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The Science Fiction Fan, v. 4, issue 9, whole no. 45, April 1940
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FAN.................................................11 terested, in their spare time. (They'd only have 20 hours of the 24 in "spare time" to work on them!) Then they could be as esoteric as the editors wished But it seems to follow that there might be a large enough desire for stf magazines from the general public, so that some people would spend their 4 hours working on the production of such. What would the stories be about? Some, perhaps, would be adventure tales of the terrible past ages under scarcity-economies, tales of what might have happened if the U.S. hadn't awakened in time. Others would deal with all manner of stf possibilities even as today. Only there they wouldn't have the kind of vilians that we have now. There would be personal struggles depicted, but none motivated by desire for personal profit, or control of the world or Technate. There would be rivalry to see who could achieve the most, yet, under the conditioning of the Technate, would rivals stoop to sabotage? An interesting point. There would certainly be all manner of adventures on other planets. And no doubt the building of the new civilization there. But what form would these take? In the stf tales of tomorrow, they would take the same forms, at their best, that the present (then) showed. They would be functional rather than based upon Price System ideas, which would be things of the past by the time homo sap arrived at the moon. *** Would these stf tales of tomorrow be as interesting and thrilling as the best of today; I rather think they would -- to the readers of tomorrow.
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FAN.................................................11 terested, in their spare time. (They'd only have 20 hours of the 24 in "spare time" to work on them!) Then they could be as esoteric as the editors wished But it seems to follow that there might be a large enough desire for stf magazines from the general public, so that some people would spend their 4 hours working on the production of such. What would the stories be about? Some, perhaps, would be adventure tales of the terrible past ages under scarcity-economies, tales of what might have happened if the U.S. hadn't awakened in time. Others would deal with all manner of stf possibilities even as today. Only there they wouldn't have the kind of vilians that we have now. There would be personal struggles depicted, but none motivated by desire for personal profit, or control of the world or Technate. There would be rivalry to see who could achieve the most, yet, under the conditioning of the Technate, would rivals stoop to sabotage? An interesting point. There would certainly be all manner of adventures on other planets. And no doubt the building of the new civilization there. But what form would these take? In the stf tales of tomorrow, they would take the same forms, at their best, that the present (then) showed. They would be functional rather than based upon Price System ideas, which would be things of the past by the time homo sap arrived at the moon. *** Would these stf tales of tomorrow be as interesting and thrilling as the best of today; I rather think they would -- to the readers of tomorrow.
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