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Fantasite, v. 2, issue 2, May-June 1942
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THE FANTASITE 5 The two best are also among his earliest: they are, Harilek, and Snow Rubies. These were followed by Mirror of Dreams, The Road to Lamaland, Dainra, Stella Nash, Voice of Dashin, and High Snow. There may have been others, but they have escaped my searching. But these mentioned, I have seen and read, and recommend. Due to that odd British custom of not giving a copyright or publication date in most books, I cannot tell you just when each book was published, other than the fact that they ranged from 1916 to 1927 or '28, and were issued by Hodder and Stoughton. -------------------------------- The Amateur Press:-- Claire Beck's Futile Press (I think he was seeing into the future when he named it so) put out several pretty nice things. They were small books, well printed on a fine grade of paper, and bound in an attractive Bristol-board. There were three of which I have knowledge. The first was "Hammer and Tongs," which was a compilation of an excellent series of articles generally criticizing and commending stf in all its branches and ramifictions, by Claire's brother, Clyde. Second came "Nero, and other Poems," by Clark Ashton Smith. The third and--as far I know--the last, was "Commonplace Books," by H.P. Lovecraft. This was an extremely interesting volume, being as Beck said, a "compendium of notes and ideas collected by the late master over a period of years." An example of the kind of thing it contained: "Black cat on hill near dark gulf of ancient inn yard. Mews hoarsely--invited artist to knighted mysteries beyond. Finally dies at advanced age. Haunts dreams of artist--lures him to follow. Strange outcome (never wakes up? or makes bizarre discovery of an elder world outside three-dimensional space?)" Weird stuff, what? There was a whole book of it! ------------------------------------ Quincidences: or were they? RAP is doing some marvelous duplication these days; seems to me I recall several severe literary arguments arising from repetitious use of titles (although I realize it happens every day-the editor of a pulp fiction mag can't possibly keep up with every story published on the face of the earth.) In the June issue of Amazing Stories, there were two tales, one of them identical in title with a previously published yarn. That one was "The Man Who Was Two Men" by E. K. Jarvis. Remember? There was a story of the same name by Arthur William Bernal in Weird Tales about 1935. The second coincidence was remarkable, not alone in similarity of titles, but because the two stories concerned appeared in different magazines within a couple of months of each other. The first was "Voice in the Void" by Walter Kubilius, in the March Astounding; the second, by Harl Vincent, was "The Voice From the Void," in the June Amazing. ------------------------------------ One of the most absorbing books I have read in ages is not fiction at all, but a slim volume of a hundred pages, titled "Beyond the Milky Way," by George Ellery Hale, honorary director of the Mount Wilson Observatory. It was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, in 1926. As you may guess, it is astronomical in character, but though of a popular style, not lacking in good technical foundation. There are three chapters, of which the first is by far the most interesting. It is "The Oriental Ancestry of the Telescope," and gives a complete account of the beginnings of astronomy, following its development by the Egyptians, the Chaldeans, the Babylonians, the Greeks, and on up, with many photographs of ancient instruments and archaic drawings of astronomical equipment. (Continued on page 7)
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THE FANTASITE 5 The two best are also among his earliest: they are, Harilek, and Snow Rubies. These were followed by Mirror of Dreams, The Road to Lamaland, Dainra, Stella Nash, Voice of Dashin, and High Snow. There may have been others, but they have escaped my searching. But these mentioned, I have seen and read, and recommend. Due to that odd British custom of not giving a copyright or publication date in most books, I cannot tell you just when each book was published, other than the fact that they ranged from 1916 to 1927 or '28, and were issued by Hodder and Stoughton. -------------------------------- The Amateur Press:-- Claire Beck's Futile Press (I think he was seeing into the future when he named it so) put out several pretty nice things. They were small books, well printed on a fine grade of paper, and bound in an attractive Bristol-board. There were three of which I have knowledge. The first was "Hammer and Tongs," which was a compilation of an excellent series of articles generally criticizing and commending stf in all its branches and ramifictions, by Claire's brother, Clyde. Second came "Nero, and other Poems," by Clark Ashton Smith. The third and--as far I know--the last, was "Commonplace Books," by H.P. Lovecraft. This was an extremely interesting volume, being as Beck said, a "compendium of notes and ideas collected by the late master over a period of years." An example of the kind of thing it contained: "Black cat on hill near dark gulf of ancient inn yard. Mews hoarsely--invited artist to knighted mysteries beyond. Finally dies at advanced age. Haunts dreams of artist--lures him to follow. Strange outcome (never wakes up? or makes bizarre discovery of an elder world outside three-dimensional space?)" Weird stuff, what? There was a whole book of it! ------------------------------------ Quincidences: or were they? RAP is doing some marvelous duplication these days; seems to me I recall several severe literary arguments arising from repetitious use of titles (although I realize it happens every day-the editor of a pulp fiction mag can't possibly keep up with every story published on the face of the earth.) In the June issue of Amazing Stories, there were two tales, one of them identical in title with a previously published yarn. That one was "The Man Who Was Two Men" by E. K. Jarvis. Remember? There was a story of the same name by Arthur William Bernal in Weird Tales about 1935. The second coincidence was remarkable, not alone in similarity of titles, but because the two stories concerned appeared in different magazines within a couple of months of each other. The first was "Voice in the Void" by Walter Kubilius, in the March Astounding; the second, by Harl Vincent, was "The Voice From the Void," in the June Amazing. ------------------------------------ One of the most absorbing books I have read in ages is not fiction at all, but a slim volume of a hundred pages, titled "Beyond the Milky Way," by George Ellery Hale, honorary director of the Mount Wilson Observatory. It was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, in 1926. As you may guess, it is astronomical in character, but though of a popular style, not lacking in good technical foundation. There are three chapters, of which the first is by far the most interesting. It is "The Oriental Ancestry of the Telescope," and gives a complete account of the beginnings of astronomy, following its development by the Egyptians, the Chaldeans, the Babylonians, the Greeks, and on up, with many photographs of ancient instruments and archaic drawings of astronomical equipment. (Continued on page 7)
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