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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 44, July 1945

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER:     PFC JOE GIBSON

HARRY WARNER JR: VOM IN DOGHOUSE WITHOUT NEW BONES OF CONTENTION.....3
GEORGES GALLET: WILL LAY WILLY LEY 2-TO-1 ON THE ROCKET GUN AS WAR.WEAPON.....3
CATHERINE KUTTNER: WHEREIN "VOM" STANDS FOR "VOICE OF MOORE".....4

LES CROUTCH: DESCRIBES HIS DEN OF FAN EQUITY (Credit Mel Brown with the pun)...4

RON LANE: NOW "VOM" EQUALS "VOICE OF MUSIC".....4

EMILE E GREENLEAF JR: THE NECROVIMICON.....5

GERRY HEWETT: "VOM"--"VOICE OF MORONITY".....6

PFC JOE GIBSON: HE PULSE A FAST ONE ON US.....6

PVT WM ROTSLER: DESCRIBES THE TERRORS OF TEXAS.....6

AC/1 ALAN P ROBERTS: HE VENT THAT WAY..... 6

SIG. C S YOUD: THE SHRAPNEL OF THINGS TO BOMB.....7

JACK SPEER: A BRUSH WITH THE SAGE OF SEATTLE.....8

Acknowledgments: Co-crankers, this ish, Evans & Daugherty. Assembly: Tig

VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION, aka VOM, #44. July '45. 15 c, 7/$. FJAckerman Ed
6475 Met Stn, Los Angeles 55

"Wiry" HARRY WARNER JR, 4-staple fan of 303 Bryan Pl, Hagerstown, Maryland: Nomination on the Panel of Experts to select stuff for a Vomthology, and inclusion among the lucky ones in the Degreeof the Fourth Staple, is a staggering double honor. I note further that my copy of the 43rd VOM is additionally dignified by a narrow strip of white paper along the spine, and am wondering if this is yet another manifestation of the honors with which I am so suddenly overwhelmed. (No, overlapping inchage was an oversight on the lithografer's part, was part & parcel of all issues #43. Cryd I, when I discoverd the error, "Was this strip really necessary?!") Following instructions, I shall start thinking about all this now, and if I am not drafted, hope to have my nominations to you as soon as the weather turns cool. The delay for meteorological reasons is because only the first dozen VOMs are to themselves in my fanzine collection; the others are scattered among the fanzine debris of the last three years, and it will means a couple of hours' work digging them out, on an attic which in the summer is unbearably hot. It will be the first time, though, that the king-sized VOMs will have a point in their favor. Finding them will be a comparatively simple task, among the normal-sized detritus.
There is surprisingly little to comment on in the last two VOMs--the only ones handy at the moment--which is an indirect way of saying that VOM's greatest present need is for three or four new bones of contention.  You will have no trouble digging up letters to publish if you can introduce a few new topics of sufficient interest, and I suggest that you commission someone like Widner to take care of this job. He did a magnificent piece of work in the FAPA about two years ago, when things were lagging a little, by half-page in Yhos which resulted in tens of thousands of words of direct and related discussions and articles. If youget the letters, maybe you'll boost the number of pages; only 15 pages of print in the last two issues is not very good.
It is very good to note that Gallet is still alive, although it is not very nice to see Wollheim making accusations whose veracity neither he nor any one else outside of France can possibly know, and Dunkelberger publishing the Wollheim letter without waiting until Gallet can answer the charges. I am hoping that Milty learns the true facts behind the matter. (Servifan John Cunningham was the first to contact French fan #1 in conjunction with the collaborationist suspicions, exonerate him in these words: "His credentials show he has been cleared by the: French, British, U.S.A. depts of military investigation.")

Joe Gibson seems to be the fan whose personality has been the most radically altered by military service. Rothman and Cunningham, I'd say, are running neck and neck for the honor of retaining their natural selves in khaki. #
GEORGES GALLET, 36 Ave Marechal Foch, Marseille, FRANCE, comments on some the promags sent him by Ameri-fans: Of course, I was in a big hurry to look into the first stf. mags I had seen for five years. But if I may judge from such a rapid survey, it seems that there is plenty of stories but their quality is not quite up to the standard of the late lamented "good old days". Much of them are just plain mumbo-jumbo with no science and even no imagination (same plot about co-existing worlds in a lot of stories). This is particularly strange when one notices that many of the editors are ex-science fiction fans of old standing.
Astounding still looks good and I took malicious pleasure in reading Willy Ley on rocketry, doubting "the Nazi...stories about...rocket guns capable of sending two tons projectiles over...one hundred and twenty-five miles...to devastate London" adding learnedly that "liquid fuel rockets have no  military value... (as they)...lack storability" (Astounding, April '44, pages 106 and 112). The Germans were already manufacturing at that time twelve tons V 2 liquid fuel rockets ! And in Newsweek, Dec.25th '44, the British strategist Major General J. F. C. FULLER concluded " To-day the rocket has become so formidable that it challenges the shell and the

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TABLE OF CONTENTS COVER: PFC JOE GIBSON HARRY WARNER JR: VOM IN DOGHOUSE WITHOUT NEW BONES OF CONTENTION.....3 GEORGES GALLET: WILL LAY WILLY LEY 2-TO-1 ON THE ROCKET GUN AS WAR.WEAPON.....3 CATHERINE KUTTNER: WHEREIN "VOM" STANDS FOR "VOICE OF MOORE".....4 LES CROUTCH: DESCRIBES HIS DEN OF FAN EQUITY (Credit Mel Brown with the pun)...4 RON LANE: NOW "VOM" EQUALS "VOICE OF MUSIC".....4 EMILE E GREENLEAF JR: THE NECROVIMICON.....5 GERRY HEWETT: "VOM"--"VOICE OF MORONITY".....6 PFC JOE GIBSON: HE PULSE A FAST ONE ON US.....6 PVT WM ROTSLER: DESCRIBES THE TERRORS OF TEXAS.....6 AC/1 ALAN P ROBERTS: HE VENT THAT WAY..... 6 SIG. C S YOUD: THE SHRAPNEL OF THINGS TO BOMB.....7 JACK SPEER: A BRUSH WITH THE SAGE OF SEATTLE.....8 Acknowledgments: Co-crankers, this ish, Evans & Daugherty. Assembly: Tig VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION, aka VOM, #44. July '45. 15 c, 7/$. FJAckerman Ed 6475 Met Stn, Los Angeles 55 "Wiry" HARRY WARNER JR, 4-staple fan of 303 Bryan Pl, Hagerstown, Maryland: Nomination on the Panel of Experts to select stuff for a Vomthology, and inclusion among the lucky ones in the Degreeof the Fourth Staple, is a staggering double honor. I note further that my copy of the 43rd VOM is additionally dignified by a narrow strip of white paper along the spine, and am wondering if this is yet another manifestation of the honors with which I am so suddenly overwhelmed. (No, overlapping inchage was an oversight on the lithografer's part, was part & parcel of all issues #43. Cryd I, when I discoverd the error, "Was this strip really necessary?!") Following instructions, I shall start thinking about all this now, and if I am not drafted, hope to have my nominations to you as soon as the weather turns cool. The delay for meteorological reasons is because only the first dozen VOMs are to themselves in my fanzine collection; the others are scattered among the fanzine debris of the last three years, and it will means a couple of hours' work digging them out, on an attic which in the summer is unbearably hot. It will be the first time, though, that the king-sized VOMs will have a point in their favor. Finding them will be a comparatively simple task, among the normal-sized detritus. There is surprisingly little to comment on in the last two VOMs--the only ones handy at the moment--which is an indirect way of saying that VOM's greatest present need is for three or four new bones of contention. You will have no trouble digging up letters to publish if you can introduce a few new topics of sufficient interest, and I suggest that you commission someone like Widner to take care of this job. He did a magnificent piece of work in the FAPA about two years ago, when things were lagging a little, by half-page in Yhos which resulted in tens of thousands of words of direct and related discussions and articles. If youget the letters, maybe you'll boost the number of pages; only 15 pages of print in the last two issues is not very good. It is very good to note that Gallet is still alive, although it is not very nice to see Wollheim making accusations whose veracity neither he nor any one else outside of France can possibly know, and Dunkelberger publishing the Wollheim letter without waiting until Gallet can answer the charges. I am hoping that Milty learns the true facts behind the matter. (Servifan John Cunningham was the first to contact French fan #1 in conjunction with the collaborationist suspicions, exonerate him in these words: "His credentials show he has been cleared by the: French, British, U.S.A. depts of military investigation.") Joe Gibson seems to be the fan whose personality has been the most radically altered by military service. Rothman and Cunningham, I'd say, are running neck and neck for the honor of retaining their natural selves in khaki. # GEORGES GALLET, 36 Ave Marechal Foch, Marseille, FRANCE, comments on some the promags sent him by Ameri-fans: Of course, I was in a big hurry to look into the first stf. mags I had seen for five years. But if I may judge from such a rapid survey, it seems that there is plenty of stories but their quality is not quite up to the standard of the late lamented "good old days". Much of them are just plain mumbo-jumbo with no science and even no imagination (same plot about co-existing worlds in a lot of stories). This is particularly strange when one notices that many of the editors are ex-science fiction fans of old standing. Astounding still looks good and I took malicious pleasure in reading Willy Ley on rocketry, doubting "the Nazi...stories about...rocket guns capable of sending two tons projectiles over...one hundred and twenty-five miles...to devastate London" adding learnedly that "liquid fuel rockets have no military value... (as they)...lack storability" (Astounding, April '44, pages 106 and 112). The Germans were already manufacturing at that time twelve tons V 2 liquid fuel rockets ! And in Newsweek, Dec.25th '44, the British strategist Major General J. F. C. FULLER concluded " To-day the rocket has become so formidable that it challenges the shell and the