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Horizons, v. 2, issue 4, June 1941
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HORIZONS GLANCING BEHIND YOU Mailing no. 15 was something of a disappointment; it would have been complete failure had it not been for the items mailed after the big envelope arrived. The Fantasy Amateur, perhaps the most satisfactory edition in a year or more. The suggestion that members send more than 50 copies of their publications should be repeated each FA; else it'll be forgotten by old and unknown to new members. Incidentally, we have received communications of one sort or another -- letters and postals, to be specific -- from 40 of the 47 members listed in this issue. We have hopes of someday having a 100% score in this matter. Ackerman calling card: Why? Pohl picture: We challenge Elmer or anyone else to find our middle name. Fan-Tale: About all that can be said is that it's nice to know someone else is becoming active. Strange Fantasy: Hardly inspired. Wasn't this first a subscription magazine? The cover looks familiar, but if we saw it before, we didn't read the innards. Le Vombiteur: Oh, gad, why did Lowndes have to pick the issue with that poem in it to shoot through the FAPA? Phantagraph: We can't wait for Mr. Koenig's comments on this. That cover is priceless, at least. Fantaseer: Saw it before. If fans are determined to mail subscription magazines through the FAPA as well as via the regular channels, couldn't they at least arrange things so the subscription issue would be sent out at the same time as the FAPA one? The Time Scanner: Surprisingly good mimeoing. Now at last every fan who attended the Philco has written his article on it, and there'll be no more until next autumn. We hope Bob plans to issue this regularly. And incidentally, pal B. S., if you're not going to get The Sciential out before 1950, would you do us a great big favor and publish that article in The Time Scanner that is supposed to be in the coming Sciential? Nearly as many fans will see it through here, and we can't live much longer with fans thinking we know as little about music as Duncan claims. If it's not published soon, we'll be forced to correct Duncan's claims through Spaceways and thus waste a whole page of editorial. L'Ossic d'Horreur: In the last three months two things what had been suggested and never materialized have come to pass: a fan magazine digest, and a French fan magazine. We have, by the way, a nice long review of "Micromagas" coming up in Spaceways: "long" is quite an understatement. It's by the French fan Georges Gallat, and will start some of these days. Nachgemachte Schilukrttensuppe: Outside of the slight cheating Russell did to save himself the work of writing the cover and doing anything different from L'Oasis' second page, it's quite excellent. We still think German ridiculous as a sane language, though. Horizons: This we're completely disgusted with -- this issue, that is. To begin with, it isn't entirely our fault. With only two or three pages left to be hektoed, our gelatin broke down. For that, we're blameless; who can fight against Fate? But we can't escape responsibility for our sections from then on. Instead of buying a new hank of it, as we should have done, we experimented with some sort of a gelatin cloth which was given to us. The stores had stopped carrying this particular kind of hekto, which was a rather elaborate affair that was specially prepared gelatine-coated canvasses instead of the usual canned stuff. They had one of these canvasses left over, and not knowing what to do with it, let us have it. As already mentioned, we experimented with it. Already late, that issue of Horizons had to be done in a few days, and so two and one-half pages were run off on it. Or rather, peeled off. The first half-page wasn't bad; however, it was the unfinished twenty-five copies of one of the pages, the one on which the old gelatin had given up the ghost halfway through the run. It seemed to be a little hard to get off, and that was all. But the next page -- ! It took about two hours to run the thing off, altogether, for the sixty copies, it was getting so faint toward the end, we would put on a blank piece of paper, go for
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HORIZONS GLANCING BEHIND YOU Mailing no. 15 was something of a disappointment; it would have been complete failure had it not been for the items mailed after the big envelope arrived. The Fantasy Amateur, perhaps the most satisfactory edition in a year or more. The suggestion that members send more than 50 copies of their publications should be repeated each FA; else it'll be forgotten by old and unknown to new members. Incidentally, we have received communications of one sort or another -- letters and postals, to be specific -- from 40 of the 47 members listed in this issue. We have hopes of someday having a 100% score in this matter. Ackerman calling card: Why? Pohl picture: We challenge Elmer or anyone else to find our middle name. Fan-Tale: About all that can be said is that it's nice to know someone else is becoming active. Strange Fantasy: Hardly inspired. Wasn't this first a subscription magazine? The cover looks familiar, but if we saw it before, we didn't read the innards. Le Vombiteur: Oh, gad, why did Lowndes have to pick the issue with that poem in it to shoot through the FAPA? Phantagraph: We can't wait for Mr. Koenig's comments on this. That cover is priceless, at least. Fantaseer: Saw it before. If fans are determined to mail subscription magazines through the FAPA as well as via the regular channels, couldn't they at least arrange things so the subscription issue would be sent out at the same time as the FAPA one? The Time Scanner: Surprisingly good mimeoing. Now at last every fan who attended the Philco has written his article on it, and there'll be no more until next autumn. We hope Bob plans to issue this regularly. And incidentally, pal B. S., if you're not going to get The Sciential out before 1950, would you do us a great big favor and publish that article in The Time Scanner that is supposed to be in the coming Sciential? Nearly as many fans will see it through here, and we can't live much longer with fans thinking we know as little about music as Duncan claims. If it's not published soon, we'll be forced to correct Duncan's claims through Spaceways and thus waste a whole page of editorial. L'Ossic d'Horreur: In the last three months two things what had been suggested and never materialized have come to pass: a fan magazine digest, and a French fan magazine. We have, by the way, a nice long review of "Micromagas" coming up in Spaceways: "long" is quite an understatement. It's by the French fan Georges Gallat, and will start some of these days. Nachgemachte Schilukrttensuppe: Outside of the slight cheating Russell did to save himself the work of writing the cover and doing anything different from L'Oasis' second page, it's quite excellent. We still think German ridiculous as a sane language, though. Horizons: This we're completely disgusted with -- this issue, that is. To begin with, it isn't entirely our fault. With only two or three pages left to be hektoed, our gelatin broke down. For that, we're blameless; who can fight against Fate? But we can't escape responsibility for our sections from then on. Instead of buying a new hank of it, as we should have done, we experimented with some sort of a gelatin cloth which was given to us. The stores had stopped carrying this particular kind of hekto, which was a rather elaborate affair that was specially prepared gelatine-coated canvasses instead of the usual canned stuff. They had one of these canvasses left over, and not knowing what to do with it, let us have it. As already mentioned, we experimented with it. Already late, that issue of Horizons had to be done in a few days, and so two and one-half pages were run off on it. Or rather, peeled off. The first half-page wasn't bad; however, it was the unfinished twenty-five copies of one of the pages, the one on which the old gelatin had given up the ghost halfway through the run. It seemed to be a little hard to get off, and that was all. But the next page -- ! It took about two hours to run the thing off, altogether, for the sixty copies, it was getting so faint toward the end, we would put on a blank piece of paper, go for
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