From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5942 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, February 13 2021 Volume 14 : Number 5942 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Inside this book, a former CIA Officer REVEALS ["Knockout Game" Subject: Inside this book, a former CIA Officer REVEALS Inside this book, a former CIA Officer REVEALS http://smartspeech.buzz/yX2kxFRyphTrrsseU6W3alccAkK6Xb7z4TyQNjNuojFqzWXy http://smartspeech.buzz/NnJIiTJoNRiF3kuufkoKUUa-2ch-AKtWT9Sbj5J6nsCKV05T oul gave Wollheim a low budget, and the result was uneven quality. On the cover of the first issue, Wollheim advertised "Eternal Adam", a story set in the far future by Jules Verne that had never previously been translated into English. This was a high-profile find for Saturn, but the rest of the issue was undistinguished: two stories were reprints from the British magazine New Worlds, and one was probably by Wollheim himself, under a pseudonym. Despite the budget constraints, Wollheim was intermittently able to find some good stories. The fourth issue carried a story by Robert Heinlein, "Elephant Circuit", written ten years earlier (later reprinted as "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants"), and Wollheim obtained material from a wide range of well-known writers, including Harlan Ellison, Cordwainer Smith, Clark Ashton Smith, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Damon Knight, Gordon R. Dickson, Jack Vance, and H. P. Lovecraft. In many cases, according to sf historians Joe Sanders and Mike Ashley, "the stories... gave the suggestion of being dragged out of the back corner of some desk drawer", but they also comment that some material was "surprisingly fresh", and it was popular enough to be ranked the second-favorite magazine in a poll in the fanzine Science-Fiction Times after its first year. The March 1958 issue included Ray Cummings' "Requiem for a Small Planet"; Cummings was one of the most popular sf writers of the 1920s, and this was the last original story of his to appear in a science fiction magazineband one of the many he set in an infinitesimally small world. Non-fiction articles included "Red Flag Over the Moon", in the final science fiction issue, which warned readers about the risk of Soviets taking possession of the moon. Sanders and Ashley cite this as an example of Saturn's "hype getting shriller...as the magazine's financial situation worsen ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5942 **********************************************