FUTURIA FANTASIA
fall 1939
vol. 1 no. 2
10 cents
A newer, plumper Futuria Fantasia greets you, with more articles, morevalue and less Technocracy! The reason for the scanty garb of our summerissue was TIME, that villain who holds his sword over all humanity. Ididn't have time to contact various authors and fans—and there waslittle time for mimeographing, since the Angel expedition to New Yorkwas fast approaching, and ye editor was wandering around in a dazewaiting for the day when his bus would sweep him off to Manhattan. Thetrip to New York was a happily successful thing. Futuria Fantasia wouldlike to toss an orchid to the editors who contributed so generously tothe convention, and at the same time blare forth with a juicy razzberryfor a certain trio of fans who made fools of themselves at the Conv.(and u know who we meen).
But enuf of this boring fan quarreling ** action should have been takenat the convention and there's no use bawling over fused rockets. Thisissue we bring you another cover by Hans Bok. We sincerely believe hiswork is superior to any work done in fan mags for a long time. He has tobe good ** for he is a protegee of no less a person than MaxfieldParrish, whose paintings have, at one time or another in the pastdecades, made more than one home beautiful. If you haven't had aMaxfield Parrish painting in yur home, it ain't a home. And, we feelproud of Hans becuz we acted as agent to Weird Tales whileconventioneering in New York. Latest report is that Hans is doing anIllustration for Weird Tales. Here's luck, Hans, and may you keep up thegood work while staying in Manhattan.
With this issue we introduce two new fans, and two new authors. They areAnthony Corvais, who makes his part-time home in Tucson, Arizona, andGuy Amory of Phoenix. Corvais, twenty-two years old, has done a neat jobwith his RETURN FROM THE DEAD. In the winter edition he will let go withanother original SYMPHONIC ABDUCTION. Guy Amory, after sum few hours ofhard labor, finally got an interview out of Hankuttner, which is work inany man's lingo. Both boys were in L.A. for two weeks about a monthback, and gave their promise to support FuFa from now to TDWACOH (theday when astounding comes out hourly).
Ron Reynolds, whose satire on Technocracy received favorable comment,comes back with his views and news about the Convention ** and CorrinneEllsworth, gracious female fan of L.A. presents us with something thatis distasteful to me, THE CASE OF THE VANISHING CAFETERIA. I protestagainst her grossly horrid insinuations about my Ghoul's Broths.Manhattaneers will tell you that it is only at the full moon that I canconcoct one ... tho a cafeteria or Automat atmosphere does work wonderswith my ego—specially if there are enuf people watching to make itprofitable.
As you will notice there is not a great deal to be sed about Technocracyin this issue ** mainly becuz I am tired of talking and the response weget is vury, vury funny, if not childish. If someone cares to challengeus on Technocracy we shall be only too glad to answer all questions, butwhen a bunch of crackpots start dragging in their own theories,relatives and human nature then we give up the ghost. We take thisoccasion to challenge the so-far-silent John W. Campbell to a duel ofwords on this subject. How's about it, Campbell?