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Fantasy Magazine, v. 4, issue 4, whole no. 28, February-March 1935
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FANTASY 97 FANTASY SIDELIGHTS by LOUIS C. SMITH Crackerjack scientifictionist G. Peyton Wertenbacker tells of his hope to someday rewrite "The Man from the Atom" as a novel—"of course adding a very great deal to it. The story was first published in Science & Invention when I was, oddly enough, fourteen or fifteen years old. It is the only thing I have ever written that anybody remembers!" Which should probably mollify some of the present authors who think they started young! Don M. (Mark) Lemon, the much panned author of that really excellent interplanetary story, "The Scarlet Planet," is by no means a new or inexperienced writers. As early as 1904 and 1905, he wrote short stories. In 1905 Lemon won a $300 prize for a story entitled "The Farm that Forgot," published in Black Cat magazine. Incidentally, a monumental piece of work for some ambitious connosieur of science and fantasy stories would be the compiling of an index to that greatest of all short story magazines. A. Merritt once wrote the following bit of rare philosophy in a letter: "there is a force clled consciousness which animates things—everything. Whether when we return to that force after the engines of our bodies wear out we retain any personality, I don't know. If we do, I should think a lot of memories would be troublesome. If we don't, why then we haven't any troublesome memories, cease to be what we call 'ourselves' and therefore have no worries. An admirable arrangement, the latter, I should think...I have absolutely no religion...Most people arrange things in their minds as good or bad, beneficient or evil. It doesn't seem to me that there is either. I have seen some of what the world would call the wickedest things sprout a lush crop of good, and I have seen what we call virtues produce about the most hellish crop of tastes conceivable. ...In the meantime, between the death sentence of birth and the carrying out of it at some indeterminate period—why worry?" A really good book, and an excellent addition to any fan's library—if a copy can be located!—is "Etidorpha" by John Uri Lord. Of course, as in all other old-time classics, this book is well-steeped in moral. Too, there is a slight religious implication and a bordering on the mystic—but back of it all is such a wealth of marvelous, strange adventure, and such an abundance of scientific fact, theory and plausibility, that all else is overshadowed. A swell fellow to meet and a first-water author of weird and pseudo-scientific tales in Philip M. Fisher, Jr.—who, by the way, is just one more reason for California being the greatest place on earth.
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FANTASY 97 FANTASY SIDELIGHTS by LOUIS C. SMITH Crackerjack scientifictionist G. Peyton Wertenbacker tells of his hope to someday rewrite "The Man from the Atom" as a novel—"of course adding a very great deal to it. The story was first published in Science & Invention when I was, oddly enough, fourteen or fifteen years old. It is the only thing I have ever written that anybody remembers!" Which should probably mollify some of the present authors who think they started young! Don M. (Mark) Lemon, the much panned author of that really excellent interplanetary story, "The Scarlet Planet," is by no means a new or inexperienced writers. As early as 1904 and 1905, he wrote short stories. In 1905 Lemon won a $300 prize for a story entitled "The Farm that Forgot," published in Black Cat magazine. Incidentally, a monumental piece of work for some ambitious connosieur of science and fantasy stories would be the compiling of an index to that greatest of all short story magazines. A. Merritt once wrote the following bit of rare philosophy in a letter: "there is a force clled consciousness which animates things—everything. Whether when we return to that force after the engines of our bodies wear out we retain any personality, I don't know. If we do, I should think a lot of memories would be troublesome. If we don't, why then we haven't any troublesome memories, cease to be what we call 'ourselves' and therefore have no worries. An admirable arrangement, the latter, I should think...I have absolutely no religion...Most people arrange things in their minds as good or bad, beneficient or evil. It doesn't seem to me that there is either. I have seen some of what the world would call the wickedest things sprout a lush crop of good, and I have seen what we call virtues produce about the most hellish crop of tastes conceivable. ...In the meantime, between the death sentence of birth and the carrying out of it at some indeterminate period—why worry?" A really good book, and an excellent addition to any fan's library—if a copy can be located!—is "Etidorpha" by John Uri Lord. Of course, as in all other old-time classics, this book is well-steeped in moral. Too, there is a slight religious implication and a bordering on the mystic—but back of it all is such a wealth of marvelous, strange adventure, and such an abundance of scientific fact, theory and plausibility, that all else is overshadowed. A swell fellow to meet and a first-water author of weird and pseudo-scientific tales in Philip M. Fisher, Jr.—who, by the way, is just one more reason for California being the greatest place on earth.
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