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Fantasy Magazine, v. 4, issue 4, whole no. 28, February-March 1935
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104 FANTASY THE SCIENCE FICTION EYE -- Continued from page 88 Charles D. Hornig, at a loss to find a suitable subject for the April, 1935 Wonder cover, asked Joseph H. Kraus (who is in the same office and is editor of Everyday Science and Mechanics) for a suggestion. Kraus drew a rough sketch showing a man at the bottom of the ocean in a deep-sea outfit shooting a harpoon gun at a frightful looking monster. The idea has been adopted and is used on the April cover and Kraus wrote "Phantom Monsters" incorporating the idea into a short short...Harl Vincent is due again in Astounding with "Prowler of the Wastelands" and "Between Planes"...Bob Olsen's next Amazing yarn is "Isle of Juvenescence"...Edmond Hamilton has sold a detective novelette, "Murders at Key Weed," to Thrilling Detectives, which becomes news when one learns it will be illustrated by Leo Morey..."N'Goc," by Raymond Gallun, has clicked at Astounding. ---------------------------------- Edward E. Smith, who is really a very modest man, has become member 750 of the Science Fiction League. On the back of his application he stated: "While I have written some scientific fiction, I can scarcely be classed as an author." ******************************* SCIENTIFICINEMATORIALLY SPEAKING SPEAKING -- cont. from page 98 Atlantis who once left the hidden land to return with a wife from Paris. Avit is stricken by Antinea's beauty. He inquires about Morhange, but she will answer no questions concerning his friend. Morhange is alive, however, and is also sent for, later. And in him the lonely ruler sees the man who can bring love to her heart. But Morhange is not reciprocately affected. Nothing matters to him but Avit and his friendship. Thus becomes the climax of the story a tragic one. Avit takes to drugs in despair at his hopeless love. Antinea, enraged at Morhange's indifference to her, induces Saint-Avit to murder his friend. Jealous, love-sick, drugged, Avit kills Morhange. Coming to his sense upon committing the horrible crime, he seeks vengeance upon the woman who has tricked him into killing his friend; but Antinea has him seized and imprisoned. Avit effects an escape, with aid from the man whose life he saved; and at last, after terrible hardships, reaches civilization once more. That is the end of his story. But, in the telling of his tale, the picture, the memory of the beauty of Antinea, comes before him again, irresistibly urging him return to Atlantis. He sets out to find the hidden land again. The fellow-lieutenant, to whom he revealed the tragedy, follows to bring him back. But a sandstorm obliterates Saint-Avit's tracks. It is left to the spectator never to know but only to wonder -- or picture, as is his pleasure -- whether Avit perishes in the desert sands...or reaches Antinea, and attains the love of the Mistress of Atlantis.
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104 FANTASY THE SCIENCE FICTION EYE -- Continued from page 88 Charles D. Hornig, at a loss to find a suitable subject for the April, 1935 Wonder cover, asked Joseph H. Kraus (who is in the same office and is editor of Everyday Science and Mechanics) for a suggestion. Kraus drew a rough sketch showing a man at the bottom of the ocean in a deep-sea outfit shooting a harpoon gun at a frightful looking monster. The idea has been adopted and is used on the April cover and Kraus wrote "Phantom Monsters" incorporating the idea into a short short...Harl Vincent is due again in Astounding with "Prowler of the Wastelands" and "Between Planes"...Bob Olsen's next Amazing yarn is "Isle of Juvenescence"...Edmond Hamilton has sold a detective novelette, "Murders at Key Weed," to Thrilling Detectives, which becomes news when one learns it will be illustrated by Leo Morey..."N'Goc," by Raymond Gallun, has clicked at Astounding. ---------------------------------- Edward E. Smith, who is really a very modest man, has become member 750 of the Science Fiction League. On the back of his application he stated: "While I have written some scientific fiction, I can scarcely be classed as an author." ******************************* SCIENTIFICINEMATORIALLY SPEAKING SPEAKING -- cont. from page 98 Atlantis who once left the hidden land to return with a wife from Paris. Avit is stricken by Antinea's beauty. He inquires about Morhange, but she will answer no questions concerning his friend. Morhange is alive, however, and is also sent for, later. And in him the lonely ruler sees the man who can bring love to her heart. But Morhange is not reciprocately affected. Nothing matters to him but Avit and his friendship. Thus becomes the climax of the story a tragic one. Avit takes to drugs in despair at his hopeless love. Antinea, enraged at Morhange's indifference to her, induces Saint-Avit to murder his friend. Jealous, love-sick, drugged, Avit kills Morhange. Coming to his sense upon committing the horrible crime, he seeks vengeance upon the woman who has tricked him into killing his friend; but Antinea has him seized and imprisoned. Avit effects an escape, with aid from the man whose life he saved; and at last, after terrible hardships, reaches civilization once more. That is the end of his story. But, in the telling of his tale, the picture, the memory of the beauty of Antinea, comes before him again, irresistibly urging him return to Atlantis. He sets out to find the hidden land again. The fellow-lieutenant, to whom he revealed the tragedy, follows to bring him back. But a sandstorm obliterates Saint-Avit's tracks. It is left to the spectator never to know but only to wonder -- or picture, as is his pleasure -- whether Avit perishes in the desert sands...or reaches Antinea, and attains the love of the Mistress of Atlantis.
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