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The purpose of the Jb.ncyclopedia, not fully realized, is to define all expres­ sions, except nonce-words, which have an esoteric meaning in fantasy fandom, and to supply other information, such as that on Esperanto, which may he needed to understand what fans say, write, and do. It should ho remarked, however, that fans mako many allusions to material in prozines, fanzines, and other places, which no reference work could cover completely. Certain fields havo been ex­ cluded from the scope of the Eancyclopedia "because they are well taken care of elsewhere. While nicknames of fans and pet names of fan magazines are identified hero, biographies have heen left to the various ‘Who's Whos of fandom, and fan­ zines in detail to Dr Swisher's excellent S-F Check-List. Despite our efforts for accuracy and completeness, many errors and omissions will no douht he discovered heroin. The editor will appreciate receiving corrective information. It is sug­ gested that those who have little or no acquaintance with fantasy or fan activity read the articles on those subjects first, then look up, in the normal alphabeti ­ cal place, expressions not understood which have been used in those two articles. It has seomed more efficient for the probable uses of this handbook, and economi ­ cal of space, to give short articles on many subjects rather than long articles on a few broad subjects. To find a desired subject, look first under the word that you have in mind. If what you want is not there, try to think of other words re­ lated to it. So, if you want a summary of the history of fandom and do not find it under "history”, look under "fandom", where "First Fandom", "First Transi ­ tion", etc, are your keys. A little practice in using the encyclopedia will make it easy to find what you want. Because "science-fiction" and "fan", used as ad­ jectives, practically define our universe of discourse, and are tacit of ex­ pressed modifiers of so many words, they have in most cases been ignored in de­ termining the alphabetical order. Thus "fan activity" , for instance, will be found in the A's. A name in parentheses after a word or phrase' to bo defined is the originator of the term or of its use in fandom; whore this is fol­ lowed by a colon and another name, the second is the person who had most to do with making it part of the fan vocabulary. For example, "Baby" as an auto's name comes from the movie of Erich Maria Remarque's "Three Comrades", but the name was borrowed and given by Harry Dockwciler to the redoubtable vehicle owned by the Futurians. Asterisks scattered thru the text refer to tho Errataddendum at the back. This was originally planned as Full Length Articles Number Three: Some Beginnings on an Encyclopedic Dictionary of Fandom. In its present form it was an NFFF project, tho editor and publisher being brot together thru the agency of the NFFF. The manuscript was prepared by John A Bristol and submitted to the Futurians, Ackerman, Rothman, and Tucker for corrections and additions; it was then returned to Bristol who stenciled it, incorporating many of .the suggested changes, and bringing the information down to the end of 1943. The publisher is Forrest J Ackerman, Box 6475 Metropolitan Station, Los Angeles 55, Calif, Price, $1.50. First edition, 250 copies; of which 47 were ordered prior to assembly.

^EANCYCLOPEDIA*1 Copyright 1944 by John Bristol Spoer. FAHCYCLOFEDIA______1.______. r A. - ac A A - //hen Dr Swisher’s S-F Check List was ink, green being the official Lsp.ranto first published., fanzine editors scram­ color. bled to be alfabetically first, and such publications as the Aaanthor Argus were Ackesc - Aame given to the original radi­ prcduced. "a", published by Swisher, fi­ cal form of simplifyd spelng, like "U & nally secured first place, I r to b praps th 1st 2 men to go roket- ng to an xtra-galaktik planet wher a AAFA - The American ALA, an amateur press rekt ship is strandd." How abandoned. association. fan activity - Devoting time, energy, and Fvt Ack-Ack, Cpl Ack-Ack - .Wartime pename money to non-profit pursuits in the gen­ of Ackerman in writing for the Reception eral field of fantasy and fandom. It Center Alert and editing the Ft MacArthur includes reading, collecting, corres­ Bulletin (11 that fan magazine that the ponding, belonging to organizations, Army pays for11), of which marked copies writing, publishing, recruiting new were distributed thru fandom. Some of fans, visiting fellow-scientifiction- the imaginary incidents reported wore ists, perhaps living with them in a sci­ of fan interest, fannish names being em­ ence fiction house, and attending fan ployed: A sentry takes Pvt Earl Double­ gatherings. For membership in the FAJ-A, ton (from Singleton, of the psouicide) applicants must show "proof by creden­ for a ghost, etc. tial of their interest in fantasy ama­ teur activity, which shall consist of one of the following: (a) Contributions, Ack-Tmanesc - The grammatical practices followed by Forrost J Ackerman, and in in form of poetry, drawing, fiction, or non-fiction writing, published in two part, degree varying from fan to fan, by fantasy amateur publications not pro­ those in whom his cxampl has propagated. duced in the same city, (b) position as Several minor wars have been fot over editor or publisher of at least one is­ the question whether it should be used sue of a fantasy amateur publica­ or not, but it has gone on insidiously tion." spreading. Most fon pass thru a certain cy­ The term includes simplifyd clo of activencss: After getting famil­ spelng, scientificombinations, non- iar with the field they start taking on st©paragraph!ng, a colloquial style, ex­ projects right and left, not realizing cessive punnery wherever the opportunity that they’re building up to a peak that presents itself, rendition of quotations they haven’t time to maintain. Suddenly from others with all their typing pecu­ they announce that they must discontinue liarities and errors, using only one set all fan activity, except maybe subscrib­ of quotation marks around a series of ing to one or two fanzines and keeping 7/ords or f razes quoted from various up with one or two correspondents, be­ sources, employing the native names for cause activities of the outside world goografical terms ("Moskva, Deutsch, must take most of their time and energy. Coskoslovensk," etc) (that use of quota­ Some disappear from fandom at this tion marks illustrates the preceding point, but many others discover after a •point); and certain syntactical peculi­ while that they still need the intellec­ arities, which include omission of "of" tual companionship and moans of self- in "anothr th fans", and placing modifi­ expression in fandom and can find time to ers outside of verb frazes as in "He un- take on a little bit more activity, and doutlosly’d say so" instead of "H^’d un- so at length find a fairly constant level doutlesly say so." Mechanical charac­ that they can keep up, barring catastro­ teristics of the writings of Mirta For­ phes like getting drafted or married. st o and a few others arc the vogue typo- (Hot that there aren’t quite a number of ryter type face, the n^otric groon-and- GI’s and husbands keeping up a fair de­ brown typcribbon, and green pen and mimeo gree of activity.) ad - am 2 FAIJCYCLOPEDIa administration - The elected officers for relatcs very highly is debated, some a given year primarily, tho the term may maintaining that those under a certain include appointed officials. The ex­ youngness are not competent to dispute pression implies that they work in close with or judge their elders. The time a concert, which is usually the case. Sy­ person has been in fandom is sometimes nonymous with cabinet. referred to rather than physical ago in speaking of "young fans". advertising - Both classified and display ads are published in fanzines, more of­ agent - Agents are used by many pro auth­ ten on an exchange basis than paid ors, even the best established. Most for. The most common commodity adver­ agents require a reading fee from begin­ tised is another fanzine, in which case ning authors, and so act as profession­ authors and titles of articles are the al critic to the writer—one is seldom a chi'f inducement mentioned. There are good judge of his own work. For estab­ also advertisements of stickers, sta­ lished authors the agent, for a commis­ tionery, typeribbons, etc, organiza­ sion, serves the function of saving the tions, and fan gatherings. Display ads writer the trouble of taking manuscripts of a page or fraction of a page are around to the editors and putting tho often decorated with irrelevant art story across. Apparently personal con­ work, and sometimes tho appeal will be tact gets better results than sending the put humorously, as "Hi, Sucker,...." story in by mail, ifumerous fans have ■/ant ads are often placed for bits to been agents, and tho Futuriane moved in­ fill gaps in a collection, or for rare to editorships therefrom. items. For sales include tho samo kind of thing, sometimes an entire collection Aimless Publications - Chauvcnet's pub­ being offered. A considerable amount of lishing house trademark. Tis indicative trade results from these and swap ads. of the gentleman's philosophy of life. Booster ads arc a special typo, Mention a.j., ajay - Amateur journalism. This should also be made of the humorous fake usually refers to the hobby as carried adv'rtisemonts of Lowndes and others. on by tho mundane amateur press associ­ Lowndes imagines a capitalistic future ations. Ih.ns sometimes use it when- and offers remedies for horrible now asked what their hobby is by someone who maladies, books on spicy customs of wouldn't understand what fandom is; and o.t.'s, &c. indeed, fan activity is amateur journal­ ism - plus. AFA - The American Fantasy Association, a proposed general fan organization put Alojo - nickname for Arthur Louis Jo quel forward by .figgins, Kuslan, and Taura si II. early in 1938, which failed to attract g-n^ral attention. amateur press association - A group like the FAFA (which got its idea from them) ag- - Fans vary in ago from the first existing for tho purpose of facilitating teens to a few middloagod men, but most exchange of publications between its of us were born between 1915 and 1925. members thru a periodic mailing (the. In 1938 tho average fan reached by tho mailings have not boon temporally regu­ IFO was 18, and the arithmetical average lar in some cases). Of the mundane ama­ of ag:s was 20. The Foil Cat reported teur press associations, the national the avragc age in 1942 as 23, but that AFa dates from the 1870s; tho American is topheavied a bit by the older men was established fairly recently, mainly (one was 50, with no corresponding coun­ by younger people. There arc also the terbalance aged minus i), and Jidnor United AFA, a British organization, some estimated the median would bo about regional groups, locals, and some inter­ 20. The question whether mental association committees. Those ayjays ago and chronometric ago among fans cor- usually print their publications with FANCYCLOBEDIA 3 an - art.

hand.-operated, equipment, and are for the SFA were hold, most part distinctly more interested in getting a pleasant format and appearance Arkham House - August Dorie th and asso­ than in writing .anything interesting. ciates, publish inf- first a Lovecraft me­ Several former fans have disappeared in­ morial volume, later turning to other to the mundane APA's, and several other weird. They do hot, of course, do the woll-known sciontifictionists, notably actual printing and binding. H P Lovecraft, have been active ajays at the same time. The memberships of those Arlawi - Nickname of Art Jidncr, invented associations are considerably larger and in the mistaken belief that it was Es­ less active than the FAPA’s, and it docs peranto. not seem to be required that publishers send in sufficient copies to cover the ARS - Tho American Rocket Society. For­ entire membership. merly the American Interplanetary Soci­ ety, its name was changed in order’to Andromeda II - Some fan’s auto; maybe get support from conservative men, and Stan Bachrach’s. the ARS’s experiments, unlike tho BIS’s, arc strictly not directed to interplan­ angels - Jilson calls Los Angelonoos etary flito for the present, but to ter­ Angels, but the word usually means some­ restrial uses of rockets, such as mail body who contributes a sizeable bit of rockets, anti-tank rockets, and helping dough to a fanzine to help it do some­ tho takeoff of heavily loaded airplanes. thing special like having a lithographed Several fans and s-f authors have been cover. high in the organization, however. Be­ fore tho war, quite a bit of experi­ Anglo-Saxon poetry - Saxon poetry did not mentation was carried out on such prob­ have rime or regular rhythm. Each lino lems as the most efficient fuels and the was cut in two by a pause, with two ac­ best shape for the combustion chamber. cented syllables in each half, the whole A small ARS rocket Bet a speed record lino tied together by alliteration, as, for self-propelled vehicles before it ”A rocket was ready to take you to Rio.” smashed up; but most experiments are performed on a proving stand fastened to anniversary - The issue of a subscription the ground, with meters attached, fanzine which comos out, or is planned to cope out, in the same month as the art - Maybe wo should put that in quotes. fanzine was launched, is the occasion Yes, fandom doos have some very talented for groat celebration by the editor, artists,- and some who’ve had the benefit since relatively fow fanzines reach oven of training besides. But virtually ev­ one anniversary. Ho makes it an extra­ ery fan, whether he’s an artist or not, largo number, with material often espe­ turns his hand to illustrating what he's cially solicited from big names, and trying to say, or putting what he wants booster ads requested to help defray the to say in a more expressive medium. additional expense. its to types: Nearly every subscription fan­ annual - A publication, usually sponsored zine has a cover illustration, which by an organization, which is supposed to usually shows an imaginary fantasy scene appear annually, but probably appears having no relation to the contents of only once. It is supposed to survey and tho magazine; Vomaidons are the ultimate summarize the 7/ork of the past year. of this type. Title headings for de­ Hot connected with any organization are partments are frequently embellished as the regularly-appearing Yearbooks index­ irrelevantly: put some rivets on the ing pro and listing fan magazines. letters and a tower or a spaceship be­ hind them, and that’s that. ,fhen fic­ A.O.D. - The Ancient Order of Druids, in tion is included in the magazine, it is whose hall the meetings of the London usually illustrated. The same sometimes -aW _ -- - 4 mCYCLClBDU

v.'ith article^, ‘but this cannot often oe present-day fantasy, odd angles such as d-ono. Display ads may bo decorated. how many fans have tho same first name, Fragmontary sketches arc also used as and miscellany ranging from hoaxes and fillers, or stuck around on a page to grafanalyscs to chess and women’s hats. or oak up the dead— &aLid type. Jcll- It drawn illustrations for their- ermi sake was not always thus. As pointed out in are rather rare, tho there aro some our articles on the First Transition full-pago illustrations with a few lines etc, the field of discussions has gradu­ of poetry inspiring or inspired by it. ally broadened until now it takes in Most frequent artwork standing alone is anything that the postal laws will allow cartooning about fan events, real or and some things that they won’t; this imaginary. On a elitely higher' artistic despite a temporary "back to fantasy.’” level arc some short-lived movement in the Second Transition and a scientificomicg in tho minor surge of the same sort toward tho fanzines, and some carica­ end of 1943. tures of ./ollhoim and his "stooges" by Baitadonis. ASP - Associated -Sl^n Press. Tucker and Cur illustration is of the Ashleys, historic importance, be- among oth­ cause its appearance on a nits/ < ers. Tucker card addressed to BA../ was ’'/Z-5 / J says one tho basis for the Joll- bul»o? joins by in­ hoimist charge that <7 was the object of vitation on­ "libolous and utterly vicious attacks” ly and must by his opponents in the 1938 campaign. keep up to Your reporter has also seen some unpub­ the standard lishable sketches of tho Jollhcimists by of tho pub­ Jack Agnew, which shocked him greatly. lishing house. In the emblem, the asp In addition to all those artypcs, fotog- is not a giant thing crawling around a rafy has shown up increasingly in recent hill with a pyramid on it. Cleopatra’s. years. association - Properly meaning an organi­ articles - Tho most plastic form of non­ zation of individuals working in the fiction writing. Some articles aro so same field who expect by collective ef­ Ion." us to ’•be’.:, -broken into?.- serial­ fort to make greater progress, this is parts for publication in fanzines, or the name most applicable to fan organi­ fill an entire booklet; and paragraf- zations. Orgs calling themselves asso­ length fillers may be celled articles. ciations include the ISa, Scientifiction Sub­ Association for Boys, OSA, SFAa, SEA, jects include: Science articles, news 1TYFA, PAPA, AFA, MSA, Indiana ’ Fantasy of the pros such as future line-ups' and association, and /~dlFFF! / changes of ownership, interviews with pro f figures, book movie stage and music Assorted Services - Partnership of Acker­ reviews, collectors’ dope, quizzes, hu­ man and a Mr and Mrs Emsheimor on the mor and satire, biografies of pros and model of an enterprise in Paris. They fans, news of fan activities and plans, undertook to do various things for hire, accounts of fan gatherings and trips and but most of their little business camo visits, descriptions of one’s posses­ from fandom, to which they introduced li- sions pertaining to fandom, whithorings, thografy on a large scale. Appearing discussion and exhortation in fan feuds, about the time that Heinlein's "—flic Also autoanalysos, discussion of philosophi­ 'Jalk Dogs" told of General Services Inc, cal and sociological questions (particu­ Asserted Services provided much merriment­ larly in view of concepts gained from material . science-fiction), reminiscences of Them Jas The Bays, opinions an the quality of atheism - An issue bound to come up in a FA.'CYCLOPEDIA atl - an fMi a. jayMXCt'TBLqratfM’i-MiaBi wrtM' u ------—

■bull session of skeptical-rainded. youths, At conventions, the auction usually is and. fandom is a continuous Dull session. not completed in a single nite, Host Muchly debated, in the letter sections of popular auction pieces are the artist's Them Jas The Days, it arose in fandom originals of iKLuatrations for the pro­ with Gollheim’s last Phantaflcxion col­ zines, color covers going highest. Old­ umn, which discussed Science Fiction and ies of the prozines and some fanzines Relicion, remarking that the majority of are sold, frequently in sets in the case ISAcrs he knew woro atheistic. Some of famous serials, and a few books. months later appeared Shroyer’s "Anent Original typescripts of stories and such Atheism and Stf". Those debated not the odd items as a piece of a costume also validity of atheism, but the reason for appear. Prices paid vary according to the observed correlation between it and supply and demand, and also according to the liking for s-f. Argument on the the time of nite, prices falling as mon­ main question, such as there was, was ey runs out, the auctioneer/s got/s hot, but no chances of opinion are known hoarse, and most of the best items arc to have resulted, and the Micholists gone. The highest price recorded is $25 showed a disposition to relinquish the by Hasse for a Finlay cover; and some point to gain support for Micheliem, at items have gone at three for 1^. the same time that the Communist Party was making gestures toward the Catholic author - Science-fiction authors are di­ Church. The IPO in the Second Transi­ vided into two major classes: those who tion found the porportion of 9 to 14 write for a living, and those who write against church adherence, with several as a hobby, or for pin money. E E Smith of the churchgoers indicatin': that they is the outstanding example of the hobby didn’t really believe in it. How many ’writer. L Sprague de Camp has an inde­ of the nays arc honeat-to-Foo atheists, pendent income as well as two or three and how many agnostics, pantheists, or professions, despite the fact that the the like, cannot be accurately estimat­ quantity of his writing equaled that of ed. At any rate, it is now assumed th^t the hacks (those who write for a living) fans generally hold to a mechanistic before the ’/rar. Some writers, such as philosophy which precludes the existence Lester del Roy, turn out a story only of God. Leonard Moffatt's chief fame is v/hen they reach tho end of their last as the only outspoken Christianfan, tho paycheck. A good number of fans have there are a number of others, not for­ hit the pro market, some of than ‘becom­ getting palmer. Young-minded fen get ing regular contributors. some fun out of snarling at the corpse of Fundamentalism. autoanalyses - Originfilly celled psycho­ analyses, articles of this type consist the Atlantean - Ye ed is derned if he of tex-ring oneself apart, usually in the knows whose this ponamc was, but has a third person, explaining how he thinks hazy recollection that someone said it he got to be 7/hat he is, and what he was Barbara Bovard. thinks he is. The ./ashington ./orry- Jarts took the lead in it. Emphasis is auction - One of the chief sources of cu- usually on universality, or wide appli­ piditas-stuff for fan gatherings is an cability, of observations in one's own auction of collector's items. They arc makeup, rather than Byronic display of usually contributed by pro cds and fans. differentness from everybody else. Hot bid for, but also on sale at fan ga­ therings , are special convention publica­ automobiles - As fans reached the age tions as well as current issues of sub­ ■/here they could earn money, many of scription fanzines. Give-aways also arc them bot second-hand cars to make visits distributed. and trips to fan gatherings in, and gave Auctions arc held at all them apprepriate names, such as Baby, conventions, most major conferences, and Jr, Empress of FooFoo, Fanzerkampfwagen, at some lar.ge meetings of local groups. Skylark of Foo, Theodore/Tanya, Skylark av - bf 6 FANCYCLOPEDIA

of ffooWoo, Andromeda. II, Spirit of Foo- overusing the first person singular, Foo, Diogenes V, S-F Rocket Car #1, Foo- whi ch is supposed to be bad taste, Foo Special, and Stfnash. Some of these There are a couple dozen used by me in have been jjainted all over (uh, them woo- this book, but the most common in fan woo eyes on the Skylark of same!), while usage is ”we”. others are dignified bourgeois convey- ancea, but a.11 are second-hand. Fen awards - The principal awards given sc show a real attachment to them, and often far have boon called laureates. personalize them, especially in describ- ing their ills: A flat tire is Azygous - Pronounced faez^nesj , moaning a sprained ankle; the headlites are vaguely a synonym for Solitaire. This eyes; if the motor runs dry of gasoline poname was obviously some fan, but the you may have to take the top off the question who lasted for months. He dis­ carburetor and feed it intravenously to coursed, sensibly or irresponsibly, in get the motor going again; etc. Fre­ letters to 1/iadge, and had seme fan fic­ quently the metaphors are a hit mixed: tion published by them. The original the front fenders may be either shoul­ letters were fixed up in various r/him- ders or knees ag the situation makes con- sical ways, as being clipped together venientj usw. with a bobby pin. Dick Jilscn was fi­ nally smoked out as the re sponsible avoidance - An expression used to keep from party.

B - In English this is a bilabial pic­ of fan population westward to noar the give, which isn’t as interesting as a census center of population, in the Mid- bilabial implosive. East.

Baby - (Remarque: Dockweil er) - A Ford beardmuttoring - This is a beardmuttor- auto acquired by the Futurians about the ing; wo will lot you analyze it: time the Ivory Tower was established, heredeepdouninthegravo disposed of lato in 1939. According to underthesodandloam Escape, it was owned by them communally. under the t ree sandflower s 'otablo for its minuteness (?) (Dockwci- underthecloudsandsky lor hadda put his head out the window vhile iswhereiam driving), it made umpteen trips to move gee,iwondcrifimdead the stuff from Futurian House. —damcn knight

Robert Bahr - Dame of an actual scienti- beard-and-bomb boys - The New York Mich- ficticnist of Newark, but all material clists, so culled in fanzines signed with his name was by from the old Sam Moskowitz, as was finally acknow­ American idea of ledged for this cyclopedia. a Red us a bomb­ throwing anarch­ barbarian invasion - tfith the increase in ist. the number of prozines, and the swing of emphasis back to them in the Second BEMs - Bug-cyod monsters, symbolic of the Transition, a flood of now fans camo in­ early and juvenile type of magazine s-f, to fandom, usually thru the Triumvirs' which stirs up the emotions more than activities, and many remained and became the intellect, performs simple transmu­ actifans. Harry ./arner and Jim Avery tations of known and union own, and makes were the forerunners of these, appearing few concessions to plausibility. in the middle of 1938. The invasion * strengthened the reaction toward the BFS - The British Fantasy Society. The pros, and eventually shifted the canter SFA, former head organization in Great iOCYCLOPWU , 7 , bi - bl a , „„------i ituuroArr,Mi T' f'lf w*—mm i ■■ i ...... —

Britain, suspended for the duration when BIS - The British Interplanetary Society. war hit, but there continued to be con­ Partly because a silly law in Great Bri­ siderable activity in Britishfendom, and tain hampered rocket fuel experimenta­ new fell07/8 coining in who had • never tion, and partly because more of the joined the SPA. So Michael Rosenblum leaders are stfans, the BIS, unlike the organized the BBS. It established a li­ ARS, has kept its eye set on the con­ brary of books and prozines, managed.the quest of space, attacking such problems circulating of chain letters in special­ as the oxygen supply, crew and personal ized fields, chains for circulating pro- equipment, obtaining a-stationary view zinos, and cooperated in issuing somo from a spinning ship, and devising a fanzines. By such means wartime diffi­ suitable landing gear, in addition to culties to fan activity wore surmounted. the problem of power. The big difficul­ ty in the fuel problem is that the fuel bibliografics - part of corapletism is the required to bring the rocket back must desire to have a complete list of all be carried to the moon, and the fuel re­ fantasy that has ever been produced in quired to take it and the payload the any form, despite the extreme difficulty second half of the way to the moon must of defining fantasy exactly. Much valu­ be lifted the first half by additional able spadework has boon dona, in list­ fuel, and so on. Under the ’’step rock­ ings of fantasy stories In mundano maga­ et" plan, the weight was prohibitive zines, fantafilms, sciontificonics, with available fuels (the BIS calculated books, indexes to the pros, &c, but none entirely on contemporary methods and of these has been complete even in knov/ledge). Ji th the cellular rocket, its own restricted field, and the however, which jettisons each rocket mo­ master project remains for the future. tor as soon as it has used up its supply The of fuel, and does this very often, it is task of compiling fantasy books alone is possible now to send a ship with one ton such a big job that proposals have beon of payload (men and equipment) to the made to make it a cooperative enterprise moon and back with 1000 tons of rocket of all interested bibliophiles in fandom. and fuel (this takes no account of the immense wartime improvements in rocket- Big Throe - Amazing Stories, Vendor Stor­ ry)K This obviously is still pretty ies, and Astounding Stories. So called inefficient,’ but further improvements in because for years, in the early 1930s, fuel will increase efficiency severalfcld. they were the only prozines there were The change from step rocket to cell except short-lived efforts such as Slash rocket reduced the estimated cost 90^, Gordon, Miracle Science and Ihntasy Sto­ to about the cost of a destroyer. The ries, and Fanciful Tai os (and ofcourse ship blueprinted by the BIS to give di­ Jcird Tales, which isn’t science-fiction). rection to future work was a tall hexago­ nal prism, the rocket motors arranged in biografies - Biografios of pro figures five sections under the rounded living wore in the first fanzines and before. compartment, with auxiliary steering In the Secend J&ndom, biogs of fans be­ rockets at the side. A two or three-man came popular, and who’s whoa of fandom crew was contemplated. The plans were appeared. A little later came autoanal­ given considerable publicity in Great yses. The biografies usually give date Britain in 1939 and it was reported that and place of birth, and sometimes physi­ critics were unable to demolish them. cal characteristics, but for the most Then came the war, and the Society sus­ part are given over to the fan’s en­ pended for the duration. trance into and career in fandom, and his preferences as to promags, fanzines, Black.Diamond publications - Len Moffatt’s fans, otc, to the virtual exclusion of publishing house trademark. information about his schooling, family background, jobs, &c, which would be blank thot - (Tucker) - A blank thot is a useful in understanding the person. short sentence which makes the strong- bli - boh 8 FAi^CYCLOPEDlA

est, if not uhe most lucid, impression candidacies, and got onuf votes together when presented standing alone. There to establish a new administration. are three types. One is the passage taken out of its imagined context, as, blueprint - Reproduction by simplified "Gotta match?' Another is the statement fotografy, without the fine detail or meaningful in itself, often a piece of gradations of shade. Blueprint paper is propaganda, exempli gratia "Aristocracy exposed to the sun with writing on .a is persistent and democracy tawdry." translucent shoot placed over it, and Finally, there is the utterly nonsensi­ tho lite turns all blue but tho linos cal bit of whimsy, like "Get your foot and areas which have boon shaded, hash­ out of that inkwell.’" ing in water then destroys the property of the paper to change any further. Blitzkrieg - Pronounced ft 11tS kr 1 k]. The ’Taint easy. expression probably arose spontaneously, the great Blitzkriego taking place in board - Tho Advisory Board of the NFFF, the same year that minor counterparts and of other organizations real and pro­ were being conducted in Europe. A posed, was the most powerful unit in the Blitzkrieg is an extraordinary exertion administration, passing on nearly all by some fen to overcome the failure of actions and suggestions. Members voted others to do their duty. for five persons, and the one with tho The Flushing highest vote was chairman. The chairman Blitzkrieg was conducted by Milton Roth­ sent out carboncopiod bulletins, re­ man, acting president of the EAPA in the ceived comments and votes from the other Interregnum, accompanied by Elmer Per­ Board members, and issued a now bulletin due and Cyril Kornbluth, in February summarizing these and adding now mat­ 1940. They called on Taurasi, who had ters. It has been suggested in some or­ the socy-trcas records from the preced­ ganizations that tho Board elect all the ing year, and the funds. After idle other officers. chit-chat, Rothman says, Taurasi cracked first, and volunteered the stuff, which Bob and Koso - Earthman and Martian, cha­ Milt receipted for and carried away with racters in a long series of fan science inward exultation. fiction stories by James V Taurasi, The Philadelphia which were pretty awful; nobody, not Blitzkrieg took place in July 1940. even Jas V, could justify them except to Philadelphians had the responsibility of fill up space. They wore killed in two getting out the June Mailing but didn't different stories (ono not by JVT) just have interest onuf to do it. So, Speer to make sure. securing the Panzerkampfwagon, the ifesh- ington vigilantes three drove to The Big Bodacious Publications - Art Widner’s own Slum and looked up Madle. Official Edi­ publishing house. Suddsy Schwartz tor Agnew, for God's sake, was at shared it briofly. a church institute on the outskirts, but the four went after him and got permis­ Bohemian - A sophisticate who doos not sion for Washington to put out the Mail­ regard social conventions. To give evi- ing, and to get the material from tho Ag­ . donee of thoir revolt, Bohemians wear new homo. This was done next day, and long hair, open-collar shirts, baggy tho Mailing issued soon after. trousers, and sandals, and sit in dim Somewhat dives drinking wino or smoking Russian in the nature of a Blitzkrieg, tho not cigarettes, and discoursing of Freud and involving travel, was the Evans rev­ Baudelaire and Marx. A sot of Bohemian olution in 1942. In this, the NFFF hav­ conventions arises. However, there is ing entered an interregnum thru failure also a more genuine disregard of inef­ to hold an election, Evans put fans' ficient customs which permits fans to namns on a postcard ballot without ob­ dispense with formalities of etiquette serving the old r acquirements for filing when they merely waste time, to give out gANCYCLOFEDIA 9 bol - bri

with quite frank autoanalyscs, and. to society—hence the expression "Jollhcim speak directly such statements as, “He’s speaking for Boskone". The word now just had an emotional experience; that's means Boston Conference, the anniversary why ho acts that way." The Futurians mootings of tho Stranger Club, Boskone I have given.fandom its most obvious Bohe­ being in 1941. mians, tho Southern California is also represented. brackets - Perhaps nowhere have fans shown more varied ingenuity than in sim­ Bolos - (Idiske) - Tho Brooklyn Bolshe- ulating brackets with only tho resources viki. of the tripewritor keyboard. Some, tis true, draw them in afterwards [like booklet - A one-shot publication with a Swisher) , but most fans use the keys, cover, usually containing material on which is more convenient. Tucker and one particular subject. others employ double parentheses a half­ space ((apart)). Speer sometimes uses books - S-f in books antedated special­ {Grogg shorthand parentheses-). Youd's ized magazine science-fiction, and is /Brackets with underlining/ made with generally of a higher quality, partly the oblique mark have boon tho most pop­ duo to tho higher intellectual level of ular, except that tho underlining is book readers, and partly to the fact that frequently dispensed with (iviirta For st o books can carry material so hot that it use ^.ilde.s. to underline bracketed com­ would ruin by boycotts a periodical pub­ ments), /These/ arc similar to Youd's. lishing it. Some stories from tho pro­ The purpose of brackets is to distin­ zines have been republished in book form guish ordinary parenthesises by tho wri­ with changes and additions, and several ter from editorial comments such as memorial volumes of some great fantasy /Nuts.' -cd7 inserted in tho body of a author's best stories have appeared, as letter or article. Bradbury tried an well as anthologies of which tho most unsuccessful mutation in simply making notable is the RockctBcok of Scionco- his comments ALL-CAR. Fiction. Brain Trust- (Spoor) - A group chiefly booster ads - A form of financial support narked by its discussions in tho FAPA of on a smaller scale than angeling. Orig­ all manner of weighty questions. Its inally you just said "Congratulations to members represented most strongly the blank fanzine on its second anniversary forces of the Third Fandom, and as a par­ from Joo Fann", or words to that offoct, ty* tho never so recognized, cane into in a sticker-sizor space, an< tht oazuma control in the Interregnum. Fins who nay paid for such ads went to help get out a be considered as belonging to it include big anniversary ish, or defray the cost Speer, Rothman, Jarnor, Chauvenet, ,/id- of some lithoing. Later, variety was in­ nor, Stanley, and probably tho Ashleys, troduced into the ads, as by letting the Perdue, the Columbia Camp, D b Thompson, patron say "Joe Fann loves Tucker's Lynn Bridges, and Chan Davis. A number wife" or Thorne Smith or whoever he of them have relevant specialties, Roth­ wants to love. Renames as well as fans' man in physics, Speer in American cul­ own names purchase such space. tural history, Chauvcnot in biology, &c, In some but at the same time all have a catholi­ cases, and especially for official con­ city of interest and do not hesitate to vention program booklets, display-size question authorities in any field. space may be paid for for greetings from some angel-fan .or a pro magazine. Brandco - (./ilson) - Buck Rogers and com­ pany. Boskone - (Smith) - Originally, the anti­ Civilization culture of the Lensman sto­ John A Bristol - A permutation of the ries, which the Michelists insisted was name of John Bristol Spoor, with "spoor" superior to Smith's future capitalistic translated to its Scottish meaning "to bro - cap!taiis 10 ENCYCLOPEDIA

ask”. Hcax suggested to Gilson while Cunningham set up an agency by this name Spoor was in Oklahoma City, it was not to receive contributions of cash or mag­ undertaken till the fall of ’38 when ho azines, and mail bundles of them to tho moved from one address in Washington DC Anglofans. Some of the British Second to another, and gave the new address as Fandom thot they woro better off for not Bristol's, keeping the former one him­ having the American pros, but others com­ self and having the post office read­ mended the project. Cunningham's style dress mail ccming to him. By giving of writing did not inspire respect among Bristol a full background of life, cas­ the American fans, but the bureau con-, ing him in gradually, and taking groat tinned to function until Cunningham went care to havo him speak like a newcomer into tho army, and unorganized activities and use a style of writing and grammar of tho same sort woro carried out by quite different from his own, Spoor got others. him generally accepted as a new fan, who presently met Speer and associated with B Stf - Bachelor of Sciontifiction, a him. However, Jollhcim know from old "degree” offered by the SSL in Hornig’s time that Spoor’s middle name was Bris­ day, upon tho member’s making a satis­ tol, thot it was his father’s before factory grade on a quiz which had many him, and communicated his suspicions to types of questions, covering science, the other Futurians; despite which, scicnco-fiction, and fandom. Lowndes says he was inclined to believe his correspondent Bristol was not Speer. Buns - Pronouncod, and sometimes spelled, Bothman was told all whon he moved to Bunco. Ardon Benson’s nickname. .Vaehington, and the mask was finally dropped at the New York Convention. But burlesques - A broad form of satire. In Bristol occasionally received mail after fandom, they arc usually of some famous that, and is still sometimes used as a scries of stories in the pros, or about pename. characters and situations very typical of hack s—f, BEMs, PSDs, mad scientists, Brooklyn Bolshcviki - The New York Mi ch- musclebound heroes or supermen, &c. el i st s, from the location of Pohl and Typical are "The Frolic Apace” by Edward Michel, and later of the Ivory Tower, in Elmer Campbell, in which tho characters the borough of Brooklyn. make long scientific explanations to ca/o and end by confessing thoy don’t BSF

C - A most ambiguous letter, serving no capitalism - Tho economic system under good purpose in modern English, In which those who financo a business own Latin and Anglo-Saxon it was always pro­ and control it, and operate it for their nounced K; in Esperanto and outlandish own profit. It is opposed to socialism, tungs of southern Europe, it stands for in which control rests among a large various unspeakable sounds. number of people who are interested in production for use rather than for prof­ cabinet -

■believers in it. made selections fijtom the material and typed ixp another sheet or so of nows and capitalization - £nc of the cutcncssos of comments, carbon copied, and sent copies .;.odcrn decadence is unuso of capital out along the chains again. Some of these letters. This is strengthened by the also camo to America, and on this oxam- fact that distinction between capitals plc, after Pearl Harbor, Harry Jarnor and lower case is pretty unnecessary, started several chains thru the US. The anyhow, and sterns to some extent from a system worked out hero was slitcly dif­ pun on distaste for capitalism, by Bo­ ferent, in that Harry sent the whole hemians. Considerable vers libre, as bundle on, and each fan as he added a well as bcardruttorings and other art now letter withdrew his former ono and forms, is habitually written without sent it to Harry for filo. Quasi­ capitals. Several fen, most notably chain letters also grew out of the cir­ damon knight, make it a practice to have culation of sonodiscs, and other chains their names spoiled without caps, and in' wore started by various fen to get ma­ the mock wars, the First Staple Jar and terial for fanzines, even one by Tucker FooFooism vs ghughuism, omission of cap­ to which each person was to contribute itals in referring to the enemy is prac­ fotos which would bo reproduced in Lo ticed by some of the combatants. Zortbic. Those chains wore not intended to circulate indefinitely, but some of carbons - Short for carbon copies, espe­ them and all of the continuous ones soon­ cially those which smart people keep of er or lator got hung up somewhere along their correspondence. the way. In 1943 the ufar Department is­ sued orders against such chains where Carlsbad Caverns - sure would hold a lot several soldiers were on them. of peanuts. Chicot - (Ackerman) - The Chicago 1940 cartoons - A cartoon is usually a single Jorld Science-Fiction Convention. drawing in which, if a story is implied, the Choctaw Publications - Stuff put out by conversation or ac­ Dan McPhail's publishing house. tions of the charac­ ters must convey it. Christmas Card - In 1939 Jill Sykora re­ Cartoons are simpli­ ceived a card carrying an insulting look­ fied drawings; if the ing object and saying ”To help you make picture is of a type merry Christmas Evo”, and 4ther things. that is not obviously It appeared to be a Futurian joke, and distinguishable from for transmission of such material thru fotografy, it is not the mails, Sykora put the postal authori­ a cartoon. . Bei uns ties on the trail and offered a reward this artype is usually fan-fictional: a for information, but was never able to fan takes- a look at his now son-Cesi prove anything. says EOh my God.’ Tendrils/11, ktp. Often soon arc pdgos of toothpibk figures do­ circular - A one-shot single-shoeter, con-■ ing varied things in the manner of Amer­ cerning one subject only, and often with­ ican Legion cartoonist Jallgron. Cari­ out a title. They have often been used cature is a near cousin of the cartoon. in DAPA campaigns and the battles of * Michel ism. chain letters - In Great ‘ Britain after the outbreak of JJ II, Youd organized Claire Voyant - A pename of Ackerman’s. chains of fans to each of which he would It is obviously derived from clairvoy­ circulate a page or more of news, and ant, but whether it has any significance each fan on the chain would add a page your editor knows not. and pass the bundle on to the next guy. ./hen they all came back to him, Youd club - An organization of persons who co - commi 12 FANCYCLOPEDIA

moot in person every so often; the word tinctive nickname. is often misused. Fan groups with this name include the Impossible Story Club, Colorado Ihntasy Society - The publicity ICSC, JVPC, JG-CC, Outsiders1 Club, SFCC, organization for the Convention. Stranger Club, Solaroid Club, and Cosmos Club. Columbia Camp - The local of idiots cent­ * ering around Columbia South Carolina. colloctinf; - A deep instinct of man, par­ No formal organization or officers. ticularly strong in fankind. A typical They included Joo Gilbert, Barry Jenkins old-time stfan began by excerpting and Jr, Loo Eastman, and J B McQueen, but Joe binding the particular stories ho liked went into the Mercenary Marine, Lee wan­ best in Amazing and Joird; then, either dered away job-hunting, Harry got a hea­ because excerpting was too much trouble, vy caso of manana fever, and Panurge dis­ or because ho saw the desirability of appeared from our ken. While active, having all the stories on filo, began they sparked tho DFF and Dixie Press. to save all the prozincs without tearing then up; when fanzines camo along, ho columnists - <7hon a guy is a columnist, saved them too as a matter of course; he can talk about anything ho wants to, and eke Buck Bogers 2429 AD. The real tho the editor may censor him. Usually trouble begins when you become a com­ his secondary duty is to give any nows pletist. Storage space eventually be­ items or information that haven’t been comes a problem. Fans* filing methods published elsewhere, and primary duty is vary, but they really do need to have to comment on things in general. Every their collections where they can be eas­ so ofton a calumnist will attract notice ily reforrod to. Scrapbooks are a com­ by tho Mcnckenian vigor of his denunci­ mon supplement to magazine collections. ations. Part of any fan visit is inspection of the visitee’s collection. Comet Publications - Originally a pub­ lishing house covering all the Philadel­ collectivism - Public control of indus­ phia fans, tho term seems to have nar­ try, farming, and associated activity, rowed down to John Baitadonis. directed toward the general welfare. It is the one idea on which scientific- comics - Sciontificomics aro all you tiogal sociologists have been agreed for should bo interested in. the future civilization, at least until around 1938. committees - Groups of people, usually three or five, appointed to render deci­ colloquialism - Much of the material in sion or recommendation in some matter, fanzines, and practically all tho cor­ or perform some act. Standing commit­ respondence of fans, is to be regarded tees aro proscribed in tho constitution; as conversation rather than finished others exist only for a temporary pur­ writing. It rambles on from point to pose. Committees of fan organizations point in a manner like tho stream of include tho convention committee, ap­ consciousness, with many a parenthesized pointed “to plan and execute a fan gath­ remark. Contractions are freely em­ ering, the ballot committee appointed ployed wherever contractions would bo at election time, Laureate Committee, used in speaking, and some places whore Plancon, Fincom, Joicom, ot autres. they wouldn’t. Slang and dialectic pro­ Com­ nunciations aro flung about indiscrimi­ mittees formed by mutual agreement out­ nately, such phrases as "mah pappy’s side tho machinery of any organization jornt" not being at all unusual. For­ arc characteristic particularly of Left­ eign languages are interlarded whenever ists in tho United States, and tho fan the writer feels tho urge. To avoid groups of this sort have boon Michel- confusion, however, people aro usually istic. Those include tho Science Fic­ called by their surnames, or by a dis­ tion Committee Against Jfascisri, which at FANCYCLOPEDIA 12. comm - conf

the end of 1939 circulated a petition of been the Washington Confabulations. The modified Michelisn, and the 0PA3F. first of those was in early 1940. when Perduo, recently arrived from Jyaraing,. communism - Communism with a small c des­ Bottom, not long from .Philadelphia. and ignates a society which gets production Speer, of Jushington for more than a from oach according to his abilities and year, got together and called themselves gives products to each according to his a confabulation. The second was in the needs. It is more or less anarchistic summer of 1941, when Er and Mrs Swisher in that it hopes that coercion "by the visited the Washington Jorry-./arts, and state will be unnecessary, Chauvcnot came up from Charlottesville. Communism with This Confabulation issued the Washington a large C, which is what fans usually Manifesto. Joe Gilbert’s visit in Octo­ mean, is Marxism as modified by Lenin ber was also called a confabulation. and Stalin, plus the tactics of Earl Unger Browder and Harry Bridges. has referred to the Sciontiforums as con­ fabulations. completist - A dope who trios to have a complete collection in some line. The conference - A smaller convention, which lino may be as broad as having all'the should have a specific purpose to bo ac­ prozincs over published, or as narrow as complished aside from the camcradcrio. collecting all the Golden Atom tales or The word came into use after the Newark all official correspondence during one’s Convention, and has been used to desig­ incumbency in some office, The trouble nate the following: arises when the collector misses pur­ The PSPS Conference chasing an issuo (or fails to keep a in October 1938, Philadelphia. It was carbon copy, or whatever), or when hie attended by the fans who were launching ambitions extend back to a time before Now Fandom, a number of their backers a- ho started saving the stuff* Then ho raong the pros, and others. prowls the 2d-hand magazine shops, In June 1939 writes letters to everybody who mite tho OSA Powwow mot in an Oklahoma know whore a particular prize is, wor­ City hotel room, attended by McPhail ries librarians and other public ser­ and former Oklahomans from Washington vants, and occasionally makes a marvel­ and NowMoxico/Flushing. ous find in some unexpected place and Third day of the goes around rejoicing. A novel type of Nycon, while most of the attendees were complotism is Bothran’s record and de­ playing softball on Flushing Slats, the termination of attending every major Futurians and thoir sympathizers mot in convention held in this country. a Futurian Conference. They discussed the Exclusion Act and Micheli sin. composing in the stick - taking up what . . The you are saying as you type the stencil. Philco of 1939 was held in the same hall The expression comes from hand-sot as the Third Eastern Conv rathern in the printing, where the letters for each back of the Baitadonis saloon. Futuri- line are thrust into a ’’stick”. A groat ans and Quccnsies were both present in deal of the contents of individ fanzines force, for the last time at any one and editorials in other fmz aro composed gathering, and a fite almost happened ”in the stick”, without dummying. between Sykora and Gollheim. The dis­ cussion was on a general fan organiza­ confabulation - A fan gathering larger tion; Rothman, Speer, and Kyle wanted to than a fan visit (that is, it shaUd invaLxe launch a new one, oach having ideas fans from more than one locality besides about what it should bo. The Triumvirs that in which it occurs), but not being presented their constitution for Now built up or attended or conducted like a Fandom and attempted unsuccessfully to conference. got it approved. No conclusion about .a The name is a new one, and now org was reached. Sykora showed fan abnost the only events socallod so far have conv 14 FANCYCLOPEDIA

movies afterwards. boys got stewed, everybody met everybody Several Bloomington (or else, and a good time was had by all. Chicon) Conferences, including the Barn­ The yard Con, wore held in 1939 and 1940 to Hastings S-F Conference was allegedly plan the Chicon, attendees being Reins­ hold in Hastings Minnesota 29 Novem­ berg, Korshak, Tucker, and other fig­ ber 42; if so, it was an alcoholic ures, but not including J Lawrence Ham- affairs, judging by tho report of it ling, another prominent Chicago fan, who which was published. objected for reasons of anti-Semitism. Because of attrition The of fan ranks by the draft, Boskone III last Philly Conference was in Novem­ had a small attendance. Most of the af­ ber 1940, in a GAR hall. It was ternoon was taken up with playing Wid­ called the Fifth Annual, the first and ner’s s-f game, Interplanetary, which third Conventions'also boing counted. was still in an experimental stage. Chief bone of contention in 1940 Al tho was the proposed Newarkon. the Mid-rfcst Federation was dormant, tho This Newark Galactic Roomers invited individual fen Conference was intended as some­ to another Michiconfercnce at tho end of thing for Easterners to attend who October 43. Attendees gave Sian Shack couldn’t go to the Convention in 1941. its baptism of fire, took an intelligence Fandom generally refused to support the test, and stuff. The so-bekannt Cosmic idoa because it was believed that it Circle Exclusion Act was in connection would conflict with the Convention, and with this gathering, Sykora and Moskowitz laid the responsi­ bility for the idea to Taurasi, who was­ convention - A largo fun gathering, tho n't at the Philadelphia mooting. The formerly usod of any fan gathering, Nevvarkon did not take place. Tho Boskoncs aro first Scicnco-Fiction Convention was at held in February of oach year, beginning Philadelphia in 1936, v/hen the NYB-ISA in 1941, tho first anniversary of the visited the Philadelphia branch. It was Stranger Club. No sot schedule of pro­ marked by horseplay and camcraderie. ceedings has emerged. The fiiMaat* heard The ^^et^schJi^^e^LnfiM^hep^SEU- Second Eastern States Science-Fiction A Dix- Convention was hold in Now York early in iocon was planned for 1941 at Columbia 1937, under tho auspices of the ISA. South Carolina, but canceled because the Tho chief event, aside from first men­ president of tho DFF, Earl Barr Hanson, tion of a Jorld Science-Fiction Conven­ couldn’t come up from Florida at tho tion, was a handshako between ./ollhoim time set. and Julius Schwartz which ended the war­ The Michiconference originated fare of their factions. in November 1941, and was attended by Tho Third Eastern more fans from elsewhere in tho Mid-East Science-Fiction Convention was back in than from Michigan, which was no small Philadelphia on Hallowe’en of 1937. number. They formed the Mid-./cst Fan­ Most notable event was tho speech tasy Ihn Federation, pan movies were launching Michelism. On the liter side shown, and an auction held. was the Shaggoth 6 thing. Another Phil- The Newark Con­ co was belatedly announced for January vention, officially the First National 1942, but called off in favor of Boskone Science-Fiction (or Fantasy) Convention, II. B2 was well attended, witnessed the was hold at Newark on 29 Ifeiy 38, on call dramatization of Legion of Legions, and of ./ill Sykora and Sam Moskowitz. It discussod the NFFF and the problem . of was marred by sniping and feuding on tho tho Pacificon. subjects of Michelism, the ISA, the In November 1942 tho Mi- JSFC, and personalities, but was tho chiconfcronco became an annual matter, first to pass the hundred mark in atten­ Dealer was seen at close range, the MPS dance. Jollhoimists called it the fancyclopedia 15 conv

Fourth Eastern for a long time. here for the sako of completeness: Similarly The first Interplanetary S-? Conven­ they called the flSFOI tho Fifth Eastern. tion was held in a fone booth by Jack The florid Scionco-Fiction Convention Gillespie and Cyril Kornbluth, sometime (’’First” added later) was hold in New around 1938. The 4|-th Eastern, or First York on 2 3 4 July 1939 under tho aus­ Pan-National Science-Fiction Convention pices of Now Fandon, and was tho largest was the meeting of Speer and flilson in before tho war ended major conventions, Philadelphia in 1938/ called Pan­ approaching a total attendance of 200. National because, unlike the “First Na­ It sot tho pattern for subsequent con­ tional" , it had a representative from ventions lasting more than one day, but west of the Appalachians. The tenden­ was marred by the Exclusion Act. cy more recently seems to be to label all The Chi­ such pseudo-conventions as somothingcons, cago 1940 florid Scionco-Fiction Conven­ which has given us a wave of such words tion was hold at Chicashoe­ after. Slogans on the general model of string, etc. The award for the fhn over­ "New York in ‘39.“’ are repeated in fan­ coming tho greatest difficulties to at­ zines and on envelopes of letters, and tend was deserved by many. every fan of fandom tries to figure out The Fourth florid some moans of attending, but when tho Scionco-Fiction Convention, the Pacifi- convention finally comes, a large frac­ con, was to bo held in Los Angelas in tion of its attendance is of scientific- 1942, but it was finally voted to sus­ tionists from in or near tho convention pend it because of the involvement of the city. The program runs two or three United States in tho war and threat to days: the first day is plannod for the the Jost Coast. general sciontifictionist, the second Groat Britain’s SFA had day for the fun, and tho third day, if annual conventions at London in 1937, any, for si^orte and left-ovor business. 1938, and 1939, which were featured by On the first day will be speeches by ce­ speeches from men of considerable stand­ lebrities, showing of a fantasy movie, ing in tho world of letters and science, and a costume party in the evening. and by consumption of great quantities of Second day includes business matters beer, but your Diderot is unable to sup­ connected with the convention organiza­ ply separate details. tion, and where to hold the next year’s The Midlands Science- convention. In tho evening is a banquet Fiction Convention was scheduled for Bir­ in honor of a science-fiction celebrity mingham in April 43, under BFS auspices. who is there (Paul in 1939, Smith in This ignorant one has no subsequent re­ 1940, and Heinlein in 1941). The auc­ port. tion is put in wherever it can be fit­ In addition to these main events ted. There are get-togethers before and (and tho conferences and confabs), after tho convention days by those who there have been numerous meetings fa­ arrive early &/or stay late. cetiously called conventions, included Tho oxpres- conw cor 16 ENCYCLOPEDIA

sion "world convention’1 has soraetimos lic. Publication in the RAPA is not been called, into question, particularly general publication, for instance, be­ by Britishers, since all attendees wore cause tho TAPA has membership restric­ from the US except a possible Englishman tions, but if one also offers his IAEA at the ?Tycon and Canadian at the Chic on. pub for sale to anyone with a dimo, ho Ackerman has replied that wo want the loses his control. Abandonment may bo British fans to fool that those are inferred from acquiescence in unauthor­ their conventions too, tho the war pre­ ized use, but unauthorized general pub­ vented them from having any large gath­ lication does not in itself destroy the erings in 1940 and 1941, when America’s common-law rights. last two were hold. It mito bo compared Jo mite add that sta­ to the ” j’orld Serios”, in which only tutory copyright is secured by first American teams participate, because more publishing tho thing, with a notice say­ than half the baseball in the world is ing “Copyright Joo Fann 1954“ or some­ played in tho United States. thing like, and then sending two copies and a registration form and fee to tho Conway - family name of Ruturian noras do Copyright Office of the Library of Con­ plume. Bowen Conway is Michel, Graham gress. Publication without such a not­ ditto is Gollheim, Millicent Diana same ice constitutes dedication to tho gen­ Elsio Balt or Joll-heim, Ritter C damon eral public. Incidentally, articles by knight, Roger idem all tho Futurians, you in someone ©Ise’s fanzine can be Van Cortlandt C'wy is Cyril Kornbluth, copyrighted by you. and Jormwood Remit Conway III is Doc’s ponamo. correspondence - The chief fan activity is still letter-writing, tho fan visits co-ordinator - Titlo of the head of cer­ havft refcffc its import­ tain organizations in the Mid-East; sug­ ance somewhat. Letters are written to gests the function that Battle Crook be­ pros, to fans as individuals, to fanzine lieved a general fanorganization should editors, and to chains of fans. The perform, i e, avoiding duplication of subject matter ranges from cabbages to effort (,es for example if somebody else kings; it includes opinions on fan and published a fan dictionary independently prozines, problems in connection with at tho same time as this), and bringing organizations, requests for information, together fanpower for approved projects. diatribes in connection with fan feuds, arrangements for visits, gossip about common-lav/ copyright - Under statutory fans’ personal affairs, news of fan ac­ copyright a person has tho right for a tivities, discussion of philosophical limited time to prohibit publication or and scientific and sociological points, par#frazing of long sections of a copy­ directions to easily a-vailablc pornbg- righted work. Under tho common-law rafy, musical preferences, cryptografy, copyright, however, unless authorization hoaxes, —everything that goes into fan­ to publish is implied (as in letters to zine nonfiction, and more. tho editor) or expressed, tho writor has Certain rules absolute power to prohibit publication should govern correspondence between in any 7/ay of anything he has written or fans. The £FL had a rule that members drawn or composed. This rests on the must promise to answer promptly all cor­ rule in common law that the product of a respondence addressed to them as SELors. man’s labor, including mental labor Unless he is a regular correspondent and (even tho slitc!), is his to do with us knows that you take longer to reply, a he wishes. The common-law copyright is fan’s letter should be answered or at lost upon registration for statutory least acknowledged by postcard within copyright, upon reneral publication, or two months. New wo quote C L Dodgson: abandonment. General publication con­ ”... don’t fill more than a page and a sists in making the work available to an half with apologies for not having writ­ indefinite portion of the general pub­ ten sooner.’ # Tho best subject,, to begin FANCYCLQESDIA 17 , ______cos - cognjcc

'..'ith, is your friend's last letter. Jrite months later he reappeared at the Sche- with the letter open before you. Answer ncctacon. In the intervening time, he his questions, and make any remarks his appears to have received his 4F classi­ letter suggests." In commenting on mag­ fication, and spent a month hitchhiking azines, your Samuel Johnson has found thru the southeastern states, with his it convenient to make marginal nota­ mother in Newcastle Ind sending money tions, on first reading, of remarks orders to him along the route, from he will want to make in the letter of funds he had saved. Getting names and comment. Fins generally typewrite addresses from the readers’ departments their correspondence, and most of the of the pros, ho contacted various scien­ most active ones keep carbon copies; in­ tific tionists unknown to fandom, and coming correspondence certainly should wherever they wore willing, constituted always he filed, never thrown away. each as a local and a state organiza­ Air mail is used when there is any excuse tion, which ho hoped would grow. The for it. In emergencies, spccialdelivery Circle of Atzor (Tenn), Louisiana Fin- airmail is often resorted to, or tele­ dom, Alabama All-Jkns, Valdosta (Ga) grams and longdistance telephone calls. Philosophers, and Georgia Cosmen were Nico people will respond to such commu­ created in this way. Since Deglcr was nications within twenty-four hours. Oth­ constantly thinking up organization and er requests for material which set a conference names, they are not treated deadline require compliance or regrets elsewhere in this guidebook. At the within the time set, when the fan has "Live Oak Conference” with Raym hashing- previously agreed to supply the material ton and sister, ho organized the Cosmic (as by accepting appointment to a com­ Thinkers (local), Florida Cosmos Soci­ mittee). ety, and reconstituted tho Dixie Fantasy Fans delite in whimsical details Federation, with Baym at its head. such as putting the postage stamp on up­ From side down, or typing on the envelope the South he made a triumphal return to cracks aimed at the postmaster. Another Indiana, where such organizations us the whimsicality has become convention with Cosmic Club (later called the Futurian many fen— using a different complimen­ Society of Indiana), Circle City Cosmic tary close for each letter. In time they Society (Indianapolis), Mancie Lfutants, run out of the obvious ones, such as Irvington Circle (Indpls suburb), and "Love and kisses”, and "Very sincerely tho Hose City Science Circle (Newcastle, yours” (equivalent to a slap in tirt fiice), formerly Buck Rogers Club), were sup­ and "Sciehcerelyours” , and start using posed to exist already. After earning such amazing good-byes as "SplfrskJ” and f1{EjostdtsbcleidigungJ " some more money, ho departed late in June for the Schenectacon. Cosmian League - A tear-off-the-name-strip Thence to Bos­ ton, where he "had a long talk" with organization sponsored by Cosmic Stories; Jidner on such subjects as Sian Center. no activity except getting people to., join Later, in a remote hamlet in II H, the up. New Hampshire FFF was formed. Visiting Jim Avery while the latter was home on Cosmic Circle - Claude Deglcr attended leave, Doglor got the Maine Scicntific- the Chicon in 1940, and at Denver in 1941 delivered a speech purporting to tion Association declared revived, then have been written by Martians. Ho ap­ made the Ifcrinecon Jr with Norman Stan­ pears to have had some activity in the leys. /After this he wont into Queboc to Indiana Fantasy Association, and a part swear to tho citizenship of an Indiana in publishing a minor fanzine, Infinite. girl who had hitchhiked thither with him At the 1942 Michiconference several at­ a year before and been detained. After tendees got bad impressions of him, but forming the Future Fintasy French at the he was still virtually unknown when ho "Quebec Conference", he returned alone arrived late at the 1943 Boskonc. to Now York. Four Ho slept on the floor at cosmicc 13 FANCYCLCPEDIA

Little Jarnevon until some time after Cosmic Circle was beginning to look gro­ Schwartz and. Shaw began telling him to tesque, Larry Shaw resigned from tho CC leave, and. worked, on some Cosmic Circle and declared feud on Degler. publications which were supposed, to be Meanwhile, angeled, by someone in Indiana. In the the latter’s lanky form appeared briefly Cosmic Circle, which was to be a union in Philadelphia, where Ozzie Train was of all persons everywhere who had a cos­ bored and later, without his ..knowledge, mic outlook, these local and regional named head of a new Philadelphia Ifcntasy organizations were affiliated with the Society. Rogers then turned up in Hagers­ Planet fantasy Federation, whose Council town, apparently intending to stay with included DongRogers (the pseudonym for Harry'* Jarner for some time, but due to Degler used in all his publications), illness in »fa.rner's family was persuaded Raym .feahington, and some people around to move on. He caught a ride going Newcastle. It is claimed that the move­ west, and visited some unknown scienti- ment was tested in Newcastle for years fictionists in Oklahoma where the Okla­ before thfe missionary work began (1943 homa Fantasy Circle was established, and was the year 4 of the Cosmic Concept), set up the Manana Society de Sonora and but Information from others than Degler the Southwest Fantasy Foundation (com­ is very vague. There was Helen JBrdd- prising New Mexico, Nevada, and Arizo­ leigh, pseudonym for Joan Domnick, a na), teen-age girl whom townsmen had prevent­ Arriving in Shangri-La, he joined ed from starting the supor-race with the LASFS and used the clubroom facili­ Degler, and who was head of the Psycho­ ties to publish weekly ’’news” sheets al­ logical Ministry because she was reading ternately titled Cosmic Circle Commenta­ a book on psychology. £ minor fanzine tor and Thnowg Analyzer, and some publi­ artist, Morrie Jenkinson, appeared under cations written by others and credited tho name of Hex Matthews. Also, not to them, tho reworked by him. The Cir­ members of the Cosmic Circle, were a cle Amateur Publishers’ Alliance was younger girl, Martha Matloy, who headed formed, which would have a mailing list a "vughu" cult claiming connection with of 500 (the Cosmic Circle claimed more ghughuism, and Frankfort Nelson Stein, than 200 members). In the weekly sheets whoso existence has been questioned. the Cosmic Circle program reached full Shaw form: Don Rogers answered a positive was at first impressed by Degler’s "Yes.”’ to the old question, "Arc fans ideas, and against his wishes was named slans?" Ho proposed to contact cosmic- ncad of Sian Slum as a local organiza­ minded mutants everywhere, using radio tion and the Empire State Slans. Tho programs and other publicity to this autonomous Cosmen of the Island wore end. Numerous special service bureaus, headed (and constituted) by Russell Jil- for functions such as purchasing mimeo soy, a new fan of Long Island. Larry supplies cooperatively, supplying fans and Claude also formed the Hannes Bok in tho army with free fan- and prozincs, Art Society, not affiliated with tho and planning tours for other traveling Cosmic Circle, to appreciate the work of fans, wore announced as being set up in Bok. Degler took down tho names and ad­ dresses , past and present, on Fantasy tho Newcastle headquarters. Publica­ Fiction Field’s subscription list; this tions projected included a directory of made up most of his mailing list for tho fans' addresses, True Fantastic Experi­ C o smi c CCirblopubpubli cat i one. ences, Spicy Spaceship Stories, and others. A fanational literature was Aftor Co­ ordinator Claudo left New York in Aug— urged to promote cohesiveness in the new ust, many of the fanzines of Schwartz's race. It was announced that a piece of and Unger’s collections wore missing, land in Arkansas (owned by Degler’s and they charged that Super fan took mother) was available for use as Cosmic them. Bocauso of this, and because Dog- Camp by vacationing cosmen. The Sian ler called on a girl Larry knew, against Center idea was pushed to its ultimate his expressed wishes, and bocauso tho extreme, and the Co&rdinator foresaw the FANCYCLOPELIA 19 cosmicc day when those who now ^carried11 22 precipitated case of schizophrenia, a states (that many state organizations paranoiac with delusions of grandeur and wore claimed to exist), would inherit persecution complex, and called for a the solar system. The first stop was ban on him if he refused to reform his organization of exactly the typo that practices. Loading Angolenoes endorsed fanarchists snort at» With the demise the report. of the NFFF, Legler said, the Third ran­ iftiilo he was now in LA, dom had ended, and the Fourth Fandom was Supcrfan had gained James Kcpncr and now coming into existence under the ae­ other now fen as members; and AfiJckBrcan gis of the Planet Fantasy Federation. let-haoSolfhbe named honorary- member of Pending their consent (which was emphat­ on.u-.moru organization. Before long, all ically not given), prominent fans were (except Ackerman) resigned from the or­ named as regional representatives (re­ ganization, and the branches that Doglcr gional organizations included the Souther had set up, the Futurian Society of Cal­ ern Circle, the Gulf Circle, Northwest ifornia (United Califans) and the Futu­ Federation, and others bearing the com­ rian Society of Los Angeles, were mem- mon sectional names); and almost every berless after he left. actifan ho’d visited and some he hadn't, A Fl oricon had who received him civilly and listened to been planned for an indefinite date in him politely, was named as a supporter of Live Oak, but upon learning thru Fanews- the Cosmic Circle, The weeklies carried card of the Michiconference date, Legler a hodge-podge of policy pronouncements gave up even hie plan for a “Blitzkrieg” by the Coordinator, recollections of his thru the Pacific Northwest in order to trips, a few items of general interest attend (however, a Columbia Science Fan­ and inaccuracy, and Cosmic Circle mews tasy Society for Oregon, Olympia Fanta- like Rogers1 being shut out of the LA sians, and British Columbians had been clubroom one day and Helen Bradleigh announced). He stopped in San Francisco conducting a summer school for cosmic and gained George Ebey as a member. In children (she tended children for work­ Salt Lake City he addled Utah to the.South­ ing mothers in her spare time). The west Fantasy Unit as tbeUtah Cosmic Jhns. most noticeable characteristic of the Holding the 2d Caspercon with Perdue, he publications was that they were the borrowed money for the remainder of the worst-looking legible fanzines ever pub­ trip to Battle Creek, where he arrived lished: abounding strikeovers; para- on 29 Oct as the Ashleys were beginning grafs nonexistent; edges of the stencil to move to Sian Shack. Al Ashley told crowded; no spacing after periods; mis­ him the Conference didn't want him, and spellings; overuse of caps, quotation when asked, tried to explain why, but marks, and underlines; wandering, un­ only got arguments in return. Finally planned sentences; countless simple Legler said he had no place to sleep and grammatical errors like ’’can and has only 60^, but the Ashleys refused to went”; store of malapropisme like call­ lend him anything. ing tfidner a stolid and far-seeing fan; i/hen Super fan came ad n. back to Newcastle, Frank N. Stein, who T Bruce Yerke became alarmed at the had taken over an Cakgrove Fantasy Soci­ prospect of publicity for fandom di­ ety and was imputed with reestablishing rected at potential fans and the general Sian Slum there, formed a Futurian Alli­ public appearing in such garments, and ance to fite the old-fan clique who were sent several fans a request for informa­ responsible for this now Exclusion Act, tion about Legler, on which to base a the Ashley Atrocity, and were trying to report on the Cosmic Circle. Legler re­ keep down the new and young fans (—all acted with violent denunciation of Yer- this per Claude Legler). Legler claimed kc, but was persuaded to cease firing that the CC was neutral in. this war, but till the report was prepared and pub­ loft no shade of doubt as to where his lished, In the report, Yorke stated sympathies lay, in the fite against the his belief that Legler was a nearly- “National Ihntasy Thscist Federation”, COsmiCG ~ CO8DQ 20 EhNCYCLOPEDIA and eoomcd to identify his cause histor­ Comic Circle Commentator, Kepner published ically with the old Futurian movement. a Caustic Square Commentator, and Tucker By this time Jilsey had resigned from announced tho formation of the Cosworms. the Circle, leaving Haymond Washington fihen the Ziff-Davis affair broke, how­ the only active fan who supported Deg- ever, proceedings wore started to expel ler. Washington had privately deplored Dcglor from tho FAPA, which he had late­ the "morass” of publishing, and urged ly joined. And Clod found it expedient Degler to moderate his statements, but to let his LASFS membership lapse because still hoped that some good mite be done of the overwhelming sentiment against him with the Cosmic Circle. In the face of there. It wasn’t a joke any longer, this situation, at the Cosmic Circle (In­ Tho ference in Newcastle (Councilcon) the original 'draft of this article was resuscitation of tho Mid-Jest Ihntasy chocked, and corrections made, by Han Federation was announced on the au­ Schwartz, Shaw, Ungor, and Washington. thority of member Jenkinson, with pre­ After publication in FFF, other informa­ sumably the CC’s Ohio FEF, Kentucky FFF, tion was brot to lite, and a few further and tho ISA as members of it (a North corrections made. ♦ Dakota Federation had once boon named, but Walt Dunkclborgor didn’t co­ Cosmic Publications - Set up by Taurasi operate ). in 1938 on the Taurasi- Meanwhile, a copy of tho Cosmic Thompson Pubs founda­ Circle Commentator had come into tho tion, this group was hands of Amazing Stories' editor Palmer. joined by .Moskowitz, Tho declaration of existence of a super Oshoroff, Kuslan, Tuck­ -J race smelled to him of Nazism, and tho er, Jiggins, and quite fanationalistic program seemed the hor­ a number of others, be- rid ultima, of fans' movement away from coming probably the largest publishing tho pros which he, as a fan of tho First house fandom has soon. In the fall of Fandom and now as a frankly commercial ’38, however, Jollheim told Jiggins he editor, docriod. Because of this, and wouldn’t have his columns and articles because fans wore not the type of read­ appear in the same magazine with Mosko­ ers that his publications catered to, he witz's any longer. Jiggins told SaM ho made it known thru FFF Newsweekly wouldn't accept anything more by him, than fans of fandom would.'. not got and asked Jollheim to continue writing into tho letter departments in future, for the SFIhn, which he and the other originals would not be contributed for Futurians did (and the consequent over­ auction at fan gatherings, and so on. loading of SFF with Futurian material Some fen reacted by saying Legler’s when fandom was mutating in another di­ ideas in some form had all boon spoken rection ended its primacy). In October in fandom before, and who the hell was of the same year, the Quadrumvirate quit Palmer to try to dictate to fandom, and and turned over the presidency of tho as for Amazing Stories and Fantastic FAPA to Jiggins. This and the outkick- Adventures, good riddance of bad rub­ ing of Moskowitz by Jiggins occurring so bish. Others, alarmed at tho possibil­ close together gave rise to charges of a ity that other pros mite follow Ziff- crooked deal. Jiggins was expelled from Davis’s load and cut fandom off from Cosmic publications. After tho Conven­ financial, recruiting, and publicity as­ tion in 1939, Tucker broke ’with Cosmic sistance, made haste to inform Palmer Publications over the Exclusion Act. that Dogler didn't speak for fandom. LuGorKus becoming rather inactive, Cos­ Palmer modified his etatement of the ban, mic narrowed down pretty much to the but urged fen to return to the ways of Queens broup. their fathers. On the theory that the CC Cosmos Club - A war-born local organiza­ could best be laughed out of edcistence, tion, affiliated with the BFS, heading the Boston boys had issued a Trivial Tri­ up in Teddington, a suburb of London. angle Troubadour, FTLanoy produced the Among its more unusual activities is the FANCYCLQPEDIA 21...... WF*

movie of fan activities, which has been tors in Scienti-Fandom. It was formed shown to varied, audiences. in the winter after the Third Eastern Convention and was the principal ^active costume party - Part of the formula for a agency of Michelism. Charter members ■/orld Science-Fiction Convention. Some were Rubinson, Dockweilor, Cohen, and costumery had. previously taken place tho Quadrumvirs. Nearly all were New among the Futurians, and Ackerman and. Yorkers and orthodox Marxists; conse­ Morojo went to New York dressed, for quently the publications and activities Things to Cone. The bal masque idea, ori­ of the CPASF had a vermilion tinge, ginated at a visit of Speer and Rjtlman which was imparted to Micholism in gen­ to Fredk A Kummer Jr, and was adopted by eral. Tho Committee was dissolved after the Chicon committee. It was suggested that convention attendees bring costumes two years of existence, early in 1940, representing characters from weird or when war had come. science fiction, or from fandom; and the costume geared to suit the wearer’s cha­ official critics - Appointive officials racter. Accordingly, Skylark Smith came of tho FAPA, the Chief Critic and asso­ as CLMoore’s Northwest Smith, Clarissa ciate critics or critics. The offices ditto as the nurse Mac which she had in­ wore created before it became customary spired in her pappy’s Loneman stories, for members with fanzines of their own to Speer as Buddy Deering, Kornbluth as the comment on tho previous mailing. Instead Invisible Man (gloves, bandaged face, of attempting to work out special func­ goggles), Tucker ae Hoy Ping Pong, Pogo tions of judgment and suggestion, the of­ as Hi Priestess of FooFoo, Widner as ficial critics fell into the habit of Giles Habibula, usw, and the prize­ making forced wisecracks or advancing o- winner, Dave Kyle’s Ming the Merciless riginal ideas suggested by something in the publications (in tho manner of the by Leslie perri. However, there were individ fanzines), and an outcry arose too few in costume, and next year, at for the abolition of tho office, and per­ the Dcnvnntion, a better story was t^ld. -SEEvans was first-placer for Bird Man of haps expansion of the Laureate Commit­ Rhea; Jalt Daugherty had second with a tee’s function in its stead. The chief spaceman’s costuming involving airplane permanent value of the official critics’ parts that would have cost whew if he reports in tho official organ is in hadn’t picked them up as scrap, 4e 3d their service as a list of everything in for the Hunchback of something, with a the preceding mailing, it not having boon frickful mask. Morojo was a BBM, ffidner the practice in tho first six or so years Sian’s Granny, damon knight John Star, to list those in tho official organ in Bill Deutsch Dr Pinero of the Lifeline, tho same mailing as the piocos listed, Lowndes a zombie with a cut and bleeding and post-mailings always being an unpre­ throat, Israelite Chet Cohen the First dictable factor. Prophet of the Heinlein history of the (Frankly, folks, the ty­ future, and numerous others. pist is just babbling along here on the stoncil to fill out this page, so the D's Some efforts were made to use the costuming to got can start on tho next page.) publicity, but some critics felt it was .just as well that wo didn't receive any, Curfew Publications - Publishing houso of outside the stef pros, ofcourse. Larry Shaw. cover-copper - ’’The one that cops the Cz - For reasons given under "critics”, a cover”, the story in a prozinc from portion of a poem from Escape is misquoted which the scene in the cover iillustra- hero: This looked like a poem at first, tion is supposed to be taken. didn’t it? CPASF - The Committee for the Political but it isn’t, Advancement of Science-Fiction, called you see; by its enemies Communist Party's Agita­ wo had five linos to fill. d - den. 22 FANCYCLCFEDIA D D - The letter which probably initials ’’Temptations press me round about the greatest number of fans’ calling­ And find me foek and weeble; names: Dale, Dan, Dave, Dick, Doc, Don, I read my valued eyesight out Donn, Doug, and others, most of these be­ On mags for Kwazy Feeble.” ing used by more than one stefnist. Jack Darrow - Nickname taken by Clifford dabblers - (Wollheim) - Comics ordinarily Kornoelje. mundane which sometimes introduce a fan­ tastic element into their stories. Daw - Nickname for Donald A Wollheim. These have included, at various times, x Abbie and Slats, Barney Google and Dawnish - (’Jollheim) - A universal lan­ Snuffy Smith, Ben Jebster's Career, guage, like Esperanto, but universal in Big Chief Wahoo, Boob McNutt, The that no one understands its(a sly slash Bungle family, The Captain and the at Ackerman’s advocacy, from the longago Kids, Connie, Dan Dunn, Dick Tracy, Don days when Wollheim strongly disliked him). Winslow, Dub Dabs, Ella Cinders, Freck­ In 1943 some samples of it were present­ les and His Friends, Funny Fables, Gene ed to the FAPA, and the Brain Trust and Autry Rides, The Gumps, Hap Hopper, Kra- others ate it up. A complete exposition zy Kat, Li’l Abner, Little Annie Rooney, of the grammar and vocabulary (which is Little Orphan Annie, Mutt and Jeff, Myra constantly building) are yet to forth- North, The Nebbs, Oaky Doaks, Popeye, come. The following example of Dawnish Prince Valiant, The Pussycat .•Pnincess, means ’’The Fox and the Grapes”: ”Val Skull Valley, Smilin’ Jack, Tarzan, Tim Pauznik arz val Sobaghlu”. Tyler, Tiny Tim, Toots and Casper, Wash­ able Jones, and, no doubt, others. Gawd, deadline - Theoretical time after which what a rogues’ gallery.’ material for a fanzine or a mailing can­ not be accepted. Deadlines mean little dadaism - The word comes from Dali-istic with fanzines, which almost invariably painting, where it designates drawings come out later than originally sched­ in which seemingly symbolic things are uled, anyway. In the FAPA a long, and scattered about without there ‘XtttMlJry on the whole successful, fite has been being any meaning intended in the pic­ waged to got the mailings out on the ture. If it can be usod of literature, dfctes specified. it applies to alien-sounding double-talk like this: Gram spramphis them stampis- decadence - The condition of society and tan gram hendis stan tha gramdoreax im- especially of the arts in a period which portistan (Kornbluth), and poetry like follows the high point of a culture and this: precedes its complete breakup. Rome was Bayar, the iddy lamp comes plug-plug in such a state for centuries, and ac­ See the wrong side upway man avar cording to Spengler’s thesis in The De­ So mags the dulcet simper of a rimy rug cline of the West, the entire Occidental And dents the skin smooth softness of world shows the characteristic features; the jar. (RoySSJohnLeC) and his foresite has been borne out by The resemblance to metaphysical poetry later events. Decadence is strongest of is apparent. course in the cities, particularly, in the US, in the Eastern cities and in daffy poetics - (Kuslan) - Jingles which Hollywood. The Futurians of Now York state something simply trge or obviously are fandom’s number one exhibit. They untrue, and outrage and amuse by the un- delite in decadence, however, regarding poeticness of the sense and the openness it as a sign that a new order is on the with which they strain for rime. Take fr way to replace the old. Another alter­ example this little dillio from Boling’s native to a gloomy view is de Camp’s be­ fanzino Fan-Atic, by Archer Cusp (who­ lief that modern technology has made it ever he is): virtually impossible for tho world ever FANCYCLGPEDIA' . ’ . • ' • - 23 don - df

again to slip all the way into barbar­ tripewriter and duplicator must bo put ism. ’ somewhere. Add such optional miscella­ A decadent period may still produce nea as scrapbooks, foto albums, camera very worth while literature, a sort of and developing equipment, and radio- silver age following the golden age, but rocordplayer and records, and then con­ it is moro likely to go to extremes of sider that the fan has to keep his ward­ technique, In robe somewhere and sleep in the room poetry our too. The most amazing den this writer decadence has has ever seen was Lester del Key’s in been marked by Washington, whore you would actually and vers libre and ) literally dig down two decimeters in the something we Glitter on the floor and come up with an mite call da- empty milk bottle and half a loaf of dai sm. In hu­ bread. Of course, not all fans can mor iduubie- boast such Bohemianism; some keep quite inversion and genteel, bourgeois-looking rooms. the New vorker sort of de­ Denvention - (i'follheim) - The Denver Con­ tached amuse­ vention of 1941. ment at every­ thing are pre­ Denver Science Fictioneers - A local dominant. Fo- which included Wiggins, Martin, and tografy having' Hunt. It soon reorganized as the Colo­ replaced paint­ rado Ihntasy Society. ing in largo parts of its departments - Every magazine must have old field, a new justification is sought departments, and some, both in the pro in interpretations or abstractions. In and in the fan field, have become over­ music there is a striving for dissonan­ loaded with them. They include the edi­ ces, unusual rhythms, and effects. Emo­ torial, the contents page, a letter sec­ tional content has branched into two tion, tutieWi.’ofipra/ffrui.’Santjlnes, ar­ trends, which also apply to the other tistic and argumentative quotations, and arts: (1) cold, technical, and abstract, various columns and polls. which most people find insipid; (2) slarp, pungent, and seeking for higher emotion­ — dept - Articles with titles such as al feeling. "Two Letters from Harry Schmarje Dept" la all fields there’s a striv­ are a peculiar form of humor, it being ing after something which may provide die understood that the item is not a depart­ basis for a now and vigorous art to a- ment and will never recur, rise. Eroticism is strong. Social cus­ toms in our decadence come under the head­ Detroit Science Fictioneers - Local group ings of thrill-seeking and Bohemianism. in Detroit Mich, Dick Kuhn, Lynn Bridg­ es, et al, den - Long before Science 5Ttetinn IStaMe or clubrooms were thot of, individual DFF - Tho Dixie ihntasy Federation, an fen had their own bits of territory de­ org to which fans in a rather hazily- dicated to fandom. The walls are covered defined South could belong. It was with Vargas and originals from auctions. launched by the Columbia Camp in 1940, Hearthstone around which the furni­ but soon became no more than its offi­ ture is polarized is the tripewriter. cial organ, and never had officers ex­ Files of the pros going back to the »20s cept the temporarily appointed ones. and cases of books and folders of fan­ There was supposed to bo a conference at zines pretty well fill the room, but in Columbia in 1941 which would get things addition to these are the correspondenco going, but this fell thru. A group trip files, “awaiting answers” box, "unread” by car to the Chicon or Dosvniiiinn went box of pros and maybe hams; and the unrealized, but the Spiritrip was made d - do ______.______24 ______PANCYCLOPED TA 'M ej the 42 Boskone. A coat-of-arms was Convention in Washington for 1942. rfaen surgested, but none adopted. the Denvention decided in favor of Los Angeles, ’’Dixiecon” was used to refer to j'i - Pet name for Ibintasy Digest. theproposed conference of the DPP at Co­ lumbia South Carolina. dictator - A title applied at various times to Tucker, Gollheim, and Mosko­ Dixie Press - Publishing house which in­ witz, for their power in the spwsstfm, cluded the Columbia Camp and Harry Ear­ tfollheimists, and New Ib.ndom, respect­ ner round about 1941-42. Later used by ively. Raym Washington.

a digest - At times when there have been so Doc - Moist often the nickname means Rob­ many subscription fanzines being pub­ ert W Lowndes, but frequently it desig­ lished that only the most active fans nates R D Swisher Ph D, and sometimes can keep up with them all, demand has refers to CL Barrett M D or E E Smith arisen for a Reader’s Digest of the fan Ph D. mags. A few issues of such digest have been published by various fans, and LeZ dogfan - (Ackerman) - A fan who is in the and others sometimes ran reprints from Army; from Armynian ’’dogface”. thoir contemporaries, but no one ap­ peared to handle the job as a steady doshes - Those which are distimmed by the thing. Gostak.

director - Title of the head of any SIL dots - What J Ackerman and P Speor insist chapter and various other organizations. on not having after their pseudo middle Vi th the SIL, he is- supposed to be thhe initials, what Britishers and other pur- member with the lowest SIL number, mem­ ists use entirely too much of after con­ bership certificates being numbered in tractions like ”mags” and "dept”, and order of issuance. what Virgil Finlay’s drawings are char­ acterized by. Directorate - Variant name for the Advis­ ory Board. Doubledoubletoilandtrouble Mimeograph - A sort of publishing house name taken by distimming - That which characterizes the Shakespearean Harry Warner some time af­ relation of the Gostak to the doshes. ter Dixie Press coased existence.

Dittoing - The Ditto company’s direct double-inverted humor - Ordinary humor process is related to hektoing, but consists of upsetting the usual connec­ stands somewhat beyond it. Hekto car­ tion of things and using a new one, as bons are used,, laid face up under the in puns. A joke of this type is the master sheet, so that drawing or typing story told by Doc Lowndes, of a girl on one side of the master gives mirror whom a giant was trying to catch and writing on the other side in hekto pig­ eat. After eluding him a number of ment. The master sheet is put face out­ times, she somehow caused him to fall ward around a revolving drum similar to unconscious, and sat down and gobbled a mimoo’s, and as each copy sheet goes him up. The essence of humor is proba­ in, it is slitcly moistened with some­ bly incongruity, but a necessary element thing, and takes off just enuf of the of a joke is surprise. After one has pigment on the master to make a good heard or read several thousand jokes in copy. Besides the reproduction-range up which the natural order of things is up­ to 300 copies because no ink is wasted, set, he comes to expect and anticipate there is the further advantage that some it, so the only way to surprise him is by copies may be run off now and others resorting to the logical, the obvious. next we ok. Such humor may fail if the reader does not realize that it pretends to be Dixiecon - Originally, a proposed World a single-inverted story to start with, FANCYCLOPEDIA 25 dr - editor.

62 if he is not advanced enuf on the na­ habit to young members, and Ackerman’s ive typo to appreciate a re-inverBion. objections to same. An extension of double-inverted humor is when the naive type has boen left so far il Duce of Flushing Flats - (Michel) - behind that no one expects it to be Nickname for James V Taurasi, because used. Then a bald pun or other simple his home was in swampy Hushing New witticism is the tjutijg that will sur­ York, and as one of the Triumvirs he prise and delite the reader at the same could be called a dictator. time that ho pretends to groan. The above story from Lowndes may belong to dummy - a miniature of an issue of a fan­ this secondary stage. zine which is being prepared, indicating what material will be on each page. The Dr Acula - (Stoker-.Ackerman) - Rename for proposed fanzine Fantasia is the classic Franklyn Brady. example of the dummied’ but 'never pub­ lished fan magazine; by 1938 Hahn had drama - Humorous weird and a few s-f made 22 dummies for the thing, and ad­ plays have been noted or reviewed in vertised it all over creation, but it fanzines. Dramas written by fans them­ has never appeared, and according to selves have usually boen of the ’’closet Sw the subscription money has never been drama” type, that is, intended for read­ returned. ing, not for acting. The only play to The word is usually improperly be performed by fans was the Widner used to mean the dummy copy, a typing-up adaptation of Chauvenet’s ’’Legion of Le- of all the material which will bo in the gions”bhuibeqTpi9,&^tBBeWmeIXl. COn the issue, with marks at the end of each©^@^ sonodisc a few radio plays have been line to indicate how many spaces must be recorded by fans. Mention should not skipped, when cutting the stencil, to@^@ also be made of Rothman’s marionette get even right-hand margins. It’s a lot show at the 38 Philco. of additional work, and many publishing© ♦ fans refuse to do it. drinking - Moro talked about than prac­ ticed (and practiced pbenty) is hard duplication - Synonym for reproduction. drinking among fans. Very few get dis­ gracefully drunk, but the way they talk DtfS - Don ffollheim, Dirk iflylie, and Dick you’d think they all did. Most of them tfilson, so called at the time they occu­ have no objections to touring the joints pied the Ivory Tower. around midnite following a hard day at the convention. Your correspondent has dyktawo - (British.-Ackerman) - Derived no data on their preferences among the from initials of ’’Don’t you know there’s various liquors, but mention should be a war on?”, a customary British reply to made of the Super Science Fiction Spe­ kicks about poor service, shortages, cial, even if not half a dozen fans evor usw. The J began calling his outputs heard of it before. As usual, the Futu- dyktawo pubs when war conditions cut in­ rians are the outstanding bad boys, but to his time and threatened their exist­ on of the reasons for the strife in LA in ence. After being in the Army a while, late ’43 was the intrusion of drinking on he changed the name to Snafu Public­ LASFS getogethers, transmission of the ations.

E - The letter which occurs most often in Ecco - Nickname for E C Connor. English, but for no good reason, since it’s so often silent or obscure. As an editor - The jerk who founds a fanzine, initial it’s relatively infrequent; the names it, decides what kind of material E space on the S-F Check-List was blank it shall carry, selects and puts togeth­ until Dick ffilson intentionally launched er material for an issue, and/or pub­ a fanzine beginning with E, Escape. lishes it; and his successors. There editori - om 26 FANCYCLOFEDIA

also positions called art editor, assis­ Ballots are ordinarily anonymous, so tant editor, contributing editor, etc, sent only to qualified voters. A ballot which may mean much assistance in the counter to whom to send the marked ballot irty work or none at all. is usually named thereon. Candidates are Much blood has grouped by office, under each office in been shed over the question whether an the order in which they filed their can­ editor should be allowed to make any didacies, with space left in each case changes in the mss of his writers before for writing in anyone clse’s name whom publishing them. Many competent writers tho voter may wish to vote for. Amend­ resent it as unnecessary interference ments are usually included on the annual in their communication with the reader­ officers’ ballots; special elections fans, and it is defended as taking the or votes don’t get a very hoavy turnout. place of the drafting and re-writing that Parties aro sometimes formed in an ef­ the authors ought to do and don’t. fort to gain election by trading support but fans are pretty independent in vot­ editorial stuff - We distinguish this ing for the person they want. from articles in a fanzine that happen to bo written by the editor. Editori­ emblems - Many fan organizations have als, contents page, mastheads, expira­ adopted emblems. The earliest one, for tion notices, forecasts for the next is­ stf in general, was Gernsback’s ’’Scien- sue, pleas for material, ads, fillers, t ifi oti bnF? coaitofj ,aatrfctwiLdai ta£4 interlineations, and bracketed comments ter a prize contest. By‘ permission, the in letter and other departments, are ISA. modified and used this. According usually tho not always by the editor. to McPhail, however, the only generally accepted symbol for Efjay - Nickname for Forrest J Ackerman. science-fiction is the rocket; the SIL Ego - A nickname for Arthur C Clarke, It button is Paul * s has been depicted as a separate being, drawing of the Ger- like an astral projection, who embodies yon from The Shot Clarke’s dizzier characteristics in ex­ into Infinity, The treme form. emblem of tho EAPA is typical in that it symbolizes s-f <..'O-Cobp - The publishing house namo used rather than fandom or fanzines. Emblems by Dockwoiler and Pohl in 1937. There is may be reproduced on mastheads, letter­ some evidence that Georgo R Hahn, he of heads, and similar places, and a few the dummies, was associated withth thorn have been made into flags or lapel but­ (Dockweiler and Pohl, je veut dire) in tons. The editors of Nova (II) offered this establishment. to work up coatfc of arms for local groups, at a price, guaranteed her­ egoism - A noticeable characteristic of aldically correct. Heraldry, we the typical fan is the high esteem ho mite say, should not be undertaken by has for himself. No true fan but will the uneducated; if you aren’t thoroly freely admit that he1s a genius. There tfar.ildain it, stay away from the shield is some foundation for this estimate of shape for your emblem, A few pub­ fan intelligence, but in youths aged lishing houses have had emblems; that around twenty, it frequently takes a By­ shown for Cosmic also served for Taurasi ron ic turn. J Chapman Miske is the publications, United, and Taurasi-Thomp- classic example of an egoist. son Publication.

Elarcy - (Ackerman) - Nickname for LRC, Empress of FooFoo - An auto owned by Louis Russell Chauvenct, to which he has Louis Ruslan, CSFF, during his college an aversion. years. elections - Other than in local fan orga­ Empress Publications - Publishing house nizations, elections are hold by mail. of Dick Wilson and rfally Marconette, fl FANCYCLOPEDIA 27 •pp—\ota

1939. literature or other fields unrelated to the great pressing problems of the day. Ephless El - Elmer Perdue, so-called from It has frequently boon said that fantasy the missingness of an F key from the is escape literature; tfollheim has re­ tripewriter he had at the time he entered marked that the peculiar advantage in fandom. escapism that it has over other litera­ ture is that the reader need not imagine epic - To be called an epic a composition himself as someone other than he is, should fulfill all but ono or two of the having greater powers, but only as being following conditions: It is in verse; himself in a future world, where more is narrative; employs a formal style; power is available to everyone. While idealizes characters and actions; con­ the Michelists did not necessarily con­ cerns events of great importance, invol­ demn escapism as a measure of relief, ving great conflict and strife; relates they demanded that fans turn about and the adventures of a slitely supernatural take an interest and a part in sociolog­ hero, who embodies the highest ideals of ical problems also. In Rothman’s ironi­ a people. The great natural epics known cally titlbd: "Science Fiction;.I® Escape to the English reader are the Iliad, the Literature”, he points out how many s-f Odyssey, and the Beowulf. Others in­ stories have dealt with sociological clude the Cid of Spain, the Niebelungen- problems, and provided new angles for lied of Germany, the French Song of Ro­ thinking upon them. land, the Volsunga Saga, etc. Literary epics (those with a single, known auth­ Esperanto - An artificial language inven­ or) include the AEneid, the Faerie ted for international auxiliary use. The Queen, Paradise Lost, the Coluinbiad, roots for its words come from European perhaps Hiawatha, and the Idylls of language, the root being chosen in each the King. There are also mock epics, case which occurs in the greatest number such as The Rape of the Lock, M’Fingal, of languages; most of them aro therefore The Hasty Pudding, &c. EESmith’s colos­ Latin or Germanic. The spelling is sal stories are often called ’’epics”, nearly phonetic, and the grammar highly with dubious authority. simplified; in addition, there are a number of prefixes and suffixes tooex- Brdstelulov - Rename of the J in writing tend tho vocabulary. Esperi means to about Esperanto. It is pseudo-piglatin hope, espere means hopefully, espero for Vordfeth3A19,miDbaiufeqg Green Star Guy, means a hope, and esperanto means one a green star being the Esperanto emblem. who is hoping; Esperanto was the pename used by the originator. Invented late Jack Erman - Another pename of Forrest J in the 19th Century, the language be­ AckermanJ s. came the leading contender for general recognition as an auxiliary language, is eroticism - Writing or drawing which em­ taught in many schools, and has thou­ phasizes sSxxa<y. Futurians, Moonrak­ sands of advocates scattered over the er s, and others have at times published world, among whom are Ackerman and Moro- works which would probably bo barred Jo, who have made some converts among from the mail if they were inspected, fans. but often in these productions thc$ are Espie - (Speer) - Pet name which Speer laughing at sex at the same time that they exploit it for literary, tried to hang on either Escape or Space­ artistic, or humorous purposes. The ways; they wouldn’t have it. defense offered by Lowndes is that Etaoin Shrdlu Press - A small printing it is necessary for them t® stress press owned by Michel-Gollheim. The such subjects to offset the goody- combination of letters is from a row of goody element so strong in fandom. Tho keys on the standard linotype keyboard, excuse for the Vomaidons is similar. and has boon used in other connnoctinns. Widner once conducted an investigation of escapism - The seeking of satisfaction in how different fen pronounced it. ets - exc 28 ENCYCLOPEDIA e.t.’s - (deCarap) - Extra-terrestrials; about fifteen minutes. Moskowitz told natives of other worlds. Any re semblance Gollheim they would admit them if the to d.t.’s is probably not wholly coinci­ Futurians would promise not to udo any­ dental, thing to harm the progress of the Con­ vention11. Gollheim refused, but in ano­ excerpting - Taking the pages containing ther passage of the conversation, said a particular story out of a magazine they could be ejected if they didn’t be­ (either all-fantasy, or an adventure mag have. Moskowitz sent for the superin­ like Argosy which prints an occasional tendent of the building, but couldn’t fantasy), and binding them separately. get in touch with him. Finally he said Tew fen can be so barbarous as to tear up he’d go find Sykora and consult with all-fantasy magazines in this way unless him. On the way down, ho found the para­ they have an extra copy to go into regu­ fl ets, apparently hidden behind a radi­ lar file complete. Eamous serials or se­ ator, having been leftxthere by Pohl and ries may be specially bound together, a Michel who arrived later than the other professional bookbinder sometimes being four. So far your Herodotos has tried employed. to reconstruct the happenings. In the ehd, those six were refused admittance. exchanges - Publishers of subscription Police had been called, but were not put fanzines ordinarily announce that they into service by the Triumvirs. are willing to trade on an even basis Unknown to (all my issues for all your issues) with the excluded six, Kyle had anonymously other regularly-appearing fanzines. And printed a yellow pamflet warning against many will send each monthly or bimonthly an expected effort by the Triumvirate to issue faithfully, when the other editor use the Convention to resurrect the ISA. only turns out one or two little ratty or put across something else thru thoir issues a year. Complications occur when parliamentary control. As it turned one fan publishes more than ono good- out, these suspicions were unfounded, sized periodical, or when more than one for there was no fan discussion period, fan share equally in the work of putting and no motions wore recognized. Many out a fanzine and each wants a copy of attendees, including Moro Jo of LA, Hart exchanged pubs for his collection. The of Texas, and Mrs Swisher of Massachu­ solution to much of the exchange problem setts, urged the convention committee to is the FAPA. admit the six futurians. Other members of the FSNY, including Kyle, Vfilson, Hu­ Exclusion Act - Fearing conflict such as bingen, and leslie perri, wore not marred the Newark Convention, the Trium­ barred. In the afternoon, Kyle gained virs discussed the question of admitting the floor on a pretext and hold it to the Futurians in planning the tforld Con­ make a motion that the excluded fans be vention. No decision was arrived at, admitted, Sykora, chairman, talked however; Moskowitz was less unfavorably awhile and changed the subject. inclined toward the Futurians' than Sy- Because kora and Taurasi. The nite before the of its dramatic quality, as well as the Convention, Pohl and others mimeographed issues involved, the X Act came more and a number of Michelistic sheets and pam- more to dominate talk about the Conven­ flets to distribute at the »/SFC as they tion as time passed. The Triumvirs at­ had at the Newark gathering. Next morn­ tempted to do as they had done in rising ing, as the Conventioneers began arriv­ to power, ignore the existence of fan ing, among them were rfollheim, Lowndes, feuds; finally, at the Philco in the Kornbluth, and Gillespie. As they fall, Moskowitz published an article started into the hall upstairs, Taurasi giving their side of the matter, which stopped them and said they couldn’t go had theretofore been unrepresented and in. It appears that some pushing and uninquired about. Ho further charged shoving was done about this time, but no that the Futurians’ refusal to make the blood drawn. Sam Moskowitz came out of promise asked, showed that they wanted the hall and they talked and argued for to be excluded, in order to better their FANCYCLOPEDIA 29 exp - fan.

strategic position in the fan war, if the use of a rubber stamp, on either the they weren’t to be able to upset the wrapper or the magazine itself; and some Convention plans. Resentment over the used a colored pencil check-mark. The thing decreased somewhat, but fandom has main controlling factor is that the no­ never forgiven it, tice must be given only to those to whom it applies,yet postoffice rules about expiration notices - iifith their aversion third class matter must not be violated. to the shoddy realities of the capi­ Some geniuses discovered a way to misao- talistic framework, fans set up a de­ graf "expired” only on certain copies. fense mechanism by making their gimmes Finally came Tucker with a sticker say­ humorous, as "your subscription has done ing "Your Subscription has Expired —Now the well-known thing”. In the Fantasy wc don’t want to get crass about this.’” Magazine days, a printed notice of expi­ ration with an order blank at the bottom extrapolation - The writer doesn’t find was common. Nell introduced an enclo­ this in his Winston dictionary, but sure gratulating the reader on his sub­ it ’ s a frequent word among s.cientific­ scription’s having expired, what time tion! sts. It means to take known data ffilson didn’.t so inform correspondents or principles and speculate boyond them, . in personal letters. Fantasy-News gave but always., keeping the imagination con­ . the number .of issues yet to run, "V))1’- sonant with the knowledge that one if expired, in parentheses after the ad-- started from :this of course is just dress on the envelope. Others took to-‘ what is done in science-fiction. F E - The pseudo middle initial of Speer, •haps Star-Begotten (or Slans); that pronouncod foo sometimes, maybe signify-, stfanaticism is the result of friSLstratad - ing "Fascist Speer", and maybe just in­ sex'’impulse; and that fans are young men tended to head people off before ho cre­ in blind alleys of life, seeking escape ated John A. Bristol; by analogy with from "the humdrum, workaday world". Forrfc the J, "the F" or "F” is a nick­ Widner said he thinks tho essential name for Juffus. F is otherwise the -thing about fans is that they have an most important initial in-fandom, begin­ ideal of a better way of life and want ning as it does such-words as fantasy, to change things; but this hardly sets fan, FooFoo, fonepple, fotogjrafy, file, ,them apart from millions of non-fans. future, fiction, feuds, —well, read on th&Pry well received is ■ Norman ’Stan­ and see for yourself, ley’s "sense of fantasy" , a- .taste .for •the imaginative analagous to the sense of fan - Short for "fanatic”, Wiggins says, humor; Probably a conplex of character­ but he probable just consulted the mun­ istics goes into?the;fan type. We show dane dictionary. Professional • editors some significant variations from average like' Palmer call all people who buy in geografical distributibn; national their magazines pretty regularly, fans; extraction, age, sex distribution, in­ and indeed the term is so used by the telligence, introversion, and suchlike sclentifictioniste who merely write let­ factors. The IPO made no atteinpt to iso­ ters to the editor and collect pro mags, late an essential characteristic whichby but the fen of fandom have a more re­ all fans' mite be distinguished, but said stricted meaning in mind. that -”A real fan fulfills practically With intro­ all of the ."following requirements: He spects such as .fans are, it’s natural buys and reads most of the. professional that there should be a lot of speculat­ fantasy magazines /this was .when there ing on- !what and why fans are. Medhurst were less than half a dozoh/,' collects surveys the following theories: Gerns- them, and writes the editors. ■ He sub­ back’s idea of developing potential sci­ scribes to at least one. fan magazine/ He entific genius in his readers; tho idea corresponds with ..other fans. S-f' fandom that fans are a ippaiate species, per- is his ruling passion. .. He has probably FANCYCLOPEDIA

tried his hand at writing, either for fan work in fan and fantasy drama, narrative or pro magazines or both.” poetry, music, and so on. National he­ Dislike of the roes have had tough sledding because of common-Goanetatiofts b£ the wordL'Ihfan”. :.hAs our iconoclastic bent, but a few near­ led- to the- suggestion ©f •varipra.© .^ubstlti deities have emerged. Expansionism is tutes-for:it, such as "stefnist” and ’• I- expressed in recruiting activity. A maginist". number of distinctive fan folkways are described scattered thru this encyclope­ fanarchists - Those who oppose the exist­ dia. ence of a general or even regional fan organization on the grounds that it has Fancon - Name given a gathering in Bloom­ insufficient functions to justify the ington around the end of 1943; possibly work involved. They accept the desira­ not intended as a distinctive proper bility of locals. Fully articulated, the name. theory is a species of rugged individu­ alism which asserts that fen acting sin­ fandom - The world in which fans move and gly or in small natural groups can accom­ have their being. Physically, it mite plish more with the same amount of work be imagined as comprising all the sci­ than they can thru a super-organization. ence fiction houses, and all fans' dens Their attitude is mainly a reaction a- as well as other storage space and rainst the uncritical organizing instinct equipment that they use in fan activity, of young fen who say we gotta organize to and convention halls and streets and eke get anything done and in organiaation park benches while groups of fen are in there is strength and an organization will possession of them. Unincorporated ter­ help coordinate us, without having any ritories include the possessions of mere but the vaguest idea of the ceferents scientifictionists. behind their words, and often trusting Ibindom began around in false analogies. 1930, when correspondence between fans had reachod some proportions, and a few factionalism - Despite its minuteness, clubs camo into existence. In the fdELow- fandom has in its decade or so of exis­ ing years fan magazines took form and tence developed a distinct national spi­ gathered audiences. About 1935, fan­ rit, similar to the nationalism of mod­ dom became an independent organism, and ern states. The ideal of a national gov­ has passed thru the stages of First Fan­ ernment , covering all the slan race and dom, First Transition, Second Fandom, nobody else, is seen in the many drives Second Transition, and Third Ibrndom, as for a general fan organization. The Speer so quaintly calls them. There are ideal of a homeland is exemplified in now about 500 people associated with dens, science fiction houses, clubrooms, fandom in some small way, of whom a hun­ and finally in the proposed Sian Center dred mite bo called real fans; the dis­ and Foundation. This dictionary is a appearance of a selected twenty of them work in the national language; another would probably mean the end of fandom as facet of the same thing is the plugging now known. of Esperanto as Science Fiction’s Tongue time to time, people of Tomoro. In the matter of a national will stand up and ask what is the religion, we have ghughuism and FooFoo- purpose of fandom. The 34tnhilifctic ism, but more truly religious is the reply was that fandom should join questing for a Purpose for fandom, and the Leftist movement and work for a the idea of swearing on your honor as a scientific*socialist world state. Other fan. The fanish idea of the mission of the semi-Michelistic replies are along nation has been satirized in fan fiction similar lines. Speor maintains that about the setting up of a Eantastocracy, fandom as fandom should influence the and the like. Racial superiority is im­ world only thru its influence on the in­ plied in the claims of star-begottenness dividual fans, who may be influential and slanhood. A national literature men someday. Some have believed that complete in all fields lias encouraged stimulation of science is our chief jus- FANCYCLOFEDIA______.31______fanf - i’a nta s;.^

Tlflcation. Probably the majority be­ goes into an ecstatic trance when one of lieve that the pleasure derived from fan them is published. Ho thinks fans are activity is justification enuf. the swollost people on Earth, and ^ould murder his grandmother for money to go fanfab, fanference, and similar words - to a convention, but since he hasn’t any Variant forms of words beginning with grandmother, he’ll ride the rods if ne­ con-. cessary. He puts stf into everything he says and does—his work, school papers, fan fiction - Sometimes improperly used den, ’n’ everything. He’s a good deal to moan fan science fiction, that is, of a dope. Fortunately, the picture is ordinary fantasy published in a fan mag­ not true to life. azine. Properly, the term means fiction about fane, or sometimes about pros, and fannes - Pronounced same as -’’fans”, but occasionally bringing in some famous used in writing to mean fem fans. characters from stf stories. It may re­ fer to real fans by name: ’’Tucker nudged Fanny - Fantasy-News’s pet name. Other Brackney, who was nursing a black eye”, fanzines have laid claim to it, but hav­ or it may be about types, especially Joo en’t lasted long onuf to establish Fann. The background may be either fan­ rights. tastic, as ”Joe Fann into Space”, or mundane, as in ’’Murder at the Chicon” fantast - Roughly the same as ’’scienti- (tho thiA piofce 4 s fantasy pndan fictionist”, but indicates a larger in­ decimal scheme, describing events which terest, both as regards other typos of we know didn’t happen in our time-line). fantasy, and fantasy outside the pro­ Fictitious elements are often inter­ zines and the well-known books. spersed in accounts of fan activi­ ties, which may make them more interest­ •fantastic - Properly should moan merely ing, but plays hob with a truth-seeker ’’pertaining to fantasy" , but its conno­ like your Thukydides. Round robins have tations in the general language have been attempted in the fan fiction field. made it seem to indicate irresponsible flites of fancy, causing fans to object Joe Fann - Joe originated as somebody to to such a name as Jhntastic Adventures, whom to credit lines in Le Zombie that even tho it is appropriate in that case. Tucker thot up and wished some reader In fact, we object to Fantastic Adven­ had remarked. Then someone, apparently tures period Elmer Perdue, possibly more than one person, began sending Tucker postcards fantasy - A general term covering from all over the country, signed Joe science-fiction, weird fiction, and pure Fann. Joe was finally adopted by fans fantasy; also sometimes used inter­ in general as the fans’ idea of the typ­ changeably with pure fantasy. Other ical fan. subdivisions of fantasy in addition to He is at young fellow, not long the three above have been proposed, such out of his adolescence, who would like as political fantasy, but are not gener­ to set the world on fire, but isn’t sure ally recognized, so that the entire how to go about it. Ho hasn’t had much field remains somewhat arbitrarily divi­ experience with the opposite sex, but ded between these three. Excluded from shows a great eagerness to learn. He the class, fantasy literature, are certain gets grand ideas about putting out types that logically would seem to fall forty-’leven different super-duper i’aian- within it: there has been general assent zines, of which one or two may material­ to Tucker’s exclusion of salacious fic­ ize in unprepossessing formats. He tion with a fantastic background; reli­ reads all the pro mags thru his thick- gious imaginings are generally ignored lensed glasses, even when there are a $hen fantasy is considered (tho in early dozen a month, and writes detailed let­ fantastories religious elements were ters of criticism to the editors, espe­ sometimes present); and fairy tales and cially picking out flaws in science, and children’s animal stories, tho they will fantasy.______32 FANCYCLOPEDIA be classified, as fantasy, do not come tho reader’s recognition of the fact within the fantasy fan’s field. unless that there are people somewhere who at they get into another medium like Snow present, or in the past, did believe, or iThite and tho Seven Dwarfs. Some sto­ do believe, in the truth of the ideas ries have fantastic elements which therein and is therefore willing to con­ however do not influence the action it­ cede the truth of these things for the self, which is of the run-of-the-mill period in which he is reading the story. sort (for example, a detective story in ,.. pure fantasy is that branch of fan­ which criminals steal an invention); tasy which, dealing with subjects recog­ such stories are not fantasy hut are nizable as non-existent and entirely said to have fantastic elements or be fan­ imaginary, is rendered plausible by the tastic to a certain extent, and are reader’s desire to consider it as such proper subjects for noting in bibliogra- during the period of reading." Speer, fies, etc. Stories in which seemingly using a three-dimensional time scheme, fantastic elements turn out to bo hoax­ defines mundane fiction as that which es, like The Stolen Bacillus, are not takes place in the present or the histo­ fantasy; but the device of "it was all a rical past, involving only the operation dream” is so conventionalized that its of known natural laws, and with the e- occurrence at the end of a story does vents lying within the bounds of what we riot remove the tale from the fantastic know happened in the past of our history classification, likewise the device of a or is true of the present day; and fan­ stranger telling a story which tho read­ tasy as all fiction that lies outside of ers is not asked to bolicve. Sbieftttfic any of -these boundaries. inaccuracies come under the ggnBBacli A more illuminat­ heading of literary license, and an s-*f ing definition for the non-fantast mite story does not become weird or pure fan­ be a listing of the subjects inclu­ tasy because of them; similarly, statis­ ded within the field. On the time scheme tical investigation (looking to see what mentioned above, a decimal classification is On tho Bito where Hoinlein built his has been developed embracing tho follow­ Crooked House in Los Angeles) does not ing subjects: Tho Future— Space tra­ change the classification. vel; Extra-terrestrial life and adven­ Of the making tures on other planets; Extraordinary of definitions there is no end, but a astronomical phenomena (eg, destruction great obstacle in compiling them is that of Earth); Catastrophes to civilization some are definitions of science-fiction (intensified Ice Age, plague, sole sur­ only, while others apply to the whole vivors, our barbarous descendants); Po­ field of fantasy but may be written from litical, social, and economic life (op­ the viewpoint of a particular type; thus pression and revolt, matriarchy, decay to August Derieth, Weird Tales author, of man). The prehistoric Past— Pre­ all science-fiction, and other fantasy human life; Early men; Legendary civili­ as well, is merely an outgrowth of the zations; Early historic cultures. Time­ old Gothic romance from which Poe made spanning (including going forward and his departure. The original EAPA Con­ back in ti$e, changing the past or the stitution spoke of "fantastic and highly future, suspended animation, and might- imaginative literature". Earlier, in have-boen worlds). Impossible by con­ Fantasy Magazine, Wollheim said, "... temporary science— Supernatural ele­ science fiction is that branch of fan--.. ments in the known world (wishes, ciarms, tasy, which, while not true of known occult arts, curses, rAciolgs, cults, present day ?£nowledge, is rendered plau­ haunted places and things, ppessestin, sible by the reader’s redognition of the beings of religions, of medieval tradi­ scientific possibilities of it being tion, and of modern conception); Unra­ possible at some future date or at some tionalized permutations and alterations uncertain period in the past. Weird (humanoid animals, unliving things per­ fiction is that branch of fantasy deal­ sonalized); Science’s cosmology denied ing with supernatural or occult sub­ (as in subjective idealism); Life after jects, which is rendered plausible by death; Adventures mjr ' mythological FANCYCLOPEDIA 33______fant a gym - fans worlds; Mythologies of modern conception; gan Allan Roe, Jules Verno, and BGVfells. Extrapolations taking place in the pre­ The latter explored almost al], of the sent or the known past— Robots; Atomic fields now exploited in science-fiction energy; Invisibility; Super-speed; Dup­ magazines, and raised s-f to the level lication of persons; mattcr-sradio; Tele­ of a literary type. In the ..doaddes vision, spy ray, and projector; Labora­ around 1900 many writers touched fantasy tory creatures; Strange -.ani.mals and at times —Burroughs, ERHaggard, &c. By plants; Non-carbon life; ;• .JteiEialit'yr the World War, mundane magazines pub­ Supermen^. ‘Mind t-banitfatfendoR; Hyp-< lished science-fiction occasionally, and old stories); lost Jimprlnd there were a few minor all-fantasy peri­ arid'Arctic’ .Inndsg; Earth’s core; Sub­ odicals. Weird Tales began in the early terranean life; Subsea civilization; twenties, and in 1926 Hugo Gernsback Fourth Dimension and two-dimensional; Nfet- launched Amazing Stories, first of tho crocosm; Microcosm; Littleness. Sub­ Big Three pros. stantially the same headings are ar­ ranged in Russell’s classification sys­ Fantasy Magazine days - 1935, 1936, and tem under those headings: Extraterres­ thereabouts — the First Fandom. So trial events and settings. Terrestrial called because Fantasy Magazine was the events and settings— The past; Utopias; unquestioned Number One fanzine of the Future civilizations; Future wars; Fu­ period, and reflected its interests ture barbarism or Dark Ages; Submarine pretty accurately. life; Natural catastrophes. Scientific advances, discoveries, inventions— The Fantasy Productions - A cooperative of physical sciences; The biological sci­ Morris Dollens and other transplanted ences; The social sciences; Psychology MFSers in LA, to experiment around with and telepathy; Time travel; Large-scale making fantafilms, blueprint reproduc­ engineering feats; New lands on Earth. tion, and other things. Supernaturalism: The powers of evil. Su­ pernaturalism: The occult. Supernatuiel- fanzine - (Chauvenet) - An amateur maga­ ism: Mythology. Pure fantasy. The ca­ zine published for fans. tegories of the Yearbook classification The first fan­ are too horrible to reproduce here* zines wore club organs, published mainly Histo­ for members and a few non-locals who rically, fantasy began with primitive mfct© be^ interested. Ffiet irtspprtAafct myths, then religious stories, and on fanzine was The Time Traveller, 1932, thru tales of fays, little mon, and which was absorbed by Science Fiction the like, paralleled by the darker Digest and tho combined mag shortly re­ superstitious stories of ghosts, ghouls, named Fantasy Magazine. Subscription vampires, etc. In all countries, too, fanzines blossomed thereafter at a there are early stories, told for plea­ quickening rate, and in 1938 camo the sure, of flites to other worlds, as well newsie and around 1940 the individ fan­ as the ’’imaginary voyages”, “Hbopdas”, zine. and ’’imaginary wars and battles” under Originally the names of fanzines which Sam Russell says fantasy is still were simply descriptive; The Interna­ often classified by scholastics. The tional /ISA/ Observer, the Science Fic­ weird talo developed sooner and more tion Fan, Fantasy-News, etc. Gradually highly than s-f. Science-fiction could the stock of such names ran low, and ti­ not truly begin until the ago of sci­ tles were taken from anything pertaining ence, and may be said to have started to fantasy to feed the insatiable pub­ at the end of the Eighteenth Century, lishing mania of stfans: Polaris, Le when writers like the American Charles Zombie, the Lovocraftian, usw. Eventu­ Brockden Brown added the element of ally the apparent ..reference to fantasy plausibility thru a scientific explana­ was lost completely, in such titles as tion to the Gothic scarey story. The Sweetness and Light, Milty’s Mag, FAPA- three fathers of science-fiction are Ed- zine, and Fanewscard. However, these f ■ < - fa sc______34______FANCYCLQPEDIA

three stages overlap, and. new pubs still successful fan organization. appear with explicit titles. Many fan­ It is pri­ sines also have pet names. marily an agency for distributing to its Thee Check-Li st members publications put out by its mem- of fanzines by title uses a code indi­ bers at their own expense. This it doeo cating the editor, format (size of pag­ by mailings every three months. Meaber-s es), approximate pageago per issue, are required to be active in some way, method of reproduction, and type of con­ writing or publishing. There arc annual tents. Tho Yearbook also gives an­ elections in June of a president, vice- nounced periodicity, address, and price president, secretary-treasurer. end of­ (most common price is 10^ per copy, ficial editor (he also does the mail­ three for 25, but they have ranged from ing), who cannot hold the same post perhaps 20^ to 2^, not counting those again for five years. Other officials distributed free or merely exchanged). aro the official critics, laureate com­ The Check-List also gives variant names mittee, and ballot counters. Red tape of a given zine, summarizes datesty vol­ is at a minimum. ume and number, and includes information and rumors on proposed magazines that FAPAzine - A fanzine published thru the never appeared or got beyond the dummy FAPA; sometimes a synonym for individ stage (which are legion), and titles fanzine. The name was used as tho of­ merely humorously suggested. ficial title of a thing by Perdue. As to an­ nounced periodicity, there have been one Fascism - ’’Fascism, according to my know­ hourly fanzine, several dailies (both of ledge of it, is the desire of certain those continuous for only short peri­ inhabitants of an economically strait­ ods), newsweeklies,, triweeklies, month­ ened state to roturn that state to a lies, bimonthlies, quarterlies, annuals, usually mythical previous golden age, by one-shot publications, and frankly ir­ whatever means of violence and prejudice regular ones. Unfortunately, most of may best be used." —Pohl. the others are irregular too, generally "It must be appearing much less often than their an­ remembered that ... fascism is purely nounced frequency, and suffering such a destructive in its aims ... to reduce high mortality rate that the mag that labor to the status of slavery; to wipe reaches an anniversary issue is a real out any and all social reforms, to halt achievement. the advance of science ... And what is The contents of fanzines in­ the purposej Simple, and completely un­ clude fiction, editorial stuff, depart­ derstandable. To maintain forever ments, poetry, articles, and art work. wealth and power in the hands of thoso Fan who now havo it. Fascism is 20th cen­ magazines are the great vehicle of tury reaction" —Lowndes. In justice to thought in our republic of letters, and Lowndes, it should bo explained that the our most characteristic product. Marxistic interpretation of fascism is that it is the last effort of the class FAPA - Pronounced variously in power to prevent a revolution, by and [Vapa], The Fantasy Amateur sponsoring the bringing on of a foreign Press Association, constituted in 1937 war to which to divert the people, by by Wellheim and Michel. Others soon appealing to their patriotism, and also joined, up to its constitutional limit to use up the surpluses of overproduc­ of 50 (changed to 65 in 1943). The tion aiy?- Jaaybe win new markets to be ex­ FAPA’s first year was stormy with party ploited*;' with the further advantage that politics and sociological feuds, and its a large, woll-disciplined army would be third year, 1939-40, was marked by the useful in putting down any revolt. Interregnum. Thereafter the profets of Rothman defines it much more simply. the Third Fandom camo into control, and aSpeer says he believes in state social­ it prospered to become the longest-lived ism, but ho does not realize that that ENCYCLOPEDIA #5 fass - fe

is fascism!!. the Second Fandom, and suffered a momen­ Speer sometimes used the nickname "Ihscist Speer” because) of his tary. revival ’ after tha Exclusion pseodu middle initial and because, hav­ thru the Philco that fall, at which time ing mistaken ideas about such subjects each faction was purposing to drive the as world trade, and an Emersonian other out of fandom. Public fan: senti­ liking ' for the strong men, he sup­ ment was against feuding by then, how-: ported the ”have-n<.t” powers in their ever, and neither side felt like pushing Ethiopian, Spanish, and Austrian ad­ the initiative and taking the responsi­ ventures. From timo to time he is­ bility. sued denials that he was a fascist The cause of a feud may be an concerning the US, but rather believed important issue which isn’t efcttSdd in the socialism of the New Deal. The peaceably, such as the failure of Wonder Wollheimist party was probably aware of Stories to pay young authors (which brot these denials at the time of the 1938 on the ISA-SIL war) or the scrapping PAPA elections, when they charged him over a general fan organization, or it with being an ’’avowed Fascist’’, and may be a thing as minor as the rights therefore opposed to freedom of the fan to the fanzine name Stardust. Feuds may press, etc. His 1938 opinion on Fascism rest upon differences of opinion which was that it was ’’simply a highly nation­ continually show up in fan writings, as alistic socialism that arose in the on sociological questions (example: the have-not countries and will pass as soon origin of the Wellheim-Moskowitz feud in as they become haves.” The Futurians the latter’s writoup of the Third Con­ continued from time to time to try to vention). A necessary ingredient to a prove him a fascist or a "fascist­ feud as distinguished from a disagree­ unconscious", but Lowndes finally re­ ment, however, is personal antagonism. tracted, and the charge was heard little This antagonism, it may be defended, is more, based on the person’s actions and opin­ ions; anyway, it exists. Carlton J Fassbeinder - Pennine of T Bruce From the breakup Yerke. of the ISA down to 1943, when they lost interest in feuding or retired from fan­ Fay - (Youd) - Pet name for Fantast, dom, there was a constant antagonism be­ British fanzine. tween Wollheim and Sykora. .• -She two sides which may be defined by these in­ federation - A union of smaller organiza­ dividuals (this does not imply that they tions which are equal in importance to were the controlling figures of the two the union. This type of setup is most sides with the others merely ranged be­ generally favored for a general fan or­ hind thorn) have included the Futurians, ganization, but an effort by the Nation­ Wiggins, Beck, Tucker, Ackerman, and al Fantasy Fan Federation to live up to Morojo on tho one hand, and on the other its name by creating a hierarchy of state the Phillies, Queensies, and the Miske, and regional organizations came at an un­ There havo also been private word-fitss fortunate time. Groups calling them­ between such pairs as Lowndes and Speer, selves federations include the NFFF, the rfilson and Moskowitz, Singleton and Ham- Futurian Federation of the World, the DFF, ling, etc, but the foregoing is the gen­ and branches of the Mid-West Jhntasy Fan eral lineup when fan feuds became so Federation. universal as to constitute a fan war. At various times other active fans have fen - Alternative plural for "fans", which occupied middle ground, Warner, Rothman, came into general use after the Mecon Swisher, flilson, Koenig, and others hav­ solemnly voted its adoption. ing in somo cases held aloof from the feuding, in other cases joined the bat­ feuds - The feuds we have always with us, tle in particular sectors. This middle but they were particularly prominent in ground, for that matter, has also in- ff - fif 36 FANCYCLOPEDIA

eluded Taurasi, Tucker, Ackerman, the the publishing house symbol for Ubggr*s 1 billies, and others previously indicat­ publications. It stands for lUntasy ed, if cases in which they have opposed Fiction Field, and is often called '.he opponents of their opponents, or Triple-F (pronounced [tvaipl eV] by Sudd- c onver sclywis'e, be considered. sy). It was thot by many at one time that fan feuds FFL - The Fantasy Fiction League, formed wore a good thing; Morojo wrote an arti­ in 1937 by Morrie Doll ens and Hayward cle saying so, but apparently wasn’t re­ Kirby. The only activity that got into ferring to the knock-down-drag-out kind; the planning stage was the official by early 1939 the IPO vote was '8!'to 19 organ. against them. The general purpose in a fan science fiction - With some excep­ feud is to discredit your opponent, tions, aside from fan fiction, fan s-f either to drive him out of fandom (as in and fantasy have been similar but infers the case of GGClark), or to get fans as ior to professional stuff, and takes up a whole to refuse to follow some course a lot of space in fanzines where readers he advocates ' or to ’follow one which he would sooner have non-fiction articles, opposes, such as forming an organization columns, etc. This is particularly true or adopting certain principles in their of serials. .There other long stories discussions. are presented complete, in a magazine Intemperate language is used devoted only to them, they arc sometimes in feuding by non-veteran fans, and was worthwhile. There is a theory that sto- used by the veterans in their wars: ' ries can be printed in fanzines which words like "lie”, • "vicious", and pros would reject for reasons of policy "sneaky” being thrown around freoly, as rather than merit. One interesting fan well as the colossal effort to seem type which probably could not be pub­ merely amused by your opponents’ ac­ lished to the general public is the talo tions. Heat has never risen so high, • which is frankly a day-dream on paper, however, that fans could not occasion­ even tho usually in the third person. ally commend a good story or article by The classic horrible example of fan one of their opponents, and it should be science fiction is the Bob and Koso remarked that when fans meet face to series. face, they are usually quite fraternal, regardloss of the fites they’ve been fictioneers - Apparently means nothing waging against each other on paper. The more than "people who are interested in worst usually found is an insulting cool­ fiction and club-joining". Stf organi­ ness. At tho 1939 Philco, after tem­ zations with this name include the Mil­ peratures had been rising for some time, waukee Fictioneers, IFF, Science Fic­ violence was threatened by Sykora with tioneers, Denver Science Fictioneers, the words "You can say whatever you want Western Pennsylvania Science Fiction­ to about me behind my back, but you eers, and Detroit Science Fictioneers. can't call me a liar to my face.’"; and when the Triumvirs tried to eject Futu- Fido - Pct name for Futurian War Digest, rian visitors from a QSFL meeting in a British omnibus publication. early 1941, there actually was ruff stuff. But the unfavorable reaction of Type Fifteen fan - In a grafology article fandom at large indicates the unusual Joe Gilbert analyzed the chirografies of character of such incidents. a number of well-known fans, and left it to the readers to guess which was which. FFF - Fantasy Fans’ Fraternity. An orga­ Number 15 on the list was supposed to be nization of the First Fandom, this igno­ a dangerous maniac that you shouldn't rant one believes; apparently nnthihg/ allow behind your back especially in a more than a name. dark alley. Immediately each fan on tho FFF has also become list of analyzees, and some others, FANCYCLOPEDIA 37 f il - fir

leaped forward and claimed that #15 was Cartoons, quotations, and short bits not he. Finally Gilbert said that he’d lotg enuf to give a title to often per­ known very little about grafanalysis at form a filler function, as do expiration the time, and his sketch of #15 was all notices, apologies for the poor duplica­ wot; there was merely a little mental tion, and such stuff; but most fillers quirk in that fan. But fandom wouldn't consist of remarks conversationally ad­ have it so. dressed to the readers by the editor, Courtesy Bob Tucker, Cy re­ expressing his opinion on something, an veals for the first time that the actual interesting thing he ran abrOss the oth­ Number 15 was Joo Fortier. er day, something he forgot to say in an arja.de he wrote, or a whimsy like: 111 go file - Arrangement of papers so that what now, Earthling; perhaps I shall return,11 you want can be found quickly. Your en­ said the vampire, vanishing. cyclopedist has found it of especial im­ portance in preparing this work. Cor­ Fincom - The Finance Committee of the respondence files are usually arranged by NFFF. A majority of the membership, at person corresponded with, carbons of the time of formation, had approved Wid­ outgoings being kept with the incomings. ner's suggestion that the Federation be Magazine files are usually segregated financed by taxes on amount of activity according to name, and sometimes perma­ etc, rathern by equal dues. Committee­ nently bound this way; but Speer, who was men Speer, tKuslan, and Schumann were a file clerk for several years, thinks all opposed to the plan, but worked out it most practical to file them in with tho best system they could for carrying the letters, loose in folders, because it into effect. When the Fincom report titles aro so short-lived and changeable, was published, first in incomplete form and it is often desirable to refer back which left out the calculation of how and forth from fanzines to correspondence small the sums would be, a great babble about them. For prozines, shelves of went up about ^penalizing activity11, some sort, where they can be stood on u-paying tribute11, and ttIt's undemo­ edge or end with the spine visible, are cratic.'11 The delay so occasioned in the usual method of storage; here again getting a constitution approved was one fans sometimes have thee; bound several of the causes of the N3F's lapse. together. There are several card files in fandom, of stories, magazines, fans, First Fandom - (Speer) - The period up to etc; the most famous being Dr Swisher's, 1936. It was marked by interest primar­ which in part is the source for his ily in science and science-fiction. Check-List of fanzines. Cards on Fanzine material consisted mainly of pro stories contain vital statistics forecasts of lineups in the pros, inter­ on the story, and a tab colored and views with prominent authors, fan fic­ positioned to indicate rating. Cards tion relating to the pros, fan science­ on fans give page and work referen­ fiction, novolty fiction by groups of ces for all their published writ­ pro writers, new advances in science, ings, including letters to pros. Doc discussions of why s-f is in a rut or has gotten far behind on these records. sex in science-fiction or the relative importance of plausibility and good fillers - Stuff stuck in to fillup a page style. Douglas Jcbstor uses the term to which the regular longer pieces in a indicate the first fans of Great Brit­ fanzine don’t cover; frequently the fil­ ain: Carnell, Gillings, Hanson, Mayor, lers are better than the material listed et al, who continued dominant into 1938, in the table of contents. The oldest and were mainly interested in the afore­ fillers are probably odd science items mentioned subjects, and also in sociolo­ and the well-known gical questions. ttA quatrain is a four-line rime It's never out of place; First Transition - (Speer) - The period It may be used at any time of fandom from the decline of Fantasy To fill an empty space.11 Magazine in later 1936 to the Third Con- fl - FooFoo. 38 ENCYCLOPEDIA

vention. It was marked by a shift of discs. interest from the pro field, then in a recession, to the fane themselves. foo - While ”Foo” is Synonymous with Foo- There was Consequently more fan news in Foo, and always to be Capitalized, ”foo” the fanzines, a plethora of organiza­ is a common word, to be used for what­ tions, many new fanzines proposed and ever part of speech is convenient. 11A executed, and talk about things having foo more days for to tote tho weary little relation to s-f but interesting load”, ’’foothful foorever”, ” yours foo- to the fans. There were fewer people in ly”, etc. Those foo-provorbs aro the fan field than previously. No orga­ the chief source of Foodom’s theology; nization or fan magazine held recognized tho Groat Source ofcourse is the writ­ leadership after the dissolution of the ings of the Prophet, Bill Holman, cre­ ISA., tho the SFA was regarded as the ator of the Sacred Foo-Cat, but other best. proverbs Which suggest themselves, and are in general harmony with preexistent the Flat - 88 Gray’s Inn Road, London tfCl teachings, may be trusted. England. It is perhaps necessary to ex­ plain that ’’flat” is British for apart­ Sacred Order of FooFoo - A glorious foo- ment. This science fiction house was losofy which saves its adherents from established in mid-1938 by the two diz­ the purple doomnation of ghughu, and ziest Londoners, Bill Temple and Ego guarantees their footure bliss. While Clarke, soon joined by Maurice K Hanson, ghughuism's setup is roughly that of an and continued until after war broke out, epi sc opal church, FooFooism’S more re­ thus being the first and perhaps the scmbles a militant monarchy. The Je st­ longest lived such establishment. ern branch centers around tho court of the Hi priestess of All Foo, pogo; For­ fmz - (Brazier:Joquel) - Suggested abbre­ rest J Ackerman is the Right-Hand Man, viation for fanzines. Pronounced [f£rri^t Morojo her Handi-Maiden, ktp. In the but distinguished from ’’femraos” by ac­ East is Her Sacred Highness’s Left-Hand companying the latter word with a whis­ Man, the Royal General of FooFoo. tle and descriptive gesture. F Speer, who bears this title, counter­ signs and issues to neofytes such tags Foghorn Samuel - Futurians’ nickname for as Chief Scientist, Poetess Laureate, the Newark Neanderthal, with reference Vanday Oon, Grand Vizier, Nen Non, to his voice. Baron Yobber, and others. Permanent membership cards arc not given until the Fojak - Just another nickname for Acker­ persons are proven thru long adversity. man. In addition to these officers, the Order counts as rank-and-file members all per­ Fonepole - Nickname for Speer, from the sons wheresoever who aro moved to go incident in 1938 when he was driving a around reciting foo proverbs. car of his brother’s (not the Panzer- FooFooism kampfwagen) to Connecticut to spend began early in 1938, when FooFoo im­ Thanksgiving with the Kuslans: at the planted in the mind of Pogo, and about very outskirts of Vfest Haven, while he the same timo, of Speer, His Call to was drowsing at the wheel, a blowout form the Sacred Order to oppose ghughu- threw him into a telegraf or highline ism in all its forms, however monstrous. pole. Damage was mostly to the car, but Since that time the ranks of Foomon have he had to be inactive with regard to grown by leaps and bounds (and shuffles). fandom for several months. Elmer Perduo Victory is assured, for FooFoo has prom­ also qualified for. the Fonepole frater­ ised it. Like Tom Paine nity in 1941, when, on a weeks-long says, ghughuism, like ty­ drunk over a disappointment in love, he ranny, is not easily con­ jousted with a fp by auto. quered, but the fite is a glorious one. A mity fonograf records - Oh, you mean sono­ weapon that has been gi- FANCYCLCFEDIA 39 FooFoos - fou

ven us by All-Blessed. Foo is the Boo; The main idea is that modern science is far mitier is it than the yobber. Foo- a tissue of outworn saws, holes continu­ Fooism has a number of hily inspiration­ ally appearing in it and being patched al songs. One of these the entire up or glossed over by new explanations. Chi con (even the accursed, ghughu and. Fort compiled a great mass of unex­ guggle, who were there) joined in plained occurrences, such as the well- singing. known mystery of the Marie Celeste. In arranging and commenting on them, he FooFoo Special - A black-with-red-wheels seemed to be maintaining, among other V8 auto which took the Jidneridors to theories, that the Earth is visited and the Denvention, and, after a fashion, considered as property by superior be­ brot them back. The FooFoo Special Jr ings (now called vitons); that there is was a doughty bike or which Widner rode a power of matter-transmission which he to Stranger Club meetings, to the Mecon, calls teleportation being evidenced from and on other trips. time to time, as by showers of objects from within a room near its ceiling; and format - The mechanical makeup of a pub­ that the Earth is surrounded by a shell lication, especially the size and shape. not far away, the planets and stars be­ Among the pros, Gernsback’s Wonder Stor­ ing eruptions on the shell similar to ies is remembered for its dizzying shifts volcanoes. from large to small to large to small size, and in price, which were unrivaled fotografy - There were some paste-in fo- until the recent escapades of Camp­ tos in the old Fourteen Leaflet, and a bell’s rags. Fanzines for the most page of half-tones in an issue of FM, part have followed the usual mean­ but fotografs were seen little of until proportional shape of pages, but size 1939, when Le Zombie, Speer, and others has varied from 21.7cm x regalength to began pushing them. about the size illustrat------______Ackerman’s Assorted ed. However, the 21.7 x Services lithografing service opened up 27.9 cm (8jxll”)z letter new possibilities, but the most usual size, like this page, or manner of reproduction is still foto- powers fractions of it, grafic. Tucker introduced a method of is the most common. Page reproducing by mimeo from a half-tone numbers may vary from cut. Fotos are most often of fans and single-sheets to 50 or fan activities, but also include table- 100 pages plus covers top fantastic scenes, shots off the (many number the covers ------screen of fantasy movies, and whatever as pages), but around 30 is commonest else may be of interest. An unsuccess­ for subscription fanzines because that ful attempt was made to institute an is just under the weight limit for a FAFA Fotografy Laureate. certain amount of third-class postage. White 20-lb paper is the usual thing; foto-offset - Your researcher once asked thinner paper doesn’t duplicate clearly. Dick Wilson what this reproduction pro­ Pages are usually hold together by sta­ cess was; he said it's something you ples, but paste, pinch-fasteners, brad take to a commercial place and pay thru paper fasteners, thread, and other means the nose to have done, and ask Taurasi. have been used. * 4e - Nickname for Forrest J Ackerman, Mirta Forsto - Translation from the Esp­ pronounced Forry. eranto: Myrtle Forest. Nickname for Ack­ erman and Morojo working or writing to­ 4sJ - Merely another of Forrost Jay’s gether, or when the which is uncertain. eke names.

Forteanism - The beliefs advanced by fout - (MFS) - Root of such vzords as Charles Fort in his books, of which Lo.’ "fouty” (a very vague adjective of deri­ was published serially in Astounding. sion) and "Hotfout."' (an interjection FANCYCLOPEDIA fr - futurianl 40

expressing extreme joy or exuberance). Wilson, the person addressed, bugeyed, ’’That’s Brooklyn” —’’that” being Michel Erick Freyor - (Ackerman) - Rename for —and when Tucker said, Sakes'you Frederick Shroyer. N4cHmohaoHdillf Ikon, doesn’t it?” Dick bugeyed again and said ’’Gawp, you must Frontier Society - An organization whose bo Tucker!” purpose was to report and discuss Forte- an and similar phenomena or reports of Futurian Embassy - 142 W 103d St, Manhat­ phenomena. Donn Brazier its strongest tan NY. A science fiction house, in­ exponent, it came into existence in 1940 habited by Doc Lowndes and John Michel and died out when war came. during 1941, betwoon tho breakup of the Ivory Tower and the move to Prime Base. FSNY - The Futurian Science-Literary So­ ciety of New York. It was formed in Futurian Federation of the World - a 1939 September 1938 by the Futurians after project of Pohl’s, lukewarmly supported the breakup of the GNYSFL. In addition by the other Futurians. . *!<& did nat to persons ordinarily called Futurians, really get going. its membership included Bob Studley and Futurian Fortress - 136 E 28th St, Man­ Hannes Bok. hattan NY. After leaving Prime Base, Fubar Pubs - (Armynian) - publishing hense Doc went thither to establish another name adopted by Ackerman in 1943 after science fiction house, in which he and he had extracted all the thrill in use Michel and knight and the Conways lived of the name Snafucius Publications. till late 1942, when they scattered to the Hatch and the lUturian Foundation. der Ftihrer of the Newark Swamps - (Speer) - A nickname for Sam Moskowitz, by ana­ Futurian Foundation - 137 E 27th St, Man­ logy with il Luce of Flushing Flats. hattan NY. It was inlivod by Doc Lowndes and John B Michel after they Futile Press - The publishing house of left the Fortress. the Becks, especially Claire P BMck, which issued the Science Fiction Critic Jhturian House - 306 W 213th St, New York NY. The first Futurian science fiction and a book or two. house, it was inhabited by uncounted of futilitarians - The opponents of Michel- them briefly in the late summer of 1939 ism, so called by the Michelists be­ until the ex-owner of the houso was cause, according to the Michelists, they foreclosed upon and new owner hoisted believed fans could do nothing to save the ante. The Futurians moved to tho the world. Ivory Tower.

Futurian Ambassadors of Good Will - (Tuc­ Futurian League - An organization formed ker) - Dick Wilson, Don Wollheim, and in 1940 by Wollheim as General Secretary, John Michel, who toured the northeast in which had the sole function of register­ Wilson’s mother’s car, in May *39, when ing as Futurians fans like Rothman who the Futurian star ipas low, hitting Maine, were not members of the FSNY but had Canada, Chicago, Washington, and points sometimes used tho name since joining between (this itinerary may be inaccu­ the Futn Fedn of the World, and any oth­ rate), visiting many fans and making ers who mite wish to. DAW defined as a themselves agreeable. Tucker relates Futurian one who, thru science-fiction, how they had been unable to contact him rises to vision a greater world, a when they came to Bloomington, but he greater future for tho whole of mankind, knew they were due, and when he saw and who wishes to utilize his idealistic three guys on the street who had New convictions for aid in a generally co­ York sticking out all over them, he operative and diverse movement for the walked up and said, ”Hiya, Brooklyn.” betterment of the world along democrat- FANCYCLOPEDIA 41 futurianp - gak

io, non self-glorifying, impersonal, un­ FAPA. self i sh lines. Futurians were to be ex- They emerged upon the brrahbpttof pectrl to live up to their principles in the ISA, and were the dominant faction their own way, and to be honest in in­ in the Second Fandom, when they were tentions and. cooperative in attitude called Wollheimists. rfhon tho GITYSi’L toward other Futurians. broke up, they formed the FSNY, in mid­ September 1938. rfith Pohl’s Futurian Futurian Publishers’ Group - Known only Federation of the Jorld, the term "Futu­ thru a line in Le Vombiteur which states rians’’ became a common word for that that it is a ghu publication, member type of stefnist. After the Qpadrumvirs Futurian Publishers’ Group. Presumably resigned from FAPA office, they became the group included such other publishers less active, but lived in various sci­ as Michel-’Jollheim, and Pohl formerly of ence fiction houses, and many graduated the Ego-Cobp publishing house. in time from authors’ agents to editor­ ships of some of tho new pros, where Futurians - A group of New York fans, of they put quite a lot of their personali­ whom Jollheim, Lowndes, Pohl, and Michel ties into their magazines, and were have been the central figures. Others noted for the number of Futurian authors thot of as belonging to the group are appearing in Futurian-editsd magazines. Cyril Kornbluth, Harry Hockweiler, JBhfet Not Cohen, Dan Burford, Jack Rubinson, connected with the FSNY in any way are David A Kyle, Dick Wilson, Isaac Asi­ certain other organizations calling mov, Herman Leventman, Walter Kubilius, themselves Futurians, in Australia and and leslie perri. at the Golden Gate. The Futurians .pre­ sent a peculiar differentness in what­ futurist - (Lowndes) - One who is inter­ ever sphere of fan activity they en­ ested in a different and better future gage in, being, with some exceptions world order, and tho details of its in­ in each case, Bohemian in social auguration and functioning; suggested as practices, Marxistic in politics, a term distinct from* Futurian as .uedd anti-Sykora in fan feuds, Michelistic herein, tho its parallel in the Futurian in fanish whitherings, inclined fan- League is obvious. archistically with regard to general fan organization, given to vers libre in FiYSFCS - Fourth rforld Science Fiction poetry, eroticism in literature, and Convention Society, tho. publicity orga­ decadence in all forms of art, and hav­ nization for the Pacificon. By the way, ing taken part as a bloc in the Progres­ boys, that first F is very confusing; sive and Constitutional parties of the could bo First, Fourth, or Fifth.

G - Ordinarily a well-behaved letter, ex­ motto of escapism. cept when people talk about its "soft sound" (meaning J) or retain it in words gag lines - Short, well-known sentences. where it’s silent with us tho in de Theoretically they are good for a laugh Camp’s Aryan America such words were any time, if used properly; actually pronounced "frickful”, "thockless", otc. their meaning and function may vary con­ But G has been most grievously cursed siderably with the context. Gag lines with tho purple poison of ghughu, so famous in fandom are "

gafia - (Jilson) - Get Away From It All; Sakspiro - Esperantic nickname for Jack gal - go 42 FANCYCLGFEBIA

Spoor. zee. It is easily observed that these are all mere adaptations of games Galactic Publication® - Publishing house current in the country, given a stfnal ?ame for 'Jiggins’ work before he Joined flavor. Interplanetary is th© most ori­ Cosmic Publications. ginal of the bunch.

Galactic Roamers - The local for Jackson general fan organization - An organiza­ and Battle Creek Michigan, centering a- tion to include all fans, to be synony­ round Skylark Smith and Tripoli. They mous with fandom, as opposed to locals had exotic names for their officers such like the MPS and select groups like the as Chief Pilot, Chief Communications Of­ PAPA. The SIL was the first important ficer, &c. This club led the awakening effort at this, and it failed because of of Michifandom. its commercial ties. TEG, ISA, and SPA had hopes, as did loss important organi­ Galactic Roomers - (Stanley) - The inhab­ zations of the First Transition, such as itants of the Ashley apartment and later SFAA. • Speer began plugging a federal of Sian Shack, in Battle Creek. organization, but New Fandom, a central­ ized dictatorship, was the first to re­ fan gatherings - Official comingatogether vive the aim. Before it expired, indi­ of fans from various localities at a vidual fans came forward with other call issued by some organization or lo­ plans, and at the suggestion of damon cal group. The largest are called con­ knight and Art Jidner, the NFPP was ventions, smaller ones now called con­ formed in late 1940. It suffered the ferences. A yet smaller and more infor­ common trouble of cumbersome machinery mal getogether is the confabulation. and too little that the organization as Of­ a whole could undertake, and war condi­ tentimes meetings of local organiza­ tions gave the coup de grace. However, tions, like the QSEL or the LISPS, have its Plancom did suggest more activities had enuf attendees from outside to rate for it than any previous such org had as conferences at least. contemplated. The most import­ ant thing about a fan gathering is that goografy - Geografical considerations the slans can get together with their have influenced plans for regional orga­ own kind of people, perhaps forgetting nizations and caused considerable con­ their introversion for a while, and do troversy on the location of conventions. what they want to do and fangab about The East has usually had a larger pro­ mutually interesting things, and develop portion of fans than other areas, tho their stefnic personalities. since 1939 leadership has shifted to the Mid-East. Most fans are in the United. games - An aspect of culture not entirely States; there are a few in Canada and overlooked by the fanationalists is the Australia, and many in Groat Britain; matter of table games. The oldest one, only two or three outside the Anglo-Saxon ofcourse, is Barsoomian chess, for which v/orld. Ordinarily, more fans per capita sets have been made in several locali­ will appear in large cities, whore con­ ties, and long ago the first s-f cross­ tacts with other fans aro easier; cer­ word puzzle appeared. John Baltadonis tainly fan activity is on the whole more invented Cosmic Monopoly, and Boskone advanced in the metropolitan areas. Al1 III tested Art Widner’s game Interplan­ have their ups and downs, however. etary. '’An effort to coameteialize Interplanetary was unsuccessful. There Gernsback delusion - (Michelists) - The are commercial Buck Rogers and other purpose, imputed to Gernsy, of making games which are beneath our dignity sciontifiction fans into scientists by to note. A sort of science-fiction putting accurate scientific information bingo has been played at QSJL moot­ into stf stories—sugarcoating it. This ings, with auction-like items for pri- was proved wrong, said the Micholists, FANCTCLpPWU 43

"by the failure of the ISA.; the purpose clude j’mil for John michel, sterl for of scionce-fiction should bo to make kenneth sterling, etc, plus some uamod active idealista. Some fans who were from.-other fantasiac words, vomb, cjhui- working in or studying science replied hin, ktp. that they believed s-f had stimulated this purple religion was found­ their interest in science a great deal. ed 6 Aug 35, and with this long start, Another reply was that Uncle Hugo never gained adherents in numerous places, expected his readers to turn scientist but a new day and deliverance dawned in wholesale, but that reading s-f puts the 1938, when Pogo proclaimed The Sacred scientifictionist well ahead of the av­ Order of FooFoo.’ erage man in understanding sciences. Peggy Gillespie - Introduced as a new ghoul - A critter what lives in grave­ fanne, sister of Jack Gillespie, Peggy yards, eating the meat that’s buried wrote several articles from the feminine there. An altogether disgusting charac­ viewpoint, and became a full-fledged ter, and therefore much loved by fans; member of the SEL. It was finally re­ cf ’’ .That Every Young Ghoul Should Know”. vealed as a hoax perpetrated by Dick rfilson and Abe Oshinsky, Peggy being the ghu publications - doc lowndes’ publish­ Gillespies’ family cat. ing house, for le vombiteur et al. mem­ ber futurian publishers’ group. gleap - (BAA) - I never knew a virdous gleap ghughuiam - a foul and hideous order who That did not snortle in its sleep. worship ghughu as their ghod. According to the researches of FooFoo scientists, GNYSFL - In the spring of 1938 the QSEL ghughu is a beetle-bodied monster living became the Greater Hew York branch of on the sunward Bide of Vulcan, who tele­ the SH. The Jollheimists were members, pathically controls a zombie named don and in July moved that the chapter send wollheim, wollheim itself being usually a delegate to the American Youth Con­ regarded as ghughu by its followers, gress, which was a Communist Front orga­ there are archbishops in every city nization. Director Taurasi refused to where there are ghughuists except possi­ allow the motion, as unconstitutional, bly those in which the archbishop has at because it would require all the members some time left his diocese, thus to make a special contribution to defray losing his office. other officials the delegate’s expenses. Impeachment include the high priest John michel charges were brot, but dropped when it and dick wilson, ghuardian of the appeared that the majority would not ap­ gholy ghrail (the ghrail is now held in prove them. At the next meeting, how­ a secret place by FooFooists). In many ever, they brot up the matter of Syko- cases the devotees seem to have several ra’s membership. Ho had been a member titles; ”saint” seems a common prefix, before the tfollheimists, but attended and doc lowndes calls himself demighod infrequently after they came in, as in as well as archdeacon infernal of all the case of the SFCC, and his dues fell ghu. into arrears. A motion was made to can­ the ghughuists make much of the fact cel his membership, which Taurasi re­ that (at last survey) no ghughuist has fused to allow because the club consti­ ever died. they have issued some books tution required that a member be present of their gholy ghible, but their chief in case of expulsion proceedings against intellectual effort has been a ghughuist him. Taurasi was again impeached, and calendar. the general scheme seems to this time removed, tho by SEL rules he be cribbed from the Jorld Calendar, but must still be nominal director, having their year starts at the summer sol­ the smallest SEL serial number. How­ stice. months are named in dishonor of ever, he resigned and took others with the ghughuists, the first one being him. Sykora carried the matter to Mar­ called dawn, for dawo|lheim; others in­ gulies, editor of TWS, and M dissolved FANCYCLQPEDIA go 44

the GtTfSIL. Hew charters were to be religion, and grammar. Not the least of granted, only on condition that Wollheim these is grammar." The outstanding mur­ and Sykora never be in the same chapter. derer of the King’s (or anybody else’a) This incident crystallized the Triumvi­ English in fandom has been Fanny, except rate, who formed a new Q3JL, while tho for a brief period when Conrad Rjrppert Wollhoimists became the Futurian Society was printing it, but numerous other tar­ of New York. gets, especially from among the youpg fon such as those behind the fanzine Space Golden Atom tales - (Parsaci) - Any mi- Tales, wore found for Speer’s "Little Les­ crocosmic or macrocosmic story by Ray sons in Grammar” and Kbnig’s "English as Cummings, or any other story using some Sho Is tfrote". Most fans protest stren­ of the characters of the atomic tales, uously against the rautil^Aioaa ppscticed among whom was Tubby. A term purely of by tho quote fourteen-year-old mentali­ collector interest. ties unquote. For the typical fan .has done and observed enuf yrtding ih^t ho Golden Gate Futurians - San Francisco- has a good mastery of the language and Oakland local, and core of Starlight Pub­ its rules, as compared to the average lications, They plugged hard for the citizen. Whether he will obey tho rules 1942 convention, even had a formal invi­ in a given case, however, depends on tation from the mayor, but failed, Ji th functional tests: for instance, if there the real retirement (maybe) of Joe For­ seems to be no discernible advantage in tier, they ceased to be much hoard, but setting off the ramo of the state in turned out in fairish numbers for the commas, he may very well write "Cleve­ Staplccon, land Ohio", and so on. Eans have done a lot of experimenting with language un­ Gosh-wow-boyoboy - (Time) - Symbol of the der the banner of Ackermane sc, and pro­ type of reader who made Timo maga­ duced some inventions in the case of zine call us the jitterbugs of the pulp brackets and quasi-quotemarks. In gen­ magazine field. The expression appears eral , they pay unusual attention to the in an allegedly typical letter which individual elements of writing and use they quoted, commenting on TWS; probably them in varied ways to got across the it was an invention of the reporter who exact meaning or impression desired. wrote up the New York dfor&d Convention. It has become a gag line in fandom, Grand Old Man - Nickname for EEEvans.

Gostak - (Ogden&Richards:Breuer) - Ono Great Stationery Duel - Originally, a distiraraer of the doshes. contest between Speer and Jilson in which each was to use a different let­ Samuel D Gottesman - Rename for Cyril terhead or type of stationery in each Kornbluth. regular letter, and the first who gave out would lose. They developed special­ grafology - Occasionally an article or ized kleptomaniac traits. Quits a code series appears in a fanzine, making a of rules was worked out, defining what a grafanalysis of some figure/s well known different typo of stationery is, and in the pro or fan world. These analyses forbidding tho purchase of stationery are usually put in general—vexy—terms simply for dueling purposes. Frequently which could be true of a lot of people, they used , different types of envelopes and much of the time the analyst knows as well as lettexhoads. Some time after the person before he sets to figure him correspondence with Ji Ison ceased, Speer out from his handwriting. The chief was chai longed by flamer and the duel contribution of such articles to fan resumed. It’s typical of a sort of lore is the Type Fifteen fan. whimsy very common in fankind.

grammar - "Three subjects” says »ferfel Green Jester Publications - The publish­ ’'perennially pDwic&e^^gum^Mt: politics, ing house of the Leeds SEL, Harold FANCYCLOPEDIA______45 ______gu - hek

Gottliffe doing tho printing. or experts. ’Tis slitely misused in the names of the ISFG, TIG, and Science Fic- guild - An exclusive group of craftsmen tion Poets’ Guild. H H - An orphan sound, having no companion deposit in an uneven film over the lava­ like nearly every other consonant has. tory when he tries to wash. The Ditto Let’s shed a toar and pass on to the Company has put out seme soap in tubes definitions. which is supposed to ease the condition, but really it comes off only when the hack - A writer who, in order to get quan­ skin does. tity production, rehashes old ideas and plots, and strews them with such stock hektoing - The basic hektograf 1b a pan piecos as BEMs and PSDs. Fans arc pret­ of evil-smelling, rather firm gelatin, ty tolerant of the hacks who have to do which has glycerin in it. The master it for a living, but can also turn out sheet is drawn with special hekto pencil an occasional outstanding story; but are or ink or carbon paper, or typed with death on Frederick Arnold Kummer Jr and special ribbon or carbon paper, so that for the most part on Edmond Hazotlibn and the original has a great deal of pigment Nat Schachner, who may occasionally do in it. It has to, because all the pig­ fair work, but 99$ of the time are work­ ment in all the copies must be on the ing over the old gavhethavFarth and master sheet, and then some. The master There-are-Limit s-beyond-whi ch-wfc^ar’szk * t- is placed face down on the gelatin Meant-to-go themes —not to mention (No, (which Dollens soys should not be moist­ please don’t!) the running into the w.k. ened), and much of the pigment comes ground of the Adam Link series, or the off on the latter, following the lines dressed-up mundanes. of the original. After a couple of min­ utes the master is removed, and copy hams - Radio©so for amateurs, adopted by sheets are placed on the gelatin, us to mean fanzines. smoothed down, and removed. On each one some of the ink comes off; enuf (you the Hatch - 132 E 30th St, Manhattan NY. hope) to make a legible copy. After tho A science fiction house inhabited by copies are made, the remaining pigment knight and Cohen in 1943, offshoot of sinks in and is diffused thru the gela­ the Futurian Fortress. tin, so that it can be used again in a day or so. After many uses the gelatin Heck - Nickname for H C Koenig. becomes saturated with left-over ink (it is not good for the surface to wash this hektographer’s hands - Mimeoer’s hands in off), if it doesn’t develop bubbles and technicolor. This is a strange malady other flaw-breaks first, in which latter which afflicts nearly all fans at some case all you can do is molt it down stages of their career. Handle hekto again. The purple pigment is most com­ carbons, inks, pencils, ribbons, ever so mon, but there are now several other carefully, yet smudges of purple will brite colors available, which can be appear on the ends of the fingers, and used very effectively—an advantage of by some mysterious precess spread to tho the hekto over monocoloroproduction backs of the hands and up the inner side methods. As indicated by its root— of tho forearm. Thon, tho the hektoor ’^IcaTbs—tho theoretical number of cop­ never touch his face with hands or arms, ies from hekto is around 100. More usu­ purple splotches will break out on the ally it is 50 (the original FAEA member* nose and one cheek, and on the nape of ship limit), tho in hands of various ex­ the nock, tho he can’t ee4 it there. pertness it may vary from 20 to 100, What is more, the dye will spread to all not considering Dittoing. Besides the lite-colored woodwork in the room, and primitive pan hekto, tho Ditto Company her - hu 46 PANCYCLOPEDIA

(no, they aren’t paying a cent for this!) heaxoft - Since most contacts in fandom has developed a number of other forme, are by mail, it is very easy to put such as a "film”, a sheet of strong something over on the fans for a while, paper with gelatin spread on it, or a Mt it’s almost impossible to keep a long roll of filmed paper, as well as secret permanently, or for as much as complicated machines for doing the me­ a year. The commonest kind of a hoax is chanics of duplication. to establish a pename, like John A Bris­ tol or Peggy Gillespie, as being an ac­ hermit - A nickname frequent among fans tual person. Such tricks have made fans because of their introvert characteris­ wary, so that each newcomer is scrutin­ tics. Lakeport’s gloomy hermit was ized suspiciously to see whether he looks Claire P Beck; the Hermit of Hagerstown phony in any way, or whether his address is Harry Earner, who has met many fans, or writing style suggests some known but nover a one outside of Hagerstown; fan; sometimes quite genuine neofytes the Hermit who writes for Larry Shaw’s find themselves accused of being non­ mags is Larry Shaw (Look for the big red existent. Other hoaxes in fandom have letters on the cave). included the pseuicido, the Sydcon, and Odd Tales. HFL - The Harbor Fantasy League, a group of married couples in the Los Angeles Horace - (Speer) - Pet name for iferner's area, primarily the work of Rus Wood and Horizons. Pogo. It camo into existence in 1942 and shortly fell into inactivity because hotfoot - The trick of sticking a match of members' departure for the wars. between sole and upper of a guy's shoe and liting the head thereof, all unknown (Himself) - Rename of an uniddnttfi’W to the victim until ho begins to feel writer in the SFEan, doubtless editor the warmth. Cyril Kornbluth is fandom’s 01 on tfiggins. acknowledged master of the art. hiss - H Kbnig made a hobby of ofclleet- Hoy Ping Pong - "The Chinese Buck Rog­ ing quotations from stories in which ers". He originally had a personality characters are supposed to "hiss” sen­ of his own, but thru later writings, and tences in which most people couldn't those of his multitudinous Pong cousins, find anything to hiss. He then became ho has become just a pename for Bob known as The Old Hisser himself, Tucker when writing funny articles. history of the future - A project first humor - Jhns excel in humor. Burlesques suggested by Rothman, to bo undertaken pedigree back to Hornig’s Wonder Stor­ by some general fan organization. The ies, as does fan fiction. Cartoons are idea is to go thru all fantasy stories usually humorous. Puns and similar wit­ and where some approximate date in the ticisms are irrepressibly scattered all future can be fixed for an incident, thru fan writings, oven the most seri­ make a filo card on it. Eventually the ous. Magazines devoted entirely to hu­ file cards would be arranged according to mor, however, have not fared well; ap­ year and the result published. The idea parently fans don* t want you to walk up comes from the history of the future and say "this is funny" before tolling which Heinlein followed in most of the it. stories appearing under his own name. A Pan humor is of a sofisticated sort, start on the job has boon made by Elmer strongly characterized by double inver­ Perdue, who limited himself to cases in sion, and often bordering on the shaggy which the year of the future event is dog. Tho MPS Silly Story should be men­ actually given in the story. A few cards tioned. ifith a few exceptions, funny from his filo were printed up and dis­ stuff published in fanzines is clean; tributed thru the PAPA. your chronicler wouldn’t know about that FANCYCLOPEDIA 47 i - ind

in correspondence or conversation, being of recording things on tape which must a nice boy who doesn’t listen to such be developed, which he thinks is sure­ things. But Elmer Perdue has a method fire to dodge tho postal authorities.

I - a letter whoso so-callod ’’long” sound ISFG-TFG. It is supposed to have ante­ is actually a close diphthong, as the dated Amazing Stories, thus being ono of Greeks and Romans knew in spelling it ai the oldest fantasy organizations. and ae respectively. The mistake oc­ curred in English, according to de Camp, Indiana Fantasy Association - A state or­ when the vowel shift made e represent ganization existing in 1940-41, a time the sound [<3» and drove i up to where when there were quite a number of centers there was nothing to do but become a of activity in Indiana, notably the Lit­ diphthong. erature, Science, and Hobbies Club and the Moonstruck Press, plus individual ac- IAOPUMUMSTEPUSA, Unltd - (Wollheim) - The tifans scattered about, and visitors from International and Allied Organizations nearby states. Dikty was head of the for the Purpose of Upholding and Main­ organization, and Claude Legler claimed taining the Use of Metallic Fasteners in that he turned it over to CL upon his Science Fiction Publications in the Uni­ retirement from activity. ted States of America, Unlimited, the organization that opposed the spwsstfm individ fanzine - (Spoor) - Unlike the in the First Staple VJar. ffollheim was general or subscription fan magazine, Grand High Cocolorum of the force, Ken­ the contents arc almost entirely by one neth Sterling Exalted Grand Boolcywag, person, the editor-publisher. There All other members had suitable titles, were one-man fanzines at least as far except one suspected of being a spy, who back as 1936, when Dollens launched the was deprived of his title. The military Science Fiction Collector, but this type arm was called the Ultra-Violet Shirt is really a product of the FAPA. Shocked Troops. There were some two- Individ score members in all, which was said to alpha are those which have the general be more than the spwsstfm’s. Several outward appearance of a subscription Fortresses (locals) existed. The offi­ fanzine, with separate articles on unre­ cial organ, the Polymorphanucleated lated subjects, departments such as re­ Leucocyte, and the membership certifi­ views of pros and the previous mailing, cate, mixed excellent broad and subtle and artistic or controversial quota­ humor. tions, fillers, cover illustration, etc; but the personality of the editor is ICSC - International Cosone Science Clhh, evident everywhere, and there may be original name of the ISA. cross-remarks between separate articles. Sub-type beta is very much like a con­ IFF - The Illini Jfcmtasy Fictionecrs, versational monolog, in which the editor formed by Reinsberg, Tucker, et al, as talks along, moving from one subject to the publicity organization for the Chi- another as he is reminded of it, perhaps con; afterwards continued as a state or­ by having the previous mailing before ganization, finally joining the Mid-West him; a few departments may be set apart, Fantasy Fan Federation. but tho greater portion of tho contents is the chitchat or argumentation of the ILSF - Independent League for Science editor, directed at the persons he knows Fiction, an organization which came out are readers, with no attempt at formal of a split in the East New York SFL, and or objective, timeless style. folded late in 1936. The great advantage of the ’’personalized” fanzine, Impossible Story Club - Original of the especially the second sort, is that it inf - interl 48 FANCYCLOPEDIA

is virtually conversation—comparison intelligence manifests itsolf primarily and modification of ideas, and that re- verbally rather than mechanically, altho inds mo, and what did you think of my we have a number of artists and other last issue—without that one-dimonsional •craftsmen. Whether our general intelli­ limitation of verbal conversation, that gence correlates inversely with social ; eople are always interrupting, and only intelligence is a moot point. one subject can be discussed at a time. Disadvantages arc the liability to go interlineations - (Speer) - A development off on a long tangent on a misunder­ of one-line fillers which were used standing of what another guy meant,

inner circle - Aside from the distinction repetitionmaybeusedrepwtitionmaybeusedre between fans and scientifictionists, the ’’real fans” or super-actives are some­ (Usually, the interlineations extend times considered separately. Inner cir­ all the way across the page rather than cle fans are those who subscribe to most in a half-page column as shown hero, fanzinos, all the leading ones, corres­ since fanzine pages are rarely divided pond with other leading fane, publish into columns.) one or several fanzines, play politics and perform duties in fan organizations, Onomaysgueczetogetjustthcrightlinel e ng t h promote activities such as fan gather­ ings, and author many pieces published Omission of spaces between words is fre­ in others* fanzines. They are the ones quently seen, no doubt an influence of who at a given time are believed essen­ the beardmuttering. tial to fandom’s continued existence. The top ten fans should all come from hardisthostonehardisthestonehardisthesto among them. Oftentimes, especially when there are intelligence - The egoism of fans indi­ several on the same page, interline­ vidually and collectively is not ground­ ations may be connected in sense, as are less. From a standardized "mental alert­ the two lines of poetry shown hero. ness” test given by Speer to attendees of the 43 Michiconference, tentative con­ butharderstillbutharderstillbuthardersti clusions were drawn that practically all fans fall in the upper J of the popula­ It is a shameful thing for an interline- tion in intelligence, and the average is ator not to be able to quite get what within the top ten per cont. Fen in the ho wants to say into one line, and have Army went up quickly, and many instances can bo pointed out of fans grasping sub­ to patch it out in the manner illustrat- tle points in a discussion that would be /ed here? beyond the average person. For those who arc not satisfied with ”general in­ Another convention, not always observed, telligence” , it may be said that fans’ is that the interlineation should bo FANCYCLOPEDIA 49 . . - Tnt&rr.

able to stand alone; at any rato, ono special election restricted the vote to should not bo explained nor reference active members for the firstime. Taurasi made to it on the same page (tho it finally decided to send ballots to all members. Wollhoim put the matter to the Aren*t we rude, breaking in like this? Vice-President, Marconetto, who (in July, after terms would normally have may refer to text on tho same page). expired) rendered a decision, not pub- Tho reason for this is that an inter­ lisly heard of until some time lator, lineation is a something extra, Idka aa declaring those ballots void and author­ inside cover or a stunt on the wrapper, izing the late President, Jigging, to and should not be counted a necessary issue new ballots. This he did, without part of the magazine, just as a paren­ mentioning the V-P’s decision, but the thesized passage should not bo grammati­ list of active members which he drew up cally necessary to a sentence, (If this contained several errors, and was accom­ is too metaphysical for you, just skip panied by electtpneoring propaganda in it.) the manner of tho Jollheimists. Woll- heim, named as counting committee head, ilipja $8 l-jolojA sr 6tx,dx? announced the results of this ballot as the official administration, while The subject matter of tjie interlineation Speer, who happened to be VicePresidont- may be anything under the sun or in it, elect under that ballot, had already frequently a blank thot, and is most condemned it. At the Phil co in Septem­ successful if it is a bit esoteric, so ber, agreement was made for a referendum that one must study it to guess what to approve this administration. Such the editor had in mind in writing it. approval was secured from a majority of the membership, but Taurasi, personify­ u mayhin funna me? ing the FAPA as Wellheim, failed to turn over the records and funds. In the The last example is a more or less fo- course of the year a Mailing was elided, netic transcription from the movie “The and each of the remaining throe was sent Road to Morocco”. from a different place. It was thot in many quarters that the FAPA was dead. Forward, FooFooJ Then came the Blitzkriegs. The NEFF interregnum - k period of no government. started out with no constitution, and It has occurred in fan organizations the one drawn up was cumbersome, and be­ whon terms of an administration have ex­ cause of the Fincom report was rejected pired without a now set of officers* by the membership. A constitution was having been elected to take their plac­ finally adopted, but the machinery re­ es; tho Speer advanced the fiction that mained cumbersome, and the negligible the president whose term was expiring, results for the labor so far, plus the in the case of the FAPA in 1940, had ap­ difficult requirements for nomination, pointed himself and others to keep (all under the shadow of the stress of things going, under his power to appoint war) caused insufficient candidates to auxiliary officials. At any rate, the file to fill the necessary offices, and Constitution was rewritten as soon as tho old administration lapsed. EEEvans, possible to provide for such situa­ Piancom Chmn of the first year, got a tions. new sot of officers by Blitzkrieg meth­ The FAPA Interregnum began in July ods, but before the organization could 1939. The Off Editor, Rothman, had re­ gather momentum again, Evans, President, signed irregularly and turned over his was forced to leave, on special war office to Rob Madle. Madle failed to work. V-p Tucker turned tho presi­ supply the Secretary, Taurasi, with a dency over to Evans’s neighbor Ash­ list of the active members, and a con­ ley, and much correspondence ensued be­ stitutional amendment just passed at a tween Ashley and the Board. It being intr - iv 50 FANCYCLOPEDIA

conceded that the old constitution was tists and fans, and found the latter be­ unworkable, Harry Warner spoke for a coming dominant. It was scarcely inter­ setup with few officials and stiff mem­ national, the chief branches being the bership requirements, while Ashley want­ NYB-ISA and the PSFS» Sykora was the ed to carry out Evans’s plan for a pyra­ chief leader, but numerous later Futuri- miding state-regional-national scheme ans and others were prominent members. with many officers, and including as The ISA backed its members who were “citizens” all who could be called fans. among the young authors taking legal ac­ Ashley wanted the Board to decide and tion against Wonder Stories, for non­ thus present a definite plan to the mem­ payment, and when some were expelled bers; others wanted a vote on the oppos­ from tho SIL, warred against the SIL, ing plans, and presently wanted a vote and also against the Fantasy Magazine • on whether the NFFF should continue. group, who leaned toward the pros. The Again the terms of the officers ended ISA put on the first two conventions, without replacements being elected, and and was tho outstanding organization in the NFFF lapsed. In the fall of *43, at the First Transition. In consequence of the height of the Cosmic Circle crisis, that transition, President Sykora re­ Ashley questisapd the Board members with signed in 1937, protesting their in­ a view to reviving the NEFF under an creasing neglect of scienoe, and because emergency—for .the ?iata.tieBe*neti»titu- he was going to college and thot he tion. would be too busy to continue. Reper­ cussions were so grave that Donald A introversion - According to a written Wollheim, tho only active officer left, questionnaire borrowed from a Dr Laird, got informal permission from the Phila­ which the Poll Catb circulated, 92$ of delphia and New York members to wind up fans are introverts, only 8$ ambiverts, its affairs and dissolve it. This was and none extroverts. The introvert is done in good'jordor except for trouble characterized by introspection, imagina­ with tho library, which was stored at tion, greater interest in himself than Sykora's. In 1938 Sykora, again active, other people, and in ideas than people. declared that the ISA had never been The extrovert is characterized by prac­ legally dissolved, and formed the ISA ticality, saleHmaaahlipt inability to be Committee for Reorganization, to which alone, and concern about; tangible honors the rfollhoimists opposed tho Friends of and other people’s opinion of him. the ISA; the Committee for Reorganiza­ tion was one of the organizations in IPO - The Oklahoma Institute of Private whose name the Newark Convention was Opinion (title a take-off on Gallup), a called. At that gathering, Sykora poll series conducted by Speer. Post failed to get support for his movement, cards were sent out, with the SFEan af­ but the onemy expected him to try again ter the first one, with questions hek- at the World Convention. toed thereon. Twelve sets of questions in all were put out, extending over a ISFG • - International Science-Fiction period of some two years around 1938. Guild, formerly the Impossible Story The number of replies was small, usually Club, later the TFG. little more than 20, but were fairly representative till near the end, when Ivory Tower - Apt 4C, 2574 Bedford Ave, the SFEan's circulation was no longer a Brooklyn NY. So called from the color good cross-section of fandom. of its walls. It was inhabited by sun­ dry Futurians, notably L®raae«,MMiel, and ISA - The International Scientific Asso­ DW®, all thru 1940, following their loss ciation. Apparently there was an early of Futurian House. It was the most fam­ organization of the same name, with RAP ous of tho Futurians’ .BBdence fiction among its head men. The ISA of history houses. When the lease estpired, Weilheim wag originally the ICSC, a group went back to his family home, Wilson to which sought to combine amateur scien­ Raven’s Roost, the rewhant Futn Embassy. FANCYCLOPEDIA 51 J Jas

J - Tho foreigners have from the begin­ right. ning used, this for the sound E jJ, Engli- shers generally take it to indicate the Jinx - Nickname for Harry Jenkins Jr. compound sound However that be, we have it, and it vies with D for ini­ Jr - A 1929 Oldsmobile auto, successor to tialing the greatest number of fans, in­ Eabys acquired by Dick W5clson Late in cluding the many people named Jack, Jim, 1939 and used by the Ivory Towerites. Joe, and so forth. Forry the J, J, and the J are all nicknames for Forrest J juffus - Nickname for Jack F Speer, ori­ Ackerman, tho he found out one day that ginating when he wrote his initials j’f’s. J isn’t his legal middle initial. JVPC - The Jules Verne Prize Club, RAPal- Jiktf - Pronounced Taken as a mcr Chairman. It offered cups for the nickname by Jimmy Kepner, and finally a- three best stories of tho year in the bandoned because nobody’d pronounce it early ’thirties.

K - No important fan words at present be­ have been stuck in, and leave one letter ing initialed by K, it pleases our whim­ of the alphabet' temporarily unsullied by sy to brush aside one or two that mite st fandom. L L - He who calls himself Bristol didn’t The know how to pronounce this sound until most famous members of the LASFS are he was a Junior in high school; and bets Ackerman and Morojo, but there have been you don’t know, what ho learned recent­ many other active fans associated with ly, that there are two 1 sounds in Eng­ it, including Bradbury, Daugherty, Jo- lish, one being the so-bekannt ’’dark 1” quel, PraEstaafar, tho founders of the that follows a vowel, and the other the HFL, the Moonrakers and Yerke, numerous initial 1 which Arch Oboler uses after a immigrants from the MTS and the Golden vowel when he wants to get a* spine- Gate Futurians and elsewhere in the war chilling ”Kihl.‘ KihlJ Kihll.”’ years, and some honorary members and per­ sons who only temporarily lived in LA. LA - Los Angeles, dummkopf. The LASFS is the longest-lived local in fandom, most consistently active. In Sears Langell - Pename for oldtimc fan 1940 they claimed the name of Shangri- Allen Glasser. When Langley Sbarics be­ LA, and became Rome whither all roads gan to appear in fanzines, many folk led in the months after Pearl Harbor. thot Glasser was coming back. They have probably had the largest at­ tendance records of any local at some LASIL - Los Angeles branch of the Science meetings, including numerous celebri­ Fiction League, later the LASFS. ties. For a long time they met in the Little Brown Room of Clifton’s Cafe­ LASFS - The Los Angeles Science Fantasy teria, but during tho war moved their Society. The LASEL had also held Over­ stuff into first one and then another seas Chapter #1 of the SFA, and when official club room, finally finding a they also became a chapter of the Sci­ swell place in an ex beauty parlor,where ence Fictioneers, and seemed likely to members drop in Sundays, days off, and affiliate with other general fan organi­ evenings to do the things that a club­ zations, they voted to take this neutral room is designed for. and, says Yerke, meaningless name. Between Mirta For- lau - leg 52 FANCYCLQPEDIa

~to on tho one hand and the Moonrakers tive following the noun "Author” which ;r others on the opposite, there have at it modifies. Tho Laureate Committee con-, Aimes been sustained differences. For sists of three or five members, usually the most part, these have been kept out including the official critics. of the general fan press and subordinat­ ed to club spirit. One emerged for a leaflet - A one-shot publication little second in 1938, in tha Michelistic peri­ more varied than a circular, often a od, when a board of censorship was es­ single sheet folded in the middle. (In tablished to keep too controversial ma­ case you’re wondering, folks, your Hoah terial out of Imagination!, the official Webster is justrying to prescribe a lit­ publication. Another flare-up occurred tle order into Danish terminology.) when Hoinlcin resigned just before going into the Wavy, giving as his reason the league - A loose organization of indivi­ attacks on him by Yerkc. Toward tho end duals interested in the same thing, who of 1943 a rash of resignations brekirout, may speak thru a central agency, but but that story belongs to 1944. Suffice give it little active power. Leagues of to say that the reasons appear to have fans include the SSL* ILSF, EBL, Cosmian been: Dislike of Ackerman personally; League, and HEL. Ackerman’s objections to tho intrusion of drinking, wenching, ktp, on LASFS af­ Leeds SEL - A chapter of the SEL in Leeds fairs; belief that tho Society was bo- England, which seems to have held apart coming a collection of psychologically from the SFA. Publishing house was the maladjusted people; and discontent with Green Jester. Its outstanding member was the accomplishments of tho LASFS as com­ Michael J Rosenblum. pared to its possibilities. legal matters - Jfcns in their separate laureate - Recognition of excellence in universe ordinarily have little to do some field. The fanzine Fan Editor & with the processes of the civil law, the Publisher gave some awards, and Walt they’ll generally accept its judgments Daugherty presented medals at the Den- of what’s right and wrong in the rela­ vention based on his own choices, but tions of literary mon (adding a few re­ honors coming from only one or two per­ quirements of their own regarding exclu­ sons without any official backing are of sive rights to .fanaine names, ktp). questionable importance. The FAPA Con­ Speer, who aims at u career in the in­ stitution impliedly provides for annual famous profession, has made amateur ex­ laureates, tho details left up to the positions of such subjects as the vice-president, chmn of the Laureate common-law copyright. Committee ex officio. Formerly fivo Only actual lawsuit laureates were awarded, for publishing connected with fandom was Jollheim's (mechanical excellence or innovation), suit against bonder Stories, in which he editing (choice of material or mutant represented several - other now authors type fanzine), writing (fiction and whom bonder had failed to pay. They won non-fiction), poetry, and art work, the case, and the ISA-SIL war resulted. based on material in the year’s mail­ In connection with their long-standing ings. In some of these fields there has feud, tfollheim and Sykora have at vari­ at times been little competition; and ous times threatened legal action a- due to tho predominance of the individ gainst one another, but it has never fanzine, editing and publishing laure­ materialized. Sykora did put the postal ates were combined. Silk-screened cer­ authorities on the Futurians’ trail in tificates were awarded the laureate and connection with the Christmas Card inci­ runner-up in each division, the frazing dent, hoping they’d uncover some subver­ being on the order of ’’This certifies sive activities too. that Joe Fann has been awarded the title Tho Hornig performed of Author Laureate Runner-up” , signed by a quasi-judicial function in connection tty? v-p. ’’Laureate" here is an adjec­ with a dispute over the STL rule on cor- TANCYCLQPEDIA 53 leo - 1 o

respondence, the vice-president of the fore would not take ink, except where it FATA is the first legal authority set up had been marked with a greasy pencil. "by a fan organization. More or less le­ Metal sheets are now used, which permits galistic debates have been waged between reproduction in accurate detail and with members of the EAPA over strict observ­ large solid areas; fotos can be repro­ ance of the Constitution vc ignoring it duced in half-tone. The process came whero it becomes inconvenient. into considerable use in fandom with tho establishment of Assorted Services, tho Leo - Pet name for the Scientifictionale- publishers presently found commercials odensian, which was the name of a fan­ who could do the job for them cheaper zine and means a stfist who lives in than Ackerman cud. Costs plenty anyway. Leeds England. Little Jarnevon - (Smith:Suddsy) - 310 W Levy - Pct name for Le Vombitour, Lowndes 18th St, Manhattan NY. A science fic­ sheet. tion house inhabited in mid-1943 by Suddsy Schwartz and Larry Shaw, and such LeZ - Pet name for fanzine Le Zombie. visitors as they couldn’t get rid of. Efforts have been made to call it Liz­ zie, with little success. locals - Ihns living in the same city or metropolitan area usually form some king liberal - A person willing to see the of organization at whoso regular meet­ other guy's viewpoint and let him do as ings they nay get together, tho in some he wishes on non-vital questions, and cases, like the Washington Worry-Warts willing to experiment to find the solu­ and the Windy City Wampires, there is no tion to sociologidal problems. Futuri- formal setup. These locals may be inde­ ans have at times been infuriated by the pendent, but more often have a titular apparent inability of people like Roth­ link with one or more regional or general man and Speer to make up their minds on fan organizations, the main advantage of a thing and consider it a closed sub­ which is publicity of the fact that they ject; and Ackerman camo in for sharp cri­ exist so that other interested people ticism when, on grounds of tolerance, he nearby may join. In many cases a local blocked moves to end the Cosmic Circle’s will be a branch of several general or­ use of LASTS facilities. ganizations; the LASTS and the FSTS are the outstanding examples. linoblock - A means of reproddetion some­ Occasionally thing like woodcuts, except that you cut strong and active locals are found in it out of a slab of linoleum, which is comparatively small communities, like easier to cut, glued to a block of wood. the Literature Science and Hobbies Club The method is used chiefly for illustra­ of Decker Indiana, but the longer-lived tions, which may be reproduced in white ones are usually in metropolitan areas. line on a black (or other colored) back­ Leeds, New York, and for a brief time ground, by cutting away only the lines, Chicago and LA, are the only cities that or in dark lines on white background, by have supported more than one local at a cutting away all except the lines (and time. Even in the large cities, such other dark areas). as Chicago and Washington, there have been periods when there was no active Literature, Science, and Hobbies Club - A fandom, and in smaller places periods group in Decker Indiana, made up- of some of nothingness have been oftener be­ Mannings, Maurice Paul, and others. cause of the weakness of all lloodls, They had a club shack, and published the that they may fold up with the loss of pioneer multi-color mimeoed fanzine, one or two very active fans. Pluto. In spite of this, they are the strongest type of lithoing - Originally, reproduction by fan organization, because they present stone which absorbed water, and there­ an opportunity for fangabbing, cobpera- lu - mar 54 FANCYCLOPEDIA

tive publishing, visiting, and. similar LuGerKus - The publishing houso of Louis fan activity, which in larger organiza­ and Gertrude (Trudy to you) Kuslan after tions, where contacts are mainly "by Cosmic Publications passed out of cur­ mail, can be had only at fan gatherings. rency. M M - The letter mu in the Greek alphabet; afflicted with some utterly illegible and according to Ripley, the Greek al­ copies. phabet slitely distorted hapnnes a Mayan song which describes the sinking of the manifesto - A signed paper setting forth land of Mu. Interesting? to whom it may concern the opinions of the signatories on some matter, and de­ Madge - (Villette) - The first pet name signed to influence public opinion. It for a fanzine on record, for laa;gi- differs from a petition in that it is nationJ. not addressed to a particular official, and primarily expresses an opinion rath­ magazines - Tros and fanzines are under er than urging an action. There have P and F. been two in fandom: Manifesto on Free­ dom of Science, a Leftist document dis­ mailing - Capitalized when referring to a tributed in the FAPA by the CPASF (be­ particular one, as the September Mailing fore the ’’substantial extent” requirement or the Fifteenth Mailing. The First mentioned in the preceding article); and Mailing of the FAPA was in the fall of the Washington Manifesto of the second 193?, so that ordinals divisible by 4 Washington Confabulation, urging the indicate a June mailing. The deadlines Dixiecon on the Denvention, since the are the first Saturday in September, De­ •42 convention was supposed to be back cember, March, and June; when possible in the East. the envelopes are sent out on these dates, but if they are delayed for some manuscript bureau - The mundane APAs usu­ other reason, post-deadline stuff is in­ ally have a manuscript bureau to supply cluded. post-mailings are officially to the printers material sont in by wri­ considered as part of the Mailing whose ters, and it was assumed that FAPA needed deadline they come after. one. Early in 1938 Moskowitz, who had Sometimes snail become the most prolific fan writer and publications have been sent out as bon­ was frequently called upon for material, uses or as conveniences to the authors, announced a service wheroby he would re­ with regular subscription fanzines. In ceive mss from fan writers and supply to the APAs, publications are sent to the publishers on request as much material rson designated as mailing manager (in as they mite need. It was suggested rhe FAPA, the official editor), who at that this bureau be hooked up to the regular intervals sends a copy of each FAPA, which at that time wasn’t getting with the official organ in a large en­ as much stuff for the mailings as it velope or bundle to each member, postage needed. This idea was dropped after tho paid by the treasury. In any case, the vice-president’s decision. rfhen New publications themselves are produced at Fandom was established, the Manuscript the expense of the individual publishers Bureau became one of its most active for the fun of it and for exchanges. In parts, and supplied quite a lot of ma­ the FAPA it is required that the publi­ terial to new and struggling fanzines, cations represent to a substantial ex­ especially those in the Cosmic group. tent the work of a member, that suffi­ rYith the coming of the Third Fandom, the cient copies be supplied to cover the Bureau ceased to be heard of. Individ entire membership, and that they be du­ fanzines have little need for such service. plicated by some means giving ’’identi­ cal” copies, tho we have at times been Marxism - The set of sociological the- FANCYCLOFEDIA 55 mas - michelism

orios worked out by Karl Marx, which words, here's a bit by Kornbluth: formr. the basis of the Communist Party's ^Behold here an extinguished thing program and the proposals of the Mich- Less high than it is wide; elists. It is a ladder's lowest rung Marxism believes that the course With grass on either side.11 of history is determi nod by economic forces; that such conditions create a MFS - The Minneapolis Fantasy Society. dominant class- and an opposing class; It seems to have been existent and pro­ that the clash between these two leads ducing silly stories back in 1938, but to the emergence of a now society and a came into action in fandom only around new dominant class, after which the pro­ 1942. They plugged for the convention cess is repeated. It is held that the after the Pacificon, and later for a present world is governed by the unpro­ centrally located gathering instead of ductive capitalists, but as technology the postponed Pacificon, but before the develops, the exploited classes will war had gone far, began losing members come to foel a unity against their ex­ to the armod forces and to Shangri-LA. ploiters, and will rise against them in As is usual, however, mems retained the a revolution. The Marxists desire that MFS tag in addition to any new local this revolution, when it comes, bo led they joined. Members include Bronson, by men who know what to do next: to set Saari, Dollens, Gergen, Russell, and up a dictatorship for the proletariat Brackney. They are altogether lovely, which will establish a temporary social­ but elitely wackyn istic society until people have become reeducated and fit for pure communism. MFS Publications - The publishing house name for rags produced by the MFS mo­ masthead - The formal heading, on the rons, naturally. cover, contents page, &/or first page, Micheli pm - Pronounced [I 9 ’Z-TT1 which gives the name of the magazine in large distinctive letters, volume and At tho number, date, and similar information. Third Eastern Science-Fiction Convention in Philadelphia in October 1937, Woll- Mecon - The Maine Stf Convention. In the heim read a speech written by Michel. summer of 1943, Art Widner and LRChau- Tho speech denounced the "Gernsback de­ venct (who was visiting Boston) biked up lusion" that science-fiction's purpose to Obsequious Manor, Rockland Me, to is to make scientists out of its read­ visit Norm Stanley. The only official ers. Instead, it has made idealists and action of the Con was to*vote a&epteim of‘ dreamers of them, because it is the best "fen” as the plural for "fan”. form of escape literature yet invented. The Mecon But wo cannot escape from the world; II was Cosmic Legler’s visit to Rockland. science-fiction already stinks because it has failed to face tho realities 'be­ metaphysical poetry - Called metaphysical ing fot out in Madrid and Shanghai, and only because, like metaphysics, it is in the battles between reaction and pro­ hard to understand. John Lonne in the gressive forces at homo and abroad. 17th Century originated the type; it is "THEREFORE: Be it moved that this, the in vogue nowadays, and Futurians have Third Eastern Science Fiction Conven­ written much stuff of this sort. Its tion, shall place itself on record as pecu&la? characteristic it that it com­ opposing all forces leading to barbar­ pares things, as in figures of speech, ism, tho advancement of pseudo-sciences that have only one characteristic in and militaristic ideologies, and shall common, or perhaps none as far as you further resolve that science fiction can see. It teases the intellect, how­ should by nature stand for all forces ever, with the feeling that it doos mean working for a more unified world, a more something if you can just figure it out. Utopian existence, the application of An illustration being worth a thousand science to human happiness, and a saner "d cholism 56 FANCYCLOPEDIA

->utlook on life.” Lengthy debate fol­ somewhat . hut Michelism was considered a lowed, more on the speech than on th© thing of the past. After the Micheli st resolution, and the motion was finally speech, sociological discussions came defeated, several attendees not voting, into fandom to stay, but it is impos­ by a vote of 8 to 12, the 8 being "the sible to assign respective weights to visitors hero today wearing tho red del­ Michelism and other broader forces. The egate badges of the NYFA". Michelists probably antagonized more To further * the people than they converted. movement, which they soon named "Michel- Etergbod^hae ism", its advocates formed tho CPASE, Wied his hand at defining Michelism. which armed itself with slogans like Moskowitz’s is probably the shortest: "Save Humanity with- Science & Sanity" aIt is simply Communism.11 Lowndes and "Lift the Embargo on Loyalist said it was a state of mind, which be­ Spain", distributed Leftist pamflets at gins in discontent at what science­ the Newark Convention and thru tho FAPA, fiction now is, and proceeds thru the and published an issue or two of tho question, What is our purpose?, to the Science Fiction Advance, which included answer that we should not reject our articles on all angles of tho issues, by dreams, but try to make them realities, writers ranging from Josef Stalin to rfollheim in lata 1937 said: "MICHELISM Jack Speer. is the belief that science-fiction fans Altho opposition was slow in should actively work for the realization taking form, the Michelists gained lit­ of the scientific socialist world-state tle support outside their own New York as the only genuine Justification for group, except in England, where their their activities and existence. # MICH­ general ideas wore received hospitably ELISM believes that science-fiction is a by the First Fandom. The only important force; a force acting through the medium American allies wore Mil ton Rothman and of speculative and prophetic fiction Forrest Ackerman, and they wore social­ upon the minds of idealist youth; that ists. Opposition came from personal logical science-fiction inevitably enemies such as Moskowitz, moderating points to tho necessity for socialism, liberals like Speer and Rothman, and tho the advance of science, and the world­ rank and file who didn’t believe in mix­ state; and that these aims, created by ing politics and stf. science-fictional idealizing, can best The Quadrumvirs re­ be reached through adherence to the pro­ signed after a year in a feeling of tem­ gram of th^> Communist International. # porary defeat, but Doc Lowndes, and to a MICHELISM is the theory of science- lessor extent tho others, kept plugging •fiction Action.", But in mid-1938: "As at tho line and modifying and adapting months passed and they got deeper into the program to changing conditions. At their studios, they let down their iron the Futurian Conference, it was voted to outlook, realizing that theirs was the abandon the use of the name "Michelism". most advanced and extreme view and that Not long afterwards, with the Communazi most of tho fans could hardly be expect­ rapprochement and the outbreak of war, ed to have gone to such a stage. They three of the Quadrumvirs, Lowndes, Woll- understood that fans who were trying to heim, and Michel, announced that they realize science-fiction through many had changed from internationalism to channels and diverse methods in the gen­ Technocracy. As they grow into the late eral sociological field wore on the cor­ twenties, the boys lost the proselyting rect road and should be aided and en­ urge, while new fans, under such banners couraged. Those who were socialists and as tho Intellectual Brotherhood of Pro- those who were only mild Esperantists Sciontists, carried on what mite be were both on the right track," called Michelism in Lowndes’ sense, Whatever tfith the Exclusion Act, and eventually may have been the ontological essence of the war against the Axis, fan feeling Michelism, in practice it was tied very toward the bcard-and-bomb boys moderated close to Marxism and the Third Interna- FOCYCLOPEDLA 57 michelist - moonr

tioual1b party line. After Speer had Creek plan for the setup of the NEFF. answered in the right way all the tests that the lUturian Ambassadors put to him Mijimage - (Michel-flollheim) - Publica­ to determine whether ho was a Michelist, tions usually | regular page size. Gollheim decided he was excluded be­ cause, for whatever reason, he supported the Mikado of Long Island City - (Speer) the Fascist powers, who were anti­ - Nickname for Jill Sykora, by analogy Science. with il Puce of Hushing Hats.

The Michelist - Nickname of John B Michel. Milwaukee Fictioneers - A group of pro­ fessional authors in Milwaukee, probably Michel-Gollheim - Publishing house set up not limited to stf writers. Many wrote after Shepherd and Wellheim split. Tho for Amazing Stories after Bay Palmer used down thru 1938, the name was gradu­ took over editorship. ally abandoned. mimeographer’s hands - Monochrome hokto- Michiconference - Annual conferences of cr’s hands, but not so serious, since it the Michigan Federation, attended by only lasts a few months. members of the Mid-fleet Fantasy Fan Fed­ eration and others. mimeoing - Stencil duplication. The stencil is typed with typeribbon disen­ Mickey - Pot name for Cosmic Tales after gaged, cut with a stylus (smoothpointed the Kuslans got it. piece of metal in a handle) and a rough celluloid sheet under the stencil, or Midgicon - ’’Midget Chi con", a gathering of with a shading screen. An ineffable Tucker, Ashley, Liebscher, and other fen blessing is obliterine. The number of of the area at Chicago in the spring of copies from mimooing is limited only by ’43; they prowled the bookshops, and at the durability of the stencils, some­ a hotel-room gathering, the idea of Sian where in th8 thousands; naturally fans Center was first presented. don’t run off nearly that many. Sten­ cils can be saved and filed after use by Midvention - The Midlands Science-Fiction blotting between newspapers, and re-run Convention in 1943. if necessary. Multicolor mimeoing re­ quires different colored inks, a differ­ Midwest Fan.setfi^ty-- A minor o»gani«ctlJ4»n ent pad for each, and a different sten­ of.which M-»Schmr.je -ahd Charles cil cut for each color. Each copy sheet were the principal Tt is run thru the mimeo as many times as WtsageS the MSfSS’S’efrd by -announcing; that there are colors to go on it, care being hold a "Chi«on% -In 1942. taken to get them all in tho same posi­ • tion with regard to the paper. Mid-.fest Ihntaay Fan Federation - An or- gonlzation of mid-eastern states formed modern mythology - Campbell’s name for dvthe Michiconference of 1941, which the type of pure fantasy in Unknown, set up the Illinois Fantasy Fan Federa­ presumably recognizing the modern-end- tion (replacing the IFF), the Michigan Bupernatural elements whose two combina­ ditto, Indiana ditto, and Ohio ditto. tions are the background for most of the In 1942 the MFS and Schmarje’s organiza­ stories. tion also Joined. The state organiza­ tions havo practically no activities to Moonrakers - Generally, tho boys of carry out, and except for half a dozen the BASES; Shroyer, Mooney, Hodgkins, in large cities, consist of “locals" of Kuttner, and Barnes; Yorke may be con­ one or two people. The MflFFF itself has sidered as belonging to the same group. little function aside from holding the The Moonrakers are most famous for the Michiconferences. But this regional super-sofisticated Sweetness and Light, setup inspired the ill-starred Battle in which they published such pieces as moons - nan 58 FANCYCLQPEDIA

the following: movies havo been shot at fan gatherings. /drawing/ This is Diego Picasso Montenegro. ms - Abbreviation for manuscript; in the Ho illustrates Pan Magazines stf world it usually means typescript, And Privy Walls since few mss are hand-written. The Artistic Impulse Cannot be suppressed MSA - The Maine Scientifiction Associ­ Neither can Fan Magazines ation, formed at a meeting of fane in Or Fans 1939 at the state fair, and including All is Illusion. notably Jim Avery, Jerry Meader, and Norm Stanley. It was the van of the Moonstruck Press - Dikty, Shroyer, Forma- ’’era of state organizations", but got nek, and Korshak ’s publishing houso. into trouble when its official organ Thoir chief project was a bibliografy of published an article in which untrue al­ all fantasy books. Shroyer’s huge col­ legations were made about Street & Smith lection was to provide much of the mate­ being near the reefs. rial, and requests were inserted in the Saturday Review of Literature and the music - For some undiscovered season, New York Timos Book Review Section for nearly all fans are great collectors of readers to send in data for the biblio. records and listeners to all types of music; many are accomplished musicians. Mopsy - Pet name for Matters of Opinion, At the drop of a hat, fans will go off. FAPAzine of Speer’s. into a discussion of likes and dislikes among composers, pieces, and types, and Morojo - (Ackerman) - Pronounced Moroyo. frequently spend the better part of an Nickname by which Myrtle R Douglas is u- evening listening to the visitOe^A coh* - sually known. lection of records. There have been many articles published about fantasy in movies - There have been fantastic movios music, which usually means the fantastic from the very beginning of motion pic­ opera or other story behind the music, tures, but unfortunately most of these tho some claim that certain music is have been of a type weird, or more often fantastic in itself. The recordings of simple horror (really ludicrous in ef­ the music from Things to Come are the fect). Stftial ones such a» Just Imagine most well-known fantasy platters. have usually been burlesques or anti- scientific. Things to Come is the out­ mutant - A type of story or feature open­ standing serious work; fans also like ing up an entire new field for stf stor­ such fantasies as Snow White and the ies &c. The idea of such a designation Soven Dwarfs, and Lost Horizon. Acker­ is closely related to the thought­ man was the original movie authority of variants and rVS's New Policy; as it hap­ s ci ent i fandom; later i/ilson went in for pened, it was little used except for watching the flicks in a big way, and some temponautical tales and innovations his Empress associate, Marconette, pub­ in illustrations. Canpbell’s later us­ lished a magazine devoted solely to re­ age of the term is with reference to fa­ views; Mario Racic and others among the vorable mutations, freaks, which when Queensies have had movie columns. Such enuf occur in one individual may be con­ organizations as Sykora’s Scientifilmak- sidered to constitute a new type, the ers have attempted to make amateur stf superman, which is capable of perpetu­ movies with little success; several fan ation. N N - Ahl Halfway thru the alfabet, and a- nank - (1ZFS) - Not oven tho MFS know bout three-fourths of the stencils fin­ what this means; why should y.crauwant ished. (It you think') to? FANCYCLOPEDIA 59 nat - newf national extraction - All known scicnti- Newark Convention - Unofficial name for fictionists, with the exceptions of Gal­ the First National ditto. lic Georges Gallet, Deutschlander Her­ bert Edussier, and Hungarian Andrew Len- Newark Neanderthal - Nickname for Sam nard, come from American or British Moskowitz, from his residence and phy­ Empire homes. The European extrac­ sique . tion of tho Amerifans iif-predominant- ly English and German; there are a Newarkon - The proposed Newark Confer­ large number of Jews. No survey of ence. fan extraction has been made since the shoft of tho center of fan population to Newark SSL - An offshoot of tho QSEL, the Mid-East. with members also drawn from the Sola- roid Club. Formed in 1939 of New Jersey Necronomicon - (Lovecraft) - A book by fans including Moskowitz, Crain, Osher- Alhazred, the mad Arab, full of dread off, de la Hee, Gaetz, and others. It secrets and tales of the Elder Gods, and did not become important as an organiza­ darker hints, which Lovecraft often tion. referred to in his stories. Many col­ lectors have gone digging around in li­ New Ihndom - (Speer:Moskowitz) - Name de­ braries for it, but it actually does not rived from a series of articles entitled exist, the nearest thing to it being "Annals of the New Fandom" , altho they some shadowy books by medievals. Necro­ referred th the Second Fandom, while New nomicon apparently was used as a name Fandom rose and fell in the Second Tran­ for the league organization sponsored by sition. Weird Tales, from which the Outsiders* The organization was launched in Club is descended. We append an incan­ the late summer of 1938, about the time tation to Yog-Sothoth, taken from the that reaction was setting in against the Necronomicon: "Ygnaiih— ygnaiih— iiollheimists and the Second Fandom gen­ thfl thkh' ngha—Yog-Sothoth—y' bthuk—h ’ erally. Moskowitz was the initiator ehye—n ’ grkdl * Ih. " of New Fandom, strongly assisted by Sy- kora and Taurasi, and to a lesser extent Nell - (Ackerman) - Pet name for the Sci­ Hacic, van Houten, and others. They ence Fiction News tetter. The anniver­ started the organization with the mem­ sary issue was to be Called Nell Ann; bership of the old SFAA, turned over by some of the material for it ended up in van Houten. NF announced that it would Escape. put on the World Convention in 1939, and ignored all protests by Jollheim, who neophyte - A newcomer, a recruit, a green had been appointed by the defunct NYB- goon, a convert to fandom, a good guy ISA to head a committee for that pur­ gone wrong. pose. NF also ignored the existence of fan feuds, and won the support of the neotric - (Hearst‘.Ackerman) - An adjective groat majority who were opposed to their of rather vague meaning, seeming to in­ continuance. At the Philco in the fall volve hospitality to new ideas, start­ it was recognized as the organization to ling innovations that are little more take responsibility for the WerMdCon- than whimsy, and novelty for novelty’s vention. Thereafter, fans generally sake. Such neotric habits as the wear­ joined up. Hogional representatives ing of green-rimmed harlequin specta­ were appointed, an official organ is­ cles and use of green-and*brwwn typorib­ sued, dues paid, etc. The pros gave a bon and streamlynd spelng (simplifydit- groat deal of cooperation. The Conven­ to) are a Pacificoastfan version of Bo­ tion was put on, very successfully on hemian! sm. the whole. It was never clear tho just what the connection was between the Neppie - Pet name for Nepenthe, fanzine sponsorship of the Convention by the of Singleton’s. Triumvirate, and the organization New news - nf 60 FANCYCLOFEDIA

Fandom, for NF was treated as something there was a publication by McPhail in contributing to and receiving from tho the quarterly FAPA mailings which called convention fund when the accounts were itself a news sheet. The first import­ published, rather than actually being ant nowsie was Dick Wil son’s Science tho financer. Fiction News Letter, presently competed Up to this time Managing by James Taurasi’s Fantasy-News (lator Secretary Moskowitz had held absolute Jill Sykora’s), which attained the larg­ powerst it being explained that it was est circulation, probably, of any fan­ ..ecessary to have a going organization zine since the lUntasy Magazine days at to gat people to join, and limited time least. Since 1938 there has nearly al­ till the Convention precludfctig the deci­ ways been at least one newsweekly in sion of details by a democratic vote. fandom. A new development was the week­ SaM called it a democratic dictatorship, ly janewscard, tho there was an earlier meaning that they had to regard the printed news card published by Ted Camell opinions of the fans, just as pro edi­ for some months after Great Britain went tors do. After the Convention, they to war. spoke of putting NF on a democratic bas­ is. At the Philco of 1939 they present­ NFFF - National Fantasy Fan Federation. ed a constitution more or less describ­ With the decline of New Fandom, demon ing the setup as it already existed, knight and Art Widner suggested forming plus elected officials, rather than in­ a new general fan organization along corporating the features desired by certain lines, and fans wero asked to Rothman, Speer, and others. The Futuri- lend support and suggestions. In 1941 ans believed that the Constitution and it began functioning after a preliminary by-laws, a long, obscure thing, held election, and President Chauvenet drew concealed machinery by which the Futuri- up a rather long constitution, describ­ ans could bo kept out. The Triumvirs ing minutiae of procedure to be fol­ had to agree to submit this constitution lowed. Due to the Fincom report, this to a vote along with any other that mite was not adopted, and tho approval of a be endorsed by a given number of members constitution was finally secured, an in­ of New Fandom. Such a constitution was terregnum began in June 1942. This was presented by Speer not long after. The broken by Evans’ Blitzkrieg, but only Unholy Throe proved unwilling to submit temporarily. America having entered the them to a vote, and delayed. In the Jar in late 1941, more and more active spring of 1940 they called a conference fans were removed from activity by going at Newark to which the Phillies, Warner, into the Army and other overtime occupa­ and Spoer wore invited. Warner and tions, so that tho government structure Speer sent regrets; the Phillies attend­ envisioned for the NFFF could not be ed, and the conference appointed tempo­ worked. rary officers for New Fhndom in line The NFFF was to include all fans, with the setup of the Triumvirs’ pro­ it was hoped, determined by activity posed constitution. However, the offi­ tests. The US would be divided into cial organ had ceased to come out; de­ several regions, each of which would spite much talk of future projects, tho have certain functions within itself; organization had undertaken no activity there was also some provision for affi­ since the Convention except for the liating local groups. The central ad­ loaders’ making various declarations in ministration of the Federation, besides the name of New Fandom; and both leaders the elected officers and the Advisory and members seemed willing to let the Board, would include several committees, whole matter drop. and a permanent judicial or legal body of certain middle-aged fans. The NFFF newsies - Fanzines intending to give news was expected to perform such functions of fan activities. Ordinarily they ap­ as coordination and standardization, and pear weekly, but there have been tri­ undertake such projects as were forward­ weeklies (once every three weeks), and ed by the Plancom and approved by'the FANCYCLOPEDIA 61 ni - nyc

Directorate. like that, where a paragraf ends flush with the right-hand margin. Ackerman nicknames - Besides penames and the usual skips a line and indents five epeces; English nicknames, Bob, Jack, Don, Joe, Speer doesn’t like that because the Looie, Ferry, etc, fans use several skip-a-line paragrafing should mean a kinds of distinctive monikers. greater break than usual in the dis­ Some are cussion, and he tries to avoid endirg derived from the initials, such as Ef- a paragraf at the rh margin; if it does jay, 4sJ, the J, Daw, W, p, the F, juf- happen, he uses a # mark (typewriterese fas, Tubby, Dtf*3, Elarcy, Deeby, Ecco, for«f|) to make a new fractional line. 2J4, Hock, Tripoli, yhos, and the Esper- antic Morojo, Togo, Vodoso, arlawi, Alo- Norcon - A small fan gathering over the jo, ktp. 43-44 year-end at Manchester Britain. There are names based on various characteristics: Skylark Smith, Oily nova - A designation given by Campbell to Will, Doc, Saint Harry, the Newark Nean­ stories written on old themes which derthal, i/himsy ’Wilson, Fascist Speer, breathed now life into them. JJC dropt Ephless El, Ego, il Duco of Flushing it even quicker than he did ’’mutant”, Flats, der Flihrer of the Newark Swamps, with a final defiant gesture or two. the Miftado of Long Island City, Fone- Nova pole, Foghorn Samuel, the #1 Face, the Press was a publishing house of Ashley, Hermit of Hagerstown, The Michelist, Bad, EEEvans, Wiedenbeck, and Perry, in 1942, Tex, Ruja-blu, the Grand Old Man, and who soon joined ASP. the Hermit. There are various combina­ Novacious Pubs - The publishing house of tions and ilnEnglish corruptions of Mirta Forsto, marked for its neotric first and last names, such as 4e, Fojak, novelties, Ackermanese addictions, and SaM, ^akspiro, Mirta Forsto, Wacky, TeD, the marvelous typewriters it commanded. Rajocz, Bustebar, Jinx, Suddsy, Raym, Later called dyktawo pubs. Buns, and Jikd. Thore are ulalso several NYBISA - New York Branch of the ISA, the names usod as official which aren’t le­ principal one. All officers of the ISA gally the bearers’: Jack. -Harrow, B6b on the eve of dissolution were from the JJurktr, leslie perri, Dirk Jylie, and New York Branch, Sykora being President, Jack Robins. vice-presidency vacant, Secretary Kubil­ ius in the hospital, Jollheim Treasurer. nonce-word - Use your store-bought dic­ Frederik Pohl was Official Editor. tionary, dummy; who do you think I am, Wollheim was also Vice-Chairman of the G & C Morriam? NYB while Sykora was Chairman. There­ fore, with the resignation of Sykora, non-fiction - All proso writing except followed by Pohl, rfollheim became the fiction, including articles, depart­ only officer of cither ISA or NYBISA ex­ ments, and editorial stuff. cept Kubilius, who agreed to lot him take over. The NYBISA was the most act­ nonstoparagrafIng - (Ackerman) - Para­ ive club, with the greatest assortment graf ing in which no line is skipped be­ of later famous fans, that New York has tween paragrafs, and the new paragraf is had; it provided the background for the indented the length of the last line of next five years of New York fandom, and the preceding one; in other words, when became something of a golden age in re- the typist reaches the end of a para­ tropppet. graf, he drops down a line, maybe hits the space bar once or twice, and goes on Nycon - The First Jo rid Science-Fiction writing, as is done in this publication. Convention in Now York in 1939; so called originally by its enemies who de­ Practice varies on what to do in a case nied that it was a ’’world” convention, nyf - offi 62 FaHCYCLQKEDIA

the name was generally adopted after the JOTS - The New York Ite-ntasy Society. Or­ Jhicon. The enemies of the tfSFC commit- ganized after the wreck of the ISA, •?e also called it the World’s Fair it gave birth to Michelism and oth­ cicnce-Fiction Convention, 1939 "being er things, and next year joined the ho first year of the W.'.Worl&ts .pale. GNYSEL.

Jo btite comzhfcntB occur, to your lexi- in the advance fotograf FFF’d published cografer in connection with this letter, of Odd Tales’ cover by Bok, and in the so he’ll leave it in peace. announced titles for stories in the first issue, acrostics had spelled "Fake” and obliterine - (Australian:Ackerman) - Cor­ “Hoax”. Since then it has been a gag rection fluid. It is stuff something Be with Strictly Ikom to announce that the nail polish (np has been used as a sub­ second or third issue of Odd Tales will stitute). When a mistake is made on the top any givon feature of any of the cur­ mimeo stencil, the openings in the wax rent pros, as for example tho paginess of are closed by rubbing, as with a paper Palmer’s pubs. clip, and obliterine used to seal the spot, which can be retyped after a few official editor - Publisher of the offi­ seconds. Tho bad thing about obliterine cial organ and other official publica­ is its habit of vaporizing and thicken­ tions such as the ballots. In the PAPA ing in tho bottle, cap it quickly as you he is also mailing manager. He always will. has considerable discretion as to what The stenciler has just composed a shall be included in the o/ficial organ Poem in Praise of Correction Fluid, and besides the prescribed material. In the you1ro going to have to listen to it: better-regulated clubs his expenses come Obliterine, obliterine, out of the general treasury. Without you Trhero -would; >6 have .been? To 6rr ie human, and’elannish.too; official organ - A fanzine which is 3ut'?ne can.jGorrect.our mistaken with:.Uk called the official organ of some organ­ Few of man’s blessings are less unmixed ization, In some cases the editor is (Here the pome breaks off, due to inabi­ appointed by the organization; usually lity to find an appropriate rime for un- ho simply volunteers, often offering a mixed.) fanzine already established, to become the official organ. It may be financed Odd Talcs - After Pearl Harbor, when tho out of tho general treasury, but more pro situation was looking black and Ifen often is paid for by subscriptions, or, were being drafted in considerable num­ when the administration is centralized, bers, a strong optimistic note was intro­ receives “membership dues” as in effect duced when FFF announced a new pro named subscriptions, .Myriad ’ organisations Odd Tales, to be edited by Unger, with with few activities on their program many famous fans on its staff or produc­ have become no more than their official ing some of the new mutant featurew it organ. Whether the organization sur­ was to have. Unger, editor of FFF, asked vives or not, the organ almost always Lowndes at a Sciontiforum not to give becomes dissociated from it, prints more away his secret, and discovered that Doc and more miscellaneous material by non­ never had tumbled, tho somo time back a members, and continues on its own just hoax of this sort had beon discussed with like any other subscription fanzine. him. flhon the announced publicatiKnldate Exceptions-have been the FAPA's Itintasy was past, and people were asking ’Ufaere Amateur and the Bulletin of thtf*NFFF is Odd Tales?", Unger apologized to the (Bonfire), which are confined almost ex­ many who had sent in subscription money, clusively to official reports. and others who’d sent in mss and artwork for consideration. He pointed out that officials - Generally, all persons given FANCYCLOPEDIA 63 offt - ou

spacial duties in connection with an or­ fans. ganization; specifically, those who are They may have no formal setup, Just appointed as distinguished from the of­ be a collective name, but usually there ficers elected. is a written constitution and officers. Requirements for membership are usually off-trail - A designation for fantasy easy or non-existent. Dues and an offi­ which doesn’t seem to fit easily under cial organ are de rigeur for those that any of the known types. are formally organized. Officers may include a president, vice-president, Oily Will - Oldtime nickname of Will secretary-treasurer, and official edi­ Sykora’b. tor, with such variant terminologies as director, chairman, vice director, Dic­ old-timers - Originally, someone who read tator (spwsstfm), Grand High Cocolorum Amazing before there were any other s-f (IAOPETC), general manager (TEG), Hi magazines. It is now used to indicate Priestess (FooFooism), managing secre­ fans who were acquainted with fandom in tary, chief pilot (Galactic Roamers), the Fantasy Magazine days. More recent coordinator, ktp. Other officials found comers, since the Barbarian Invasion be­ include official critics, regional re­ gan, sometimes call themselves old- presentatives, and various boards and timers, compared to those of less than committees. Officials in the latter a year’s standing. The word is not group are usually appointed by the pre-, exactly synonymous with ’’veterans”. sident; the first-named are ordinarily elected by the membership. #1 Pace - Nickname for Ackerman, from his The first or­ rating as top fan in the polls. ganizations, locals, go back at least as far as 1928. The demand for a general one-shot publication - A publication fan organization has been persistent, which is actually and avowedly, intended tho the path is strewn with wreckage, to have only the one issue, as distin­ and with the accumulation of experience guished from many "periodicals” which many veteran fans become fanarchistic. don’t get beyond the first issue, and Fly-by-nite organizations flowered par­ other sheets which do not indicate whe­ ticularly in the First Transition, and ther they’re periodicals or non­ became nothing but their official organs recurrent pamflets. or nothing at all. The organizing in­ stinct Cannot be suppressed. order - An organization of persons who have certain characteristics in common. OSA - The Oklahoma ■■ Two fan organizations called orders are ation. The first the Sacred Order of FooFoo and the Loyal state organiza­ and Benevolent Protective Order of Goll­ tion, begun in heim Stooges. 1936 by Dan Mc­ Phail. It never organizations - There are both local and attained formal general organizations in fandom, with organization, but some efforts at state and regionals. continues, in near-dormant state, as an Fan orgs have been called clubs, informal group of South-Westerners, hav­ leagues, fictioneers, societies, guilds, ing included Hart, Sullivan, the Rogers- associations, federations, orders; and see, Speer, and McPhail, with lesser miscellaneous names like Scienceers, lites. A conference called a powwow was RTF, IAOPUMUMSTFPUSA Unltd, Phantasy held in 1939. The OSA was talking about Legion, Scientifilmakers, New Fandom, joining tho DFF when the latter di sap­ Golden Gate Futurians, Washington Worry­ pearod. arts, Intellectual Brotherhood of Pro­ Scientists, Columbia Camp, Galactic Outsiders’ Club - (Lovecraft) - Name Roamers, Windy City Gampires, and Michi- from a story by HPL. The Club was for- p - pen 64 FANCYCLOPFDIA

me y the Washington /cNDcnandminqn^ a quently revived to be showmiat meet­ V«ei.?d Tales Club. It consists of weird- ings of the club. The Outsiders have ists and. a few submerged, stfists dwell­ no contact with fandom, tho they’ve ing in Washington DC, including Seabury published some issues of a club organ, Quinn. Old-time fantasy movies are fre­ The Outsider.

P'- Ahoth&t 'Well-behaved letter except formed the Constitutionalist Party, op­ when people tie it up with h. Such im­ posing particularly Rothman’s admitted portant words as fantasy and sulfa- were violating of the Constitution, and the onco so spelled. P was the pseudo mid­ proposal to raise the dues to 75^ which dle initial of Claire P Beck, standing had been voted on in a special election for Poverty, and he desired it dropped and erroneously declared passed (too few at the time (end of 1938) of his epic in all voted). Both the Progressives hitch-hike to NY and back to Lakeport, and tho Constitutionalists failed to when it became too bitterly true. elect their men. More effective in win­ Pacificon - (Ackerman) - The proposed 4th ning elections were unofficial combines World Convention in LA in 1942. Tho it like tho Wollheimists above referred to was postponed, the name Pacificon Jr was and the FAPA Brain Trust, which supplied given to an extra-large meeting of the nearly all tho officials for the NFFF LAS PS late in 1942, when Rothman and ma­ and for the FAPA after the Interregnum. ny other immigrants and transients were there. Lawrence Paschall - Rename of Dan McPhail, derived from his middle and mother is pamflet - A booklet containing inform­ maidename. ation of more than temporary value. patriotism - People as inclined to cyni­ Panurge - (Rabelais) - Rename of W B Mc­ cism, Bemantics, and anti-emotionalism Queen, later one of the Columbia Camp. Qis fans are do not offer fertile soil for nationalistic loyalty. When war Panzerkampfwagon - (Speer) - A Mercury came, fans displayed a willingness to convertible belonging to Juffus’s bro­ fite for certain aspects of the American ther, in which the Philadelphia Blitz­ way of life, but dealt heavily with krieg and other trips were carried out. flag-waving super-patriots who appeared among them. parties - After the June 1938 PAPA cam­ paign, Speer made preparations to launch pename - To give variety where tho same a formal political party with the Phil­ writer has several pieces in one issue lies, Queensies, and other allies, to be of a fanzine, or just because he likes called the Constitutional Party, and the sound of the name, pen names are formed by a dozen people signing a joint often used. Much ink has been shed over declaration. The idea was scrapped when the question of whether they should be the Wollheiraists, their opponents, used so freely, it being maintained that dropped out. In 1939 the Progressive the reader has a right to know who’s Party was formed by McPhail, with Tau- writing a piece, that now fans are like* rasi and Marconette, on a platform op­ ly to get mistaken ideas of tho size of posing fan feuds and denouncing alien fandom or some section of it, and that ismsk They were much embarrassed by the it hampers the secretary of the FAPA in application of the Futurians for admis­ determining activity credentials and tho sion on claim that they approved sub­ Laureate Committee in giving honors. stantially of the party’s platform, -.and But still they come. Certain ones, such McPhail dissolved and re-formed it without as Solitaire, Azygous, Star-Treader, the the Futurians. In 1941 the Futurians Professor, and the S-F Cynic, have been FANCYCLOFEDTA 65 per - phi

made deep mysteries, and much specula­ autos and miscellaneous property like tion preceded their identification. cameras and tripewriters, many fanzines Others havo seemed to be separate new have been given affectionate . nicknames, fans but turned out to bo hoaxes. which help give the contents "personali­ The ty". These are usually corruptions of penames whose identity is not concealed a syllable or two from the regular name: are a mutation of the fan’s name, an en­ Madge, Nell, Fanny, Mickey, Tommy, Sal­ tirely now name thot up, or descriptive ly, Lovy, Fay, Leo, Tizzie, Di, SaL, of some characteristic real or imagin­ Squeaky, LcZ, Warbul, Vom, Susie, Nep­ ary. Jack Erman, Lawrence Paschall, pie, Horace, Fido, Espie, Mopsy, and Beu­ Thomas G Robertson, J Harry Vincent, Er­ lah. ick Froyor, and Pvt Ack-Ack are of the firstype; Sears Langell, Braxton Wells, Phantasy Legion - A project of David A Robert Bahr, Weaver Wright, Allen Zweig, Kyle’s, with board of directors, emblem, Samuel D Gottosman, F Stanislaus Proso­ official organ, ’n’ everything, except dy, Lane Stannard, Carlton-xJ Fassbeind- activity. The organization appeared and er, Roy St John Le Claire, and the Con­ died in the First Transition. ways are of the second; and Hoy Ping Pong, Claire Voyant, Erdstelulov, (Him­ $ - Nickname for 0red Pohl evor since he self), Dr Acula, Vermyn Slinko, Satyri- used Greek alphabets on the covers of cus, Sinn-yk-uhss, and Panurge of the Mind of Man. third. Many penames are nonce*words and Phil co - Philadelphia conference. -..The not worth compiling. Others may become title was adopted in 1939 when "conven­ indistinguishable from nicknames. tion" had come to mean something larger than the former Eastern S-F gatherings, leslie porri - Name by which Boris Baum- but annual Philcos are numbered serially gardt, ex -Pohl, is generally known. counting the First and Third Easterns as 1 and 2. personalized fanzine - The descriptive name stumbled on for what this lexicon Phillies - The prominent members of the calls Individ fanzine. PSFS, sometimes with the exception of Rothman. Baitadonis, Madle, and Agnew petition - Originally a signed paper ad­ were the chief ones, and Speer was usu­ dressed to some official, praying that ally part of their unit in the fan certain action be taken. In fandom, feuds. however, petitions are anything but hum­ ble supplications. For example, there philosophy - Speculative inquiry which was the one signed by many attendees of investigates matters not yet within the the Newark Convention, jrhich reprimanded realms of science or art; specifically, Sykora for misuse- of hie chairmanship of the four questions: What is the nature the Convention. A little later, follow­ of reality (is the universe more like an ing the June 1938 EAPA elections, Speer idea in someone’s mind, or like a ma­ got signatures from more than half of chine, or the commonsense view; are all the members to a Petition of Reprimand natural laws reducible to a single prin­ demanding no repetition of the iVollheim- ciple; does God exist; what is tho dif­ ists' tactics in that election. The ference between being and not being; is Constitution of the EAPA now makes an the future course of events determined; instrument in the form of a petition the ubw)? How can we gain knowledge of re­ means by which a majority of the active ality (how dependable are our senses; members can at any time do almost any­ can we be absolutely certain of any­ thing that lies in the sovereignty of thing; what are the rules of logic; how the organization. can wo find tho referent; ktp)? What is the nature of the good (are there abso­ pet names - Besides the names given fans-* lute values; what is the relation be- phz - poi______66______FANCYCLQFEBIA

tween individual and general welfare; is from earliest times. Science-fiction happiness the only test of good; should has not seemed such a good theme for one accept things as they are or try to poetic flites, but efforts have been change them; &c)? './hat is the nature of made by fans, some worthy, and among the beautiful (are there essences which great poets sciencistic pieces are are captured by the artist; should art found, notably in Tennyson. A ‘good have any relation to morality; should example of purely science-fiction po­ tho artist create only for his own etry is the Manet Prine*’ a-jv. quatrain: taste; what is the essential difference aAnd my mind goes soaring upward between prose and poetry; etc)? Far beyond our dreary ken It will To a desert dying planet bo easily seen that the first two groups And a dying race of men.u of questions, metaphysics and epistemol­ A bit ovwr? ogy* concern principles very important done, but genuine. in discussion of fantasy; and that the In fandom and the latter two, ethics and aesthetics, are pros we have: ballads, usually of 1a- subjects that fans have talked about a ther simple appeal; one epic; other great deal since the- First Transition. semi-narrative and descriptive poems The such as passing of tho Planets”; store worth of philosophy lies not in giving of love lyrics and others expressing dogmatic answers to those questions, but personal feeling, which have no connec­ in mapping out the answers that have tion with fantasy except that fantasy been given, and showing the assump­ fans have written them, as well as num­ tions and implications of the various erous fantasy lyrics addressed to Red theories. Moon or a Martian lover or the first space flite; dadaistic and metaphysical ph—. If, yodtne i hohkixig. for anything. il«e stuff; jingles like daffy poetics; and a that starts with this, bud, you’d better great many parodies of various types of thumb back to the Fs. poems and songs. All the familiar verse Planeom - (Evans) - The Long-Range Plan­ forms are used. Lowndes and others have ning Committee of the NFFF. It was to written many sonnets (Lovecraft’s Fungi consider all suggestions for new activi­ from Yuggoth are favorites), vers libre ties to be undertaken by the Federation is popular with our Bohemians, Speer has and work into shape those that it con­ plugged the Anglo-Saxon measure. Stand­ sidered worth while, but after it had ard stanza division is usual in poems of finished, they had yet to be approved by greater than.filler size; thdre has been the Board. ERE van a was chmn of the comparatively little blank verse. Flanconi, and sent out carb on-copied All­ sheets to the Committeemen carrying poetry booklets appear rather often. ideas and comments, received comments There was a short-lived SF Foots’ Guild. and ideas, and sent out more sheets. In The FATA has a poetry laureate. an active quarter, the ideas considered included: establishment of a Wei com, logo - Nickname for Mrs Russell M t/ood, compilation of a history of fandom, re­ formerly Mary Corrine Gray, once called cognition of official poll taker, publi­ Fatti. cation of a fannual, reader’s bureau to advise which stories in the current pros point system of rating - (Youd:Warner) - were worth reading (disapproved), voting Because the impressionistic comments on by all fans on time and place of conven­ a story, article, or department (swell, tions, official stationery, public rela­ OK, lousy, it stinks, worth throe plums tions ideas, awards, federal subdivision and a prune, etc) are likely to vary of the country, and others. greatly in meaning in different critics and not tell the editor much, Youd askod poetry - Fantasy poetry of course dates Fay’s readers to rate each piece with a ENCYCLOPEDIA______67 ______pol

number from 1 to 10, 10 being best. The frequently overlaps with’’truck science - number is to indicate the quality, not fiction etc, and there are very similar the rank as compared to others in the stories, comedies of manners on a grand same issue; every piece in an issue mite scale, whimsical bits, and stories sim­ get the same rating if they seem equally ply speculating "if", which are not so­ good or punk. Such ratings are easy to ciologically motivated. average up in get the consensus of opin­ ion on an item and the general rating on politics - In such expressions as Fanny's an issue (in the latter case, pieces are ’’Boost Science Fiction Not Politics", sometimes weighted according to length, moans sociological discussions. so that a three-page article will have more effect on the general rating than a Poll Cat - Art Widner's polls of fan one-pager). The system is not perfect, opinion and data. Originally it was however, since different readers may at­ simply concerned with preferences among tach different significance to tho same stf authors, etc. Appeals wore broad­ number: one may use 7 for the general cast in- all leading fanzines for readers run of acceptably good material, while to send in their votes on certain ques­ another will use 5. Buried somewhere in tions, and as returns wore compiled, Spaceways’ letter section, beyond the they were published, later returns being reach of this author’s research, is a published later. Then one issue of a statement of what each number signifies fanzine called Tho Boll Cat appeared, at to one reader, which flamer asked all to which time Widner set out to test tho observe. thesis that fans are a separate and dis­ The point system has been tam­ tinct type (slans or whatever you pered with, some readers and editors want to call them). Thereafter, the preferring to use any number from 1 to poll, conducted thru Lo Zombie (other 100, in the delusion that ratings could subscription fanzines being irregular be that fine; and some applying money because of the war), included blank values. self-addressed postcards for tho readers to reply on, rather than leaving it en­ political fantasy - (Marconette) - A sto­ tirely to their own initiative. Looking ry whose primary object is to illustrate for unusual averages in fans, rfidner some sociological opinion, which it does found several characteristics that usually by imagining events in the mod­ looked significant, such as longevity of ern world which we know couldn’t have grandparents, larger hat size, and happened because if they had we’d have greater height, but some remarks by Har­ read about them in the newspapers, like ry flarner cast sorious doubts on them. van Loon’s story of the invasion of America by Nazis in 1940, or flarner Bro­ polls - The first fan poll was the IPO. thers' Mission to Moscow. Such stories While it was still running, the fanzine may take place in the future, like Novao Terrao put out a questionnaire Wells's The Life and Death of a Dicta­ with each issue, called Panel of Crit­ tor, Such stories are fantasy not so ics, which contained some questions on much because they involve superscienco the magazine and some personal and other or the like, but because they must be general questions. Afterwards, Le Zom­ placed in an imaginary country, or in bie and other fanzines from time to time the future, or in some present subjunc- took a poll, but the Poll Cat made the tivoly alternative to our own, in order things famous in fandom. that the author may manipulate charac­ Questions are ters and incidents freely. Fantastories usually of three types: Opinions on top like Things to Come which merely have fan, author, pro, best-remembered fanta- sociological overtones probably would scene, etc; opinions on religion, Mich­ not be called political fantasy. The el ism, &c; and personal data, such as term is not a good one as a parallel to age, national extraction, and introvert s-f, weird, and pure fantasy because it characteristics. r.on - pro*68 FANCYCLOFEDIA

Sometimes the fan’s name In the latter case, when the official is required on poll answers, sometimes mailing is unexpectedly delayed, these they arc at least nominally treated as "post”-mailings may actually be pre­ anonymous. mailings. If official.’ material Lis The gremlins of polls are mailed out late, late publications will several. -for st is the jerk who re­ be included with it, and the expense is ceives a postcard to reply on and does­ borne by tho treasury. Despite some ob­ n't do anything about it; these usually jections, publications sent out late to run around 50$ of the total coverage. all members aro considered part of the Another offender is the guy who won’t official mailings for purposes of laure­ givo a straight answer to the question, ates, activity records, etc. but thinks the card is better used for ♦ wise cracks, which aro quite unappreci­ president - The president of an organiza­ ated. Finally, there is the problem of tion is tho guy who’s responsible. If getting a representative sample of fans. the org isn’t doing much activity, blame The Poll Cat did best at this when his the president. If things go wrong, he requests and reports were appearing in must fix them if no volunteer vigilantes many different subscription fanzines, beat him to it, The PAPA Constitution but even he had trouble with a lot of specifically gives the president all ne­ fans from a given locality ganging up cessary powers to deal with situations and sending in votes for the loading fan not otherwise covered by the Constitu­ in their puddle as being top fan of the tion; especially to prevent another in­ world, etc. Other polls have had worse terregnum. While few functions are spe­ luck in this regard. Even if the fan­ cifically delegated to a president, he zine they are circulated with cuts a has considerable influence on the orga­ good cross-section of fandom, the re­ nization, by his power to appoint offi­ plies are likely to be weighted toward cials, by recommendations made in line the writers,- etc, appearing in that with his responsibility, and by speaking fanzino, because it is in the replier’s for the organization to fandom as a mind when he answers, and the colossal whole or to the general public. fanzine which appeared a month ago, and convention and club activities, aro more Prime Base - (SmithtFuturians) - 129 W dimly remembered. There is also a ten­ 103d St, Manhattan NY, a few doors east dency to vote tho poll-taker higher among of the Futurian Embassy. Therein dwelt the top fans than would be done on some­ certain Futurians in tho 1941 interval one else’s poll. Widner modestly left between the Embassy and the Fortress. himself out entirely in reporting the results. printing - Such fanzines as are printed are more often than not hand-set. Sev­ Pong - The surname given such Tuckerish eral have been hired out -to conxiotaial penames as John J Pong Jr, Horatio Alger printers at prohibitive cost; one such Fong, usw, altho according to some who printer, Conrad H Ruppert of the staff should know, the first namo rathern the of Fantasy Magazine, later offered re­ last is the surname for Chinamen, so duced rates for fanzines. However that that if these characters are related to may bo, limited circulation has meant the famous Hoy Ping Pong, they should all that virtually all printed fanzines arc be Hoys. largely financed by tho oditor’s own pocket. Rubber stamp sots aro usually post-mailing - (Speer) - After each PAPA excluded from the term "printing”. mailing, there are usually some publica­ pros - Pronouncod Ep7O23. Means commer­ tions that missed the boat. Those may wait for the next mailing, but most of cially published fantasy magazines, such the time the publisher has the mailing as Astounding Stories and iVoird Tales. manager send them to each member at the Also sometimes means professional writ­ publisher’s expense, or doos it himself. ers of fantasy, tho tho definition be- FANCYCLOPEDIA 69 prof - pso

tween one who makes his living as an au­ laughed at or ignored the movement. thor, and. one who writes only for pin money, has never been satisfactorily F Stanislaus Prosody - Rename for Cyril made. Kornbluth. Prozines have multiplied from the old days of the Big Three to a peek in PSD - Pretty Scientist’s Daughter, symbol 1940. In 1939 the count was 18 differ­ of stock characters in hack science­ ent titles, 116 issues published, and in fiction. 1940 it was even higher. In an IPO sur­ vey taken near its inception, the flood pseudoscience - Scientific explanations of now pros was disapproved 18 to 5, so which actually clash with accepted sci­ there mustn’t have been much weeping and entific belief, but by glossing-over wailing and gnashing of teeth when the pass for plausibility to the untutored curve turned downward. (Reasons for the minds of Ihntastic Adventures* audience up&down much debated.) Disapproval was and other children. The use of the word mainly because the new magazines, with to describe science-fiction in general some exceptions, printed trashier mate­ is fiercely fought by lovers of the lit­ rial than the older ones, and fans did- erature. n'ft want to read it or have other people reading it and sneering at stf. pseuicido - Also called pseudocide and Quite a some unprintable names. few long-time fans have at times com­ Early in 1941, pletely given up reading the pros thru just before Boskone I was to take place, disgust, or preoccupation with fan and Earl Singleton’s roommate made known other activities. The course of fan that es had committed suicide. Single- history has varied from close to elite ton was comparatively new in the field, connexion with the pros, and the wish but had become a leading figure since has often been expressed that we could the Chi con, and the occurrence was a get along without the pros as a recruits great shock. Numerous poems and issues ing medium. This is principally a fana- of fanzines were dedicated to him, and tionalistic manifestation, however; the considerable debate about the ethics of average stefnist cats up good stfantasy, suicide took place. It was whispered in has an exaggerated idea of its literary some circles that a girl had been merit, and will leap to defond it against involved, and the Futurians never detractors. stopped wondering why he did it. Sev­ the Professor - Rename of a writer of eral months lator, various fans be­ super-puritanical letters to Vom. This gan to notice phony things about hoaxster was finally revealed, for the the circumstances; for instance,Earl1 s publication of Jtencyclopedia, to be lus­ parents had come up from Texas and ty Les Croutch, the Canadian sexperimen- taken away his remains within a day tcr in stf. of his death. Widner, who was on the ground, began investigating, and the Intellectual Brotherhood of Pro-Scientists report that it was a hoax spread. After - A quasi-Michelist organization that the researchers turned their atten­ launched by Raymond van Houten and Peter tion to finding out who all had been in Duncan, with a manifesto which they on it from the first, chief curiosity wanted fans to sign, denouncing the centering; around IrudyKtulan. anti-scientific forces of the time, such - .- That fall as Frankenstein movies, and praising Singleton, who was reported to be work­ Science as the thing that would solve ing for the Government in Washington, all problems. It was discussed at the visited Warner in Hagerstown, giving as 1940 Philco. A few liberals like Roth­ his name the name of a Washington room­ man took it seriously enuf to debate mate, and subscribed to Spaceways. War­ with them, but most of fandom either ner mentioned the visit and his suspi- psf - publishing* 70 FANCYCLQr'EDTA

cions to Spool* some months later, and mire. It has some malignant power over the F tracked zombie to its lair. No his mind, and its fascinations are irre­ other fen saw Singleton after the pseui- sistible. ifaatever bo the dignity or cido, tho Widner received an engagement profundity of his disquisition, whether announcement, and it has nover been ho be enlarging knowledge or exalting af­ learned just why es pulled tho hoax. fection, whether he be arousing attention with incidents or enchaining it in sus­ FSFS - Tho Philadelphia Science Fiction pense, lot but a quibble spring up be­ Society, founded by Rothman as a chapter fore him and ho leaves his work unfin­ of tho SIL in 1934. Other members have ished. A quibble, poor and barren as it been Ossie Train, John Baitadonis, Rob­ is, gave him such delight that he was ert Madlo, Jack Agnew, Alexander Phil­ content to purchase it by the sacrifice lips, Rusty Barron, and others. Its pub­ of reason, propriety, and truth.” -’’The lishing house was Comet. In fan feuds Pun is Ml gh fl e-r than the Sword l” it has generally been against Wollhcim, publications - ’’Fanzines” has generally but always good-naturedly. The FSFS has been used as synonymous with this, tho been a branch of the SIL, ISA, and Sci­ it mite seem logically that publications ence Fictionoors. In the 1940s the club include fanzines and also booklets, pam- became almost dormant, but oven in the flets, circulars, leaflets, etc. midst of the war, when most of its mem­ bers were in tho armed forces, a FSFS publicity - Tho principal avenue for fan­ News would drop into the mailbox at tho dom to be presented to the general pub­ most unexpected times. lic has been the pro stf magazines. Be­ cause of the necessity for keeping new psychoanalyses - Psychoanalysis is really recruits coming in, fandom has been ea­ a therapeutic treatment for upset mental ger to get publicity, but has gagged at conditions. The word was misused by publicity such as the Time writeup of Speer and Rothman for the expositions of the 1939 convention, which makes it their own psychologies, later called out to be a lot of kids avidly interest­ autoanalyses. However, it was found ed in the prozines. Notices have been that talking it out actually did have secured in various local papers when some value in reducing tension and get­ conventions were being held, and a few ting perspective on oneself. mentions of local club meetings in minor The Futuri- journals, almost invariably with some ans say that various of their number inaccuracies. Fosters have been put up have visited professional psychiatrists in windows announcing conventions, ban­ at timos and caused the psychiatrists to ners strung around the hall, and fans seek long vacations. parading down the street in costume have attracted notice of passersby, but many pun - Tho lowest form of a Joke, even if feel that that only serves to confirm Shakespeare did use them. Ackerman is the misimprossions givwn/.by tha

some cases fans with mimeos do part of fiction, because the explanation isn’t the mechanical work for less favored, ed­ to be taken seriously. itors, and in the caso of servifans or lure fantasy as a those in cooperatives like the LA4FS, ho regular form appeared late, aside from may have other fen cutting stencils for fairy tales for children and tales al­ him. In such cases, the work of the more legedly for children (such as Lewis Car­ ’’editor” approaches a vanishing point. roll’s masterpieces). The ’’modem myth­ So it is customary in fandom to give cre­ ology” of Unknown was for the most part dit to whoever does the dirty work by pure fantasy. speaking of "publishers" instead of ”editors” of fan publications. purist - A duck that insists on observing all the old rules of grammar (word-use, publishing house - In fandom, a person or spoiling, syntax, punctuation, capitali­ group with a distinctive name followed by zation, ktp). "Publications”, ’’Press”, or equivalent. Frequently it designates the publications purple - The common color of hektografy, of only one person, occasionally of a but also the dyo of ghughuism. says group of friends, and sometimes of di­ wollhoim, "once acknowledge ghughuism, verse persons scattered over the coun­ and you will be saved, oven though you try. In the latter cases it may or may spend the rest of your life fighting not indicate that the members assist ghughu or putting up all sorts of anti­ each other and confer on policy and gods. For your soul knows, and nothing, practices. i repeat, NOTHING your fallible brain Publishing houses in fandom may do thereafter, can erase the purple include the Futile Press, Shepherd and tinge of truth from your soul,... Every ffollheim, Choctaw Publications, Comet one who partakes of your pseudo-Holigion Publications, Ego-CoBp, Michel-ifollheini, in ’opposition’ to ghughu, also becomes the tetrahedron sign, "■TauraBi-'ThoxnpQQn, at once a ghughuist with a purple soul, United Publications, Cosmic Publica­ because at the very sight of ghughuism, tions, Galactic Publications, Green no matter how unfavorably portrayed, the Jester Publications, Empress Publi­ soul cries out in recognition and leaps cations, United Publications, Vulfean to embrace and be embraced by ghughu. Publications, LuGerKus, ghu publica­ purple is the soul of all those you con­ tions, Futurian Publishers’ Group, Nova- tact ;abbut yghnghuism. jurple-souled cious Pubs, Starlight Publications, the Morojo, purple-soulcd logo, . • .” The Moonstruck Press, the Moonrakers, Dixie FooFooist remedy for all this is to re­ Press, Aimless Publications, Bodacious move the soul in case it becomes trou­ Publications, Nova Press, dyktawo pubs, blesome, tho those who may carry purple- MFS Publications, the doubledoublet oil - soiled souls around with them do not andtrouble mimeograph, ASP, Black Dia­ find that they hinder them in any way mond Publ i cat i ons, UBV Snafudus Publ i ca­ from being foo-bluo FooFooiets, and de­ tions, Vulcan Publications, Fubar Pubs, spising and spitting upon ghughuism and and Curfew Publications. all its advocacy, which certainly marks them as different from the depraved pure fantasy - (Jollhoim) - Ihntasy whose cireatures who wear ghughuist titles. only believability is in the reader’s Says artificial acceptance of it for the sake rothman (with capitals suppressed, of of the story. It may take beliefs which course)— "Add this: Since this manu­ were once widely held, such as Hellenic script has been read by wollheim, the mythology, but if it doos it must mix in ghu, and rothman, archbishop of Phila­ a modern element, otherwise you’re in delphia, and the blessing of ghu put up­ the province of weird fiction. Also, on it, all those who read this in tho fu­ thero may be a gesture at a pseudo­ ture will have their souls dyed purple, scientific or ’’you can’t be sure” expla­ and will bo immune to the depraved prop­ nation, but this doesn’t make it science aganda written above by fOO-ball Spoor." q - oui______'______72 F>.J,TCYOI.C?EDI,A

Q - Tho criticisms of Q’s existence as a erable extent by Mrs Sykora), at tho member of the alfabet are so obvious time of tho meeting Taurasi, Moskowitz, that we will not go ‘into them here. and Racic had allowed their memberships to lapse thru non-payment of dues. QSFL - The Queons Branch of the SFL. Queons, of course, is tho borough of Mew Quadrumvirs - (Speer) - Dubious Latin York in which Hushing, Richmond Hill, meaning four who share authority and Long Island City, etc, are located, but rule. In fandom it aiiplios to Jollheim, membership has included fane from other Pohl, Lowndes, and Michel, heads of the boroughs and even from Newark and near­ ■Jollheimist faction dominant in the Sec­ by. ond Fandom. Wollheim camo into the as­ Originally established late in 1937, cendancy in the middle of 1937 when Sy­ the QSFL was made up of young fans liko kora resigned and tho ISA broke up. Tho Taurasi, Gillespie, and Wilson for the Quadrumvirate was completed at the be­ most part. When tho ffollheimist unit ginning of 1938, when Lowndes joined the joined it, the name was changed to CtASF etc. In October of the samo year, Greater New York SFL. After the breakup those holding FAiA office resigned and of tho GNYSFL, the QSFL was reestab­ announced the temporary defeat of their lished under a new charter, and pretty ideas; and the Triumvirate camo into the much run by the Triumvirs for several headship. Tho ox-”dictator” and his years. With good publicity from the three ”stooges” continued to write and pros, especially Thrilling Wonder and act in fairly close concert until the Startling, it gathered a large member­ Ivory Tower was dissolved, after which ship of scientifictionists, a number of tohl split off somewhat, but all still whom became fans. They even set up an maintained the general community of Fu- offshoot, the Newark SIB. turian thought. The last his­ torical note on the QSFL was the attemp­ Quoensios - Members of the QSFL who sup­ ted ejection of Dick Wilson and Dan Bur­ ported tho Triumvirs’ policies, as op­ ford from the January 41 meeting. Thru posed to tho Futurian faction of New the efforts of current Director Scott York. Many of them were not well-known Feldman and Hyman Tiger, a record atten­ as fans, but attended the last two bhil- dance of around 60 stfists and pro ce­ cos. It was supposed that they would lebrities was secured. They had given vote the Triumvirs’ way, but because of an invitation to the Futurian Society, this supposition, and their numerical which was declined, unbeknownst to Dick strength, the non-Queensios saw to it Wilson. Wilson brot Dan Burford, Mich- that few votes were taken at the Fhilcos. elist, just back in town, to the QSFL mooting, and the Triumvirs and Racic quibbling - >/hat you accuse your opponent threatened to throw them out. Delay was of doing when it’s you that’s doing . it. requested while a vote was taken, but Oh, in view of the quotation under ’’puns” other things intervened, and Wilson and perhaps it should be explained that in Burford came in while pros were making archaic English, ’’quibble” moans a play speeches. Presently seeing them, tho upon words. Triumvirs, Racic, and Mrs Sykora gave battle, to the distaste of tho celebri­ quizzes - Ordinarily presented in fan­ ties. The manager of the hall finally zines without offer of prizes, except put everybody out. Feldman and Tiger maybe mention in the next issue. Some­ resigned. Later, some people remembered times quizzes are part of membership re­ that under the constitution, one vote quirements of organizations, and in tho would have boon sufficient to exclude a SFL of the B Stf degree. person if tho vote had been taken. Ac­ Quiz questions cording to Feldman (denied to a consid­ may be about the present or past of pro FANCYCLOPEDIA 73 quo - rega

fantasy, fandom, or science, "but usually that you will bo answerable for the sub­ include such ones as “With what issue did stantial meaning and implications of the Gondor Stories go large size for the sec­ quotation, but either do not have the ex­ ond time and what was tho cover-copper on act wording available, or have rearranged that issue?” and similar highly useful tho construction and wording of the ori­ information. ginal statement to fit conveniently in­ to your sentence structure. Examples? quasi-quotemarks - (Speer) - It frequent­ ’’But, 1Every intensely active fan I know ly is impossible or inconvenient to of is some kind of disgusting charac­ quote the exact words of a speaker or ter1, says Miske.” ”He said he ■’•had just writer, and not important to do so. In been too busy1.” (In the first example, such case, you may merely give the sub­ Miske’s wording was, “I know of no fan stance of what he said, and in place of who ranks as ’intensely active’ who is quotation marks, use quote-marks with a not some sort of disgusting character.” hyphen under each ulike this11, instead In the second, ’’have” in tho original has of qualifying the quotation with a clum­ boon changed to uhadn). sy phrase like ”or words to that ef­ fect”. Such qua si-quotemarks indicate qwerty-u-i-op - Tripewriter etaoin shrdlu

R - The remark on this letter in the manu­ of US pro stuff, anyway). Some fans script is too utterly silly to copy. even find it necessary to choose care­ fully which fanzines they shall read be­ Rad - (Ackerman) - Nickname for Don Goll­ cause of the lack of time to read them heim, derived from ”radical”. all; and this created the demand for a fanzine digest. radio - There have been numerous fantasy serials on tho radio for children, such recruiting - A heart-breaking job. Aside as Buck Rogers. More adult fare ip from publicity, some fans go to work on chiefly weird, the best being Arch Obo- their personal acquaintances, flooding ler’s “Lights Out”. them with supply of pro mags and pres­ ently fanzines, only to have them turn rag - Affectionately disparaging synonym away with a pitying or evasive look. for a magazine. Derives from the fact Other recruiters send letters and fan­ that some paper is made from rags. zine samples to writers of promising letters in the readers’ sections of the Rajocz - Nickname for Ray J Sinkiewicz. pro mags, getting little or no response. The NFFT set up a Jelcora to do this sort Raven’s Roost - 311 E 61st St, Manhattan of thing. According to the IPO, most NY, a slummy dump. Residence of Dick fans of 1938 got in touch with fandom by Gilson and David A Kyle after the break­ answering ads of fanzines in the pro up of tho Ivory Tower, later Chet Cohen, zines, only a few thru personal contacts. damon knight, and another. Conventions and large locals like the QSIL encourage the stfist to become an Raym - Nickname for Raymond Gashing ton Jr. active fan after he’s once wandered into our toils. reading - The fan’s first activity is reading the pros and fantasy books (or, referents - See semantics. really first, the scientificomics). Af­ ter he starts subscribing to fanzines, regalength - Eanzines the same size as ho may find that ho no longer has time legal, 21.7 x 35.6. The format was .^a- to read professional science-fiction; dopted because the long stencils and pa­ this is especially true of the British per were cheaper per square unit of let- fans (where the war cut off the supply torage, and stenciling time was supposed regi - ru 74 FANCYCLOPEDIA

to be reduced. The size is objected to Thomas G Robertson - Rename of Robert G by collectors because it doesn’t fit in­ Thompson. to filing places well. Jack Robins - Name taken by Jack Rubinson regional organizations - Orgs of fans or about 1939. federations of locals and state organ­ izations in one of the regions into which rocket - Tho symbol of scionce-fiction, the US is usually divided. Despite such and tho only known way of accomplishing inclusive proposals as those in the Bat­ interplanetary travel, which is the num­ tle Crook constitution of the NFFF, ber one scientific ambition of fandom. there have been only two so far, the DFF Many fans have joined rocket societies and the Mid-West Fantasy Fan Federation, such as tho BIS and ARS to back or per­ Their chief function would seem to be form experimental work on rockets. The regional conferences (the East also has war having given groat impetus to roc­ annual conferences, either Philco or ketry, some fans arc definitely planning Boskone), but it was suggested that they to join the research which will load to take such duties as nows-gathoring and construction of the first space ship. In recruiting. our time. reproduction - The raking of more than tho rooster that woro red pants - A sorta one copy of a jjublication, or the means gag line plugged, frequently in para- used in doing so. Standard methods are frazod form, by Walt Licbschcr. Accord­ hoktoing, mimooing, and printing, supre­ ing to Tucker, tho symbol originated in macy passing historically from printing a dirty story, but it was “distinct­ to hoktoing to mimeoing, as fandom’s ly minor fare.” size fluctuated. Great ingenuity has been displayed in discovering now and Rosebud - (Welles:Tucker) - Originally the unusual means of duplication; they in­ ■nano of a boy's sled, and Citizen Kane’s clude linoblock^ silkscrecning, rubber last word. It came into fandom when a stamp, fotografy, foto-offset, blue­ character in Doc Lowndes’ ’’Trigger Talk print, and even teletype tape, dogtag at Green Guna" murmured that just be­ printer, and sonodisc. Somo 'fanzines fore kicking tho bucket. The cry was are not duplicated but merely passed repeated to Liebscher by Tucker, under around or displayed, and a few have been circumstances which gave it its spacial carbon copied, fanish meaning. reviews - Fantasy books, plays, movies, round robin - A story each installment of radio programs, comics, and the like, which is by a different author. There are reviewed in fanzines, and in individ were round robins by pros in the old alpha, non-fantasy works that interest the J&ntasy Magazine, including one which publisher, particularly music, are de­ for novelty’s sake was written backwards scribed. The principal purpose in re­ —tho end being written first, penulti­ viewing fantasy in other mediums seems mate portion next, kaj tiel pltu. Speer to bo to get it on record, perhaps for has plugged for round robins of fan fic­ the someday bibliografy; certainly lit­ tion, but the two that got under way tle other function is served by radio died of boredom after a while. reviews. Riviaw.e of. stf books aro a elitely different matter. An effort has Roy St John Le Clairo - Some bloody Futu- begun to get them published on uniform rian; they're always signing anonymous sized paper so that thoy may be bound in­ ponames to poems in their pubs. to a booklet to use as a guide when cost­ * ing the second-hand bookshops or looking Rustebar - Nickname of Rusty Barron, tho thru a library. his real namo is Jarnos D Hovelin. FANCYCLOPEDIA 75 s - scioncefictione

S - A sibilant, chiefly noted for its ab­ Oklahoma for a while. sence from phrases that characters in stories are alleged to ’’hiss”. science-fiction - The branch of fantasy which deals with ”tho results of tho saint - A title given to numerous ghughu- occurrence of some scientific pheno­ ists, but v/hen used alone it refers to menon or invention that has never harry dockweiler. been known to occur, but is possible in the sense that it cannot be proved im­ SaL - Pot name for Sweetness and Light, possible.” (IPO). The usual definition the Moonrakors' fanzine. is along the Lowndes formula, “an extrapolation on some scientific fact”. Sally - Pet name for Satellite, British For the Wollheim distinction, see the fanzine. quote under “fantasy”. It is important to SaM - Nickname for Sam Moskowitz, short­ exclude from “science-fiction”, stories ened form of the scientificombination like “The Geometries of Johnny Day” and SaMoskowitz. many of the “Hick’ b Inventions with a Kick" series which are demonstrably pos­ satire - There be two types. One, the sible (they rest upon a misundorstanding Coblentz sort, consists of exaggeration of tho term "science-fiction”, as tho it of present excesses to absurd degrees. wore any fiction that involved science); The Jonathan Swiftype, much more artful, it is also required that tho story be has our ordinary absurd customs acted scientifically plausible, that it not out by creatures rather different from disregard accepted contemporary sci­ us so that their silliness is apparent: entific knowledge. However, when fur­ if it is foolish for the six-inch king ther advance of science may show a story of Lilliput to put on grand airs, is it impossible, asvdth C B Brown’s story (c. any the less silly for us, simply be­ 1800) based on ventriloquism, the tale cause we’re scaled in feet instead of should remain in the classification of inches? Most fan satire has been of the “science fiction”. Coblentz, burlesque variety, consisting As authors have ex­ of fictitious fan gatherings or conver­ plored more fields of fantasy, and com­ sations with outstanding personalities, mentators have continued to divide the notably by Pong. Satire of fans as a field into only three parts, s-f, woird, species is mosb often in the character and pure fantasy, “science-fiction” has of Joo Fann. come to include other fiction besides that based upon extrapolation of scien­ Satyricus - Pename of Lowndes. tific fact: virtually all tales of tho future, tho prehistoric past, or of al­ Schenectacon - A quote convention unquote ternate presents or pasts, even tho no in mid-1943. Suddsy Schwartz descended connection with our present via timo- upon Schenectady, whence, after a meet­ machinc is indicated (example, HGWells’s ing with another scientifictionist there “The Brothers"). Marconette suggested they sailed to New York and visitpd var­ the class "political fantasy". ious persons; then joined by Degler, in­ Other vaded New England, hitting West Haven names for scionce-fiction are scienti- and Boston. The establishment of Littlo fiction, scientific romances, and Jarnevon was a result of this trip. pseudo-science stories.

Scienceers - A prehistoric fan organiza­ Science Fictioneers - An organization tion which appeared in New York, and sponsored by the pro mag Super Science when somo of the members moved to tho Stories, which got some locals calling South-West, had branches in Toxas and themselves branches of the Science Fic- sciencofictionh - scientifico 76 FANCYCLCPEDIA

ticneers, some of which had not boon ip. scienti-- A prefix which should indicate existence before. only ’’scientific” (as iinu. ”scisntia?5.o- tion") but in use may mean "science- science-fiction house - An ancient dream fictional” (as in "scientifilm" , meaning of fans (well, dating back to 1938 at a fantastic movie), or even stfandoml. least). Tho idea is to have a place In careless hands the rules of •■•scien- where fans live together, sharing expen­ tificombination are often disregarded, as ses and bumming off one another, and in ’’Scientiradio”. where the;' can decorate the walls and halls appropriately and scatter their scientific fiction - A form preferred by collections all around. Tho first real­ some to "science fiction”, in the mis­ ization of this dream was the Elat in taken belief that a modifier ("scien­ London. It was soon followed by Futuri- tific") must be in adjectival form. an House and a long line of successors. Length of the expression is what has In 1943 appeared Sian Shack and such prevented its general adoption. • two-man units as Little Jarnevon and the last dribbles of Futurian House. A mod­ scientificombination - (Ackerman) - The ification of the idea is simply to have archetype scientificombination was a club room, where a local organization Gernsback’s ”scientifiction”, a running can have its meetings and keep the club into ea/oth of ”scientific" and "fic- library, duplicators, ktp. The ne plus tion". Under the influence of Acherman, ultra of science-fiction houses is Sian many other combinations are in common Center. These establishments are more use, e g, pename, stfunnyarn, whathell, or less natural developments from the actifan; and in colloquial writing nonce­ fraternity and nationalism of fandom, combinations are made whenever the writ­ coupled with the rise of the average er notices the same letter/s is/aro go­ fan’s age to self-supporting and home­ ing to occur on both sides of a space, leaving time. and it won’t be too confusing: the*ma­ jority ofans, Don’t blame, in thend, &c. Science Fiction Poets’ Guild - An organi­ It was formerly the practice to under­ zation launched by Pohl in the latter line the letters which served double part of 1938, which got about a dozen duty, but this is now done only where it members and dissolved. is necessary to keep the meaning clear.

Science Fiction Special - (Pohl) - ’’Upon scientificonics - Panel strips or pages, a base of sliced bananas are placed the ill-called "funny papers”, which use three scoops of whatever flavor of ice fantastic material. The 100$ fantastics cream is desired, arranged to form the include Buck'Rogers Sunday and daily, vertices of an equilateral triangle. Flash Gordon, Brick Bradford Sunday and Syrup of tho same flavor is poured daily, Alley Oop daily and Sunday, Man­ thereupon, and the whole smothered with drake the Magician Sunday and daily, whipped cream. Crushed strawberries, Sappo, and Superman daily and Sunday, complete with their liquor, are next Daw onco reminded Speer also of a not added, and choc.sprinklestrewn over all. long-livod comic by Dr Seuss, entitled The final touch is to surmount tho con­ Hejji, which took place in an imaginary coction with a large, red cherry, and lo country with very imaginary boasts. In and behold, you have your SCIENCE FIC­ addition to those comics regularly fan- TION SPECIALI.... The standard price of tasiac, there have been many dabblers, the SCIENCE FICTION SPECIAL is TWENTY and stfc have appeared thru the mediums CENTS. # PaY NO MORE!” —10, Jan 37. of reprint comic magazines, original The thing was invented and eaten by comic magazines, Big Little Books and Pohl, Michel, and Sykora; its later ca­ their like, magazines like Thrilling Ad­ reer your historian knows not. Weren’t ventures, fanzines, toys, children’s looking for the Super Science Fiction clubs, etc. Fans on the whole dislike Special, were you? the comics for the same reason they dis- ENCYCLOPEDIA 77 seientificr - seco

liked the flood of new and inferior pro accomplished. magazines, but dutifully note each now dabbler, ovon as they will note the sei ent i forums - Confabulations of the fen stinkiest fantafilm, for complotism’s of Now York around 1943 after both QSFL sweet sake. and FSNY had virtually passed out of ex­ istence. They and certain pz'os met at scientific romances - The name given various persons’ homes to visit and dis­ flolls’s pioneering science-fiction stor­ cuss. ies, and the term by which scholars most often recognize s-f as literature, when scrapbooks - Tho best arc specially me.de they do. ’’romances” refers to imagina­ to be scrapbooks, with extra interleav­ tive novels such as grow up in the ro­ ing at the bound edge to offset the mantic revolt, and has no necessary con­ bulge that will come as they fill. nexion with love; ’’scientific” indi­ ( The cates that they were all extrapolations contents include clippings from papers, on contemporary scionce. magazines, et al; and small flat items which could not easily be filed with scientifiction - (Gernsback) - A scienti­ magazines, such as convention name tags, fic ombination of ’’scientific fiction”, file copies of stickers, and (when the coined before Amazing Stories appeared, collector has no album) fotografs. back when the Electrical Experimenter Some was publishing the stuff. It was not fans have very specialized scrapbooks, replaced by ’’science-fiction” (with or as one for movie programs, one for clip­ without hyphen) until around 1930, and pings on the Jellescare, asf. Others is still in use, especially by non-fans; have simply a stf scrapbook, and some fans ofton use ”stf”. One reason for have general scrapbooks in which fan its falling into disuse is the difficul­ stuff is mixed with other personal me­ ty of pronouncing it so as to show its mentos. elements: ”scienti-fiction” is more na­ tural than “scien-TIE-FIC-tion”. It Second Ihndom - (Speer) - October 1937 to should designate only such s-f as is ex­ October 1938, when tho Quadrumvirate re­ trapolation upon science. signed. Out of the Third Convention came Micholism, and political discus­ Scientifiction Association for Soys - A sions were most noticeable in this peri­ project of Henry Ackermann’s in the old od, but many other things not directly days, which included a circulating li­ related to fantasy wore also booted brary at considerable expense. Never about. Fan feuds reached the proportion reached second base. of fan wars, mainly between tho floll- hoimist faction and thoir enemies, cli­ scientifictionists - Persons who read maxing in May-June 1938 with the Newark fantasy, perhaps collect it and even Convention and the FA1A campaign. Doug­ write letters to the pro editors and try las flebster uses the term to name his their hand at writing stories, but may own type of British fans, including have little or no contact with tho fan Youd, Burke, and others, who are inter­ world. Likewise there may be local ested in many other’ things, such as good clubs of scientifictionists, like the literature, swearing, copulation, athe­ Outsiders, which are practically never ism, and phonetics, more than in scionce heard of in fandom. All fans arc scien­ fiction. They came into dominance about tifictionists; only certain sciontific- 1939 in partial reaction to the socio­ tionists or fantasts are fans. logical emphasis of the original British fans. Scientifilmakers - An organization of Sy- kora, Taurasi, and others, who hoped to Second Transition - (Speer) - From the carry out tho science-fiction movie pro­ 1938 Philadelphia Conference to the Chi- ject of the ISA which tho SFCC had not con. It was marked by the barbarian in- ocr - sfa»78i FANCYCLOPEDIA

vasion, the ascendancy of New Bandon, pected to do likewise, it is not unusual and the consequent switch of emphasis to see more advanced ones calmly making heavily back toward professional science such statements as "Certainly I’m puri­ fiction. There was however still lots tanical", "You’ve been stupid in this of discussion of other things in the case", and "Ihns arc egoists who need to second-line fanzines of the day, and in be taken down a notch". correspondence etc. It is not possi­ ble to discuss the entire field of se­ secretary - The hardest-working official, mantics here, but the above indicates 7/ith the exception sometimes of the of­ the chief ways in which the study has* ficial editor, and often combined with been employed in fandom. It is a useful the treasurership. In the EA1A, a card too, but can be misused or abused. filo indexing members several different ways was sot up by Rothman and passed on isex - The great majority of fans are to his successors; other organizations males. It has been asserted that a fe­ keep records in ledger books or loose- male cannot be the psychological typo of leaf notebooks. Managing Secretary is a the s-f fan, but there are several dyed- title in several organizations, notably in-the-wool fannes to refute this. In New Fandom, when it is virtually the on­ addition, there are a lot of sweet­ ly office, and roughly equivalent in hearts, wives, daughters, sisters, etc, power over the organization to Stalin’s of the he-fans, who tag along at fan former General Secretaryship of the gatherings, make some appearance in the Communist Party. fanzines, and assist in dirty work such as mimeoing. semantics - The study of the meaning of It is generally believed that words and sentences. Semantics was pop­ Joe Fann is considerably later than ularized in fandom largely thru the sto­ average in associating with girls; at ries of Hoinlein, and now every good fan any rate, it was some two years af­ goes around inquiring, “How did his in­ ter 1938 (when the average fan was sulting you really hurt you?”, “What do 18) before lovo affairs received any you mean by snobbishness?" , “How doos a great notice in fan discussions, tho coordinator coordinate, how does a local there had been some isolated eroticism affiliate, and what difference does it earlier, especially among the Faturians make after it’s affiliated?”, “If you and tho Moonrakers. Since 1940 both don’t mean government control by ’public generalizations and particulars on fan­ control1, what do you mean—control by meet s-femmc have appeared frequently in industrial associations?", “How much conversation and writing, and among the does the pledge that the Nowarkon won’t more “mature" Britishers have sometimes conflict with the Convention mean in the reached shocking depths. In America, a planning and execution of it?”, usw. minority has been vociferously lewd, and According to the philosophy behind se­ some shoddy events have resulted from mantics, if a proposition makes no con­ infidelity of married scientifictionists. ceivable difference in the way things nay be expected to act, it is meaning- SFA; - The Science-Fiction Association, an loss to ask whether it's true or not. organization with headquarters in Great So fans have been made wary of such Britain, which arose in 1937, held three words as “free will”, "significance", annual mootings or conventions each more "essence", &c. Another angle of attack successful than the last, and went dor­ is to watch the emotional connotations mant with the outbreak of the 2d world of words. "Treason" was a bad word to Jar. Unlike the BFS, it could not carry brand a man with in Patrick Henry’s day, on its official business without the mem­ but when the burgesses cried "Treason.* bers of the Council meeting in person. treason!" at him, he defied the custo­ The founders and leaders of the SFA mary connotations of the word in his were those whom Webster calls the First woll-known reply. Because fans are ex- Fandom. Some Amorifans were members. FAITCYCLOPEDIA 79 sfaa - shag

SFM r Science Fiction Advancement Asso­ was dashed when non-payment of young ciation, one of the organizations that authors (it should be added that this blossomed at the beginning of tho First was up to a department of the company Transition, Its founder was C Hamilton not under Hornig’s control) and natural Bloomer; the later president, Raymond rivalry brot on the ISA-SIL war and the van Houten, signed it over in a dormant expulsion of Wollheim, Sykora, and Mi­ state to Hew Fandom, of which it provid­ chel. ed the basic membership, except that The chief importance of the SIL in certain Tfollheimists were not accepted fandom is the chapters that have been by How Fandom. set up, of which tho most important are the LASFL, QSILs, GHYS1L, Leeds SIL, and SFCC - Science Fantasy Correspondence other locals with different names, like Club, one of those organizations that the PSFS. In those cases, "SIL" means sprang up (like funguses) in the First "chapter of the SIL". Only one chapter Transition. SFCC has been used to mean can be established in the same city, ex­ Science Fiction Comic Club (or Cartoon cept in cities over 1,000,000. Three Club, as ho named it) which was suggest­ members are required for setting up a ed to Spoor by 7/ollhoim in 1934, but not chapter; most such throe-man organiza­ organized. SFCC also moans Science Fic­ tions are quite short-lived. There is tion Cinema Club. Sykora, Goudket, and an old rule, no longer observed, that others wanted to carry out the project the member with the lowest serial number of the defunct ISA for a science-fiction shall be director. movie; and old fantafilms were shown at Of other rules there club meetings. Tho organization was were few; one was that penetrated by the tfollheimists, and members promise to ceased to exist in the oarly part of answer with reasonable 1938, to bo replaced by the Scienti- promptness all (non­ filmakers. commercial) correspon­ dence addressed to S F Cynic - Pename for a column of opin­ them as members. ions, mainly Futurians’, put together by The emblem was repro­ Lowndes. duced on lapel buttons and stationery which were for sale. SIL - The Science Fiction League, launched in 1934 by Gernsback and Hor- sfn - (Hasse?) - Abbreviation for scien- nig, sponsored by Wonder Stories. An tifiction, favored by many over tho of­ imposing Board of Directors included ficial one, stf. Ackerman and Darrow, but they had no power. Tho SIL department of bonder S-F Rocket Car #1 - An auto belonging, Stories reported activities of locals your author believes, to some fan in the and of fandom in general, announced pro­ mid-East; maybe Liebscher. posed new locals, listed now members and addresses, and carried the B Stf test Shaggoth 6 - At tho Third Eastern Conven­ and results. Under TWS tho League was tion in 1937, Pohl and Dockwcilcr and continued, but more commercialized, the some spiritus frumenti pirated an eleva­ department often being used to blurb fu­ tor and gave it this Lovecraftian name. ture issues. The operator and building manager went In course of time the League up & down, up & down chasing it. This enrolled several thousand members, tho continued for some quarter of an hour. most of these never did anything more than send in their names, and some of shaggy dog stories - The original shaggy the memberships are duplicate enroll­ dog story was about a man in Great Bri­ ments or things like Peggy Gillespie. tain who advertized he’d lost a shaggy It was hoped that the SIL could become dog. (This is clean, so read on. OK, the general fan organization, but this then, don’t.) An American found a dog shun - skylarks 80 FANCYCLQPEDIA

which he thot was the one, and. after a into several classifications of fan hu­ series of harrowing adventures which the mor. Thoy are said to have been com­ toller of the story will string out to posed back in the days of the First ■rout length, reached England and the Transition, when the MFS had virtually flat of tho man who advertized. Stag- no contact with fandom; but when read at □ring to the door, with the dog beside meetings, they sot tho morons rolliig on him, he said to the resident, ’‘Did you tho floor with laughtor. They are the advertise you’d lost a shaggy dog?” The source of such exciting words as fout, Britisher looked down and said, "Yes, nank, and Twonk’s disease. but not that shaggy. ” The point of the simplifyd spelng - (Akrmn). - Generally story, it seems to this analyst, is that speaking, the spelling reforms that havo one is led to expect a point, and then been proposed by progressives from there is none. If the Briton had looked Franklin and Webster thru Theodore Roo­ at tho battered American when ho said sevelt down to the present day. Tans “not that shaggy”, there mite havo been are somewhat in advance of general prac­ a fcoble point to it, but as it is, tice in this regard, as evidenced by the thore’s none. fairly typical spelling used in this Other stories have been dictionary - f for ph, suppression of told on the model of the original, not gh’s and other silent letters, ktp - but necessarily long ones. Example: A man will uso orthodox spellings when follow­ goes into a restaurant and orders pota­ ing tho simplifying rules would produce toes, which he proceeds to stuff into things so barbarous as to divert atten­ his oars. “M’gawdJ” someone says, ”:rfhy tion from the text. Even with Ackese a- are you stuffing those potatoes in your bandoned, Ackerman carries it much fur­ ears?” ’’Potatoes?” cries the man. ”1 ther r as witness: “After sorting for thot they were cabbages.”' days & days aft or the deadline thru Easily confused 1000s & thous&s of xlnt entrys sub­ with shaggy dog stories are surrealistic mitted from evry town & omlot of the 4 jokes, since both arc double-invorted soae & 7 corners of tho world your edi­ humor. tors r barely able to announce” etc. Without consistency, the J sometimes Shangri-LA - Los Angelos, so called by uses y for “long i” and sometimes indi­ its fanhabitants because it was the best cates it by o after the consonant, as in place for a fan to land if he was “nite”; sometyms he will spell final moving or being moved about the coun­ -ed as -t when it is so pronounced, ktp. try, what with the LASFS and the There is no truth to the rumor that his general advantages of LA. secret purpose in all this is to make English so rational that we won’t havo Shepherd & Wellheim, Publishers - Growing to adopt Esperanto. out of association in the TEG, this pub­ lishing house put out the Phantagraph single-shecter - A publication of one during the First Transition and some sheet, usually letter size, with writing all-fiction magazines, including one en­ on either one or both sides* Numerous titled Astonishing Stories. Wollheim such have appeared in the FAPA, and it became the dominant party and they broke was charged that they wore mere "token” up, W to Miahel-Wollheim, Shepherd into activity once a year to keep the writer AAPA politics and publishing. entitled to membership. silkscreening - A method of reproducing Sinn-yk-uhss - Apparently a distortian of illustrations in solid color. The paint Cynicus. A pename for John Bell. is applied thru a stencil, a different stencil for each color. Skylark of Foo - tfidnor’s first auto. silly story - The UFS silly stories fit Skylark Smith - Nickname for E E Smith, FAHCYCLQPEDIA 81 skylarkw - soc

from his most famous stories, the Sky­ Snafucius Pubs - Publishing house name lark series. used by Ackerman after dyktawo and be­ fore Fubar. It’s from the Armynian Sna­ Skylark of v/oo-Woo - A 1928 Dodge sedan fu, ofcourse. which cost Widner $25 —initially, that is. It went to the Chicon and back, and socialism - The word denotes a wide range to the 1940 Philco, but was liquidated of ideas,’ but tho central thing is col­ on the eve of the Donvention for the lective ownership and control of the FooFoo Special. major vital industries. Income propor­ tionate to one’s actual contribution is slan - (van Vogt) - A superman of a typo usually a feature. Ownership and con­ different from Homo sapiens by mutation, trol may be either by the government the most noticeable characteristics be­ (state socialism), by the consumers (co­ ing two hearts, tendrils in the hair operatives), or by labor-management un­ which give the power of telepathy, and ions (guild socialism, syndicalism). greater intelligence than H sapiens. The Socialist Party of the US, to which There are tendrilless slans who lack the several liberal fans belong, opposes the telepathy tendrils because their genes use of force to change tho system, as by were tampered with, but will eventually revolution, and insists on a legal, evo­ have true slans for descendants. Slans lutionary change. Lowndes has said ”1 wore natural mutations, freaks who hap­ will acknowledge as a ’socialist’ only pened to have advantageous features, the those who # ’realize fully that the children of Samuel Lann. After being class struggle leads inevitably to the beaten back by H sapiens in one war, revolutionary dictatorship of the prole­ they established themselves on Mars and tariat. , but he is obviously defining worked into control of the Earth govern­ Marxism, not socialism. ment. Because the central character in the story was a youth in unsympathetic society - An organization of individuals surroundings, and because of the obvious working along the same lines who may be similarities to fans’ dreams of great­ aided by hearing what each other are do­ ness, the unserious claim to slanhood ing. In fandom the word has been used has become the Third Fandom parallel to loosely for various organizations, which the Second Fandom's half-serious Star- include the ARS, BIS, swpsstfm, PSFS, Begotten claims. NYFS, Temponautical Society, FSNY, MFS, Midwest Fan Society, Colorado Fantasy So­ Sian Center - A proposal brot up by Ash­ ciety, BFS, BSF»®S, LASFS, Frontier So­ ley at the Midgdtoon.. He suggested it to ciety, and FWSFCS. bo located in Battle Creek, but later plans substituted Los Angeles. The idea sociology - The study (some say is to form a corporation and buy a city ’’science”) of man in his social rela­ block on the edge of town after the war, tions, as opposed to the studies of man on which will be built prefabricated as an individual. The field covers functional houses for fans to live in politics, economics, history, ethnology, while working around the city,and a com­ anthropology, institutions, and folk­ munity house where meeting, mimeoing, &c, ways. can be done; and make purchases coopera­ There had been considerable socio­ tively. logical discussion stirred up in the pre-NowDcal period by such proposals as Sian Shack - A science-fiction house in Technocracy, which wore put before sci- Battlo Creok, charter members being Al & entifictionists in stories like The Re­ Abby Lu Ashley, Walt Liebscher, and Jack volt of the Scientists; and the books of Wiedonbock. Acquired in the summer of HGJolls, Olaf Stapledon, et al, have al­ *43, it wasn’t occupied by the slans till ways bristled with sociological ques­ the ove of the Michiconference. EEEvans tions; but discussions did not appear in Joined a little later. fandom to any extent until the Micheli st a ol - staples 82 FANCYCLOrEDIA

speech at the Third Convention in ’’soap opera” for radio yellowdramas. 1937. Sociological issues in fan fouds ;space warp - Something that when you go and other fan disputes have included: into it in a straight lino you come out the merits and demerits of capitalism, at a different place and/or going in a fascism, Technocracy, socialism, and different direction than you should ac­ Marxism; Negro equality; the right of cording to Newtonian physics. Ihns are labor unions to exist; escapism; the always wandering into such things in World State; the respective merits of strange cities and getting losted. A Roosevelt and Dewey; patriotism; Ameri­ slitely different affair was the turn­ can intervention in the Second World table on which the Shirley-Savoy in Den­ War; and so on, shading off into such ver is mounted, so that you can start quasi-sociological subjects as the su­ near the hotel, walk blocks and blocks, perman and atheism. and still bo near the hotel.

Solaroid Club - An organization of scien- Spirit of FooFoo - A 1937 Plymouth coach, tifictionists around ’Westwood NJ, of originally green, later regent blue, whom do la Ree and Gaotz became active ownod by Spoer. It carried tho Spiri­ fans in 1940-41. Manly Wade Wellman, a trip and made various other fan visits. pro author, was another member. Spiritrip - (Spoor) - Tho trip made by Solitaire - Rename for George R Hahn, or the Columbia Camp (n&mlich Gilbert, Jen­ maybe it was David A Kyle. kins, and Eastman) and Speer to Boskono II in the Spirit of FooFoo. The Spirit sonodiscs - (Ackerman) - Because of their was very well-behaved (except for onco love of music, most fans have record when it sprained an ankle in dead of players available. Therefore, after nite so that the spare had to be put on much talk, even mention of dictafono cyl­ in -90° cold and a 90-milo gale), but it inders, some fan plattors were produced, did have an awful lot of cracks in its around 1940. Some were simply everybody shell for the wind to blow thru. at a local meeting or party saying hello to all the people on the chain, who’d swpsstfm - society for tho prevention of play the record and pass it on. In wire staples in science fiction maga­ other cases, stfnal ’’radio plays” were zines. It was announced by Bob Tucker dramatized by ono local and the record in 1934 in Brass Tacks and The Reader sent to another to be played at a meet­ Speaks, the Dictator of the organization ing; many records also wero made which being Tucker, of course. Recruits came, didn’t leave the city limits. Those on to the quantity of about 35. Doc chains going all around the country usu­ Lowndes, then rather unknown, was named ally became worn to unintolligibility by Royal Pill Roller, Other members sug­ the time they got on the return log. A gested such ideas as rubber staples, or sonodiec periodical was projected by SuL- sticking the magazines together with ly Roberds, and an issue of one actually chewing gum, a different flavor each produced in,Shangri-LA, ’’the only fanmag month. At last Don tfollheim could en­ with round edges”. Special mention shd dure it no longer, and by launching the be made of Daugherty’s recording of much lAOPUMUMSTIPUSA, Unltd, brot on the of the Denvcntion proceedings. Before First Staple War. wartime restrictions put an end to plat­ ter ing, sonodiscs had reached Canada, Squeaky - Pet name for Science Fiction England, and Australia. Weekly.

space opera - (Tucker) - A hack science­ Lane Stannard - Rename of James V Taura si. fiction story, a dressed-up western; so called by analogy with ’’horse opera” for Staplecon - A gathering in May 43 at the Jestern bangbangshootomup movies and Ackerman’s old Staples-av address in FANCYCLQPEDIA 83 etaplew - stat

Frisco. Despite the dormancy of the Gol­ produced thru the agency uv the cosmic den Gato Futurians, Frisco area fon ap­ ray, and since science has been unable peared in groat numbers for it; and not to trace the source uv the aphoresaid long after, several moved to LA. ray, and since any race with millions uv years uv background to it must bo a be­ First Staple War - The ’’First” is proba­ nevolent race, and since tho Martians, bly flavoring borrowed from the phrase iph thoy exist, must have a background ”Firet World War”, which was current reaching back thru those millions uv even in 1935. The war broke out when years, therephoro: the genius class— the Grand High Cocolorun, in a letter to Schopenhauer, Kant, da Vinci, Edison—is Brass Tacks later republished in Tho a mutation, produced thru the agency uv Reader Speaks, denounced the policies tho cosmic ray, by tho intelligently advocated by tho spwsstfm, and announced acting agency uv the Martians, with the the formation of the IAOPUI4UMSTFPUSA, intention uv evolving this ippherior Unltd. race uv Mankind to a state comparable to Not satisfied with mere conserva­ theirs. A powerphul .theme,, given, a psy­ tism, Wollheim at length announced tho chological treatment instead uv a scien- Platinum Plan. In accordance with this tiphic action style. And, since the wire staples wero to be made of plati­ ’Star-Begotten’ are those people with num; then after the stfist had finished abnormal intelligence, produced thru the reading tho magazine, he could take out direct or indirect agency uv beings upon tho staples and sell them for more than another planet, and since these ’Star- he paid for the magazine. This would Begotten’ are misunderstood, intuitive, boom the circulation of the stf mags and brilliant people, stphandom has adopted carry scienco-fiction to the world. the name as a collective title phor As in themselves.” —Ephlcss El. such other • mock wars as the FooFoo- ghughu strife, the fronts on which di­ Starlight Publications - Publishing house rect battle could be joined were very of the Golden Gato Futurians and associ­ limited, but such engagements as oc­ ates. curred practically all went in favor of the metallic forces. IACPETC spies in Star-Treader - Rename of a columnist in Tucker’s forces wormed their way into Spaceways (and later Fanfare), about such a position of trust that they pub­ whoso identity there was much specula­ lished tho second number of the official tion and about whose remarks there was organ, and it camo out stuck full of much comment. It turned out to be J wire staples.’ Tucker quibbled about the Chapman Mi ska. difference between science fiction maga­ zines, which were all he mentioned, and state organizations - The first state or­ fan magazines. The ’’entire” New York ganization was tho OSA. Tho ’’era of Episode of the swpsstfm wont over to the state organizations”, so-bekannt, came fl’s side. with the MSA and IFF, and as the Michi- The end of tho War was a non fans prepared to organize, the Michicon­ sequitur. Someone’s lottor was pub­ ference sot up four stato organizations lished all solemnly in Brass Tacks, unddr the MOFF. There had already been telling that Tucker had died. By publi­ an Indiana lantasy Association. Like the cation time Tremaine had discovered that, OSA and the MSA, it fell somnolent after he’d been hoaxed, and declared there’d a year or two; and all but tho Michigan be no more staple stuff in Brass Tacks. Federation in the MOFF are organi­ zations in name only, without activ­ Star-Bogotten - (tfells:Griffiths) - ’’Dear ity. As states are inefficiently Mr Bristol: # ’Star-Begotten’ is the small for the 20th Century, so a state title uv a book by the samo name, writ­ organization of fans seems to lack the ten by H. G. Wells, in which he develops advantages of either a local or a re­ the thesis that, since mutations are gional or general fan organization. Its F CO. - -SUO 84 FAHCYCLOPEDIA

only possible advantage is an appeal to to be open to anyone who had ever dis­ state pride to make fans want to become agreed with tfill Sykora, but F Speer, more active and add luster to their duly qualified and applying for a mem­ state’s name. Which (Texas excepted) is bership card, received nono. The be­ hogwash. lief was fairly widespread in the Second Fandom that the other three stefnist - {Spebr)- A suggested sphsti- members of the Quadrumvirate, and cer­ tute for the wosd. ”fanB, which.-ibas been tainly tho lesser lites of the Woll- favorably received. At this writing/rior- hoimist faction, took their orders from ®vor, a full vocabulary on the root -has 7/ollhcim. Actually, according to not been worked out, nor is general ac­ Lowndes, tho unanimity of their utter­ ceptance certain. ances was the result of many conferences on policy, in which they frequently laid stenciling - Cutting stencils for mimeo- down the law to the ’’Dictator”. ing, either by stylus or typewriter. Stranger Club - (Manning) - In a stf ser­ stf - (Hogonmill er: Ackerman) - Formerly ies by Lawrence Manning, a club which tho abbreviation for scientifiction, now had for its motto "Truth is stranger pronounced (s-tE-fJ, and used as a short than fiction", where members met to tell form for ’’science-fiction”. It should and hear "true” fantastic experiences. not be pronounced (/stie-Fj! The name was taken by the Eastern Massa­ chusetts fan organization when they stfnal - Pertaining to science-fiction or formed in Feb 40, and the members call fandom. Pronounced ’’Scienti- themselves Strangers. Members include fictional” ia also used sometimes; both Swisher, ifidner, Suddsy Schwartz, (ex-) are preferable to ’’science-fictional”, Singleton, and a number of others. The because of the hyphenization in the lat­ organization puts on the Boskones and ter. apparently gots along with absolutely no internal friction. Stfnash - An auto of 1935 vintage belong­ ing to OESaari and consequently to the stream of consciousness - A typo of lit­ MFS. Same name belongs to a superannu­ erature which tries to reproduce, as ac­ ated auto usod for stfvoyaging by Hornig curately as possible, tho manner in in 1940. which ideas flow thru the brain, one thot giving rise to another related to sticker - A little gummed piece of paper, it in the most unlogical way, employing usually less long than this line and shorthand symbols for familiar concepts having space for perhaps four lines of the way the mind does, ktp. type. Sometimes applied to the letter sheet in lieu of letterhead, it is more subscription fanzine - Tho typo of gener­ usually stuck on tho envelope, and may al interest fanzine which is usually of­ carry tho fan’s name, one or more of his fered for sale, as distinguished from publications’ titles, names of organiza­ exchanges like FAPAzines, newsheets, tions, and descriptive words like ”Sci- all-fiction, and other specialized entifictionist”; others say ^Member -- types. The subscription fanzine has ar­ suchandsuch orgu, plug a convention or ticles, stories, departments, a readers’ Esperanto, or maybe plug science-fiction section, art work, and all the other in general. fixings. Sometimes people actually pay for them, but the fanzino which breaks Loyal and Benevolent protective Order of even is a very rare specimen, and it is Wellheim Stooges - A burlesque organiza­ customary to sond out many copies as sam­ tion headed by Prize Stooge Michel, set ples, send them regularly to pro editors up for tho purpose of laughing out of gratis, exchange, and carry other sub­ existence tho belief that Wollheim’s as­ scribers a long time in spite of nonre­ sociates wore stooges. It was supposed sponse to expiration notices. FANCYCLOPEDIA 85 sud - Er ir

Suddsy - Nickname for Arthur L Schwartz, amazing speed whenever ho wants to show apparently originating in a corruption off in some juvenile adventure which in­ of the surname. volves flying thru the air, scaring criminals into tolling whoro Lois Lano suicide - The ethics of suicide came up has been taken, and crashing thru a for considerable discussion at the time brick wall to the rescue. A published of the pscuicido. In a high-strung section of Swisher’s time travel thesis bunch like fans are, it is not surpris­ suggests 1 illogicality of all this: a ing that suicide is reported to havo hundred-kilogram man accelerating from been contemplated at times by certain zero to 100 km/hr in a matter of seconds fans, and caused some worry to their would deliver such a tremendous recoil friends, but the nearest things to a fan that he’d kick holes in the floor. Su­ ending it all were the suicides of Jo­ perman is of especial fan interest be­ seph Hatch, weirdist, in 1936, and auth­ cause he is the creation of Jerome Sio- or Robert E Howard. gel and Joe Schuster, who once published a fan magazine entitled Science Fiction, superman - ”A superman is a human being as fans are not loath to remark, altho who has greater powers than the normal all arc agreed that Superman stinks. person—physical, mental, or possibly supernatural.” — RRtfinterbotham. Speer super-scienco - May sinply indicate sci­ distinguishes four types of supermen: ence advanced beyond presentday know­ 1. Super-developed Homo sapiens, either ledge, i e, the kind of science we have thru special training like Doc Savage or in all scientifiction. Usually it indi­ thru the advantages of a more advanced cates science so advanced that it is civilization than ours. 2. Homo sapiens different almost in kind from modern with certain powers added, as by con­ science, achieving results by entirely structive (rather than merely preven­ different and simpler methods; the type tive) medicine, by the environemtn of that we havo in Smith’s ”epics” and the another planet which in the case of Ju­ colossal thought-variants. piter would mean greater strength, by genetic selection of existing human qua­ Super Science Fiction Special - (Hahn, je lities, or by immortality however ac­ crois; Dockweiler called it the Now quired. 3. Homo superior, humanoids Science Fiction Special) - ”At about with extra-human powers, liko Sian, Wil­ four-thirty ack emma, while leering a liamson’s weremen, the Star-Begotten trifle crookedly at the murals, Harry when far advanced, or the mutants that got The Idea. Why not a Rummy* s Stf Campbell talks about. 4. Hon-human su­ Special? After a little thought, and perior races, such as super-intelligent some help from his fellow sot and Jack insects, e-t’s, highly efficient robots, /the bartendor7, he decided upon the and intelligences of pure force. Type concoction. # He simply took the old, 3 is what is usually meant when fans well-known gin-and-ginger ale, and added discuss the superman: a new species of a touch of bitters. # Now, loan closo. the genus Homo. Fill a Tall Glass — not completely, you ”Superman”, says the Of­ yap, unless you think you’re good - half fice of the Quartermaster General, ”is a gin, the rest ginger ale. Then, a dash popular cartoon character of prodigious of bitters.... Two drinks had Harry strength and apparently limitless physi­ (who detests Efjay) admitting that For­ cal and mental resources.” 7/c mite add rest might not be such a bad guy after that ho is offspring of another planet, all. A couplo more and ho wont off on a from which he was shot just before it crying Jag over an old, lost love of broke up, when he was a baby. Growing his.” —From an unpublished manuscript up, he took the character of Clark Kent, by Harry Dockweiler, written probably in newspaper reporter, who in place of un­ 1937. derwear has a skin-tite costume and loose cloak, which ho strips to with surrealistic jokes - (Liebercher) - A sort eus - tec 86 FANCYCLQFEDIA

of humor in which the climax is logical with shaggy dog stories, where there is according to a wacky system of logic, no point. like they have in Unknown Worlds. The best example is the ostrich who came Susiei - Ihnzino pet name for the Southern running up late to a place where several Star. other ostriches were standing with their heads buried in the sand, and looking Sydcon - A surprisinglylarge convention in around said ’’Where is everybody?” Sur­ Sydney Australia in 1941. It was lator realistic jokes are not to bo confused confessed to be a hoax, never occurred. ' ' T T - A sound which so frequently slips in come, social approval or disapproval between n and c that Esperanto made c supplying the stimulus to activity which mean the ts sound it has in certain out money now supplies; they will work at of tho way languages. what they are best suited for, and ex­ change energy certificates for goods by Taurasi-Thompson Publications - Reorgan­ a beautifully worked out 'bookkeeping ized remnant of United Publications, system. soon replaced by Cosmic. Technocracy was prominent among the plans offered in tho last days of Technocracy - A plan for running North the Hoover administration, and was pub­ America as an engineering project. It licized by Gcrnsback’s managing editor, had origin in Thorstein Veblen’s dis­ David Lasser (lator of the Workers’ Al­ tinction between the captains of indus­ liance). Under the New Deal it virtual­ try and the engineers who actually made ly disappeared, but about 1939 came back the machinery run. After the World War, under Howard Scott. Liberals expressed a group of scientists are claimed to fears that it was being financed and pen­ have made a survey of the continent’s etrated by fascists or Communists. After production resources and concluded that first opposing American intervention in every adult in the country could have tho European war (the organization was goods equivalent to $20,000 worth per suppressed in Canada), it shifted to an year for his whole life by working 4 all-out Continental Defense slogan. hours a day, 165 days a year, from the Tech­ age of 25 to 45. In addition to this, nocracy was reintroduced to tho fan many goods and services would be free, world in 1939, about the time Mich­ including basic food. eli sm was abandoned, by LASFS fans. The present Price Ackerman was interested and looked into System (they eschew stereotyped words it, but didn’t take up with it. Yorke like ’’Capitalism”) is bound to collapse and Hodgkins (with Ered Shroyer their in 1942, because new inventions, despite most outspoken opponent) plugged it en­ all repressive tactics by the big men, thusiastically, but due to their person­ are making human beings yearly more and ality defects made fow converts until more productive.

TeD - Nickname for Thaddeus Dikty, short­ Deal for Fantasy Fiction) would be al­ ened form of tho scientificombination lowed to display. TeDikty. The TFG would not seem to have had Temponautical Society - A thing dreamed a manbership of up by Robert G Thompson, who was going more than a hun­ to issuo a fanzine devoted exclusively dred, maybe much to time-traveling stories and discus­ less, altho the General Manager at one sions. Somebody formed an Anti- time said that it was between 1000 and Temponahtical Society, and a brief mock 2500. war seems to have followed. Theodore/Tanya - The thoroly Michelistic tendrils - The most noticeable sign of names given Elsie Baiter’s car before ad slannesB. after receiving a now body. Theodore carried the Futurians to Chicago in ’40, tesseract - A solid of four spacial di­ having a minor wreck on tho way. Tanya ’ s mensions. Its characteristics, as the body was in part financed by a special number of sides, edges, etc, are easily auction at the Chicon. worked out by analogy with the genera­ tion of a cuboid by a plane. Below are Third Fandom - (Speer) - From September shown two common picturizations of 1940 on. Warring factions in fandom tesseract-cubes, with the analogous ways healed their differences or were less in of drawing 3-d cubes: evidence, with the passing of feuds the underlying fraternity of fandom came more into evidence, and a broad balance was found between matters aclontific- tional and other things that fans were interested in. There was much talk of fandom growing up, becoming more mature, tetrahedron - A solid bounded by four and seeing loss of adolescent bickering planes, the smallest number that can en­ and feuding for feuding’b sake; at the close a solid; a tri- same time there was a flood of digests angular pyramid. In H E ft M E -5 and bibliografies and indexes of this positions of two and that, regarded as a summation and such-shaped spaceships set for ramming, consolidation of past achievements in a pair of tetrahedrons around a publica­ fandom. A general fan organization was tion’s title indicates that it comes once again much desired, but ran into from Spoor’s publishing house. difficulties as war camo to America. Doug Webster applies the term to the Tex - Nickname for Earl Singleton, Texas younger fans that appeared in wartime being his native stato. Britain, once again interested mainly in such science-fiction as they could got, TEG - Terrestrial Eantascionce Guild. and supporting the idea of a British fan Name taken in 1935 by tho former ISFG. organization (the BFS), which the sofis- Its General Manager was Gilson Shepherd, ticated Second jandom had outgrown. outstanding member Donald Gollheim. It faded out within a year or so, leaving thought-variants - (Tromaino) - Original­ its official organ, the Phantagraph. ly intended, like Gorney’s ’’New” policy, Chief importance historically is the to get new ideas, plots, treatment, otc, publication in its Bulletin of Goll­ into stf, tho th-v movement developed a heim’s report of GS’b non-payments, particular typo of its own, usually in­ which eventuated in the ISA-SEL war. volving superscience and some questions Tho TEG adopted a code of fair practice like What shall a man strive for when he and an’ embleoK whieh- pro and fan maga­ has gained all power?. tfith that momen­ zines 'bbznpiyihg with the code (Square tum gone, Campbell thot up mutants. ti - tr 88 FANCYCLOPEDIA

Tizzie - let ncjne for Fantasy, pan maga­ tripewriters - (Groveman) - Fans havo zine. machins a gcrire of all vintages, possi­ bly even some of tho strike-underncath Tomiry - Pot name for Tomorrow, de luxe kind. Preference runs to L C Smith & British fanzine. Corona, and Underwood, but we take what­ ever we can get. The lack of tho letter top fan - An undefined designation, which F on Perdue's typewriter gave him his has "been filled in various polls. Tho first fame; one time Gillespio stenciled IPO polls in the SF3an found Don Well­ a tirado against Moskowitz on a machine heim top fan twice; in polls since tho whose z was missing. World Convention, Forrest J Ackerman has Blue-and-red and ne- been the #1 Face. The criteria on which otric green-and-brown typeribbons are different voters “base their choices dif­ employed by many fans. The most favored fer seriously, so an effort to lay down type face is elite, like this before the law here may be of sone value. In you, but some fans have the somewhat the first place, ideally the list of top larger pica. Variants include elite fans for one year should be good by and with pica spacing, vogue (similar to large a year or two .later.. Choices gothic), anda face like heavy oldfash- should be based on probable future value ionod printing. In addition, Ackerman to fandom, estimated of course from past and Kbnig havo had access to varitypers, performance. It follows that no stefnist which operate on an antediluvian princi­ should be considered for one of the top ple which permits the use of plates car­ places until he has been active for at rying all sorts of alfabots. In size least two years; because many may run they’ve varied from gigantic to teensy thru tho cycle of activity and make a (you figure out the point number.’), and big noiso for a moment, then fizzle out. in style have had italics, gothic, bold­ In addition to beneficial effect on fan­ face, et autros. dom, it is usual to consider prestige and weight carried in organizations and the Triumvirs - (Speer) - Throe who share formation of opinions. It is not a pop­ authority and rule. The Triumvirate of ularity contest. The twenty top fans fandom was Moskowitz, Sykora, and Tau- are probably the ones without whom it is rasi, drawn together by enmity toward supposed that fandom would not be what Wollhcim. Sykora’s feud with him dated it is. from tho dissolution of tho ISA in 1937; Moskowitz's originated in W’s charge treasurer - In fan organizations often that his account of tho Third Convention combined with the secretaryship. The was full of errors and typical of tho general treasury of an organization con­ shallow fans who will not think, and the sists of dues, funds from sale of sur­ exchanges of barrages that followed; plus stock of fanzines etc, proceeds while Taura si had been a neutral up to from auction etc at fan gatherings, and the breakup of the GNYSFL. contributions. The treasury ordinarily Not long after in well-organized clubs bears the ex­ this last event, Moskowitz got them to­ pense of the official organ and other gether, and after a period of conferring official publications, postage thereon, they started New Fandom. Following tho and also postage etc for other official policy, newly popular, of refusing to mail, tho claims from tho other offi­ engage in feuding, they built up the QSEL cials aro seldom made. Ihn gatherings and Now Fandom, and the widely-circulat­ staged by the organization may bo fi­ ed Fantasy-News. They successfully nanced cither out of the treasury, or staged the First World Science-Fiction out of members1 pockets, in which latter Convention, but the X Act alienated case profits of the convention often go such former neutrals as Tucker, Reins­ back to the individuals putting it on. berg, Ackerman, and Hart. With the sup­ port of the large Queens SFL, however, Tripoli - Triple-E, nickname for EEEvans. and usually of the Phillies against the FANCYCLOPWIA 89 tu - verm

Futurians, they continued to bo strong uel to the Ivory Tower, and’ after tho thru the Philadelphia Conference of Futurians had recovered from the shock, 1940. all fraternized. That the Triumvirate About this time, Taurasi became was still in existence, however, was less active, talking of going into the shown early the noxt year in the fite Army, and Sykora took over Ibmtasy News. at the QSJL. Sykora ms discredited after the Chicon by the report circulated there that he Tubby - Nickname of T Bruce Yorke. had been arrested, and released with a warning, in a charge involving a little Bob Tucker - Nickname by which Arthur fl girl. Moskowitz had set up shop as an Tucker is generally known. author’s agent, and became less active before he was drafted. Tho the loader of 2J4 - Nickname for J6e J Fortier, in»\iM* the Triumvirate during its best period, tation of 4sJ. ho had never been the irreconcilable enemy of the Futurians that Sykora was. Twonk’s disease - (MFS) The ultimate in In the spring of 1940, when tho Phillies afflictions of any nature. and Speer visited a QSFD meeting, the Phillies that evening took Foghorn Sam- typewriters - U mean tripewriters?

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the Undead - A classification usually in­ United Publications - Two publishing dicating either a vampire or a zombie. houses havo carried this namo. The first was a combine of Taurasi, Gilles­ unendurable pleasure indefinitely pro­ pie, and R G Thonpson, around tho 1937- longed - (Moskowitz) - A quotation from 1938 year's end, soon shifting into "Uy First Two Thousand Years”, which SaM Taurasi-Thompson Publications. used with a quite different context in In Novem­ saying that fans who attended tho First ber of 1938, Jim Avery and Harry Earner florid Convention experienced unendurable launched another group called United pleasure indefinitely prolonged. The Publications. It was notable for a original story is about the flandering definite set of rules: Only one member Jew, who pursues the equally immortal to a city; only now fanzines to bo ad­ Wandering Jewess thru two milleniums mitted; and a strong curb on religious, and several books, in order to enjoy the political, and other controversial ma­ aforementioned u.p.i.p., tho his desire terial (tho Spaceways policy). After a for hor doos not provent him from stop- few months it ceased to bo heard of.

V - This being published in 1944, you havo in a mirror; he can prowl only between already heard plenty of this letter. sundown and sunup, othertime must rest in his native soil. Ho is killable by vampire - A man-thing who keeps alive in­ a woodon stake being driven thru the definitely by sucking blood from vic­ heart. tims; Dracula is the classic example. In tho case of Dracula, the vampire hu­ Vermyn Slinko - A penam© giving the dirt man was able to change to bat or were­ on Philly guys in publications emanating wolf form. The vampire is identifiable thcnco. Identity has yet to be dis­ by having the forefinger longer than the covered. The most likely guess is Jack middle finger and by not being visible Agnew. vers - vis 90 FANCYCLOPEDIA vers litre - Literature which calls it­ and rendered a verdict favorable to self poetry, but follows none of the tfollheim, whose case was undoubtedly rules concerning regular rhythm, allit­ stronger. Tho defect hero was that eration, rime, or assonance. There is a 7/ollheim appealed tho case and asked for certain rhythmic quality to it, such as what could only be an opinion with no is also found in musical prose, and it direct effect. If Moskowitz (who didn't usually employs more figurative language even know his argument was being for­ than does prose, but the main reason for warded to the v-p) had taken it to tho calling it poetry is that it is written court and asked some definite action, in linos. Some writers put such empha­ such as an order directing that all mem­ sis on tho appearance on the page that bers cooperate with the Ms Bureau, and they write poems like this: that derogatory material by W against SaM be excluded from the mailings, Wail (which were not within the v-p’s power), saxaphonewaft then an opinion supporting the decision u (vapour cloud miasma ) p made mite have been in ordor; as it (seek the absent minded star) was, the decision settled nothing. Af­ cling the lingering last the ling ter the interregnum, with a hazier clause ering to work under,, the vice-presidents took fall sweep rush to giving advisory opinions on how they and heark the tendril would, interpret’ the Constitution, whe­ sigh. ther or not a concrete case was in hand, —Lowndes and whether or not there were members arguing both sides. The PAPA vice- veterans - Properly, a fan who was a fan president is also ex officio chairman of before the great barbarian invasion of the Laureate Committoo. late 1938 and 1939. Tho v-p of NFFF was to have charge of tho "archives", vice director - rfe refuse to guess what tho permanent official records etc, of tho duties of this officer arc. the Federation, which in the caso of the FAPA had been passed on separately from vice-president - Fan organizations have each officer to his successor, with lit­ done their best to make the v-p some­ tle accounting and frequent loss. thing more than the guy who sits around In waiting for the president to die. other organizations, the v-p is often In the made head of some standing committoe. FAFA, this officer was responsible for The Triumvirs' New Fandom Constitution recruiting before the ranks became was to have several v-p'B, each hoad of filled; he now is tho “judiciary" of the a different committee. Association. The first, and almost on­ ly, dispute between members arising un­ J Harry Vincent - Foaamo of James V der the old constitution was over the Taurasi. question of a Manuscript Bureau. Woll- hoim casting aspersions -at Moskowitz fan visits - Fans living in the same city while offering to appoint him to an FABA do not correspond with each other much, Ms Bureau, Moskowitz in a private letter but supplement meetings of local organi­ to .7 demanded an end to "slanderous" at­ zations with visits back and forth, tacks on him and asked guaranteed co­ foning ahead of time if they're well- operation of the members on the Bureau. bred. Visits between fans in different Jollhoim forwarded this with a rebuttal localities, tho they occurred from the to the Vice-President, Dan McPhail, and beginning, accelerated greatly about the requested a. decision. McPhail thot beginning of 1939. rthen it is a trip about it for two days, without asking especially directed to one place, ar­ Moskowitz whether he had anything fur­ rangements are made by mail, wire, or ther to say or consulting anyone else, longdistance fone, and when there is a FANCYCLOPEDIA 91 vit - ’’0 local in the place visited, the leaders of morality. make efforts to gather the comrades to meet the incomers. Fans simply off on a Voab - "Dear Jack: # I am surprized at trip, like the Faturian Ambassadors, ya. However- whon anything is sort fans returning from gatherings like the of—well you know— then it's vorfoic, tfidnoriders, and those passing thru in­ Honco VOLBUS one who is vomoic; Vorbii habited towns in the course of sone non- plural of vombus. The Vombisls are stf trip, just trust to luck to find tho thoses belonging to the Society for the fans home and unoccupied whon they hap­ advancement of Vombii. And I don’t know pen to pass thru. Great hospitality is where in th'hell you picked up 'vombieh' usually shown visiting fans, oven whon # yrs, # Jack Gillespie". (returning from a fan gathering pretty Another Futuri- broke) it's obvious that their primary an explained it this way: ttIf that reason for stopping is freo food and chair you're sitting in turned into a bunks, and arrive in the middle of tho stack of Bar-0 at 15^ for two cans, that nito. Occasional abuse of the hospital­ would be Vombish.11 ity of the brotherhood to tho great in­ However, 01 * Doc convenience of the visiteo, notably by Lowndes gave tho real lowdown in Space- the custodian of the Cosmic Concept, has ways. "The vornbis is an entity of in­ led to recognition of a few restrictions telligence fully equal, if not superior, on this; certainly more than an overnite to that of man, of a composition as yot stay calls for advance warning. A spe­ quito unknown though some have made cial typo of fan visit is the Blitzkrieg. guesses, and possessing the ability to Tho visit in person accomplishes some change form at will. So excellent a ends impossible by other moans - getting likeness can the vornbis assume to any personally acquainted, seeing each oth­ object or living thing, that, except in er’s collections and equipment, glimming cases of active malignancy /.the vombii the family background, etc. arc not by nature malignant/, it cannot be detected. One might scoff at this, vitons - (Russell) - In "Sinister Barri­ and say, by virtue of this statement, er", the extra-terrestrial beings who, the very typewriter on which I compose in line with Fortean beliefs, really own this article may be a vornbis.,, for all and control the Earth; visible in their I know, this typewriter is a vornbis; my dying state as ball lightning. only reason for doubting it is, that in all the years I have known it, it has Vodoso - nickname of Virgil Douglas never acted contrary to the mechanic­ Smith, son of Morojo and artist for al nature of typewriters." He goes on to Madge. cite cases in which vombii have take." the form of trees, rocks, swords, a* Vom - Voice of Madge. The pet name be­ even the water of a swimming pc‘ came the one generally used; full name There is "a suggestion that the v is Voice of the Imagi-Nation. are superhuman entities, well awa man's existence, who are using mar­ Vomaidene - Vom took to publishing fans' ly as a means of amusement or oxr drawings of nudes, sometimes with fan­ tation. It is they who have tastic background to excuse their ap­ sources of all man's legends ..*xy pearing in a fantasy fan magazine. Ack- tales, and they are what men have de­ erran, however, justified it on broader scribed as demons, ghouls, werewolves, grounds: that fanzines should publish vampires, elomentalb, and wizards." De­ whatever fans want, and especially some­ moniac possession and the evocation of thing like this that couldn't be pub­ familiars are also mentioned; "Further lished in general magazines because of things that the 'Song of Yste' /one of silly rules. The VoMaidens are criti­ the sources of his data, the Necronomi- cized mainly for lack of artistic merit; con being another/ mentions are too only a minority disapproved for reasons soul-shattering to describe here." In vu - war. 92 FANCYCLCPEDIA

other words, the vombii are mighty bic meaning to anything heretofore not medicine. considered as vombic # devombulate - to Lowndes supplied a brief glos­ divest of vombic meaning # provombic - sary of vombic terms, as follows: referring to a conception of horror; a vombic - weird and sinister, pertain­ strangeness; before the voguo of vombi- ing to the vombis, unpredictable # cism # vombiquo - precious, a term of vomb - to impart a shuddery feeling, contempt for would-be vombicism, puerile to fill with nameless dread, to a- attempts at horror, etc. # vombitor - a rouso terrifying suspicions, to make devotee of vombicism # le vombitour - one feel as if one wore in direct (for those who prefer the French; see contact with a vombis # vombitate - vombitor). to go around in doing weird sinister Later, Lowndes traced the root things # vombitation - the act of vombi- back to "waahhmb", a Cro-Magnon sound tating, actions without apparent human indicating a sinister and incomprehensi­ motives # vombulation - a vombic manner ble emotion of fear or dread, which they without action # vombulato - to put on a associated with the Fortoan rulers of vombic attitude, without actual doing the planet when they gained some slits anything vombic # vombification - the awareness of them. A Roman scholar made act of vombing, or vombifying; "vombify" up the Latin form, "vombis” (yombis, being much moro commonly used than vombitis, vombiti, vombitem, vombite; "vomb” # vombosia - an indescribable vombi, vombitorum, vombitibus, vombis, malady, seemingly without cause, and vombitibus; verb: vombo, vombcre, vornbi- having vombic effects upon the victim # vi, vombitus). In the same article, the vombitoria - a vombic collection or rep­ word "vombicism” was defined as the ertoire # vombitudo - the degree to study and following, serious or whimsi­ which any person, place, or thing is cal or both, of things vombic. vombic # vombosis - an examination into, or evaluation of the vombitude of any Vulcan Publications - Publishing house of vombitoria, ©vombification # cvomb, or Tucker and Sully Roberds before and evorabify - to determine the vombitude of after they belonged to Cosmic. In 1943, anything described as "vombic”, to hold without connection with Tucker, Innman a vombosis # evombulate - to give a vom­ and some other young fen took the name. w W - "the W” is a nickname for tfollheim. membership stipulation is the clue to the significance of the name. Sacky - Another nickname of Ackerman's. The wacky logic that Campbell talks so war - Immediately Great Britain and much about is usually much like the sur­ France declared war on Germany in 1939, realistic joke. An instance from fan­ Gallet's plans for a French stf pro were dom: ^He looked back and saw that a abandoned, the SFA and BIS were suspend­ Martian was following him. Not a big ed for the duration, their official rec­ Martian; that would be fantastic. But a ords were placed in a safe place, and littlo Martian.a several members living outside London who would likely still be in the same /

Young fane kept coming in, eventu­ Bo that as it may, ally making the BFS; even at the fans of fandom were found in all branch­ height of the German bombings, fan acti­ es of the armed services, the Air Forc­ vity continued, minor get-togethers were es, Ground Forces, Service Forces, Navy, held, several old and new fanzines con­ Marines, Coast Guard, and auxiliaries, tinued publishing, and new pros were set not to mention the merchant marine, CO on foot. It was prohibited to inport camps, Government war offices, and war American stf pulp in quantity (because industries. One had gone to Iceland be­ of shipping shortage) into British na­ fore Pearl Harbor and another was in Ha­ tions, or to send money outside those waii; still another was on his way to countries, so Britishers had to get the Philippines on 7 Docember, and American fanzines and pros by using cre­ ended up in Australia. French, Bri­ dit previously established, exchanging tish, or American fans took pert in Dun­ British periodicals and books, etc; kirk, Guadalcanal, North Africa, and small reprint editions of some of the other operations. pros were issued inside the countries. Inside the various Ackerman, and later the BSFWRS, were countries, fans Of war woro shifted from active in sending bundles of pro and fan place to place, trying to contact fellow magazines to the British. fen whenever they came near them; mny As the great lardfid nedr Shangri-IA. Several service debate in Amorida over intervention grew fans went into the Army Specialized hotter, some bad feeling arose between Training Program, and all in all the such British fans as Youd, who had come fans ranked much higher in the services to support the war, and American fans, than average inductees, as was natural who were predominantly nonintervention­ with thoir higher intelligence. Those ist. American Futurians later expressed fen who were deferred, and those anxious­ dislike for Gallet’s collaboration with ly awaiting call, kept up activity in fan­ Vichy in becoming a censor in the unoc­ dom and did work for the dogfans and cupied zone. in some cases supplied them with fan­ Amerifans’ opinions about zines gratis. If anything, activity per the war had fluctuated at such events as capita increased, and serious discus­ the Sitzkrieg, the invasion of Finland, sions seemed to be stimulated, not only the fall of Franco, and the invasion of those related to war problems, but on Russia. After Pearl Harbor, however, universal principles. The NFFF failed most of them supported the war. Certain and subscription magazines declined in fans not subject to the draft, such as number for a while, and the PAPA grew in Tom Slate and Russell Chauvenet, ex­ inportance. FAPA members in the armed pressed weariness and gloom, and others forces stationed abroad wore exempted who had held pacifistic ideas before from activity requirements. tho war registered as conscientious As of the end objectors and either were sent to work of 1943, there is no report of any- fan camps or let alone —those included Ro­ being killed in the war. senblum, Hornig, and Joquel. The later Pvt Ack-Ack felt he could not conscien­ ffarbul - Pet name for Fantasy War Bulle­ tiously be a conscientious objector, but tin of Great Britain. , disliked the army intensely, especially at first. Altho no study has beennado, Washington Worry-tfarts - (Rothman) - The it seems that more fans word deferred stfans of the District of Columbia; no from conscription than was true of their formal organization. Chiefly they were age group on the average. Defects in­ Rothman, Speer, and Perdue, joined at cluded fallen armpits, hypertension, in­ times by del Rey, Slate, and others; in sanity, homosexuality, underweight, os­ 1942 a wave of immigration from LA came teomyelitis, deafness, heart murmur, a in and soon left again. short foot, asthma, Twonk’s disease, and over- and underage. we - An avoidance for I. It gradually woi - wer 94 FANCYCLOPEDIA I

infected fane from its use in the gen­ tasy, and it does not include scarey sto­ eral press, and the remaining fans who ries with a mundane explanation. didn't take it up found themselves cav­ Ifcndom ing in unawares. They are mainly troub­ centers around science-fiction, so that led about their inability to keep from weird is a sort of off-cousin, but for indiscriminately mixing "I" and "wo". certain purposes, such as poetry and hu­ mor, is found to bo a better field than weird fiction - Jhntasy based upon ideas s-f. of the universe which science has dis­ Since the treatment is at least as credited. It was originally fiction important as the subject-matter, for a which aimed to produce an emotional ef­ survey of tho field of weird fiction, we fect of horror or the like - the "make reproduce here by permission of Weird ’ em shiver" movement - but in fan classi­ Tales, from its November 1938 issue, fication designates all fantasy of the Robert E Howard's; poem, "Recompense" type which is neither s-f nor pure fan­ (Copyright 1938 by Weird Tales.)

I have not heard Lutes beckon me, nor the brazen bugles call, But once in tho dim of a haunted lea I heard the silence fall. I have not heard the regal drum, nor seen the flags unfurled, But I have watched the dragons come, fire-eyed, across th© world.

I have not seen the horsemen fall before the hurtling host, But I have paced a silent hall where each step waked a ghost. I have not kissed the tiger-feet of a strango-eyed golden god, But I have walked a city's street where no man else had trod.

I have not raised the canopies that shelter revelling kings, But I have fled from crimson eyes and black unearthly wings. I have not knelt outside the door to kiss a pallid queen, But I have seen a ghostly shore that no man else has seen.

I have not seen the standards sweep from keep and castle wall, But I have seen a woman loap from a dragon's crimson stall, And I have heard strange surges boom that no man heard before, And seen a strange black city loom on a mystic night-black shore.

And I have felt the sudden blow of a nameless wind’s cold breath, And watched the grisly pilgrims go that walk tho roads of Death, And I have seen black valleys gape, abysses in the gloom, And I have fought tho deathless Ape that guards the Doors of Doom.

I have not seen tho face of Pan, nor mocked the dryad's haste, But I have trailed a dark-eyed Man across a windy waste. I have not died as men may die, nor sinned as men have sinned, But I have reached a misty sky upon a granite wind.

ffelcom - The Welcoming Committee, a re­ Braxton ffells - Rename of Donald Wollheim. cruiting adjunct of the NEFF, which would watch the pro letter sections for werewolf - A hybrid of humans and a once- promising letters from non-fans, and dominant wolf man (in tho Williamson have committee members in the same sec­ mythology); at any rate, one who can tion of the country write them letters change at will from human to wolf form, "welcoming" them to fandom and explain­ and then has extraordinary powers, being ing what it is all about. killable only by a silver bullet. A FANCYCLOFEDIA______95 wes - wol

sprig of wolfbano, or a crucifix, tho main by the Second Transition and gives protection against thorn. Third Fandom. Moskowitz, during the Second Fandom and Transition, wrote many Western Pennsylvania Science Fictioneers discussions of the course fandom was - An organization scraped together by following, but was handicapped by having Len Moffatt. They were gonna hold a to get his history largely from old fan­ conferonco in Pittsburgh, but nobody at zines. He was, however, the first to all showed up, point out the shift from the First Fan­ dom to the Second in "This Changing Ten­ tfGCC - tforld Girdlers’ Correspondence dency Among Ihn Magazines.” Club. One of the mushrooms of the First Transition. No other information avail­ widget - This name has been incorrectly able. given to a variety of gremlin. Actual­ ly, according to Campbell, it means whimsy - A manner of writing or speaking "wonderful gadget”, in which you toss out whatever pops into your mind, especially if it’s irrele­ flidneride - Ths epic journey of Moneybags vant, tho it may permissibly bo relevant Unger, Tree Toad Rothman, Pretty Boy in a surrealistic way. Maybe you take Madlo, Sourpusa Boll, and The Thing some cliche literally, and say "All the Widnor, in the FooFoo Special, to the luck in the world in your new job (no, Denvention. The Ihntasy Boys Out West not all; save some for other people)”, wore seeing a lot of country thoy’d nev­ or you get an urge to send someone a er soon before, and what with the Spe­ telegram saying COME HOME COMMA DEAR cial’s radiator and consequent fundless- STOP ALL IS FORGUV LOVE BERTHA, and do ness which left them starving between so; or perhaps you1re writing a drama fanhabited towns, it was an experience and get tho idea that it would bo funny unforgettable. if an alligator came crawling onto the stage, so you put that in. It looks Windy City ifeznpires - Informal name for easy, but only a certain kind of mind the gang in Chicago; apparently they can do it acceptably. Wilson is the have no organizational setup. groat master of this art form, tho George R Hahn before him sometimes used Wollhoimists - Name by which the Second the pename of Whimsy. Fandom knew tho faction later called Fu- turians, because Wollhoim was the load­ whithering - (deCamp) - Moskowitz and ing Quadrumvir. Speor have been the chief whitherers of They reached their peak fandom, tho others have turned a hand to at the time of tho June 1938 FAPA elec­ it, as in Ecco’s ’’Recent Stabilizing De­ tions, when the continuance of their ad­ velopments in Stf Fandom”. Early whith- ministration was challenged by tho Phil- orings included comparisons of the his­ ly faction, who put up Secretary- tory of the prozines to the history of Treasurer Baltadonie for President, Jack Occidental civilization (with particular Speer for Vice-President, and Bob Madlo reference to the Dark Ages), but aside for Official Editor. These had a folder from an occasional article on the order of in tho Fourth Mailing pointing to ir­ "Is Science-Fiction in a Rut?", filoso- regularities and unconstitutional acts fizing has been over why the history of in the first year’s administration. Tho fandom has followed the pattern it has, Fourth Mailing was delayed, however, un­ and what comes next. Opinions differ as til near the end of the voting period; to the pattern of tho past, but tho meanwhile, President Jollheim sent out swinging-pendulum model used in Spoor’s the ballots in a separate envelope, and original history, involving throe fan­ enclosed with thorn a sheet charging that doms, is most generally accepted. A the FAPA was being sabotaged by the prize-winning profotic article by Speer, Philly group: that Madle had made char­ published by the LASFL, was realized in ges of dishonesty in a non-FAPA publica- wor - wr 96 FANCYCLOFEDIA tion (Helios) which he didn’t daro pre­ how it was to come about. Youd favored sent in the mailings (the charge, in Federal Union, but on tho eve of Pearl connection with the mid-term election Harbor renounced tho idea of any connec­ for changing from temporarily appointed tion with these rotten Americans. Speer to elected officers, was not definite at also favored the Streit idea, but lack­ the time of the 3d Mailing, and was pre­ ing that, hoped for a while that con­ sented in the late 4th; Madlo didn’t solidation of individual states mite write tho piece in Helios); that Baita­ take place satisfactorily as a result of donis had been intentionally negligent the war. The Michelists spoke always of as Secretary-Treasurer in not taking a scientific-socialist world state, a care of new members or reimbursing the world soviet. The Exporantists believed mailing manager for expenses (which the that a universalanguage would be a pow­ BSPS later denied); and that the present erful force for world unification. administration was being slandered (see illustration under ’’art”). Only the fleaver flright - Another of that guy Ack­ thinnest excuse was offered for bringing erman’s pen names. these charges against his opponents at writing - Often used in connection with such a time and in such a manner; years fanzines to include art work as well as later, when the Phillies took SaM to the fiction and non-fiction. Characteristic Ivory Tower, Wollheim acknowledged that of the colloquial style, as distin­ the charges had been unjustified. When guished from the puristic handling of the Mailing finally came out, the broad­ sides there took a different note, pri­ grammar, of which fans also are capable, marily political; altho he said that the are various modified Ackermanese prac­ political beliefs of the rfollhcimists tices, which vary from fan to fan, con­ should not influence the voting for PAPA siderable use of words and phrases from foreign languages (and Esperanto) when­ office, he and the other Quadrumvirs took great space, in official and unof­ ever the writer feels like it, and a ficial publications, to charge that tone as tho the writer were talking to Speer was an avowed Fascist and that the himself or at least determining how ho whole Philadelphia group was planning to shall say things primarily to suit him­ institute censorship of the mailings and self. keep Michelistic propaganda out of them. Some people in the fan world, it must bo added, do not sharo the excel­ To add to the confusion, Sykora thru misunderstanding put Moskowitz up for lence of the typical fan in the matter President. However, tho flollheimist of writing ability, and if they aren’t candidate, Michel, got more votes than incoherent like this: “As per ammendment to entrance of my proposed amraend ment, tho other two combined, and in all of­ I shall get tho necessary No. of signed fices except tho uncontcsted Secretary­ members named to petition11, are addicted ship (Taurasi) they made a clean sweep. Speer immediately started a Petition of to guff of this sort: ”1’11 just drool until you get back; Reprimand circulating and being signed. it’s third door to the left ... In the Fifth Mailing, tho flollheimists as usual commented on thoir opponehts* Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered weak and leary, material in the same Mailing, and yield­ ed not a millimeter in tho charge that Came a knocking at my dome ’Ain't nobody home.’’ the Phillies had intended to destroy the # Ji th all this (and he—, too), mixed PAPA and also institute censorship of well, sprinkle with salt and poppa; take the mailings. A little later, as is de­ one whiff and I’ll send you a few Dai­ scribed elsewhere, the Quadrunvirato sies, picked fresh from my harem. # quit. Jell, you have withstood my desultory comments. I have tried to be candid and florid State - One point on which the so­ affable. I can make one promise: you ciological fans wore agreed. They var­ will find no cursory columns, buth they ied greatly, however, in their ideas of FANCYCLOPEDIA 97 77? - z

will not be impeccable. I hope I have WSFC - World Science-Fiction Convention, succeeded. Au ’voir, I’ll be dropping particularly the First. in later— # —I hope!” And nothing can Dirk Wylie - Name taken by Harry Dcckwoi- be done about it. ler before entering the Ivory Tower. X X - The name of several publications and X Act - (Ackerman) - The Exclusion anonymous writers. Act.

Y - Because some scribes of Norman Eng­ little guy who didn’t like him; and once land didn’t know enuf about Anglo-Saxon it was said that Yngvi is a Type Fifteen to continue spelling words like "hwaet" fan. Elmer perdue has been the leading with an hw, but instead spelled them wh, defender of him or it, asserting by the h element has almost disappeared in stickers and otherwise that "Yngvi is recentimmigrant-dominated regions of the NOT a louse.”’ At the Denvention, Roth­ US like the Atlantic seaboard, and Y and man made a motion to tho effect that Yng- “why?” are pronounced identically. vi is not a louso, but it was dofoated. Hence such organizations as the YIAGPUM- A motion was thon passed stating that UMSTIPUSA, Unltd. Rothman is a louse. ye ed - An avoidance meaning "the edi­ yobber - (Michel-Gollheim) - This thing­ tor”, sometimes scientificombinod yod. umabob has become so popular that tho au­ In all such uses of "ye", it should be thor deems it meet to quote the edito­ pronounced "the", but almost never is. rial in which it originated: “I, the Men- yhos - Pronounced h □ s], Stands for tator Itself, call upon all hoypoloyal- "your humble and obedient servant", an ists to rise and slice those absolte ones, avoidance and nickname of Art Widner’s. slice them, writhe and wrothe and then —then—Yobber.’ Yes, yobber.* This is a Yngvi - (deCamp) - The only thing wo are time for stern measures. told about Yngvi is that a little fellow "But first yob in the Giants’ prison of "The Roaring the loader. Yob the pohlth ikself.’ The Trumpet" came to the front of his cell pohlth that preons and croos. The very every hour on the hour and yelled "Yngvi pohlth that would durst murmulate the is a LOUSEJ" The mystery has fascinated Mcntator myself,’ Vah! Tho wo scorn fandom, and Yngvi turns up in all sorts with frango these attempts, yet we warn of places. Frequently the statement lesser zorji that things may get out of that he is a louse is taken literally; hand. So forward - YOBBER TO THE VERY sometimes Yngvi is confused with the END!" From a Mijimag in the 3d Mailing

Z - As in the case of A, a race centered dead, who has boon raised sans soul to around this letter on the S-F Check- serve as slave for a master. Sometimes List, and such titles as Z Z Zug's Ga­ a nickname for Singleton because of the zette and Z » have tried for last place pseuicide. on the list. It somewhat spoiled the fun when Swisher placed at the end of Allen Zweig - Rename of Donald A Goll­ the List, in more or less random order, heim. It was the name of an actual sci- certain non-alfabetic characters that entifictionist who, says Dick 'Gilson, had been used as fanzine names. was badly killed in an auto accident some time back. zombie - A creature, perhaps formerly That winds up the stenciling.’ errataddendum

The following were omitted in stenciling the preceding pages. Asterisks in the text indicate whoro they should go.

Beulah - Pet name of the fanzine Nebula. Cosmic Circle, add: A special investiga- . tion has revealed that Legler was com- Caspercons - Quote conventions unquote in mitted to the Hospital for the Insane in Casper Wyoming. In the middle of 1943, 1936-1937, released against the advice Rothman took off from his ASTP to visit of the doctors. In 1942 he was forced Perduo. A little later, the coordinator to leave Newcastle because of illicit of the Cosmic Circle passed thru. relations with a minor. The ’’fans” of Newcastle appear to be almost wholly i- clubroom - The PSPS had plans to rent an maginary. apartment in which to store club proper­ ty, and in which one of the members would dressed-up mundanes - Hack stories in live, but thin didn’t materialize. The which non-fantastic elements could be LASTS, however, did acquire a clubroom. substituted and the plot remain substan­ Uimeos and typewriters are available for tially unchanged. the members to use. The club library of fanzines, pros, and books is there. A Powwow - A conference of the OSA in 1939. cot is available for anyone who may be working so late as to find it inconveni­ Ruja-Blu - (Ackerman) - Nickname for Abby ent to go home. Not only on meeting Lu Ashley, referring to hair and eye nites, but at any time, members come in coloration. The Michifen misunderstood to work on publications, read, or talk. it as Ru^-AbLu. f-— —lj—L-rr-z.--:------■ — ------—

The publisher wishes to express his thanks to the numerous Los Angeles fans who, in manner small or largo, contributed to the manual labor- of producing the

One hundred and 8 "fan hours" went into the mimeograpny alone— the crank turning (c. 28,775 revolutions), the siip-shooting, tho dc-slipping, and a special trimming job on a portion of pages, A good gallon of ink was consumed. The tremendous assembly job yet remains to be done; and altogether it appears likoly that tho creation of the FANCYCLOPEDIA, in addition to its author’s two years of compilation, will have cost, in the time of a composite fan, 5 nonstop 24 hour days. Special credit accrues to Walt Daugherty for a bit of a blitz in tho securing of the precious stencils from tho previous publisher-to-havc-becn when former fan lost interest in tho project. Special credits also to Fran Lanoy for his trimming work, Morojo for her transportation of the edition to the bindery. M1ME0ING 1 SLIPPING * 1 DE-SLIPPING ; 37 pgs.•.Ackerman ; 38 pgs.•.Ackerman : 32 pgs...Ackerman ! 22 pgs...Daugherty [ ; 25 pgs...Morojo : 24 pgs...Morojo 20 pgs...Morojo : 19 pgs.,.Daugherty ! : 15 pgs...Brown 8 pgs...Crozetti : s pgs...Crozetti : io pgs.,.Daugherty; 8 pgs...Laney J 5 pgs...Rogers ! 5 pgs...Rogers 4 pgs...Misc. 4 pgs...Misc. i is pgs...Misc. TOTAL TIME SPENT ON ABOVE COMBINED OPERATIONS 46 hrs...Ackerman 30 hrs...Morojc 13 hrs.,.Daugherty 5 hrs...Brown 5 hrs...Laney 5 hrs...Crozetti 4 hrs...Rogers 30 DAYS IN PRODUCTION