tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post636999155560273440..comments2024-03-28T16:17:20.965-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: A Bonus Forgotten Magazine: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1962mybillcriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-72076534130936499172017-07-19T09:27:57.154-05:002017-07-19T09:27:57.154-05:00Hello, Bill! Thank you for the line you dropped a...Hello, Bill! Thank you for the line you dropped at <a href="http://galacticjourney.org/july-18-1962-it-gets-better-august-1962-fantasy-and-science-fiction/" rel="nofollow">my review</a>. Please feel free to post your address so that my fans can appreciate <b>your</b> 'zine, too!<br /><br />Seems the Leiber connects with a lot of people. I give it an A for execution (an "e"?) but the content was uninteresting to me. <br /><br />Part of it's a matter of what I look for in an sff mag. I want sff, even sff-themed social commentary... not social-commentary themed social-commentary (which is what the Leiber and the Albee are, whatever literary merit they possess).Gideon Marcushttp://galacticjourney.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-63717605800904664082017-04-12T07:12:15.446-05:002017-04-12T07:12:15.446-05:00I've enjoyed a lot of Crossen's work, but ...I've enjoyed a lot of Crossen's work, but that story wasn't my thing. The Leiber story is the best in the issue, I think. mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-81246593428682834032017-04-12T07:10:33.099-05:002017-04-12T07:10:33.099-05:00Yeah, Ken Crossen was always, to borrow a phrase f...Yeah, Ken Crossen was always, to borrow a phrase from Budrys about someone else, "a pleasing, shallow talent"...well, pleasing enough sometimes, anyway.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104399586348314594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-32745587548852615312017-04-12T07:07:23.858-05:002017-04-12T07:07:23.858-05:00Davidson, as you might remember, is my favorite ed...Davidson, as you might remember, is my favorite editor of the magazine...but, then, he's my default favorite writer, and the sense of experimentation was greater than any other editor's has been. Some notional work included, but there always has been. Difficult to sell blank pages. (Unless it's a diary.)<br /><br />The Leiber is one of three autobiographical fantasies, or possibly more accounts of the inner fantasies of the Leibers (as there's nothing that Actually Must Be Happening about them) in essentially dramatic form...all three published in F&SF in the '60s and never collected together (I d once queried Leiber's estate's agents to find out what the fee for reprinting all three together in a semiprozine context would be, and after no response after two queries I gave up). (Perhaps I should try again eventually.)<br /><br />Basically, Davidson's F&SF and to lesser extents Goldsmith's FANTASTIC and AMAZING, Pohl's GALAXY and its stablemates, Carnell's NEW WORLDS and SCIENCE FANTASY, and such pre-1960 magazines as Shaw's INFINITY and certainly Lowndes's SCIENCE FICTION and its stablemates were all publishing a fair amount of what would be called New Wave in the latter '60s, mixed in with other work. <br /><br />Davidson later wrote "Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman"...there might've been one other variation from someone. Writers can have some fun at times.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104399586348314594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-69270457522763014692017-04-12T07:06:08.719-05:002017-04-12T07:06:08.719-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104399586348314594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-24538612840095359952017-04-12T06:52:49.573-05:002017-04-12T06:52:49.573-05:00I would read an occasional issue of MAGAZINE OF FA...I would read an occasional issue of MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION in the Sixties, but I preferred GALAXY and IF.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.com