Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, Issue 45 — page 154: what you’re looking at

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Overseas Section S.A. FANZINE A fan in Johannesburg has de- cided to start South Africa’s first fanzine (as far as is known); and he has asked me to write to any editors or authors I think might be willing to write an article or short story for the ‘zine. My reason for writing to you is not that you are my “favourite author/ editor/magazine” but because you seem to take an interest in fanzines, and offer constructive, not de- structive, criticism. A. Fabig, 228 van Heerden Street, Capital Park, Pretoria, S.A. We know that many of our readers contribute to British Fanzines, Mr. Fabig, and we hope they will answer your call for material. 153 sect les WASPISH I have much admired your wise and waspish answers to the readers’ letters section; a singularly devastat- ing tour de force with which to answer the young and hasty corres- pondent (e.g., editorial replies to J. R. Elder and Basil Coukis in No. 41.) Leonard Pruyn, 7303} No. Sweetzer Ave., Hollywood 46, California, U.S.A. Thank you, Mr. Pruyn! MIND OR MATTER? I simply cannot see how some people can resent psychology in stories. I know perfectly well that psychology has become a civilisa- tion-induced madness, as every Bob, Dick and Harry now volubly explains his blunders by his complexes, of which he seems to be very proud. But that’s not the comiclooks.comn