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'''''Last and First Fen''''' was a [[tapera]], an audio taped show, created by [[Liverpool]]’s [[MaD Productions]], based (we think) on a script by [[Jack Speer]].
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'''''Last and First Fen''''' was a [[tapera]], an audio taped show, created by [[Liverpool]]’s [[MaD Productions]] in 1956, based (we think) on a script by [[Jack Speer]]. “Eighteen months in the making, and a quite fabulous thing,” according to [[Eric Bentcliffe]] in ''[[Waldo]]'' no. 1 ([http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Waldo/Waldo01.pdf December 1959]). The tape ran 45 minutes long.
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Jack Speer’s script can be found [https://efanzines.com/UpToNow/N4SouvenirBook_SpeerExcerpt.pdf online here]. Speer’s introduction:<blockquote>
  
The script can be found [https://efanzines.com/UpToNow/N4SouvenirBook_SpeerExcerpt.pdf online here]. Speer’s intro:<blockquote>
 
 
A United Press story in 1945 quoted Major P. C. Calhoun, “head of the A.A.F. guided-missile branch,” as saying that they expected to be able to shoot a rocket to the moon within 18 months, and within five years “to have a rocket that will carry men outside the Earth’s atmosphere and return safely.” Some [[stefnist|stefinists]] were not so sanguine: in [[Gerry de la Ree]]’s polls of [[SF]] readers, authors, and editors, the majority estimated a date of 1950 or sooner for manned flight to the moon or another planet.
 
A United Press story in 1945 quoted Major P. C. Calhoun, “head of the A.A.F. guided-missile branch,” as saying that they expected to be able to shoot a rocket to the moon within 18 months, and within five years “to have a rocket that will carry men outside the Earth’s atmosphere and return safely.” Some [[stefnist|stefinists]] were not so sanguine: in [[Gerry de la Ree]]’s polls of [[SF]] readers, authors, and editors, the majority estimated a date of 1950 or sooner for manned flight to the moon or another planet.
  
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''Last and First Men'' is the title of a 1930 novel by [[Olaf Stapledon]].
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''Last and First Men'' is the title of a 1930 novel by [[Olaf Stapledon]]. And we could be totally wrong and the [[LāSFāS]] [[fans]] may have written their own parody instead of using Speer’s by then 10-year-old [[fannish play]].  
  
  
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Revision as of 01:12, 26 August 2020

Last and First Fen was a tapera, an audio taped show, created by Liverpool’s MaD Productions in 1956, based (we think) on a script by Jack Speer. “Eighteen months in the making, and a quite fabulous thing,” according to Eric Bentcliffe in Waldo no. 1 (December 1959). The tape ran 45 minutes long.

Jack Speer’s script can be found online here. Speer’s introduction:

A United Press story in 1945 quoted Major P. C. Calhoun, “head of the A.A.F. guided-missile branch,” as saying that they expected to be able to shoot a rocket to the moon within 18 months, and within five years “to have a rocket that will carry men outside the Earth’s atmosphere and return safely.” Some stefinists were not so sanguine: in Gerry de la Ree’s polls of SF readers, authors, and editors, the majority estimated a date of 1950 or sooner for manned flight to the moon or another planet.

I ran with that idea in the following. This is what’s now called faan fiction, i.e., fiction about sfans.

Last and First Men is the title of a 1930 novel by Olaf Stapledon. And we could be totally wrong and the LāSFāS fans may have written their own parody instead of using Speer’s by then 10-year-old fannish play.



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