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Georges Gallet
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| Name: | Georges Gallet |
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| Type: | Collector, letterzine contributor |
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Georges Gallet was a French journalist and science fiction fan. During the occupation of Paris in World War II, Gallet was sent science fiction zines by fellow fans in the U.S.A.
Before the war, Gallet had been planning the first pro science fiction publication in France; according to Fantasy Fiction Field, its title would have been Conquetes.[1]
Correspondence
In 1940, Gallet wrote to Voice of the Imagi-Nation to discuss an article about sex in science fiction that had been published in Scienti-Snaps in February of that year. (See Newts in Science Fiction.)
In April 1941, VoM published a letter from Gallet sending greetings to several fans, including Morojo, Forrest J Ackerman, and the rest of the LASFL. Gallet mentioned that he wasn't sure whether his previous letter had reached them at all.
All those science fiction magazines which you sent so generously helped me a lot to bear the heavy bombardments in Belgium and while away the long night vigils. But I had to leave them in my abandonned ambulance at Dunkirk. Since then of course,no new science fiction reached me and all I can do is reading the old. Please try to keep for me Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Famous Fantastic Novels from the first number up, those Argosies where good science fiction is published and the best of the rest.Voice of the Imagi-Nation issue 13 page 7 (April 1941)
References
- ^ News item in Fantasy Fiction Field #48 pg. 1 (Sept. 13 1941)