From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9433 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, July 30 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9433 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Survey Response Confirmation ["Exclusive Rewards" Subject: Survey Response Confirmation Survey Response Confirmation http://whozwhoplatinum.sa.com/9ULwvUhzBN6jZgo6-sdg8QvGDMCFXGy-P5EJpbscVRIVDQPLuw http://whozwhoplatinum.sa.com/xEkpUKaLq3mfk2bT0rQivp9r1dOMrXEHBiRmkSvp-VnwaFFpNA irst science fiction (sf) magazine, Amazing Stories, was published in 1926, and it was soon followed by the appearance of organized groups of science fiction fans, who contacted each other by mail, using the addresses published in the letter columns of the professional magazines. Amateur magazines, eventually known as fanzines, quickly followed. William L. Crawford was an early science fiction fan, who, unusually, had enough money to acquire his own printing press. In late 1933, with the help of another fan, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Crawford prepared a flyer announcing a new magazine, to be titled Unusual Stories. He intended to print fantasy and horror in addition to science fiction; sf historian Sam Moskowitz suggests that this was an attempt to broaden the potential subscription base for the magazine. Crawford could not afford to pay for the stories, but offered contributors a lifetime subscription instead. A woman stands in front of a man behind a desk One of the two variant covers of the July/August 1934 issue of Marvel Tales In the flyer, which appeared in November 1933, Crawford complained that science fiction in the professional magazines was being stifled by publishing taboos, and asserted that no such taboos would apply to Unusual Stories. The flyer listed the names of several well-known writers of the day, including H. P. Lovecraft, Clifford D. Simak, and Robert E. Howard, and also included a page from P. Schuyler Miller's story "The Titan", which Miller had been unable to publish because of its sexual content. Science fiction historian Mike Ashley speculates that the flyer may have influenced two editors of professional sf magazines: Desmond Hall, an assistant editor at Astounding Stories, where a "thought variant" policy was announced in the December 1933 issue, aimed at publishing more original stories; and Charles Hornig, who was shortly to become editor of Wonder Stories, where he ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9433 **********************************************