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Shangri-La, July 1941
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--------------------------------------------------------------------- SHANGRI-LA PAGE 11 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, let me refresh my memory a second. I suppose I am best known for the great service I was to fello-beings back there--. Especially my breathern following the same hobby as I In fact, it was through my efforts that it became more than a mere hobby: it was converted into the most important thing in Life! "Yessir---we fans just about ran the country. Editors of all the magazines bowed to my -- I mean our wishes, publishers rose and fell upon our whims. Politics depended upon us to exist. We found that the communists were loutish fellows who were more interested in politics than science fiction. We exterminated them. Technocrats soon followed. There was no room for such organizations in fandom who openly advocated surplanting Democracy! "All the petty 'isms' and 'ists' were wiped out. We hunted down every atheists and agnostic and -er liquidated them!" "Yeah," the old man interrupted dryly. "I .. ah .. interviewed a few of those who were liquidated just recently. I believe they mentioned you." "America and science-fiction advanced nobly under my guiding hand!" The speaker threw back his head as if already tossing his halo about. "I humbly take all credit for doing the great Service. But that isn't all. I was the life blood of the Fan Magazine." "The what----?" questioned the old man. "The Fan Magazine.....a great science fiction institution. A fan magazine is a small amatuer publication printed and distributed by us fans, and contained material of interest to us and science fiction." "Go on --", the old man seated himself and propped his chin in the palm of a bony hand. "You interest me strangely." "I must modestly admit that my magazine --- I called it Fann's Mag -- was the leader of the amatuer press. I suppose that in it's long and glorious existence it published just about every fan author worth any note at all ---- that is, those who believed in Democracy and science-fiction you understand --- and many professionals received their start from me. "Fann's Mag" regularly presented the best fiction articles, poetry, illustrations and letters. All other fans modeled their little efforts after it. [image] THIS IS A BRIEF SECTION DEVOTED TO ALL OF THE POOR FELLOWS WHO WERE UNABLE TO ATTEND THE DENVENTION YOU HAVEN'T REALLY LIVED UNTIL YOU HAVE ATTENDED AT LEAST ONE OF THE --- SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTIONS *** *
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--------------------------------------------------------------------- SHANGRI-LA PAGE 11 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, let me refresh my memory a second. I suppose I am best known for the great service I was to fello-beings back there--. Especially my breathern following the same hobby as I In fact, it was through my efforts that it became more than a mere hobby: it was converted into the most important thing in Life! "Yessir---we fans just about ran the country. Editors of all the magazines bowed to my -- I mean our wishes, publishers rose and fell upon our whims. Politics depended upon us to exist. We found that the communists were loutish fellows who were more interested in politics than science fiction. We exterminated them. Technocrats soon followed. There was no room for such organizations in fandom who openly advocated surplanting Democracy! "All the petty 'isms' and 'ists' were wiped out. We hunted down every atheists and agnostic and -er liquidated them!" "Yeah," the old man interrupted dryly. "I .. ah .. interviewed a few of those who were liquidated just recently. I believe they mentioned you." "America and science-fiction advanced nobly under my guiding hand!" The speaker threw back his head as if already tossing his halo about. "I humbly take all credit for doing the great Service. But that isn't all. I was the life blood of the Fan Magazine." "The what----?" questioned the old man. "The Fan Magazine.....a great science fiction institution. A fan magazine is a small amatuer publication printed and distributed by us fans, and contained material of interest to us and science fiction." "Go on --", the old man seated himself and propped his chin in the palm of a bony hand. "You interest me strangely." "I must modestly admit that my magazine --- I called it Fann's Mag -- was the leader of the amatuer press. I suppose that in it's long and glorious existence it published just about every fan author worth any note at all ---- that is, those who believed in Democracy and science-fiction you understand --- and many professionals received their start from me. "Fann's Mag" regularly presented the best fiction articles, poetry, illustrations and letters. All other fans modeled their little efforts after it. [image] THIS IS A BRIEF SECTION DEVOTED TO ALL OF THE POOR FELLOWS WHO WERE UNABLE TO ATTEND THE DENVENTION YOU HAVEN'T REALLY LIVED UNTIL YOU HAVE ATTENDED AT LEAST ONE OF THE --- SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTIONS *** *
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