FANTASY-NEWS the weekly science fiction newspaper VOLUME 4 NUMBER 5 ' , JANUARY 21, 1940 WHOLE NUMBER 83 * SELECTED SCOOPS fif 1939 | iJAN: HORNIG TO EDIT "SCIENCE FICTION’.’-HORNIG & LEY PRESENT AT QSFL. :CAMPBELL ANNOUNCES "UNKNOWN". "SCIENCE FICTION"MAY PUBLISH QUARTERLY. ' FEB I FANT* ADVENTURES"OUT IN MARCH TO BE LARGE SIZE. .‘DECAMP, CLARK, HORNIG ATTEND FIRST QSFL MEETING IN NEW HALL’. I ■BLUE RIBBON WILL PUBLISH "FUTURE FICTION" IF "SF" SUCCESSFUL. MASKWICZ OFFERRED POSITION AS ARTIST FOR STANDARD. ‘ERIC FRANK RUSQEL, STF AUTHOR, TO VISIT U.S. ‘MAR: NEW CONVENTION PLANS AS N.Y. & N.J. FANS CONFER IN NEU YORK. ; CAMPBELL, THE MRS.,LEY, DECAMP, & CLjxRK AT MARCH QUEENS SFL MTG. ”’WE HAVE METROPOLIS"----- WORLD STF CONVENTION COMMITTEE. ■APR:"SCIENCE FICTION" MaY GO MONTHLY. WALTER SULLIVAN LEAVES N.Y. :WDER & aLI HASSAN GUESTS OF QSFL AT APRIL MEETING. WORLD STF CONVENTION Hi.IL NEAR PARK AVENUE NEV/ YORK CITY. ■MAY: RUSSEL-, BINDER, WILLIaMSON, HORNIG AT MAY QUEENS SFL MEETING. ECH’a.RTZ AUTHORS "FANTASTIC HOAXES" IN FANTASTIC ADVENTURES'. (PAUL COVER FOR SF TO BE AUCTIONED AT WSFC. GARDNER LEAVES N.Y. |JUN: FIRST N.Y. INTERVIEW WITH FARNSWORTH WRIGHT OBTAINED' BY MOSKOWITZ. (QUEENS SFL HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING. ALL OLD OFFICERS REFLECTED. •"TALES OF WONDER" THANKS U.S. FOR AID RENDERED. WEIRD TALES REDUCES PRICE TO 15 'CENTS, PAGES TO 128. (FRANK R. PAUL TO BL GUEST OF nONOR AT CONVENTION DINNER. gUL: PUBLISHERS OF ARGOSY TO ISSUE "FAMOUS FANTaSITC MYSTERIES". WORLD STF CONVENTION HUGE SUCCESS’.». "TIME" MAGAZINE GIVES ’/RITE UP. iHRILLING WONDER GIVES DINNER OF ^APPRECIATION TO OUT-OF-TOWNERS. 0OMETELRS RIDE ROUGHSHOD OVER PSFS IN HILARIOUS STF SOFTBaLL GAME’. AUG: ILXnASEsR, FANFARE, STUNNING SCIENTIFIaN aLL PLANNED’. pElSINGER, BINDER, SCHWARTZ, VACATION IN CALIFORNIA. ACKERMAN, M0R0J0, BRADBURY,•RETURN HOME AFTER CROSS COUNTRY TRIP. REINSBERG HEADS GROUP PLAI/NI1TG TO HOLD ’40 CONVENTION IN CHICAGO. LaSFL HOLDS 100TH MEETING. I SEP: "FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES" & "FANTASTIC ADVENTURES" GO MONTHLY’. !WNING QUEENS MEETING SHATTERS N.Y. & WORLD RECORDS.. 32 ATTEND. (GIRLS OF N.Y. TO ISSUE1 "FEMININE Fill" , FIRST ALL-GIRL FAN MAG. OCT : K. RUSSEL MILLER FOUNDER OF BIZARRE SERIES DIES. PAUL & BINDER JOIN QSFL. W. LaWRENCE HAMLINd ANNOUNCES STaRDUST, ASTOUNDING TO HaVE TWO COLOR INSIDE ILLUSTRATIONS. H. GOTTLIFFE, WELL KNOWN ENGLISH Fill CALLED TO WAR. "captain future" .to be .published, "planet stories" appears on stands. WAR STOPS PUBLICATION OF FIRST FRENCH STF MaG. EDITOR GALLET DRAFTED. NOV : NEV/ FANDOM’S CONSTITUTION APPROVED BY PH ILLY CONFERENCE’. S & S PLANS "ASTOUNDING COMICS" TO COMBINE MuNY FAMOUS FEaTURES. GOLDEN aTOM & SCIENCE FICTION FANJJ0M PUBLISHED. OUTRE REVIVED. FRED POHL TO EDIT • "ASTONISHING STORIES" & SUPERSCIENCE STORIES"J ■■■ • ENGLAND’S FANS REORGANIZE.. MOST PROJECTS AGAIN CONTINUE. XMAS QUEENS SFL MEETING*SMaSH HIT’. KUTTNER,LEISINGER,HORNIG, BINDER THER . GIUNTA CRASHES COMIC MAG WITH CARTOON aND FaN MaG REVIS’./. "MARVEL TALES DISCONTINUED": GOODMAN. ’/ILL SYKGRA NEW ED. FANTASY NEWS. REINSBERG SELLS STRIP TO "COLOSSAL COMICS". JAMES V. TaURaSI HaS NEV/ FAN. COLUMN ACCEPTED BY "FUTURE FICTION". Page Two FANTASY NEWS FANTASY NEUS is published every FAN-MAS- REVINA by Harry Warner, Jr. week by the FANTASY NEVIS PUBLISHING THE SCIENTIAL: Vol. 1, no. 1, Dec. COMPANY at 31-51 41st Street, Long 1939, Excellent first issue; 20 1g Island City, N.Y. mimeod pp. Excellent material by Editor: Will Sykora. Jameson, Unger, Hoguet, Hamling, Associates; Jimmy Taura£l, Sam Mos­ Kcrshak, and a very good feature by kowitz , Mario Racic, Jr. Mort Weisinger. 100 from 3671 Rates: 3 issues 10??, 9 issues 300, Broadway, New York, N.Y. 30 issues $1,00, 52 issues ( 1 yr.) THE FANTAST: Vol. 1, no. 7. 30 ea%- $1.50. (NO STAMPS PLEASE) tqycT pp-, well mimeod-. One of the finest British fan mags ever. Ex­ BOOST SCIENCE FICTION cellent material, and particularly good letter section. Only 400 for EDITORIAL by Will Sykora. 6 issues, at 244 Des^orough Road, There are times when stf act- Eastleigh, Hants, England. ivities seem to slump, and this weekNEW FANDOM ». Vol 1, no, 6. 34 1g the slump is reflected in the col­ mimeod pp, plus covers. Good silk- umns of this newspaper. Once in a screen cover, excellent contents great while someone digs up a list emphasizing Convention write-ups of contemporary stfan organizations and speeches. Available only to which usually reads like this: NEW FANDOM members, $1 per year for Philadelphia Science F iction Soo’y, ten. issues. Only one sample copy Baltimore Science Fiction L eague, to a non-member from Sam Moskowitz, Illini Fantasy Fictioneers, Chicago 603 .So. 11th Street, Newark, N.J.(nw) Science Fiction League, Tri-Cities HORIZONS: Vol. 1, no, 2. 12 lg, Science Fiction League , Denver Sci­ colorfully heotoed pp, excellent ence Fiction League, Liverpool Sci­ cover showing girl and dragon. 3 ence Fiction Association, eta. (I of the best fan stories to date, omit mention of the Queens SFL and Next is.sue out April 1. 2 issues the Los Angeles SFL, because what 150 from Harry Warner, Jr. 303 Bryan I have to say here does not apply Place, Hagerstown, Md. (last item-wss) to these super-active fan clubs.) But what about these ’’Fictioneers, SCIENTIRaDIO by Abe Oshindky. "Leagues”, and "Societies"? Just this:—NOTHING. Do they hold reg­ Flash’. I just heard in Jewish ular meetings? Who knows? Do they a play taking place one hundred yrs publish a club mag? Who knews? Do in the future, 2040. It concerns they send reports of their meetings a scientist in Palestine. It has (if an SFL Chapter) to THRILLING as its theme the old idea of a be­ FONDER'STORIES? Who knows? Wh« ing created. The Jewish daily news, are their officers? What is their paper, ’’The Day”, will have a comp­ purpose? Do they strive to advance lete write-up of this story this Sci ence Fiction?, What do they do *i Saturday. I heard this over radio What are they .for? WHO KNOWS? station WEVD at 7:00 P.M. Monday, They keep their activities, if January 15th. (ao) any, a secret. They have no publi­ WANTED*. ’.«. NEUS FOR FANTASY NEWS. city committee. Not a scrap of new: John W. Campbell, Jr., Editor of is ever sent to a leading fan mag ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION would or newspaper like FANTASY NEWS. Is like to see comparisons be’fcween it" because there are no activities, all pro stf mags. ReadersI Re­ •r that these clubs do not exist, porters! Stfans*. Send in your or that their activities are so un­ reviews of two or more newstnnd important or dry and monotonous thai science fiction mags, and compare they are of no interest to stfans? them with one another, telling Any fan aotiTity , if it advances, vfcich one you like best and WHY. popularizes, or spreads the gospel Everyone’ who submits a review of of stf, is of the inte'.sest inter­ this sort will receive a "Big-Lit- est to all active stfans, practic­ ti. ” book of stf. bb a yimsr ally All yeai the lead-- in g stf weekly—-FANTASY NEUS,______ FANTASY NEWS___________________ Page Three ASTOUNDING FACTS by Lane Stannard. PLANETfS ORBIT by James V. Taurusi. The" March issue of ASTOUNDING . The second issue, of PLANET will feature the latest astronomi­ STORIES will hit the stands around cal plate by Gilmore, vhich, in our February 1, 1940. It was revealed opinion is a so-so drawing. The to your reporter via telephone that novelets of this issue are ’’Cold” the second issue will contain "Mar­ by Nat Schaohner, two worlds depend tian Terror” by Ed Earl Repp; "Dic­ utterly on one mine----- and the mine tator Of Time" by the popular Nel­ gives out’. Result—the waimth of son S. Bond;"Goddess Of the Moon two world’s friendship freezes in by Reynolds The editor of PLaNET the cold of a tiny world---; "The states that he thinks Selwyn, a Emancipated” by the ever-popular new writer, to have a very promising L. Sprague deCamp, one< ’ of* his‘ ’ Johnnjfuture 9 and that the fans will en- Black yams, in which Johnny learns’ joy.reading hi’s ’’Revolt -Q’f the to talk.- The short stories in this1 Earth Star" in the second issue. issue are; ”In the Good Old Summer‘•Also­ in this issue’ are Ross Rop-k- time" by p, Schuyler Miller; ’’Chap­ ■ lynne, and Ray Cummings. ter From the Beginning” by A. M. f ddpartnents are featured Phillips, and "The Dwindling Sphere' in this issue, "The .Visagraph’’, by Willard E. Hawkins* "If This thisis the most necessary readers’ Goes-On"', the super-serial, con­ department, and "The Feature Flash”, cludes with this issue. which is a combination of editorial Two artlnles, "Fuel For the and facts on artists, authors, etc., Future" by Jack Hatcher, and "Atom­ also a needed addition. ' ic Ringmaster’’ by Arthur koCann, are in this isse, and of course the Leo Morey, popular stf artist, regular departments. has been, added to the artist staff, Inside illustrations are by and a number of new artists have Gilmore, E. Hatcher, R. Isip, Wt been given tryouts. The cover is. done*- by the same artist who did the Kolliker, F. Kramer, and H. Rogers. first cover.- "The Roads Must Roll?" is an ■ interesting novelist by Robert A. As to whether the mag will go HeitHein coming up in a.future iss­ bi-monthly or even monthly, the ue. editor replied that he did not know, it is all up to the readers. ^Coming Up in UNKNOV^ MCASY - the magazine sells Well,it may. FICTION, Page . has. a superman yarn Asked if the.first issue has showed that is written, in an'entirely new good promise, the editor answered viewpoint.