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Fanfare, v. 2, issue 2, whole no.8, February 1942
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fantasy footnotes 19 The only thing RAP and I ever agreed upon, by the way, was about Don Wellheim's magazines. Understand now: I think DAW has done a remarkable, even marvelous, job with Cosmic and Stirring Science, under the circumstances. It's doubtfull that any other fan could have achieved so much; despite occasional things that smell to high heaven, his fiction is on a whole more enjoyable than most of that appearing today. But--the non-pay idea for some of the stuff is bad; you can't get away from it. In a field--the pulp market in general that is--where word rates are entirely too low as it is, the appearance of a magazine not paying at all for part of its material is very apt to make confusion worse confounded. I know that Don would pay if he could, and that he doesn't simply because he can't. But (and I realize this "if I were you" business isn't entirely cricket) I'm quite positive that I would have refused editorship under such an arrangement. That's all for now. I promise I won't even mention Palmer next time. Instead I'll pick on Heinlein. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
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fantasy footnotes 19 The only thing RAP and I ever agreed upon, by the way, was about Don Wellheim's magazines. Understand now: I think DAW has done a remarkable, even marvelous, job with Cosmic and Stirring Science, under the circumstances. It's doubtfull that any other fan could have achieved so much; despite occasional things that smell to high heaven, his fiction is on a whole more enjoyable than most of that appearing today. But--the non-pay idea for some of the stuff is bad; you can't get away from it. In a field--the pulp market in general that is--where word rates are entirely too low as it is, the appearance of a magazine not paying at all for part of its material is very apt to make confusion worse confounded. I know that Don would pay if he could, and that he doesn't simply because he can't. But (and I realize this "if I were you" business isn't entirely cricket) I'm quite positive that I would have refused editorship under such an arrangement. That's all for now. I promise I won't even mention Palmer next time. Instead I'll pick on Heinlein. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
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