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  6  |                  RUNE :: Newsletter of the Minn-Stf :: 24 JUNE, 1968
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     |   (_Constitution_, continued.)
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     |   of each amendment proposed must be distributed to all registered members  and
     |   to the Senate Committee on Student Affairs at least five days before the next
     |   scheduled meeting.
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_____/                          ARTICLE V   By-laws
         Number 1 -- By-laws may be established and changed by a simple majority vote.

         Number 2 -- Committees shall be established by the President, the Treasurer, or
                     by majority vote.

                                        (End.)
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 MAGAZINE REVIEWS BY JIM YOUNG

          This issue of RUNE, the reviews are going to be somewhat limited, seeing that
     we're being published half-way between prozine distributions. However...

     FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION; August, 1968; 50cents. 6 New Stories.

          Recently, one of F&SF's best selling points has been its features. This time,
     the features are varied and very good. There are a group of statements by several
     authors about Anthony Boucher; I think that F&SF is the best memorial that might
     ever exist for a man -- and particularly for a man who was so alive as Anthony
     Boucher.
          There are two reviews of the Clarke-Kubrick    _2001_ -- the reviews being done
     by Samuel R. Delany and Ed Emshwiller.
          Best stories (of course the most important part of the magazine) are SOS THE
     ROPE (Piers Anthony) and "The Devil and    Jake O'Hara" by Brian Cleeve. The Piers
     Anthony serial is turning into something good -- the Brian Cleeve is very funny,
     and (at least) always interesting.
          "I LIKE IKE"; and it's true -- Doctor Asimov is still plugging away with a
     very competent article on "The Terrible Lizards". Did you know that there never was/were
     a group of animals that you could call "dinosaur"? All explained in the article.
          F&SF has some originality in it, more so than it has in the past. Judith Merrill
     quotes Anthony Boucher many times in her "Books" column: "The Science of tomorrow or
     the day after will, unquestionably, out run the science fiction of today...But as
     creative, imaginative minds keep thinking ahead to the step beyond the next, it is
     exceedingly unlikely that tomorrow's science will outrun the science fiction of to-
     morrow... What prophet can dare to prophecy the utterance of a prophet yet to come?"


     MAGAZINE OF HORROR; July, 1968 (#22); 50cents. 2 New Stories
          MoH is pretty good this time; one of the new stories I liked particularly well,
     even for its clumsinesses:"The castle in the Window" by Steffan B. Aletti...it's a
     Lovecraftian type ditty, without all of H.P.'s stodginess about "unspeakabilities"
     that he spoke about for five or ten pages.
          The three other stories that are important are "Worms of the Earth" (Rober E.
     Howard in a neo-Conan vein...somewhat spooky) "They Called Him Ghost" (by Laurence
     J. Cahill...rather interesting, a little too Horatio Algerish at times, though --