Transcribe
Translate
Fantasy Commentator, v. 1, issue 10, Spring 1946
Page 258
More information
digital collection
archival collection guide
transcription tips
258 FANTASY COMMENTATOR Taine, John, pseud.: see Bell, Eric Temple. Tracy, Don: "Super-Athlete," Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1942. Van Vogt, A. E.: "The Changeling," Astounding Science-Fiction, April 1944. ---: "Slan," Astounding Science-Fiction, September to December, 1940 (4 parts). ---: "The World of A," Astounding Science-Fiction, August to October, 1945 (3 pts). Weinbaum, Stanley G.: The New Adam, Chicago, 1939; Amazing Stories, February and March, 1943 (2 parts). --- (John Jessell, pseud.): "The Adaptive Ultimate," Astounding Stories, November 1935. Weiss, George H. (Francis Flagg, pseud.): "The Superman of Dr. Jukes," Wonder Stories, November, 1931. Wellman, Manly Wade: "The Einstein Slugger," Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1939. Wells, H. G.: The Food of the Gods, London, 1904. ---: "The New Accelerator," Twelve Stories and a Dream, London, 1903. Williamson, Jack: "The Iron God," Marvel Stories, April 1941. Wilstach, John: "The Genius Epidemic," Argosy-Allstory Weekly, June 26, 1926. Wylie, Philip: Gladiator, New York, 1930. ---oOo--- Tips on Tales by Thyril L. Ladd Thurber's White Deer (1945): This brief and charming story is, as the blurb on its dust-wrapper indicates, an adult fairy tale. It is smoothly written, and touches of humor are evident throughout. The novel tells of the capturing of a white deer in a magic forest, which deer promptly turns into a princess. Is she truly a princess or but an animal temporarily transformed into a human being? In order to decide this question, the three sons of the king who captured her are sent forth in quest of a magic talisman, and the adventures of each constitutes the bulk of Thurber's story. Among the delightful characters encountered in The White Deer is the Royal Physician. Becoming ill, he attends himself; and as a doctor takes his own pulse and temperature---which, of course, he cannot read, as it would not be proper for a patient to be aware of such data. His conversation with himself is amusing indeed---in the role of a patient he will moan, "I am very ill---I will never walk again!"; only to reply, as doctor, "Now, now, we must have faith in our physician, you know!" ...To add to its attractiveness The White Deer is enchanting illustrated by the author, and contains a double-paged center fold in full color. To New Yorker readers, who are familiar with James Thurber's talents, all this can be anticipated; to others, it can scarcely prove to be anything but a welcome surprise. Ford Madox Ford's Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1935): When the hero of this gracefully executed story finds himself, after a railroad accident, transported somehow into the early fourteenth century, he is indeed a bewildered fellow. After having been identified as a holy pilgrim, a messenger from a feudal lord away in the Crusades, he soon becomes entangled in the various intrigues about him. The climax is reached when the two ladies who have become principals in our hero's life in this age don armor, and enter the lists to joust with one another. The novel is written in an appealing style, into which Ford has infused touches of sly humor that are cleverly subdued so that they never become sufficiently flamboyant to destroy the general picture he is intent on sketching. This is a book deserving of a niche in every fan's library: it is a title he is sure to return to again and again. (concluded on page 268)
Saving...
prev
next
258 FANTASY COMMENTATOR Taine, John, pseud.: see Bell, Eric Temple. Tracy, Don: "Super-Athlete," Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1942. Van Vogt, A. E.: "The Changeling," Astounding Science-Fiction, April 1944. ---: "Slan," Astounding Science-Fiction, September to December, 1940 (4 parts). ---: "The World of A," Astounding Science-Fiction, August to October, 1945 (3 pts). Weinbaum, Stanley G.: The New Adam, Chicago, 1939; Amazing Stories, February and March, 1943 (2 parts). --- (John Jessell, pseud.): "The Adaptive Ultimate," Astounding Stories, November 1935. Weiss, George H. (Francis Flagg, pseud.): "The Superman of Dr. Jukes," Wonder Stories, November, 1931. Wellman, Manly Wade: "The Einstein Slugger," Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1939. Wells, H. G.: The Food of the Gods, London, 1904. ---: "The New Accelerator," Twelve Stories and a Dream, London, 1903. Williamson, Jack: "The Iron God," Marvel Stories, April 1941. Wilstach, John: "The Genius Epidemic," Argosy-Allstory Weekly, June 26, 1926. Wylie, Philip: Gladiator, New York, 1930. ---oOo--- Tips on Tales by Thyril L. Ladd Thurber's White Deer (1945): This brief and charming story is, as the blurb on its dust-wrapper indicates, an adult fairy tale. It is smoothly written, and touches of humor are evident throughout. The novel tells of the capturing of a white deer in a magic forest, which deer promptly turns into a princess. Is she truly a princess or but an animal temporarily transformed into a human being? In order to decide this question, the three sons of the king who captured her are sent forth in quest of a magic talisman, and the adventures of each constitutes the bulk of Thurber's story. Among the delightful characters encountered in The White Deer is the Royal Physician. Becoming ill, he attends himself; and as a doctor takes his own pulse and temperature---which, of course, he cannot read, as it would not be proper for a patient to be aware of such data. His conversation with himself is amusing indeed---in the role of a patient he will moan, "I am very ill---I will never walk again!"; only to reply, as doctor, "Now, now, we must have faith in our physician, you know!" ...To add to its attractiveness The White Deer is enchanting illustrated by the author, and contains a double-paged center fold in full color. To New Yorker readers, who are familiar with James Thurber's talents, all this can be anticipated; to others, it can scarcely prove to be anything but a welcome surprise. Ford Madox Ford's Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1935): When the hero of this gracefully executed story finds himself, after a railroad accident, transported somehow into the early fourteenth century, he is indeed a bewildered fellow. After having been identified as a holy pilgrim, a messenger from a feudal lord away in the Crusades, he soon becomes entangled in the various intrigues about him. The climax is reached when the two ladies who have become principals in our hero's life in this age don armor, and enter the lists to joust with one another. The novel is written in an appealing style, into which Ford has infused touches of sly humor that are cleverly subdued so that they never become sufficiently flamboyant to destroy the general picture he is intent on sketching. This is a book deserving of a niche in every fan's library: it is a title he is sure to return to again and again. (concluded on page 268)
Hevelin Fanzines
sidebar
