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Science Fiction Collector, v. 5, issue 6, whole no. 30, Winter 1941
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Page Six --- Science Fiction Collector -- I personally believe that there are too many kids of this type in today's stf., and the degeneration of the pros today is the direct result of their influence. No exhortion to reflect on the spread of stf. that their numbers will bring about is going to cause that belief to alter in the least. I don't care to have the type of science - fiction that they represent bruited about. The other class of heathen is quite a different proposition. They are intelligent, well-informed individuals ( I won't say intellectuals. My friends are sincere.) and they make up those friends of mine whom I know intimately. I would sooner kick them on the shins than hand them a copy of Planet Stories or Captain Future and tell them that it is a high class of literature with which they should get acquainted. Even Astounding and Unknown bear the stigma of "pulp mag" and introduced without any preparation for their contents, the new reader is going to call it crazy, and you, too. The obvious thing to do is to tell your prospect just what science fiction is and give him a good example of it for reading. Well -- have you ever tried to tell a friend just what science fiction is? I have. It is not an experience that I would care to repeat. I invariably end up gibbering drool about Buck Rogers, the future, and H.G. Wells. After one of these little conversational clambakes my friends, tsk. tsk., make significant corkscrew motions with a finger on the side of their craniums when I come into sight. It's simply one of those things that sound incredibly asinine when trying to explain them, whatever their merits might be in actuality. The solution? Some fan who has really analyzed the matter, such as Raymond Van Hou-
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Page Six --- Science Fiction Collector -- I personally believe that there are too many kids of this type in today's stf., and the degeneration of the pros today is the direct result of their influence. No exhortion to reflect on the spread of stf. that their numbers will bring about is going to cause that belief to alter in the least. I don't care to have the type of science - fiction that they represent bruited about. The other class of heathen is quite a different proposition. They are intelligent, well-informed individuals ( I won't say intellectuals. My friends are sincere.) and they make up those friends of mine whom I know intimately. I would sooner kick them on the shins than hand them a copy of Planet Stories or Captain Future and tell them that it is a high class of literature with which they should get acquainted. Even Astounding and Unknown bear the stigma of "pulp mag" and introduced without any preparation for their contents, the new reader is going to call it crazy, and you, too. The obvious thing to do is to tell your prospect just what science fiction is and give him a good example of it for reading. Well -- have you ever tried to tell a friend just what science fiction is? I have. It is not an experience that I would care to repeat. I invariably end up gibbering drool about Buck Rogers, the future, and H.G. Wells. After one of these little conversational clambakes my friends, tsk. tsk., make significant corkscrew motions with a finger on the side of their craniums when I come into sight. It's simply one of those things that sound incredibly asinine when trying to explain them, whatever their merits might be in actuality. The solution? Some fan who has really analyzed the matter, such as Raymond Van Hou-
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