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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Testing Haul. This book, the second of a projected panel of four about the West, takes up where The Big Sky left off. Basically it is the familiar story of a wagon train moving west from Missouri to Oregon, but with differences that the jaded reader of historical fiction will be quick to appreciate. In all the body-torturing, spirit-testing haul from Independence to the Willamette, there is not one Indian attack, not a single war whoop or flaming arrow, not one hot-blooded, devil-may-care hero to turn in an impossible rescue, not even a big-breasted...
...this week stepped a new contender, the Magazine of Fantasy, a slickish, 35? quarterly. Published by the American Mercury's bustling Lawrence Spivak, who also runs radio's Meet the Press program and puts out a string of mystery publications, Fantasy is designed to lift imaginative fiction up to the level of the highest brows...
Spivak hopes the new magazine will do for fantasy and science fiction what his Ellery Queen (which he says has a 200,000 circulation) has done for the short detective story...
...fine array of chills & thrills, including a story by H. H. Holmes, touted as "a master of evil" (but not also identified as Editor Boucher himself). Though off to a good start, Fantasy faces a major problem : science is making such rapid strides that it is hard for fiction writers to keep ahead of the scientists...
...Editors Boucher and McComas are so confident that they expect Fantasy to become a monthly. Says Boucher: "The detective story is getting into a blind alley of repetition. Science fiction may be the next big escape...