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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 2, June 1941
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From The Passenger Lounge SOUTHERN STAR Page 37 ght make (which you probably have already realized) is that use of a ruler for the straight lines would help the appearance a lot where they're supposed to be straight. As for material -- well, I'd better not go into detail, for I want to get this off to you as soon as I can, and this might go on and on for page after page if I started to talk about everything in this issue. Almost all was good, in my humble opinion. As I think I told you before, Fischer is one of my favorite fan authors, and his column looks as though it's going to be a suitable sequel to the one that appeared in Golden Atom. And his correspondence with McQueen about space wars is more intriguing than I'd thought possible. I wouldn't mind seeing a continuation of it, though I have grave doubts as to whether there'll even be such a thing. If it's to be between two rockets out in space, for instance, problems might be worked out. But if it's to be something like one fleet trying to invade or attack another planet, and the attacked planet's fleet going up to drive them away, I fear it's too much even to think of. Look at how long it's taken England to get some sort of defense up against invasion from just one side of her coast, and a little tiny coast as interplanetary distances would go; then imagine what a task it would be to try to find a [[?]] of intercepting a fleet headed to destroy a world when you don't know where they're headed for on the world's surface or in which direction they're coming (except that they'll be coming from up). Me, I think that if it should ever come down to a war between two worlds with interplanetary travel well developed, either side would ruin the other the instant it chose and it would end up with both sides hopelessly knocked out. And as for weapons in space -- shrapnel is out of the question, and I think more practical than rays would be some sort of catalyst or transmuting substance capable of working in the void of space, which would eat holes in the hull of a space ship and very effectively knock it out of comission, and not do the crew a bit of good, either. Also liked very much Panurge's Munsey column, and shall be looking forward to future installments. I'm going to be particularly interested in getting the dates of the best fantasies from 1920 to date in Argosy, for the second--hand store here has plenty of copies for the last twenty years and the only thing that's held me back from getting some of the best stories is the job of having to hunt through piles of issues. But I'd better stop here now and stop while the stopping is good. The whole issue was swell, and hope you can keep up the good work... --HARRY WARNER, JR. CHIEF DIFFICULTY WITH HECTOGRAPHING IS LEGIBILITY -- OR IT'S LACK -- AND THE DECIDEDLY LIMITED NUMBER OF READABLE COPIES OBTAINABLE WITH IT. Received SOUTHERN STAR in rather good condition. I still can't see why all the commotion was made about the Jinx. ((If this month's covers come out the way we're praying they will, I believe the reason will become rather evident. JG)). After reading the ads I expected to see a magazine filled to the brim with fan art by the sensation of 1941, Harry Jenkins. And what do I get.....a cover and a little bit of lettering. Let him show his amazing talent with more work. After all, is not fan art the backbone of fandom. [[handwriting to right of sentence]]urggle[[?]][[end handwriting]] Of the contents I really enjoyed the Munsey Panorama. The rest was good enough. Let's have better spelling
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From The Passenger Lounge SOUTHERN STAR Page 37 ght make (which you probably have already realized) is that use of a ruler for the straight lines would help the appearance a lot where they're supposed to be straight. As for material -- well, I'd better not go into detail, for I want to get this off to you as soon as I can, and this might go on and on for page after page if I started to talk about everything in this issue. Almost all was good, in my humble opinion. As I think I told you before, Fischer is one of my favorite fan authors, and his column looks as though it's going to be a suitable sequel to the one that appeared in Golden Atom. And his correspondence with McQueen about space wars is more intriguing than I'd thought possible. I wouldn't mind seeing a continuation of it, though I have grave doubts as to whether there'll even be such a thing. If it's to be between two rockets out in space, for instance, problems might be worked out. But if it's to be something like one fleet trying to invade or attack another planet, and the attacked planet's fleet going up to drive them away, I fear it's too much even to think of. Look at how long it's taken England to get some sort of defense up against invasion from just one side of her coast, and a little tiny coast as interplanetary distances would go; then imagine what a task it would be to try to find a [[?]] of intercepting a fleet headed to destroy a world when you don't know where they're headed for on the world's surface or in which direction they're coming (except that they'll be coming from up). Me, I think that if it should ever come down to a war between two worlds with interplanetary travel well developed, either side would ruin the other the instant it chose and it would end up with both sides hopelessly knocked out. And as for weapons in space -- shrapnel is out of the question, and I think more practical than rays would be some sort of catalyst or transmuting substance capable of working in the void of space, which would eat holes in the hull of a space ship and very effectively knock it out of comission, and not do the crew a bit of good, either. Also liked very much Panurge's Munsey column, and shall be looking forward to future installments. I'm going to be particularly interested in getting the dates of the best fantasies from 1920 to date in Argosy, for the second--hand store here has plenty of copies for the last twenty years and the only thing that's held me back from getting some of the best stories is the job of having to hunt through piles of issues. But I'd better stop here now and stop while the stopping is good. The whole issue was swell, and hope you can keep up the good work... --HARRY WARNER, JR. CHIEF DIFFICULTY WITH HECTOGRAPHING IS LEGIBILITY -- OR IT'S LACK -- AND THE DECIDEDLY LIMITED NUMBER OF READABLE COPIES OBTAINABLE WITH IT. Received SOUTHERN STAR in rather good condition. I still can't see why all the commotion was made about the Jinx. ((If this month's covers come out the way we're praying they will, I believe the reason will become rather evident. JG)). After reading the ads I expected to see a magazine filled to the brim with fan art by the sensation of 1941, Harry Jenkins. And what do I get.....a cover and a little bit of lettering. Let him show his amazing talent with more work. After all, is not fan art the backbone of fandom. [[handwriting to right of sentence]]urggle[[?]][[end handwriting]] Of the contents I really enjoyed the Munsey Panorama. The rest was good enough. Let's have better spelling
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