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Bulletin of Cleveland SF Society 13 Ellison 1952-03 th® stohy of1 the fibst i Oh the ’ I hnooh......... editorial THE SCIENCE FICTION FAN IN OTO PRESENT CULTURE We *have by now, grown accustomed to the sometimes unwar rented ri fr­ loule a science fiction fan receives when it ie found out he reads "that *•tuff" about it* *Yet We are doomed^ Actually-- there isn’t much we can do —t---’’-------- - I’B afraid, unless we wise up pretty quick, to be ever the ■------ t xn these ridicule *fests I say sometimes unwarranted, because look at some °£J;h® f science fiction fen pull. Just a few weeice ago a prime example of that V>-o nhown by the San Francisco group (The little Men»« Chowder, Marching ar.d Science Fiction Society) announcing to the San Fran press and. t. e oie world that they were setting up mineral rights to the moon. New if that isn’t an asinine trick, you tell me* And then there’s Dianetics, which stf in general is connected with. Yot through any of our doing, hut just because Hubbard J first article was published in aSF, So because of that we are laugnea at, degraded, and called humbugs to use one of the less vile names. And then there's Space Cadet and stf comic books, and drunken ergies we so laughingly call conventions, and running around in ekm suits in all the major cities of the SXTA* All these things add up* Though taken singly they may seem small and though childish, even *humorous But it does not help science *fiction We make these mistakes all along the line. From Stf mags to allowing ridiculous stories of crazy fan meetings or ings ts get into the *newspapers It’s got to stopl Mow wait a minute. We»(l'm)re not trying to o h a n g * : •anks* We (I) don’t want any vice *clean-ups Live and let live we v 2. flager* andbut*** this is important, there is a certain amount of cu ure manners we must posess to remain in accord with our civilizat without suffering the risks of being laughed at and/or ostracized. I mean this very sincerely* Something is going to have to be *done We beat our chops daily about how science fiction is becoming more pop­ ular and WE’RE stfen we’re on the inside. We *helped But we don’t have a thing to be bragging th *out It is very s-f fans who have helped science fiction in any *way It is men like Lloyd Eshbaoh and Robert Heinlein and Anthony Poucher chat have do -.e for science fiction the favors we all should have done in remunera.^cn for the years of pleasure it has afforded us© is not the loud-mouthed out-of-town fan that comes whopping it jut to Mew Orleans with a copy of aSF in one ^cket^^pint^n 1 r < , • • • " : • • 'ft !:■! z:~-. * ’ * - .. • : •.’ ■ 1 t • Lorlol (concluded) the others It is not the fan editor who pixts all manner of pornographic and driveIoub material* even out of humour, in his rag# It’s not the e:cponent of some weird credo that gets in with a stf Club and then when spilling his guts to the outside world says f "My the *or its may not be right, but I’m affiliated with the //// science fict._on olub, They are well tliought of3* Ho, it’s none of these# ‘ , For these drooling imbeciles are net true solenee fletten fen, they are the residue and scum drawn from our culture to our ranks because t 'ey think we’re a bunch of neurotics also# , •/ell.the run of the science fiction fan is not neurotic. He’s $ duwn*to-Earth guy with a wife and kids who likes speculative fiction,,, and not a BEM in disguise, .; * This of course is just one group of people’s opinions on the matter. But I’ll print any and ali. commentaries on the subject pro or con by anyone who has something intelligent to say about it. But until we start weeding out the -jlime in fandom and assuming a few of the "culture obligation-.^5 and dignity we should, we can expect to be considered the laughing stock of our civilization, ; Dignity such as the brand Julian May and Bea Mahaffey are using In calling the next convention the Tenth World Science Fiction Convention and not tho Chicon II, It’s not too much to ask the science fiction fan to grow up along with science fiction itself, ; I’m proud to sign this editorial—•—•••♦"•""’he Sometime! our scheduling system gets pretty fouled u> and we find that things we had promised, or even accounted fbr on the ■ cover or elsewhere in the issue, aze crowded out. Such was ths cast With TRAPPING THE BEAST last issue. You’ll find it in thia issue of course, but we find that for need of polishing, Trank Andrases Sky’s clever TROJAN HEARSE will be held over till next issue, Lool for it then. Also: ’ "IT’S TRULY FANTASTIC" an article on Ziff-Davis’ new stf mag ■ GIBSON’S GAlSSFoFE’XTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE’ #2:the track 5, book reviews of DESTINATION:UNIVERSE 1 by van Vogt,,.TOMORROW, THE STARS edited by Heinlein;,,a rebuttal review of MURDER IN MILLENIUM VI by Curmo Grey .ion and others 4. the first part of RELU'JT/JTT GENIUS by Harlan Ellisoiy & other: 5 department the BUIIETIN of the CIEVELAID SCIENCE BIOTION SOCLETP *presents #* CITATTOT In every issue of the BULLETIN, a member of the science flet Ion ranks will be chosen to receive a CITATION for achievement in the str rieia>:; This award is given after a vote by the members of the CSFS as a 9"°w . pf our gratitude to that person for furthering science fiction as a T»eJno #2l LLOYD ARTHUR ESHBACH for FANTASY PR333 Admittedly a fan himself who not only issues books from PANTAST TRESS to make money, but so that ho can have them in his— own collect* ionfLloyd Eshbaoh has taken fandom to his heart and he to fandom-s hearto _ ., Were It not for the tireless, oft eleepleas, efforts of L.A,’• Eshbach. such masterpieces as :,The Legion Of Space by Williamson, the LeTinman books, "Sinister Barrier" by Eric Prank Russell end many, mary others published by him, might not be on our book shelves* : Going into FANTASY PRESS on a'shoestring, LA* built it up from the remnants of the Hadley Book Ccoss mailing list to a concern that *X trusted throughout the length and breadth of *fandom He has developed such talents as Hie Binkley, the teriffio young ctf artist and famous Edd Cartier by giving them free *J° J"®**® for him* In addition he has been a God* send insofar as J** 1”?"* te ..on 1)science fiction-fantasy bookplates that been needed since the dawn of stftime, 2) POLARIS PRESS for the limited Doe hard-to-get classics of stfantasy and 3) a proposed now scries of Doe Smith’s .tales* Bor these alone^Eshbach should receive the rating of "Dearest To A Fan’s Heart"# but that's not allo Sever far behind when a fan group needs for their dena or auctions, Lloyd has contributed totag beautifulwories of art he himself could well use in his large collection. And when it oomee to fan activities, AL* is right in *there He has been more than philanthropic in the stf line. He is ***J"® to have sold a firsSedition of "SLAW worth up to thirty-seyen *dollar to -t, fan for $3, We nominate for the person we’d most like to girt ■ million dollars to if he needed it...LLOYD ESHBACHi czar of TAMTAST PRESS and POLARIS PRESS, , ____ A letter explaining the CITATION and a subscription to the OSES *BULLET IN are being sent to L?.oyd Arthur Eshbach*, J (Kl ;; / ( _ < d -urtsent N E X_T TEX T coming up in the promags? FANTASTIC.. »onTruman Capote-a MIRIAN which won an Edgar Allan Poe a- ward will be second in series of famous reprints.st** or- ies "by Kendall Poster Crossen? Doan Evans* and Roy Huggins© STARTLING STORIES.....after DRAGON’S ISLAND (abridged from book) by Jack Williamson* who knows? ...................... • ' , « • » GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL..,..next will be ifry Franklin’s THE RAT ’ RACE and after that? number 11 will >e Tucker’s CITY IN THE SEA* AMAZING /j*STORIES * FIFTY THOUSAND NUGGETS by Don *Wilcox ♦••♦SECRET 0? THE BLACK PLANET by Mil ten Iess0To AVON FANTASY REAIER.ooooou^iiUboth cusfended indefinitely since’ AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER* ooo0Donald Wellheim has left Avon K’.o« Co© .ELASTIC ADVENTURES..** .THE Lioms MOUTH by Stophen Marlowe . • * GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION,0..,tho next serial will be GRAVY PLANET by Of JI. Korribluth and Fredrick Pohlcover by Jack Coggins who did cover for’.Bratt ■ s book •?Tets*F.ockots Guided Missiles? and Space *Ships" * FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES ..... THE WHITE WOLF by Franklin Grog or.’/©* .THE GREEN SPLOTCHES by ST* Striding* IMAGINATION.oo^oNO TIME FOR TOFFEE by Charles F. Myers* • “ FANTASTIC STORY MAGAZINE.*. ..after CLAN by van Vogt (which is probably out by the time you read whisjwill be Kuttner’ s A MILLION YEARS TO CONQUER, ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.... .BLOOD’S A ROVER by Chad Oliver. « • • • • • « • 1UTURE SCIENCE FICTION.....BECAUSE OF THE STARS! by Charles *Dye. •?!&$' SHALL RISE (2nd; in the ’Great Legend’ seriqp by Wallace *West THRILLING WONDER *...STORIES LORDS OF THE MORNING by Edmond **Hamilton© CHOLWELL’S CHICKENS by Jack Vance (ADVANCE INFO: word comes through to watch STARTLING STORIES in SEPTEMBER for a novel-lengther by Jack Vance titled n imply BIG PLANET.) mere next issue science fiction short ©lurry HARUW ELLISON rtAnd now art thou cursed from the Earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy broth­ er’s hlood from thy hand,*** GENESIS IVlll *Mrs MacDonald had always wanted *twins And now the house of MacDonald was blessed with the wails of dual throat« screaming for food at the same *time That was the second thing you noticed about the twinsjtheir too serious *competition The first thing you noticed was the comparison between their hair* They were exact twins save the fact that one naa •ff.-color rust-red hair and the other’s was blonde* In more than one way that was their only *difference For the MacDonald twins, by the very fact that they were twins,- had to compete* Not against outsiders as normal youngsters would, but against each other in a deadly do-or-dic fight that was at times high­ ly *entertaining They fought to get the first bowl of *Fablum A quarrel started over possesion of the two-whoelor* * * ' v At the age of twenty, the trouble began over the football *queen One night at dinner, the boy they called "Red* announced he was entering the Air Force* The next night *"Bud announced the same *intention Clearing his throat, the General sent a withering glance down the table .
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