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Fan, issue 6, February 1946
The Rider
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Rusty presents THE RIDER THE RIDER is the first publication to come from Fantasy Sanctum, 3761 Third Street, Riverside, California. Please do not expect too much from THE RIDER right away. It will consist of some of my personal ideas, public answers to some questions asked of me, some of my own questions, and perhaps of some bits of what might be considered as news. Its growth and any later changes will depend on its reception and the reaction it aroused from you, the reader. At the time of the Denvention, I got started in active fanning by hitch-hiking rides to Los Angeles and then to Denver. Bob Madle talked me into riding on to Philadelphia with him and the other Widneriders and then got me to help him put out the only issue of FANTASCIENCE DIGEST to appear in 1941. That made a real f-en out me, no doubt, because I soon wanted to publish something of my own. The 1942 Boskone, then, saw the initial issue of HEBULA, The Fantasy Fan Record, which I published, along with PSFS NEWS, until my decision to join the Marine Corps at the end of August that year. I have recently been urged to publish something again. THE RIDER is the immediate result and should serve as my credential for membership in the FAPA, for which I submitted my application to Al Ashley on 23 December 1945. With luck and a little encouragement it may become a regular FAPA mag. This time I am tied down to a job, so the publication is doing the hitch-hiking. This first issue will reach most of you with FAN (sixth issue), courtesy of Daugherty. Work on THE FANTASY FAN ANTHOLOGY is coming along slowly. I have been going slowly while awaiting the NFFF election results. Most of the final selections have been made and a little dummying is done. Suggestions from any of you who may be familiar with the original contents are still welcome, though some will have to be ignored. For instance, there will be no illustrations in the anthology with the possible exception of a sketch or picture of Hornig. There were none in the original, you know, and present-day f-en illustrations would not represent the old FAN at all. One thought on this keeps coming up, though. This job seems to over-lap into that of the NFFF Book Committee. The question is: Should production be held up for results of its inquiries or should it be gone ahead with now as a mimeographed publication? There have been a few suggestions (wonder why that wasn't "several requests") that NEBULA be revived. Since I handled the news a bit differently than the other news sheets and got a pleasant reaction last time, enough interest might compel me to give heed to those evincing it. Are there enough news sources out now or do you think there is need of another? At any rate, many thanks to those kind people who mentioned the matter. What I (and many of you, no doubt) would like to do would be to publish an imag to compare favorably with SPACEWAYS, ACOLYTE, or FANTASITE. Trying anything on as grand a scale as that, though ,
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Rusty presents THE RIDER THE RIDER is the first publication to come from Fantasy Sanctum, 3761 Third Street, Riverside, California. Please do not expect too much from THE RIDER right away. It will consist of some of my personal ideas, public answers to some questions asked of me, some of my own questions, and perhaps of some bits of what might be considered as news. Its growth and any later changes will depend on its reception and the reaction it aroused from you, the reader. At the time of the Denvention, I got started in active fanning by hitch-hiking rides to Los Angeles and then to Denver. Bob Madle talked me into riding on to Philadelphia with him and the other Widneriders and then got me to help him put out the only issue of FANTASCIENCE DIGEST to appear in 1941. That made a real f-en out me, no doubt, because I soon wanted to publish something of my own. The 1942 Boskone, then, saw the initial issue of HEBULA, The Fantasy Fan Record, which I published, along with PSFS NEWS, until my decision to join the Marine Corps at the end of August that year. I have recently been urged to publish something again. THE RIDER is the immediate result and should serve as my credential for membership in the FAPA, for which I submitted my application to Al Ashley on 23 December 1945. With luck and a little encouragement it may become a regular FAPA mag. This time I am tied down to a job, so the publication is doing the hitch-hiking. This first issue will reach most of you with FAN (sixth issue), courtesy of Daugherty. Work on THE FANTASY FAN ANTHOLOGY is coming along slowly. I have been going slowly while awaiting the NFFF election results. Most of the final selections have been made and a little dummying is done. Suggestions from any of you who may be familiar with the original contents are still welcome, though some will have to be ignored. For instance, there will be no illustrations in the anthology with the possible exception of a sketch or picture of Hornig. There were none in the original, you know, and present-day f-en illustrations would not represent the old FAN at all. One thought on this keeps coming up, though. This job seems to over-lap into that of the NFFF Book Committee. The question is: Should production be held up for results of its inquiries or should it be gone ahead with now as a mimeographed publication? There have been a few suggestions (wonder why that wasn't "several requests") that NEBULA be revived. Since I handled the news a bit differently than the other news sheets and got a pleasant reaction last time, enough interest might compel me to give heed to those evincing it. Are there enough news sources out now or do you think there is need of another? At any rate, many thanks to those kind people who mentioned the matter. What I (and many of you, no doubt) would like to do would be to publish an imag to compare favorably with SPACEWAYS, ACOLYTE, or FANTASITE. Trying anything on as grand a scale as that, though ,
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