tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post8001839473649319018..comments2024-03-27T22:39:08.396-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFB: some books drawn from FANTASTIC and THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTIONTodd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-8155415702389606012018-02-14T02:36:45.580-05:002018-02-14T02:36:45.580-05:00Thanks! And IJ was both a typo and a misattributio...Thanks! And IJ was both a typo and a misattribution waiting to happen...in the chaotic stew of house names that was ZD in the '40s and '50s...<br /><br />I was "Alexander Blade" in SF EYE once.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-77834199220472936412018-02-05T10:36:44.904-05:002018-02-05T10:36:44.904-05:00Very interesting overview, and of course the conti...Very interesting overview, and of course the continued sad story of how publishers could -- against their interests, you would think -- sabotage their own projects through inattention and stupidity is always of interest.<br /><br />By the way, as Robert Silverberg told me, "Ivar Jorgensen" was not supposed to be a house name -- it was purely Paul Fairman's pseudonym. However, Bill Hamling (and maybe Howard Browne as well) forgot that, so they would slap the Jorgensen name (often misspelled Jorgenson, or even spelled one way in the TOC and the other way on top of the story) on pieces by the likes of Silverberg and Garrett.Rich Hortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07659613066689174738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-42343410424492447142018-02-03T10:18:17.595-05:002018-02-03T10:18:17.595-05:00Despite a good reprint in "Thurnley Abbey,&qu...Despite a good reprint in "Thurnley Abbey," the first issue of F (vs. the second, of F&SF) is rather less good, isn't it. It might well be that they had to dummy up the first issue as early as 1946, in large part, and they had until 1949 to pick and choose and solicit for the second.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-88658669830354562812018-02-03T09:58:28.916-05:002018-02-03T09:58:28.916-05:00Not to my knowledge, is there a generally better F...Not to my knowledge, is there a generally better Fairman issue or so, since the better work was usually what Goldsmith was able to ferret out and what the quintet of contract writers might stretch themselves to do and yet also fail to sell elsewhere...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-39481033352904726322018-02-03T04:33:51.844-05:002018-02-03T04:33:51.844-05:00When I read the introduction to the Annette McComa...When I read the introduction to the Annette McComas anthology I was surprised to see how long the the first issue of F&SF (or F for this one time) was in preparation before it appeared. And even more surprised, given this, that it is such a dud. There is a huge difference in quality between the first and second issues (IIRC this is illustrated by the fact that three or four of the stories in McComas’s collection are from that second issue).<br />I was interested in your comment about Fairman’s years at Amazing. I’d thought that that factory fiction period was one I wouldn’t go near with a barge pole, so I was interested to see you say that it produced some good work. Is there a specific issue or two that demonstrates this particularly well?Paul Fraserhttp://sfmagazines.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-23564728760784132542018-02-02T12:42:50.079-05:002018-02-02T12:42:50.079-05:00And all the time spent beating this into even the ...And all the time spent beating this into even the shape it's in easily might've been used to write two posts...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-10454987473458677412018-02-02T12:03:26.145-05:002018-02-02T12:03:26.145-05:00Apologies for all the sloppiness that has been app...Apologies for all the sloppiness that has been appearing in this post this morning...Blogspot does its damnedest to make sure any attempt to cut and paste from previous posts will interfere with each other in the most illegible and difficult to fix manner possible.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com