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Science Fiction Savant, issue 5, Summer 1946
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Summer, 1946 A Dixie Press Publication. THE SCIENCE-FICTION SAVANT is an irregular amateur magazine published by Raymond W. Washington, Jr., 117 Hamilton Street, Live Oak, Florida. It is mimeographed and assembled by Mr. Harry Warner, Jr. of Hagers-town, Maryland, and is issued for the Fantasy Amateur Press Associa-tion. Material is solicited subject to editorial discretion. The opinions herein expressed are those of the authors and do not repre-sent necessarily any belief of the editor's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HOME IS THE STUDENT After completing my work for the current semester at the Univer-sity of Florida, and packing my voluminous possessions and transport-ing them and myself home--a mammoth undertaking--I began to think (when I was able to think of such matters again) that it was now an appropriate time for me to release another issue of this magazine for the FAPA. My ideas as to material were vague enough; I was thinking of using a rather long, humorous prosp. account of some of my college follies, and perhaps an essay of the where-do-we-go-from-here type; or perhaps some discussion of Thomas Wolfe, and perchance some poems and an article on Claude Degler's mental processes. All that I know definitely was that the time had come again to publish. However, when I unearthed some old material from one of the mouldering pasteboard boxes that clutter my bedroom and accumulate vast stores of papers, magazines, and books over the years, I found some diverse and yet primarily scientifictional things I thought worth bringing to light. A curious story is behind some of them. In 1942 I had reached the peak of my fan activity and was pub-lishing an obscure organ of juvenility called Scientifun. It merci-fully died after the third issue; and though I had on hand a good body of material for the fourth issue, no fourth issue ever came into being. In re-discovering most of these old manuscripts, I have cho-sen from them what was not too obviously out-dated for inclusion in this issue--as curiosua, as exhumed souveniers, as fragmentary pic-tures of the more closely-knit fandom of that day. Only sections of Jenkins' and Shaw's columns appear; the fiction was of such unusual quality that I found it impossible to cut. (Mary Helen's story is recent--she never gave up writing.) The Airplane Fan controversy began in the June, 1942 issue of Scientifun; the Ackermann rebuttal has not been previously published. The remainder of the issue rather speaks for itself. I believe that an occasional effort at variety is a good thing even in a highly personalized publication. And, with a bevy of top-notch writers like Delbert B. Vance, W. Somerset Maugham, Mary Helen Washington, and Algernon C. Swinburne, how could I go amiss? How, indeed. Eat Rice Crispies, Enlist in the New Army, and Prepare to Meet God. Good reading. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Summer, 1946 A Dixie Press Publication. THE SCIENCE-FICTION SAVANT is an irregular amateur magazine published by Raymond W. Washington, Jr., 117 Hamilton Street, Live Oak, Florida. It is mimeographed and assembled by Mr. Harry Warner, Jr. of Hagers-town, Maryland, and is issued for the Fantasy Amateur Press Associa-tion. Material is solicited subject to editorial discretion. The opinions herein expressed are those of the authors and do not repre-sent necessarily any belief of the editor's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HOME IS THE STUDENT After completing my work for the current semester at the Univer-sity of Florida, and packing my voluminous possessions and transport-ing them and myself home--a mammoth undertaking--I began to think (when I was able to think of such matters again) that it was now an appropriate time for me to release another issue of this magazine for the FAPA. My ideas as to material were vague enough; I was thinking of using a rather long, humorous prosp. account of some of my college follies, and perhaps an essay of the where-do-we-go-from-here type; or perhaps some discussion of Thomas Wolfe, and perchance some poems and an article on Claude Degler's mental processes. All that I know definitely was that the time had come again to publish. However, when I unearthed some old material from one of the mouldering pasteboard boxes that clutter my bedroom and accumulate vast stores of papers, magazines, and books over the years, I found some diverse and yet primarily scientifictional things I thought worth bringing to light. A curious story is behind some of them. In 1942 I had reached the peak of my fan activity and was pub-lishing an obscure organ of juvenility called Scientifun. It merci-fully died after the third issue; and though I had on hand a good body of material for the fourth issue, no fourth issue ever came into being. In re-discovering most of these old manuscripts, I have cho-sen from them what was not too obviously out-dated for inclusion in this issue--as curiosua, as exhumed souveniers, as fragmentary pic-tures of the more closely-knit fandom of that day. Only sections of Jenkins' and Shaw's columns appear; the fiction was of such unusual quality that I found it impossible to cut. (Mary Helen's story is recent--she never gave up writing.) The Airplane Fan controversy began in the June, 1942 issue of Scientifun; the Ackermann rebuttal has not been previously published. The remainder of the issue rather speaks for itself. I believe that an occasional effort at variety is a good thing even in a highly personalized publication. And, with a bevy of top-notch writers like Delbert B. Vance, W. Somerset Maugham, Mary Helen Washington, and Algernon C. Swinburne, how could I go amiss? How, indeed. Eat Rice Crispies, Enlist in the New Army, and Prepare to Meet God. Good reading. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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