fantascience n.

Indeed so decidedly did it appear that this class of book differed from others that an identifying tag seemed useful, if not imperative. Dr. Bell coined the word fantascience, which may be roughly defined as literary work having a warp of science and a weft of fantasy.

‘Before the Dawn’, which Mr. Taine calls a work of ‘Fantascience’ is heartily recommended to all our readers.

Some discussion was held of the astronomovie, ‘Solar Mystery’, which was currently screening, and the recent preview of A. Merritt’s fantascience film, ‘The Devil-Doll’.

Speaking of New Mexico, I don’t recollect seeing any letters in Brass Tacks from addresses in this State. Are the tough hombres of the Southwest immune to the delights of fantascience?

There was one outstanding story which’ll probably start a new trend in fantascience. This is The Miracle of Elmer Wilde by Rog Phillips. This’ll probably make history in stf.

The phrase ‘shipshape’ kept coming into his mind but he rejected it was histrionic. But maybe that was the word for the whole situation, with his being guilty of plenty of hamming. Come to think of it, it was more like TV fantascience than anything else.

Williams and Wilkins attempted to establish fantascience in 1934, when it published John Taine’s novel Before the Dawn, but outside of being used in the title of Robert A. Madle’s famous old fan magazine Fantascience Digest and at the head of a few fan columns, it never caught hold.

It’ll be a mystery to us if you don’t flip over such fear-fraught features & fantascience flicks as E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Friday the 13th Part III, The Incubus and Halloween III!