are rather slim but of good quality. The reproduction is up to par, barring a few crooked pages due to the failure of our typewriter rollers. The magazine appears to have slipped into a aemi-annual schedule, which friends, is nothing to complain about as long as you continue to receive the 'zine free. . . But you won't continue to receive it after this issue unless you comply with our requirement- that you write a few comments on this issue. In the past we have been rather lax about this, allowing certain fans to remain on the mailing list whether we have heard from them or not. After this, write us. Fanzine exchanges are also acceptable. *** This issue we present a new writer -- new to the ranks of stf fandom, at any rate. He is James Breckenridge, who has contributed a few short articles. Breckenridge was a member of the old Solaroid Club and is a resident of Westwood. In recent years he has become an avid follower of weird fiction and, contrary to any impression you may gather from his article "The Communication of Horror", is rather fond of H. P. Lovecraft. Jimmy is a graduate of Cornell University and is at present employed by the New York Daily News. *** The latest "dream" of science fiction to come true as the announcement that Army scientists have retched the moon with radar impulses. Newspapers in this area carried this important news release in various manners. The New York Mirror, a tabloid paper, devoted its entire front page to the yarn. The usually sensational Daily News featured the strike news and gave the radar story a fairly large "play" on page 3. The conservative New York Times ranked the story is second only to the strike situation and place it in the left hand column on the front page. The New York Tribune, also a rather conservative publication ran a picture of the radar station on the front page along with the stoy. The remaining papers we came across gave the story spots ranging from fair to poor. May we call your attentio to the notices on the back pafe of this issue. The Weinbaum Memorial booklet has met with favorable success throughout fandom and is a "must for any stf fan. This is the only fan memorial ever published to honor Weinbaum, who is still rated as one of the top science fictions authors of all time
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