Fanfarade

Fanfarade was an occasional column by Donald A. Wollheim that was printed in The Science Fiction Fan.
== March 1939Hosted online by the Iowa Digital Library; The Science Fiction Fan Vol. 2 #8, pp. 3-4, 18. March 1939 (mislabeled in metatext as 1938) ==
* The possibility of space travel
* The Spanish Civil War; the Science Committee Against Fascism gathering signatures for a resolution
* Robert A. W. Lowndes buying a duplicating machine for his zine Strange
* Fred Pohl and Leslie Perri's engagement
* Upcoming publication of Finnegans Wake (mistaken as Flanigan's Wake); Wollheim assures readers that James Joyce is of interest to fantasy fans based on Ulysses
== July 1939Hosted online by the Iowa Digital Library; The Science Fiction Fan #36, pp. 3-4. July 1939. ==
=== Subjects ===
* The New Fandom-Futurians feud
* The misdeeds of the Triumvirs
* Wollheim was originally chosen to be chairman of the first Worldcon; his former friend William S. Sykora tried to appoint a new committee at the Newark Convention after arguing with another Futurian, David A. Kyle. When this failed, he started New Fandom and maintained complete control over planning the con with Sam Moskowitz and James V. Taurasi.
* Wollheim omits the fact that he and his friends were the ones who impeached Taurasi from the GNYSFL
* The Great Exclusion Act
* Wollheim elides the fact that David A. Kyle was planning to distribute A Warning! even before the Futurians were kicked out, that Kyle was one of the Futurians himself, and moreover had played a key part in the Sykora-Futurians feud. However, Taurasi first stopped Wollheim's group of six Futurians at the door because of their pre-existing feud, and New Fandom had in fact discussed excluding them before the convention.
* The Futurians' mini-con that was held on the third day of the convention and attended by some other fans
=== Text ===
== July 1940The Science Fiction Fan #48, pp. 38-39. July 1940. ==
Subjects:
* The hotly anticipated Chicon I, being planned by Mark Reinsberg and Bob Tucker of the Illini Fantasy Fictioneers; Reinsberg and Tucker's public letter to Sam Moskowitz and Will Sykora in the Fantasy Fictioneer
* "Does anyone know the present whereabouts of George Gallet, Maurice Hanson, and James Rathbone, all of whom are fans with the warring forces in France (or maybe once Belgium). Likewise what has happened to Heinrich Haussler, the LASFS tame Nazi, since the war began?"
* The failure of English fan Ted Carnell's fanzine New Worlds
* Under pressure from the post office, pro magazines Terror Tales and Horror Stories have been forced to stop printing anything containing "girl torture"; weird fiction "of a gory and fierce variety" still to be featured; Sinister Stories, Startling Mystery, Uncanny Tales and Mystery Tales all defunct for the same reason
* Membership of the Science Fictioneers approaching 300, membership in Futurian League over 75
* Robert Heinlein, E.E. Smith and Stanton A. Coblentz to visit New York; upcoming fans/pros visiting will be Walter Sullivan, C.L. Moore, Virginia Kidd, Louis Russell Chauvenet and Mary G. Byers
* Charles D. Hornig now on the West Coast advertising as a science fiction expert in writers' magazines; Science Fiction and Future Fiction receiving complaints for not paying their writers. Wollheim accuses Hornig of repeating the mistakes of Wonder Stories and Hugo Gernsback
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