tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post5667712432419287623..comments2024-03-28T04:15:00.814-07:00Comments on Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK: THE EUREKA YEARSJerry Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-59733788940413522932013-08-23T14:41:20.201-07:002013-08-23T14:41:20.201-07:00In re: your comment on my blog on F&SF for 1/6...In re: your comment on my blog on F&SF for 1/64:<br /><br />Yes, Walotsky, while not the worst painter ever used by F&SF, was the worst who was regularly employed. (My favorite correspondence taking the opposite tack came from not-yet D&D guy Gary Gygax, who damned Davidson for ruining the magazine.) And, fwiw, Joseph Ferman never actually edited the magazine, so much as took the title briefly so that he would be blamed if they found his son was in over his head...the Real Pen went from Davidson's hand to Edward Ferman's. I would say that KK Rusch and then Mills were probably the least of F&SF's editors, so far, and they weren't Too shabby (for whatever reason, Mills seemed to do a better job at VENTURE before that one was folded into the elder magazine and Mills moved over--perhaps he was saddened by the passage of EQMM out of the Mercury family, and the long-term prospect of becoming editor of EQ, or for that matter the sudden disappearance of their biggest revenue engine, had him editing F&SF with one foot out the door). Ferman's F&SF was nearly as good, but not quite as risk-taking as Davidson's.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-37290707168791623102013-08-23T10:12:13.360-07:002013-08-23T10:12:13.360-07:00I can only agree with Boucher and McComas's la...I can only agree with Boucher and McComas's lament about ANTHEM, and suggest it is (even as is) too kind. Meanwhile, thanks for thinking I might've done this book and I might well've, had I dug my copy out of storage as I should've, and if Bill, and a couple of years earlier my friend Jeff Segal on the Horror list at Indiana University, and now you hadn't all done fine work in celebrating this wonderful book that Bantam barely published (unpaginated table of contents and all). Ms. McComas, who published the book in part as a memorial to her husband, had every right to be proud (she left us not so very long ago, some time after JFMc).<br /><br />I don't remember but think the Goulart was only very slightly altered in F&SF reprint from its original appearance in the UC Berkeley humor magazine THE PELICAN, their correspondent to the HARVARD LAMPOON. And very funny in its brief compass, and only slightly obviously the work of a very young man/writer indeed.<br /><br />Happily for subsequent magazines, the eventual title form THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY (AND SCIENCE FICTION) allowed Health Knowledge to later offer Robert Lowndes's MAGAZINE OF HORROR and Amos Salmonson (who would later become Jessica Amanda Salmonson) to offer (THE LITERARY MAGAZINE OF) FANTASY AND TERROR...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-15203114363569956752013-08-23T07:48:24.358-07:002013-08-23T07:48:24.358-07:00I covered this one, but not in nearly this much de...I covered this one, but not in nearly this much detail.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.com