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Fantasy Fan, v. 2, issue 1, whole no. 13, September 1934
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September, 1934, THE FANTASY FAN 13 NEW YORK DESTROYED AGAIN! by Bob Tucker Once more New York City is destroyed! For decades, this has been the delight of science fiction authors. You must either destroy or attack New York before you can become a famous science fiction writer. The first account of the destruction of New York is given in "The End of New York" by Park Benjamin published around 1890. Of recent times, Ray Cummings has probably destroyed it more often than anyone else. He takes a crack at it (and a good one, too!) in his "White Invaders" (Dec., 1931 Astounding). In the following issue, Arthur J. Barks sets his ape loose in it (Manape the Mighty), and in February, Cummings is back again with Wandl, the Invader, whcih brings the enemy right into the big city. C. D. Simak almost gets into town with his "Hellhounds of the Cosmos" but something happens to prevent them. Maybe he has some sympathy for the old burg. But the March 1933 Astounding makes up for it by destroying it (in part) twice! Arthur J. Burks in his "Lord of the Stratosphere" and "Monsters of Moyen" just tears it all to pieces and Wallace West puts everyone to sleep in "The End of Tyme," as does Dr. Keller in his "Sleeping War." Marius covers it with an ice-berg in his "Sixth Glacier," and Isaac R. Nathanson burns it up with a comet in "The Passing Star." Going to Weird Tales, Edmond (World-Saver) Hamilton musses it all up with a crazy man in "The Man Who Conquered Age," in the Dec., 1932 issue and in the next month Murray Leinster has his "Monsters" tramping through it. A particular delight, of late, is tearing up the Empire State Building. The builders would groan with agony, if they could read some of the tales wherein their work is smashed in three seconds flat! The movies have had their share in destroying New York, too. "King Kong" does some fancy exterior decorating, and in "Men Must Fight" it is bombed. So, remember, if you are not an author, but hope to be one, destroy New York City in your first story, and you will be on the road to fame in no time! SIDE GLANCES by F. Lee Baldwin In a sale conducted by Linus Hogenmiller he sold the Weird Tales Anniversary number for only one dollar. Stories by Gaston Leroux that have appeared in Weird Tales are translated in the office of Jacques Chambrum, New York literary agent who represents Gaston Leroux's agent in this country. Some of the translating was done by Mildred Gleasson Prochet. "The Crime on Christmas Night" was translated by Morris Bentinck. R. H. Barlow won the National Amateur Press Association Laureateship for the year 1933.
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September, 1934, THE FANTASY FAN 13 NEW YORK DESTROYED AGAIN! by Bob Tucker Once more New York City is destroyed! For decades, this has been the delight of science fiction authors. You must either destroy or attack New York before you can become a famous science fiction writer. The first account of the destruction of New York is given in "The End of New York" by Park Benjamin published around 1890. Of recent times, Ray Cummings has probably destroyed it more often than anyone else. He takes a crack at it (and a good one, too!) in his "White Invaders" (Dec., 1931 Astounding). In the following issue, Arthur J. Barks sets his ape loose in it (Manape the Mighty), and in February, Cummings is back again with Wandl, the Invader, whcih brings the enemy right into the big city. C. D. Simak almost gets into town with his "Hellhounds of the Cosmos" but something happens to prevent them. Maybe he has some sympathy for the old burg. But the March 1933 Astounding makes up for it by destroying it (in part) twice! Arthur J. Burks in his "Lord of the Stratosphere" and "Monsters of Moyen" just tears it all to pieces and Wallace West puts everyone to sleep in "The End of Tyme," as does Dr. Keller in his "Sleeping War." Marius covers it with an ice-berg in his "Sixth Glacier," and Isaac R. Nathanson burns it up with a comet in "The Passing Star." Going to Weird Tales, Edmond (World-Saver) Hamilton musses it all up with a crazy man in "The Man Who Conquered Age," in the Dec., 1932 issue and in the next month Murray Leinster has his "Monsters" tramping through it. A particular delight, of late, is tearing up the Empire State Building. The builders would groan with agony, if they could read some of the tales wherein their work is smashed in three seconds flat! The movies have had their share in destroying New York, too. "King Kong" does some fancy exterior decorating, and in "Men Must Fight" it is bombed. So, remember, if you are not an author, but hope to be one, destroy New York City in your first story, and you will be on the road to fame in no time! SIDE GLANCES by F. Lee Baldwin In a sale conducted by Linus Hogenmiller he sold the Weird Tales Anniversary number for only one dollar. Stories by Gaston Leroux that have appeared in Weird Tales are translated in the office of Jacques Chambrum, New York literary agent who represents Gaston Leroux's agent in this country. Some of the translating was done by Mildred Gleasson Prochet. "The Crime on Christmas Night" was translated by Morris Bentinck. R. H. Barlow won the National Amateur Press Association Laureateship for the year 1933.
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