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issue-and so it has. Many of our readers have started to get bored with it--arid
more than that, some ill--feeling has been aroused.

The Fantasy Fan is attempting to bind the lovers of science and weird
fiction tighter together with friendship, and not to separate them thru dislike
of each other's ideas. however, to take the place of "The Boiling Point" we are
starting a new department next month entitled "Your Views." This will not
contain any debates, but the opinions of you, the readers, on various subjects
we will nominate.

Originally from: The Fantasy Fan, November 1933--February 1934. This
version from: Planets and Dimensions, Ed. Charles K Wolfe. Mirage Press 1973.


Appendix from Planets and Dimensions Mirage Press 1973.

This long and complicated debate was carried on over a period of several months
in THE FANTASY FAN in 1933-1934, a fan magazine edited by Charles B. Hornig.
Other readers wrote in about the issues, but the main outlines of the argument
are presented in the text. CAS's main interest was obviously the theoretical
distinction between science fiction and fantasy; these aesthetic problems had
preoccupied him much throughout 1933, as we have seen in his other essays
immediately preceding this one.

The story that sparked the debate, "Dweller in Martian Depths," appeared
in Wonder Stories in May, 1933, and was eventually collected in THE ABOMINATIONS
OF YONDO (Ark- ham House, 1960). "Master of the Asteroid" appeared in the
October, 1932 issue of Wonder Stories, and "Flight into Super Space" in the
August, 1932 issue. The latter story was originally titled "The Letter from
Mohaun Los" and appeared in LOST WORLDS (1944) under this title. "The Light From
Beyond" was in Wonder Stories, April 1933, and appeared in LOST WORLDS.

After the debate had calmed down, in the April 1934 issue of THE FANTASY
FAN, CAS wrote in the letters column ("Our Readers Say"): "I am sorry that the
argument in 'The Boiling Point' has aroused any ill-feeling. Perhaps you are
wise to discontinue the column and start one on a more abstract intellectual
basis. Later on, I may have something to say on the problems broached for
discussion."

Seven months later, in November 1934, Fantasy Fan published CAS's
"something" in the form of the important essay, "On Fantasy."