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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 3, August 1941

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From The New York C. Office
SOUTHERN STAR

doing the story next year, and I would like to be able to count on you for a program or an advance notice. Thank you for all your trouble; I will hope to hear from you a year from now."
     (This was in nosto-paragraphting, honest.)
     So, we respectfully suggest to the 1942 Convention committee that
they send Newsweek a carbon of the copy on the program when it goes to the printer (assuming that it goes the week before the Calicon) in order that Newsweek will have a chance to live up to its pledges.
     Incidentally, we hereby suggest the cognomen: "Calicon" for the 1942 Convention; the idea originated, so far as we know, with Chet Cohen.
     damon knight is now living with Futurians Roger Conway, Doc Lowndes, and John B. Michel at the Futurian Embassy, 142 West 103rd Street, New York City. Though he's only been here a day or so, initiations have gotten well under way; he's met Studley and R. G. Thompson; he's seen
the Pohl's and Joseph, their cat; he's met Jessica and E1sie; he's had a Chinese supper and also a montage prepared by Doc, and he's tried to get the knack of eating with chop sticks; not so bad for a starter. Oh, yes, he's also chortled at copies of old Horror Stories we have lying around..
     Don Wollheim thinks that the best phrase for the 1943 Convention is: "LAcon".
Morley hereby regrets that the story "A Matter of Philosophy" had to be withdrawn from the Southern Star as we told Gilbert, people seemed to think it could sell. "However, Campbell said no, and we were
just about to return it to Joe when we found just the right spot for it in Science Fiction upon which we were tying up loose ends. So Morley will (eventually) write another tale especially for Star. ((Goodyl If
it's anywhere as near as good as "AHOP" 'twill receive a most hearty welcome. JG)).
     It's probably no secret by now that Fred Pohl is no longer connected with Fictioneers and that Astonishing and Super Science may disband after the next issues of each. Just precisely why Pohl was fired is not quite certain — we've heard that it's a rule with Popular (and its
branches) that any of their magazines which drop below a certain circulation point are automatically suspended and the editors bounced. However, there are many possibilities and E.E. Evans, in telling what happened to Chas. R. Tanner's third "Tumithak" just touched the fringe of one series.
     It's also probably well-known by now that Science Fiction magazine combines with Future Fiction, effective the October issue. And that
the October issue features Cummings "The Man on the Meteor" and a cover by Hannes Bok; the first colored cover he'd done for stf. Coming up are Cummings' "Around the Universe" and "Into the Fourth Dimension"'.
The double-spread illustration for "Man on the Meteor" is by Bok, because Paul never turned in the one Doc ordered just before leaving for Denver. Issue will be out late for that reason — everything was ready except that one double-spread. Fortunately, the editor got back in time to prevent the necessity of having one of the staff artists do it. Doc also seems pretty happy about the fact that he accepted a story by Milt Rothman (Lee Gregor) on the spot at Denver, and gave it to Roy Hunt to illustrate then and there.  ((Seems to me that that combination would make anyone happy. JG)).
Hannes Bok and B. I. Dolgov are doing quite a bit of collaborating these days.    They sign their combined efforts: Dolbokov. Among the stories that Dolbokov has illustrated are "Earth Does Not Reply" (Lawrence Woods) and "Path of Empire" (Hugh Raymond) coming up in Science Fiction

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From The New York C. Office SOUTHERN STAR doing the story next year, and I would like to be able to count on you for a program or an advance notice. Thank you for all your trouble; I will hope to hear from you a year from now." (This was in nosto-paragraphting, honest.) So, we respectfully suggest to the 1942 Convention committee that they send Newsweek a carbon of the copy on the program when it goes to the printer (assuming that it goes the week before the Calicon) in order that Newsweek will have a chance to live up to its pledges. Incidentally, we hereby suggest the cognomen: "Calicon" for the 1942 Convention; the idea originated, so far as we know, with Chet Cohen. damon knight is now living with Futurians Roger Conway, Doc Lowndes, and John B. Michel at the Futurian Embassy, 142 West 103rd Street, New York City. Though he's only been here a day or so, initiations have gotten well under way; he's met Studley and R. G. Thompson; he's seen the Pohl's and Joseph, their cat; he's met Jessica and E1sie; he's had a Chinese supper and also a montage prepared by Doc, and he's tried to get the knack of eating with chop sticks; not so bad for a starter. Oh, yes, he's also chortled at copies of old Horror Stories we have lying around.. Don Wollheim thinks that the best phrase for the 1943 Convention is: "LAcon". Morley hereby regrets that the story "A Matter of Philosophy" had to be withdrawn from the Southern Star as we told Gilbert, people seemed to think it could sell. "However, Campbell said no, and we were just about to return it to Joe when we found just the right spot for it in Science Fiction upon which we were tying up loose ends. So Morley will (eventually) write another tale especially for Star. ((Goodyl If it's anywhere as near as good as "AHOP" 'twill receive a most hearty welcome. JG)). It's probably no secret by now that Fred Pohl is no longer connected with Fictioneers and that Astonishing and Super Science may disband after the next issues of each. Just precisely why Pohl was fired is not quite certain — we've heard that it's a rule with Popular (and its branches) that any of their magazines which drop below a certain circulation point are automatically suspended and the editors bounced. However, there are many possibilities and E.E. Evans, in telling what happened to Chas. R. Tanner's third "Tumithak" just touched the fringe of one series. It's also probably well-known by now that Science Fiction magazine combines with Future Fiction, effective the October issue. And that the October issue features Cummings "The Man on the Meteor" and a cover by Hannes Bok; the first colored cover he'd done for stf. Coming up are Cummings' "Around the Universe" and "Into the Fourth Dimension"'. The double-spread illustration for "Man on the Meteor" is by Bok, because Paul never turned in the one Doc ordered just before leaving for Denver. Issue will be out late for that reason — everything was ready except that one double-spread. Fortunately, the editor got back in time to prevent the necessity of having one of the staff artists do it. Doc also seems pretty happy about the fact that he accepted a story by Milt Rothman (Lee Gregor) on the spot at Denver, and gave it to Roy Hunt to illustrate then and there. ((Seems to me that that combination would make anyone happy. JG)). Hannes Bok and B. I. Dolgov are doing quite a bit of collaborating these days. They sign their combined efforts: Dolbokov. Among the stories that Dolbokov has illustrated are "Earth Does Not Reply" (Lawrence Woods) and "Path of Empire" (Hugh Raymond) coming up in Science Fiction