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THE EDITORIAL
As Heck says "Wheaties and Grelkin!" Don't ask me what this means ... I'm not certain ... but Heck assures me that it's some kind of greeting. Anyway it's a different way to start an editorial. You know, I'm new at this business.
I guess that first I should apologise for the typing and cutting errors in this zine ... I never cut mimeo stencils before.
Would like to take this opportunity to thank Biskey for all he's done to help us get this thing out.
I guess most of you have heard some declaration of our policy but for the record I'll tell you again ... We're going to try to skim litely across the stf field and lean toward fantasy, personality, and art.
We'd like to solicit material ... any and all the material you're willing to send. Of course this is strictly a amateur publication and nobody gets paid [[Oh how true]] Don't worry about the length or subject matter. Interest is our big interest and th e more material we get the better zine we'll be able to give you. And, like the little stinkweed, QUANDRY'll thrive on criticism. How 'bout pouring it on and letting us know what you want ? ?
Would like to thank the following people who have helped more than they know;
Joe Kennedy
Al Weinstein
Bob Tucker
4sj
And our special thanks to WALT KESSEL on whom you can blame this whole affair!!
NOTICE: Anyone who would like to donate us a litho-ed cover will automatically receive a life time subscription to The QUANDRY (life of the Q, that is)
We'd planned to solicit some material from some of the better known fen and hold a big publicity campaign before we put this thing out but we decided to go on and print what we had in a first issue and give it to you free in hopes that it would do the selling job better than a lot of big words of praise on the back of a postcard or in another fanzine. As an explanation for the undersized pages, the paper was a gift and finances being what they are ...! We had wanted a nice cover too ... 'til we priced paper ... just wait, we've still got to pay postage on these things. PUHLEEZE SUBSCRIBE !!!!!!
I'd comment on the fact that Shaver's "... Lemuria" has been put between hard covers but enuf has been said about the deros already.
FANTASY IN THE THEATRE: "The Innocents" by William Archibald based on Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" (T. T. o. t. S. is not a novel based on a prison guard's revolt) [[Ed. note ... We humbly beg your pardon. As you know we're composing in the stick and sometimes these things slip out]] Of course we haven't seen the play but we hear it's a spine-chiller. With sets and lighting by Jo Mielziner it should be. We hear tell that the great young author writes in his bare feet. Well, he ain't the only one.
We had planned to give you a history of the SaFANnahians but we decided that you wouldn't be interested. Would you ?
Say, why not send the Q a history of your own organization?
About the little beastie that's staring at our banner, in case you're wondering, I think he might be a Gremlin. Do any of you know?
Two departments that are not included in this issue due to lack of material are "THE DEAR ONES" and "Sez You". How about seeing that we don't have to leave them out of the next ish.
Say, how do you feel about fan fiction, huh?
Have you heard?
QUANDRY is soliciting material and subscriptions, Also ads. Come on, 'scribe and contribute.
Ever since we undertook the Q a question has been haunting us. We pass it along to you. How about an answer?
"Why do people become fen?"
Well, on this note of inquisitiveness (or should I say inquisition?) we'll leave you ...
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FOOTNOTES:
Well, we're cutting our last stencil for this ish. Hope you enjoy it all. And the best of luck with your own fanactivities
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Going to the NORWESCON ? Boy, don't we wish we were.
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Hey, Walt!
How about a contribution from you?
This is a gift copy
of
THE QUANDRY
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With financial support
we hope to be able to
give you one of the
best zines ever printed.
Data entry by Judy Bemis
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