Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:22:12 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> twhite8 at cox.net 3/30/2005 6:59:25 PM >>>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:51 PM
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School
>
>[...]
>>
>> Which brings to mind one of the "problems" with knowing the past.
>When
>> I started reading this stuff - 1963/1964 - it had been less than 30
>> years since Amazing had been founded.  It was possible to read
>widely,
>> to know most of what Murray Leinster or E E Smith or H. B. Fyfe
>or..
>> or...  had written.  We're now close to 80 years since that first
>issue
>> of Amazing; a lot of fiction under that bridge, so to speak.
>
>AMAZING's first issue was published in the spring of 1926.
>"1963/1964"
>was almost *40* years later.

Er... would you believe I was using a different base system?

Would you believe....?

>  But next year will mark the 80th
>anniversary -- I wonder if a magazine of that name will be around
>celebrate
>it.   (I edited the 50th Anniversary issue.)

The last few issues with the new publisher, well, I wasn't that
impressed.  Then they "suspeneded" publication, details:
http://trufen.net/sf/05/01/22/1319225.shtml

mjw

>
>--Ted White
>