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28 fanfare strange interludes byou JANE RICE ****** Thanks for the copy of FANFARE - but I'm curious. DId you or didn't you expect to draw blood? Be that as it may -- you definitely did or I wouldn't be writing this. I gathered from the contents of FANFARE that you all ate interested in ideas rather than in characters. That is - you prefer a good oooh-Mama-how-high-does-it-go IDEA to an oooh-Mama-that-man-limped-at-me CHARACTER. Is that true? I really want to know as, heretofore, I've pinned my faith on characters overshadowing ideas. (Speaking for myself, I want both. A story has to have both, for me, or it is just another story. The rest of you fans will have to speak for yourselves. Here is that rara avis, an author who wants to cooperate with us; so come on,fans, co-operate with her, by giving your opinions on this question. -- ed.) Thrawn Janet, for example, is as much alive today as Tom Swift and His Flying Machine is dead. Perhaps my definition of fantasy doesn't coincide with that of the general public. The Turn of the Screw is, to my way of thinking, a perfect lallapaloo of a fantasy story, and it is entirely a character sketch. Berenice by Poe is another. The Gentleman from America. The Screaming Skull. (Ditto on the last, but Turn of the Screw put me to sleep five times.--ed.) Or don't you want fantastic horror? Is grisliness secondary to straight, undiluted fantasy with lots of intricate machinery bubbling about all over the place? Let me know, will you? About FANFARE - I like it. It's a swell IDEA. It doesn't seem to have a very well developed CHARACTER. That is, everybody talks alike. It's a nice way of talking - quick and racy and up-and-at-em-ish, but it's sort of like sitting through a double feature of Humphrey Bogart - and don't throw that typewriter - they're on priorities. YVT. JACK SPEER ***** FANFARE'S cover is lovely. repno/erman? (Direct litho I believe--ed.) I have a horrible premonition that Frandle and Tungleflurd are the genuine christened names of Feldman and Tiger. Sayitisntso,queek! (Itisntso,queek!--ed.) Wonder if Ackerman could be persuaded to take on a publishing job for the NFFF, instead of putting out another ordinary fanzine. While in general Joe's criticism of the Campbell magazines as needing something new is entirely too substantial, I do want to take exception, along with you - to his complete condemnation of de Camp. de Camp has turned out a deal of fairly bad stuff lately - but I like his Undesired Princess. Conway's reply to Joe sounds as tho he thot he'd read the column before publication, but his summary of it, "...the reason for this, in turn, he says, is the greater opportunities offered by detective and western pulps"(!) is a masterpiece of distortion. Conway thinks that the loss of de Camp, Heinlein, van Vogt,Hubbard, et al, can easily be made up from
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28 fanfare strange interludes byou JANE RICE ****** Thanks for the copy of FANFARE - but I'm curious. DId you or didn't you expect to draw blood? Be that as it may -- you definitely did or I wouldn't be writing this. I gathered from the contents of FANFARE that you all ate interested in ideas rather than in characters. That is - you prefer a good oooh-Mama-how-high-does-it-go IDEA to an oooh-Mama-that-man-limped-at-me CHARACTER. Is that true? I really want to know as, heretofore, I've pinned my faith on characters overshadowing ideas. (Speaking for myself, I want both. A story has to have both, for me, or it is just another story. The rest of you fans will have to speak for yourselves. Here is that rara avis, an author who wants to cooperate with us; so come on,fans, co-operate with her, by giving your opinions on this question. -- ed.) Thrawn Janet, for example, is as much alive today as Tom Swift and His Flying Machine is dead. Perhaps my definition of fantasy doesn't coincide with that of the general public. The Turn of the Screw is, to my way of thinking, a perfect lallapaloo of a fantasy story, and it is entirely a character sketch. Berenice by Poe is another. The Gentleman from America. The Screaming Skull. (Ditto on the last, but Turn of the Screw put me to sleep five times.--ed.) Or don't you want fantastic horror? Is grisliness secondary to straight, undiluted fantasy with lots of intricate machinery bubbling about all over the place? Let me know, will you? About FANFARE - I like it. It's a swell IDEA. It doesn't seem to have a very well developed CHARACTER. That is, everybody talks alike. It's a nice way of talking - quick and racy and up-and-at-em-ish, but it's sort of like sitting through a double feature of Humphrey Bogart - and don't throw that typewriter - they're on priorities. YVT. JACK SPEER ***** FANFARE'S cover is lovely. repno/erman? (Direct litho I believe--ed.) I have a horrible premonition that Frandle and Tungleflurd are the genuine christened names of Feldman and Tiger. Sayitisntso,queek! (Itisntso,queek!--ed.) Wonder if Ackerman could be persuaded to take on a publishing job for the NFFF, instead of putting out another ordinary fanzine. While in general Joe's criticism of the Campbell magazines as needing something new is entirely too substantial, I do want to take exception, along with you - to his complete condemnation of de Camp. de Camp has turned out a deal of fairly bad stuff lately - but I like his Undesired Princess. Conway's reply to Joe sounds as tho he thot he'd read the column before publication, but his summary of it, "...the reason for this, in turn, he says, is the greater opportunities offered by detective and western pulps"(!) is a masterpiece of distortion. Conway thinks that the loss of de Camp, Heinlein, van Vogt,Hubbard, et al, can easily be made up from
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