User talk:Gondorian

A Request of You
Hi There! Now that he's dead, who holds copyright that belonged to Harold Hersey? Thanks.

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Adventurers' Club of New York
Hi. At Adventurers Club of New York you wrote "The club's monthly newsletter was titled The Adventurer. It originated in late 1926 and ran at least until 1960." Cool! Have you read any, where'd you find them? matt me (talk) 22:28, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi! I lucked into a batch of these from a book dealer, most issues from 1933-43. Most of the content is club business, primarily summarizing the previous month's dinner. Since a number of interesting people spoke at these dinners, it's an invaluable resource. By the '30s, many of the members were elderly, so obits are a frequent feature. Still working my way through them.... Gondorian (talk) 22:29, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Brilliant, go for it. I learnt about the club from the anthology 'call for adventure', would like to read the golden jubilee book. matt me (talk) 22:28, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Matt, I haven't seen Call for Adventure, but that's undoubtedly the more interesting of their two books. Golden Jubilee is full of club stuff--presidents, events, meetings, dinners, etc--without too much actual "adventure." And it's a sloppily produced book to boot, with misspelled names, spurious index listings, and so forth. But it can be had relatively cheaply, so the risk is low. :-) Gondorian (talk) 19:14, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

User Gondorian, above you said that you have copies of 'The Adventurer' newsletter that covers 1933-1943. Are they any know publicly available copies of the newsletter? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.167.60.28 (talk) 16:53, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

I don't know of any online or publicly available copies. Maybe they've been microfilmed. LOC and NYPL would be the best candidates.

Do you have scans of your copies that you would be willing to share? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.205.231.219 (talk) 19:47, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

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Weird Tales
Hi -- thanks for working on the article about sf magazine history. I don't have the source you're working from, but some of the material you're adding is already in the Weird Tales article, and I think it may be a bit too much detail for the summary history article. Could you take a look at Weird Tales and see what you can add there, and then perhaps we could talk about how much of that needs to be in the history article? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:36, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Mike. I wrote The Thing's Incredible!, so can assure you that it's a must-have. :-) It covers the first two years of WT in depth, with relevant befores and afters. Today, I was alerted that History of US science fiction and fantasy magazines to 1950 was a Wikipedia feature, so I opportunistically did a little clean-up. I've looked at the Weird Tales page before. It's a can of worms, at least in the areas of history that I'm conversant with. Those need a major overhaul, as there is a lot of misinformation. I was hoping someone else would do it. :-) It's not a trivial task, as one would want to correct the errors while also preserving as many of the previous contributions as possible. That being said, if you think some of today's contributions should be scaled back, I don't have a problem with that.--John: Gondorian (talk) 23:10, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi -- no, need to remove anything you've done; I think we could talk about that once Weird Tales is improved. I wrote much of that article but I don't have your book.  Could you perhaps list on the Weird Tales talk page the errors you see on that page? Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 15:29, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Don't feel bad about the misinformation! One of the main points of the book is that the experience of the first two years was so wrenching that none of the participants spoke truthfully about it, so the record was full of contradictory or incomplete accounts. I had independent info that helped me resolved all those issues. But, yes, I'll list the problems on the WT talk page. Gondorian (talk) 18:37, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

I've added a list of suggested corrections to the Weird Tales talk page. Gondorian (talk) 19:55, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

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