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January 19, 20 & 21, 1990
Guests of Honor
writer
Ben Bova
artist
Mike Grell
fan
Frank Denton
membership rates:
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RUSTYCON 7
P.O. Box 84291
Seattle, WA 98124–5591
(Artwork) James Bond by Mike Grell
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Chairman: Elizabeth Warren
Convention Secretary: Sue Bartroff
Photo Services: Peter Citrak, John Sabota
Hospitality: Debbie Tatarck, Janice Paulsen, Debbie Stine
Business Manager: Becky Simpson
Treasurer: Richard Wright
Treasury: Tim Walker, Beth Moursund, Lori Ritchins
Membership Services: Carolyn Palms, Diane Kuulei Villaflor, Paul Schaper
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Operations: Mary Hamburger
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Child Care: Sue Bartroff, Andrew Bartroff, Susan Dahlin, Mica Hellinger
Lost & Found: Lauraine Miranda
Medical: Judy Suryan
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Communications: Terry Primrose
Peacebonding: Carl Schultz
Rovers: Peter Horvath
Watchers: Kathy Smith
Signs: Toni Elton
Maintenance: Robin Smith
Programming/Stage Services: Michael Citrak
Stage Management: Beth Dockins
Masquerade: Nora Hogoboom, Judy Swanson, Keith Johnson, Michael Citrak
Stardance: Michael Citrak, Keith Johnson, Beth Dockins, Paul Wocken, Lindy Pangan, Pat Oros, Peter Kafka D’Anglemont, Peter Citrak
Ice Cream Social: Judy Suryan, Kathy Smith
Prop Room: Pat Oros
Fannish Olympics: Mark Richardson
Technical Services: Keith Johnson
Tech Gofer: Lindy Pangan
Volunteer Services: Kathy McLean
Staff Lounge: Kathy McLean
Static Programming: Melanie Bennett
Art Show: Katherine Howes
Dealers: Bruce Thompson
Gaming: Craig Bowie
Fanzine Room: Mark Manning
Science, Art and Mind: Brian Sullivan, Sky Andrews
Programming: Yvonne Richardson
Assistant Programming Director: Marybeth Zele
Programming Assistants: Kristi Austin, Doug Booze, Jeanine Gray, Andrea Hunt, Jerry Kaufman, Casey Leichter, Marci Malinowycz
Computing Services: Jim Lane
Green Room: Dora Shirk, Doug Booze, Doug Shirk
Banquet Arrangements: Judy Suryan
Writers Workshops: Michael Scanlon
Media Services: Chris McDonell
Media Tech: Robert Jung
Cameraman: Gary Malkasian
Film Contest: Mark Schellberg
Video Programming: Chris McDonell
Still Missing: Mgungu Yabba Mgungu
The Northwest Science Fiction Society proudly presents
March 23–26, 1989
Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction Convention
TACOMA - MARCH 23RD-26TH, 1989 - TACOMA SHERATON
Eleventh Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction Convention
Sponsored by the:
Northwest Science Fiction Society
P.O. Box 24207
Seattle, WA 98124
Guest of Honor
ALGIS J. BUDRYS
Artist Guest of Honor
DAVID MATTINGLY
Science Guest of Honor
DR. ALAN E. NOURSE
Fan Guest of Honor
MIKE GLYER
Toastmaster
STEVEN BARNES
Writer on Wheels Guest of Honor
AVRAM DAVIDSON
Table of Contents
Cover Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly: Cover
Programming: 2
Guest of Honor: Algis J. Budrys by Frank Catalano: 20
Art Guest of Honor: David Mattingly by Richard Hescox and Joe Clifford Faust: 22
Fan Guest of Honor: Mike Glyer by Rick Katze: 26
Science Guest of Honor: Dr. Alan E. Nourse by Avram Davidson: 28
Writer on Wheels Guest of Honor: Avram Davidson by Dr. Alan E. Nourse: 30
Toastmaster: Steve Barnes by Larry Niven and William Rotsler: 32
Gallery 1: 34
Guests of Norwescon: 46
Gallery 2: 68
Volunteers: 80
Members of Norwescon: 82
Acknowledgements: 88
Advertisers & Art Credits: Inside Back Cover
Contents Copyright 1989 by the Northwest Science Fiction Society for the contributors
All opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Norwescon or the Northwest Science Fiction Society
(Artwork) A Death of Honor Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Joe Clifford Faust, published by Del Rey.
SLIDE SHOW: THE BEST OF NORWESCON MASQUERADES
Ballroom 3
READING: GREG COX
South Center Room
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN: AN APPRECIATION
Ballroom 3
Rod Garcia, Shelly Clift, Steve Barnes, John Barnes
The Grand Master was and is many things to many people. He was selfless friend, mentor, and helping hand to more people than he knew. Even those who disagreed with some of his characterizations had affection and reverence for him. Surely. SF would not be what it is without him. Guests of Norwescon who had the opportunity to work with Heinlein during his final years gather on this panel to pay their respects - and to remind the rest of us that what makes the world go 'round is not what we pay back, but what we pay forward.
THE FUTILE QUEST FOR PERSONAL POWER: SWORDS & SORCERY
Ballroom 4
Carl Miller, M. Elayn Harvey, Megan Lindholm, Ginjer Buchanan, Dave Smeds
Crom! these damned wizards and their plots of power. Give me a full belly and a warm fire. A discussion of how to waste your time (fictionally, of course) in reaching for that elusive omnipotence.
BOOKS, BOOKS EVERYWHERE - BUT HOW MANY ARE WORTH READING?
Ballroom 3
Amy Thomson, Shelly Clift
Never have so many publishing houses put out so much SF in so short a time. Are mediocre," popular mass-market" writers driving out the good, less easily marketed authors?
HIGH TECH “READING”
Ballroom 4
Gregory Kusnick, Rich Dutcher, Kathaine Eliska Kimbriel, David Doering, Patrick Price
Heard any good books lately? Books on cassettes… e-mail… bulletin boards… the written word as electrical impulse. Exactly what are the effects, benefits, and/or drawbacks?
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: POLARIS
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
READING: EDWARD BRYANT
South Center Room
RESEARCHING ALTERNATE WORLDS
Ballroom 4
John E Stith, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Alis Rasmussen, Bill Ransom, David R. Deitrick, Carol Severance
How do you research something that doesn’t yet exist? Good methods for taking a bit of this n' that and turning it all into a plausible world.
READING: RU EMERSON
Reading Room
OPENING CEREMONIES
Ballroom 4
Algis Budrys, David B. Mattingly, Mike Glyer, Alan E. Nourse, Steve Barnes, Avram Davidson, Elizabeth Warren, Richard Wright, Yvonne V. Richardson, Robert Suryan
A glimpse of what awaits you this weekend, featuring our Guests of Honor and Norwescon staff.
BEST FILMS OF 1988
South Center Room
Mark Schellberg, Doug Shirk, Bridget McKenna, Nancy Morri
NORWESCON WARMUP DANCE
Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
All Boogie Beings, Michael Citrak, Keith Johnson
Taped music centering around 50s, 60s, and 70s favorites to get your feet moving. It was on a night like this forty million years ago…
SCIENCE FOR THE MASSES
Ballroom 4
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, David R. Deitrick, Teresa Plowright, John G. Cramer, Rob Quigley, Grant D. Callin
How can we make decisions about “appropriate technology” when we’re ignorant not only of how the technology works, but know even less about social implications? How not knowing means abdicating our part in the decision making process…and who will make those decisions for us if we don’t or can’t.
STRANGE FANNISH TALES AND JOKES
Reading Room
Mike Glyer, Loren McGregor, Jerry Kaufmann
Reminiscence of the undying legends of fannish foolishness, feuds, gags and guffaws.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: PROCYON
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
FRIDAY TAI CHI
Pavilion
Steve Barnes (M)
Tai Chi is neither a martial art nor is it aerobics, however it is a wonderful method of exercising the mind and the body. Our Toastmaster leads us through some of the disiplines of Tai Chi before turning us loose on the madness that is the first full day of Norwescon.
ART WORKSHOP: CARTOONING FOR THE MASSES
Pavilion Programming Rm
Donna Barr (M)
COSTUMING: CREATING BELIEVABLE PERSONAS
South Center Room
Dragon, Betty Bigelow, Lita Smith-Gharet, Astrid Anderson Bear
LIVE LONGER, THINK BETTER
Ballroom 4
Alan E. Nourse, Steve Barnes, Steve Perry, Gordon Baker, Steve Bard
Never mind panaceas of the future - what can we do NOW to extend our lives, improve our health, and expand our mental capacity? Megavitamins, enzyme therapy, and other holding actions will be discussed.
READING: MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
Ballroom 3
THE SHARED WORLD OF SEATTLE
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Megan Lindholm, Bill Ransom, Stanley Schmidt, Kathleen Alcala, Terry Allen Scott
Panelists and audience both learn how to develop a shared world background - by doing it. Come create believable worlds-that-never-were, characters in them, and learn to pass them back and forth. I’ll let you use Fafhrd and Bilbo if I can borrow Pyanfar and Conan…
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: VEGA
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
ART DEMO: AIRBRUSH TECHNIQUES
Art Demo Room
Monika Livingston
HOW TO SURVIVE WAITING FOR FAME AND FORTUNE
Ballrooms 1 & 2
M. Elayn Harvey, Bridget McKenna, John Alvarez, Kevin J. Anderson, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Bruce Taylor
There are ways of making a living, as a writer or artist, which will help sharpen your skills - not to mention keep you fed - until that magnum opus sells. Come hear how to keep yourself and your craft alive until your craft becomes your livelihood.
PROFESSIONAL SECRETS FROM THE ARTISTS
Ballroom 4
Paul S. Clift, William R. Warren Jr., Donna Barr, Stephen Marcellino, David B. Mattingly
How to organize yourself and your working environment. What sorts of reference files you might need, and what are good sources for reference materials. Learn a few creative shortcuts - tracing, projecting images, photocopies, and other “magic tricks”.
PUBLISHING IN AMERICA
Ballroom 3
Patrick Price, David Doering, Greg Cox, Dave Smeds, Ginjer Buchanan
Who decides which books make it to the shelf? As fewer people read, and bookstores are reduced to a few nationwide chains selling identical titles, can only sure-fire mass market sellers “make it”? What about small press or small press runs?
WRITERS OF THE FUTURE
South Center Room
Algis Budrys (M), Scott Welch
Algis Budrys and others talk about the current status of the contest, the books, and whether the Writers of the Future concept has truly given a boost to the struggling writers of the present.
READING: BILL RANSOM
Reading Room
AIDS: AN UPDATE
Ballroom 4
Alan E. Nourse
Our Science Guest of Honor, Dr. Alan E. Nourse, has devoted a good portion of his recent medical career to the study of AIDS. Here he brings us news from the forefront of medicine concerning the battle against this dreaded killer.
ANTHOLOGY READING I
South Center Room
Eileen Kernaghan, Rhea Rose, Michael Coney, Carol Severance. Teresa Plowright (M)
ART DEMO: OTHER AIRBRUSH TECHNIQUES
Art Demo Room
Paul S Clift (M)
COSTUME WORKSHOP: TECHNICAL ASPECTS
Pavilion Programming Rm
Betty Bigelow, Joanne Kirley
Dedicated costumers will show you some of their favorite techniques for creating special costume effects.
HOW TO MAKE A LIVING AS AN ARTIST
Ballroom 3
Loren McGregor, Alicia Austin, Karen Lee Carmack, David B. Mattingly (M), Julia Lacquement, Stephen MarceUino, Monika Livingston
Discussion of new media and markets. How to sell and promote your art. Learn more about networking - finding a network or setting one up. What are the new trends? Should you follow them? Come find out about the domestic and overseas opportunities too.
OBSERVING YOUR IMAGINATION: CAPTURING SENSORY DETAIL
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Megan Lindholm, Alls Rasmussen, Carol Severance, John Alvarez
A popular program on putting depth into your art and fiction.
READING: JERRY OLTION
Reading Room
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: SOL
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
READING: BRIDGET MCKENNA
Reading Room
ADVANCES IN LIFE EXTENSION TECHNOLOGY
Ballroom 4 Sharon Baker, Mary Caraker, Alan E. Nourse, Steve Bard Two hundred years ago. a person reaching the age of 50 was considered quite old: today. 50 is middle-aged. Advances in health care, nutrition, genetics, and geriatrics may very soon result in an average life expectancy of 100 years. How will that affect lifestyles, living standards, politics, or culture?
Will we live long, but not prosper?
ART SHOW OPEN FORUM
Art Demo Room
Bob Doyle, Katherine Howes, Dresden Moss, Jon Gustafson (M)
A behind-the-scenes look at the perils and rewards of organizing convention art shows. Learn about quick sales, bid sheets, and why they exist.
ART WORKSHOP: HANDS-ON AIRBRUSHING
Pavilion Programming Rm
Paul S Clift (M)
INTERVIEW: MIKE GLYER
Ballroom 3
Mike Glyer, Jerry Kaufmann (M)
READING: KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH
Reading Room
READING: STEVE PERRY
South Center Room
SFWA-WHAI IT IS, WHAT IT DOES
Ballrooms 1 & 2
D. Alexander Smith, Greg Bear, Bruce Taylor
Who are the Science Fiction Writers of America? What are the membership requirements, privileges and responsibilities? Greg Bear, current SFWA president. and others explain what SFWA can do for the active SF writer.
READING: DEAN WESLEY SMITH
Reading Room
ART SHOW TOUR: JON GUSTAFSON
Rotunda Balcony
FANNISH OLMPICS: JUDGES' MEETING
Pavilion Programming Rm
Mark Richardson (M), Fannish Olympics Judges
INTERVIEW: ALGIS BUDRYS
Ballroom 3
Mike Glyer (M), Algis Budrys
KIDKON II: GAMING, ROUND 1
Gaming (Room 504)
Craig Bowie (M), Sue Bartroff (M)
LAGOON SEATTLE: THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
Ballrooms 1 & 2
George Harper, James P. Killas, Brian Tillotson, John Dalmas, Karen Lee Carmack
It’s official: even if we never drive our cars again, it’s loo late to stop Earth’s average temperature from rising 2 to 8 degrees over the next 50 years. What can we do. besides move to higher ground further north?
MONARCH MYSTIQUE
Ballroom 4
Sharon Baker, Bill Baldwin, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Elinor Busby (M)
Why are there so many hereditary rulers in the SF tradition? Is it laziness, perception. or are there solid rules to this tradition?
PULPHOUSE MAGAZINE: READING & DISCUSSION
South Center Room
Alan Bard Newcomer. Debra Gray Cook, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Dean Wesley Smith (M)
Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine is published in the Northwest. Hear how the concept was developed and produced and listen as authors read brief passages of their work.
SF RADIO
Reading Room
Mark a. Skullerud (M)
VAMPIRES, COMPUTERS, ET AL.
Fanzine Room
Joyce Cowan, Greg Cox, Kim Antieau
Is there anything new to say? Exploring the ever-fertile field of SF cliche - vampires. computers, etc., to see if the vein’s tapped out.
From
FRANK HERBERT
and
BILL RANSOM
THE ASCENSION FACTOR
The triumphant conclusion to THE JESUS INCIDENT and THE LAZARUS EFFECT
“A worthy sequel… the thematic richness one associates with Herbert is again present!” —Publishers Weekly
On the sea-world of Pandora, global harmony would seem little more than a dream. Mercilessly ruled by dictator Raja Flattery and his sadistic security force, freedom appears light years away. The only glimmer of hope lies in the legendary Crista Galli—the planet’s promised savior. Everyone accepts her as the link between the different factions, but no one’s sure if she actually exists…
“FANS OF THE LATE FRANK HERBERT WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.” -Booklist
$4.50
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THE #1 PUBLISHER OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: SIRIUS
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
ART DEMO: IVORY/GEMSTONE CARVING
Art Demo Room
Lita Smith-Gharet (M)
ART SHOW TOUR: DAVID MATTINGLY
Rotunda Balcony
COSTUMING: CLOSE UP AND FAR OUT
Pavilion Programming Rm
Astrid Anderson Bear, Joanne Kirley (M), Vicki Mitchell
Masquerade presentations call for dramatic flair and exaggeration or success. Hall costumes are designed for an “audience” which is close enough to notice fine details. Some of our favorite costumers discuss which techniques work best for which viewing distance.
READING: MICHAEL SCANLON
Reading Room
READING: STEVE BARNES
Ballroom 3
TAX LAWS AND THE ARTIST/WRITER
Ballrooms 1 & 2 Cyn Mason. Lonnie Davis, David R. Deitrick. Michael P. Kuhe-McDowell There have been many important changes in tax laws for writers, artists and composers. There have even been changes to the changes. Most, if not all, seems to be anti-artist. Perhaps this discussion will help clarify some issues.
THE ART OF ALICIA AUSTIN Ballroom 4
READING: LOREN MCGREGOR
Reading Room
CARTOONISTS' JAM: SCRAWL, SCRIBBLE AND BLOTCH
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Donna Barr, L. Rodayne Esmay, Monika Livingston, Julia Lacquement, Loren McGregor, Alexis A. Gilliland, John Alvarez
See a mural take shape before your very eyes as professional artists fill our “canvas” with whatever doodles andgraffiti their crazed minds can imagine. The final products of this kludge will be sold at the Art Auction to benefit Seattle’s homeless.
FANNISH OLYMPICS: ORIENTATION AND PRELIMINARIES
South Center Room
Fannish Olympics Judges, Mark Richardson (M)
READING: ALGIS BUDRYS
Ballroom 3
SUPERSCIENCE '89
Reading Room
Grant Fjermedal, John G. Cramer (M), Greg Bear, Grant D. Callin, Steven G. Oliver Prominent scientists and science writers gather to tell us how much closer we’ve gotten to the final frontiers.
THE CHANGING FACE OF THE SF CON
Ballroom 4
Sue Bartroff, Yvonne V. Richardson, Judy Suryan, Keith Johnson, Paul S. Clift, Dave Meyer (M)
Although more people than ever attend conventions, the focus - and ethics - seem to be changing. For many, the enjoyment of conventions is decreasing. What are some of the reasons for this? Too much SF? Not enough Fantasy? Too much video? Not enough literature? Whatever happened to the conventions where you could find your friends without searching through 1900 other people?
WHAT’S AHEAD IN THE GAME UNIVERSE
Fanzine Room
Steve Jackson, Brian Underhill (M), Terry Allen Scott
What are some of the new trends and developments in gaming? Is there anything out there other than roleplaying games and computer simulations? If you think the answer is yes, turn to page 12. If no, thumb on through 'til you hit page 26.
READING: CAROL SEVERANCE
Reading Room
READING: KEVIN J. ANDERSON
South Center Room
THE ALIEN AS MESSIAH
Ballroom 3
Marion Zimmer Bradley. M. Elayn Harvey, Carl Miller
We used to worry about aliens “taking over” and enslaving us; now we’re ready to worship the first BEM or little green person who gets here. Is this an enlightened attitude, or just another way of escaping responsibility for ourselves?
WHEN BOOKS ARE OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS WILL HAVE BOOKS
Ballroom 4
Bob Howe (M), John De Camp, Sara L. Stamey, James W. Fiscus, Charles Platt, Shelly Clift
Another chapter in the ongoing discussion of XXXXXXX, XXXXXXX, and censorship. Is censorship ever “good”? Are there ideas which deserve suppression? A heated discussion about what we don’t know can hurt us.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: MERAK
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
BIOTECHNOLOGY - BUILT A BETTER MOUSE LATELY?
Reading Room
Steven G. Oliver, Lori Ann White, Elton Elliott (M), Loren McGregor
Built any new life forms lately? Or bought stock in companies that do? Exploring the possibilities, and moral/ ethical implications, from anti-viral agents to genetic adaptations for life in space, from disease control and the conquest of death to overpopulation and an out-of- control gene pool.
READING: KATHLEEN ALCALA
Fanzine Room
TRAGEDY OF THE WEEK - FILM AT SIX
South Center Room
Bob Howe, George Harper, Shelly Clift, Sara L. Stamey, Gordon Baker, William C. Dietz
We depend on the mass media to keep us informed, but must depcndon ourselves to solve the problems the media informs us of. This task is not easy - in fact, may not be possible - if our society is scientifically illiterate and dependent on news that entertains rather than informs. A discussion about the responsibilities and obligations on both sides of the TV set.
CHILD CARE FRIDAY PAJAMA PARTY
Child Care (rm 510/514)
AN EVENING OF MUSIC
South Center Room Karen Lee Carmack (M), Megan Lindholm, Ru Emerson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Alan Bard Newcomer, Tania Opland Hosted by Karen Lee Carmack, this Norwescon tradition continues. Listen to your favorite pros perform their favorite songs, from yesteryear to the song that was penned last night. There may even be a sing-along or two.
MEET THE PROS AUTOGRAPH PARTY
Ballrooms 1, 2, 3 & 4
Everyone’s invited to this party, to meet some new people, collect a few autographs, and renew old acquaintances. Writers, artists, agents, and other guests will be in attendancetif you don’t have other collectibles for them to sign, you can always have your program book autographed.
FRIDAY AA GATHERING
Reading Room
THE NAMELESS: 40TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
Fanzine Room
Michael Scanlon, Mark Manning, Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby
The Nameless Ones began their monthly gatherings in 1949. Come and help them celebrate 40 years of Worldcon hosting, fanzine publishing and all-around fannishness as Seattle’s oldest club.
STARDANCE AND ICE CREAM SOCIAL
Pavilion
All Boogie Beings, Keith Johnson (M), Michael Citrak
The biggest dance of the convention, the largest gathering of Northwest fen, the most INCREDIBLE gathering of happy feet takes place at - you got it - the STARDANCE and ICE CREAM SOCIAL. Boogie Beings Mike Citrak and Keith Johnson transform the Pavilion into a panorama of lights, a wall of sound, and floor full of DANCERS!!! And when you don’t feel like dancing, there’s always ice cream - including the special flavor picked out by Norwescon volunteers at the Sneak Preview. It was on a night like this forty million years ago…
HORROR READINGS
Kim Andean, Joyce Cowan (M), Edward Bryant, Roberta Lannes
Edward Bryant and others read their most chilling stories - at midnight.
DESTROYING THE WORLD FOR FUN AND PROFIT
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Stanley Schmidt
Getting tired of laboriously building plots, characters, believable backgrounds? Fine! Trash it all! Only…do THAT plausibly, too. How DO you believably make a whole world go *poof*? World-destroying, after all, can be just as difficult to do well as building the thing in the first place! Comets; invading aliens; A- and H-bombs; biochemical warfare; just a few of the Ultimate Fates writers past and present use. How to keep a reader on seat’s edge, even knowing the world is going to die, but still hoping against hope. How to handle the math as well as the aftermath.
MAINSTREAM VS. SF PUBLISHING
Ballroom 4
Julian May
What is important in mainstream publishing that SF publishing ignores? What will make a book a great SF title, but a mainstream ho-hum? Take a closer look at what each looks for. and how to adjust your offerings with its destination in mind. What NOT to say in your cover letter!
SATURDAY TAI CHI
Pavilion
Steve Barnes (M)
Once again. Steve Barnes makes us wake up our body and mind with an exercise that is as much mental as it is physical. Tai Chi will help you find your centers of balance and control and keep you going for the rest of the day.
SPECIAL ARI SHOW TOUR: FOR ARTISTS ONLY
Rotunda Balcony
David B. Mattingly (M)
Artist Guest of Honor David Mattingly conducts a guided tour of the Art Show for artists only.
WHAT IS CLARION WEST?
Reading Room
Scott Stolnack (M)
Every year. Clarion West expands to bring us more than just your , six-week, grueling workshop. Come hear about this year’s program: summer readings, weekend workshops, and more!!
ART SHOW TOUR: PAUL CLIFT
Rotunda Balcony
EDUCATING EDUCATORS
Fanzine Room
George Guthridge (M)
Professor George Guthridge is a motivating force behind Gamble High School’s three national championships in academics, won by “children who couldn’t learn”. Listen as he explains some of the major changes in teaching methods which might allow us to teach anything to anybody.
FILM CONTEST: PRELIMINARIES
South Center Room
Mark Schellberg (M)
Amateur filmmakers enter their most exciting new works in the annual Norwescon contest.
KIDKON II: THE SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONISTS
Pavilion Programming Rm
Sue Barrtoff (M), Michael Reaves, Brynne Stephens
KIDKON II: GAMING, ROUND 2
Gaming (Room 504)
Sue Bartroff, Craig Bowie (M)
MASQUERADE: MANDATORY MEETING
Pavilion
Judy Swanson, Norah Hogoboom (M)
All Masquerade participants are required to attend this meeting. Missing this Ballroom 3 meeting means missing the masquerade.
READING: GEORGIA “SASHA” MILLER
Reading Room
RUDYARD KIPLING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Bill Baldwin, Teresa Plowright (M), Gordon Baker, James W. Fiscus, John Barnes, Alan Bard Newcomer
The industrialized West got rich by trashing the world. Now we know we must stop - but the Third World is still impoverished. This discussion will address our responsibilities - if any - to give the Third World non-polluting industrial Reading Room techniques and to help them achieve environmentally safe economic parity.
THE EVOLUTION OF EDITING
Ballroom 4
Charles Platt, David Doering (M), Stanley Schmidt (M), Ginjer Buchanan, Patrick Price
There was a time when an editor was a writer’s best friend. They nurtured the writer as well as the writer’s work. Time passed, however, and more and more of the editor’s functions have passed to publishers, angents, and word processors; the editor no longer has the same kind of relationship to the writer.
W. A. LAW
Ballroom 3
Washington Art Law - A professional seminar brought to us by Washington Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. Current legal information concerning contracts, etc., which may be of interest to writers and artists will be presented. A short Q&A period will follow.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: KLAATU
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
READING: KATHARINE ELISKA KIMBRIEL
Reading Room
FANNISH ART
Fanzine Room
Alexis A. Gilliland, Mark Manning (M)
INTERVIEW: DR. ALAN E. NOURSE
Ballroom 4
Alan E. Nourse, Richard Wright (M)
Find out more about what makes our Science Guest of Honor tick.
SHIPPING FOR CYNICS
Pavilion Programming Rm
Bob Howe, Shelly Clift, Lonnie Davis, Hank Graham, Lynne Taylor, Elliott Swanson
Books, art, and costumes often get mangled in the mail. Three-dimensional items seem to fare worst of all, and “fragile” slickers just don’t seem to do any good. Come to this discussion and learn some secrets about how to get your stuff there and back again in one piece.
SOVIETS IN SPACE
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Art Bozlee
READING: CHARLES PLATT
Reading Room
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by John Sabotta
“A GRAND STORY TOLD WITH A SLY WIT”
— Raymond E. Feist
Teresa Edgerton
CHILD OF SATURN
Fantasy adventure for fans of Raymond E. Feist and Mary Stewart
The dark powers are gathering…
The Kingdom of Celydonn has been tranquil tor fifty years, since the great wizard Glastyn conquered the Wild Magic and drove its monsters underground. But Glastyn has disappeared. His apprentice Teleri is a young, inexperienced sorceress, but even she can sense the presence of a strange new evil. Only her untested magic and the sword of the brave knight Ceilyn stand between the peaceful kingdom and the powers of the Dark. $3.50
“CHILD OF SATURN marks the appearance of a new and exciting talent.”
— Tad Williams
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ART DEMO: QUICK ACRYLIC TRICKS
ArtDemo Room
DavidR Deitrick (M)
ART SHOW TOUR: THE DHARMIC ENGINEERS
Rotunda Balcony
Mark a. Skullerud, Milo Duke. Ray Pelley, Rob Schouten
BREAKING INTO SCREENWRITING
Pavilion Programming Rm
Mark Schellberg, Steve Perry, Ted A. Pedersen, Nancy Morris, Brynne Stephens, Michael Reaves
So you’d like to sec your work on the big silver screen, eh? You’ll need to know about contracts, formal, terminology, and selling existing screenplays. Listen to a few folks who’ve done so tell you how to get into the business.
BUY ART; BUY SMART
Ballroom 3
Donna Barr, Jon Gustafson, John Alvarez, Alicia Austin, L. Rodayne Esmay, Stephen Marcellino
Find out what to look for in the different artistic media. Learn the ins and outs of auctions, originals vs. reproductions, how to care for your new pieces of art.
LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND STEVE BARNES Ballrooms 1 & 2
Steve Barnes
An hour of Q&A with our Toastmaster, Steve Barnes. There’s more to his philosophy of life than “dance all night” - although he does that too.
MINICON CONFERENCE
Fanzine Room
Jerry Kaufman
When there arc two or more notable conventions on the same weekend, many fans are torn as to which one to attend. Since this is also the weekend of Minicon. we will attempt a phone hook-up to let members of both conventions get a feel for what is happening al the other con.
NANOTECHNOLOGY: SMALLER THAN YOU’LL EVER BE
South Center Room
Jordin Kare, John G. Cramer, Elton Elliott, Stephen L. Gillett, Grant Fjermedal, James W. Fiscus
Nanotechnology - molecular machines - has been called “the ultimate Industrial Revolution”. Why? What is it? What are its benefits, drawbacks, appropriate applications?
OPEN WRITERS' WORKSHOP
Ballroom 4
D. Alexander Smith, Diane Mapes, Kathleen Alcala, Rhea Rose, Michael Scanlon (M), William C. Dietz
An anonymously donated manuscript will be publicly critiqued. Sit in on this event and sec what REALLY happens in a writers' workshop. This is a great way to get your feet wet without jumping off the high dive.
THE ART OF LYNNE TAYLOR
Reading Room
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: BARADA
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
AFTER CHALLENGER: IS THE DREAM STILL ALIVE?
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Bill Baldwin, David Doering, Rob Quigley, Jordin Kare, Art Bozlee, Grant D. Callin
It has been said that the space shuttle is a camel; the original designers wanted a horse. Due to changes in specifications and minimizations of safety features we lost the Challenger January 28, 1986. Did the space-going dreams of a nation go up in smoke on that fateful day, or will we continue to voyage into space in ships such as the Discovery and its decendants. After that, what next? Although many of the players have changed, are management styles and cost-cutting measures still the same? Hear our esteemed panelists' views on these and other space-going issues such as a orbiting telescope and the future of the space station.
ART WORKSHOP: DRAGONDRAWING
Pavilion Programming Rm
Karen Lee Carmack (M)
HOW TO BREAK INTO PRINT
Ballroom 3
Dean Wesley Smith, Ginjer Buchanan, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Debra Gray Cook (M), Stanley Schmidt, Catherine McGuire
Editors tell how, and maybe more importantly how not, to prepare and submit your manuscripts, and the proper decorum in dealing with publishers and editors.
ILLUSTRATORS OF THE FUTURE
South Center Room
William R. Warren Jr. (M), Scott Welch
An exciting new contest from Bridge Publications that will further the careers of beginning artists.
READING: STEVEN BRYAN BIELER
Reading Room
ZINE PUBLICATION: ORDEAL BY ENTHUSIASM
Fanzine Room
P_atrick Price (M), Richard Hallock, Elinor Busby, Mark Manning_
A general discussion of where fanzines are today, and where they’re headed. Has electronic communications replaced the fanzine? Or augmented it?
KIDKON II: PROP ROOM TOUR - AGES 12–16
Prop Room
Pat Oros, Sue Bartroff (M) It’s funny, people keep saying that conventions are magic, that they just happen; with no effort from anybody, they just come to exist. Well, the kids in KIDKON II get to see the REAL magic - in a behind-the-scenes tour of the Prop Room - and they get to meet the magicians that cause conventions as large as Norwescon to “just happen”.
ART DEMO: CHAINMAIL MAKING
Art Demo Room
ART WORKSHOP: DRAGONS AND OTHER SCULPTURES
Pavilion Programming Rm
Kim Graham (M)
EROS IN ORBIT, REVISITED
Ballroom 4
Roberta Lannes, Loren McGregor, Michael Coney (M), Steve Perry, Sara L. Stamey, Carl Miller
Sex and Aliens, always a favorite.
HOW TO SURVIVE FAME AND FORTUNE
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Bruce Taylor, Steve Barnes, Greg Bear, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Now that you’ve got a name in the field, what do you do with it? Can this truly be a job? If so, what do you sell, and where? This discussion may enlighten you about new markets and media: taped books, role-playing lie-ins, computer games, and covers for all those new boxes. News on copyrights, publishing, marketing and/or promoting your work.
NORTHWEST WRITERS' GROUPS
South Center Room
Steve York (M)
If you’ve seen the Open Writers' Workshop, and decided you want more, this is the panel for you. Listen as representatives from various writers' groups describe who they are, what they do, and whether their workshop is one that fits your needs.
READING: JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON
Reading Room
THE ART OF DAVID MATTINGLY
Ballroom 3
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: NIKTO
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
A COMPLETE COURSE IN WRITING IN 55 MINUTES OR LESS
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Algis Budrys
Everything you ever wanted to know, in less time than it takes to ask (almost). Don’t sneeze: you’ll miss something!
ART DEMO: THE DAMON AND DAN SHOW
Pavilion Programming Rm
Damon Bard (M), Dan Reeder
That’s right, this year Damon Bard gels top billing, and HIS assistant is Dan Reeder. Damon will show you all the latest tricks in papier and cloth mache; Dan’s just here for laughs. Usually they just put the hecklers in the audience, don’t they?
(Artwork) The Burnt Lands Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Richard Elliott, published by Fawcett.
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ARTISTS
Ballroom 3
Lonnie Davis, Julia Lacquement, John Alvarez, L. Rodayne Esmay, Donna Barr
Book covers can make or break a book - and the artists who do them. Book illustrations are an artist’s bread and butter. They should also be the best road to recognition - but often the cover artist is uncredited. An action-oriented panel to discuss the things book cover artists can do to get the recognition they deserve.
GODS IN SPACE: TOMORROW’S RELIGIONS
Ballroom 4
Bill Ransom, James W. Fiscus, John Barnes, Alis Rasmussen, Leo Daugherty.
Religion was invented by humankind to help us understand the and our place in it. The future may bring space colonies, eternal youth, and sex changes as simple as switching socks…and these are just the obvious predictions!! What kind(s) of species will we be, and what kinds of religious concepts might we invent?
KIDKON II: SAM ROOM SPECIAL VISIT
SAM Room
MASQUERADE TECHNICAL PREJUDGING
Pavilion Backstage
Judy Swanson. Masquerade Judges, Norah Hogoboom
THE ART OF DAVID DEITRICK
Reading Room
THE WAKE OF ARGOS
South Center Room
Kristi Austin, Bruce Chandler Fergusson, Michael Scanlon, M. Elayn Harvey, Diane Mapes (M), Rhea Rose, Amy Thomson, Jerry Kaufman, Edward Bryant
Live at last!! The fourth issue of Argos Fantasy and Science Fiction, not published. but public! With readings by Bruce Fergusson, M. Elayn Harvey, Rhea Rose, R. Garcia y Robertson, and many more. Plus editorials, book reviews by Amy Thomson, and a “letters to the editor” forum. Don’t miss out on this final issue. Once it’s passed, all that’s left is the wake!
A MILLION LIVES IN ONE LIFETIME - GAMES!!!
Fanzine Room
Brian Underhill, Terry Allen Scott, Steve Jackson
Roleplaying gaming provides a chance to explore other selves, lifestyles, fantasies… How does this aspect of gaming benefit one’s creativity and self-understanding?
ART PRINTS: THE REAL STORY
Pavilion Programming Rm
Lynne Taylor (M). Jon Gustafson, Cheri Streimikes
Many different kinds of prints are found today in the Convention Art Show world. We will describe techniques used in their production, discuss their strengths and problems, and weigh their relative values to collectors.
INTERVIEW: DAVID MATTINGLY
Ballroom 3
William R. Warren Jr.(M), David B. Mattingly
READING: CARL MILLER
Reading Room
REGIONAL STAR TREK CONFERENCE
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Kate Gale (M)
The Northwest Starfleet Sector is proud to host the first annual Starfleet Sector Conference. This sector consists of Regions V, VI, and X; it corresponds to the states of Washington. Oregon. Idaho. Colorado. Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa, both Dakotas, Nebraska and Alaska, as well as Western Canada. The conference will provide information to the general Starfleet membership and facilitate communications between regions. This is also a unique opportunity for the general membership to ask questions of various Starfleet ship crew leaders, exchange ideas, establish regional and sector goals, and for non-members to familiarize themselves with the local and national organizations. More information can be obtained at the Starfleet Registration Desk, in the Norwescon Club Table section.
WORMHOLES AND TIME MACHINES
Ballroom 4
John G. Cramer (M)
A discourse on the actuality of these and other time-honored means of transport. A must for those of you who wish to provide a means to get you or a character from here to there with as little fuss and as much plausibility as possible.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: ALIOTH
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWERS: URBAN FANTASIES
Ballroom 3
Ginjer Buchanan, Michael Coney (M), Patrick Price, James P. Kilins, Sharon Baker, Megan Lindholm
Urban legends will slowly start to show up in the F&SF genre, even as Jack the Ripper and Burke & Hare did in the literature of their time. Whether or not they’re true, they make great copy - I wonder if I could use “big rat mistaken for dog” in a story? The choking Doberman, the caimans in Greenlake, and other “myths of the city” will be aired and perhaps even laid to rest.
ARE THESE THE CRAZY YEARS?
South Center Room
Michael P. Kube-McDowell (M)
A review of recent, silly, and cautionary events and news. Did you know it’s possible to get a ticket for having an elephant sit on your car?
THE ART OF MARK A. SKULLERUD
Reading Room
CLARION WEST PRE-AUCTION RECEPTION
Ballroom 4
Steven Bryan Bieler, Dave Myers (M)
Here’s your last chance to view the Clarion Auction items before the auction itself. Come on, you really want that signed T-shirt, don’t you? Have another look - I’ll bet it fits…
AMATEUR PRESS ASSOCIATIONS
Fanzine Room
Lita Smith-Gharel, Mark Manning, Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby
What arc APAs? What topics do they cover? How do you find them, get in - or out! - of them? A discussion of this, plus information about special APAs: A Women’s APA, Military APA, CRAPA/ pi, SAPS, et al.
CLARION WEST SCHOLARSHIP AUCTION Ballroom 4 Deborah Wessell, Dave Myers (M), Edward Bryant, Steven Bryan Bieler Signed books. T-shirts, artwork, and other special items will be auctioned to benefit the Clarion West Scholarship Fund. Auctioneers Ed Bryant and Steven Bryan Bieler will try to top last year’s record sale. Going…going…
READING: .JAMES KILLUS
Reading Room
READING: KIM ANTIEAU
Conference Room
SF AND SELF-CENSORSHIP
South Center Room
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel (M). John Alvarez, Sharan Newman, John Dahnas, Loren McGregor
What if we gave a con and nobody came? More than any other genre, SF should be the one where any idea can be explored, where nothing is sacred. SF should be. but isn’t always. Listen as writers, artists, and other professionals talk about the times they censored themselves.
READING: BILL BALDWIN
Reading Room
CHILD CARE SATURDAY PAJAMA PARTY
Child Care (rm 510/514)
CONTRA DANCE!!!
Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
A long time ago, in a ballroom far, far away, there were dances and there were dances. English royalty danced Regency dances in exquisite costumes and with aristocratic flair. The English folk danced Old Country dances, which were based on Regency dancing, but had less flair and more fun. Time passed, the English crossed the ocean, and brought with them the traditions of the folk. Old Country dance evolved into Contradancing, which is Norwescon’s first dance of the evening. Come join in this trip to the not-so-distant past, to a different kind of dancing. Roger Peacock will “call” the dance (i.e.. tell you what to do), and those of you who would like to try a new (or an old) style of dancing will trip the light fantastic to the tunes of the Dancer’s Delight String Band.
DON’T MYTH OUT: THE MYTHADVENTURES FAN CLUB
Fanzine Room
Kevin Standlee. Erlinda Siller. Richard Hallock, Brin-Marie Landerman
The Board of Directors from the Myth- Adventures Fan Club arc here to fill you in on its latest happenings.
SF’S NEW R&R
South Center Room
People have always put talcs to music, from time immemorial. The oratorio, the ballad, and the opera arc forms that still remain today. What happens when you cross an age-old art form with brand new SF and incredibly talented, hard rock musicians?
Intergalactic adventure from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of STAR TREK III and ENTERPRISE: THE FIRST ADVENTURE
STARFARERS
Vonda N. McIntyre
Hugo and Nebula Award winner
With America’s second attempt at interstellar exploration, the U.S. government decides to scrap the Starfarer’s scientific objectives and place the vessel in the hands of the military.
But Captain Victoria MacKenzie has other ideas. She plans to uphold the Starfarer’s original purpose—the exploration of space and the search for intelligent life—even if it means hijacking the ship…
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MASQUERADE
Pavilion
Norah Hogoboom, Masquerade Judges, Judy Swanson (M), Carol Severance (M)
The fabulous Norwescon Masquerade is being emceed by a wonderful, lovable, funny, emcee!! Join them as they usher many-legged beasties, sex goddesses, and things that go bump in the night through this spectacular event. Come and root for your favorite alien-ambassador-barbarian-princess-assassin-thief-ninja!
KID KIDKON II: WHAT DO KIDS WANT FROM CONS?
Sue Bartroff, Yvonne V. Richardson
Older people have plenty of opportunity to have some input into the conventionplanning process. Unfortunately there arc stilltimes when children arc seen and not heard - until now. Program Directors from various conventions in the area take the lime to hear what the younger set would like to see at conventions.
VIDEO: NORWESCON 11 MASQUERADE - LIVE!!
Ch 6 (North room)
For those of you who don’t wish to fight the crowds, the Norwescon 11 Masquerade will be videotaped live and beamed into your hotel rooms on Channel 6. Or. it can be watched in our Truly Mondo Video (TM) room, otherwise known as the North Room. Truly Mondo Video presented by Rustycon.
LAZER TAG
Alan Smith (M)
Lazer Tag, anyone? This is not a competition, or even tournament play - just a chance for folks who love the game to get together. Bring your own equipment and register at the Information table. First come, first serve - maximum 60 players.
NEW MUSIC DANCE
Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
All Boogie Beings, Shawn Marier (M)
Attention: all of you out there with Happy Feet - a dance floor is calling you!! This is the we-can’t-stop-dancing dance. A new and different music mix will be provided by guest DJ Shawn Marier. He’ll keep you dancing all night long - and then some. Requests will be taken. No-host, Non-alcoholic bar.
SATURDAY AA GATHERING
Reading Room
THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD
South Center Room
Mike Glyer, Amy Thomson, Edward Bryant, Doug Shirk (M), William R. Warren Jr.
This is a serious subject that we all seem to be shirking; it is an unpleasant reality that we may have to face sooner than we think. Like Abraham. Martin, and John, our leaders Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein won’t always be here - Heinlein has already departed. Who will be our next Grand Masters when the last of our current Grand Masters is gone? In what direction(s) might our field go in another twenty years or so? Will it wander, or will it be led? If so. by whom?
MASQUERADE: WINNERS' RECEPTION
Pavilion Backstage
Judy Swanson, Norah Hogoboom (M), the winners of the Norwescon 11 Masquerade
Now’s your chance to congratulate the winners of the Norwescon 11 Masquerade - and get a better look at their award-winning costumes.
THE EMPIRE OF ELAN: IMPERIAL COURT
South Center Room
Michael Kenmir (M)
The Empire of Elan, a live role-playing group, presents its royal court.
RENAISSANCE/FANTASY BETROTHAL CEREMONY
Reading Room
This betrothal is an re-enactment of a renaissance ritual for members of nobility. During this era. more significance was attached to the betrothal ceremony rather than the actual marriage rites. Often, the rituals were a show of pageantry and wealth. The betrothal was not of religious significance but rather one of politics and the ceremonies conducted not by clergy, but with an envoy from the royal court. The betrothed are observing the spirit of these ancient ceremonies; however, the costumes reflect their personal visions of these archaic times.
SUNDAY TAI CHI
Pavilion
Steve Barnes (M)
If you’re one of those folks who insist on a morning stretch, no matter how late you stayed up last night, you might want to spend an hour with Steve Barnes doing still more Tai Chi. Wake up your muscles, clear out your mind, and prepare to dive into the last full day of the con. The con, the con, not your pillow…zzzzzzz
VIDEO: GOOD MORNING NORWESCON - LIVE!!
Ch 6 (North room)
What other way to end a convention than with a morning talk-show? A set of interviews with fans who have distinguished themselves at this convention is always terrific entertainment this late in the con. Of course, there’s no way of knowing who those distinguished fans guests might be… anybody walking by in search of morning coffee may be considered distinguished. Of course, if you can run faster than the interviewers can. you may still have a chance…
WRITING COLLABORATIONS
Ballroom 4
INTERVIEW: AVRAM DAVIDSON
South Center Room
Dennis Ahrens (M), Avram Davidson
A small, quiet talk with our WOW (Writer on Wheels) Guest of Honor, Avram Davidson.
MASQUERADE DEBRIEFING SESSION Pavilion Backstage
Judy Swanson (M), Norah Hogoboom
Masquerade competitors and Event Staff meet to compare notes, exchange information. and talk about what went wrong and what went right.
(Artwork) Sketching Copyright 1989 by Don Maitz Originally published in First Maitz, a Collection of Paintings by Don Main, by Ursus Imprints, 5539 Jackson, Kansas City, MO 64130.
READING: SF POETRY
Reading Room
Mark Manning, Colleen Anderson, J. T. Stewart, John Dalmas
Short, sweet prose from several pros.
THE FUTURE OF ART, ANIMATION, AND SPECIAL EFFECTS
Ballroom 3
William R. Warren Jr. (M), Zach Pahl Are computers and art on a collision course? Does their usage equate to the visual equivalent of handing a non-musician a boombox and saying he now plays the radio? Or is it like giving Moogs to Mozart? Some of the area’s most prominent artists in the computer art field are here to give you their opinions - and a glimpse of their computer-aided creations.
PHILIP K. DICK AWARD RETROSPECTIVE
Ballroom 4
Algis Budrys The Philadelphia SF Society sponsors the award that’s given annually at Norwescon. Come hear a little more about how the award got started, how Norwescon came to be its home, and more about the man who inspired it.
BANQUET AND PHILIP K. DICK AWARD CEREMONY
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Algis Budrys, David B. Mattingly, Mike Glyer, Alan E. Nourse, Steve Barnes, Charles Platt, Elizabeth Warren, Yvonne V. Richardson, Richard Wright, Judy Suryan, D. Alexander Smith, Becky Simpson.
Steve Barnes is our host and Toastmaster at this gathering of hungry people. Feast upon wonderful food prepared for us by the chefs at the Sheraton; feast your ears on speeches prepared for us by our Guests of Honor. And. feast your eyes upon this year’s winner of the Philip K. Dick award. The envelope please… and a roll while you’re al it.
EASTER EGG HUNT
Pavilion
Shawn Marier, The Easter Bunny, Sue Bartroff
Did the Easter Bunny leave YOU something? If you want to find out, have your mom and/or dad bring you to the Pavilion to see. Maybe you can catch the Easter Bunny before he leaves.
FAT, FEMINISM, AND FANDOM - THE NEXT STEP
Ballroom 3
Laurie Edison (M), Nancy Marmol, Rich Dutcher
As an outgrowth of discussions at SF conventions, we have decided to show as well as tell what we see when we look at fat women.
HOMEMADE WHO: “THE ZOMBIE LEGIONS” South Center Room Erlinda Siller, Richard Hallock, Kevin Standlee, Brin-Marie Landerman
READING: M.J. ENGH
Reading Room
ANTHOLOGY READING II
Ballroom 3
Eileen Kernaghan, Rhea Rose, Mary Choo, Teresa Plowright, Carol Severance
This is a special reading, combining the talents of up to six Northwest writers. Come hear them read their own stories - and each others'. If you didn’t catch the first half of this event, now’s your last chance to hear this novel form of reading.
(Artwork) The Company Man Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Joe Clifford Faust, published by Del Rey.
(Artwork) Imagination Copyright 1989 by Carl Lundgren.
FANDOM IN 31 FLAVORS
Fanzine Room
Jerry Kaufman What IS fandom in the Pacific Northwest? Come hear about Northwest fan clubs, non-clubs, conventions, and gatherings.
FILM CONTEST: WINNERS' SHOWING
Ballroom 4
Mark Schellberg (M)
Come sec the film judged to be the best of this year’s Amateur Film Contest.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: ALCOR
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
BULWAR-LYTTON BULLPEN: HEAR IT & WEEP
South Center Room
Brian Tillotson (M), Cyn Mason, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Erlinda Siller, Greg Cox
The Bulwar-Lytton contests are famous for proving that writing Pure Trash can be just as much a creative challenge as writing High Art. Entries for this contest can be turned in at the information table, and will be read at this panel. Come and listen to the panelists read the ghastliest prose you ever heard. Was it really a dark and stormy night?
DO ROBOT FANS ATTEND DATALINE CONS?
Fanzine Room
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Georgia “Sasha” Miller, Michael P. Kube-McDowell
E-mail and bulletin boards - will they replace conventions? Will real live contact become obsolete as everyone turns on, tunes in and phospordots out?
LOOK WHAT THEY’VE DONE TO MY BOOK, MA!
Ballroom 4
Loren McGregor, John Barnes, George Harper (M), Ginjer Buchanan Writers and artists talk about personal experiences with censorship by editors, publishers, booksellers, special interest groups, and the general public.
READING: JOHN DALMAS
Ballroom 3
ART AUCTION
Pavilion
Katherine Howes (M)
Here’s your chance to pick up the pieces you’ve been bidding on all weekend - if you outbid all your competitors. It may also be your last chance to see all the wonderful artwork that’s going to other people. Arm-twisting services arc available (within the limits of responsible conventioncering) for those who have a little difficulty reaching their wallets; credit cards are also accepted.
READING: F. M. BUSBY
Reading Room
APOCALYPSE NOW: WARGAMES AND OTHER STRATEGIES
Jay Silverstein, Steve Jackson, Rod Garcia, Rich Dutcher
A discussion of the role of war and strategy games in society and what their popularity signifies. Do they encourage the warrior mentality or are they a harmless way to work out aggression?
READING: JOHN STITH
South Center Room
READING: MARY CARAKER
Ballroom 4
SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION LEAGUE MEETING
Reading Room
Chuck Manson (M)
Science Fiction Convention League members only. Agenda for meeting will have been sent to you beforehand or can be picked up at the door.
From the author of Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon and Callahan’s Secret!
CALLAHAN’S LADY
by Spider Robinson
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Time Pressure
“If I didn’t think it understated his achievement, I’d nominate Spider Robinson…as the new Robert Heinlein.” -New York Times
Spider Robinson’s famous Callahan stories-Callahan s Crosslime Saloon and Callahan’s Secret-are delightful tales about the galaxy’s most outrageously bizarre saloon and its hilariously diverse patrons. There wasn’t an establishment for millions of miles around that was as much fun as Callahan’s…until Callahan’s girlfriend opened a bordello…and Spider Robinson wrote a novel about it…
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VOLUNTEERS'/GOH PARTY
Ballroom 3
Algis Budrys, David B. Mattingly, Alan E. Nourse, Steve Barnes, Richard Wright, Becky Simpson, Yvonne V. Richardson, Judy Suryan, William R. Warren Jr., Elizabeth Warren, Mike Glyer, Paul S. Clift, Alis Rasmussen, and all of the people who really made Norwescon 11 a success
A special hour for volunteers only. Spend some time with our Guests of Honor and other pros you didn’t get to see because you were working.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: KOCAB
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
READING: BRUCE TAYLOR
Ballroom 4
SCA FIGHT SIMULATION AND TECHNIQUE
Ballrooms 1 & 2
The Society for Creative Anachronism recreates the stirring days of brave knights, fair maidens, minstrels, and the rest of the Midieval era. Come see brave knights simulate a fair fight - and learn about the techniques of doing it without actually hurting each other.
ABUSE THEMES IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
Ballroom 3
Lyn Paleo, Loren McGregor. Laurie Edison (M), Rich Dutcher
A third of the women and a fifth of the men in the U. S. were abused in some manner as children. How are these realities reflected in what we read?
BIBLIOPHILIA ULTIMA: A BOOKLOVER’S DREAM LIBRARY
Ballroom 4
Amy Thomson, Alan Bard Newcomer, John De Camp, John E. Stith, Ginjer Buchanan It’s ok - we couldn’t pronounce it either. A participatory panel in which panelists and audience compile a “dream library”. What do YOU think is the basic and best of SF, Fantasy and Horror?
DREAM INTERPRETATION
South Center Room
Ruth Coates (M)
Where do my dreams go? Find out what tools are used to tap dreams for their creative potential.
RUNNING A “PROFESSIONAL” FAN CLUB
Fanzine Room
Kevin Standlee, Erlinda Siller, Richard Hallock, Brin-Marie Landerman
What are the differences between local SF groups and licensed national organizations? Can you get by with just weekly get-togethers, or do you feel you have to incorporate? The Board of Directors from the MythAdventures Fan Club has a few ideas on this subject they’d like to share with you.
MY LIFE AS A TOXIC WASTE DUMP
South Center Room
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Gordon Baker, Grant Fjermedal (M), Lori Ann White, Steve Bard
Besides polluting the environment, we pollute ourselves with everything from recreational drugs (legal and otherwise) to chemical-saturated food and drink. We breathe asbestos from the insulation in our walls, and are surrounded by possibly toxic chemicals in our workplaces. What are the side effects of being a toxic waste dump?
(Artwork) Idle Pleasures Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Coverfor the book by George Alec Effinger, published by Berkley.
OCCULT ARCHETYPES IN SCIENCE FICTION
Ballroom 4
Alis Rasmussen, Dameon Willich, Kim Antieau, Sharon Sinclair, Patrick Price, Julian May
ONIONS AND ROSES
Ballroom 3
Yvonne V. Richardson, Richard Wright, Judy Suryan, Becky Simpson, Elizabeth Warren (M)
Now’s the time for a talk with the Convention Committee about this year’s convention. What did you like? What did you not like? Are they things we can fix, or do you want us to order 16 more elevators for the hotel? Why did we do some of the things we did? Which events do you want to see next year? Serious input from you now can be used in the planning of Norwescon 12.
FANNISH OLYMPICS: FINALS
Mark Richardson (M), Fannish Olympics Judges
The finals of this marathon event, wherein the top teams compete for the lop prizes. Do I hear fanfares in the background?
CLOSING CEREMONIES
Ballroom 3
Algis Budrys, David B. Mattingly, Mike Glyer, Alan E. Nourse, Steve Barnes, Yvonne V. Richardson, Judy Suryan, Richard Wright, Elizabeth Warren (M), Becky Simpson
Well, it’s over, one more time, I think. Join the Convention Committee and our Guests of Honor in one last round of applause, awards, appreciations, and one very special thing. So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye - and we’ll see you next week.
PICTIONARY
Ballroom 4
Dragon, Donna Barr (M), William R. Warren Jr., Steven A. Gallacci, Dameon Willich, Diana Gallagher Wu, Monika Livingston
Of course, this event takes place when we’re at our silliest. Bring your most confounding ideas and try to stump the artists - or be stumped.
DEAD SASQUATCH PARTY AND SPRING RITES
Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
Keith Johnson, The Sasquatch, All Boogie Beings, Michael Citrak (M)
For those of you that 3 days of programming and 3 nights of dancing didn’t burn out, we’re going to give it one last try. Mix and match dance cuts from the previous days ought to do the trick. Come boogie with the best of us - and the last of us.
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He shifted in his chair. Not nervously; that wasn’t his style.
“What in your professional science fiction career is the most satisfying thing you’ve ever done?”
“Writing what I think are some very good stories. I’ve written some stuff that I thought was almost totally successful in temis of my original intentions, and that’s a kick. That’s something you can take to the internal bank.”
We were talking casually, though the comm unit between us was set to Transmit. Editor, writer and critic for nearly four decades. Algis Budrys was an imposing figure, but friendly. Not unlike, as he had described himself to me before the interview, a good old boy with wrinkles around the corners of his eyes. He’d mentioned that he liked to think people meeting him for the first time have the impression he’s a retired airline captain who’s gone to fat.
While he spoke, Domino fed me some more information on his professional background. Over 200 short stories published since 1952, including science fiction, contemporary, suspense and crime fiction. Science fiction was the core of his work, including some classic novels. I turned my full attention to his answer.
“There’s Rogue Moon, there’s Who?, which I could still re-read with pleasure. Michaelmas. And there arc some short stories that I like very much, probably not the same ones that most people like. ‘The Man Who Tasted Ashes’ feels good whenever I think about it. A story that hasn’t been published yet. called ‘What Befell Mairiam’ which is, of all things, a sword-and-sorcery short story.”
That needed a follow-up. “Where will that be appearing?”
“F&SF. It’s intended for the Budrys issue of F&SF, but it might sneak out in the anniversary issue he has for this year.”
“And when is the Budrys issue coming out?”
"When I finish the novel I’m working on now. so that Ed can start it as a serial in that issue.
“I’m a technically dedicated artist: I want a story to give somebody a precisely measured feeling, and I want to do it very well technically. Two things have to happen in order for me to be happy about the story; the two 1 mentioned are like that. Some of the ones that people sometimes mention are less successful than those two. There’s another one, ‘The Distant Sound of Engines,’ which is very short and I think, very good, even though it’s got a factual Haw in it. There’s a spot in there in which is mis-describe how morphine works on a hospital patient.”
“I assume many people have taken glee in pointing that out to you?”
“One. One nurse wrote me a letter about it a long time ago.”
Domino spoke again through the conductor in my mastoid. “Personal background; he was born in 1931 in Konigsberg, East Prussia, a free Lithuanian citizen from birth. He has lived in the U.S. since 1936. He is married and has four children, and lives in Evanston, Illinois. He is in Seattle to be Guest of Honor al a science fiction convention. Here’s another item of professional interest: he’s written about 120 articles, mainly about science, technology, cars, and bicycling.”
I changed the subject. “Let’s talk about you. personally. You’ve always been interested in bicycles. Would you ever consider that as a convention programming topic?”
He considered the question. A change of direction in questioning tends to bring out the best in an interview, the unexpected answer.
“Maybe not for 90 minutes. There are some things about bicycles I think everybody should know.” he replied. “How to gel the seat height right and the handlebar angle correct. Lots of people arc floundering around with their legs aching and their wrists aching and their behinds aching, wondering why that is. and you can fix it very readily.”
"Would you be willing to offer a clinic at the convention?'
“Yes, if there’s a whole mob of people who feel they want to know this… why not.”
Back to personal. “Do you still rebuild bicycles?”
“I’m never home anymore. The answer is no, but I could. I’ve built my wile’s bike, which she rides every week, weather permitting. and she hasn’t complained about anything about it in years.”
“How fancy of a bike is it?”
“It’s rather fancy, by 1960s standards. It’s got racing alloy frame, which is unusual in a woman’s bicycle, and it’s got ten speeds and high pressure tiresand all that other good stuff, and she just pumps around on it like crazy.”
“What about you?”
“Mine’s kind of tricky that way too. It’s got a very early Japanese zero dynamic frame that 1 restored and rebuilt. Although it looks like a ten speed, more or less, it’s actually a four speed. For most of the riding 1 do. four speeds is plenty, and it’s a lot less complication than with a derailleur.”
I turned the conversation back to his professional career, as Domino reminded me that he was a driving force behind the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future anthology and awards, and that he had written a number of reviews and critical articles for everyone from Galaxy to current columns for The Chicago Sun-Times and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
“You’re considered one of the grand masters of literary criticism. Does that ever get old? Do you still find things to get excited about?”
“I keep changing the way I go about to keep it from getting old. With the kind of reviews I’m doing for F&SF now. because fortunately Ed Ferman has backed me up with Orson Scott Card, I’ve got a lot of freedom to do wild and crazy things like review a book that’s been out of print a long time, or review something that’s from an unusual source. I just published a column in which I reviewed a program book, for heaven’s sake. It’s fun, and I keep it new.”
“His awards you may find impressive,” Domino said. “He’s a member by invitation of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and The Mark Twain Society. He’s won a special Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America, and been given the ‘99’ Badge by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He’s a Locus Poll winner for best non-fiction book on SF in 1985, and in 1984, was given the Invisible Little Man award for service to the SF community. And he has several other honors.”
I returned to the interview. “What do you hope to be remembered for?”
“I think what I expect to be remembered for is a couple of pieces of fiction, but mostly for editorial-type functions, like teaching novices, helping them turn out better work. Hopefully, before I’ve run my course. I’ll actually be able to lay my hands on a magazine and pretend to be John Campbell for a while. That’s about it.”
I switched off the comm unit. “That docs it.” 1 said. “Have a good convention. But I’m curious about one other thing. You’ve done a lot of public relations from the late 1960s onward. Have you ever wanted to be a reporter?”
“Yes, in the sense that any job that I think I could do, I would like to have tried at some point. I’ve got mixed opinions about the state of the art of reporting these days, but I think it’s among the cleaner jobs there are.”
He smiled. “Thanks for your time. Larry.”
Copyright 1989 by Frank Catalano
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly
If there is one thing that a Science Fiction artist is known for, it is his hardware. Look at a spaceship by Kelly Freas. Robert McCall, or John Berkey and you can immediately identify the artist.
The same holds true for the work of David Mattingly. He has developed a style of technological design that is both rich in detail and complex in structure. Silver ships glow under airtight domes, and astronauts wear spacesuits that twinkle like highly polished armor.
Even a cursory glance, though, will show that hardware is not all there is to David’s work. His landscapes have a naturalistic believability and an almost cinema- scopic grandeur. This, combined with his adventurous use of color, creates a setting against which his ships soar and swoop, alternately like sparkling jewels, or dark, evil birds of prey. The aliens with which his covers abound are diverse and surprising.
David grew up reading and collecting comics, and this is probably where his work gets its flamboyance and sense of hard- edged drama. Later, he was influenced by Fantasy illustrators like Frank Frazetta and - probably more than any of his comtemporaries - the great NASA artist Robert McCall. Today he is likely to draw influence from nearly anywhere, as the motifs from African and Pacific Island art in his covers to Janet Morris Heros in Hell series attest.
Typical of a Mattingly painting is tremendous scale; he is a master of the megaship. and there are miles of visual space in his landscapes. (This is only appropriate, since early in his career he was a matte painter for Disney Studios, responsible for making modest sets on a soundstage into the huge spaceship interiors central to the film The Black Hole.) Even a close-up character study is likely to have perspective cues implying a vast area visible over the figure’s shoulder. For that matter, many of David’s covers have outrageous numbers of figures, often complicat- cdly costumed - the kind of thing that makes a fellow illustrator groan at the work involved.
But painstaking dedication comes naturally to David, and shows itself in every step of his work. For each painting he does dozens of thumbnail and color sketches, always working until he has a satisfying solution - and then doing a few more. Then, after an idea is approved, he has appropriate models professionally photographed for painting reference. Sometimes he shoots models himself in a lavishly equipped photo studio next to his painting room. Friends, family and casual visitors have wound up there, perhaps outfitted in plastic Roman armor or aiming one of David’s small arsenal of toy ray-guns. David sometimes builds models forreference as well, such as the helicopter used for Martin Caidin’s The Messiah Stone, and the spider for Robert Vardeman’s Cenotaph Road series.
When the working drawing is complete, figures and costumes meticulously drawn in, perspective accurately plotted, he transfers it to canvas and begins painting. This is done in acrylic (for broader tones and glazes) and gouache (fordetails), one layer upon the other, punctuated by the roar of a paint-encrusted hair dryer to speed the process. Airbrush is used for soft forms such as clouds and smoke and glows.
David can be wildly experimental. He loves the latitude Science Fiction allows for this, enabling him to drop in a swollen moon or ringed planet for its abstract impact, or utilize innovative color schemes (see The Messiah Stone for a purple-and-gold knockout). He enthusiastically embraces paperback packaging embellishments such as die cuts, embossing and reflective inks. For Exit Earth by Martin Caidin. he used computer-generated imagery as a base which he then modified with paint. The process became more time-consuming than it was worth, but was a noble experiment. After a mind-broadening stint at the Illustrator’s Workshop, he submitted a cover done in pastel. He has utilized the solarized chiariscuro effect, pioneered by Janies Barna and Peter Caras, for the Time Wars series by Simon Hawke (he also worked this effect into an early cover for Savage Sword of Conan). When another artist was assigned a Time Wars book, he was asked to follow Mattingly’s lead.
David is always seeking to learn, and speaks with analytical insight about his predecessors and contemporaries in the Science Fiction field. He also pursues knowledge outside the field. In addition to the Illustrator’s Workshop mentioned above, David has lately studied anatomy with Elliot Goldfin- gcr, including sculpting a figure from the skeleton up and dissecting cadavers.
With his always-growing body of covers (now numbering in the low hundreds), David has staked out a territory unmistakably his own; a galaxy populated by heroic figures as well as horrific alien monsters, a place of both high-tech, and primitive savagery. Knowing David’s drive, always to improve on his previous cover, there is no telling where his work will lead him next.
Copyright 1989 by Richard Hexcox
As I write these words, I am looking at a slide that David Mattingly has sent me of the finished cover art for my forthcoming novel Desperate Measures. It’s an amazing piece of work; 1 don’t know how he did it. but the painting looks three dimensional - the bright reds and greens he’s used in the illustration jump out and grab you. The scene itself is highly detailed; you can almost read the labels on the bottles behind the bar, and a man with a Mohawk haircut casually examines the goings-on. which includes some interesting naughtiness. The characters whose friendly round of drinks has been interrupted look as if they’ve stepped directly off of a photograph. The man interrupting them is a trademark of David’s - I call them “Mattingly Men”. He’s a muscular, broad-shouldered, threatening type who appears to be a fiesh- and-blood incarnation of someone you might find in an issue of Marvel Comics.
In one paragraph 1 have managed to cover all of what I like about David Mattingly’s paintings. His eye for color is second to none; you can tell his paintings just from his use of them alone. He has a wonderful sense of detail. His style is immaculate and at the same lime strangely surreal. He has an immense amount of fun with what he’s doing, which is very important in this business (if you don’t believe that David has fun in his work, check out his tongue-in-cheek cover for the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book Space Vampire). Most importantly, David is good at what he does. Very good.
Consider this story. In August of 1987 I was at a Waldenbooks in an Akron. Ohio mall. I was sitting at a card table piled high with copies of my first novel, A Death of Honor, mentally cataloging the myriad of ways that people were using to ignore me as they walked past. Some seventy-five feet away, from one of the stores opposite my position, came a woman toting several bags full of her day’s shopping. She locked eyes with me. and in conveying the nonverbal message of unavailability, she dropped her eyes.
That was her mistake.
Her eyes dropped to my book which I had conveniently stood cover-out to the passing crowds. The effect was magic. She stopped for a moment, squinted at David’s painting, then made a beeline to my table. We had a nice chat. She didn’t read "that Stuff' (read: Science Fiction), but she knew a couple of people who did. and picked up two copies. Then, because she was so thrilled to meet a “real author”, she broke down and bought a third copy for herself.
That is David Mattingly’s job. That is what he is so amazingly good at. The hard work I put in on my opening sentence, the editor’s sweat over the lurid back-cover copy, all of that is worthless unless someone like David is there to get Mr. and Mrs. Bookbuyer to pick it up to begin with. And let’s face it, if you’ve been lucky enough to sec the cover art for cither of my novels, you know what I’m talking about. They’re irresistible. Neither cover is easily described, but I think my editor at Del Rey did the best that anyone ever will when she said this while trying to describe David’s work on A Death of Honor, “The damn thing looks like it’s on fire”.
Of course, these comments don’t just apply to David’s work for my novels. Take a look at any of the covers he’s done. Besides what I’ve already mentioned, you’ll note right away that his covers are busy. There’s stuff going on everywhere, as if David has taken the essence of the novel and distilled it into one gloriously cinematic moment.
Shall I get specific? For starters there’s the stop-action cinematics of The Company Man, where the omnipotent hunter watches his quarry’s futile attempts to run. In Revenge ofthe Damned, the glow from a blue laser-knife heightens the tension on the faces of two Mattingly Men about to escape from an intergalactic prison. Or how about Zoboa, where his skewed point-of-view puts you right in the middle of the dizzying action. You can almost feel the heal from the ascending space shuttle and hear the roar from the P- 38 as it flies toward you. It’s a moment that Spielberg would love to capture on film. Likewise The Messiah Stone, which has the quality of a lost moment from the life of Indiana Jones (David has done some Indiana Jones covers, but that’s another story….). Need a dark mood? If you’re not careful, David can give it to you subtly, as with The Land of Laughs. Or he can let you have it with both barrels as he did with Yard’s Children (one of my all-time favorite Mattingly paintings and the only cover that has ever made me say “Wow! I wish I’d written that book!”).
Of course, all of this tells you what you already know, which is that David Mattingly is a dedicated professional who happens to be extremely good at what he does. He wouldn’t be here this weekend and I wouldn’t be writing about him if he wasn’t. But what about David Mattingly the man?
Well….
OF Dave and I, we grew up practically being neighbors. 1 was raised for the most part in Wyoming, he in Colorado. He grew up in Fort Collins, where his father invented a device that some of you might have in your homes - it’s called the Waterpik. His early influences include those wonderful early Marvel Comics, in the days before their problem plagued super-heroes discovered what real angst was. His training in art continued at Colorado State University, The Colorado Institute of Art and the Art Center of Design in Pasadena, California. From there he found his way into films, and by the age of 25 was the head of the Matte Department at Disney Studios, where he worked on such films as The Cat from Outer Space, The Black Hole and Tron.
Science Fiction as written word remained his first love, however, and before long he found himself in New York, lugging battered manuscripts to his brownstone in Hoboken, New Jersey. Once he has read the novel-to- be. he produces a series of roughs - paper- back-sized paintings that show the composition. mood, and colors to be used in the final painting. Once the art department has made their choice, it’s onto the final painting. The production of a cover may find him researching historical architecture, building a model of an interstellar craft, or shooting photographs (his victims have included professional models, bodybuilders, industry insiders, family members and himself). He has even been known to call up the author of the book he is working on in order to discuss different aspects of the characters and their playthings. The effects of this tireless effort speak for themselves in his work.
As if all of this wasn’t enough, this consummate professional also happens to be a really nice guy. No kidding. 1 could write pages about his wry sense of humor, but that’s something best experienced in person. Suffice it to say that anyone who names his cat Orson Welles is okay in my book. He’s also got a very generous spirit, which I would humbly submit came from breathing all of that pure Rocky Mountain air when he was a child.
Case in point, my very first trip to Manhattan in April of 1988. Having met David face-to-face at a convention the year before, I decided it was time to do the same with my editor and agent. 1 flew in early in the morning, gathered everyone up, and met David for lunch at the Society of Illustrators (you have to be really hot stuff to get into this one, folks - and yes. David is a member).
As we got ready to go our separate ways that afternoon, I suddenly found David had taken it upon himself to make sure that I would get around Manhattan with no problems. He made sure 1 had something to cat on the trip back to the airport, lent me his map of the subway, gave me a crash course in which museums to sec and which streets to avoid, and advised me not to talk to strangers or start a conversation with someone already talking to him- or herself. I figured this was his way of sympathizing with the kid from Out West’s first day in The City. On the other hand, maybe it was the fact that when the light hits me right 1 look about half my real age. Whatever the reason, I appreciated it. A guy like me needs friends like him.
Looking back at these words I have just written, they strike me as being somewhat anemic. After all. here I am. trying to describe in words a series of visual works. To gain a real appreciation for David’s work, you have to do what I did once I found out he was doing a cover for my first novel; I started looking at every Science Fiction book cover I could find in search of his stuff. In just a short matter of time, you’ll discoverthat everything I’ve told you in the previous thousand-odd words about style and color and detail is true.
You’ll also find something else. There’s an uncompromising honesty to David’s work. He gives his best to each and every painting. Part of this is his love for his chosen profession. and part is because, like the best artists and w riters, he’s not afraid to let his personal life show through in his work. The best example of this is his series of covers for Poul and Karen Anderson’s King of Ys scries, which in symbolic terms tell of the end of his marriage. The story is continued on the cover of A Death of Honor, where David’s anxieties over returning to the single’s scene is used with spectacular effect.
So check his stuff out. Comb the book stores and go to his slide show this weekend. You may even find yourself buying books for their covers, something that is not entirely unheard-of in the Science Fiction line of work, and something which makes both artist and author happy.
Enjoy.
Copyright 1989 by Joe Clifford Faust
(Artwork) The Little Helliad Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the hook by Janet & Chris Morris, published by Baen Books.
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When I was asked to write a pieee about Mike Glyer for the Norwescon Program Book. I wasn’t sure what to do. Mike is a fan in the best sense of the word. For those people who do not know him, I have included some biographical material. How to illustrate his true nature remained a problem. Rather than write a testimonial about him. I decided to include various pieces about him drawn from a few of his close friends to illustrate the breadth and scope of someone who I not only consider a good friend but also respect for the amount of good he has done in fandom. There is only one Mike Glyer and I suggest that you take this weekend to meet the guy.
Mike Glyer. the editor of File 770, is a man of many qualities including a well developed sense of humor. To have published File 770 for as long as he has and he surely hasn’t been doing it for the money, one needs a sense of humor. He has won 5 Hugos (two for File 770 and 3 for Best Fan Writer). Several years ago at the Hugo ceremony at a Worldcon, he wore a T-shirt underneath his regular shirt proclaiming himself a Hugo winner which he revealed on-stage while accepting the Hugo. What a ceremony it would have been if he had lost. And yet after winning consecutive Hugos for Best Fanzine, he was big enough to announce that he would take himself out of the running for the following year.
In 1969 he started editing New Eliptic which he published thru 1972. From 1972 thru 1976 Scientifiction was produced. File 770 began about 11 years ago. He attended LACon and has been a member of LASFAS since 1972 holding various procedural and corporate offices. He is currently the Chief Executive Office of The Southern California Institute for Fannish Interests (SCIFI) and would have been chairman of the 1990 Worldcon if they had won the bid. Mike stated that his main ambitions in life were to get married, have children, and become a big- time writer. When he isn’t reading or writing about SF and fandom, he reads Raymond Chandler and Mark Twain.
This mild mannered man received a degree in history from (JSC and a Masters in Popular Culture from Bowling Green University. After acquiring these valuable degrees he then spent the next 15 months working in women’s underwear until he found his true calling: the IRS. Beginning in May, 1979. he was employed as a tax auditor, worked his way up the bureaucracy to group manager where he was in charge ol other tax auditors, and currently is an appeals officer where he tries to settle cases the government may lose before they go to trial.
One might wonder how editing a fanzine and working for the IRS complement each other. In the course of preparing this article about Mike, he admitted that his college education trained him to properly analyze and evaluate information. In other words being nosy works wonder in both jobs.
In 1979 at Boskone 16 George Flynn first introduced me to Mike. We had spent the past two years having a running commentary with each other thru the newszines we were editing. He was never satisfied. When 1 used first names of people, he complained that NESFA might know who 1 was talking about but he didn’t and demanded I use last names. To please him 1 only used last names in the next issue and with the number of married couples in the organization, he was complaining again that he still couldn’t figure out who I was talking about. This pursuit of one upmanship continued until I stopped editing the newsletter. Sometimes friendships spring from strange and unpredictable actions.
For many years at Worldcons Mike ran the newsletter. With the help of a few roving reporters, he would prepare the daily newszine and then usually print it himself. In his leisure time he would distribute copies of it to the people working on the convention so that they had some idea of what was going on. Many people did not truly appreciate the job that he was doing, often with minimal equipment. Fortunately while he has not been active in the editing of the Worldcon newsletters, we can still admire his handiwork in the parodies of them that sometimes appear near the end of the convention. They are often more informative, almost always funnier, and usually more accurate than the real newsletters.
Looking for a more difficult challenge lead him to accept the job of co-head of programming at Nolacon several months before the con was scheduled to run. Many jokes and asperionscan be made about the final results, but in this writer’s opinion (and I was there in the backroom watching it happen) he performed both miracle and ledgerdermain second to none. Programming was running in two hotels from a location distant from the program rooms. Communications were a nightmare. Many people were accommodated al the last minute. Il was a difficult situation which would have been impossible without his calming influence. The complete story will probably never be told simply because nobody who was not there can truly appreciate how difficult the situation really was.
Having spent enough time on my soapbox. we shall now delve into the less serious side of Mike Glyer.
He once described the participants of a typical fannish dinner. They almost always include people who are strictly vegetarian, who will only eat meal, who are kosher, who happen to be on a strict diet, and the couple who think that $25.00 apiece for a meal is inexpensive. Unfortunately they spend so much time arguing about where to eat that they never go anywhere.
At a Los Angeles convention Mike was on a couch with Craig Miller and an unnamed individual who was even larger. Two people started staring at them perhaps wondering if the couch would survive. Il is reported that Mike apparently said in a voice loud enough to carry, “I wonder who made the couch. If it can support the three of us, it must be quite sturdy.” Unfortunately the reaction of the two onlookers has been lost to history. And while on the subject of couches it would be remiss of me not to mention the couch which resides at Mike’s place. It has been reported that many a fan coming to LA and in need of a place to sleep has made use of it. So well-known is his hospitality that a certain East Coast Fan (who will remain anonymous) decided to fly to LA to see friends and assumed that she could call him from the airport to arrange for crash space. While the phone was ringing Mike was at the airport to meet another friend. The fan saw Mike, hung up. and yelled out to him that she was very happy to see him and could she have crash space. Naturally Mike agreed.
At the Worldcon each year there is a Hogu Banquet often held at the nearest McDonald’s. Mike was one of the founders of this tradition which began at LACon when certain people did not wish to pay the inflated banquet price. And just like the Hugos, the fans get to vote in certain categories for the winners. Mike then totals the votes and selects the winners based on who should have won. It is rumored that Mike has occasionally even chosen the winner of the popular vole for this honor.
Unfortunately a list of the conventions which Mike Glyer has attended and engaged in a tryst has been deleted from this article. It would have made for a more informative piece on Mike but…
No article about Mike would be complete without a reference to John Brazerman. Be it noted that a certain west coast fan once reported a local California convention to the Labor Board for using gophers who were underage and for not paying them the minimum wage. The same person entered into a contract for the function space with the hotel that an LA bid, who had just won a Wester,on. was planning to use. Suffice it to say that he was not a pleasant person. He ran his own conventions and issued a list banning certain people, including Mike, from attending them since they competed with him. Mike not only attended the convention under the name of John Brazerman but proceeded to rent one of the smaller function rooms that had not been rented by the convention and used it to advertise fandom and otherwise annoy this person. For all of the details that just can’t be printed, ask Mike about John Brazerman. The whole story is fantastic.
Copyright 1989 by Rick Katze
(Artwork) Fleet of the Damned Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch, published by Del Rey.
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Alan E. Nourse did not write Nerdsmen of Gronk, and for a complete list of what he did write I refer you to a bibliography- it will be a pretty hefty biblio, heftier than mine, and I am no chicken. Besides having authored 12 books of fiction. Dr. Nourse has the advantage over me in having also issued c.45 books of non-fiction, compared to my merely* one (count them) one. Stories, articles, columns, who counts? He has. to be sure, other advantages over me - many inches, fewer years, four children (mine: again: one) and a promising start with a grandchild; also he has shot an elk. Sec his haunting book The Elk Hunt - you won’t see a thing in there about the elk, which he encountered a few years later (he assures me there was nothing personal in the encounter. “One of us had to go.” he says. “Please pass the venison.”) And. of course, he has the advantage of his great wife. Ann. (“What have you and Avram been doing?” she asked once. Alan: “We’ve been working, dear.” Ann: “Yes, I can smell it;” with quiet amusement and perfect acceptance.)
Nice Ann is a practising physical therapist; she once announced she was “going to give Avram some exercises for his arms.” “That’s right, dear,” said Alan; “put the whiskey on a higher shelf.”
I first met them in or about 1952, when we were living in the Atlantic Northeast, now we are all living in the Pacific Northwest. I had of course read his Rocket to Limbo, Star Surgeon, and Riders From the Rings, so we did not meet as strangers. Since first I made their vital acquaintance, generosities, and benefits, literary and otherwise, have flowed my way without ceasing: pass the venison, please. I was once even his employee, and those who recall any of my Limekiller short novels are now advised they came from notes I made many years ago in the tropical nation of Belize in Central America. when/where I should have been looking out for his interests. When I say that we have sailed the Spanish Main together, I ain’t just a-woofin'. Unfortunately the boat (which I bought with his money) began to blow great bubbles; clearly an act of great decision was needed. Alan’s orders to me were, “Lay it on the Bishop - and run!” The boatman replied to my crisp directive with the niggling comment, “Sir, the boawt is sinkking!” I said, “Quickly moor it in front of the Bishop’s house, so he can see where it sinks.” They may still mention us in their prayers down there; then again, maybe not. If they do, who knows what they say. Or to what effect. 1 don’t have this limp from being kicked by a mule at Gettysburg.
Alan Nourse’s literary career crossed mine in many ways. For instance when I was helping to spend part of the income from his best-seller Intern, by Dr. X, in trying to move mangoes from a place where they did not grow to a place where they did not sell, I received the galleys for my nonseller The Phoenix and the Mirror, with the usual instructions, “We need them yesterday.” I jumped ship (or boat), promptly had a vigorous domestic disagreement, and thus was obliged to find another place to correct the proofs - one where the lady would not be able to follow me - which I did. What Dr. Nourse thought on hearing that his Field Manager was holed up in a whorehouse with many odd long pieces of printed paper. 1 do not know. Gentleman that he is, he never mentioned it. and I have never asked…. Er… Alan…?
My, it is a long way from that coast of coral to this snowy clime. Alan E. Nourse and I are still writing: Mine is another Vergil Magus, and his latest work is a book on AIDS for high school students and older. Go thou and read.
Copyright 1989 by Avram Davidson
* I stole this from the conversation of Phil Klass, alias William Tenn. If you’re going to steal, steal nothing but the best. kids.
(Artwork) Code Blue - Emergency Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by James White, published by Del Rey.
AVRAM DAVIDSON REVISITED
Our special guest for the second year running is a very peculiar person. He is not tall, handsome, and dashing, like some celebrities in our field, nor is he totally revolting, like some others. To my knowledge he has never written a Star Trek novel, nor a hit play, nor a monthly column, nor a best-selling novel, nor a screenplay, nor even so much as a knockout TV commercial. All this may help explain why he is frequently under-funded and tends to cadge cigarettes. What he has written is dozens upon dozens of stories which have kept us entertained and bedazzled ever since 1952 or thereabouts, when his first published story, “My Boyfriend’s Name is Jello”, appeared in Anthony Bouchers’s Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. These stories have embraced Science Fiction, Fantasy. Mystery, and men’s adventure, along with quite a number of completely unclassi- fiablc gems of the sort that make you wake up at two in the morning and say, “Hey. now…”
Avram is something that few of us can ever lay claim to: a genuine, bonafide original in all dimensions. Like any other writer, he employs his own unique peculiarities in his approach to his craft. He will muddle and nudge a story idea for fifteen years without actually writing it. but he will also write three beauties off the top of his head on three successive days and sell all three. Scorning revision, he regards whatever words have come out of his “tripewriter” as chiselled in granite: if you don’t see them that way. that’s your problem. His manuscripts, typed on hideous pink or blue second sheet (sometimes intermixed) (the while hurts his eyes, he says) look like the writer’s equivalent of an unmade bed. and he doggedly employs curiosities of language that nobody else would ever dare to use. But the stories flow. Editors may shrink in horror at the sight of a Davidson manuscript, but the stories still flow.
Ann and I first met Avram sometime in 1953 or 1954 in New York at an evening gathering at the home of Harry Altshuler, my (then) agent. Avram arrived wearing hisyar- mulka and carrying his own teacup and spoon. As a midwesterner quite untutored in the rites and rituals of Jewish Orthodoxy, this struck me as exceedingly odd. I was to learn, of course, that this was by no means the only odd thing about Avram Davidson.
We lost contact for several years, then reconnected in New York in 1964, as he was returning from a sojourn in Mexico. It was a time of trial for both of us, and we bought each other lunches, each deducting the other. Later, in San Francisco. Avram was the only person I ever knew who actually lived on Haight street, a block from Ashbury; one day he took me on a guided tour of the area in its heyday, wearing his Egyptian fez. Still later we spent much time together exploring the weird waterways and byways of the Central American country of Belize, then known as British Honduras, where a mutual friend maintained a Hotel of Convenience in the city to accommodate the British soldiers stationed there. (That friend had a lady of fierce and determined temperament. He appeared one morning with a broken elbow. The lady had hurled a full Coke bottle - a one quart Coke bottle - al him from across the room in a fit of pique. Bad luck for him, you say? Hah! Damned good luck that he had such keen reflexes. He raised his arm just in time to deflect the missle from his head. But I digress…) It was the Belize adventures that led Avram to write his splendid “Limekiller” novellas that embody so beautifully the outer strangeness of the Central American country. One day, one may hope… one must hope… some editor somewhere will have wit enough to collect the stories of the Limekiller Saga into a single volume that we all may hold and treasure them.
One cannot pretend that Avram is always smiling and of constantly sunny disposition - could anyone with those qualities write those stories? Perhaps not. Nor can one say that he is always an old grump; he often becomes quite convivial when suitably primed. It must be said that The Master is not always necessarily perhaps the easiest person in the world to get along with - if you doubt this, just ask some of his ex-agents - and when he gets mad at you. man. you’d damned well better believe you’ve been gotten mad at by an expert. Ah, well, each to his own little cross. There are some people around that I don’t care for that much, either. On the other hand, at Norwescons he tends to he docile as a lamb, so don’t be afraid of him. And he is the only Honorary Uncle 1 know who distributes genuine cherry whips to his honorary nephews and nieces.
After the Belize adventure there was California for Avram, and then the Northwest, and some times spent at High Place.and then some times spent at Thorp, and then later some illness, and recovery, and more illness and recovery - illness doesn’t shake loose easily for geriatric cases. He has come through it all. Deo gracia.s, and after writing fiercely for three and one half decades, Avram continues to write and write and write. Of his hundreds of published stories, at least 50 per cent have been good. Another 35 per cent have been extremely good. And some 15 per cent have been real stunners, the kind of stories that leave your jaw sagging and your mind altered. If he has ever published a bad story, I haven’t run across it. The most encouraging thing about this man is that the really great stories keep turning up now, not just at the beginning of his career. Three years ago I thought “The Slovo Stove” was the greatest story he’d ever written. Then last year I read “El Vilvoy de Las Islas”. Enough said. A writer in decline? Ho, ho. Grab his beard and talk to him this weekend and see what you think. He’s an original like you’ll never see again. If he complains, tell him I sent you.
Copyright 1989 by Alan E. Nourse
(Artwork) You Are A Monster Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Edward Packard, published by Bantam Books.
Steven Barnes stands about five eight or nine. He’s black. He’s in perfect physical condition. He’s smiling. He’s probably talking (though he listens good too) and as he talks, he bounces around like he really ought to be tied to a railing, just in case.
Tony Barnes is a bit shorter, Caucasian brunette, with long, lean muscles. She may be with Lauren Nicole, who is maybe two feet tall by now. Nicky has a great smile, and the muscles aren’t showing you though she exercises with her parents.
Steve isn’t exactly your typical fan. Then again, he is.
Kids picked on him in high school for an intellectual bookworm. They wouldn’t let him be nice. He took up martial arts. He teaches several varieties. Now they let him be nice whenever he wants to.
But… he’s fannish. He didn’t stop with learning how to survive Conan the Cimmerian. He wants to know everything that the human body can be made to do.
He wants his friends to be healthy and safe. He teaches self-defense classes at LASFS. He tries out exercise modes, and when he knows something works, he passes it on to his friends.
Writing? Oh, writing! Jerry Pournelle and I think we’re pretty good. We could have made The Legacy of Heorot a fine tale of interstellar colonization; but we don’t have the right mind-set for the Horror novel. What it took was the guy who wants me to see The Texas Chain-Saw Massacre for its artistic merit.
Steven has always been ambitious. Our first novel was a detective story wrapped in a Fantasy wrapped in Science Fiction. That was fun. Everyone wants to go back to Dream Park. We finally did.
His first solo novel (Street Lethal) was based on a working love potion, for God’s sake! A monogamy treatment. I wouldn’t have had the nerve.
Now he’s married his childhood sweetheart, Tony, and they’ve born me a girl-child. That is. I’m Nicole’s godfather.
The television industry loves him too. Remember a show called The Wizard? They were about to drop it. Then they saw Steven’s script. It involved a robot suspected of murder.
Suddenly they were talking about this one saving the show! They swapped scripts around to put his in the right place: they found enough money somehow: and when the producer made script changes, the director changed it back and swore it was already perfect. They think he’s pretty good.
Our latest novel was just as much fun as we expected and deserved. Everyone want to go back to Dream Park. The Barsoom Project is even more complicated. We’ve turned it in. and we’re plotting out a third.
Copyright 1989 by Larry Niven
(Comic) Copyright 1989 by William Rotsler
(Artwork) The Aquiliad Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by S.P. Somtow, published by Del Rey.
(Artwork) Shockwave Rider Copyright 1989 by Barclay Shaw. Cover for the book by John Brunner, published by Ballantine Books.
(Artwork) Space War Blues Copyright 1989 by George Barr. Cover for the hook hy Richard A. Lupoff.
(Artwork) No Shirt. No Shoes. No Service Copyright 1989 by Carl Lundgren.
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Ilene Meyer
(Artwork) Unaccompanied Sonata Copyright 1989 by Mark a. Skullerud.
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Wendy Wees
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Ray Pelley
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Rob Schouten
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Milo Duke
(Artwork) The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley Copyright 1989 by Richard Hescox. Cover for the collection by Marion Zimmer Bradley, published by DAW Books.
(Artwork) Exiles' Gate. Copyright 1989 by Michael Whelan. Cover for the book by C. J. Cherryh. published by DAW.
KATHLEEN ALCALA is a Seattle writer who has had Magic Realism and Science Fiction published in literary magazines such as The Seattle Review, Calyx, The Ohio Renaissance Review, and Black Ice. She won the Western Colorado Science Fiction Association short story contest in 1981 and completed the Clarion West Science Fiction workshop in 1987. Kathleen has degrees from Stanford and the University of Washington, and is Assistant Editor of The Seattle Review. She was guest editor of a special Science Fiction issue of The Seattle Review in 1986.
Photo by Jaquelin McBride
KEVIN J. ANDERSON’s first novel, Resurrection, Inc. - a cross between Science Fiction, Murder Mystery and Gothic Horror - was published in July 1988 from Signet books (New American Library). Gamearth, the first book in a new Fantasy trilogy, was just released in March 1989, also from Signet. He is currently working on Gameplayers, the second novel in the series. Kevin is also engaged in a novel collaboration, titled Lagrange, with physicist and author Doug Beason. Bantam Books will publish Lagrange and two other unrelated collaborative novels.
Kevin has sold over 140 short stories, articles, and reviews to various magazines, including Fantasy & Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 13 (DAW), New Destinies (Baen), Full Spectrum (Bantam), Astronomy, Dragon, The Horror Show, and many others. He has a degree with Honors in physics/astronomy and has been a full-time technical writer/ editor at a large research laboratory for the past five years.
At seven years of age JOHN ALVAREZ asked his mother how much money artists make. She informed him that some an sells for millions of dollars and some art is priceless. From that moment on John has walked that great mystical path of becoming a truly God-like being known to all as an artist.
John maintains the philosophy that all artists should be worshiped as gods (since there are few other rewards). John is a self- taught god with the addition of two years study at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. John’s work has appeared in The Horror Show Magazine and Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine.
KIM ANTIEAU has had work published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fantasy Book, Twilight Zone Magazine, Shadows 8, Shadows 9, Doom City, Pulphouse, and The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories. She is currently working on a mainstream novel, Bridges, with her husband. Mario Milosevic. She is also at work on a SF Horror novel, When The Moon Was Blood.
ALICIA AUSTIN is a reknowned SF and F artist whose bibliography of book and magazine illustrations would fill two pages of text.
In 1970 she was awarded the Hugo Award for Best New Artist and in 1979 received both the Balrog Award for best Professional Publication (for the anthology of her work, Age of Dreams: The Illustrations of Alicia Austin) and the Howard Award for best Fantasy Artist.
Over the years Alicia has interpreted European, Russian, Oriental and other ethnic folklore and mythology. But she has always had a love of the Southwest and Native American culture. The last few years she has been interpreting Native American folklore and mythology and expanding her techniques by working with printmaking, graphite and Prismacolor, frequently combining one or more ofthese with watercolor.
DR. GORDON BAKER allergist,graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University and received his M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Baker was recently involved in the investigations of chemical allergies at Boeing.
SHARON BAKER is a Seattle Science Fantasy writer. Avon has published Quarrelling, They Met The Dragon and a long novel divided into two books: Journey To Memhliar and Burning Tears Of Sassurum. She has contributed articles and reviews to small magazines, a chapter to Writer’s Digest Books' How To Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction, and a disgusting poem to a children’s Horror anthology, Now We Are Sick, which she has been assured is coming out Any Year Now. She also teaches writing: this spring, it’s kids at Cedarhurst Elementary School, and adults at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. In real life she’s been an aeronautical history librarian, physician’s assistant, music librarian, public relations writer, college recruiter… In her spare time she raises four sons, a series of exchange students, assorted newts, lizards and fish, and five cats (want one?)
BILL BALDWIN is the author of The Helmsman and Galactic Convoy. In addition to his books, he has worked in the military in support of Project Mercury, managed the writing group for public relations and technical presentations during the Gemini and Apollo programs, and is currently the Manager of Advanced Software Technology for Xerox in Dallas, Texas.
JOHN BARNES has not been a boxer, sailor, smuggler, spy or gigolo, but he is the author of numerous stories which have appeared in CoEvolution Quarterly, Amazing, F&SF, Analog and Asimov’s. Two novels, The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky and Sin of Origin, were both published by Congdon and Weed and are currently available in paperback by Worldwide Library.
John is currently working on a book of nonfiction, a novel and a short story collection.
DONNA BARR is a native of Washington State. She is waterproof and not inclined to (genuine) panic, though she has been known to swear.
She has displayed artwork at convention and public galleries all across the United States and Canada, and is presently working for a number of gaming and comic-book publishers, as a freelance artist/writer. She owns all her own characters and stories, and does everything from roughs to lettering. Her two full-length comics include The Desert Peach and Stinz. She has finished a musical, “The Desert Peach,”' in collaboration with the excellent T. Brian Wagner, and if all goes well, they hope to present it sometime in 1989.
Donna is also involved with numerous smaller fanzines and APAs and “Barr Wars,” an artists' war that has been going on over a year and now includes some 18 to 20 furiously insulted artists. Part of it should be available as a large fanzine in early 1989.
There’s more, but you’ll have to ask her about it. Space precludes prolixity (obs.).
GREG BEAR, formerly known as an SF illustrator, is the author of Hegira, Psychlone, Beyond Heaven’s River, Strength of Stones, The Wind From a Burning Woman, Corona, The Infinity Concerto, Eon, Blood Music, The Forge of God, and The Serpent Mage.
The Twilight Zone episode, “Dead Run,” was adapted from a short story by Greg.
Photo by Deborah Wessell
STEVEN BRYAN BIELER’s stories and satires have appeared in Asimov’s, Clinton Street Quarterly, Pulphouse, Seattle Review, The Seattle Times, and Unearth, and in the anthologies Full Spectrum, Heroic Visions, and New Dimensions. In an alternate universe, he is the copy editor of the Seattle Weekly.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY has been a Science Fiction fan since her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. She has been writing since she can remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to Vortex Science Fiction. She has written everything from Science Fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels. The Darkover series also includes several anthologies of fiction.
In addition to editing the Darkover anthologies, Mrs. Bradley has also edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including a year-long stretch as editor of Sybil Leek’s Astrology Journal, and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edits an annual anthology called Swords and Sorceress for DAW.
In recent years she has turned more to Fantasy; a release from Doubleday, The House Between the Worlds, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was “Fantasy undiluted” and was issued by Ballantine Books as a Del Rey paperback. Another non-SF effort is a novel about a three-generation circus family of trapeze flyers, The Catch Trap. She has written a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends - Morgan Le Fay. the Lady of the Lake, and others - entitled Mists of Avalon, which remained four months on the NY Times best seller list and was optioned by a major film producer. And she has also written The Firebrand, a novel about the women of the Trojan War.
She currently lives in Berkely. Her hobbies are opera (including “lightwalking” at the S.F. Opera), reading, and collecting Cabbage Patch and similar dolls as well as Teddy bears.
GINJER BUCHANAN was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania long enough ago to remember the invention of television. In the late 1960s, having survived higher education, she discovered Fandom, (she had discovered Science Fiction and Fantasy al a very early age. thanks to the guilty conscience of robber baron Andrew Carnegie, who endowed Pittsburgh with the best free library system in the country.) She became one of the Founding Mothers of The Western Pennsylvania Science Fiction Society, and helped run Pgh- lange, Pittsburgh’s regional SF convention, for several years. She then moved to New York City where she made her living for over a dozen years as a social worker in the area of foster care and adoption, (you can imagine what fun that was…)
During those years she had done a bunch of freelance work for various SF publishers, many of whom were friends and neighbors (and one of them she happened to be married to.) Thus, she was prepared for a Mid-Life Career Change when, in 1984, Susan Allison offered her a job as an editor al Ace Books. After hesitating a nanosecond, she said YES. She was promoted to Senior Editor in 1987. All things considered, she is currently a happy unit…
ELINOR BUSBY has credits both as a fan and pro. but considerably more of the former. She was one of the editors when Cry won the Hugo Award for 1959. and was on the 1961 Worldcon Committee. She has been a Fan Guest of Honor at two Westercons and a Noncon. and was a Party Guest al a Rain Convention. She is a member of six apas.
F. M. BUSBY lives in Seattle with his wife Elinor and their cat Ms. His SF novels include eight in the universe of Rissa Kerguelen and Bran Tregare, the Demu Trilogy in Barton’s universe, All These Earths in the multiple universes revealed by the story’s “Skip Drive”, and The Breeds of Man in a possible near-future variant of our very own cosmos. His three dozen or so shorter works, twenty of which appear in his story collection Getting Home, arc not readily classifiable. His current work in progress, Slow Freight to Forever, is behind schedule due to flat wheels on his disk drives.
GRANT CALLIN has a BS from the Air Force Academy, and advanced degrees in Space Physics. Physiology & Biophysics; it isn’t surprising that his hard Science Fiction stories require minimum suspension of disbelief. He currently works for Boeing Aerospace. and has been heavily involved in their Space Station role; his knowledge and background are evident in his portrayal of the SpaceHome colonies in his two novels Saturnalia and A Lion on Tharthee. He appreciates wellrounded words like ‘callipgyan.’ He eschews tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, and vegetables of the human kind.
MARY CARAKER’s newest Science Fiction novel, The Snows Of Jaspre, should be out from Houghton Mifflin by the time of this convention. She is also the author of Seven Worlds and Watersong. Her short fiction has appeared in Analog and Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as in juvenile and mainstream periodicals. She was born and reared on a farm in northwestern Oregon, but now lives in San Francisco in a family building with her husband and three adult children.
KAREN LEE CARMACK has been earning her living with her art since the tender age of 19, when, shortly after her arrival in Seattle, she hastened to join the ranks of the wonderfully exotic and eccentric craftspeople she found at the Pike Place Market. In 1977 she discovered the art of scrimshaw, which is still her main medium. She also does custom graphic work and has recently illustrated a book on British Bed-and-Breakfast houses. Her Fantasy drawings and prints have appeared in Westwind and other fanzines.
Karen recently retired from active partnership in Camlann Enterprises, where she served as art director and crafts coordinator, in order to further her own art and pursue a musical career with the early musical group Distant Mirror, as well as playing Celtic music as often as possible. She now lives in Kirkland with three cats and two lady goats.
Photo by Frank Garcia
MARY CHOO’s Science Fiction and Fantasy poetry has appeared in a number of publications. including the Methuen children’s anthology The Window of Dreams, Scrivener, Amelia and Star*Line, and some of her speculative poems will be included in an anthology of five B.C. women poets, Light Like a Summons. She has had stories either published in or accepted by Warm Times, The Twilight Kingdom, and the Marion Zimmer Bradley anthology Sword and Sorceress VI. She is currently working on a poetry collection, short stories, and a Fantasy novel.
MICHAEL CONEY of Sidney, B.C. has had forty short SF stories and sixteen novels published, the most recent being The Celestial Steam Locomotive, Gods of the Greataway, and Fang, the Gnome. Coming from NAL in the fall is King of the Scepter’d Isle, a humorous Fantasy, like Fang, about gnomes and King Arthur. Mike has recently completed a mainstream novel, No Place for a Sealion and is currently working on another, A Tomcat Called Sabrina. He is managing director of Porthole Press Ltd. publishers of local history and child safety books.
DEBRA GRAY COOK is the Managing Editor of Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine. She is also the Editor of Letters to Pulphouse and Associate Editor to The Report magazine.
She lives in Eugene. Oregon with her two cats.
GREG COX is the author of The Transylvanian Library: A Consumer’s Guide to Vampire Fiction, forthcoming this spring from Borgo Press. His short fiction has appeared in Amazing, Argos, Aboriginal SF and other magazines. Formerly a student at Clarion West, Greg now works as an Assistant Editor at William Morrow and Co. in New York.
JOHN G. CRAMER’s first foray into SF writing is Twister, a near-future hard SF novel published in hardcover by Arbor House in 1988. Since 1984 he has written the bimonthly science column, “The Alternative View” for Analog. John is Professor of Physics and Director of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he has been involved in building a new superconducting linear accelerator for the past four years. In addition to teaching, nuclear physics research, and science writing, he has contributed to the interpretation of quantum mechanics and in 1987 had a major review article published in Reviews of Modern Physics which described his “Transactional Interpretation.” He was born in Houston, Texas and received his physics Ph.D. from Rice University.
JOHN DALMAS broke into SF with a novel, The Yngling (Analog, 1969; Pyramid, 1971, 1977; and Tor. 1984). From 1971 to 1982 he wrote little fiction and sold none of it. Since 1983 he’s had more novels published: The Varkaus Conspiracy, Homecoming, Scroll of Man, Fanglith, The Reality Matrix, and with Carl Martin, Touch the Stars: Emergence. His short fiction has appeared in Analog, The Saint, F&SF, Far Frontiers, 1985 Annual World’s Best SF, The Science Fiction Yearbook, and War World.
LEO DAUGHERTY began writing fiction is his mid-forties. He has had stories and poems published in Omni, Exquisite Corpse, and several other magazines in the last couple of years. Leo has also done a fair amount of scholarly publishing in such areas as Elizabethan literature, Shakespeare, and linguistics as well as two or three critical articles on Science Fiction and Literary Theory. He is Professor of Literature and Linguistics at The Evergreen State College, from which he is currently on leave to write an SF novel about a female rock star named Street Viable.
Photo by Rick Hawes
JOHN DE CAMP, alias the Wizard of Beans Hill, is a one-time Portland, Oregon poet. He’s now writing Science Fiction.
He has had a story published in Cyn Mason’s Wet Visions anthology, a poem published in Isaac Asimov’s, and published a book, In the Shadow of Atlantis. The latter is a poetic Fantasy. As usual, he is working on a book and trying to sell another.
DAVID R. DEITRICK, after a bewildering combination of college, military service, oil field work and part-time illustration, launched a successful freelance illustration and design career. The bulk of his work has been in the adventure-gaming market, with over 50 game and supplement covers to his credit, primarily for FASA Corporation’s Star Trek line and GDW’s Traveller role-playing system.
In 1977 he defied a fate worse than death and married another artist, Lori Howell. They share a studio with their two sons (both budding designers,) a cat, a husky, and an Atari 520 ST computer.
WILLIAM C. DIETZ lives with his wife, daughters, cats and a hamster in Seattle where he does PR work for a large corporation. He is the author of War World, Freehold, Imperial Bounty, and due out this spring, Prison Planet. He has also co-authored Cluster Command, Crisis of Empire Volume II with David Drake. Over the years Bill has worked as a Surgical Technician, a News Writer, a Television Director, a College Instructor and other things he’d rather forget.
DAVE DOERING is a freelance journalist in the computer industry. He’s also fascinated by space law and is preparing a beginners guide to the subject.
Having instigated all sort of fan activity in the Provo, Utah area, Dave has worked as an actor, tour guide, graphic artist, literary agent, and chauffer to earn money for his fan- nishness.
RICH DUTCHER’s Science Fiction life began at around age 5 with reading pre-code comics. His Fannish life began with the original Baycon in 1968. He attended a good postSputnik high school followed by certification in history and anthropology at Stanford, and management and finance at Wharton. He currently works as a consultant for research and management planning.
TED DIKTY began reading SF in 1929, published his first fanzine in 1939 and was co-editor of the first “Best SF of the Year” scries, starting in 1949. He was a pioneer specialist book publisher, being co-founder of Carcosa House. Shasta Publishers and FAX Collectors editions, Inc. Since 1977, he has published dozens of titles under his Star- mont House imprint.
Photo by J. Lindner
LAURIE GOTTLIEB EDISON is a noted 3-D artist (jewelry and sculpture) who works in the medium of precious metals and stones. Laurie is also a knowledgeable SF and Mystery fan with a wealth of interesting insights.
ELTON ELLIOTT has co-authored four novels. The latest, The Einstein Legacy, was published December 1987 by Fawcett Gold Medal Books. He has over 100 articles, reviews and poems published, has just completed a short story, “Run Through Jungle”, and is currently working on a solo novel, Worlds Without End. He lives near Salem, Oregon with his computer.
RU EMERSON is a Northwest writer from Dallas, Oregon, where she lives with several cats, dogs, ducks and geese and Doug - her multi-year roommate. Her Nedao Trilogy is now fully published with the recent release of On the Seas of Destiny. Her first novel, The Princess of Flames (Ace Fantasy, 1985). recently sold world Spanish rights. She has completed another Fantasy - a different slant on Cinderella, and is presently working on. in turn, a Science Fiction novel and a Suspense Thriller. When not actively writing, she seems to spend an inordinate amount of time mumbling to herself about works in progress, or reading other peoples' novels and cursing imaginatively - or reducing firewood to col- lops with a 9-pound maul as an antidote to both aforementioned frustrations.
RODAYNE ESMAY decided he wanted to be an illustrator at the age of five when he discovered a neat way to paint on pile carpet. His parents appreciated this early goal-setting attitude. They disapproved, however, of the eight foot cowboy that adorned their living room.
At the age of eleven he fell in love with Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and has been hooked on Medieval Fact and Fantasy ever since. After high school he studied art at the University of Northern Colorado before transferring to BYU where he graduated in 1986.
Rodayne made his professional debut at the 1986 Norwescon, a month before graduation. His work has since graced the cover of Dragon Magazine. He is currently employed by Signetics, an integrated circuit manufacturer, as an illustrator. Besides the eight hour a day job he also teaches Graphic Design and Illustration at a community college and is midway through a M.F.A. program at Syracuse University. In his spare time, between catnaps, he is working on a 16 piece Celtic Fantasy scries.
He is married and he and his wife Kelly have a six year old daughter named Shannon. As of yet he has not taken time to teach Shannon the pile carpet painting technique that so warmed the hearts of his family and friends years ago.
BRUCE FERGUSSON’s second novel, The Mace of Souls will be published by William Morrow in June, 1989. His previous novel, The Shadow of His Wings, is also set in the Six Kingdoms Fantasy world, and was a finalist for the 1987 Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Novel. He is presently working on a third novel.
A 1984 graduate of Clarion West, he lives in Seattle with his wife Patrice McSh- erry and son Patrick, who was born during Norwescon in 1987.
JIM FISCUS worked for ten years as a photographer and photojoumalist in Portland between periods of academic work. His main professional areas of interest arc international relations, military affairs and intelligence, with a regional emphasis on Asia and the Middle East. He taught military history for two years at Portland State University, concentrating on the relationship between tactics and changing technology, and has recently completed an MA in Middle East history. Islam, and its role in the Iran-Iraq war, is at the center of his SF story “A Time of Martyrs” in the anthology There Will Be War, Volume V. He is currently working to inject the political and religious aspects of Islam into additional fiction.
GRANT FJERMEDAL is a Seattle-based author of nonfiction books that take the reader on excursions into the realm of science. The Tomorrow Makers, which looksat the ragged leading edge of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the future of humankind, was published by Macmillan in hardback (1986), by Microsoft Tempus in paperback (1987), has been published in Japanese and is currently being translated into Italian. The American Library Association named the book in its annual list of the year’s 10 outstanding nonfiction books. (The book is also considered a great source for the science behind the worlds of Cyberpunk.) Grant’s first book. Magic Bullets, (Macmillan, 1984) explores the behind-the-scenes world of medical research and monoclonal antibodies. His books have been praised in publications ranging from The New Yorker and The Bloomsbury Review to Science News and the Wall Street Journal. A former reporter for the Seattle Times and the Associated Press. Fjermedal’s writing has also appeared in Omni and The New York Times. His first fiction, a Horror story, will be published in Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s Tales By Moonlight II, forthcoming from Tor.
ROD GARCIA has written Science Fiction, Fantasy, History of Technology and History of Science. His most recent work includes contributions to Amazing Stories, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and Writers of the Future, writing under the name R. Garcia y Robertson. An upcoming story will appear in Weird Tales and another is the cover story of the current (April) issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Before going into writing full time he taught History of Technology. History of Science, and History oi the Future at UCLA and Villanova University. He has a Ph.D. in History from UCLA and his doctoral dissertation was on the impact of industrialization on weapons and arms control. He lives in the woods with his wife Michelle, and two daughters. Anneke and Erin.
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STEVE GILLETT is a consulting geologist and sometime science writer who has published articles in Analog. Astronomy. Amazing. Asimov’s and a number of technical journals. He now lives in Ellensbcrg and is active in the L-5 Society.
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ALEXIS A. GILLILAND, Hugo-winning fan artist, is also the author of Revolution from Rosinante, The Pirates of Rosinante, Long Shot for Rosinante and The End of the Empire.
JON GUSTAFSON has been active in fandom for thirteen years, primarily in the Northwest. He attended his first con in 1975 (the Oakland Westercon) and has been a member of sixty more since then. He entered fan publishing by writing a column of art criticism for Dick Geis' SFR in 1974 and soon after was co-editing a fanzine (New Venture). He also wrote a column on SF art for Mike Glyer’s File 770. In 1977. he wrote a history of Science Fiction illustration which appeared in Brian Ash’s The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. That led to doing over 50 artists' biographies for Peter Nicholl’s The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and two articles on SF/Fantasy art for the Starlog Science Fiction Yearbook, edited by David Gcrrold and David Truesdale. In 1981, he began writing a monthly book review column for NWSFS' clubzine, Westwind, which continues to the present. Along with being a Guest of Honor and Toastmaster at various conventions (including Fan Guest of Honor at Norwescon 10) and working on various conventions (including producing the impressive MosCon 10 program book) he was one of the founding members of PESFA, MosCon, and Writer’s Bloc (the Moscow Moffia). In 1983 he started J MG Appraisals, the first professional SF/Fantasy art appraisal service.
Jon’s first fiction work appeared in the Writers of the Future, Volume II anthology and his first book, CHROMA: The Art of Alex Schomburg, is currently on the stands. He is currently writing articles for James Gunn’s new SF encyclopedia, working on a book on the life and art of Jack Gaughan, writing fiction, and involved with the Moscow Moffia writer’s group.
GEORGE GUTHRIDGE lives in an isolated Eskimo village in Alaska. His stories have appeared in F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, Galileo, Year’s Best, and many other places. He has been a Nebula and Hugo finalist, and has also twice been nationally honored as a teacher. Manifesto, a 200,00 word mainstream novel co-authored by Janet Gluck- man, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s.
RICHARD HALLOCK is currently the President of Chico State WHOniversity (the Doctor Who club at CSU Chico), and also the current editor of the club’s newsletter An Unearthly Newsletter, and is formerly the publisher of Sandman Sentinel (a Logan’s Run 'zine). Richard spends most of his spare time producing amateur films; his most recent production is an amateur Doctor Who episode entitled “Those Darn Daleks”. Richard lives in Chico. California, with Erlinda Siller and his two lovely goldfish. Weasel and Irving.
M. ELAYN HARVEY lives in Enumclaw, Washington, to be near one of her favorite things: mountains. Her writings include: songs, poems, articles, short stories, novellas and novels: ranging from Spirituals, to Fantasy. to Science Fiction. Her first SF novel, Warhaven, won second place in the PNWC contest in 1986 and went on to be published in hardcover in 1987.
She is currently awaiting paperback release for a trilogy which will include an expanded version of Warhaven, Tide of Souls, and an untitled third volume in progress.
A member of NWSFS. and a frequent contributor to Westwind, she credits her fledgling career in SF to her first rejection slip: an encouraging personal letter from Gene Roddenberry.
Photo copyright 1989 by Nina K. Hoffman
NINA KIRIKI HOFFMAN’s short fiction has appeared in anthologies which include: Algis Budrys' Writers of the Future Volume I, Damon Knight’s Clarion Awards, Charles L. Grant’s Shadows 8, Shadows 9, Greystone Bay and Doom City, and Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s Tales By Moonlight.
She has also had stories in Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Asimov’s and Pulphouse.
Nina spent many formative years in California, seven informative years in Idaho and has now achieved the state of Oregon, where she lives near several other assorted Pulp Punks in Eugene. She lives alone aside from two cats, one mannequin, and uncounted spectres of the imagination.
ROBERT J. HOWE, a columnist for Pulphouse Report, has had book reviews published in Fantasy Review and will have a short story forthcoming in Fantasy Macabre.
He is currently working towards a degree in journalism and history at Brooklyn College where he is also a columnist and staff reporter for the Brooklyn Paper. Last year he won The New York Press Association’s Howard W. Palmer Scholarship Award.
Bob attended Clarion (East) in 1985 where he says that they learned almost as much about writing as they did about watergun ambushes.
STEVE JACKSON, founder and editor-in-chief of Steve Jackson Games, has been playing games for over 20 years, and professionally designing for twelve. Born in Tulsa, he went to high school, and then to Rice University. in Houston. His classroom work was mediocre: he gave most of his attention to the school paper (he was editor for two years) and to late-night wargame sessions - both of which proved far more valuable than the school work!
Steve’s first professional design work was for Metagaming, which published his Ogre, G.E.V., Melee, Wizard, and several other games. In 1980, Steve bought The Space Gamer magazine from Metagaming and started his own company. Success was immediate, with his Raid on Iran game. The next year. Steve Jackson Games released Car Wars…followed shortly by Illuminati, and later by GURPS, the “Generic Universal Roleplaying System.” In 1983, he was elected to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame - the youngest person ever so honored. In addition to gaming, Steve is also a dedicated SF reader and fan. He is active in FACT, the Texas fan club, and enjoys attending both gaming and SF conventions. He writes filk (adequately) and sings (very badly).
EILEEN KERNAGHAN has had three prehistoric Fantasy novels published by Ace Books: Journey to Aprilioth (1980); Songs from the Drowned Lands, which won the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award (CASPER) for 1983–84; and The Sarsen Witch, scheduled for release in April 1989. The Sarsen Witch, which completes the Grey Isles trilogy, is a story of “earth-magic and megaliths, and high adventure in the bronzeage world of the Wessex Warrior-chieftains”. Kernaghan’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies, including PRISM international. Room of One’s Own, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry (forthcoming), The Window of Dreams (Methuen) and Tesseracts (Press Porcepic).
She is also co-author of the Upper Left-Hand Corner: A Writer’s Guide for the Northwest (International Self-Counsel Press), and is currently working on a young adult Fantasy novel. She lives in Burnaby, B.C.. where she and husband Patrick operate Neville Books.
JAMES KILLUS is an atmospheric scientist whose primary research interests are the analysis and simulation of tropospheric photochemistry.He is the author of such fascinating papers as “Isoprene: A Photochemical Kinetic Mechanism.” He has also, alone or in collaboration, had about a dozen SF stories published, and is the author of the novels Book of Shadows, and SunSmoke, the latter being the first (and let’s hope only,) computer simulation voodoo smog Science Fantasy.
He is currently working on a historical Fantasy involving Bat Masterson and Damon Runyon in 1911 New York.
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KATHARINE ELISKA KIMBRIEL is a Texas southpaw born in the heart of the Moon. This arrival happened in Indiana, however, which means she traveled a bit before reaching her true home. Living a variety of places - from Ohio to the Pacific, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico - Ms. Kimbriel followed a career path which encompassed everything from janitor to screenwriter. She’s currently trying to make a living writing fiction, so she’d appreciate it if you’d check out her most recent novel, Fires of Nuala, just released at Christmas. A John W. Campbell nominee for her first published novel. Fire Sanctuary, Ms. Kimbriel started her first novel at nine. (This effort is deeply buried, and with luck will never come to light!) Other interests have intruded upon the dream of writing, but the work has never stopped flowing. She’s always ready to talk about writing or reading (hcr favorite pastimes) and has the seal of approval from several cats, all who walk upon her with impunity*.
(*usually….)
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T. JACKSON KING is a full-time writer and former archaeologist now living in the woods with his wife, fellow SF writer Paula Downing, and two cat-people named Phillip and Ophelia. His novel, Retread Ship was published by Questar in 1988.
MICHAEL P. KUBE-McDOWELL has been called “the finest new writer of cosmic Science Fiction in twenty years” (Orson Scott Card), and his writing praised as “reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke al his best” (Newsday). Though occasionally accused of being a Hard SF writer, as far as he knows he does not belong to any identifiable clique, movement. or school.
Emprise (1985). Kuhe-McDowell’s first novel, launched the thousand-year “Trigon Disunity” future history: it was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. The series continued with Enigma (1986) and concluded with Empery (1987). Other novels include the juveniles Thieves of Light (1987. writing as Michael Hudson) and Odyssey (1987), the first book in the pioneering project Isaac Asimov’s Robot City.
Kube-McDowell’s latest work is the highly-praised novel Alternatives, a “cross- time revisionist-science altemate-present- political-thriller love story.”
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A transplanted Easterner, GREGORY KUSNICK was born in New York State, studied computer science at Columbia and Harvard, and spent ten years as a designer of word processing and electronic publishing software in California’s Silicon Valley. Since 1983 he has worked freelance, commuting by modem from his home in the Gold Rush town of Sonora. California, 120 miles east of San Francisco in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
As a Science Fiction writer, Kusnick is fairly new on the scene: his stories have appeared sporadically in Analog since 1986, to favorable reviews from Locus and Fantasy Review. His main interest, as a writer and reader, is in realistic SF that combines the strong literary values of modern fiction with the scientific rigor of traditional hard SF.
BRIN-MARIE LANDERMAN is one really groovy chick. People who know her know that she is the hard-working Secretary of the MythAdventures Fan Club, as well as the assistant editor of its clubzine, MythInformation. And eccentric recluse. Brin spends most of her time catching up on Days of Our Lives when she isn’t huckstering her live away on the convention train, writing articles for MythInformation. or otherwise pursuing fannish interests.
JULIA LAQUEMENT lives and works in Seattle as a French-Canadian in exile. Intending to work in Science Fiction and Fantasy illustration someday, she earns her bread- and-butter in comics. Hercredits include The Longbow Hunters graphic novels, Green Arrow, Maze Agency, Sable, Jon Sable, Freelance and others. She is currently working on the James Bond and the Peter Pan graphic novels. Her own work is mainly Fantasy watercolors and Drinking Dragon nametags. Her major work this year is marrying the Desert Peach in August.
MEGAN LINDHOLM lives in Roy, Washington with her three children and her husband Fred. Her writings include the books The Reindeer People and Wolf’s Brother, a two-part novel which came out from Ace in 1988, and The Luck of the Wheels, another book in the continuing story of Ki and Vandien. When she is not writing, she enjoys working in her garden and on her small farm.
MARK MANNING lives in Seattle, where he publishes fanzines named Tand and Vergerider. He frequently contributes copy to other people’s fanzines, and then nepotistically reviews these self-same fanzines for Westwind. A music reviewer and published poet who attended Clarion West SF writer’s workshop in 1986, he hosted a SF radio talk show (Fast Forward) on KBCS-FM in 1987/ 88. This is the only B&W photo of Mark available; he’s the one on the rightjudging a Masquerade entry at a con in 1956.
DIANE MAPES is a Seattle writer currently working at the University of Washington. Her work has appeared in several magazines, including Northwest Writers and Argos Fantasy and Science Fiction. She is a graduate of Clarion West and for the past few months has been serving as the new editor of Argos.
Photo Copyright 1989 by Nina K. Hoffman
Published in Isaac Asimov’s SF magazine, SF Chronicle, and Analog, CYN MASON edited the infamous anthology of Pacific Northwest Science Fiction, Wet Visions. She’s living happily ever after in West Seattle with her husband Dave Meyer, morning host on KPLU-FM and their cat. Ms. “Refridgerator door opening.” (She’s named for what she responds to.)
JULIAN MAY' latest books are Surveillance and Metaconcert, paperback versions of a bisected meganovel, Intervention. She is at work on Jack the Bodiless and collaborating with Andre Norton and Marion Zimmer Bradley on a Fantasy, Black Trillium. May lives in the state of Washington.
BRIDGET MCKENNA is a copywriter and technical writer for Sierra Online, a software developer specializing in computer games. She also designs computer games. Her fiction has appeared in Writers of the Future, Volume II and Pulphouse Report. Her Science Fiction shared world, Roadhouse, will be edited by Michael A. Banks sometime in 1989. She is married to artist and game designer Douglas Herring, with whom she shares a house in Oakhurst, California and an exponentially increasing numberofcats. She has recently completed a young-adult Science Fiction novel, and is currently at work on a Mystery.
Though primarily a scrimshaw artist, KATHERINE L. MCLEAN also works with a wide variety of illustration and painting techniques and materials. As a professional artist her work has mainly been in the engineering field where she has illustrated proposed dams and other projects.
Katherine currently works for The Washington State Department of Transportation.
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CARL MILLER’s education, regular and irregular, includes biology, geology, paleontology. anthropology, poetry, art. and alchemical hypnosis. His occupations and preoccupations include writing Fantasy novels, playing acoustic guitar, camping in the Cascades. reading Fantasy novels, petting cats, and occasional socializing at events like this one. His first novel. Dragonbound, is now available at bookstores everywhere, or if not, maybe you could protest and get them to special order it for you. His second, The Warrior and the Witch, should appear in early 1990.
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Frank Kelly Freas
GEORGIA MILLER (also known as Sasha) is the author of Three Ships and Three Kings, Priam’s Daughter, The Last Herales (all under the name of Georgia Sallaska), The Quest (under the name of G.S. Madden), and The Little White Dress. Her short fiction has appeared in Magic in Ithkar III, Tales From Witch World I, and F&SF (all under Sasha Miller). Her novel Three Ships and Three Kings was given the Best Novel of the Year Award (by an Oklahoman writer) by the Oklahoma Writer’s Federation and the Award of Merit from the Friends of American Writers. She has currently written a novel for Andre Norton’s Chronicles of Lormt Witch World series which will be published in 1989.
Georgia is a Clarion 1984 survivor and currently lives in San Jose, California, with her husband Ben and their feline children, Pandora Miller and Natasha Tiliana Irene Benova JenniferGrayCat Miller.
VICKI MITCHELL has been involved in Science Fiction for eleven years. She joined PESFA (Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association) in 1977 and soon became one the core members of the group. She is one of the founding members of MosCon and Writer’s Bloc (the Moscow Moffia.) She has been Treasurer of MosCons 1,2,5,6 and 7. the Art Show Director for MosCon 4. Membership Chair of MosCon 3, and Assistant Art Show Director at the 1984 Portland Westercon. Well-known in costuming circles, she has won prizes al many Northwest conventions for her costumes. In 1986. she won the Amazing Stories Calendar Story Contest and sold a short story to a mainstream anthology. She is currently working on short stories and her second novel. Vicki is married to Jon Gustafson, and is owned by a large, rather silly dog.
NANCY MORRIS is a feature screenwriter living in Seattle. She is co-author of the screenplay. Pursuit into Darkness, a thriller which is currently under option and scheduled to enter production sometime in late spring or summer. Besides writing. Nancy has directed short films. Her short film. The invitation was an award winner in Starlog’s Cinemagic Magazine Short Film Search. The film still makes the rounds on cable tv in New York City.
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SHARAN NEWMAN has finally decided to let you see what she looks like grown up. She has written one Irish and three Arthurian novels with a codicil. She had a fling on a book that is almost Science Fiction and is now working back somewhere in the Middle Ages. Europe’s, not her own. She is an Oregonian currently in exile in Southern California and thinks typical Seattle weather is beautiful. Otherwise, she is a fairly normal person.
STEVEN B. OLIVER is an accomplished public speaker and Science Fiction short story author. His latest. “The Waters of Time”, appeared in Amazing Stories.
Steven can be found near the smoking Pervish Punch Bowl of any Myth Adventures! party.
JERRY OLTION’s short stories appear frequently in Analog. He has published one novel. Frame of Reference, and has just completed book 10 in the Issac Asimov’s Robot City series. Jerry and his wife, Kathy, recently moved to Story. Wyoming, an idyllic little mountain town with an auspicious name.
“Modern-day minstrel” is a phrase often used to describe TANIA OPLAND. Her storytelling style of singing and melting-pot repertoire are trademarks of this versatile vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who draws on ballads. blues, work songs, modern songs of social commentary and personal growth, and songs that arc just for fun. In addition to her excellent Hat picking and finger picking on guitar, her performances can include mandolin, fiddle, madeocello, and recorder on dance lunes from Ireland, Scotland. America. Scandinavia. and Renaissance France.
RAY PELLEY is a full-time artist and screen printer living in Seattle. Ray is a Dharmic Engineer.
TED PEDERSON is Story Editor/Associate Producer on the animated Science Fiction series, Centurions, and has written over 100 TV scripts for such classics as The Bionic Woman, Flash Gordon, Spiderman, G.I. Joe, and The Smurfs. He has completed two computer books (non-fiction) and is currently working on a computer thriller (fiction). He lives in Venice, California with an assortment of computers, cats and (one) wife.
STEVE PERRY has had stories published in Omni, F&SF, Galaxy, Pulpsmith, Wings, Stardate, Other Worlds I, Weird Tales, Publisher’s Weekly and many others. His novels include The Tularemia Gambit, Civil War Secret Agent, The Man Who Never Missed, Matadora, The Machiavelli Interface, Conan the Fearless, and Conan the Defiant. He has also co-authored Sword of the Samurai, Hellstar, Dome, and The Omega Cage with Michael Reaves.
Perry and Reaves have also written screenplays for the animated series Centurions, The Real Ghostbusters, Chuck Norris - Karate Commandoes, The Spril Zone and U.S. Starcom.
This year will see the publication of Steve’s The Ninty-Seventh Step and Conan the Indomitable.
CHARLES PLATT is author of 32 books, some of them Science Fiction. 1989 titles include Free Zone (Avon) and Soma (New American Library). He is Science Fiction editor for Franklin Watts, a New York hardcover publisher, and teaches Science Fiction writing at UCLA in Los Angeles. He is a regular columnist for Fantasy and Science Fiction and Interzone magazines, and writes reviews intermittently for The Washington Post. His own little magazine, Science Fiction Guide, appears on an irregular basis.
TERESA PLOWRIGHT is the author of Dreams of an Unseen Planet, a first novel published by Arbor House. She lives in Vancouver and Corfu, and is finishing a second novel titled Into That Good Night. She was too creative to get much writing done last year.
PATRICK LUCIEN PRICE has been editor of Amazing Stories for the past three years and worked as managing editor of the magazine for four years prior to taking over its editorship. Until October 1988, Patrick was also the director of periodicals for TSR. Inc., and fiction editor of Dragon Magazine.
His nonfiction articles about Fantasy role-playing have appeared in Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home and Dragon. He recently co-edited with Martin H. Greenberg a collection of stories reprinted from the old Fantastic Stories magazines
When not busy editing Amazing Stories, Patrick devotes his time to researching and writing about his Ojibwa heritage.
ROB QUIGLEY majored in physics at Caltech and received his Ph.D from the University of California at Riverside. He worked at Illinois Tech and the University of Frankfurt (West Germany) before joining Western Washington University’s physics department in 1970. Since then his research has been in observational astronomy, making extensive observing runs at observatories in the Southwest and in Chile. He has organized astronomy summer workshops which drew high school students to W.W.U. from all over North America. In 1983 he was the organizer of the Northwest Astronomy Conference. He created the Stars and Planets board game produced by Yotta. Inc. He was the Scientist Guest of Honor at Moscon 8.
Rob’s primary astronomical research interests have been cataclysmic variables, binary stars, flare stars, and lunar occultations.
Photo Copyright 1989 by Paul Boyet
BILL RANSOM collaborated with Frank Herbert on the novels The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect, and The Ascension Factor (Ace/Putnam). He has also had many books of his poetry published and draws on his years working in Central America for his short stories. His new novel Rafferty will be published by Berkley this year.
Bill is the co-founder of Centrum, an arts foundation, In Port Townsend where he resides and is currently writing full-time.
ALIS RASMUSSEN is the author of The Labyrinth Gate, a Fantasy novel published by Baen Books. She is now working on the third book of a Science Fiction trilogy, which she really truly did not mean to be a trilogy when she started. It will be published by Bantam Spectra throughout 1990.
Although raised in Oregon, she currently has the dubious honor of living in San Jose. California, a circumstance which she hopes to remedy in the fairly near future if she can get her husband’s attention away from his new wargame long enough to get him into the car. She also has an 18-month old daughter, who thankfully is not yet old enough to play World in Flames (although she does roll the dice for her father).
MICHAEL REAVES is the author of ten novels, including Dragonworld, The Shattered World and its sequel, The Burning Realm. He has also written Dome and The Omega Cage with Steve Perry. He has had short stories published in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Twilight Zone and Universe, among others. He has written several comic books and over two hundred teleplays for such live-action shows as Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Power and Monsters. His animation work includes The Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Superman. He lives in Woodlawn Hills with his wife, Brynne Stephens, their daughter Mallory, and occasionally Diane Duane and Peter Morwood.
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RHEA ROSE, resident of Vancouver, B.C., and a 1984 Clarion West graduate has had a short story selected by Judith Merril, for the first Tesseracts anthology, and a second one selected for the Tesseracts 2 anthology (both are collections of Canadian Science Fiction). She swears that she is hard at work on her novel.
Photo copyright 1989 by Nina K. Hoffman
KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH is a writer of short fiction whose work has or will appear in The World’s Best Science Fiction 1989, Amazing Stories, Boy’s Life, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Aboriginal SF, and a few mainstream publications. She is also editor of Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine. For the past two years, she has lived in Eugene, Oregon, with three very mischievous cats.
Photo by Dale W. Blindheim
After living in Alaska for 15 years, ELIZABETH SCRABOROUGH decided to get away from the snow. Little did she know. Her 8th novel, The Healer’s War, is a serious religous realistic Fantasy loosely based on her experiences as an Army nurse in Viet Nam. This novel is receiving much applause from the critics and even more from Viet vets, and some have found that this book is helping to exorcise their own personal demons.
Elizabeth is currently working on a Fantasy Trilogy called The Songkiller Saga.
Photo by Roy Schneider
STANLEY SCHMIDT, bom in Cincinnati and graduated from the University of Cincinnati. began selling stories while a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University, where he completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1969. He continued freelancing while an assistant professor al Heidelberg College in Ohio, teaching physics, astronomy. Science Fiction, and other oddities. (He was introduced to his wife. Joyce, by a serpent while teaching field biology in a place vaguely resembling that well-known garden). He has contributed numerous stories and articles to magazines and original anthologies including Analog, Asimov’s, F&SF, Rigel, Habitats, American Journal of Physics, and Writer’s Digest.
Since 1978, as editor of Analog, he has been nominated nine limes for the Hugo award for Best Professional Editor. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the National Space Society, and has been an invited speaker at national meetings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Association of Physics Teachers. In his writing and editing, he draws on a varied background including extensive experience as a musician, photographer, traveler, naturalist, outdoorsman. pilot, and student of languages. Most of these influences have left traces in his fourth novel, Tweedlioop, first published by TOR in 1986 and released in 1988 as a mass market paperback. (The other three are The Sins of the Fathers, Newton and the Quasi-Apple, and Lifeboard Earth. Baen Books last fall released an anthology of Fantasy stories from Unknown which he naively hopes will lead to a revival of that unique Fantasy magazine, and an article, “The Ideas That Wouldn’t Die,” is scheduled for the February Writer’s Digest. He is presently attempting to learn Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian in preparation for a forthcoming concert tour of Eastern Europe with the Danbury (Connecticut) Symphony Orchestra.
ROB SCHOUTEN is a visionary painter from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, who lives and works on Whidbey Island. With fellow artists Ray Pclley and Milo Duke is he part of the Dharmic Engineers and dedicated to consciousness-raising art. expressing the oneness and interconnectedness of all life. His work has been exhibited at SF conventions and in various galleries on the West Coast.
T.A. SCOTT is a writer of Fantasy and Science Fiction short stories and screenplays for independently produced videos. He is also involved in Fantasy game design and created the Environlords Game Systems, and is a performing magician and Tarot reader. He lives in Salem. Oregon with his wife and three children.
CAROL SEVERANCE has had stories published in Tales of the Witch World, Volume I, Magic in Ithkar, Volume 4 and Dragon Magazine. Stories are also scheduled for Tales of the Witch World, Volume 4 and The Twilight Kingdom. Her Fantasy play, Sail to the Edge of the Moon will be produced by the University of Hawaii at Hilo Theatre next spring. Currently, Carol is working on her third Science Fiction novel. She shares her Hilo, Hawaii home with a surfer, an anthropologist, and an undetermined number of geckos.
ERLINDA SILLER is a disciple and founder of the Edward Luena’s church of perpetual art work. An artist in her own right, she’s founded the church in order to keep a promise to a friend not to let people on the convention circuit forget him while he’s in Japan for four years. Her motto is: I don’t kiss ass. but I do suck toes. She’s also the treasurer of the MythAdventures Fan Club, and has played in the Amateur Doctor Who movie “The Zombie Legions”, and also in its sequel “Those Darn Daleks”. She loves creating things, from drawing to making clay faces for latex masks, to sculpy statues.
SHARON SINCLAIR is an historian whose research has ranged from the sacred snake of Asclepius to NASA’s space medicine program. She has a specialized interest in the history of astrology and enjoys compiling bibliographies. She is a poet whose current projects also include historical novels, classical space operas and futuristic police procedures.
A Seattle native, MARK a. SKULLERUD has studied art at Seattle Community College and WWU and has had private instruction under Gene Connelly. As an illustrator/de- signer for a nation-wide design firm, he has done domestic and commercial architectural illustration and illustrations for layouts ofjet interiors.
Recipient of many convention art show awards, including Best of Show and best body of SF work, Mark has had his work shown on KING-TV’s Good Company as part of a presentation of Science Fiction in the Northwest, featuring Frank Herbert.
DAVID SMEDS is the author of two novels. The Sorcery Within (Ace Books), and its sequel, The Schemes of Dragons (March, 1989). He has sold short fiction to anthologies such as In the Field of Fire, Far Frontiers, Volume 6, Dragons of Light, Sword & Sorceress 4 & 5; to such magazines as Isaac Asimov’s, Inside Karate, Genesis, Lui, Mayfair, and Club; and to Faeron Education’s series of booklets for remedial reading classes. He is currently the English-language rewriter for Justy, a Japanese SF graphic story miniseries being released in the U.S. by VIZ Comics.
D. ALEXANDER SMITH, Senior Vice President of The Boston Financial Group Incorporated and nationally known writer and lecturer on real estate finance, is the author of the novels Marathon (Ace 1982), and Homecoming (forthcoming from Ace), and has also had articles published on wargame strategy.
Rendezvous is a nominee for this year’s Philip K. Dick Award.
David and his wife Nancy reside in Cambridge, Ma.
Photo copyright 1989 by Nina K. Hoffman
DEAN WESLEY SMITH has sold over two dozen professional level short stories to such places as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Oui Magazine, Gem Magazine, Writers of the Future Volume I), Clarion Awards, The Horror Show, Night Cry, and Amazing.
His first novel, Laying the Music to Rest, will appear this next year from Warner Books and he is now madly working on two more.
Dean is the publisher of (and sometimes slush reader for) Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine and the new owner and publisher of Axolotl Press books. He also edits and publishes The Report, a writer’s magazine.
LITA R. SMITH-GHARET has been working with fossilized Ivory for over thirteen years and her work as appeared in several world trade magazines such as The Lapidary Journal and Rock and Gem. Lita’s work has also been featured in over 50 newspapers across the country. She has received numerous awards for her artwork from local, national and international shows.
Lita has owned and operated several fine art galleries and is the owner of the Steel Eagle Agency.
As a costumer, Lita has won many Best of Show awards and has sold her work to muzzle loaders. Indian dancers, equestrian shows, bikers, dancers and Science Fiction fans since 1975. She is the founder of The Northwest Customers Guild, and a past seneschal in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Photos of her costumes have appeared in Locus.
This year SARA STAMEY closely encountered Sasquatch while roaming her native Northwest mountains. Among other recent highlights was the publication of her latest SF novel, Win, Lose, Draw by Ace, sequel to Wild Card Run. Doubles Blind, the third book in the series (not a trilogy!) - featuring a future gambler/tumed spy/tumed resistance agent against a repressive cybernetic network - will be out soon. A former nuclear reactor control operator, Sara now teaches Scuba when she can escape to the Caribbean. She is currently at work on a near-future novel set in Greece.
KEVIN STANDLEE is President of the MythAdventures Fan Club, and directed and played the lead in the amateur Doctor Who movie “The Zombie Legions”, and directed its sequel, “Those Darn Daleks”. Currently, Kevin is attending conventions around the U.S. promoting the MythAdventures Fan Club Kevin lives in Chico, California, where he has completed his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from California State University, Chico. He helped found and is former Secretary of the SCUC Doctor Who Fan Club and Science Fiction Association.
J.T. STEWART is an accomplished poetess. She has been a panel participant at the various cons taking place in the upper left-hand corner of the map (Orycon, V-Con and Norwescon.)
BRYNNE STEPHENS is best known for her work in television, having written for shows such as He-Man, Dungeons and Dragons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the new Beany and Cecil. She was the story editor on the animated Science Fiction scries Starcom, and co-editor, with Diane Duane, of Dinosaucers. She has also written comic books, computer games and two novels. She is currently working on a mainstream Horror novel entitled Private Demons. She lives quite happily, thank you, in Woodlawn Hills with her husband, Michael Reaves, her daughter, Mallory, and a rotating stream of peripatetic writers.
JOHN E. STITH is the author of Scapescope, Memory Blank, Death Tolls, and the February Ace release, Deep Quarry, which features a wise-cracking private detective, archaeology, and alien artifacts.
He writes a review and comment column on Science Fiction Mysteries for Mystery Scene magazine: “Mean Streets. Mad Scientists.” In 1987, he appeared on Science Fiction * Science Fact: [SF], a one-hour live PBS telecast.
Redshift Rendezvous due in 1990 from Ace is a mix of hard Science Fiction and Suspense, set primarily on a hyperspace craft voyage. It relies heavily on relativity. Aboard the Redshift, light travels so slowly you can see its passage, and relativistic phenomena occur at walking and running speeds.
He lives in Colorado Springs.
SCOTT STOLNACK’s fiction and poetry has been published in Issac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and a number of regional literary magazines, including Sky Views and Copula. He is vice-chair and membership director of Clarion West, Inc., and in 1987 served as committee chairperson for the Clarion West Writers' Workshop. He’s never worked a shrimp boat in theTexas Gulf but he has taught karate, served time as a sergeant in the Marines, and traveled around Britain and Ireland by bicycle. He lives in Seattle.
CHERI STREIMIKES has been an artist as a personality trait the way some people are nervous, or some people like sweet things, for as long as she can remember. Sometimes she paints, sometimes she sews strange things, sometimes she sculpts, sometimes she makes videos, sometimes she plays the synthesizer and sometimes she just looks at things in associative ways.
Her work has been seen at conventions up and down the coast and in galleries that accept the odd piece, the image bizzare.
BRUCE TAYLOR has had stories published in New Dimensions 9 and 10 edited by Robert Silverberg, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, and was featured reader in 1981 Bumbershoot festival in Seattle. His material has been translated into German by UTOPROP Literary Art Agency.
Bruce spent the summer of 1986 traveling in Europe and was writer in residence and Shakespeare and Company. Paris where he got in numerous verbal altercations with intellectual wierdos and third-rate midget Hemingways. While there, he was filmed by NBC as he gave a reading of his short stories and managed to get censored (but that’s another story. Film at eleven).
A story of his, (“Popcorn”) published in Pulphouse (Fall edition, 1988) was nominated for the Nebula Ward. Another story was published in Twilight Zone. He is also on the board for Clarion West. When no writing, Bruce pays the rent by working on the inpatient psych unit at Harborview as a Tour Guide Through Existential Nightmares and tries to tell the difference between patients and government officials.
Bruce is a surrealist writer and regards his work as the written form of Dal i paintings. Melted watches, anyone?
LYNNE TAYLOR has been participating in SF conventions for over 8 years and her humorous pen-and-ink drawings have attracted enthusiastic response. Her artwork has appeared in F&SF and Space and Time, Fantasy Tales (England), Westwind and will soon be appearing in Dungeon. Lynne has also been featured on the covers of Signature and Nor’Westing magazines. In 1986, her penguin cartoons were published as a calender. She has served as Art Director for a printing firm and two national outdoor magazines and is currently co-owner of Norwc.st Fine Art Press, a company specializing in printing limited edition fine art prints.
Please note: the above photograph was taken before Lynne’s facelifts.
AMY THOMSON is a freelance writer who reviews books for The Seattle Times, and is currently at work on a novel. With any luck at all. it will be finished before the year 2000.
BRIAN TILLOTSON helped start Space Research Associates, Inc., where he designs space propulsion systems and solar power satellites. He has degrees in physics (minor in biology) and electrical engineering, and is finishing a doctoral thesis on making robots that learn from experience. To see whether it’s finished yet. call him Dr. Tillotson. If he screams, cries or attacks you, then it’s not.
Brian has publ ished technical articles on spaceflight and artificial intelligence, plus a piece of nonfiction Fantasy in Dragon Magazine. When he grows up, Brian wants to found a republic in outer space.
Photo by Michael Citrak
WILLIAM R. WARREN JR. has had his art published in the Ballantine Star Trek Concordance, Minus 10 and Counting, and Analog. William did the cover illustration for Analog that inaugurated the serialization of Fredrik Pohl’s The Coming of the Quantum Cats.
Photo by Steven Bryan Bieler
DEBORAH WESSELL writes speeches, grants, business articles, and the odd short story. Some of the latter appeared in Seattle Review and the Seattle Weekly, and two more are slated for Asimov’s. She is a graduate of Clarion West in '88. and her dust jacket jobs include washing frogs for Science, splitting dewey decimals for Microsoft, and playing Darth Vanna for the Clarion Auction.
Photo copyright 1989 by Nina K. Hoffman
LORI ANN WHITE was born and raised in the Northwest, and received her BA in Eng- lish/Creative Writing from the University of Idaho in 1985. Currently, she is living in Sunnyvale, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, and soaking up Tech-Speak with fellow SF writer Gary W, Shockley. She attended Clarion in 1983. and workshops sponsored by the Writers of the Future in 1986 and 1987. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Writers of the Future, Volume III, Pulphouse, Pulphouse Reports, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Z Miscellaneous. Forthcoming are poetry and fiction in Narcopolis and Other Poems, and Full Spectrum, Volume II.
Photo by Thom Walls
RICHARD WRIGHT is a former Chairman of Norwescon and the Northwest Science Fiction Society, and has worked on programming for the Austin and Phoenix NASFiCs. He has been an award-winning costumer, and now judges masquerades (when he doesn’t MC them). Richard has also become known as an SF&F art buyer, and often participates in convention programming. During the week, he is a computer consultant for a major company, and has written two textbooks and numerous articles in that field. Richard has been known to visit a parly or two, too.
(Artwork) The Burning Realm Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Michael Reaves, published by Baen Books.
(Artwork) Cyteen III Copyright 1989 by Don Maitz. Cover for the book by C. J. Cherryh, published by Warner Books.
(Artwork) Taken to Task Copyright 1989 by Janny Wurts. Cover for the book Dragon’s Knight by Carol L. Denis, published by Popular Library.
(Artwork) No Aliens Copyright 1989 by Ken Macklin. Cover for Fusion #8 published by Eclipse.
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Vincent DiFate
(Artwork) Pterodactyl Copyright 1989 by Randy “Tarkas” Hoar.
(Artwork) GhostHunt Copyright 1989 by Ken Kelly. Cover for the book by Jo Clayton, published by DAW Books.
(Artowrk) Copyright 1989 by Cheri Streiniikes.
(Artwork) Robot Geisha Copyright 1989 by Lynne Taylor
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by John Alvarez.
(Artwork) Apprentices Copyright 1989 by Armand Cabrera
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Frank Kelly Freas
(Artwork) The Generic Rejuvination of Milo Ardry Copyright 1989 by William R. Warren, Jr. Originally published in Analog.
(Photo) Some of the volunteers who attended the Norwescon 11 Sneak Preview.
TIME
the devourer of all things.
-Ovid
A GROSS PROPHETS PRODUCTION
with a grant from the Addams Family.
(Artwork) Shadow Climber Copyright 1989 by Richard Hescox. Cover for the book by Mickey Zucker Reichert, published by DAW Books.
[Member list omitted]
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by William Rotsler
(Artwork) Fairie Tail?!! Copyright 1989 by Laura Brodian KeUy-Freas_
(Artwork) Orion Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Ben Bova, published by Simon & Schuster.
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by William Rotsler
(Artwork) Sun Dragon Copyright 1989 by Getsu-shin
(Artwork) Creation Copyright 1989 by Dresden Moss
ANNOUNCING
Carl Lundgren
THE PRINT CATALOG
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GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION and FINE ART
252 S ALDER STREET • PHILADELPHIA. PA 19107
Pictured: Elizabeth Warren, Debbie Stine, Debbie Tatarek, Janice Paulson, Richard Wright, Becky Simpson, Judy Suryan, Sue Bartroff, Peter Suryan, Craig Bowie, Mary Hamburger, Lauraine Miranda, Walter Jung, Chris McDonell, Kathy Smith, Kathy McLean, Carolyn Palms, Diane Villaflor, Michael Citrak, Keith Johnson, Pat Oros, Beth Dockins, Yvonne Richardson, Karen Hill, Mary Beth Zele, The Nose. Our apologies to those who did not get their photo included on these two pages due to various reasons. A listing of those people who have worked for many months on the convention can be found on page 1. There are even more who sign on in the last month and at the convention who cannot be listed here. They are hard workers all and deserve everyone’s gratitude.
Safeway Ice Cream Dept.
PNTA
Daniel Handa, City of Tacoma
Fannish Oympics Sponsors;
Fantastic Fantasy Games and Toys
Software Pipeline
The Federal Building Cafeteria
Don’s Dungeon
Suspended Elevations
Gasworks Kite Shop
Ross Oneill
Sun Trophy
Great Winds Kite Shop
Dameon
Dragon
Copier and typewriters provided by H.D. Baker Co.
Special thanks for programming help: Arkadian Bookshop, Steve Bard, Dr. John G. Cramer, Kim Graham, Peter Henry, Karen Hill, Kendra Hunt, Mr. & Mrs. Charley C. Richardson, Becky Simpson, Bob & Judy Suryan, Amy Thomson, Shanonne Vaughn, Bill & Elizabeth Warren, Richard Wright.
ASFA: 19
Berkley/Ace: 5, 9, 13, 17
Discon III: 56, 57
Rustycon: Inside Front Cover
San Diego Comic-Con: 25
John Alvarez: 76
George Barr: 36
Armand Cabrera: 77
Vincent Di Fate: 71
Milo Duke: 43
Kelly Freas: 78
Richard Hescox: 44, 82
Ken Kelly: 73
Laura Brodian Kelly-Freas: 83
Carl Lundgren: 16, 37
Ken Macklin: 70
Don Maitz: 14, 68
David Mattingly: Cover, 2, 11, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 29, 31, 34, 67, 84
Ilene Meyer: 38
Getsu-shin Moss: 86
Dresden Moss: 86
Ray Pelley: 41
William Rotsler: 33, 83, 85
John Sabotta: 8, 87
Rob Schouten: 42
Barclay Shaw: 35
Mark a. Skullerud: 39
Cheri Streimikes: 74
Randy “Tarkas” Hoar: 72
Lynne Taylor: 6, 75
William R. Warren Jr.: 79
Wendy Wees: 40
Michael Whelan: 45
Janny Wurts: 69
NORWESCON 11
MARCH 23–26, 1989
Algis Budrys
David Mattingly
Mike Glyer
Alan E. Nourse
Avram Davidson
Steve Barnes
March 23–26, 1989
Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction Convention
(Artwork) The Wizard of 4th Street Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Simon Hawke, published by Questar.
You have no doubt heard all the talk in the news media about drinking and driving. We hope that this public awareness has reached the members of SF fan conventions. If you plan to drink, PLEASE, PLEASE, do not drive. At the bar in Hospitality and in the Con Services Office there will be tags that say “PM DRIVING” at no charge. If you must leave the hotel, please wear one. This way we can all help you stay away from the bubbly (whatever for it takes).
There is another topic under the heading of responsible drinking which is a sometimes touchy subject…persons under 21 indulging in alcohol and other drugs. We, the NWC Con Committee, arc realistic enough to know that if a young adult is determined to drink, we will not always be able to stop them. Responsible imbibing (not getting falling down drunk - becoming a menace to yourself and everyone else in the hotel and on the highways) will not be noticed as much, and the heavy hand of the hotel detective and/or our Site Services head will not be felt. The ID required rule at NWC Hospitality Room will be strictly enforced. We have a Washington State Banquet License and this is to protect us from legal hassles. We want all of our members to have a good time at NWC, and we want you all to return home safely.
Room and Hall parties are a very important part of Fan Conventions. A few things to know to help make them more enjoyable and safe for everyone: Persons planning a room party must register said party with the Convention Services office in room 503. You must also list who the host/hostess is. Any open party not registered can be closed. Room and Hall parties arc restricted to the party floors. (No alcohol is allowed beyond these wings as well). If you are planning to have a room party, request lodging in one of the party floors. If you do not want to be anywhere near the parties, request quiet floors. A warning to room part hosts: We suggest you keep watch on who is grabbing a drink off the table or a beer from the tub. Ilie laws in Washington State say that if you were the supplier of alcohol to minors or to someone who is already drunk and they in turn go and hurt themselves or others, YOU TOO are responsible for THEIR actions. You can also be fined for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
For those fans who just can’t get enough we have late night room(s) set up with you in mind. Talking, filking, gaming… it’s up to you. If you want to gather with other fans the Wee Hours Room is the place to do it. Late night activities arc located in the South Center room(s) after the end of programming. (This room will close from 7am-10am for cleaning and reset.) These rooms are not for sleeping.
One word to say on this subject… Don’t.
Norwescon welcomes its young and future fans. We will have programming throughout the convention geared for different age groups. Also, for a nominal fee, we will have daytime programming for children under 12 in our Child Care Room for those times Mom and Dad want to go off on their own. Starting this year, Norwescon will provide a quiet room for the purpose of feeding, changing or resting a child.
Children 12 and under must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian at all times, unless in the Child Care Room; children 10 and under are not allowed in any after-midnight programming or Hospital ity. Children found unattended in public areas of the hotel will be taken to Child Care until picked up by their parents, who will be charged for the time Child Care has watched their children for them.
Teens 13 to 17 years of age must have an adult or adult guardian who is a Norwescon 11 member; said guardian must be on the premises at all times, and parents must sign a permission slip for minor to attend the convention. Permission slips can be obtained at the Registration tables.
Remember, parents are responsible for the safety and actions of their children at all times. These programs arc here to foster enjoyment for all Norwescon members, but primarily for the safety and well-being of the children. Young fans are welcome at Norwescon but are expected to behave or be cared for in a responsible manner.
If parents believe that their convention activities will be constrained by these responsibilities, Then Norwescon encourages the chidren be left at home under proper care.
Child Care will once again be open for children from three to twelve years of age. The younger ones must be potty-trained and have had pre-school or nursery school experience (your child needs to know how to play with others and be able to separate from you with a minimum of shrieking). This facility is a place where you can leave your children (for a fee) and go off and enjoy the convention.
Because of the large number of small children we serve, we have to close occasionally to revive the staff and to clean up the room. There fore, it is expected that you will return every two to four hours, pick up your children, and feed them something nutritious.
We have several tracks of programming that run constantly in these rooms, including video programming for separate age groups, crafts, special projects, and visits by our Guests of Honor. We hope to have a magician or storyteller to entertain our small guests, and have our annual costume parade and dance.
Once again, parents who participate will receive care at a lesser cost than parents who don’t participate. If you provide goods or service to our group, it will cost less to leave your children with us.
Since there are so many new babies and toddlers in our group this year, we arc opening an unsupervised room, near Child Care, where you must stay with your child. This room can be used for changing, napping, get-away-from-the-crowd room. This year the daycare staff will NOT be finding baby-sitters for children that do not meet our age requirements. There are just too few of us to help you out. If at all possible, find a sitter for that wee one, and leave him or her at home. You will both be happier.
During the convention there is another convention going on for the younger crowd: KIDKON. It is designed for children 12 and under and intended to be informative as well as entertaining.
Events include: Kids dance, Masquerade, Tours of behind the scenes activities, Costume making and Art Gallery. KIDKON is a part of Child Care and there is no extra fee beyond the child care fees. More information can be obtained at the Information Table.
There are two restaurants within the hotel. The coffee shop is open from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., during the convention except Sunday. The Rose Garden hours are Mon-Sat; lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Dinner 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. Elliot’s Bar has a soup and sandwich buffet 11:30 - 2:00 p.m. Warning: There is a dress code for the Rose Garden. Cotumes are not allowed. There will be a snack bar provided in the Bicetennial Pavilion Rotunda. The Sheraton will now be providing PIZZA via Room Service that can be delivered to any location within the hotel. The Pizza hours will be posted at the information table and in each sleeping room in the Sheraton.
The Cloak Room is a free service provided by the convention for the use of convention attendees. It is meant to be used for temporary storage of parcels, coats and bags, not as a substitute room or food locker. Please make other arrangements for these. We reserve the right to refuse any article.
NWC is not responsible for items left in the Cloak Room: use of the room is at your own risk. Be sure the room will be open during the hours you wish to retrieve your belongings BEFORE you leave them.
The Lost and Found hours are the same as the Cloak Room. During the time the Room is closed, lost items should be taken to the Convetion Office in Rooms 503/505 or to the Sheraton front desk. Lost ID badges should go to the Registration table or to rooms 503/505.
After the convention, inquires about lost items can be made to P.O. Box 24207, Seattle, WA 98124 or call [REDACTED]. Lost items will be kept until June 1, 1989.
As you probably already know, parking at this hotel is quite a problem. For those of you staying at the other convention hotels we have arranged for a shuttle service from these to the Sheraton. See schedule times below. In the meantime, park only in designated parking places. Check for a flyer in your program packet for any updates. There are several pay parking lots within a few blocks of the Sheraton. Anyone found double parking or blocking fire lanes will be subject to towing without notice.
Thursday 4–7pm / 10pm-2am
Friday 9am-12 Noon / 3–7pm / 10pm-2am
Saturday 9am-12 Noon / 3–7pm / 10pm-2am
Sunday 9am-12 Noon / 3–7pm
Pavilion Rotunda
Friday 9am-6pm
Saturday 9am-6pm
Sunday 9am-12 Noon, l:30–5pm
Pavilion
Friday llam-6pm
Saturday 10am-6pm
Sunday 10am-5pm
600, 602
Friday 10am-6pm
Saturday 10am-6pm
Sunday 10am-4pm
Main Lobby
Thursday 2–10pm
Friday 10am-
Saturday 9am-
Sunday 10am-
Lower Lobby
Thursday 2–6pm, 7pm-Midnight
Friday 9:30am-3pm, 4–7pm, 8pm-lam
Saturday 9:30am-3pm, 4–7:45pm, 10:30pm-lam
Sunday llam-5pm, 6–10pm
3rd Floor
Saturday llam-6pm
Sunday llam-6pm
(ID Required)
Executive Board Room, 3rd Floor
Thursday 5pm-2am
Friday 9am-2am
Saturday 9am-2am
Sunday 9am-Midnight
(see Child Care for prices)
510,514
Thursday By appointment
Friday l-5pm, 7–11pm (Pajama Party)
Saturday 9am-12 Noon, l-5pm, 7–11pm (Pajama Party)
Sunday 9am-5pm
509
Thursday 6pm-Midnight
Friday 12 Noon-Midnight
Saturday 10am-Midnight
Sunday 10am-8pm
604
Friday 10am-7pm
Saturday 10am-7pm
Sunday 10am-6pm
504,506,508
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Frank Kelly Freas
Titles followed by (K) are those that parents may find more suitable for younger children. Parents are encouraged to view any videos with their children to determine if the program is too intense. Not all programs are marked. (JA) stands for Japanese Animation.
Viewing rooms are listed here. Hotel rooms receive the same channels. Hotel personnel are to clean each viewing room in the morning, please leave the room so that they may do their work.
Starting time
3:00 pm Orange Road Kimagure: 1A (JA)
3:55 Buckaroo Banzai
5:40 Akira (JA)
7:45 Big Trouble in Little China
9:30 Innerspace (K)
11:35 RoboCop
1:30am The Lost Boys
3:10 Starman (K)
5:10 The Fly
6:50 Spaceballs
8:30 2001
10:55: 2010
12:55pm Bubblegum Crisis (JA)
1:50 Time Bandits (K)
3:50 Orange Road Kimagure:lB (JA)
4:45 Lilly C.A.T. (JA)
5:50 Gremlins (K)
7:40 Back to the Future (K) 10:00 Late Night Norwescon (K)
11:00 Aliens
1:30am Highlander
3:25 The Running Man
5:10 Howard the Duck (K)
7:05 Explorers (K)
8:55 Dragonslayer (K) 10:50 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (K)
12:45pm Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (K)
2:50 Gall Force (JA)
4:20 Macross: Do You Remember Love (JA)
6:25 Ghostbusters (K)
8:10 Live Showing of the Masquerade (K)
11:00 “Elvira” presents Son of Hercules meets Venus
1:15am Little Shop of Horrors
2:40 Mad Max
4:15 The Road Warrior
5:55 Beyond Thunderdome
7:45 DynaMan (K)
9:00 Live Good Morning Norwescon (K)
10:00 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (K)
12:05pm Star Wars (K)
2:00 Star Wars II: The Empire Strikes Back (K)
4:05 Star Wars III: Return of the Jedi (K)
6:20 Blade Runner
8:20 Raiders of the Lost Ark (K)
10:50 Alien
12:15am Aliens
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by William Roister
Starting Time
3:00pm The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
5:30 Urusei Yatsura: I (JA)
6:30 Max Headroom: Blipverts
7:20 The Prisoner: Episodes 1 & 2
9:05 The Prisoner: Episodes 3 & 4
10:50 The Prisoner Episodes 5 & 6
12:40am In the Company of Wolves
2:20 Dune
4:40 The Day of the Triffids
6:2 Octopussy
8:30 Kimagure Orange Road: IIB (JA)
9:20 The Prisoner Episodes 7 & 8
11:05 Urusei Yatsura: Only You (JA)
12:40pm The Prisoner Episodes 9 & 10
2:25 Dirty Pair: Affair of Nolandia (JA)
3:25 The Prisoner Episodes 11 & 12
5:10 The Prisoner: Episodes 13 & 14
6:55 Max Headroom: Rake Boarding
7:45 The Right Stuff
11:05 The Andromeda Strain
1:30am Fantastic Planet
2:50 Enemy Mine
3:40 The Terminator
5:30 Little Shop of Horrors
6:55 Innerspace (K)
9:00 Kimagure Orange Road: IIB (JA)
9:55 The Prisoner: Episodes 1 & 2
11:40 The Prisoner Episodes 3 & 4
1:25pm The Prisoner: Episodes 5 & 6
3:10 The Prisoner Episodes 7 & 8
5:00 Kimagure Orange Road: IIIA (JA)
5:50 The Prisoner: Episodes 9 & 10
7:35 Grey: Digital Target (JA)
9:05 The Prisoner: Episodes 11 & 12
10:50 The Prisoner Episodes 13 & 14
12:50am The Prisoner Episodes 15 & 16
2:35 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
5:10 Big Trouble in Little China
6:50 Starman (K)
8:50 Altered States
10:35 Tron
12:15pm Quest for Fire
2:00 The Day the Earth Stood Still
3:35 Forbidden Planet
5:20 Legend
6:50 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (K)
9:10 Silent Running (K)
10:40 Dark Star
12:10am The Shining
Starting time
3:00pm Labyrinth (K)
4:45 Ladyhawke (K)
6:50 Masters of the Universe (K)
8:35 The Princess Bride (K)
10:15 Time Bandits (K)
12:30am The Great Space Race (Science fact)
4:30 Buckaroo Banzai
6:15 Doctor Doolittle (K)
8:40 Urusei Yatsura: II (JA)
9:40 The Ewok Adventure (K) 12:00pm Batman
1:50 E.T. (K)
3:50 Star Trek Cartoons (K)
4:40 Dot and the Whale (K)
6:00 Jack and the Beanstalk (K)
7:35 Robot Carnival (JA)
9:20 Space Flight (Science Fact)
12:30am Space Flight: Part IV
1:30 Innerspace (K)
3:35 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (K)
5:55 Peewee’s Playhouse: Door (K)
6:20 Pinnochio (K)
7:25 Peewee’s Playhouse: Fun (K)
7:50 Peewee’s Big Adventure (K)
9:25 Urusei Yatsura: Lum the Forever
11:05 The Neverending Story (K)
12:50pm The Princess Bride (K)
2:30 In Search of the Wow Wow Wibble Wobble Wozzy Woodie Woo (K)
3:25 Labyrinth (K)
5:10 Computer Animation (Science Fact)
6:10 Joseph Cambell’s The Power of Myth: I
7:15 Joseph Cambell’s The power of Myth: II
8:20 The Great Space Race (K)
12:35am Cosmos: A Special Edition
5:10 Peewee’s Playhouse: Day (K)
5:35 Peewee’s Playhouse: Look (K)
6:00 Dynaman (K)
7:20 Peewee’s Playhouse: Okay & This (K)
8:10 Batteries Not Included (K)
10:00 Time Bandits (K)
12:00pm Ladyhawke
2:05 Masters of the Universe (K)
3:50 Joseph Cambell’s The Power of Myth: III
4:50 Back to the Future (K)
6:50 Buckaroo Banzai
8:35 Explorers (K)
10:25 Nova: The Brain
11:25 Nova: Test Tube Babies
(Artwork) Catspaw Copyright 1989 by Michael Whelan. Cover for the book by Joan Vinge, published by Warner Books.
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Ballroom 1 & 2 | The Shared World of Seattle | Waiting for Fame and Fortune | Observing Your Imagination | SFWA: What it Is, What it Does | Lagoon Seattle: Greenhouse Effect | Tax Laws and the Artist/Writer | Cartoonists' Jam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ballroom 3 | Reading: Bradley | Publishing in America | Make a Living as an Artist | Interview: Mike Glyer | Interview: Algis Budrys | Reading: Steve Barnes | Reading: Algis Budrys | The Alien as Messiah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ballroom 4 | Live Longer, Think Better | Pro Secrets From the Artists | AIDS: An Update | Advances in Life Extension | Monarch Mystics | The Art of Alicia Austin | Changing Face of the SF Con | When Books are Outlawed… | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
South Center | Costuming: Creating Personas | Writers of the Future | Anthology Reading I | Pulphouse Magazine | Fannish Olympics: Orient & Prelims | Reading: K. Anderson | Tragedy of the Week | An Evening of Music | Horror Readings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reading | Reading: Scarborough | Reading: Alcala | Reading: Ransom | Reading: Oltion | Reading: McKenna | Reading: Rusch | Reading: D. Smith | SF Radio | Reading: Scanlon | Reading: McGregor | Superscience '89 | Reading: Severance | Biotechnology | AA Gathering | |||||||||||||||||||||
Fanzine | Vampires, Computers, Et Al. | What's Ahead in the Game Universe | The Nameless: 40th Anniversary Party | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art Demo | Airbrush Techniques | Art Show Open Forum | More Airbrush Techniques | Art Demo: Sneak Preview | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conference | Writers' Workshop Vega | Writers' Workshop Sol | Writers' Workshop Sirius | Writers' Workshop Merak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gaming 1 | Top Gun Tournament | Lunch | KidKon II Gaming Round I | Steve Jackson Games / GURPS / Cliffhangers Tournament | Steve Jackson Games / GURPS / Cliffhangers Tournament | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gaming 2 | Uno Tournament Prelim | Diplomacy Tournament / Uno Tournament Prelim | Steve Jackson Games / GURPS / Cliffhangers Tournament | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gaming 3 | Top Gun Tournament | Open Gaming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other | Art Show Tour: Gustafson | Art Show Tour: David Mattingly | KidKon II Hotel Tour |
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Pavilion Backstage | Masquerade Technical Pre-Judging | Masquerade Winners' Reception | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pavilon Programming | KidKon II: Sat Morn Cartoonists | Shipping for Cynics | Breaking Into Screenwriting | Dragondrawing | Dragons and Other Sculptures | The Damon and Dan Show | Art Prints: The Real Story | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ballroom 1 & 2 | Destroying the World | Kipling in the 21st Century | Soviets in Space | Life, the Universe and Steve Barnes | After Challenger: Is the Dream Alive? | How to Survive Fame and Fortune | Writing Course in 55 Minutes | Regional Star Trek Conference | Contradance!!! | New Music Dance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ballroom 3 | WA Law | Buy Art, Buy Smart | How to Break Into Print | The Art of David Mattingly | Equal Rights for Artists | Interview: David Mattingly | Alligators in the Sewers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ballroom 4 | Mainstream vs. SF Publishing | The Evolution of Editing | Interview: Dr. Alan E. Nourse | Open Writers' Workshop | Eros in Orbit, Revisited | Gods in Space | Wormholes and Time Machines | Clarion West Reception | Clarion West Scholarship Auction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
South Center | Film Contest Prelims | Nanotechnology | Illustrators of the Future | Northwest Writers' Group | The Wake of Argos | Interview: Avram Davidson | SF and Self-Censorship | KidKon II: What do Kids Want? | SF's New Rock and Roll | The Changing of the Guard | The Empire of Elan Imperial Court | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reading | What is Clarion West? | Reading: G. Miller | Reading: Kimbriel | Reading: Platt | The Art of Lynne Taylor | Reading: Bieler | Reading: Salmonson | Reading: Beagle | Reading: C. Miller | The Art of Mark Skullerud | Reading: Killus | Reading: Baldwin | AA Gathering | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Fanzine | Educating Educators | Fannish Art | Minicon Conference | Zine Publication | Green Politics | Million Lives in One Lifetime | Amateur Press Associations | Mythadventures Fan Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art Demo | Chainmail Making | The Evolution fo Funny Animals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conference | Writers' Workshop Klaatu | Writers' Workshop Barada | Writers' Workshop Nikto | Writers' Workshop Alioth | Reading: Antieau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gaming 1 | KidKon II Gaming Round II | Lunch | Battletech Tournament / Dungeons and Dragons Tournament | Traveller Tournament | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gaming 2 | Uno Tournament Final | Lunch | Ghostbusters Tournament | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gaming 3 | Steve Jackson Darwinopoly Tournament | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other | Art Show Tour: For Artists Only | Art Show Tour: P. Clift | Art Show Tour: Dharmic Engineers | KidKon II: Prop Room Tour (Ages 12-16) | KidKon II Art Show Tour |
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Pavilion Back | Banquest and Philip K. Dick Award Ceremony | SCA Fight Simulation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ballroom 3 | Future of Art, Animation & FX | Fat, Feminism and Fandom - Next Step | Anthology Reading II | Reading: Dalmas | Volunteers'/GOH Party | Abuse Themes in SF & F | Onions and Roses | Closing Ceremonies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ballroom 4 | P.K. Dick Award Retrospec | Writing Collaborations | Reading: Perry | Look What They've Done to My Book, Ma | Reading: Caraker | Reading: B. Taylor | Bibliophlila Ultima | Occult Archetypes | Pictionary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
South Center | Film-Making on a Shoestring | Homemade Who: "The Zombie Legions" | Bulway-Lytton Bullpen | Reading: Stith | Dream Interpretation | My Life as a Toxic Waste Dump | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reading | Renaissance/Fantasy Betrothal | Reading: SF Poetry | Reading: M.J. Engh | The Alaskan Perspective | Reading: F.M. Busby | Science Fiction Convention League Meeting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fanzine | Fandom in 31 Flavors | Do Robots Attend Dataline Cons? | Wargames and Other Strategies | Running a "Pro" Fan Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Other | Easter Bonnet Parade - Lobby |
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Rena Bassilvergorian is the artist who created this month's frant and back cover. A professional belly dancer and an avid costumer, Rena has attended all but the first Norwescon. For the past six years, she has been staff artist for Ye Crier, the newsletter of the Society for Creative Anachronists, and co-editor of the same publication for a couple of years.
Editor: Robert Suryan
Art Editor: Doug Booze
Layout Editor: Judy Suryan
Printing: Michael Brocha
Typing: Sue BartroffJudy Suryan, Robert Suryan
Mailing Labels: Lauraine Miranda
October Collating: Sue Bartroff, Michael Brocha, Lauraine Miranda, Robert Suryan
CONTRIBUTORS: Sue Bartroff, Elisabeth Eldred,Jon Gustafson, M. Elayn Harvey, Mark Manning, Chris McDonell, Lauraine Miranda, Joe H. Palmer, Dora Shirk, Doug Shirk, Von L. Stevens
ART CREDITS: Andrew Bartroff, Robert Bartroff, Sue Barrtoff, Brad Foster, The Unknown Artist
BACK COVER: Rena Bassilvergorian
Just Another Tinsel Trimmed Christmas by Von L Stevens: Page 5
Kennings by Joe H. Palmer: Pages 6-7
Other Matters by Dora Shirk: Pages 8-9
Little Paper Faces by Mark Manning: Pages 9-10
Open Forum by Sue Bartroff: Page 11
Serpent's Tooth by Jon Gustafson: Page 12-13
Moscon X Review by Chris McDonell: Page 13
Reeltime by Doug Shirk: Page 14
Star of Wander by M. Elayn Harvey: Pages 16-19
Social: Page 3
Calendar: Page 3
Announcements: Page 4
Birthdays: Page 4
Personals: Page 4
Lauraine's Newsfs: Page 7
LoCs: Page 15
Book Review: Page 15
WESTWIND -- the newsletter of the Northwest Science Fiction Society. Issue No. 135, November 1988. Published by Northwest Science Fiction Society. Chairman: Judy Suryan (redacted). Vice-Chairman: Becky Simpson (redacted). Secretary-Treasurer: Sue Bartroff (redacted). Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher.
Contents copyright (C) 1988 for contributors by the Northwest Science Fiction Society. Westwind is mailed monthly to members of NWSFS, (redacted), SEATTLE, WA 98124. Memberships in NWSFS cost $12.00 ($15.00 for out of country - in U.S. funds only) per year including 12 months of Westwind. Advertising is accepted; must be received Camera-read by the 5th of the month prior to issue. Mail to NWSFS. Full page (7.5 x 10), $20: Half-page (7.5 x 5). $12: quarter page (3.5 x 5), $7: eighth page or business card, $5. NWSFS INFORMATION HOTLINE: (redacted).
Congratulations to Chris McDonell for bravely volunteering to host the New Year's Social on Dec 31/Jan 1.
First some caveats. Chris has a cat and allows no smoking in the house. Overnighters are welcome but it will be B.Y.O.E. (everything). And don't arrive before 5:00 p.m. Pot luck begins at about 7:00 p.m.
Activities planned for this social are: Boffo fireworks show at midnight, Go tourney (Chris says: "Honest, I promise this year."), VCR, The Wall of Sound for dancing, Asteroids, pinball and lasers.
Chris' address is (redacted), Lynnwood. Phone: (redacted).
Remember, if you are planning on drinking, please do plan to pack your teddy dragon & asprin and spend the night.
December 2-4,1988: TROPICON VII. Lauderdale Surf Hotel & Marina, Fort Lauderdale, FL. GoH's Poul Anderson, Walt Willis, Karen Anderson, Madeleine Willis. Memb. $20 until Nov. 1. Info: South Florida Science Fiction Society, (redacted), Fort Lauderdale, FL 33307.
Jan 6-7, 1989: KNIGHTCON. GoH Vonda N. McIntyre. Memb. $12 to 12/1/88. $15 at the door. Info: (redacted), Monroe, WA 98272.
Jan 20-22, 1989: RUSTYCON SIX. Sea-Tac Hyatt. (redacted). Rooms $55/night + tax. GoH Jack Chalker, AGoH Kelly Freas, FGoH Richard Wright. $21 to 12/31/88, $25 at the door. Info: (redacted), Seattle, WA 98146. (redacted).
February 10-12, 1989: VIKINGCON X. Parks Motel, Bellingham, WA SGoH Robert Forward, FGoH Terry Whyte.
February 17-19, 1989: WISCON 13. Holiday Inn Southeast, Madison. GoHs Gardner Dozois, Pat Cadigan. Memb. $20 to 1/31/89, $25 at the door. Info. (redacted), Madison, WI 53701-1624. (redacted).
March 23-26, 1989: NORWESCON 11. Tacoma Sheraton. Memb. $26 to 3/1/89, $30 at the door. $3 discount for NWSFS members. Agoh David Mattingly, FGoh Mike Glyer, TM Steve Barnes. Info: (redacted), Seattle, WA 98124
March 24-26, 1989: S.T. CON '89. Marlborough Inn, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Memb. $10 to 12/31/88, $15 to 3/23/89, $20 at the door. GoH Diane Carey, Gregory Brodeur, Sandy Fries. Info: (redacted), Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2K-OV4.
May 5-7, 1989: ANGLICON II. Hyatt Seattle Hotel. GoHs Michael Keating & Mark Ryan. Memb. $30 to 12/31, 1988, $35 -1/1/89 -3/31/89, 1989, $40 therafter. Info: Anglican II, (redacted), Kirkland, WA 98034-8207.
May 26-28, 1989: V-CON 17. Totem Conference Center, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C. GoHs Robert Sheckley, Spider Robinson, Jeanne Robinson, TM Bob Shaw. $16 ($14 US)to 11/30/88. $18 ($16 US) to 3/31/89. Info: (redacted), Dentall Centre, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, V7X 1A2.
June 30, July 1-2, 1989: CONTEXT '89. Lister Hall, U of Alberta. GoH William Gibson, Fantasy GoH Charles de Lint, AGoHs Diane and Leo Dillon, SGoH Dr. Brad Thompson. Memb. $20 to 6\89, $25 at the door. Info: (redacted), Edmonton, AB T6E 5G5.
August 11-13, 1989: ZERO G, A RELAXCON. Cavanaugh's Motor Inn, Moscow, ID. GoH John Dalmas, FGoH Jon Gustafson. Memb. $10 to 2/1/89, $12 to 8/1/89, $14 at the door. Info: (redacted), Moscow, ID 83843.
August 25-27, 1989: DRAGONFLIGHT '89. Gaming Convention, Bellermine Hall, Seattle University. Memb. (Dragonflight + Con.) $18 to 12\11\88. Info: (redacted), Seattle, WA 98111. (redacted).
August 31-September 4, 1989: NOREASCON III/47TH WORLD SF CONVENTION. Sheraton-Boston/Hynes Convention Ctr., Boston, MA GoHs Andre Norton, Ian & Betty Ballantine. FGoHs The Stranger Club. Memb. $50 (children $30) to 9/7/87, ($20 supporting). For info. Noreascon 3, (redacted), MIT Branch P.O., Cambridge, MA 02139.
October 6-8, 1989: BANFF INTERNATIONAL 89. Banff Parks Lodge, Banff, Alberta. GoH Brian Aldiss, AGoH Vincent Di Fate, FGoH Mike Glicksohn. Memb. $25 ($21 US) to 1/1/89. Info: (redacted), Red Deer, Alberta T4N 5H3, or (redacted) Moscow, ID 83843.
The monthly Book-Movie Review group meeting to discuss Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions and the movie, ALIEN NATION, has been rescheduled to Friday January 13, 1989 at the Suryan's. Munchies are welcome.
Moscow Moffia Writers' Program presents a writer's seminar the evening of Wednesday, March 22, 1989, in Eugene, Oregon at C. Wiliker's Grill on Coburn Road from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. Cost is $25.00. Guest speaker is Patrick Lucien Price. Info: (redacted), Moscow, Id. 83843 or call Jon Gustafson, program director, (redacted).
IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The Rustycon childrens and registration policies previously published have been revised. Below are the updated policies. Please read them and tell your friends who'll be attending the con about them. If you have any questions, please call (redacted).
We reserve the right to require that legal I.D. be presented at the discretion or request of a convention official to determine if a person meets the age requirements of the childrens policy. We request that all members provide the convention with a real (Mundane) name at the time of registration. Failure to do so will result in not being admitted to the convention.
Birthdays For the Month of December
Mike Raabe: Dec 1
Paul Schaper: Dec 2
Jerry "Mom" Lorent: Dec 3
Thomas Monahan: Dec 3
Dave Grinles: Dec 5
Peter Kafka: Dec 5
Sharon Lind: Dec 5
Greg Cox: Dec 9
Angela Suryan: Dec 11
Irene Vaughn: Dec 12
Mark Anacker: Dec 15
Karen Whitaker: Dec 26
Autumn Grieve: Dec 29
Keith Johnson: Dec 30
Rae Chamberlain: Dec 31
Santa Claus seeking jollies. Looking for willing reindeer and/or elves who are into French Culture. Have room for rent at Rustyron at 1/4 cost. Call Bob at (redacted).
by Von L Stevens
Jessica popped another starlite mint into her mouth, savoring the peppermint taste of Christmas. These were her favorite candies, not just because of the pleasant memories of holidays past, but also because of their name...'starlite mint', it made her feel as though she were enjoying something that originated on some alien world.
Ah, enough wishful thinking, time to get back to work! With that thought she started the vacuum on which she had been leaning and got busy on the office.
Janitorial duties are not for everyone, however they suited Jessica just fine. As a matter of fact, she felt quite lucky that she was not one of the Business men or women who flooded the building every morning. Their lives were so hectic, and they were always in such a hurry that she felt very sorry for them. Rush, rush, rush, they were all trying to climb the same ladder, and they were stepping on each other in the process. So intent were they on some distant goal that they were oblivious to the beauty and magic surrounding them. Why, just for example, it had snowed for the first time today, Christmas Eve, and Jessica was positive that not one of them was aware of the power of a Christmas snow! They were more likely to find it a nuisance then to take joy in it at all!
"What ever happened to the time when people saw magic in their world and respected it?" Jessica asked no one. "To the old ways when the wife set out a saucer of milk each night for the wee folk? Oh, they didn't need it, to be sure, but it did make them feel good to be thought of."
Jessica shut off the vacuum, unplugged it, and left the now immaculate office. Pushing her cleaning cart and vacuum down the hallway, she paused to look out over the city. She had a spectacular view, as she was on the top floor in the executive offices, and one entire wall of the hallway was made of glass. The city lights stretched for miles, their usual twinkle enhanced by the multi-colored glow of holiday decorations. Looking at it, she thought that it was like a fairy tale galaxy, all dressed up in its finest gown, ready for some stellar ball.
"But tonight the magic won't end at midnight!" she said, and the idea made her smile as she continued on to the company president's office and opened the door.
A man sat behind the desk. His head was bent over his work, and a tired frown was on this face.
"Why, hello Mr. Lindon, you're still here."
"Oh hello Jessie, is it so late already?"
"I'm afraid it is Mr. Lindon, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself too, working so late on a Christmas Eve."
"Maybe so Jessie, Maybe so, but I'll be here tomorrow too. Christmas for me is just another day that has a bit of tinsel trimming added."
"Oh no sir, its a magical day!"
"Sometimes I wish I could see the world the way you do Jessie," Mr Lindon said with a sad smile, "but you're right about one thing, I ought to be getting home. Good night Jessie."
"Good night Mr. Lindon, and Merry Christmas!"
He paused, surprised, "Thank you Jessica, and Merry Christmas to you too!"
After finishing the office, Jessica shut off the vacuum cleaner and pushed it into the hallway. Just as she was about to close the door, she noticed that the lights on the little Christmas tree in the comer had burned out.
"Oh! This will never do!" she exclaimed, and muttering a few quick words under her breath, she gave a little nod in the direction of the tree. In the comer, the colored lights began to blink on and off, illuminating the room in soft pastels. "There, that's better!" she said, and shut the door.
On his way home, Mr. lindon smiled at the beauty of the city on a snow cover Christmas Eve.
Joe H. Palmer
"I can still make the flames burn up or die; it is one of the simplest of magics, the most easily learned, the last forgotten." So muses the aged Merlin, in the prologue to Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave. For people who actually look at the sky, there is also "the most easily learned, the last forgotten"; it is the group of seven northern stars known variously as the Septentrion, or the Plough, or the Big Dipper. Many who know no other pattern in the entire sky can recognize the Big Dipper.
Certainly it is a distinctive group; seven conspicuous stars fairly well matched in brightness, though the one where the handle joins the bowl is distinctly fainter than the others. Probably it is significant that there are seven stars in the pattern. for that number has had a special magic in Western cultures for millennia. And surely it helps that knowing this particular group can be defended as "useful" in this sometimes overly-practical world. For the line between the westernmost two stars, at the end of the bowl, can be extended for five times their separation to locate another moderately bright star: one high above the North Pole of the spinning Earth, most commonly known as Polaris, or the North Star.
Four hundred years after Copernicus the common speech still treats the Earth as the center of the Universe, and we speak of "sunrise" and "sunset". As James Branch Cabell once put it, "...we wax sagacious over state elections and the children's progress at school and the misdemeanors of the cook, and other trivialities which accident places so near the eye that they seem large: and we care not a button that all about us flows and gyrates unceasingly an endless and inconceivable jumble of rotary blazing gas and frozen spheres and detonating comets, where through spins Earth like a frail midge." Seventy years later we still have many who seem terrified by the immense reach of space and depth of time disclosed by our understanding of astronomy, geology, paleontology, and other sciences. I sometimes wonder if this cosmic version of acrophobia (fear of heights) or agoraphobia (fear of open spaces)is the real reason behind America's virtual cessation of the exploration of the Solar System, and the simultaneous turn from rationality toward credulity, cults, and mysticism.
In such an intellectual, if that is the appropriate word, climate, I suppose it isn't surprising that almost no one questions why we happen to have a fairly bright star nearly (not exactly) above the Earth's North Pole. In fact, quite a few seem to take it for granted that Polaris, because of its significance for (northern hemisphere) human affairs, must therefore be the brightest star in the sky. It isn't, of course; in fact Polaris isn't even among the forty brightest stars and just barely makes it into the list of the brightest fifty.
There is nothing comparable to Polaris over the South Pole of the Earth. Sigma Octanis is about as far from the South Pole of the sky as Polaris is from the North, but Sigma Octanis is nearly 25 times fainter than Polaris and is detectable to the unaided eye only if you are well away from streetlights and have a moonless night with little or no haze. The closest star to the South Pole of Earth's sky which is comparable in brightness to Polaris is Beta Carinae; slightly brighter than Polaris but more than twenty degrees or two thirds the length of the Big Dipper from the pole.
The specification of "the South Pole of Earth's sky" may have seemed over-precise, but now I want to talk about the pole stars of the other planets, so the distinction seemed worth making. The rotational axes of the other planets are not very close to parallel to the Earth's, or to each other; so each planet has its own North and South Poles in the sky and its own possibilities for Pole stars. Planets behave like gyroscopes, by the way, in that their axes always point in the same (almost) unchanging direction with respect to the distant stars, as the planet orbits from one side of the Sun to the other.
Saturn's axis is most nearly parallel to the Earth's, but even it points nearly 7 degrees away, or about one-and-a-half times the distance between the Pointer stars in the Big Dipper; Saturn's north pole is on the other side of Polaris from Earth's, but Polaris would work roughly as a North Pole star for Saturn. Saturn's south pole points near the Delta Octanis; that star is brighter than Sigma Octanis, but still three or four times dimmer than Polaris.
Mercury's south pole points close to Alpha Pictoris, which is about as bright as the dimmest star in the Big Dipper; but the closest reasonably bright star to Mercury's north pole is about 7 degrees away. There's nothing particularly bright within 4 degrees of either of Venus's poles, although the Large Magellanic Cloud is about 5 degrees away from the planet's south pole.
Mars is the closest to the Earth in how much its spin axis is tilted to the plane of its orbit; but the Martian poles are nearly forty degrees away from ours. There's no good north pole star for Mars; the nearest reasonably bright star is Mu Cephei, over seven degrees away. Appropriately enough for the Red Planet, Mu Cephei is a deep red star, the one William Herschel named "the Garnet Star". Mars's south pole is about four degrees away from Delta Velorum, one of the stars in the group called the "False Cross". The "False Cross" is four stars in Vela and Carina which form a pattern resembling the Southern Cross but about half again as big and rotated about fifty degrees counterclockwise. The group rises about three hours before the real Southern Cross, and is often misidentified as that constellation by northern hemisphere visitors eager to spot it.
The only other planet whose pole points anywhere near a fairly bright star is Uranus, and here we have a different problem; namely, which pole is which? All the other planets, except Pluto, have their rotation axes roughly (within 30 degrees, say) at right angles to the plane of their orbits, as the Earth does, and all except Venus rotate in the same direction as Earth. Until fairly recently no one had the slightest idea of how the poles of Venus or Pluto were oriented, because of the cloud cover on Venus and the distance of Pluto. So they didn't really enter the problem, and for the others there was never any conflict between the two different ways people defined the North pole of a planet. One way was to say the North Pole is the one on the same side of its orbital plane as the Earth's North Pole. The other way was to say the North pole of a planet is the one from above which you would see the planet turning counterclockwise. For all the planets where the axis direction was known, the two definitions gave the same answer--except for Uranus.
Uranus was the exception, for its axis of rotation lies almost in its orbital plane, so that sometimes one pole points directly at the Sun and the other is in darkness for many years; then halfway around the orbit the other pole points toward the Sun. Here the two definitions give different answers. You can use the first to say Uranus's axis is tilted some 82 degrees to its orbital plane and the planet rotates backwards, or use the second to say that the axis is tilted 98 degrees to the orbital plane and the planet rotates in the normal direction (it has to, by the second definition). Well, as you might expect, the worst happened and some astronomers used one definition and some the other, with a great deal of confusion. A few years ago the International Astronomical Union came down on the side of the first definition (north pole on (Earth) north side of the orbital plane) and things are getting better, though not all reference books have caught up.
Having said all that, I can now say that Uranus's South pole is pointed moderately close (a little over 8 degrees, or half the length of the Big Dipper) to Aldebaran, the bright yellow-orange star that is the baleful eye of Taurus. This is the brightest star anywhere close to either pole of any planet, some six-and-a-half times brighter than Polaris. Of course you couldn't see Aldebaran from Uranus right now, as Uranus's South pole is pointed almost directly at the Sun and you'd have to look past the Sun's glare to see the star. But wait 15 or 20 Earth years, or about a quarter of Uranus's year, depending on where you are in the planet's Southern hemisphere, and you should get a good look.
You may remember that earlier, when I wrote that planets act like gyroscopes and keep their spin axes pointed in the same unchanging direction as they go around the Sun, I qualified the statement with an "almost". Here I want to explain about that "almost", for the Earth. For one trip around the Sun, or even several dozens, it is a good approximation that the direction of the planet's spin axis doesn't change. For times of hundreds or thousands of years it is not. The same gravitational forces from the Sun and Moon which produce the tides also try to make the Earth ''straighten up"; that is, to make the planet's spin axis point at right angles to the plane of its orbit instead of the 23-1/2 degree angle it now has to that direction. Because the Earth is spinning (once a day, of course) something else happens instead.
Have you ever watched a top, or a toy gyroscope, spin with its axis tilted? Gravity is trying to make it fall over, but it doesn't (until it runs down). Instead, the spin axis keeps the same tilt and swings around; if you imagine a beam of light shining along the spin axis it would trace out a circle on the ceiling. This behavior is called precession. The spinning Earth does the same thing as the Sun and Moon pull on it, but the swinging of Earth's spin axis is a lot slower than the toy; a full circle takes about 26,000 years. The result of this is that the Earth's pole stars change: not because the stars themselves are moving but because the spinning Earth is pointing in different directions. More on this to come, next time.
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1138 Thomas Shere, Tacoma
1139 Sandra Endof-Hom, Tacoma
1140 Larry Osterman, Bothell
1141 Valorie Osterman, Bothell
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Hi and welcome to the group!
You should have your new Green Book #11 with this Westwind, and as you will notice, it really is new. I would very much appreciate any comments and/or suggestions you have on the new format (just keep it clean, ok?)
I plan to list the Other Groups and Publications section is each GB from now on. I hope to add a Paid Advertisers section in the June issue (S2 per listing). Also, any NWSFS member who wouldn't ordinarily be listed (those expired at least six months before GB publication) will be able to have a listing for a $1 fee.
Vox, the beep and I wish you all a happy and healthy holiday season.
by Dora Shirk
Hello, and welcome to another thrilling collection of news that is sure to take your mind off the Christmas frenzy for at least 10 minutes. You wanted to get away longer than that? Go curl up with a good, loonngg book and I'll talk to you next year when things have settled down -- at least until the frenzy of con-prep begins in earnest.
No, I still don't have a definitive answer for the meaning of the "Locus Bulletin Board". Does anyone????
Guess who's signed a contract to collaborate on three novels? Rohen Silverberg and Isaac Asimov! The three that they will do are all based on shorter works by Asimov, including Nightfall, The Martian Way, and The Ugly Little Boy. Don't rush to your bookstore though - the first one is not due until '90 or '91.
So far there are over 40 genre-related calenders for 1989 on the marketplace.
Now, while it is marvelous to hear from you (more, more), it would be nice if you responded a little more like you'd read the column - for example, I got a card from someone who said yes, they'd read Paperback Inferno. That wasn't the question! I asked if anyone had a copy they would let me see!!
The Minnesota SF Society has sponsored a series of lectures by pros at U of M. The theme was Social SF: beyond the nuts and bolts. Gordon Dickson spoke on the reader as collaborator, and Fred Pohl on imaginary politics. I have written to them asking if any of this is available in hard copy and when I get an answer I'll let you know. There were a few more lectures that I'm not sure who did, or on what.
Have you seen the MSFS's Tales Of The Unanticipated? Good mag.
If you are a C.S. Lewis fan - did you know that he died the same day JFK did? The C.S. Lewis Society can be contacted through Beverly Ariton, (redacted), Croton NY 10520. The society is celebrating its 19th anniversary.
For those of interested in the non-fiction side of SF (where have you heard that before?) - the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts is now making their quarterly journal, The Journal of the Fantastic In the Arts, aYJilable to the public for $25 a year. To subscribe, write to Helen Albert, M.E. Sharpe Inc., (redacted), Armonk NY 10504 (and say you saw it here).
A thumbs-up to Andy Poner and his beautiful editorial, "The Changing Landscape: Science Fiction and The World" in his November SFC. Well done.
The following books banned in schools this year include: Watership Down, Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Ewoks Join the Fight, Flowers For Algernon, Lord of the Flies (thank god), Cujo, Carrie, The Bachman Books, Christine, The Dead Zone, Salem's Lot, The Shining, Different Seasons, Night Shift, Animal Farm, and Slaughterhouse Five. These red hot rednecks are getting just a bit carried away don't you think?
Available now from the Crossing Press is a book put together by Sharon Yntema entitled More Than 100 Woman Science Fiction Writers: An Annotated Bibliography. Books like this make me want to throw bricks! If women are so damned interested and worked up over equality then why do they put out books like this that are a giant step towards segregationism??? Yes, this is a sore point with me, want me to list a bunch of other titles?
Another new mag? Yep. This one is called Night Shades: The Art & Fiction Journal of the Erotic & the Macabre. For info, drop me a line.
And yet another new mag? Yep.
David Hartwell "et al." is/are editing a new monthly magazine entitled The New York Review of Science Fiction. Issue #1 (Sept) is available for $2.50, or you can subscribe for a whole year for $24.00. To get it write to Dragon Press, (redacted), Pleasantville NY 10570.
Tis the season to be snippy and critical-right? Right! So beginning now and continued next month and perhaps February too, I'm going to do a comparative review of books that call themselves "encyclopedias" of science fiction. Some are, and some, well, aren't - at least not when compared to others. So, let's begin our study ....
PART 1 of TO BE OR NOT TO BE...AN ENCYCLOPEDIA
Let's start with a list of abbreviations for books that we will be talking about: GNESF, HESF, TESFF, NESF. What's that? What are the titles of the books these abbreviations stand for? Not so fast! To begin with, these are not the only books that claim to encyclopedias on SF or F, but they are the only ones currently in my possession either by purchase or a trip to the library. First we are going to take a general comparative overview of what these books have to offer.
GNESF - 900+ entries total, at least 500 of which are on writers and 250 are on films. There were 100+ (how do you measure a + person?) contributors.
HESF - 13 long major entries, a couple of which contain what would be many entries in a "normal" encyclopedia. It had 11 contributors.
TESFF - This one is not really an encyclopedia of SF, its an encyclopedia (2 volumes wonh) of authors, editors, anthologists, and artists - their biographies and their bibliographies. Volume 3 (not seen - yet) contains 5 sections including one called "general".
NESF - 2800+ entries (not counting cross-reference) which include: 1817 author entries, 286 film entries, W7 magazine entries, 40+ fanzines, 175 theme entries (most of which are over 1000 words), and a whole lot more. There are over 700,000 words of text written by 34 contributors.
Next month we'll compare some entries that they have in common and see what the differences are. If there's time we'll also take a look at what some of them leave out altogether, or put in altogether too much of.
Have a good Christmas and take care of yourselves!
See you here next month - REMEMBER - AS OF JANUARY 1ST, ITS ONLY 81 DAYS TIL *N-O-R-W-E-S-C-O-N 11*
Mark Manning
Happy holidays, everybody. Hope you've finished all your holiday shopping, and that you get lots of days off from work or school. Feels like I've already received one present: "Little Paper Faces" has a new logo! Special thanks to Brad Foster, winner of the last two fan artist Hugos.
I ended last month's column with a reference to Jophan. This comes from "The Enchanted Duplicator," a classic 1954 pamphlet by Walt Willis and Bob Shaw. Jophan escapes from the land of Mundania to go on a quest to the Tower of Trufandom, where he hopes to run off the Perfect Fanzine ('pub his ish').
If you'd like a reprint of this goodie, send $2 to The Cantors (Norwescon Alternacon's Fan GoHs), (redacted), North Hollywood, CA 91606.
And so to business. The Portland clubzine Pulsar (address and ordering info given last month) has reached #121, the November ish, edited this time out by Pat Gulley. I guess everyone was working on Orycon, because Karen Kelleher drew a cover showing those "American Gothic" farmers as zombies, Seattle zinefan Janice Murray contnbuted a LoC (Letter of Comment) on RoseCon and other for-profit cons, and then it was pretty much time to go home.
Bcsfazine, the Vancouver clubzine, has RW Clark's Frankenstein cover on #185 (October); must be a surplus of monsters in the Northwest this fall. "Ask Mr. Science" explains that pens can't write upside down because of the shape of ink molecules--yeah! A long article by Spider Robinson complains about a disaster in copy editing with the Ace pb edition of his Time Pressure. Then there's a rundown on the major film zines by R. Graeme Carneron, and other goodies.
The Ft. Lauderdale club sent the September and October numbers of The SFSFS Shuttle. #42 uses larger, much more legible dot matrix (thank you!) for local announcements, and runs two nice articles: Edie Stem's eyewitness of the recent Discovery launch, and a 50s Walt Willis piece about a shrink analyzing the sexual significance of fanzines. The guest editor for #43 forgot to identify him/herself, but at least ran more great Willis (Tropicon Fan GoH next month).
Most folks wouldn't get much out of the Boston clubzine, Instant Message, since it contains mostly minutes and budgets. #448 (10/16) reprints, from 1969, an article on a picket line to protest the cancellation of Star Trek, and minutes which show Isaac Asimov repeatedly fined for puns (one attendee "protested against recording puns on the ground that posterity has never done anything to us"). Contemporary minutes in #449 (10/30) feature hard-hitting discussion of the pine tree on NESFA's logo, which may be a fir after all. Some wanted to declare firs to be pines, others wanted NESFA to genetically engineer a correctly-shaped pine.
Last month, I feared for the life of the Louisville clubzine, Fosfax. From ish #130 (November), it looks like the tension in the 13-member club has diminished. And thank goodness! These folks arguably put out the best clubzine around (although if a few more NWSFSers would write for Westwind ... ). This time, they've got a lovely Paul Young cover, Janice Moore's editorial fear that fannish Pagans will catch (undeserved!) flak after Geraldo Rivera's show on Satanism, lots and lots of top-flight book reviews, and superb LoCs by Piers Anthony, L Sprague de Camp, and the like. Club prez CT Fluhr's objectionable article (which begins, "It pays to be poor, have lots of babies, and be a minority.") reminded me why I left Louisville, but otherwise, it's a great zine.
From the SF Association of Victoria comes FTA/Phoenix (no price listed, so ask the SFAV at (redacted), Victoria, BC V8W 2Y3). Vol. 5 No. 5 (November), probably edited by Tami Hayes, includes a rambling space-filler on SF TV shows by Hayes, Roger I. Williams' mixed review of the new Elfquest, Tami Hayes again with a club outing report, and some fiction excerpts and poetry.
Here's a clubzine that could give Fosfax a run for its money, if only it came out more frequently, the quarterly Neology ($12/year or the Usual -- trade zincs, LoCs, artwork, or fanarticles -- from the Edmonton SF and Comic Arts Society, (redacted), Postal Station South Edmonton, Edmonton, AB Canada T6E 4S8). For Fall 88 (#65), editor T. Phinney talks about the first seven years of ESFACAS, there's one nice long film review and one nice long book review, Chuck Connor relates the history of werewolf lore, and Cath Jacket's 65 zine reviews give me an ideal to aim for with "Little Paper Faces."
Norwescon XI's Fan GoH, Mike Glyer, sends ish #76 (September) of his newszine File 770 ($5/5 issues or fannish gossip, trade for a newszine, artwork, or 'selected mimeograph equipment' from Mike at (redacted), Van Nuys, CA 91401). If it really came out when the colophon claims, oh so long ago, Glyer had the scoop reporting this year's Hugo winners. In any case, the meat of the ish is his no holds-barred interview with Algis Budrys on Writers of the Future, L. Ron Hubbard, and whether the Scientologists are trying to take over fandom. And I like the lovely old (1980) Taral cover showing dancing fanzines.
Now for some sercon: Serious, constructive criticism of SF. Ed Meskys puts out a professionally laid-out, semi-pro serconzine with expensive paper and saddle stapling, Niekas ($15/4 issues from Niekas Publications, (redacted), Center Harbor, NH 03226-9729). The nice stuff in this pretty package (#37, August) includes 20 pages of excellent LoCs, Fred Lerner's imaginary trip to a Silverlock theme park, David M. Shea's analysis of the class structure of Pern, Thomas M. Egan's expose of firms who fraudulently offer to let you name a star, and Piers Anthony on, umm, well, he doesn't really explain why he's not involved in Amnesty International because he spins off into talking about the power of the Word and the joy of story telling and, umm, other stuff.
The next four zines all came to my home, so they're not in the club library unless the faneds (editors) send extra copies to NWSFS--contact me at my Green Book listing to read them.
Staying with pretty packages (Keith, could you track the violins over this paragraph?), the new (#4) Renaissance Fan just came out (the Usual from Rosalind Malin and Dick Pilz, (redacted), Portland, OR 97215), with a cool brew on the hand-painted, signed cover, and with leaves and seeds glued to the poetry pages. In this 'fermentation issue,' Dick tells how to brew your own beer, Terry White relates his days as a yogurt maker for some-Southern hippies, and Roz and Eleanor Malin contribute good fan fiction. The next ish will deal with transportation; I'll be along for the ride!
From the Melbourne SF Club ((redacted), World Trade Centre, Melbourne, 3005, Australia) comes the Aug/Sept (#21) number of their clubzine, Ethel the Aardvark (A$8/6 issues or trade zines; probable editor, Alan Stewart). They announce they'll keep the zine's name (hooray!), review lotsa books and movies, and include a GUFF ballot to pick a European fan to attend the 1989 Australian National Con at GUFF expense.
Hazel Ashworth's still sending out #1 (June 1986) of her zine, Lip (presumably for the Usual from Hazel at (redacted), Embsay, Skipton, North Yorks. England). "So what will it be about?" she asks. "Being in in Leeds fandom...unashamedly self-indulgent ramblings on...our almost-but-not-quite exclusive little group." Hazel on Leeds fannish dancing, Simon Ounsley on a Leeds nerd in Greece, Scottish fan Lilian Edwards on a fannish Leeds visit, Leeds, Leeds, Leeds! Very fannish, and plenty of Leeds.
Finally, here's the quaintly named Fuck the Tories #5 (October), from that charming, Marxist, fannish, anti-nuke couple, Judith Hanna and Joseph Nicholas (for the Usual from (redacted), Pimlico, London SW1V 2ER England). Actually, most of the zine is straightforward fannishness: Lionel Trippett's meditation on footnotes, Seattle fan John Berry on visiting London, Judith on Joseph's model airplanes. And then there are cute illos and cartoons, many lifted from the English labor press. The cut-out do-it-yourself bust of Karl Marx is a scream! Finally, the editorial and LoCs discuss feminism, intolerance of leftist politics within fandom, and the like. It's a great zine, but don't let mundanes see the cover!
There you have the reviews for this month. Your humble (ha!) columnist just pubbed the latest ish of a perzine, but modesty forbids (ha!) reviewing my own zine (bloody act of genius, really).
If you pub a zine, send it in! And if you run an apa, I'd be happy to inform Westwind readers about membership. So until 1989, vote Rottnest Island for Worldcon, everybody!
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A Modern Fable
Sue Bartroff
A tattered old man sat by an empty, crusted over pot under the viaduct. He mumbled to himself occasionally and scraped the muck from the bottom of the pot. Around him sat a varied collection of humanity apathetically watching. Finally a woman of indeterminate years, heavily swathed in cast off clothing asked him what he was doing.
"Why," replied the old man, "I'm just about to whip up a delicious batch of soup. Would you like some?"
The group moved closer and one of the teens in leather with his blue hair roached up over his forehead jeered at the old man because there was no fire. One or two of the group scrabbled around in the refuse and came up with stuffing from a stained mattress and cardboard. A hush fell over the little group as the fire flickered fitfully in the damp and the sign of relief when it finally flamed up blew like a gust of wind among the concrete pillars that soared up to the freeway bed.
Two of the women carried the pot away to a place where runoff water trickled down and cleaned it with hand fulls of the scrub grass. Slowly the pot filled with murky water and was set over the little fire to boil away the impurities.
"What sort of soup will you make?" asked one of the children hopefully.
The old man did not answer but reached into his pocket and pulled out a smooth, flat blue grey stone about the size of his palm. Slowly he polished it upon the worn knee of his pants and held it out to the firelight. Looking at the handful of children that were shivering near the fire, he slid the stone into the water.
Crazy Molly shuffled up to the fire and coughed noisily as she reached into one of the many bundles she lugged with her. Out came a can opener and a bag of rice marked "government surplus--local issue only." As the water began to steam she poured the rice into the pot. Her eyes looked around the little circle and she offered the can opener to one of the other women.
Little by little, the carefully hoarded supplies came out to be dumped into the pot. A can of beans, two cans of corned beef, some split peas. The punk with the blue hair and his shivering girl friend crunched noisily off to return a few minutes later with half a dozen potatoes and some limp looking carrots.
Time passed and the aroma curled out around the pillars and the small group became animated and almost festive. That night the children would sleep in their cardboard home with full stomachs and the adults would remember other, better times.
When morning came, the fire was out and the old man and his pot and the blue-gray stone were gone. In his place lingered memories and the reborn hope that a little shared by everybody can make quite a lot.
In this city of Seattle, there are many families living in cars with small children because they can not afford housing. Perhaps only one of the parents can find a minimum wage job and the other must stay with the children during the day. Missions offer them soup during the day and a meal a night. The lucky get in a shelter where it is warm and they might get a shower.
Often parents opt to stay in the car for security reasons and to stay together as a family. Of the hundred families in acute need in this city, social service agencies can help only thirty or so a month.
Food banks can stretch their resources only so far and government subsidies have been cut and cut again. These children can not get into school because they have no permanent address. Many are too young for school.
Just like the old man gathered his community together and the rock he put into the pot brought a little food from everyone to make soup to feed not only their bodies but their souls that night, we can gather together as a community and do something to alleviate a little of the pain in this city.
Ifyou don't have money, volunteer. Go to the Millionair Club -- they need help all the time. Volunteer at the food bank, look through your cast off clothing and blankets and take them to the salvation army depot. Your children's cast off toys and books will be valued by other children this holiday.
If you have money, even a little, make a donation to your local food bank. They need protein items, vegetables, fruit, powdered milk, juice and baby food and formula. They also need disposable diapers (laundromats may be totally out of the reach of the people who are trying to feed a family) and even pet food. Sometimes the only friend some of the elderly in this city have is a beloved pet.
Even mismatched gloves and whole socks can be used. Let nothing go to waste -- if you are not using it, pass it on. This holiday season, perhaps as you shop, you could forgo that extra dessert and buy a few cans of tuna instead. You could cut down on the size of the turkey and slip an extra juice or peanut butter into your cart. In this time of plenty when most of us could stand to lose a few pounds here and there, let some of what we have go to those that don't have anything. Most stores have a box or barrel at the front of the store for foods to go to the food bank. On your way out, share.
Food banks also accept checks. In a society that has so much, how can so many be in pain. alone and homeless? How can we, knowing that, allow it to continue?
Jon Gustafson
I seem to have noticed, in one of the past Westwinds, that one of the other columnists objected to Algis Budrys reviewing a book that he had edited. Well, here's something a little closer to home to bitch about: I'm going to review two books I had something to do with.
The first is Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Pulphouse Publishing [Dean Wesley Smith], (redacted), Eugene, OR 97440; hardcover; 267 pages; 1,000-copy trade edition -- $17.95; 250-copy signed, boxed edition -- $50.00), a brand-new publication and a brand-new idea. This is aimed primarily at the collector's market, with a very limited circulation, high production values, and quality writing throughout. Issue number one is their Horror Issue and contains such short stories as Harlan Ellison's superb She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother, Kate Wilhelm's The Loiterer, On a Phantom Tide by William F. Wu, Edward Bryant's chilling While She Was Out, Nina Kiriki Hoffman's Works of Art, and 16 other really nifty and nasty horror stories. If that weren't enough, each story has an introduction by Rusch and there are non-fiction articles by Jack Williamson, Kim Antieau, and myself. This is a superb first effort by Smith and Rusch, with an amazing list of authors collected in the first volume. By the time you read this, the signed edition (beautifully bound in leather, boxed, and signed by all the authors) will be sold out and there will be very few of the trade edition remaining, so if you want one, you'd better hurry. This is one book -- and one series; it will be coming out quarterly -- I most highly recommend.
The next item I had something to do with is the MosCon X tenth Anniversary Program Book, which I edited (available from me at (redacted), Moscow, ID 83843; 144 pages; trade edition -- S7.50 + $1.50 postage; numbered hardcover edition -- $25.00 + $2.00 postage; checks should be made out to "MosCon"), and which is something the fannish world has, quite simply, never seen before. It is a program book for a convention, to be sure, but it is much more than that. What I did for MosCon X was to ask all of our previous Guests of Honor to contribute something to the book, either fiction, article, or art, and they all responded. The MosCon X Program Book has fiction by Anne McCaffrey, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Algis Budrys. F.M. Busby, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, John Varley, M.J. Engh. and William R. Warren, most of which has never seen print before. There are articles by Jerry Sohl, Robert A. Heinlein, Kate Wilhelm, Dean Ing, Jack Williamson, Robert L. Forward, Stephen Gillett, Fritz Leiber and many more, plus art by George Barr, Tim Kirk, Alex Schomburg, Rick Sternbach, Ken Macklin and Lela Dowling, Alicia Austin and others. Most of the items in the book were either done specifically for it, or heavily re-written and updated. The softcover edition (both softcover and hardcover are 81/2 by 11 inches) has full color front and back covers, and both editions have a two-page color Kelly Freas foldout. The hardcover edition features a dustjacket as well. This book is lavishly illustrated by professional and fannish artists such as Randy Mohr, Vincent Di Fate, Jacqualynn Duram-Nilsson, Vixen, Gary Davis, and Robert Everton. And, if all this weren't enough, there is the history of PESFA and the complete "Ask Mr. Science." In short, there is a awful lot of good stuff in this volume. This book must be a collector's item...because no way am I going to do another one like this before MosCon XX!
Well, on to some more "standard" fare. Jo clayton is the author of many excellent science fiction novels (and she's a delight to talk to as well) and her latest is Shadow of the Warmaster (DAW books, #88677-298-2, 398 pages, $3.95). A greedy corporation has been making lots of extra profit in dealing in slavery, but now they have stolen the daughter of Adelaar aici Arash, who not only objects but has the resources to do something about it. She hires Swardheld Quale and his troubleshooting crew to help find and retrieve her daughter. They eventually find her on a rather primitive planet about which is orbiting a huge ancient war platform, called a Warroaster. All Quale and Arash have to do is get her daughter out from under the nose of the most deadly fighting machine known in the Galaxy, while dealing with rebels on the planet's surface and a traitor in their own midst...no problem, right? Jo Clayton pulls the reader through this maze of plot and counter-plot with a master's touch, throwing in just the right amount of futuristic slang and other touches to make the scenes come vividly alive. Highly recommended.
And last, but far from least, is Terry Brooks' latest novel, The Black Unicorn (del Rey/Ballantine, #33528, 307 pages, $4.95). This is the second book in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series, and takes place a year after Ben Holiday bought the magic Kingdom. Ben, the wizard Questor Thews, and the sylph Willow all have incredibly vivid dreams one night, dreams that send each of them on missions. Ben is compelled to return to Earth to see to the health of his old friend, Miles Benett; Questor Thews seeks out the lost Books of Magic; and willow must find the bridle of spun gold with which to bind the Black unicorn. Ben unwittingly brings back his arch-enemy, Meeks, who replaces him as King and sets Ben loose in the Kingdom, disguised so not even his best friends could recognize him. All he knows is that he must find Willow and the Black Unicom, for they hold the key to saving the Magic Kingdom from Meeks. As I said in an earlier review, I like this style of Brooks' writing far better than his Shannara junk, and hope he continues it. He makes the people and the creature of the Magic Kingdom live in these books. Recommended.
September 23-25, 1988, Moscow Idaho. Guest of Honor: Anne McCaffrey, Artist Guests of Honor; Lela Dowling & Ken Macklin, Science Guest of Honor: Dr. Robert L. Forward, Fan Guests of Honor: Ed & Norma Beauregard.
MosCon Ten was my first experience of fandom outside of the greater Seattle area. The hotel that the convention was held at, Cavanaugh's, is found only after driving for a long time across the vast desert plain that is Eastern Washington and into the town of Moscow, just over the border in the land of famous potatoes.
Cavanaugh's is a warm, cozy hotel staffed with the kind of folk that understand Science Fiction/Fantasy Fandom. When I checked into my room, I found the sort of things one expects from a class hotel. Clean room, paper wrapped drinking glasses, a pen and pad of paper by the phone for writing down the crazy ideas that us fen get late at night (or any other time), and of course, a delightful assortment of gummy dinosaurs on the pillow.
One of the nice things about smaller conventions is that autograph sessions are not so crowded. The autograph session did have the long snake that coiled about the room, the head ending in front of the GoH, Anne McCaffrey; but as fen were limited to two books each, the snake was quickly dealt with, leaving time to actually talk to the pros, the GoH included.
I have been told that MosCons are known for their genial room parties, and can attest to the rumor as fact. Not a very bold partygoer, I found the parties an easy place to meet friends, new and old and enjoyed many interesting conversations, none of which I can seem to remember for some reason. But it had nothing to do with what ever it was that I was ?Drinking. Very good parties indeed.
The slide show by the Art GoHs, Ken Macklin and Lela Dowling, allowed a chance to see artwork of years gone past as well as a glimpse of work done as commercial projects, quite different in style, showing the versatility of the artists as well as their awesome talent.
MosCon's Science Guest of Honor was Dr. Robert L. Forward. His panels on real science included explanation of anti-matter propulsion systems that we can build right now (not too cost effective just yet, though), and seven impossible things before breakfast, including anti-gravity (takes a lot of neutronium) and FTL travel (better get the jumbo pack of neutronium for this one).
The art show featured a broad spectrum of media, plenty of drawings and paintings, various sculptures, and quite a few wall hangings, including hooking, needle point, and beadwork. The theme of dragons was present in all areas, particularly the wall hangings. I must especially compliment the art show staff on the lighting systems they installed for the show. It helped turn ordinary hotel rooms into a well lit if cozy art gallery.
The dealer rooms has a good assortment of wares, but although one could find functional fantasy weaponry, including razor sharp daggers, finely wrought armor and swords whose lofty price tag would surely deal a mortal blow to even the stoutest of checking accounts, nobody had an Ruthergian matter dismantlers, Alkad ray blasters, hull-piercing grapplers, or even a functioning phaser. I just think that the SF fen should be able to get authentic hardware too. But then there would be even less space for books, so maybe it's for the best.
Although Friday and Saturday had plenty of different programming items, if you didn't go to the brunch on Sunday, there was not much else going on. Unfortunately for me, the banquet sold out and I missed the chance to sample the infamous green eggs and ham that MosCon has become famous for. I understand that there was also normal food for those who had never read Dr. Suess.
The art auction showed that not only do fen have taste, some actually have money and the desire to spend it on the piece that catches their eye. The bidding was brisk, for the most part and a painting by Lela Dowling got bid up from $500 to over $1000. I was sitting next to the man who calmly made the final bid but did not find out until later that he was bidding in absentia for Anne McCaffrey. A piece that I was interested in buying quickly jumped out of the reach of my pocket book, leaving me with the desire to take up gun running or perhaps TV evangelism to fund next years bidding efforts. But I did manage to get a very nice print by Ken Macklin at one of the dealer tables.
In all, a very nice, friendly convention that proved there is intelligent life in spud land.
Chris McDonell
by Doug Shirk
WHERE WE WRITE A SHORT, CHURLISH COLUMN FOR X-MAS
-or-
I'M PAID TO BE POLITE FOR A LIVING
FOR THIS I DON'T GET PAID
How's that for Christmas Spirit, boys and girls. The title actually has two meanings. I was going to write a long, meanspirited article continuing my rantings on the 1988 TV season, but it's late, and so is my copy, so you get a short, meanspirited collection of random notes and thoughts.
First, a typo correction, Ed. Yes, Jon Gustafson, you are a winner. Yes, Gidney and Cloyd were the two moonmen from Rocky and Bullwinkle, and yes, they were looking for the Kirwood Derby, and no, no more phone calls. I'm not as think as you dumb I am. A second drink at Rustycon for the first person who tells me what the Derby was for, and how it related to the Moose.
Scanning back a couple of months, I noted that the crew list for Who Framed Roger Rabbit looked a lot like The Creditors parody column of a couple years back. Well, Tessa Horan of Premiere magazine was kind enough to count, and Frank Robinson of Locus was kinder enough to report the total. The envelope please? 771 names were listed in the credits to ROGER. Ye gods! That would have been a good contest. And as a bit of useless trivia, that column was based on an English short called The Creditors, (from 1967) that was 12 min. of credit and story line crawled over a shot of an English taxi going down a country road.
A GOOD reason (as if you need another one - there are many already) to go to Rustycon is the Northwest premiere of the English version of Legend, Ridley Scott's 1986 boy meets girl, girl does dumb thing, boy loses girl to evil prince, etc. film which I generally didn't like. One recurrent problem in the film was Tangarine Dream's score, added by Universal after the film was done to make it more "accessible" (their word) to the teenage audience. The full Jerry Goldsmith score was left on the European cut. If this has the full score, it should be a real treat. Legend needed a driver, and the score might just be it.
Harlan Ellison ("Noted Futurist" [?]), commenting on J. Michael Straczynski's comment that Twilight Zone, the TV show, would take a more "humanistic approach"; dealing with homelessness, alcoholism, and etc., as opposed to "special effects and explosions" said "Mr. Straczynski's a good friend, but he's stuffed full of wild blueberry muffins." Ellison called the show "one-punch, gimmicky amputees", probably in reference to the 22 minute episode length. This has not stopped the noted pitchman from selling "Crazy As A Soup Sandwitch" to the production.
Ellison's right. The 3 episodes I've seen don't have the writing punch and tightness of the CBS re-incarnation, and the strict 30 min. time period, along with the need for extra commercial time hamstring's the stories. A second drawback is budget, the syndicated TZ probably not having as much money to play with. But wild blueberry muffins? A far cry from insects having intercourse, Harlan.
Speaking of scripts, Rod Serling left 3 unused Twilight Zone episode outlines, one of which is being done by Straczynski for use in the TZ re-creation.
Alien III has made its first pop in the rumor mill in a while. Current? John McTiernan (Predator) is rumored as director, though Sigourney Weaver has been quoted as expecting Ridley Scott to do it. I didn't think Weaver had signed. I know she wasn't originally contracted for III.
Frank Robinson (Locus) comments that the BIG picture for 1989 so far looks like Total Recall, from Philip K. Dick's short We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (F&SF, April, 1966). Directed by Paul Verhoeven (Robocop), the $50 million film will lead with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently the set designs are first rate, though the story may have to be s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d to make it filmable.
One of the (many) things that has bothered be about the "Starlog" style fan magazine is their complete and total lack of objectivity, mainly their inability to critique anything. What used to bea bit of a stitch was their annual review issue, where reviewers would come in and lambaste most everything the mag had spent the last 11 months hyping.
They seem to have gotten around that problem somewhat with Starlog, The Science Fiction Universe, Presents: Science Fiction Video Magazine. Ta-Da! What we have here is your basic guide to SF film and TV available on video cassette. Where it shines is that it is basically honest. It calls a spade a spade, and a bomb a bomb. Points are awarded for the Prisoner section, and its listing of cassette releasers instead of original production houses. No points for the obligatory Star Trek list and reviews, and negative points for the inconsistency among the reviews themselves, but we're all guilty of that. Remember, you're reading the guy that not only liked Ice Pirates, but bought the damn cassette. This is not one of the better Video books/mags, but for "Starlog" it ain't bad.
That about wraps up this piece of filler for the month, although I can't leave without giving a cheer to Robert, Doug, Judy, Michael, and Mark, the Ed, Art, Layout, Print, and Typing of this rag. My Westwind #135 (Nov.) was absolutely beautiful. The layout was super, the writing is better and better (Mark Manning deserves a big hand for Little Paper Faces), and the print quality is unbelievable. These people (and everyone else on the masthead) put a lot of work into this little 'zine that shows up in your box every month. I just write. It's thems that cuts and pastes, so if you see them, let them know you appreciate their work. I do.
May the holiday season see you fit and well, and the our best from the snowy side of the state to you all in 1989.
Dear Doug,
I feel you were much too kind in your review of War Of The Worlds television version of the Wells' classic. It was obvious to me, as I forced myself to sit through the one episode I watched, that the show was written by and aimed at the six year old mind. The basic premise of radiation reanimating the dead is ridiculous; the idea that cow blood can somehow rejuvenate decaying human tissue is absurd; and the alien's ability to conscript a fresh human body (leaving the old one to ooze all over the floor); grow, at least, a hand inside that body which can burst out through the chest (sound familiar?), and presumably retract again, healing the flesh instantly, is utterly unbelievable. (I thought gaping holes in the body were their big problem?) The entire effects are designed to titillate the juvenile's fascination for gore.
They don't expect a six year-old to be smart enough to notice these minor inconsistencies. Then why are they airing the show in the prime time adult slot? It's so laughable it belongs in the Saturday morning cartoon line-up.
As an adult viewer, I can on]y say WOTW was the most insulting hour of television I've seen since Invaders, to which it bears a tedious resemblance.
Your still respectful reader,
M. Elayn Harvey
[Remember we're talking about television here, not great literature or even film. As SF/TV it ain't bad. But then they call television a medium because very little of it is well done. -Doug Shirk ]
Neglected Visions, edited by Barry N. Malzberg, Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander. New York, Doubleday, 1979.
Neglected Visions showcases nine SF writers whom the editors believe deserve more recognition than they have received. The stories representing those authors here were published in the 1950s and 60s, but are still fresh, not technologically dated. Randall Garrett may be the best known of the authors in this collection; he is represented by The Hunting Lodge which includes future technology immortality and politics. Peter Phillips' Lost Memory has a different approach to a first contact; like so many other SF works, the title has at least two meanings (a pun if you like). As in much of SF, humor is well represented in this collection. Robert Abernathy's Junior has many gently funny bits, including the hilarious-in-context "child of an only parent". Ballenger's People by Kris Neville is a wry look inside one character's unusual way of handling reality. The other authors included in this volume are Mark Clifton, Christoper Anvil, Norman Kagan, Wyman Guin, and F. (for Floyd) L. Wallace.
The editors have considerately included listings of the nine authors' other works, including magazine and anthology appearances of short stores. Like many other anthologies, Neglected Visions is a reminder that speculative fiction is rich in fine but relative]y unknown works and creators.
Elisabeth Eldred
by M. Elayn Harvey
In all that day-long wandering of confusion, Joel remembered only the promise; this Christmas mom could afford to give him a gift. But tonight was Christmas Eve and he had nothing, nothing save the clothes on his back and her Saint Vinny's sailor's coat. He had shut away the promise, in that cluttered place where children keep all the broken promises of adults, and had wandered the blind city to proclaim the betrayal in dirty, empty alleys, and lost memories too heavy on his small bones.
Joel came back to First Avenue to find the street light broken and the neon black, but he had a votive in an old mason jar. He crossed the street and sneakered quieter than the rats into the canyon behind the boarded-up Starmint club. By the flickering light he saw the star, chalked white and gritty on the sooty walk. Underneath it, Pin was waiting for him.
He didn't ask how she'd found her way back; he was afraid to say anything that would crush the small birth of hope inside him. She was there, and right now, that was enough.
"Bring your light closer," she whispered, "There's something written next to the star." Joel raised his candle jar and read the scratched words:
ALTAR IN THE SNOW SHED
SUFFOCATE THE HALF DEAD
Behind him, her voice in shadow, Pin said, "He was angry when he wrote that."
"Who?"
"He's not angry now."
"What's it mean?"
"It has something to do with the club."
"How do you know?"
"Snow shed -- so much coke in there, they should have called the place North Pole. I think that's why it was torched."
"Don't!" Joel retreated up the alley. Pin followed. The mason jar lit their way and warmed Joel's bare hands. "I still don't understand what the poet means."
"Yes you do, it's about loss."
"I'm hungry."
"I know where we can get some money."
They turned uptown, narrow, dark alleys and bright towers, across Second Avenue and Third, where they were stopped by the red hand. Thev waited on the corner and watched two University girls tap acappella on torn squares of linoleum. They wore matching white scarfs and their working breath was white smoke, and late shoppers tossed change into their upturned fedoras on the pavement. They smiled at him.
"If I could dance like you," said Joel to Pin, "we could make some money like that."
"There are better ways, come on, the walk man is lit up." They crossed the street and toiled uphill, and saw another star. Joel slipped into the alley and held his candlelight high.
IT'S EASY TO DREAM NOT TO BELIEVE
IT'S EASY TO PRETEND NOT TO CARE
He read the message three times. "Is it about failure Pin?"
"Yes, haven't I always said you were smart?"
"Not as smart as you." They returned to the sidewalk.
"You're plenty smart for fourteen." They came to a busier intersection: the hurry and rumbling impatience of homebound cars, the loud gift-wrapped store windows, foil and tinsel on plastic trees and paper snowflakes dusted with glitter, and frozen-smile mannequins dressed in styles no one he knew could afford to buy. Silver Bells caroled from a speaker. "...it's Christmas time in the city..."
Joel pressed his face to the tall window. "What do you want for Christmas, Pin?"
"I want only one thing."
"What's that?"
"Light. Corne on, you must be hungry."
"Yes, very." But they stopped at the corner, even though the walk man beckoned them. There was a black madonna propped in rags against the marble of the Bon Marche. She sat on a blanket, with a baby in her lap. A coffee can, wrapped in bag paper and lettered with a magic marker, proclaimed in humble annunciation: MILK MONEY. Shoppers detoure.d past them the way they stepped around soiled puddles at the curbside.
Joel hugged his candle jar and knelt in front of the child. "Is it a boy or a girl?"
The mother said, "a girl." The speaker sang, "Away in a manger ... " .
"She's pretty, said Joel. "Here." He pushed his jar next to the baby. "It'll keep her warm. If you take good care of her, she won't leave you." He got up and walked away.
Pin sounded hurt. "Why did you say that?"
Joel shrugged in his over-sized coat. "I don't know."
"You gave away our light, how are you going to find our way?"
"Lots of light up here."
"But the alleys are dark."
"Follow the star. Isn't that what you said?"
"Yes, I want to...."
"Hey, we're like the wisemen, but there are two of us."
"The third one's on the wall, but you can't see your way now."
"What does it matter."
"The park's up ahead -- the fountain has money. People throw it in there and make a wish. We'll take it out and make a wish. What do you want for Christmas?"
As if she didn't know, but her sincerity made him confused, so he lied. "A fat goose dinner, with stuffing and gravy, mashed potatoes with lots of butter, and cranberries and mince pie."
"There's no cop, pick up the coins."
Joel took off his sneakers and rolled his jeans. "Geez, the water's cold."
"Not as cold as it could be, there's no ice on the gutter lakes."
"What does that mean?"
"My mom told me when she was a kid there used to be ice in the gutters and she would skate on her way to school. But when I was a girl the city put in sewers and there was no more ice. But you know what I used to do?"
"No. Oh look, I found a quarter."
"I used to tie scrub brushes to my shoes and wash the kitchen floor, pretending I was ice skating."
They both laughed. Joel waded out, his balance teetering, almost falling, and they laughed over that too.
Pin peered over his shoulder. "How much did you get?"
Joel stacked the coins in their denominations on the pavement. "One quarter, five dimes, seven nickels, and eleven pennies."
"That's a dollar and twenty-one cents. Pretty good."
"There's a MacDonalds a couple of blocks away." Joel dried his feet with a coat tail, unrolled his jeans and retied his hightops.
Out of the park, heading north, Pin stopped beside the third star, and leaned in. "The street light doesn't quite reach inside."
"There's only one match in my book." Joel came into the alley. "That's all right, I can just make it out."
"What does it say?"
EYES IN THE CITY ARE BLIND
SIGHTLESS OF OUR MADNESS
He turned away. "Well, I knew that already."
"It was a reminder."
"Do you know the wiseman? Why he writes all these weird things in alleyways?"
"It's a reminder for you to find a way out. We'll find him whenwe reach the last star."
"It's a big city, what ifwe don't find them all?"
"We will."
They entered the back parking lot of MacDonalds. Joel stayed in the shadow of the trash bin. There were four boys at the take-out window. They stood in a square and the boy at the left back made motor noises, while the boy at the front left gripped his hands around an invisible steering wheel. The boy at the front right held a flashlight, and the boy behind him cocked his arm, as if hanging it out a window.
Three girls were crowded into the take-out booth, in their prim uniforms, and giggling. They exchanged puffy white bags for money. Legs pumping in unison, the boys drove away, then broke formation. They laughed and swaggered down the sidewalk, eating their burgers.
Joel clung to the trash bin, laughing and slapping his knee. "Did you see that, Pin? Wasn't that something?"
"Illusion can be funny, I guess." She didn't sound amused. "They remind me of a brother I had once. Go get something to eat and I'll tell you about him."
Joel crossed the lot and went inside. He squinted in the bright light and studied the menu. The salty smell of fries and bun-wrapped meat watered in his mouth, but he wanted to buy Pin a gift. He began to feel nervous, waiting in line. There was something very dangerous about the noise and press of solid reality, he wanted to run back to the safe darkness of the night. The teller looked down.
"Welcome to MacDonalds, may I take your order?"
"A large cup of hot water?"
She fit her hand to her hip. "Is that all? Hot water?"
"Yes, please."
"You'll have to pay for the cup."
"How much?"
"A dime."
"I have a dime." He dug it out and pushed it across the brushed chrome. She drew the water and put a lid on the styrofoam, set it in front of him and put the dime in the till.
Thank you," said Joel. "Merry Christmas."
She looked over bis head. "Next?"
Joel stopped at the napkin bar. He pocketed three catsups, one salt, one pepper and a straw, and hurried out. He and Pin sat on the island between Macdonalds and Minit Lube, brittle junipers sheltering them.· Joel wedged the cup between his thighs and pried off the lid. "You were going to tell me about a brother?" He tore the catsups open with his teeth and squished the red paste into the water.
"You're making tomato soup -- I taught you that a long time ago, I didn't think you remembered."
Joel stirred in the salt with the straw, and said nothing about remembering.
"Lots of pepper, it makes you warm."
"The story, Pin."
"Yes, well...when I was nine mom brought a boy to live with us, and said he was my brother. I asked her where he'd been these past eight years, because he was a year younger than me. She said he'd been in the east. Anyway, I had a three-legged hamster named Pook, and Larry collected caterpillars, and we put on a circus and charged the kids in the neighborhood a penny each to watch the show."
"What kind of show?" He blew and sipped at the watery soup.
"Pook would run inside a number three peach tin with the ends cut out, and it would roll across the ground. Larry made his caterpillars crawl a tightrope of string and climb the high dive into a tuna can of water. He'd put one on Pook's back, but it would always curl up and fall off."
"What kind of caterpillars?"
"Those fat orange and black ones --it was summertime."
"I wish it was summer, now, I don't like the cold. What else?"
"Nothing else. Peg-leg Pook ran away,the caterpillars went into cocoons, and we went into a state home -- mom had run off, too."
"You never told me about this." His breath steamed.
"It wasn't a good time in my life, but it's why I stay with you. I'll always take care of you, as long as you need me. It's my Christmas present to you."
He didn't understand. "Was the state home bad?"
"It was okay. The people were nice, they bought me a slate tablet and a box of colored chalk. I liked chalk because it smelled of second grade, and I was happy in second grade. That was the year before Larry came."
"Oh, you didn't like him?" He finished his soup. "Pin?"
"I loved him, Joel."
"But something happened?"
"One day we were in the playground and some old people came, in a fancy car, and they took him away. I don't ever remember crying so hard, not before then, not after. I never saw Larry again."
"I'm sorry."
"I couldn't understand why he left me, why I couldn't go, too. The state people said those were his grandparents, but not mine, so he was only my half-brother."
"I'm glad you told me, a half-uncle is better than no uncle at all. Even if we don't know where he is, he's out there somewhere."
"Joel, I...."
"What?"
"Not now." The city had fallen silent. Pin said, carefully, "He didn't want go, I'm sure of that, but he wasn't allowed to stay. Do you understand the difference?"
"Yes."
"He doesn't know, but he taught me not to hold people too lightly. We all go away. I just wish I could have said goodbye."
"I won't leave you."
"Do you know, now, why you said that to the child's mother?"
"No."
"You will. It's getting late, we should start back." Joel tossed his litter in the bin and they headed back to First Avenue. At a Circle K, Joel stopped.
"Wait for me," he said, "I want to get something." He came out a few minutes later, stuffing a square-shape in his empty pocket.
"Are you still there, Pin?"
Her voice came from shadow. "Yes. Hope that's your breakfast?"
"No, you'll see, it isn't Christmas yet. The clock in the store said eleven-thirty -- we have time."
They walked together along the echoing, deserted streets. The dancers, and the madonna and child, had gone home with their gold. Joel and Pin trudged silent and hunched against the December night.
Finally, Joel said, "We haven't seen any more stars. You think I've gotten us lost?"
"No, don't worry, there's only one more."
They were at the end of First, across from the burned-out Starmint club, when Pin saw the last star. "See? There it is."
"The street light's broken."
"You have one match in your book."
They stole into the blackness and sat down. "It's probably after midnight by now, I got you a present." He pulled out the brown-wrapped package. "Merry Christmas."
"Joel, you shouldn't have spent your money."
"I can get more, you showed me how."
"Open it for me, I can't see."
He opened the paper bag, and took out the box. He shook a disk from the cardboard, and pulled out his last match. His fingers were shivering but the match caught on the first strike. He lit the little candle disk.
"Light," marveled Pin.
"I bought you a whole box." He pulled out the rest. "Light for your last Chmtmas." Last Christmas; he looked into the flame and felt a strange movement inside him, like a sooty veil of pain on his soul had gotten up and tiptoed away. He sniffed and set the candles out in a row and lit the wicks. They bathed the narrow alley in a warm nativity glow.
He crouched with his back to the wall and swaddled his mother's big coat around his thin knees. "Are you happy, Pin?"
"It's the best Christmas ever, thank you. What did the wiseman write on the wall?"
"Just a minute, it's so cold." He rested his head on his knees.
"The candles help, don't they? I don't want you to be cold or hungry, or sad. I wish...."
"Don't worry." He remembered the soft touch of her good-night kiss. He was tired, but he felt safe.
"Joel? I have to go. I don't want to...but it's getting so bright. What does the wiseman say? Read it to me."
Joel sighed heavily, levered himself up and stood in front of the blank brick. He took the well-abused chalk from his jeans and wrote.
LIFE IS A WANDER, NIGHTMARE AND DAYDREAM
IT IS WHAT IT IS, NOT WHAT IT SEEMS.
Pin's fainter whisper came from somewhere beyond the candles. "Does that mean hope?"
"No...only acceptance."
"I loved you, Joel, never forget that. There's another star in my pocket. I...I'm not allowed to stay."
"I know," he nodded. And he knew she had led him as far as she could. And she had kept her promise, she had given him a gift, the only one she had to give.
There was one last star, and a message with a meaning that could not be written, one that he had not been able to read; the pain had been too fresh, and the grief too numbing. Forgetting had been his only solace. In it he had lost himself, and only now did he know how near he had come to the chasm of madness. But she had led him out through the alleys of his own denial, led him to the gift he needed.
Joel sat down alone and pulled from her pocket the wadded and cloth-smudged clipping, and smoothed it open. He read the headline by flickering candlelight:
DANCER DIES IN FIRE AT STARMINT.
Pin smiled up at him in paper and ink, in dark and in light. He knew now what he'd said to the madonna and why. Pin hadn't left him; she'd been taken away, and that made all the difference. In streaming tears, he whispered, "I love you, mom. Good-bye."
Note to my readers:
If you get lost in the city it's for good reason. This Seattle somehow got folded into Auburn. I'm well aware that downtown MacDonalds doesn't have a drive-through, nor a minit-lube, or Circle K, but they were there for me; and thus are the landscapes of dreams.
M. Elayn Harvey
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Norwescon 11 Best of Show Postcon Report
The cover and interior photos for this publication where taken by Peter Citrak and John Sabota.
Editor: Robert Suryan
Art Editor: Doug Booze
Layout Editor: Judy Suryan
Printing: Michael Brocha
Typing: Sue Bartroff, Judy Suryan, Robert Suryan
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March-April Collating: Sue Banroff, Michael Brocha, Lauraine Miranda, Judy Suryan, Robert Suryan
CONTRIBUTORS: Andrew Bartroff, Craig Bowie, Elisabeth Eldred, Mark Manning, Lauraine Miranda, Yvonne V. Richardson, Dora Shirk, Kathy Smith, Judy Suryan, Judy Swanson, Debbie Tatarek, Elizabeth Warren
ART CREDITS: Andrew Banroff, Brad Foster, Shane, Sharee Sledge, Lynne Taylor, William R. Warren
Little Paper Faces by Mark Manning: Pages 6-7
Norwescon 11 Post-Con Reprot Report by Norwescon 11 Staff: Pages 8-20
When The Aliens Landed by Andrew Bartroff: Page 21
Other Matters by Dora Shirk: Page 23
Calendar: Page 3
Announcements: Pages 3-5
Social: Page 5
Book & Movie Reviews: Page 22
WESTWIND--the newsletter of the Northwest Science Fiction Society. Issue No.140, May/June 1989. Published by Northwest Science Fiction Society. Chairman: Judy Suryan (redacted). Vice-Chairman: Becky Simpson (redacted). Secretary-Treasurer: Sue Bartroff (redacted). Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and not neccssarily those of the editors or publisher.
Contents copyright 1989 for contributors by the Northwest Science Fiction Society. Westwind is mailed monthly to members of NWSFS, (redacted), SEATILE, WA 98124. Memberships in NWSFS cost $15.00 ($18.00 for out of country - in U.S. funds only) per year including 12 months of Westwind. Advertising is accepted: must be received Camera-ready by the 5th of the month prior to issue. Mail to NWSFS. Full page (7.5 x 10), $20: Half-page (7.5 x 5), $12: quarter page (3.5 x 5), $7: eighth page or business card, $5. NWSFS INFORMATION HOTLINE: (redacted).
July 28-31, 1989: MYTHCON XX University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. GoHs Guy Gavriel Kay, Raymond Thompson. Memb: US$25, CDN$30. Info: (redacted), Station A, Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5N2.
August 11-13, 1989: ZERO G, A RELAXCON. Cavanaugh's Motor Inn, Moscow, ID. GoH John Dalmas, FGoH Jon Gustafson. Memb. $10 to 2/1/89, $12 to 8/1/89, $14 at the door. Info: (redacted), Moscow, ID 83843.
August 25-27, 1989: DRAGONFLIGHT '89. Gaming Convention, Bellermine Hall, Seattle University. Memb. (Dragonflight + Con.) $20 to 5/31/89, $22 to 8/20/89. Info: (redacted), Seattle, WA 98111. (redacted).
August 31-September 4, 1989: NOREASCON III/47TH WORLD SF CONVENTION. Sheraton-Boston/Hynes Convention Ctr., Boston, MA GoHs Andre Norton, Ian & Betty Ballantine. FGoHs The Stranger Club. Memb. $70 (children $45) to 3/15/89, $80 ($50) to 7/15/89 ($20 supporting). For info. Noreascon 3, (redacted), MIT Branch P.O., Cambridge, MA 02139.
September 2-3, 1989: NORWESCON 11.5 Relaxacon. Tukwilla Nendells Hotel. (by Southcenter) Room Rates $57 Singal or Double. See details in May Westwind.
October 6-8, 1989: BANFF INTERNATIONAL 89. Banff Parks Lodge, Banff, Alberta. GoH Brian Aldiss, AGoH Vincent Di Fate, FGoH Mike Glicksohn. Memb. $25 ($21 US) to 1/1/89. Info: (redacted), Red Deer, Alberta T4N 5H3, or (redacted), Moscow, ID 83843.
October 13-15, 1989: ARMADILLOCON 11. Wyndham South, Austin Texas. GoH Lewis Shiner, FGoH Mike Glyer, Official Artist David Thayer, FAGoH Teddy Harvia, Editor GoH Pat LoBrutto, TM Connie Willis. Memb. $15 to 4/2/89. Info: Fact, (redacted), Austin, TX. (redacted).
October 13-15, 1989: PINEKONE 11, CANVENTION 9. Skyline Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. SFGoH Greg Bear, FantasyGoH Raymond E. Fiest, AGoH David Cherry, FGoH Michael Skeet. Memb: C$15/USS13 to 3/31/89, CS20/USS21 to 9/15/89, CS25/US$21 thereafter. Info: (redacted), STN F, Ottawa, Ontario, K2C 3Jl, Canada.
November 10-12, 1989: ORYCON 11. Columbia River Red Lion. GoH Michael Bishop. Memb: $16 to 5/31/89, $20 to 10/ 31/89, $25 at the door. Info: (redacted), Portland, OR 97228. (redacted) OryCon will be a weaponless convention.
December 8-10, 1989: SMOFCON 6. Howard Johnson Airport Hotel, (redacted), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M9W 1J5. Memb: CS35/USS28 to 5/31/89, CS40/USS32 to 10/30/89, CS50/USS40 at the door. Info: (redacted), Station 'M', Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6S 4T3. (redacted).
January 19-21, 1990: RUSTYCON 7. SeaTac Hyatt Hotel; (redacted). GoH Ben Bova, AGoH Mike Grell, FGoH Frank Denton. Memb: $18 to 3/31/89. Info: (redacted), Seattle, WA 98124-5591.
March 29-April 1, 1990: NORWESCON 12 Tacoma Shearton Hotel (redacted). FGoH Pat Mueller, TM Dan Reeder. Room rates: Three night mininum (Thurs., Fri. and Sat.) $185 S & D; $205 T & Q. Each addional night $63 S & D, $69T & Q. Memb. $27 ($22 for NWSFS membs) to 9/3/89.
August 30-September 3, 1990: CON DIEGO/NASFIC 1990. GoH Samuel Delany, FGoH Ben Yalow. Memb: $55 to 7/1/ 89,$65 to 1/1/90, $75 to7/l/90, $85 at the door. Info: (redacted), San Diego, CA 92115.
Hear Ye, Hear Ye: The lord of Camlann invites you to attend his renowned annual faire. At the morning trumpet, the village gates open upon the colorful andl fascinating world of Chaucer's England in 1376.
Watch skilled village artisans make you fine crafted goods. Relax in the glen and listen to the gaily clad minstrels. At 12:30 and 4:30 the trumpet will call you to attend the tourney field. Puppet shows, jugglers, a roguish jongleur, dance troupes, caroles around the maypole alnd the village animals awaite all. You may also partake of the wolesome midieval foods for a small amount of coin.
Open Sat. & Sun., 11am to 6pm, July 22-August 27. Admission is adults-$7.00, kids 7-12 & Seniors 60 and over $4.00, and kids 6 and under are free. (Note: smoking is limited to posted areas, no pets.) Directions: From 1-90 take exit #22 (Preston) on 203 to Stillwater (2 m1. north of Carnation). Go to the Stillwater store and turn left on road to Lake Joy. Go 1 mi. to Camlann (on right). For info on the evening banquets or for directions for other locations call (redacted).
Remember running home from school when you were a kid, eager to catch the next exciting chapter of your favorite TV show? The show that your mother didn't want to watch - complete with resident vampires, werewolves, witches, and various other assorted creepies? That show, of course, was Dark Shadows, and there never has been anything quite like it since. And, just like many of its characters, it simply refused to die out. Today, over twenty years later, its' devoted fans are keeping it alive through syndicated reruns, yearly festivals, local fan clubs, and national publications of both newsletters and fanzines. By working together, these organizations strive to keep the enjoyment of the series alive, for the fans, by the fans!
The Tacoma/Seattle chapter of DS fandom is the SHADES OF WYNDCLIFFE DARK SHADOWS SOCIETY. Our club was founded in late 1987, one year after local television station KSTW 11 abruptly cancelled DS at an especially exciting point. Co-founders May and Judy Sutherland managed to locate copies of DS episodes on video-tape, and decided to share the good fortune with others who had not been so lucky. The club meets about every three or four weeks, to watch and enjoy taped episodes, and to share information and anecdotes with each other. We are up to the early 1795 episodes (the first "flashback" storyline, in which it was shown how Barnabas Collins became a vampire).
Our new fanzine, Wyndcliffe Watch, is both a local and a national publication, and subscriptions now total between forty and fifty (we're still growing!). The first issue, published on October of 1988, was over thirty pages long; and featured artwork, poetry, fiction, ORIGINAL Sherlock cartoons, reviews, 1967 episode synopses, and never-before-published, original TV-photos. The second issue, published in December 1988, featured more of the same, PLUS an in-depth look at the 1988 New York City DS FESTIVAL, complete with many original photos of the DS stars. We are currently at work on the third issue, due some time in June, 1989. It will include, of among other things, a look at the 1989 March Los Angels DS FESTIVAL, again with photos!
Membership rates are only $12.00 for four issues of Wyndcliffe Watch -- at only $3.00 an issue. Also included with your membership are an illustrated membership card, a Xerox copy of DS writer Sam Hall's important 1971 TV Guide article, and admission to the club meetings to watch DS episodes. (There is a bonus for fans of character "Julia Hoffman": a b/w 5x7 TV-photo. Please indicate if interested).
Our club is always ready to help promote anyone sincerely interested in DS and fandom in general. We're glad to help promote other zines/clubs, as well as help people locate items for their collections. Fandom is, to us, a fun means of sharing all the exciting things going on out there, and we want to do our part to help add to them. We sincerely hope that some of you wiH want to join us! For info please write: May Sutherland, (redacted), Tacoma, WA 98407.
The 1990 NASFiC will be held in beautiful San Diego, California. As you probably know, the North American Science Fiction Convention is held when the Worldcon is held overseas. In this case, it is being held in The Hague, so all of us fans who can't go to Europe for a convention have a rather fine alternative choice.
Our professional guest of honor is Samuel R. Delaney, the Nebula and Hugo Award winner who has written such works as Babel-17, Dhalgren, and Trilon, to name only a few. Delaney is known best for his bright, sparkling images, and his many faceted characters.
Our fan guest of honor is Ben Yallow. Ben is well-known convention organizer, having been on the Worldcon committee, as well as regional and local cons in Massachusetts.
There will also be the Masquerade, a dealer's room with approximately 200 tables, a video room, Art Show, speakers and panels, and a film room.
All this in a bay side venue, including the brand new Convention Center. When you're seeking a break from frenzied conventioneering, you can walk down the street to a waterside park, where you can loll on the grass as you watch the sailboats glide by. Then if you have an urge to be on the water yourself, you can visit the Maritime Museum and go aboard a real clipper ship or a reproduction of the 'The Golden Hind'.
If you wish to travel back in time to Spanish California, Old Town can satisfy you, or if you wish to travel to modern Mexico, a regular trolley travels down to the border, where you can take a short walk into Tia Juana.
There is also a regular bus to Sea World, a marine park where you can watch killer whales play. And about fifteen minutes away is the world famous San Diego Zoo, where there are koalas on exhibit, one of the few places outside of Australia.
So, set aside Labor Day weekend, Aug. 28 - Sep. 1, 1990 to come play by the bay in San Diego.
Rates: $55.00 to 7/1/89; $65.00 7/2 to 1/1/90.
For further information send SASE to: ConDiego/1990 NASFiC, (redacted), Sao Diego, CA 92115
Hotel Rates: Magicon/Orlando in '92 has reached agreement with two of its three principle hotels on room rates for the prospective 1992 Worldcon. Rooms at the Clarion Plaza will be available for $63 to $69 per night, based on number of occupants. Rates at the Quality Inn Plaza are $33 to $37 per nighL Magicon has blocked 600 rooms at each hotel. Negotiations with the convention's headquarters hotel, the Peabody Orlando, are still in progress. Expect rates at the Peabody to be in the vicinity of $1OO per night in 1992 dollars, which is quite inexpensive for a hotel of that quality. Magicon has a 750 room block at the Peabody. It has blocked over 2,000 additional rooms at secondary hotels.
Support for Orlando's 1992 Worldcon bid has reached new heights in two areas. The number of Magicon/Orlando in '92 presupporters has passed the 1,800 mark, while membership in the bid's "advisory committee", Friends of Orlando (F.O.O.), has also grown. MagiCon treasurer Sue Cole projects that the total number of presupporters will reach two thousand "sometime between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July". The Orlando bid thus continues to set a record pace, collecting more presupporting members than any previous Worldcon bid has claimed at a comparable stage.
MagiCon is the trade name of Orlando's bid for the 1992 World Science Fiction Convention. The bid is sponsored by Franc, Inc., a Florida not-for-profit corporation, and is cochaired by Becky Thomson, Joe Siclari and Tom veal.
For further info: MagiCon, (redacted), Orlando, Fl. 32862-1992, or call Joe Sidari (redacted) or Tom Veal (redacted).
From: Aunt Violet's Bookbin and Menagerie, A Home For Decayed Gentlewomen; (redacted), Seattle, WA 98105. Phone: (redacted)
Dear Nizzfizz:
Can you announce in your newsletter that Jessica Amanda Salmonson & Jules Faye have opened a quality used bookshop and we are buying and selling fine books in many fields? Thanks!
-Jessica
[ed.-Yes we can, the first one is free]
April 1: Dixieanne Bennet
April 3: Tom Oswald
April 15: Janice Murray
April 16: Alexander Bennett
April 22: Beth Dockins
April 23: Ardis Jakubaitis
April 24: John Morrison
April 29: Thom Walls
April 29: Cindy Murata
April 29: Ann Fox
May 1: Ken Wong
May 6: Debbie Tutarek
May 8: Pat Mallinson
May 9: Joe Palmer
May 9: Dianna Dodson
May 13: Dave Wilson
May 16: Paul Wocken
May 18: Doug Girling
June 2: Steve Bard
June 3: Kitty Bailey-Town
June 4: Tony Chichetti
June 7: Peter Suryan
June 8: Suzle
June 8: Carol Pearsall
June 14: Shelley Berry
June 22: Kitty Canterbury
June 25: Peter Citrak
New members for NWSFS (up to Norwescon)
1152 James Nagley Seattle
1153 Janet Lindsey Kennewick
1154 Lome Counter Kirkland
1155 Torry Allen Scott Salem, OR
1156 Michael Frantz Bremerton
1157 Pat Ausen Seattle
1158 Martin Haller Auburn
1159 Steve Haynack Granite Falls
1160 Michael Robbins Tacoma
The Green Book (our phone and address directory which ain't necessarily green) is due out around June. Be sure to get any changes to your listing in to me asap.
The July Social is on Saturday the 29th and will be our annual sojourn to Wildwaves Park and Enchanted Village in Federal Way. If you have not been to this fun in the water park before now is the time to go. And at about half the cost of a regular ticket at only $9.00 each (Children under 2 are free) now is the right price to go too.
Wildwaves has deep pools and shallow ones for the kids as well as slides ranging from mild to tube slides that will take your breath away. There is also the wave tank; something you'll have to experience yourself to believe. They also have a food and beverage bar so your can refuel the body. Lockers are available to store you personnel belongings.
Enchanted Village is for the little ones (and the little one in all of us). It has shallow pools and the tamer water tubes and slides; a variety of carnival rides; a petting zoo; many different food concessions and tables and grassy areas to picnic on and around with your own brought in repast or with what you have purchased there. (You cannot bring ice chests or picnic baskets into the Wildwaves area.) There is also a Aqua theater with several shows daily on the weekends.
All rides and slides are unlimited and no extra charge once you enter the park. You can spend the whole day there (or any part of it) from 10 am to 8pm for the one price.
Our Vice Chairman, Becky Simpson will be taking your reservations at (redacted) (you can also call in your request to Judy Suryan at (redacted)). She will also make arrangements with you to get your tickets. Please call by July 26th. See you there.
Mark Manning
I hope you're enjoying the summer, fellow fans. A nice hope, not unlike the one which closed the last column, to wit: 'May your pockets fill with sticky quarters.'
For many years, any fanzine you'd care to name would cost 25¢. Fans would tape coins onto their letters requesting copies. The true fanzine fan, then, always had a pocket full of sticky quaners.
Sticky Quarters is also the name of the genzine published occasionally by Detroit fan Brian Earl Brown.
Down to business: Here we've got the latest two FOSFAXes, (#137 & 138, Mar & Apr 89, $15/yr or the Usual--your zine in trade, Letters of Comment, art, or articles--from FOSFA, (redacted), Louisville 40233-7281). The excellent Paul Young floating geisha cover on #137 welcomes the reader to this Hugo-nominated clubzine. Each ish combines three ingredients: Tons of reviews, the most active LoCcol I've seen, and other stuph. Other stuph? How about Taral's page-long list of fan histories in #137? Or the dead-on plot parodies in #138 for SF books of the future: Asimov's Guide to Callalian's Place and Hal's Place: A Prelude to Odyssey.
Norwescon 11's Fan GoH Mike Glyer offers File 770 #78 ($5/ 5 issues from (redacted), Van Nuys, CA 91401), with fannish newsy tidbits from all over: Fanfund winners, a lurid shakeup in the San Francisco Worldcon in '93 bid committee, a few con reports, art by Alan White, Brad Foster, C. Lee Healy, and other goodies.
Glyer's comical minutes of the LA SF Society grace the clubzine, De Profundis (for the Usual from (redacted), North Hollywood, CA 91601). Editor Jeni Burr sent us #206 & 207(Mar & Apr 89),and minutes pretty much fill them. Not bad at all.
It's been two years since NWSFS received a copy of Keith Walker's Fanzine Fanatique (for trade from (redacted), Lancaster, Lancs, LA1 4UF England). This unnumbered zine reviews zines, four relatively hard-to-read pages worth.
Pam Fremon edits Instant Message for the New England SF Association ($15/yr from (redacted) MIT Branch PO, Cambridge, MA 02139-0910), and in fact sent us issues #453 through 457, which appeared every other week as regular as a dose of salts, full of minutes as dull as squash.
New editor Bill Wilson (who may be the same person as the contributor of elegant work in various apas over the years) sends #47 & 48 (Feb & Mar 89) of the South FL SF Society's SFSFS Shuttle, which contains various club announcements. Bill fails to say how this zine may be acquired from SFSFS, (redacted), Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33307-0143, but I ran the info in "Little Paper Faces" back around October (now where's that diskette?).
The Portland SF Society sends Pulsar #125 & 126 (Mar & Apr 89)--nice material, what there is of it: Clubzine Lite, John Raymond Lorentz' column weighs the keel well as Pat Steed and Sam Butler edit one issue each. For $10/yr or your zine in trade from PorSFiS, (redacted), 97208
From Edmonton comes Neology #66 (Winter 88-89), in which editor T. Phinney stuffs Allen Brockman's meditation on the essence of NonCon, Mark Bourassa's rules for the extended-chess game called Ultima, a thorough zine review column, good LoCs, and great art. Neology doesn't appear frequently, but it may be my favorite club zine anyway, and will set you back $12/yr, your zine in trade, or a LoC (from ESFCAS, (redacted) Postal Station South Edmonton, Edmonton, AB T6E 4S8 Canada).
Another Canadian clubzine, Vancouver's Bcsfazine, still edited by Steve Forty, arrived this month, specifically #190 & 191 (Mar & Apr 89), and pleasant zines they are, too. Better than average cover art, "Ask Mr. Science," reviews, Sidney Trim's space news, editor-to-be R. Graeme Cameron's reviews of psychotronic films, & LoCs. Worthwhile stuph from BCSF A, (redacted), Stn E, Vancouver V6M 4G9, $12/ yr.
The NWSFS Library now has #27 & 28 (representing a couple months in Spring 89, I guess) of The Texas SF Inquirer (S6/6 issues or the Usual from FACT, (redacted), Austin, TX 78766). Nice covers (by Real Musgrave and Brad Foster, respectiveely), OK contents, including the last of Lawrence Person's survey of the horror small press. I'd have liked these Scott Merritt-edited issues more --but I came across a stack of old copies of the same zine as done by former editor Pat Mueller: They're worth visiting the NWSFS Llorary to see!
Two issues of Westwind ago, I reviewed the revived perzine Don-o-Saur #52, but omitted editor Don Thompson's address! You can get the new ish, #53, from him (for the Usual) at (redacted), Westminster, CO 80030. Lots of gnatter on the subject of anger here, lots of LoCs. More interesting than exactly fun.
Now, some capsule notes: Walter Jung's Communications of the NW Anime Society, Vol II #5, will interest Japanimation fans, with its plot summaries and newsy editorial: Write the Society at (redacted), Seattle 98168-8572 for membership info. For a report on the May gathering of the Nameless Ones, read The Shriek of the Nameless, edited by Kristi Austin, available c/o the Arkadian Bookshop, (redacted), Seattle 98105. The same address should work for It's Only Talk, #80 (Don Keller, editor) which reports on the April Babble-17 discussion of Lewis Shiner's Deserted Cities of the Heart. If you're a fan of Rocky & Bullwinkle, send $5/4 issues of The Frostbite Falls Far-Flung Flier, from Charles Ulrich c/o Swick, (redacted), Albuquerque, NM 87108-Vol 3 #3 concentrates on Boris Badenov.
Yours truly got a huge stack of zines this month, in large part thanks to having sent a bunch of virtual strangers copies of my new zine.
Harry Andruschak ((redacted), Torrance, CA 90510-5309) issues nicely done compilations of fanzine reviews every so often-probably available in trade for your zine. He sent me the latest two: Merry BAH! and a Happy HUMBUG! and Last of the Spirit-Duplicators. Thanks, Harry!
You may have met Alexis Gilliland at Norwescon 11. His new zine, Das Fangold, is devoted to one topic: Whether Worldcon committees should return surplus income to the con membership. Makes sense to me, as he's laid the idea out in #1 & 2 (available at whim or for $2 each from (redacted), Arlington, VA 22204).
The Dillinger Relic #61 is Arthur D. Hlavaty's perzine (available for $1, trade, or LoC from (redacted), Durham NC 22717). Arthur rambles through discussions of his college studies, the 10th Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, and books he's read. Well done, if not flashy.
Irwin Hirsh ((redacted), East Prahran, VI 3181) sends Sikander #15, his first perzine in a year and a half. While Keith cues a trumpet fanfare, I'll tell you about the excellent writing from Irwin--on a trio of Melbourne fannish pregnancies and his GUFF-funded trip to the English national con. Equally solid work by Mark Loney (fanzine criticism) and John Foyster (another trip report). Top flight art and LoCs.
Keith, can you cue the pianist to play a quiet passage from an Ives sonata? Here's Air-Glow #5 & 6, the perzine of TL Bohman, (redacted), East Thetford, VT 05043-0014. Terry's an Emergency Medical Technician (paramedic to you), and writes engagingly about his work, stargazing, bugs, weddings, and whatever else he feels like discussing. Good people send good LoCs, too. Well worth your $1/2 issues or Usual.
OK, you out there in Poulsbo or Ballard, here's Remember Lindisfarne, all three of them so far, from Heidi Lysbol, (redacted) Oslo 4, Norway. The first one was an apazine, in which various Norfen discussed their fannish projects or the history of Norfandom. In #2 & 3, RL had become a genzine, with articles, art, and fiction by various Norfen and Eurofen: Germany's Thomas Rechtenwald, England's Cardinal Cox, Czechoslovakia's Dr. Egon Cierny. Friendly stuph, available for the Usual or bribes in Norwegian currency.
Maverick (unnumbered, but probably #6 or so) comes for the Usual from Jenny Glover, (redacted), Leeds LS12 2WP England. Jenny's editorial concentrates on her unusually stressful job, Dublin's Jo Jaquinta sends an excellent bit of fan fiction, Father X recalls life as a Moonie, Ken Cheslin's "The Golden Chalice of Foo-Foo" tells a fanish tale a la Tolkien, and dozens of folks from England and Europe add to the LoCcol. Recommended.
The Toronto genzine torus #5 (from the Kamikaze Editorial Collective, (redacted), Stn M, Toronto ON M6S 4T3 for the Usual) includes an interview with Ben Bova, Terri Neal on catfandom, LoCs, good art, and Taral Wayne's absolutely superb fannish future history, "Future Recall." Lloyd Penney, Keith & Nancy Soltys, and Michael Wallis do a wonderful job on torus. You'll like it.
Stungunn #10 (for trade or Aus $2/4 issues from Ian Gunn, (redacted), Ashburton 3147, Victoria, Australia) is the Special Parody Flattery Edition, with uncannily well-done takes on several of the weirder zines done by Melbourne fans. Keith, can you cue the skateboard-rock album--thanks. You might get more out of the ish if you'd read the zines Gunn's bashing here (I know all but one of them), but even if you hadn't, you'd probably still recognize Stungunn as a tour-de-force.
One of Ian Gunn's targets is Get Stuffed, a Melbourne-based hoaxzine of goofy padding and anti-fan fanart, all aimed at winning the Ditmar, Australia's equivalent of a fanzine Hugo. Editor Jacob Blake sent me #3 (for the Usual or something from (redacted), West Brunswick 3055, Victoria, Australia), together with the news that the zine had won. Now what new heights will Blake want to conquer?
Fmally, Jerry Kaufman brought me The Enchantment back from Corflu (the con for fanzine fans). This is celebrated Northern Irish fan (OK Keith, here's where the full brass orchestra anthem goes) Walt Willis' report of his GoH trip to the 1989 Tropicon in FL Lauderdale. Editing by the celebrated Boca Raton fanhistorian Joe Siclari and his celebrated fannish companion Edie Stern, art by the lovely and celebrated Southern fan Lee Hoffman, the abovementioned and celebrated Alexis Gilliland, the English and celebrated fan ATom, and Gail Bennett, who'll probably be celebrated someday, for all I know. Send the SFSFS (address above) $5 for this jewel, read it, and celebrate!
Even if you're too young to remember those longgone days when LeeH was a man, you can still enjoy the spell cast by Willis' in The Enchantment. Wait a minute? What do I mean by "when LeeH was a man?" Fmd out in the next oolumn.
Until then, saying thanks to the Northwest's Number One fannish DJ, Keith Johnson, for the musical tributes to the month's best mies, I'm out of here. Keep fannish!
by Elizabeth Warren
I am hearing rumors that Norwescon 11 went pretty well. I was kind of busy, so I have to take your word for it. I really like this job better than hospitality, thank you Debbie Tutarek for taking over and doing such a great job.
I want to use this opportunity to tell you the truth, the whole truth and all that. It's not my fault! Norwescon went well due to the efforts of a lot of committed people. Each Norwescon takes about 18 months worth of planning and the committee works very hard during that time. They all deserve the highest praise, they have done a wonderful job. I join you in thanking them for a wonderful weekend.
Thank you all for coming and sharing the fun. Thank you especially to those of you who gave an hour or 30 in the service of Norwescon, you really are the backbone of the convention.
All dear Norwescon people,
Just let me send you this naive childish scrawl to thank vou for having me as Special Guest Writer-on-Wheels, 1989.
I enjoyed myself and in particular appreciated the door-to-door transportation by Mr. Suryan. On being suddenly informed by the hotel at 5 after 4 that I should have left at 4, I accepted Dave Hall's ride back to Bremerton rather than interrupt the schedule(s) of the busy official con people, wasn't that considerate of me? Sorry I did not eat the Brunch Banquet food but for me to have had a heart attack on the spot would have been counter-productive and questionably attractive. Thank you again for all favors and I will recommend you - plural to all my friends.
Very yoursly yours,
Avram Davidson
Norwescon XI Con Com:
Thanks for your hard work and its good results. As Always, I wish I'd had time and energy for all the potentially interesting bits.
Having hotel staff handle the elevators may have helped a little, but let's face it - that hotel is undersupplied with elevators (just imagine the hellish torments due hotel designers and builders who skimp on things like elevators.
It was good to have Hospitality where elevators weren't needed to reach it, but next year could it be in a more aesthetically pleasing area? Thousands of thanks for having it non-smoking.
I heard wishes expressed that the Dealers Room had more space and more/wider range of dealers.
The KidCon programming was a great idea-some of it would've interested older folks too. Thanks for thinking of the under 12 people.
Overall, congrats and thanks again.
Elisabeth Eldred
To the Norwescon 11 Convention Committee:
Thanks again for a fun Norwescon. As in past years, it provided me with not only a needed break from the ordinary, but with a boost in creative energy as well.
I particularly enjoyed the masquerade (of course), despite its occasional confusion, and would like to thank Keith Johnson and Michael Citrak for their incredible patience and invaluable mid-performance assistance. You can't do it without the sound and lights, folks. Special thanks go, also, to Nora Hogoboom for her quick-thinking solution to the mixup in the awards announcements. The contestants were great and put on a fine show. I thought the turtles and chickens all terrific.
Best wishes to the entire convention staff. Your many hours of work are most appreciated.
Aloha!
Carol Severance
by Craig Bowie
This year gaming was a big success in a small place. Gaming had a 200% increase in space available and we managed to fill it quite easily. I was quite pleased to see a high level of skill in the tournament game masters and we had quite a good group of gamers as well.
There will be some changes made for next year, the sign up sheets for games will go up only 1/2 day before the game is played, and there will be a registration for all game masters including the "open gaming". We had very few times the rooms were not full and there were many times they were too full. We learned some things this year that will help us more efficiently use what space we have available to us. If you are interested in running a tournament or game at Norwescon 12, contact me by February 1, 1990:
Craig Bowie
Norwescon 12 Gaming
(redacted)
Auburn, WA 98002
Many thanks are to go to Steve Jackson for running Darwinopoly (a game where the better breeder wins) and Brian Underhill for running GURPS: Clifhangers (an adventure system based in the pulp novel era). They gave us a chance to try games that hadn't been released yet.
I would also like to thank the following Game Masters for getting a hold of me before Norwesoon and putting in their time and effort, I received compliments about all of them for the job they did;
Guy "Battlemaster" Girone
Robert Moshell
Kris Gould
Cecily Burke
Matt "Just one more game" Hyra
Todd "Gurps? Who me?" Smith
Rick Bligh
Here is the mt of winners and special awards:
1st Mark "Madsax" DeLoura
2nd Jim Lane
3rd Robert "Nicklepede" DeLoura
1st Tony Burdett
2nd RayCurrie
3rd Mark "Madsax" DeLoura
1st (tie) Paul "Head Embezzaler" Randles
1st (tie) Coy "Solitaire" Kearney
1st James "Rambo" Wilson
2nd Joseph Imfeld
3rd Aaron "Random" Clements
1st Brian Funk
2nd John "Presto Castaspella" Jacobson
3rd Josh E. Wright
1st Jeff Jorgenson
2nd Julie "Sister Chaos" Larson
3rd (tie) Keith "Chie Don Ford" Larson
3rd (tie) Damond "Ronin" Crump
1st Robert Mosbell
2nd Stephen Terrenzio
3rd Craig McKinney
1st Thomas Sherer
2nd Tun "The Evil Doctor" Tozer
3rd Thane Walkup
"Going down in Flames" Brian Funk
"Strongest position in 1904" Dave Lawson
"Biggest Blunder" Walfei "Caz" Perera-Casainoua
"Unluckiest Battletecher" Tanis Dragon
"Worst Die Roll" Julie Elwick
"Worst Recon" Robert Smith
"John Wayne" Stephen Terrenzio
"Politest Gamer" Betty "Larina" Claar
"Most Helpful Volunteer" Gaetano "Guy" Girone
"Kid Kon gamer" Chris Benson
"Hitpoint Hitman" Mark Richardson
by Dora Shirk
The Green Room ran very well this year. We had a few small problems (emphasis small), but this year was so much smoother and 'together' than last year. I know, you're saying this sounds like a re-run of the report I gave last year (if you remember that one), and it is very similar, but there were oh, so many, differences.
This year we knew who was supposed to come, even tho' many didn't (due to the combined facts that we are still in Tacoma, it was Easter, and there were four cons that weekend).
The only thing that we did not have this year that we normally do have, was a bulletin board for the panel discussion sheets. We missed it at some moments and didn't miss it most of the time. I want to send out a very large "THANK YOU" to Hospitality for the way they kept us stocked. The pros were extremely happy and commented often that it was nice to be able to have this available without fighting a crowd. Thanks Debbie.
If all goes as it should we will be in the same location next year. It works well. It is accessible to all panel locations and the ability to separate the pre-panels into different rooms makes it much better for avoiding two pre-panels joining together (which makes for a mess).
All in all things went well, especially since it is "our" volunteer that will be next years Volunteer GoH -- Yeah Joe
!
We had good volunteers and hopefully they will all be back next year. There is one out there whose initials are RB that will probably hear from us before the year is over.
I will take up no more room -- end of Green Room Report.
by Debbie Tatarek, Dragonette
Well we made it through another year again.
Thanks for all your patience in our new location. It did pose some interesting problems and some wonderful benefits. Thanks for stopping by the hospitality suite for something to eat or drink, to meet someone or just a little conversation. For my first year solo, I think it went pretty dam good.
I want to thank all of you who volunteered your time, effort, and energy to hospitality. Without your help there wouldn't have been a hospitality. Thank you!
I want to make some special thanks:
Matt Winkleman: for all your time and especially the mornings.
Eric Jones: for time above and beyond the duty, plus Beer Roulette.
Joanne Welty and Dick O'Shea: for all your years of devoted service.
Brittany Bell: for volunteering her truck.
C.J. Minnekin and James West: for helping to pack and set up on Wednesday night.
Tom Smith and Denise Karnovan: for hours and hours of service.
And thanks to all the res of you for everything: Snake, Catherine Melissa, Eric Fellows, Mike West, Sharree Sledge, Gina Disteldorf, Joanne Fry, Mike Bomber, Mona Reece, Nancy Boden, Bruce McPeek, Edward Martin, Irene Lewis, Beth Moursand, Erika Sauby, Chuch VanderLinden, Peter Horvath, Carol Zebold, Dottie nelson, Kathy Hunter, Jay Karnoven, Joe Jagar, Yvonne Stevens, Robert Grimes, John Holdrew, Herby Fairbanks, Raw, Q, Penny Lane Ruhl, Judy Wheat.
I take no responsibility for any names written wrong or right. This is what you wrote on my lists or didn't write if you didn't sign up.
Now for the volunteers who volunteered their souls to me for the convention, my seconds Debbie Stine and Janice Paulsen, Thank you both from the bottom of my heart. I really appreciated your help.
Our donations were down and the Kitty went a little hungry. However, a special thanks to all who did donate. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! your donations helped buy the extra supplies that kept us going through the weekend. Which brings me to the annual "what did we consume at Norwescon" report. Well, let me tell you we consumed a lot!
The List!
295 cases of pop
69 cases of beer
1 case of champagne
48 liters of wine
56 boxes of cookies
30 boxes of crackers
4 loafs of bread
20 dozen bagels
20 loafs of banana bread
50 pounds of vegetables
154 pounds of meat and cheese
38 bags of chips
18 pounds of coffee
20 pounds of sour cream
24 pounds of cream cheese
assorted teas
2 cases of oranges
1 case of apples
30 liters of apple juice
20 liters of orange juice
by Judy Swanson
Judy Swanson, Masquerade director, would like to thank all the volunteers for this year's Masquerade. The Masquerade could not function without all their time and effort.
John Barnes
Astrid Anderson Bear
Kathleen Cogswell
Marie Cooley
Dave Maddingly
Dameon Willich
Virgil Buell
Norah Hogoboom
Scott Swanson
Tony Ferucci
Ken
Pippin
Spike
Elisabeth Eldred
Payne Fifield
Gail Glass
Douglas Taylor
Alphonse
Marni Cowen
D'Artagnan
Lenore Kobayashi
Annette Mercier
Mark Richardson
Team Cyclone
The Persecutors
Thom Walls
Vicki Glover
Becky Sukavati
Ken
Marie Cooley
Chris Fuhr
Spencer
Carole Carr
Keith Mears
Greg Sardo
Thank you to anyone whose name I forgot, or who volunteered anomynously.
Best Television Recreation - Bert Metz III - Rapheal, Mutant Teenage Ninja Turtle
Best Performance - Autumn J. Grieve - Autumn, Stringer of Flux
Best Comic Recreation - "Roo" Warren - Desert Peach's Foot Maiden
Best Movie Recreation - "Eddie" Butler - Roger Rabbit
Best Use of Materials - Heather Metz - The Latest in the Recyclo-botics Spring Fashion Line
Shirley Temple Award - Angela Suryan - Fairy Princess
Best Group Presentation - Lissa Fuhr, T.T. Fuhr
Best Multi-Media - Frank Teele - Sir Black
Best Dyeing Effects - JoAnne Kirley - The Phantom's Masquerade
Best Soft Sculpture - Sally Berkland, Lorne Counter
Best Tailoring - Joanna McCoy - Dr. Crusher
Best Millinery - JoAnne Kirley, Kathleen Greco - The Phantom's Masquerade
Best Design for a Specialty Function - Julie A Zetterberg - Beneath the Opera House
Honorable Mention for Mask Work - Richard Perry - Lord Sarnath
Journeyman Runner-up - Joanna McCoy - Dr. Crusher
Master Runner-up- Julie A Zetterberg- Beneath the Opera House
Best Novice - Darth Vagrant
Best Journeyman - The Capt., Randy D. Gordon - Captain Commie and Buckinski
Best Master - JoAnne Kirley, Dragon, T. Brian Wagner, Traper Graves, Wolf, Van Kirk - The Phantom's Masquerade
Journeyman Runner-up - Hans Meier, Mike West
Best Novice - Kirge Vestal Overton - Klingon Instructor
Best Journeyman - Lisa M. Gordon - Traci, The Space Cadet
Integrated Presentation - Frank Teele - Sir Black
Most Humorous - Aash Bazbo
Best Costume in the Performance Category - Tahia Alibeck
Special Thanks - Susan Taubeneck, Betty Bigelow, David Bigelow - The Awakening
Best of Show - The Phantom's Masquerade
The reports from both Rover and Watch Divisions indicate a very quiet convention, with (quite literally) only one or two exceptions. One or two bad apples in a barrel of nearly 2300 is pretty good. Several people commented that they'd hardly noticed the Security volunteers. That's one of the nicest compliments we received. Security was there, doing their work so quietly and efficiently that some people didn't even notice them. That says a lot for the caliber of people who volunteered for Security this year. They did a great job! A big thank you to everyone in Security, both Rover and Watch.
Our biggest problem was beer that wandered past the alcohol boundary into the lobby and ballroom areas. Security is there to remind you where the alcohol boundary is, but they depend on your cooperation. This year the hotel threatened to shut down the dance if any more beer was found in the ballroom. In the future the result could be that Hospitality willserve only soft drinks.
Again, peacebonding reported no major problems. Almost everyone who came to the convention seemed to be informed about the weapons policy and knew that peacebonding was required. There were only one or two objections. (Gee, they were the same one or two exceptions that Security saw. Does that mean something?) Peacebonding was available in Operations, in the Security Office, and from all Rovers as well as the table in the Registration area. When you consider all the costumes that include weapons, it's plain that our peacebonders are truly dedicated -- and they got a real close-up view of some fantastic weapons.
Thank you!
No, you haven't all learned to pick up after yourselves, but the litter critters were out there, carrying their little bags. They reported that some areas, especially Hospitality, were not as messy as in past years. The improvement was mostly due to the nice big garbage cans. Other areas, notably Gaming, looked a lot like your room at home. Thanks to the Maintenance volunteers who got there before the hotel did.
Thank yous
Keith Johnson
Pat Oros
Becky Fallis
Peter Kafka D'Anglemont
Paul Wocken
Jesse A Welch
Bob Grieve
Robert Johns
Mark Anaker
Chad Barden
Brittany Bell
Chy Claton
Cliff Cooper
Robert Damey
Dawnella Douglas
Karen Downing
Alisan Farrell
Autmn Grieve
Debbie Johns
Dan Levine
David Ludke
L Pierce Ludke
Edward Martin
Hans P. Meire
C.J. Minneker
John Marrison
Beth Moursund
Lindy Pangan
Claudia Quate
Paul Stratton
Dave Valentine
John Valentine
Kim Valentine
LuAnn Valentine
Chuck van der Linden
by Yvonne V. Richardson
From Thursday noon to Sunday midnight was 84 hours. For some people, it was but a few short moments; for others it was a lifetime. For the Norwescon Programming Staff it was BOTH -- but it was worth missing the winter of 1988 (and half the summer too) to create the marathon of Norwescon fun.
People still seem to think that programming is magic, that it appears at the drop of a hat and disappears with a snap of the fingers. Well, as any knowledgeable gamer could tell you, magic costs -- and the better the magic, the more it costs. Here's an estimate of how much your eighty-four hours of fun cost this shaman and cohorts:
23 gallons of Maalox
14 weeks of sleep
2.346 friendships
75 gallons of gasoline
0.287 jobs (we think)
16 medium-sized trees, only 2 of which had been previously recycled
617 brain cells
3.293 vacations
1 tax return
a partridge in a pear tree
What sort of spell was required, using these ingredients, to produce your 84 hours of fun? Putting together a convention as large as Norwescon is an exercise involving both halves of the brain. Looking at my own mathematical/musical background, the incantation used was the following:
And jam we did! Once again, about 150 pros arrived to do approximately 200 panels, despite the fact that this year's Norwescon had to compete with Easter and four other conventions that weekend. Of course, I'm not mentioning conflicts such as the Florida convention the previous weekend and World Fantasy Con in the fall. I'm not saying anything aboutthe race with time either -- would the Pavilion renovation be completed before we moved in? In one of my last few coherent moments before THE WEEKEND, I dimly remember getting the news and my response was, "ALRIGHT! The airwalls are in...OH NO! The airwalls are in!"
Somewhere between March 3rd and March 23rd commenced the final struggle to get everyone and everything back in order without trashing the previous six months' work. It isn't easy to work 12 to 16 hours a day and retain the mental/physical/emotional facilities necessary to do the job, regardless of rain, snow, gloom of night, hotel remodeling, stuff like that. Nevertheless, fans, pros, and staff alike got together on the last weekend of March to do All That Jazz, scifi style. People were searching all over the hotel for fun, each other, fun, Easter Eggs, and still more fun. Since I worked all through the convention and followed that up with a month's worth of overtime, I have to rely on YOU to let me know how much fun you found -- please drop a note to the P. 0. Box to let me know what you thought was terrific, what you thought was not so terrific, what you saw this year that you particularly enjoyed, and what you didn't see that you would like to see next year.
Despite the fog that descended upon me in October and did not lift until nearly May, I do have a few impressions of my own. As usual, the convention was well attended. This year's auctions, both the Clarion West auction and the Art Show, beat the records they set last year. For that matter, the Art Show sold works before the auction, during the auction, and even after the auction. Of course, in order to buy anything after the auction, you would have had to have been in the hotel at 2:00 a.m. Monday morning when we were told that the NCAA Championship folks were to move into the hotel by 8:00 a.m. -- which meant we had to be out. Did we panic? No! We were too busy having fun! What kind of fun? Be an emergency volunteer next year and find out!. (Sneak preview [? postview?] of some of the emergency fun in the Rumor column ...)
People approved of the dance-every-night format, and the few panels we repeated from last year. Some new panels, such as After Challenger and Build a Better Mouse, packed some rooms to bursting; other panels fizzed (they held them in the bar) due to lack of PR and/or being scheduled opposite other fantastic events. Decisions, decisions -- by trying to offer something for everyone, we ended up with nine solid tracks of programming, not including gaming, the Art Show, the Dealers' Room, and the programming I wasn't supposed to put in the Fanzine Room. Needless to say, that's a bit much. Some panels may not have gotten the expected amount of attendance because there was too much to do. But as for lack of PR, you didn't read your program book! It's full of lots of important information -- it's not just another pretty face!
As always, attendees have last-minute changes in plans, and many were kind enough to inform me beforehand of cancellations. We missed you this year, and hope things will work out such that you will be able to appear next year.
Speaking of next year, I have been blackmailed into being volunteered to be next year's Program Director, and I will try to take some of the wishful thinking I've heard into consideration for Norwescon 12 programming. However, be forewarned: as with all other magics, sometimes getting what you wish for can be a dangerous thing. I've heard there should be both more and less gaming, filking, science, business, writing and costuming panels, and that there should be more quality and less quantity. Your wish is my command! Which wish? You figure it out.
Assistant Program Director: Marybeth Zele.
The Norwescon Programming Staff: Kristi Austin, Doug Booze, Jeannine Gray, Karen Hill, Andrea Hunt, Jerry "I said I wasn't going to do this" Kaufman, Casey Leichter, and Marci Malinowycz.
Computing Services: James Lane, Richard Wright.
Fannish Olympics: Mark Richardson.
Larer Tag: Alan Smith.
Media Crew: Walter Jung, Chris McDonnell.
Counted Others: John Brautlacht, Bruce and Trish Byfield, John G. Cramer, Russell Galen, A.P. McQuiddy.
Countless Others: all you folks who had fun!
Dr. Grant D. Callin. Even though the SF community likes to think of itself as a family, it doesn't compete with quality time with one's "real-time" family -- especially on holidays and other special occasions. Special thanks for coming all the way to Norwescon on Thursday evening to say that you couldn't attend due to family commitments. Thanks also to David Deitrick, Ru Emerson, Lita Smith-Gharett, and others who were kind enough to call as soon as they knew they could not attend.
Avram Davidson: I don't know how our little secret got out. I'll make sure no signs are put up next year.
Several friends: I didn't realize just how stressed out I was until someone mentioned that I seemed to still have my composure and I replied, "I keep it in a jar on my desk."
The Society for Creative Anachronism: I'm sorry I hadn't seen the room before I scheduled you in it -- my apologies for providing ten times the audience you expected. I'll try to do better next time.
by Snebl Bebletz
And now for all those situations where You Just Had to Be There. If you weren't, but you know people who were, have them explain it to you -- or better yet, make up your own explanations -- they may be far more fun.
Rumor: The Blood Drive was cancelled because Bram Stoker couldn't make it to the convention this year.
Fact: The Blood Drive was cancelled because Blood Bank volunteers don't work on Saturdays.
Rumor: I'm taking program suggestions, panel ideas, and names & addresses of prospective panelists for next year.
Fact: I'm not taking program suggestions, etc., for next year. Send them to the Norwescon P. O. Box, PLEASE -- when it comes to sorting through Norwescon mail, it's far more efficient than I am. (Sorry for calling you an "it", Lauraine, but I'm making a point.) A good portion of the mail that eventually winds up in Programming's hands goes to other departments as well; it's far wiser for YOU to send it to our distribution point and avoid any delays I may cause by having too much to do and not enough time in which to do it.
Rumor: Wesley Crusher was going to be at Norwescon this year.
Fact: His mother said no.
Rumor: Norwescon employs a full-time staff year round in order to put on the March convention. The salary and fringe benefits are incredible -- which allows Norwescon staff to devote 40 hours a week to convention planning, and even more for "that personal touch".
Fact: I, like all the rest of the Norwescon staff, only work on Norwescon in my spare time. Even though I quadrupled my Norwescon salary, four times nothing is still nothing, so I have a real job to pay all those real bills. The "personal touches" which make Norwescon programming an intricate fugue are supplied by the panelists, my staff, and some really crazy senses of humor. Working until 3 or 4 in the morning doesn't hurt, either.
Rumor: Somewhere in the hotel, a pair of Middle-aged Mutant Sumo Somethings are still waltzing away, while one of the Norwescon Crisis Crews congas off into the sunrise, singing Day-o! Day-o! Daylight comin' and me wanna go home..."
Fact: ???
Max, the Dendarii mercenary: Thanks for the on-the-spot volunteering. It was help I sorely needed -- as well as a reminder that fans out front DO remember that there are real people behind the curtains trying to make things work. Now if only Toto and the howling dogs would leave the curtain alone...
Karen Hill: The howling dogs were discovered in an enclosed location from which they could not have escaped. They have since been rescued and returned to their rightful owners. No, they didn't go to Kansas with Toto.
Bob, Jim, and Kristi: I ate the steak without anyone having to cut it up for me. It was far easier to finish it without the vulture impressions.
The Fan from Hell: Thank you very much for buying your membership this year. There's hope for you yet.
Casey Leichter: You have our deepest sympathies. Your new cat is in the mail.
Judy Suryan: You have your wish. I don't know how you managed it, but my room at V-Con was the light sweatbox. Where did you find the magician who did that? We may need him next year if my own spells run out.
We, the Norwescon committee, have always said that the convention we all love so dearly would never have gone beyond a twinkle in a few eyes if it were not for the hard work done by the volunteer staff of each one of the Norwescons. So we list below the names of those hardy souls who bravely put their bodies on the line to make Norwescon run better for everyone.
As usual this list is not only incomplete but is probably rife with misspellings. So, if we missed or misspelled your name here or elsewhere in this issue, feel free to drop us a note and we will certainly give credit where credit is due. We also hope that you will all return next year (same Bat time, same Bat Channel) to do it all again. And if your not one of the people on this list take a chance. We think you'll enjoy it. A lot of new things were put in place at Norwescon 11 for the enjoyment of our volunteer staff and since they worked out so well this time we will be doing it all again even better next year. All the volunteer staff hope that you will join the team.
Last but definitely not least, we want to give a very special thanks to Bonnie Baker and the whole staff at the Shearton Tacoma Hotel for helping to make our 5 day stay there a very enjoyable one. Working with a hotel staff that has it's clients needs in mind at the same time as meeting it's own interests and then working to see that BOTH needs are met is very refreshing and makes things a whole lot easier. We haven't got all the bugs worked out yet but with this kind of teamwork I'm sure we will.
AGAIN...THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
[Volunteer list not transcribed here.]
"I was only ten years old when the Aliens arrived on Earth. Why they came here, nobody knows. They wouldn't tell us. Better people than me have tried to find out. Some of my memories are but vague feelings but most are clear recollections of what happened when "They" arrived. The reason I am recording this is to let later generations (you) know what effects "They" had on us."
It was about a month before the world knew what was going on. The Alien's vessel had suddenly appeared at the south pole. None of the equipment that was suppose to warn us did. Vast arrays of radio telescopes and secret military equipment constructed for just such an event remained silent. The only hint of their presence was the alarm from the seismic recorders at the polar science labs that was set off by the huge ship setting down on the Antarctic tundra. It was roughly the size of London.
Even though the Aliens did nothing, the arrival of such a craft prompted quite a number of responses from the various nations of the world. The superpowers rushed their combined military forces to the area and forced the excited scientists back north where it was "safe." The abandoned science stations were occupied by the military. At first, the world thought it was just another wartime between the big boys. The rumors of an extraterrestrial city ship parked at the SouthPole appeared mostly in the supermarket newsrags. When proof finally came, in the form of a news video smuggled out of the war zone, things got really crazy.
Most of the people of Earth went nuts; "What is this, a bad SF movie?", they asked. All of the third world saw this as the second coming of God, along with most of those with heavily religious beliefs. It was a wild time on old planet Earth. The media went psychotic with the story, interviewing people left and right, rushing to and fro like chickens with their heads cut off. Riots erupted, of course, and lots of people died from suicide and from the killing sprees. The world's economy escalated and collapsed over and over. It was nearly the end of us all. Miraculously none of the Atomics went off. No one noticed at that time that practically everything atomic ceased to function. Aliens, or just us?
Gradually society recovered, retrieving it's misplaced sanity. A select minority of the populace was not affected much by the surprise event of an apparent Alien invasion. These people were fans of Science Fiction, and they had prepared for these days for ages. With their help, a new organization was formed, the splintered factions of the world were united into one society, an Earth nation. The peoples of the new world picked themselves up. Everyone was wondering what had really happened.
The Alien vessel was still there and hadn't done anything during the chaos. Some suspect that they used some form of mind control to make us go crazy, but others pointed out that if this were so they would have taken control long ago. Many such ideas were postulated and shot down just as quickly. True scientists were once again at the site of the Ship. A small by powerful defense force escorted them (we weren't stupid). And now we would get some answers.
All of the world focused on the weird problem of this strange Vessel. We all had questions we wanted answered. The standard whos', wheres' and whys'. We went about getting them. This combined world effort brought peoples and races closer together. A new religion took the place of those that had been eclipsed by the Event. Not many of the organized ones went beyond the second coming, those that did survived in this new one; a universal belief, we weren't alone anymore.
With the Unification (as we came to call it) resources weren't wasted anymore. We found out things about the mysterious Aliens just by looking in the declassified old government records. They (the Aliens) had visited many times before in smaller crafts; it was all kept hush hush. It turned out that we had invited them here when we sent out our space probes with the recorded messages. All the back research resulted in the discovery of photos, from old spy satellites, of the CityShip parked on the Moon. We were too busy fighting amongst ourselves to even notice their arrival.
The conclusion reached, that they didn't want to cause all of the resulting chaos, they couldn't get out attention any other way than actually landing on our planet (much later, we learned this was true).
The Aliens didn't do anything for a long time. They just sat behind their weird force walls (completely mirrored!). Not a peep was heard, until exactly one hundred years to the date of the first landing. I was there when the door appeared.
I had grown to 11 decades, middle age, and would live longer thanks to the new longevity medicals. As one of the Recorders of this occasion, I was to accompany the diplomatic party to the door. People now got their jobs according to their inborn talents. Everyone had a job and there was a job for everyone. Sort of socialist, but it worked. The diplomats entered first with the world watching through the Recorder (me), saying their soon to be famous words. The rest of the party followed.
That was the end of the major changes the Aliens had on our world. It was a new world now. To be sure, they had additional effects on us, but not as major as the first ones. We had no more reason to be afraid, no longer did warheads threaten, no more crime worth mentioning. All seems to be going well. Though our Friends (the Aliens) say they had little to do with it. I believe they helped us more than we will ever realize. I am in the evening years of my life now and my Friends have offered to take me one last time into space. I think I'll refuse. I've seen enough changes in my lifetime. Haven't I?
by Elisabeth Eldred
The Laserman. 1988. Director/Producer/Screenwriter: Peter Wang.
The Laserman is a comedy/mystery in a high-tech setting, but not a typical SF film. It focuses on a laser researcher, his employers with shadowy motives, and several related characters, including a detective (played by Wang himself). The myriad plot elements are linked up by the end of the film. While the high-tech element is central to the story, the focus is on characters (all with their own quirks) and humor (ranging form broad to wry irony).
Peter Wang was a laser researcher until 1983. One reason he chose to make The Laserman is that in most commercial movies, a lot of money is spent on special effects but the "lasers" depicted are merely pretty, showy and completely unauthentic (Wang cited Real Genius as one example). On a modest budget ($1.4 million) The Laserman manages authenticity. Wang also likes to work against/break down stereotypes, and his characters are anything but stereotype-bound.
Peter Wang attended the Seattle premiere of The Laserman (and the world premiere of his third film, First Date) at the 1989 Seattle International Film Festival and answered question from the audience. Since the success of his first film, the excellent A Great Wall, he has been offered big money by studios to make a sequel or similar film. Wang doesn't want to merely repeat himself ("make Great Wall 2 or Great Wall 5")and choses to remain independent so that he can make a variety of films. The wry, modest and unique The Laserman confirms the wisdom of Wang's thinking. Wang reports that Canadian distribution of The Laserman has been arranged, and he hopes to have U.S. distribution arranged by the end of 1989. (So far it has been seen in the U.S. at film festivals almost exclusively.)
Looking For Something Different in Movies
Check out any film festivals in your neighborhood. You may get to see the only local showing of something rare or exotic, or the first showing of something new (major studio or independently made). Film festivals occur in may U.S. and European cities; at least one specializes in speculative fiction movies.
The annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) (May-June) tends to include SF/fantasy films, some of them rare or offbeat. When the creators of Android wanted to finetune their second movie, City Limits, SIFF was one of the places they showed it. The two creators also appeared on stage after the film to answer question and get audience feedback on what was admittedly a working rough print (and still not widely released). SIFF has presented regional or world premieres of several films in its 15 years, including Return of the Jedi and Earth Girls Are Easy. SIFF has also premiered or featured such gems as The Road Warrior, Eating Raoul, Android, The Brother From Another Planet and Chinese Ghost Story (which succeeds in may ways that Big Trouble in Little China did not).
So watch the listings for film festivals near you...and when you travel, don't forget local newspapers and magazines may clue you in to good opportunities.
Earth Girls Are Easy. Vestron Pictures, 1989. Directed by Julian Temple. Written by Julia Brown, Charlie Coffey,Terence E. McNally.
Earth Girls Are Easy is a broad comedy whose SF framework provides a basis for social parody. From the opening credits to the background touches of humor, it works a variety of influences including cartoons, music videos and California jokes. Director Julian Temple chose the San Fernando Valley as the setting both because it is a suburb of Hollywood and because it is, he thinks, as weird as any place on Earth. After three aliens land their spaceship in her backyard, Valerie (Gena Davis) tries to keep them out of trouble as they explore the local scene (as if her personal life weren't already complicated enough). There are lots of peripheral funny bits (a store named 2001 Flavors, LA's Griffith Park Observatory as a disco named Deca Dance) and an entrance by Jeff Goldblum harkening back to another famous role of his. While, as mind food, it is closer to popcorn than to chateaubriand, Earth Girls Are Easy is good, enjoyable popcorn.
By Dora Shirk
It's June? Already! Really?
I guess that means you want to know things like whether the world of science fiction/fantasy news still exists and if its doing anything.
The answer is yes, its still there and its busy........
You want to know more? You are getting picky, aren't you? Well, since you insist, I suppose I will go into greater detail about some of the many things that are going on.
Let's begin with the somewhat scandoulous news that the Hugo Award Nominations that were printed in Science Fiction Chronicle include nominees that have now withdrawn due to the rumors that they stuffed the ballot box. They remain only in the category for the John W Campbell Award.
You want to know what the nominations are and who "they" are? I'll give you one out of two. Here goes;
Best Non-Fiction
The Motion of Light in Water by Samuel R Delany, First Maitz by Don Maitz, SF, Fantasy and Horror 1987 by Charles N Brown & William Contento, A Biographical Dictionary of SF and Fantasy Artists by Robert Weinberg, and (unfortunately) The New Encyclopedia of SF edited by James Gunn
Best Novel
Cyteen by C J Cherryh, Island In The Net by Bruce Sterling, Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card, Falling Free by Lois McMaster, Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Best Novelette
The Function of Dream Sleep by Harlan Ellison, Peaches for Mad Molly by Stephen Gould, Do Ya, Do Ya Wanna Dance? by Howard Waldrop, Ginny Sweethips the Flying Cirrus by Neal Barrett, Jr, Schrodinger's Kitten by George Alex Effinger
Best Novella
Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad, Surfacing by Walter Jon Williams, The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians by Bradley Denton, The Last of the Winnibagos by Connie Willis, The Scale Hunter's Beautiful Daughter by Lucius Shepard
Best Short Story
The Giving Plague by David Brin, Our Neutral Chernobyl by Bruce Sterling, The Fort Moxie Branch by Jack McDevitt, Stable Strategies for Middle Management by Eileen Dunn, Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick, Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Shepard A Landis
Best Professional Editor
Stanley Schmidt, David Hartwell, Charles Ryan, Edward L Ferman, Gardner Dozois (all of these will be at NWC 12, right Yvonne??)
Best Fanzine
FILE 770 ed. by Mike Glyer (Yeah!), And Other Realms ed. by Chuq Von Rospach, Lan's Lantern ed. by George Laskowski, Fosfax ed. by Timothy Lane, The Niekas ed. by Ed Meskyes (if any of you have and are willing to part with or photocopy any of the above fanzines [except FILE 770- I've got that] please, please, please get in touch with me.)
Best Fan Writer
Mike Glyer, Dave Langford, Gut Lillian III, Avedon Carol, Arthur Hlavaty, Chuq Von Rospach
Best Fan Artist
Brad Foster, Diana Gallagher Wu, Stu Shiffman, Teddy Harvia, Taral Wayne, Merle Insinga
Best Semi-Prozine
Science Fiction Chronicle, The New York Review of SF, Thrust, Interzone, Locus
Best Movie
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Alien Nation, Big, Willow, Beetlejuice
Best Professional Artist
Bob Eggleton, Don Maitz, Thomas Canty, David Cherry,
John W Campbell Award Christopher Hinz, Michaela Roessner, William Sanders, BJ Beese & Todd Cameron Hamilton, Melanie Rawn, Kristine Kathryn Ruszh, Delia Sherman, whew...
For those who have been wondering -- yes, there will be a novelization of Beauty and the Beast. The pilot will be done by Barbara Hambly.
Looking for something to do this summer? Want to improve your writing? Willing to travel? Do you remember how much fun listening to David Hartwell is? Then have I got the Course for you. In the great state of Massachusetts is a little college called Harvard, and they are offering a summer course on SF/Fantasy writing taught by Hartwell.
In the spirit of never letting it be said that I won't admit to stupidity when I have to -- Do the following titles mean anything to anyone out there? Beyond the Dragon Star, Dawn of the Dragon Star, Night of the Dragon Star. If they do, PLEASE let me know, or let Yvonne or Jody know so that they can let me know. It has its importance.
The May issue of Science Fiction Chronicle includes a picture and short article on "40 Years Ago with Seattle's Nameless Ones.
Once again into the "spirit" of things, this time the spirit of letting everybody have their fair share of space in this crowded issue. So, in that spirit, I'm going to sign off for this month and start gathering up news for next month.
A Westwind subscription is included with a NWSFS membership, at $ per year.
Westwind is mailed during the first week of each month.
Contributions of art, reviews, articles, etc., are welcome. Deadline is the 5th of the month prior to issue.
(redacted) SEATTLE, WA 98124
Advertising is accepted - see page 2
David Mattingly is profiled in the Progress Report Section of this issue.
Editor: Robert Suryan
Art Editor: Doug Booze
Layout Editor: Judy Suryan
Printing: Michael Brocha
Typing: Sue Bartroff, Judy Suryan, Robert Suryan
Mailing Labels: Lauraine Miranda
December Collating: Sue Bartroff, Kathy McLean, Michael Brocha, Lauraine Miranda, Judy Suryan, Robert Suryan
CONTRIBUTORS: Sue Bartroff, Michael Brocha, Michael Citrak, Gary Davis, Elisabeth Eldred, Sandra Endof-Hom, Jon Gustafson, Mark Manning, Chris McDonell, Andy P. McQuiddy, Lauraine Miranda, Dave Myers, Carolyn Palms, Mark Richardson, Yvonne V. Richardson, Michael Scanlon, Mark Schellburg, Dora Shirk, Doug Shirk, Alan Smith, Kathryn Smith, Judy Suryan, Robert Suryan, Debbie Tatarek, Elizabeth Warren. Richard Wright.
ART CREDITS: Brad Foster, Steve Gallacci, David Mattingly, Ingrid Neilsen, David Seaman, William R. Warren.
Other Matters by Dora Shirk: Page 5
Little Paper Faces by Mark Manning: Pages 6-7
Regionally Yours by Dora Shirk: Pages 7-10
Reeltime by Doug Shirk: Pages 12-13
Open Forum by Sue Bartroff: Page 13
The Beast and the Bunides by Sandra Endof-Horn: Pages 14-15
Calendar: Page 3
Announcements: Page 4
Social: Page 4
Birthdays: Page 4
Personals: Page 4
Editorial: Page 5
Book & TV Reviews: Pages 10-11
Chairman's Corner: Page 16
GoHs: Pages 16-18
Attending Pros: Pages 18-19
Phillip K Dick Award: Page 19
Green Room: Page 20
Programming: Page 20
Young Fan Information: Page 20-21
Dealers Room: Page 21
Hospitality: Page 21
Easter Events/Banquet: Page 22
Film Contest/Phone List: Page 22
Writing Workshops: Page 22
Lazer Tag/Clarion Auction: Page 23
Blood Drive/Fannish Olympics: Page 23
Art Show: Page 23
Programming And Stage Services: Page 24
Masquerade: Page 24
Site Services: Pages 24-25
Peacebonding: Page 25
Room Parties: Page 25
Cloak Room/Lost & Found: Page 25
Registration: Pages 26-27
Sneak Preview: Page 28
WESTWIND--the newsletter of the Northwest Science Fiction Society. Issue No. 137, January 1989. Published by Northwest Science Fiction Society. Chairman: Judy Suryan. Vice-Chairman: Becky Simpson. Secretary-Treasurer: Sue Bartroff. Opinions expressed herein are thereof the authors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher.
Contents copyright (C) 1989 for contributors by the Northwest Science Fiction Society. Westwind is mailed monthly to members of NWSFS, (redacted), SEATTLE, WA 96124. Memberships in NWSFScost $15.00 ($18.00 for out of country - in U.S. funds only) per year including 12 months of Westwind. Advertising is accepted: must be received camera-ready by the 5th of the month prior to issue. Mail to NWSFS. Full page (7.5 x 10), $20: Half-page (7.5 x 5). $12: quarter page (3.5 x 5), $7: eighth page or business card, $5. NWSFS INFORMATION HOTLINE: (redacted).
February 10-12, 1989: VIKINGCON X Parks Motel, Bellingham, WA SGoH Robert Forward, FGoH Terry Whyte.
February 11-13, 1989: ECLECTICON 3. Beverly Garland Hotel, (redacted), Sacramento, CA 95815. GoH Stephen R. Donaldson, FGoH Alan Chamberlain, AGoH Martin Cameron, TM Gordon Garb/ $25 at the door. Info: (redacted), Sacramento, CA 95812.
February 17-19, 1989: WISCON 13. Holiday Inn Southeast, Madison. GoHs Gardner Dozois, Pat Cadigan. Memb. $20 to 1/31/89, $25 at the door. Info. (redacted), Madison, WI 53701-1624.
March 23-26, 1989: NORWESCON 11. Tacoma Sheraton. Memb. $26 to 3/1/89, $30 at the door. $3 discount for NWSFS members. WGoH Algis Budrys, Agoh David Mattingly, FGoh Mike Glyer, SGoH Dr. Alan Nourse, TM Steve Barnes. Info: (redacted), Seattle, WA 98124
March 24-26, 1989: S.T. CON '89. Marlborough Inn, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Memb. $15 to 3/23/89, $20 at the door. GoH Diane Carey, Gregory Brodeur, Sandy Fries. Info: (redacted), Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2K OV4.
April 14-16, 1989: LEPRECON 15. Phoenix Hyatt Regency. AGoH Richard Hescox, WGoH Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, FGoH Sue Thing. $20 to 2/12/89. Info: (redacted), Tempe, AZ 85282.
April 21-23, 1989: AMIGOCON 4. El Paso, Texas. GoH Melinda M. Snodgrass, AGoH Frank Kelly Freas. Memb. $12 to 7/14/89, $15 at the door. Info: (redacted), El Paso, TX 79923.
May 5-7, 1989: ANGLICON II. Hyatt Seattle Hotel. GoHs Michael Keating & Mark Ryan. Memb. $35 -1/1/89-3/31/89, 1989, $40 therafter. Info: Anglicon II, (redacted), Kirkland, WA 98034-8207.
May 26-28, 1989: GALAXY FAIR & ART-CON II. Hyatt Regency DFW, International Pkwy, Dallas Ft Worth Airport, TX 75261. WGoH George R.R. Martin, AGoH Frank Kelly Freas, TM Robert Asprin, Filk GoH Marty Burke, FGoH Walt Barie. Info: (redacted), Arlington, TX 76015-6471.
May 26-28, 1989: V-CON 17. Totem Conference Center, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C. GoHs Robert Sheckley, Spider Robinson, Jeanne Robinson, TM Bob Shaw. $16 ($14 US) to 11/30/88. $18 ($16 US) to 3/31/89. Info: (redacted), Dentall Centre, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, V7X lA2.
June 30, July 1-2, 1989: CONTEXT '89. Lister Hall, U of Alberta. GoH William Gibson, Fantasy GoH Charles de Lint, AGoHs Diane and Leo Dillon, SGoH Dr. Brad Thompson. Memb. $20 to 6/89, $25 at the door. Info: (redacted), Edmonton, AB T6E 5G5.
August 11-13, 1989: ZERO G, A RELAXCON. Cavanaugh's Motor Inn, Moscow, ID. GoH John Dalmas, FGoH Jon Gustafson. Memb. $10 to 2/1/89, $12 to 8/1/89, $14 at the door. Info: (redacted), Moscow, ID 83843.
August 25-27, 1989: DRAGONFLIGHT '89. Gaming Convention, Bellermine Hall, Seattle University. Memb. (Dragonflight + Con.) $18 to 12/31/88. Info: (redacted), Seattle, WA 98111.
August 31-September 4, 1989: NOREASCON III/47TH WORLD SF CONVENTION. Sheraton-Boston/Hynes Convention Ctr., Boston, MA GoHs Andre Norton, Ian & Betty Ballantine. FGoHs The Stranger Club. Memb. $70 (children $45) to 3/15/89,$80 ($50) to 7/15/89 ($20 supporting). For info. Noreascon 3, (redacted), MIT Branch P.O., Cambridge, MA 02139.
October 6-8, 1989: BANFF INTERNATIONAL 89. Banff Parks Lodge, Banff, Alberta. GoH Brian Aldiss, AGoH Vincent Di Fate, FGoH Mike Glicksohn. Memb. $25 ($21 US) to 1/1/89. Info: (redacted), Red Deer, Alberta T4N 5H3, or (redacted), Moscow, ID 83843.
October 13-15, 1989: ARMADILLOCON 11 Wyndham South, Austin Texas. GoH Lewis Shiner,FGoH Mike Glyer, Official Artist David Thayer, FAGoH Teddy Harvia, Editor GoH Pat LoBrutto, TM Connie Willis. Memb. $15 to 4/2/89. Info: Fact, (redacted), Austin, TX.
October 13-15, 1989: PINEK.ONE 11, CANVENTION 9. Skyline Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. SFGoH Greg Bear, FantasyGoH Raymond E. Fiest, AGoH David Cherry, FGoH Michael Skeet. Memb: C$15/US$13 to 3/31/89, CS20/US$21 to 9/15/89, CS25/US$21 thereafter. Info: (redacted), STN F, Ottawa, Ontario, K2C 311, Canada.
November 10-12, 1989: ORYCON 11. Columbia River Red Lion. GoH Michael Bishop. Memb: $16 to 5/31/89, $20 to 10/ 31/89, $25 at the door. Info: (redacted), Portland, OR 97228. OryCon will be a weaponless convention.
December 8-10, 1989: SMOFCON 6. Howard Johnson Airport Hotel, 801 Dixon Rd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M9W 115. Memb: C$35/US$28 to 5/31/89, CS40/USS32 to 10/30/89, C$50/US$40 at the door. Info: (redacted), Station 'M', Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6S 4T3.
July 5-9, 1989: WESTERCON 43. Red Lion Janzen Beach Center, Portland, Oregon. GoHs Ursula K. LeGuin, Vonda McIntyre, Kate Wilhelm. Memb: $25 to 4/7/89. Info: (redacted), Portland, OR 97228. Westercon 43 will be a weaponless convention.
August 30-September 3, 1990: CON DIEGO/NASFIC 1990. GoH Samuel Delany, FGoH Ben Yalow. Memb: $55 to 7/1/89, $65 to 1/1/90, $75 to 7/l/90, $85 at the door. Info: (redacted), San Diego, CA 92115.
The second social of the year will be held at the residence of Mary Hamburger. on Friday, Feb. 24at 7:00 pm. This is to give everyone the opportuntiy to attend both the social and the Sneak Preview on Saturday. Details about the social to follow in the next issue of the Westwind.
Roommate needed-Meghan Lancaster would like to share her room with someone at Norwescon. Non-smoker preferred. Call (redacted).
Do you need a room or crash space at Norwescon? Call our clubs member services person, Lauraine Miranda and ask her to put you on her list along with your needs. If two parties have similar requests she lets each of them know of the other. Call the hotline at (redacted) and leave your message.
SF Radio Dramas. If you work with your hands, if you jog or walk, if you drive to work with a tape-deck in your car, you can listen to SF radio dramas. Over the last 5 to 7 years the 'spoken' cassette section in bookstores has mushroomed to accomodate those folks who have cassette players and want something more engaging than music to listen to. There are also several outlets which sell copies ofolder SF radio shows, not to mention the North American Radio Archives which rents out tapes and cassettes. I will do an hour's presentation of SF Radio at Norwescon in March and would like to invite any readers with a knowledge of SF radio drama to participate. If you just want to swap tapes I'd like to hear from you. Thanks. -Mark Skullerud; (redacted) Seattle, Wa. 98177. Phone (redacted).
Late this last December, Lauraine Miranda's mother died after a long illness. I remember her as a quiet woman who collected cancelled stamps and allowed us to to invade her home once a year for a summer social. Losing a parent is never easy, as too many of us know. Our deepest sympathies to Lauraine and her family.
Announcing the 1989 Clarion West Writers' Workshop, June 18-July 29. Clarion West is an intensive six week workshop for those preparing for professional science and fantasy writing careers. It is held annually at Seattle Central Community College in Seattle, Washington.
Instructors: Orson Scott Card, Karen Joy Fowler, Lucius Shepard, Connie Willis, Shawna McCarthy, Roger Zelazny.
Applications: Approximately 20 students will be selected. Submit 20-30 pages of original manuscript (1-2 short stories or a novel portion with outline), typed and double spaced. Enclose a $25.00 application fee payable to Clarion West (applicable to tuition if accepted). Include a cover letter containing your background and reasons for wanting to attend Clarion West. Include phone number and address for May and June. Send applications to: Clarion West, (redacted), Seattle, WA 98112.
Costs and Deadlines: Tuition is $995.00 until March 1, 1989. Late applicants will be considered until Apr 1, 1989 at a tuition of $1095.00. Housing is available for approximately $600.00, not including meals. Limited scholarships exist. Request scholarship form in advance and return it with your application. Optional college credit available at additional cost. Additional Information: Write to the above address or call (redacted).
January 3: Sue Taubeneck
January 3: Dale Vick
January 5: Marci Malinowycz
January 5: Margaret Organ
January 15: Robert Hess
January 15: Barbara Hunter
January 17: Laura Ramsey
January 28: Doug Taylor
Robert Suryan
Just a couple of quick notes. First of all my apologies to Patrick Bartroff for listing him as Robert in the art credits of last month's Westwind. Also, I know many of you have not received tear sheets of your contributions for the last three months. I am going to rectify that situation as soon as I can find all the loose sheets from those issues. Patience please!
I will continue to experiment with different styles of layout to make the Westwind an exciting and highly readable journel. Any comments or suggestions you may have would be greatly appreciated. (Just remember I am working with a PC not a MacIntosh.)
Greetings! Well, here it is January which means that many more people are reading this than usually do. For that reason I am going to reiterate that this column is a collection of bits and pieces, news and confirmable gossip, odds and ends, questions to the readers that they are "supposed" to write in and answer, and discussions aimed at getting people to accept (and read) the non-fiction side of science fiction/fantasy. The news for this column is gathered from Science Fiction Chronicle, Locus, Comic Buyer's Guide, Starlog, File 770, word of mouth, and any other source that has had something to say about science fiction or fantasy.
Now - let's get on with the news!
Do you want to know who won the WORLD FANTASY AWARDS???? The people who won them deserve to be honored (even if the people running the convention next year do not). The winners of the 1988 WORLD FANTASY AWARDS are:
Best Novel - Replay by Ken Grimwood
Best Novella - Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out To Night? by Ursula K. LeGuin
Best SS - Friend's Best Man by Jonathon Carroll
Best Artist - J.K. Potter
Best Collection - The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard
Best Anthology - a tie - The Dark Descent ed. David Hartwell
The Architecture of Fear ed. Katherine Cramer & Peter D. Pautz
SPECIAL AWARD-PROFESSIONAL - David Hartwell (yeah!)
SPECIAL AWARD-NON PROFESSIONAL - Robert & Nancy Garcia, and David B Silva.
LIFE ACHIEVEMENT - Everett F. Bleiler (yeah!!)
Do any of my regular readers know who Everett F. Bleiler is? Do you have any idea what boons he has given to anyone who.........enough said -if you have a comment to make on Bleiler, send it to me. The Life Achievement award has a special significance this year but Ican't tell you what it is until I find out if you know who he is. Tune in next month.
In 1990 a new hardback (follow by a pb in 91) will be released from Del Rey by Robert A Heinlein. Yes, you heard me right -Heinlein planned this book for posthumous publication.
It contains letters written for over 30 years between Heinlein and others about his books, his thoughts on writing fiction, etc. The intro is by Virginia Heinlein and there are notes and fill-ins by Lester Del Rey. (This will be a nonfiction book you won't want to miss.) There's more on Heinlein! -- Fate's Trick by Matt Costello is the latest in the Crossroads Adventure series of action, self-adventure game/books. This one is based on Heinlein's Glory Road (my personal favorite). Another "must" to put on your list is the Robert A Heinlein Memorial Issue of New Destinies (winter 1988). It includes the reprints of 5 of his works, including 2 poems that were previously unpublished. Also in there are appreciations of Heinlein by Jerry Poumelle, Spider Robinson (2), Rick Cook, Vernor Vinge, Charles Sheffield, and others. Go forth and find this issue!
The ranks of the pro magazine have increased!
Aboriginal, Interzone, and Fantasy Tales have joined the ranks of those that average over 10,000 circulation. No longer will they be competing with the many other semi-prozines for a Hugo, but with the "upper crust" of sf/f publishing.
Does anyone out there have a copy of the Sept/Oct. Bloomsbury Review? Would you please write and tell me? In case there are more than one of you, I won't say will you zerox the sf section and send it and I'll reimburse your copying cost, but I will.
Yale University Press still has copies of its, Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction by Karl Kroeber - who is the brother of Ursula K LeGuin. It is a $20 hardback which integrates F/SF with mainstream English Romanticism, and is thoughtful enough to include an index as well as notes. As soon as I physically see a copy and not just the reviews I'll let you know if it lives up to them.
How about a who's who of over 1300 of the genre's fictional characters? If so, see your local bookstore and ask for Imaginary People by David Pringle.
Guess who has sold a book to Ace - and its not about Star Trek? William Shatner. And speaking of StarTrek people - Have you seen or read Walter Koenig's new book yet? Its called Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot. Due to all the added features you are getting this month in Westwind, like the Regionally Yours interview with Mike Glyer and all the other goodies related to NWC 11 -- you will not be getting Part 2 of TO BE OR NOT TO BE...AN ENCYCLOPEDIA until next month. If you missed part 1, go find a December Westwind and get ready for next month. See you then!
Mark Manning
Happy 1989, everyone. At the end of the last Little Paper Faces, I reminded you to vote Rottnest Island for Worldcon, a reference to a running gag/campaign by Perth fan Ian Nichols to hold a majorcon at this remote Australian resort. Rottnest even garnered a write-in vote for 1991 Worldcon site. To meet Nichols, and dozens ofother Aussie fen, read Jerry Kaufman's Kaufman Coast to Coast ($6 from Serconia Press, (redacted), Seattle, WA 98111). It's a report on his 1983 Down Under Fan Fund (DUFF) trip to the Australian NatCon.
Enough chit-chat--onward to the zine scene!
Pulsar #122 (for trade or $10/year with membership in PorSFiS, (redacted), Portland, OR 97229), edited in December by Richard Threadgill, includes club minutes, calendar items, Ariel Shattan's book reviews, and two LoCs (Letters of Comment) favoring the for-profit RoseCon '88.
BCSFAzine #186 and 187 (Nov and Dec), edited by Steve Forty, includes the outrageous "Ask Mr. Science" which explains, among other things, why dinosaurs were so big (they were really small, but the Earth expanded and so did fossils), R. Graeme Cameron's review of a panel featuring Gibson, Merril, and Robinson, reports on NonCon and Orycon, and LoCs from four Big Name-letterhacks. Nice stuff for Canadian S12/year or the Usual to the BCSF Association, (redacted), Station E, Vancouver, BC, V6M 4G9. The Usual, of course, means a Letter of Comment, art, a fan article, or your own zine in trade.
Ish #44 of The SFSFS Shuttle ($15/year with membership in the South Florida SFSociety, (redacted), Ft. Lauderdale, FL33307-0143) was edited anonymously by Carol Porter, who thanks Judy Bemis, the anonymous guest editor for #43. Not much here but announcements, ads, and a membership form.
Issues #450 (11/13/88) of Instant Message ($15/year with membership in the New England SF Association, (redacted), MIT Branch Post Office, Cambridge, MA 02139-0910) came in the mail, but it only included the NESFA equivalent of a Green Book and minutes from a microscopically brief meeting.
Editor Jeni Burr sent #202 of the LA Science Fantasy Society clubzine De Profundis (available for the Usual from LASFS, (redacted), North Hollywood, CA 91601). There, prominent LASFSan Charles Lee Jackson II profiles himself, an old apa piece recounts the ten-year struggle to buy the club HQ, and secretary Mike Glyer contributes three sets of minutes. Norwescon's Fan GoH-to-be Glyer's minutes are chock-full of bits like: "Transforming himself into the FCC, Charlie described tonight's film program, Canadian Capers, as consisting of films that had been raided from the vaults of the Canadian consul-general.... Said Charlie, 'If we show you something you don't like, come back in 10 minutes and we'll be showing something else you don't like.'"
Ethel the Aardvark #20 and 21 arrived from the Melbourne SF Club ((redacted), World Trade Centre, Melboume, 3005, Australia, A$8/6 issues or trade zines). I reviewed #21 last month, so here's for #20, edited by James Allen: Two items list no author--the 1988 NatCon report and a fannish crossword puzzle. One drawing, signed 'Jeeves,' gets no mention in the colophon. Otherwise, Ethel #20 seems a pleasant clubzine with excellent fanartists like Ian Gunn. And where else would you hear about an upcoming movie like "The Navigator," in which 14th Century English peasants tunnel through the center of the Earth to modern Auckland, NZ?
An unnumbered Entropy (available for the Usual from the Barnard-Columbia SF Society, Columbia University, (redacted), New York City, NY 10027) used to be called CUSFuSsing, but since the club's slogan is 'Move New York to the Moon,' new editor RT Kato apparently decided to send old zine name there first. Seth Robertson's computer layout looks superb, although he seems addicted to computer schtick. Then there's RT's article on SF movies, which combines good insights with breathtakingly peculiar lines like, 'With Star Trek IV..., it was revealed...that Star Trek had gone commerical.' Other fun stuff: Art by Kuniko and song lyrics from the Psycho Death Tribbles from Hell ("Hell Sent Tribble Falls to Earth" and "Multiply and Conquer").
(Keith? Oh dam, Keith's too busy chairing Rustycon to handle sound effects for this review. So get ready to imagine a couple of trumpet fanfares, OK?) Editor Charlotte Proctor's Anvil #48 just appeared, commemorating ten years of Birmingham fandom (here's where the first fanfare goes--sounds good!). From the Wade Gilbreath cover, showing a robot with a birthday cake, to the conclusion of Yugoslav fan Bruno Ogorelec's series on communism, from a report on the Czech NatCon to Richard Gilliam's piece on the Early Harlan, this issue, like, really cooks, man. Fourteen pages of great LoCs, art by Rotsler, Foster, and Fox--this is what a genzine should be (more trumpets here--hey, have you played horns before?). Sub to this zine for a mere $6/year from Charlotte at (redacted), Birmingham, AL 35206 and tell her you give good trumpet.
The Fandom Association of Central Texas' 1987 Hugo winning fanzine, The Texas SF Inquirer has appeared after a long, long hiatus. Ish #25 ($6/6 issues from editor Scott Merritt, (redacted), Arlington, TX76107), the first after the departure of the old editor Pat Mueller, has a lot going for it. I'd use more white space in the layout, but a lot of articles did have to be stuffed into the ish, including RA Jones on comics, part I of Lawrence Person's guide to small press horror zines, book and zine reviews, and a bunch of LoCs, mostly addressed to the former editor. Nice art, too, what there was of it -- especially the work by Brad 'see-the-logo-for-this-column' Foster and Bryan Gibson.
That wraps up what's new in the NWSFS library. Now for zines sent to my home (find me through the Green Book if you want to look at anything reviewed below):
Scavenger's Newsletter #56 (Oct 88) came from editor Janet Fox, (redacted), Osage City, KS 66523-1329. SN deals with the new author's favorite topic, Getting Published. Fox and her collaborators list and describe dozens of small press zines I've never heard of, like Festering Brainsore and Night Slivers. LoCs come in from writers (and editors) on topics like how to gracefully accept (or write) rejection letters. If this is the kind ofzine you need, you need this kind of zine ($9/12 monthly issues).
Fosfax #134 ($9/year or the Usual from the Falls of the Ohio SF and Fantasy Association, (redacted), Louisville, KY 40233-7281) has arrived in my mailbox (if not yet at the NWSFS PO Box), complete with the usual brace of LoCs by top pros and opinionated fen, thoughtful book reviews by Joseph T. Major and co-editor Timothy Lane, and reviews of Philcon, Ad Astra, and Windycon. In his fanzine review column, Mr. Major tempts our Dora with the ER Burroughs material in the U of L Library's Rare Book Room.
John D. Berry's Wing Wmdow #11 ((redacted), Seattle, WA 98112, for the Usual) features a first-hand account of incidents at the 1987 Worldcon in England starring those controversial folks at Bridge Publications/Writers of the Future as the heavies. John also discusses--tactfully!--his candidacy for DUFF. A very stylish perzine (personal zine).
It's Only Talk, a one-page report on the Seattle fannish book discussion group Babble-17, had an anonymous editor with an anonymous address for #75, an ish which features Bruce Sterling's Mirrorshades Anthology of cyberpunk stories. A spare but very interesting zine.
Bill Bowers' Outworlds ($10/5 issues or the Usual from Bill at (redacted), Cincinnati, OH 45238) is usually one of the better genzines going, with lots of fan history and the like from the best writers and artists in fandom. But the new, 2-page, ish, #59, turns out to be a COAzine, an introduction to Bill's new friend Lynda Burgoyne, a showcase for cover art by Dan Steffan and Taral, and a contributor's index to the 1988 Outworlds (it wouldn't be a real Bowerzine without lists!).
Well, until next month, don't let an 'X' go by your name in Douglas Fir, Of Course. I'll be back in February with a translation, plus more zine reviews.
Conducted by Dora M Shirk
Welcome back to the place where we get to know more about those of importance to Northwest fandom and NORWESCON. This time we are going to learn all about our Fan Guest of Honor for NWC 11 - Mike Glyer. He is the owner, operator, editor and writer of File 770 (a fanzine that if you don't subscribe to you should! [it's only $4]). I shall say no more at this time -- read on, enlighten yourself with the inside scoop on our FGoH, and plan on laughing and learning at the same time.
WW: What got you started in science fiction?
MG: While reading all kinds of books in the elementary school library, I discovered science fiction although I didn't know that's what it was. When I got into junior high school I started to focus on science fiction at the same time I was reading everything written by Marie Twain, and plowing through the history bookshelfs. Something in the writing of Bradbury and Heinlein obviously struck a spark, because I read every one of their books. But I had my own elitist streak at that time, and drew a distinction between those two writers, and the people whose stories appeared in those trashy pulp magazines with embarrassingly tasteless covers. A couple of years later I discovered somebody in the high school chess club who also read science fiction, and he revealed that the same people whose books I liked were filling the pages of those magazines. He also described the Lensman Serres, which sounded so amazing I borrowed it through interlibrary loan. Reading pulp sf led to the hard stuff -- fanzines and clubs.
WW: Where did you get your beginnings in fan writing?
MG: Occasionally you meet some body who "invented" fandom for himself, especially from small cities where a couple of readers discovered each other and started a club, without a clue anyone else ever did it before. You don't expect to hear of that happening in Los Angeles, with the oldest and largest sf club in the world, but in the late 60's two little groups who never heard of fandom reinvented it: I was in one of them. A local librarian in Slymar started a science fiction discussion group when I was in high school. While that was running I saw an ad in the back of Galaxy for Science Fiction Review, and inspired by the kind of publication it implied I started my own fanzine. It was an imitation prozine, with Cambellesque editorials, and amateur fiction. I also wrote to get pros for contributions, and when they wrote polite refusals I featured those as reverse-rejection-slips. (Whether or not that sounds "cute" 18 years later, they didn't think it was cute at the time...)
WW: Who are your favorite authors (both fan & pro) and why?
MG: If asked who I thought was the best sf writer, I would say Heinlein, but my favorite sf writer is Poul Anderson. Like other young writers who start by imitating a favorite, I wanted to write as well as Poul Anderson, but unfortunately, the more I tried to make my stories sound like something from Trader to the Stars the worse they came out. I've still never sold any fiction, but my writing in general greatly improved when I discovered Raymond Chandler, the mystery writer. I was better equipped to learn about writing from his stories than from my favorite sf writers. Mark Twain, David Halberstam and Dan Jenkins are other mainstream favorites.
WW: What do you think of the SF movies being released in the last few years?
MG: While I'm out there with everyone else buying my ticket to the Star Wars and Star Trek sequels, the Indiana Jones movies, Brainstorm, Superman and every other non-horror fantasy film that comes down the pike, I think we've all noticed that Hollywood has only reached the point of being able to produce a science fiction movie as complex as the average 1940's pulp magazine story. The audience itself is way beyond what Hollywood is prepared to deliver, when you consider that Oarke's and Asimov's novels are national bestsellers. State-of-the-art movie crafts create great futuristic visions for Bladerunner and Alien, but they are 1940's stories. The results with 60's story like Dune were not encouraging. Will there ever be movies attempting to portray the Ringworld, or the universe of Startide Rising?
WW: What are your favorite movies and why?
MG: Were you hoping to hear something more idiosyncratic than Casablanca? There's ET. ET is also not a complex story, and there are events in it that are not internally self-consistent, I'll grant all those criticisms, but I care what happens to the people in that movie, and that's a rare achievement in characterization and storytelling. It took Ghandi to knock it out of an Academy Award, didn't it...?
WW. What are your favorite magazines and why?
MG: Airline travel magazines, actually. But if you want to talk about fanzines, let's start with Fosfax, because it marks a return to well-written fannish criticism of sf which has been missing from fanzines for years. Mimosa, a genzine edited by the Lynchi, which runs a kind of fanwriting I find particularly accessible. The Space Wastrel, edited by a trio of Australians, a fanzine with a very strongly written personality and a bold diversity of interests. I like a lot of fanzines: this is the richest era in fanzine publishing since the early 1970's. These three get read cover-to-cover as soon as they come in.
WW: What do you read for pleasure?
MG: Wild Cards anthologies, Tom Clancy books (e.g. The Hunt For Red October) and Spenser detective novels.
WW: Whoareyour favorite genre artists? Are there any works in particular?
MG: There's hardly any major sf artist I "don't" like, so the preferences tend to be for art that evokes a particular point in fannish time. Schoenherr's Dune covers on Analog. A Galaxy Christmas cover by Emshwiller. Rotsler cartoons in SF REVIEW. George Barr APA L covers. Alicia Austin's Beardsley phase. Don Simpson's exotic spaceship models. The 21 paintings from the works of Tolkien that Tim Kirk created for his master's thesis, exhibited at the 1972 Westercon. Foglio's slideshow of The Capture. Seattle Bill Warren's covers for the Sturgeon and Challenger crew obituary issues of Westwind. Some of the hysterically funny pen-and-ink drawings from the Not-The-1989 Tolkien Calendar (to be published by the Mythopoeic Society).
WW: Give us a brief history of File 770.
MG: After Locus, the dominant nonfiction publication of our genre, was so successful in the pro field, Linda Bushyager's Karass recreated the niche for fannish newszines reporting about fanzine and convention fandoms. When she phased it out she encouraged me to publish a successor, which I began doing in January 1978. What's followed has amounted to ten years of heaven on earth for a fanzine fan: frequent issues, enormous feedback, and plenty of enthusiastic readers.
WW: What are your plans for the future of File 770?
MG: I dream about joining the fanzine publishing revolution with my own 386 and a copy of Ventura Publishing software, and you never know, it might happen someday.
WW: What do you find to be the hardest part of doing File 770?
MG: When you come right down to it, there is nothing hard about doing File 770. The hard part is deferring the pleasure of publishing File 770 to fulfill other projects --like organizing the 1988 NOLAcon and Loscon Programs. In fact, that's why I won't do publications for local conventions anymore. In the time it takes to produce a quality program book that no one will ever read, even the con chairman, I can do two issues of my newszine.
WW: What advice would you give to other fan writers? Particularly new ones?
MG: Why would anyone want to be a "fan writer" other than to get his or her material in front of an audience? My advice to new fan writers is publish small fanzines full of their own material and send them around. Don't volunteer to edit your local clubzine, and don't accept memberships in apas offered by impressive and well-meaning actifans unless you have an awful lot of spare time. Keep reading science fiction prozines. Read all kinds of stuff: that fuels the imagination, makes your work interesting, and will help you understand Patrick Neilsen Hayden's references...
WW: How do you feel about Worldcons? (in general)
MG: Between 1979 and 1984 I published the daily newszine at the Worldcons I attended (missing 1979 and 1981) which is a very time-consuming job. From 1985 to 1987 I rediscovered how much I enjoy World Cons as anattendee. I enjoy the endless menu of choices to make and things to discover within the realm of science fiction. Especially in the case of the WorldCon, the convention should serve -- not edit -- all the interest groups in sf fandom. In fact, the formula for a successful WorldCon is to catalyze and focus the energy that motivates people from many backgrounds to attend the convention. That art is really an end in itself. But if a person is distressed by "fragmented fandom", presenting good programming of all types to fandom's largest single audience offers the greatest chance of involving people in more than one fragment.
WW: How do you feel about the HUGO balloting and voting? Are they fair to the "average fan"?
MG: Well, I still think ET should have won instead of Bladerunner, but other than that I believe that the Hugo Award serves the field rather well given that it is a popularly voted award. When the "average fan" sees a book that won the Hugo he can rely on it being among the best work in the field, yet within any five year period the Best Novel will go to hard sf, poetic speculative fiction, and sometime even fantasy. As a group, fans have wonderfully eclectic taste.
So far as the fan Hugos are concerned, I have spent the last ten years advocating the radical position (judging by the feedback) that the results are directly determined by whether active fanzine fans vote. In 1986, many of them threw their vote away in the "No Award" debacle. In 1988, the next year the WorldCon was back in North America, they flexed their muscle and picked Texas SF Inquirer and I was very happy (for somebody who finished second... ) to see a mimeographed genzine take the Hugo for the first time since Enerqumen in 1973.
WW: What do you do when you're not reading, writing, printing, or collating?
MG: There is such a time!? Oh, sure there is --the time I spend at conventions!
WW: What do you like the most about SF cons?
MG: Going around and encountering friends, meeting new people. Finding out what new ideas are current in fandom.
WW: What do you like the least about SF cons?
MG: Making connecting flights in DFW? Getting the bills when I come home? Seriously, the only negative thing about sf cons in general (rather than a specific problem at a past convention) is really the flip side of a plus for conventions: I never like having to budget my time among various people and activities that I'd prefer to give my undivided attention to. But if that's a "problem" it's a more desirable problem than most.
WW: Have you ever attended and/or what are you opinions of media or comic cons?
MG: In any community big enough to host both media cons and traditional sf cons, I think you'll find a lot of the same people going to both, and they don't really perceive any difference in the events, which must be a blow to that core of traditionalist fans who think there is a great wall between media and print fandom. Now and then I've attended such conventions, an Equicon, or a San Diego ComiCon. There was even a Southern California media-convention-runner who was trying to put other convention committees out of business with unethical tactics, and in 1979 I infiltrated one of his events as a gofer. It's my theory my satirical article about that experience explained my first Hugo nomination, given as much for audacity as for the writing.
WW: What kind of panels would you like to see at a con that you haven't, and what kind of panels would you like to be asked to be on?
MG: The success of some of the issue-oriented programming Rick Foss and I organized at NOLAcon (like "Is The Scientific Method The Death of God?" and "The Unilateral Intellectual Disarmament of the United States") demonstrated there is a great appetite among fans to hear articulate writers, artists and editors discussing ethics, politics and the future. There are remarkable thinkers among the people who create science fiction, and we want to hear them on matters of substance, not just rehashing Locus' market reports. In the past, committees have been willing to license political discussions about the space program, but I think speculation about any interesting aspect of the future is appropriate to a convention [WW -He's never been to our two and three hour and longer panels has he? Rememberthose friends?] As for the kinds of panels I like to be on: I enjoy conducting interviews, and moderating panels. I've done some really good interviews with Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, David Brin, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Harry Harrison. And a really forgettable interview with Jim Baen (after which I disappeared from the review copy mailing list of BaenBooks, come to think of it...)
When conducting a convention interview my style is different than in a journalistic interview: at a con, I'm there to help create entertainment by eliciting interesting stories from the writer. Some of my favorite writers (Ellison, Pohl, Bradbury, Poumelle) are so forthcoming, an interviewer would just be an impediment, but I'd enjoy the opportunity to question Norman Spinrad, George Alec Effinger, Vonda McIntyre, Howard Waldrop or Gardner Dozois.
WW: What are your favorite 'causes' or charities?
MG: Do you mean the LASFS Building Fund? Or the Church of Herbangelism?
WW: What one (or two) things would you like to see changed about the society we live in, in your lifetime?
MG: Several of the changes I'd like to see accomplished begin with a revival of our schools' ability to teach the reading and computing skills essential to a thinking citizenry. Our television society seems infinitely capable of transmitting expectations and appetites without conveying the tools people need to achieve the standard of living they demand.
WW: Given the opportunity, would you move to a space station or go with settlers to another planet?
MG: Well, when I worked in Hollywood I was a "tax auditor to the stars", and if they ever open up a Luna City office I'll think about taking that literally.
WW: If you woke up and found yourself in a parallel world that did not allow books, what would your reaction be? What would you do?
MG: Buy a modem and a lot of floppy disks?
WW: How do you see the ideal fanzine room at a convention? What have the better ones you've seen had in them?
MG: The ideal fanzine room is really a convention in microcosm, providing its own program, dealers, and artists. The bigger the convention, the more the average fanzine fan craves a sanctuary: a con-within-a-con. A large hospitality room set as a lounge, with couches, chairs and tables, seems to be the most successful environment. But merely throwing the doors open to a nice room is not enough. Some preplanned panel discussions or open forums will attract fanzine fans to the room. At Conspiracy (which boasted history's most successful fanzine room) the entire fan track of programming was run in rooms adjacent to the lounge. At AussieCon II, the program ran "in" the fanzine lounge. Both schemes worked very well in making the lounge a convention-long focus for fanzine fans. The other necessary elements are an abundant fanzine sales table, and exhibits of loads of classic fanzines. There needs to be an active effort by the committee to include fanzine artists in the displays and program, not merely because of their important role in creating good fanzines, but because the artists as a group seem to be the people most reluctant to thrust themselves forward for attention. Whenever fans brainstorm the contents of a fanzine lounge, they always say there should be typewriters and repro equipment -- maybe even computers and laser printers -- so that people can produce fanzines on the spot. However, the kind of publications fans generate on the spot at conventions never stand out as quality fanzines: at best they are nice souvenirs for the participants to take home as a reminder of what a good time they had. That doesn't surprise me, because sitting at a terminal with your back to a party is not a normal human behavior. Fanzines exist for communication, and when you're surrounded by a roomful of fanzine fans what need is there to resort to paper personalities?
Well said, and thank you for the interview. See you in March "MG".
NORWESCON 11 SNEAK PREVIEW
ITS HERE!!
See back cover for details.
The Light at the End of the Universe, Terry Carr, New York: Pyramid Books, 1976.
The late Terry Carr was justly renowned as an editor of anthologies but under-recognized for his own writings. While his novel Cirque (set in the future on a very-different Earth) may be more easily found in libraries and second-hand bookstores, The Light at the End of the Universe better represents Carr's talent and imagination (no wonder Harlan Ellison chose to include it in his Discovery series; his introduction to the volume lets you know Ellison is a fan of Carr's).
In 15 stories, settings and situations range from the nearly mundane (a "Touchstone" that may be more than it seems) to very alien planets and cultures; from traditional stories (a Sleeping Beauty with a twist and The Old Man of the Mountains) to a love story set on a future, heavily populated Earth (They Live on Levels). One of the stories of a future, much-changed Earth, Ozymandies, appeared in Ellison's Again, Dangerous Visions. Martian colonists from Earth encounter Martian natives in Hop-Friend. There are stories of psychic powers, time travel (a minor question of key logistics)and the future of organized religion (a very black satire). The Robots Are Here portrays the Campbell-Asimov Laws of Robotics carried to some interesting extremes; some of this story's humor comes from one robot's grasp of English. Finding a copy of The Light At the End of the Universe may be difficult but rewarding; it may also leave readers wishing Terry Carr had written more SF.
-Elisabeth Eldred
Medium - (Less than Well Done)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1988-1989 Season
Premier Episode: The Child
O-Wow! How about those neat special effects! Wow! They've got it down pat now! The little details. Did you get them all? Maybe you'll have to watch it again and again to get them all!
And the story! Wow! A Roddenberry favorite! You know, the God thing. This time it was immaculate conception, no less! Wow! Thirty-six hours for gestation! Years of growth in a matter of days - hours! Exciting! Even so, everyone took it in stride. But there was just a hint of excitement at first. But they recovered their composure with alacrity. Admirable!
And Data still has difficulty understanding humanity. Just like Spock. So much for Superior Intelligence. Some concepts they just cannot grasp. In the end good ol' Down-To-Earth human horse sense triumphs. Intellect isn't all its cracked up to be after all.
Wesley still has to go. And Whoopie Goldberg just serves no purpose whatever (unless it has something to do with bartending and wisdom - original). Indeed, the polyglot ensemble just will not do. I hate polyglot ensembles. Too phony; condescending; patronizing. I don't want sermons. I want entertainment!
So, why have I been watching Star Trek all these many years? Well, I don't know. Car wrecks, fires, earthquakes, wars - all fascinating. It may be horror, but you just must watch. One of these days, who knows, maybe they'll sneak in some real science-fiction!
What's really aggravating is running a starship in the far future like an eighteenth century British man-o-war on the high seas. We all know that, in a true far future, starships will practically run themselves with just a little help from their human friends.
So welcome to a new season of ST:TNG. Regardless what the anthem says about new worlds and new civilizations, its still the same ol' neighborhood with new paint on the fences.
-Gary Davis
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Episode II: 1988-1989 season
Title: Unknown. Possibilities: The Void in the Void; Yet Another Curious God; It Should Have Been Wesley; Red Herring; Worf Growls
Uh-oh! Lt. Worf and commander Riker are in trouble, for sure! There's mist and rubble and strange shapes. Ooooh! Creepy! They're set upon by two men in funny rubber suits! But you expected that, didn't you? Guess who wins. Easy, wasn't it? But, did you know they were on the holodeck? Hah! Fooled ya! Devilish clever.
But it has nothing whatever to do with the story. Oh, no! Whatwe've really got is - ta-dah - another God story! Oh boy! This time, it's a hole in space. Yep! No, seriously! A hole in space! No, not a wormhole. An emptier emptiness than is already out there. Boggling! Sorta sums up the story, actually (it comes with is own built-in review). Strange things happen there, some of them actually in the script. Counselor Troi is on hand only to deliver her lines. Otherwise she is strangely absent from the bridge. Nobody seems to notice. And Wesley, he's the Navigator, except when it comes time for someone to get knocked off. Then, for some reason, a disposable character is in the Navigator station. Lucky Wesley. Roddenberry loves doing that. If someone must die, make certain its a forgettable supernumerary. A hint to those who want to know what's going to happen next.
Now, the God in this Spacehole has a problem; It doesn't understand about humans. First, it asks for a demonstration of procreation. Oh, you've heard that one. Oh. Well, he is refused - with prejudice. It also has a problem comprehending mortality. Yes, that's when the Wesley stand-in gets it.
And we mustn't forget the famous, time honored Time Element. Capt. Picard decides to put the Enterprise on DESTRUCT (it seemed a good idea at the time). Twenty minutes to eternity! Surprise! In the very last seconds the destruct command is cancelled! Didn't expect that, did you? You thought the Enterprise was done for, didn't you? You thought next week they'd start all over with a new cast, didn't you? And please note: Everyone faced the prospect of vaporization with utmost aplomb. Didn't turn a hare. This sort of thing happens all the time. Why worry?
Special Effects sort of went on vacation this time. The Spacehole God consisted of eyes and mouth superimposed together in a swimming vapor of turquoise. Spooky! Yeah! (Actually, they couldn't figure out what a god should look like.)
Well, I'm not watching next week. They're doing Sherlock Holmes. Give me Jeremy Brett on public TV. The Real thing! (Nice ofthem to give warning.)
by Doug Shirk
LOOK AT ME, I'M SMILING
-or-
WHERE WE SAY SOMETHING NICE FOR A CHANGE
(OR AT LEAST A LITTLE WHILE)
We're going to touch on a couple of subjects, one that was sort of liked a couple of months ago, and one that got lambasted last year. This month we reverse both of them. But that comes later. Here now the news.
We've had a couple of successes, so it's about time for another Space Shuttle film. Tri-Star will start Re-entry with Pen Desham directing. A drama about astronauts returning--much changed--after a tour on the Space Shuttle, it should have better timing luck than the last shuttle based film, Space Camp, Fox's teen adventure released just after the Challenger·disaster.
Speculation is centering around the Best Film Oscar nominees already(?!). In the running are Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Big. According to Alan Mirabella of the New York Daily News, the first for "Making a one shot technical sight gag work for almost two hours", and the second for "finally making the role-reversal movie work". Good points both, and if anyone's gotan extra $4500, they can buy me the piano from Big for Christmas next year.
AND, due soon to a theater near someone is Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, including Warner's first new theater cartoon short in 25 years, Night ofthe Living Duck. For some reason these things are announced, then don't show until one day they're in the kid-vid rental section at Safeway. I would dearly love to see this on the big screen, but if I have to wait, I will. It will probably be worth it.
Which brings up the idea...why not a collection of toons based on a theme. Duck Dogers is already out on a Daffy Duck collection, but the entire string of "Man From Mars" shorts (you know, the little fellow with big tennies and a hat like a Trojan. No, not Bill but USC. And not the kind you buy over the counter, either). THAT would be a fun watch.
A year ago, I found out that a couple of you read this thing. How? I called Star Trek: The Next Generation "weak scripted", "slow and predictable" and worse, "generic", with "shallow" and generally "poor character development". If you saw any of the panels I was on last con (I was the guy in the green coat in Gerrold's shadow) I described myself as "the guy who wrote a column I thought nobody read until I savaged ST:TNG a couple of months ago".
Well, it and I are back again, and there's good news tonight. It's still "weak scripted and predictable", but wonder of wonders, I give a damn about the characters now.
Why the thrilling change? The non renewal of Gates McFadden's contract has broken the mother/son bond with Wesley, allowing the young twerp's--er, Ensign--apparently he madeit to Star Fleet Academy during the summer--role to be put in a more normal perspective. He is now a bridge officer, and as such has a more natural role in the operation of the ship. As an aside, Tracy Torme, a writer for ST:TNG in an interview in Star Trek: The Official Fan Club magazine summed up the problem with Wesley as such:
"I think the most difficult character to write for is Wesley because the tough part with him is they didn't cast an actor who is a little mad scientist type. If they did, he'd be easier to write for because you'd know he was just a super, super genius who was beyond most adults. But instead, Wil Wheaton is kind of like an everyday kid who just happens to have great abilities. So it's tricky, because on one hand he may really come off sounding like a whining little kid, and in other ways, he might come off sounding too much like he built the engines of the ship...For me, it's tough to write for Wesley and get a good handle on where he's at personality-wise."
That about hits the nail on the head. By eliminating Mother, and putting him on the bridge he ends up with an official position, and a cast ranking similar to Chekov's. That's about right.
McFadden's replacement, Diana Muldaur as Dr. Katherine Pulaski is a good choice. By god, someone on the show has wrinkles besides Picard. One of my early complaints was that the crew was populated with "beautiful people". Pulaski so far is not a beautiful person. She's arrogant, pig headed, and having trouble understanding Data. Kinda like, er, McCoy and Spock (sorry, it's a rough job but somebody's gotta say it). She's being a little heavy handed about it, but I like the change. Cuts the buddy-buddy a bit. I don't like the idea that she's co-second in command with Riker, but let's play that one by ear.
Another nice change is Riker's beard. This too tends to soften the character and make it more believable. He doesn't look so damned earnest with it on. Giving LaForge a permanent station in Engineering, and Worf at Security help define those characters for us too. Now, if they can just make the stories more interesting.
Which brings us to M. Elayn Harvey's LOC. As I write this, I haven't seen it in the flesh yet (it's been read to me), but I can understand her problems with War of the Worlds. It is implied that she had just seen the pilot. I based my review on the pilot and 3 episodes. Since then, the show has self destructed, going from silly to stupid, but then, we were beefing about ST:TNG right up to the last episode of the season.
I guess the point is that WOTW can be dismissed this year, in the same way ST:TNG was (with a couple of exceptions) last year. At this point last year, ST:TNG was trying desperately to figure out just what it was, the same basic problem that WOTW is fighting now. It, like ST:TNG will probably spend the rest of the year stumbling around, making minor mid-course corrections. With a little luck, come June, everyone involved will sit down and reflect on just what has Paramount wrought and make the proper changes. It's amazig what a summer of reflection, reviewing reviews, and thought can do to a series. Although it's not good now, I kinda hope it lasts long enough to have a chance.
And thanks Elayn, for the letter. One of the nice things about receiving mail is the chance to basically conduct a panel without waiting for a con to come around. If you have an opinion, respond either to the P.O Box or here. We're in the book.
Next month? If Cocoon II shows up at a theater near me, I'd like to see it. Also, we'll expand a bit on Elayn's criticism of WOTW (she makes some VERY good points about the show), and the usual carping and moaning about the state of the art. Till then, I hope I see/saw you at Rustycon.
by Sue Bartroff
There has been talk recently of the "changing face of fandom" -- a lot ofthe talk has centered around the changes in our group -- both NWSFS and Norwescon. It seems upon reflection that the changes have·come about in several ways. Mores and social standards have changed -- we've become more sophisticated, more adult, more "with-it".
The groups have grown larger. Our children and sometimes their children are now attending and bringing their friends. Science Fiction has become popular. We have attracted a new set of "passengers". Because semantics intrigues me, I have been spending the last few meetings of NWSFS, Concom, The League Meetings and the conventions looking at fandom's faces. Exactly what sort of faces are there?
I see a cadre of overworked, very tired people putting on these gatherings for the rest of us. Occasionally someone new steps forward to lend a hand -- but mostly -- it's the same few who arrange the socials, serve on the committees, stay up until the wee hours assembling The Westwind (yes, they all have jobs and have to go to work the next day), load and unload the vans before and after conventions because the rest of us are finishing our costumes, or too tired or don't think. IS THIS THE FACE OF THOUGHTLESS FANDOM?
I seea few, mostly the same few, who meet for the book/movie discussion groups each month. They argue fine literary points and share common jokes. A privileged few share information on new television series or movies. These are the people who put on panels at conventions for the rest of us to attend. IS THIS THE FACE OF SERIOUS FANDOM?
I see those that spend hundreds of hours making a wonderful creation that spends a tiny amount of time on stage at the masquerade or hanging in the art show. These folks spend a lot more time explaining the fine points to admiring fans then they ever do displaying their creations. Many never win a prize or sell a painting; but enter year after year. People of enormous talent send stories to The Westwind and sit on panels at the conventions. Established writers hold workshops to help the younger ones. IS THIS THE FACE OF CREATIVE FANDOM?
I see those that come feeling fine on Friday and by Saturday feel no pain at all. On Sunday morning they are starting back down and when you see them check out, they are sort of green and grumpy or gray and jumpy. I often wonder if they remember these days at all -- if feeling that bad was worth the few hours of feeling not at all. IS THIS THE FACE OF TROUBLED FANDOM?
I see the holes left in the ceilings by vandals at Norwescon and Dreamcon. I hear of things taken from the hotel and damage done in rooms. I see the costs to the conventions of this damage and the reduced programming that results from paying those costs. IS THIS A FACE ANY OF US EVER WISH TO SEE AT A CONVENTION AGAIN?
I am uniquely privileged to see closely and constantly during conventions and at our socials, your children. They meet the conventions head on. Wide eyed and full of amazing questions. They often see it for the first time and like most newcomers, ask common questions. "Why are they doing that?", being the mostly commonly asked. Sometimes we abruptly change direction and the topic of conversation. Other times we go and find out together. I KNOW THAT THIS IS THE FACE OF FUTURE FANDOM.
John Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you; but rather what you can do for your country." It is time for all of us to look into the nearest mirror and find out which face of fandom we wear. If we don't wear it proudly, perhaps it is time to change. NWSFS and Norwescon need you. Come and get involved. Find out what is behind the glitz and the parties -- you'll find friends and even fulfillment. The world may be a less lonely place.
by Sandra Endof-Hom
In the middle of the trail, I stop and stretch. Above me, the Dragon moon rides high in Legend's lavender sunset. Zlo, the morning moon, set hours ago. Blue Arriba, the Daylight moon, is setting, already partly bisected by Speartip Peak.
"Oh!" A bunide zipped across the trail above me. Forgetting my exhaustion, I watch for any movement in the grass, hoping to see the timid creature again. My luck would be doubled!
Plodding up the steep path, I numbly place one foot in front of the other. Soon I'll find running water and space to spread my blankets. Then I'll stop for the night.
Insects sing and click in the brown grass and brush. A leather winged bird whistles from the branches of a long dead tree.
Tarla, the rebel, they call me, and worse! Those dull-minded villagers are afraid of me. Me! Because I am not content to be trapped in four walls and wear long skirts.
"Oh, well." I shrug. "I won't let them cloud my day."
The narrow path makes a stiletto turn into a bushy valley. By traveling alone, I'm proving I can do what a man can do. And..I'm making the trip between Jan-ran and Yarlo in the Hills faster than any other person in memory.
Then, off to one side, I hear a rumbling as of distant thunder, but somehow...different. A chill tiptoes down my spine.
Quietly, I slip through the purple-spiked brush toward the sound. The long spikes snatch at my dragonskin jerkin and leggings. Close ahead on one side of the valley perch a gaggle of rugged boulders. The sound floats from the other side of them.
Sliding my hand over their rough surfaces I quietly ease around the gray rocks. I peek around them. Before me nestles a small clearing profuse with flowers, grains and a tall fruit tree. I don't notice the clearing. Squatting on his haunches by the tree, an ugly, ferocious beast turns toward me.
Frantically I string my bow, my fingers trembling as rain drops on a pond. The fearsome beast stands twice as tall man's height and four times as long. In a cluster of azure bell-flowers, the tip of his stubby tail twitches. His skin is lumpy and crusty. Hanging loosely on his bulky frame, it falls in jade-green folds. A bead of sweat trickles down the side of my face. His head is triangular and gigantic. Obsidian eyes with gold vertical pupils stare through me. They pin me to the boulder even if terror didn't immobilize me.
Nostril caverns ooze opalescent moisture above a gaping maw. I close my eyes. But when I open them, the beast is still there. Ruby-red blood drips between huge pointed fangs as long as myhand. Sharp enough to pierce me through with one snap of his jaws.
I stand motionless, plastered to the boulder, my bow just strung. The beast, too sits unmoving. He's going to kill me, I think. I've stopped breathing. I do not hear my heart beat. I'm going to die. Maybe they are right. Maybe I shouldn't go about alone as a man would go. Then, with a questioning rumble and a blink of his eyes, the beast swallows. I gasp, sucking the air into my starved lungs. No, they aren't right. This could have happened to a man too. Still staring at me, he opens his toothy jaws. I grab for a arrow from the quiver on my back. He raises a large hand-like front paw holding a purple fruit and nibbles off the spicy smelling rind. He bites into the fruit, baring blood-red flesh. I pull the arrow, ready to shoot. Instead, I watch the juicedrip to his hind feet. I'm stunned. Slowly I relax the arrow a little on the string. Again I close my eyes, but not from fear, but astonishment.
Gentle, timid, white bunides sit quietly next to huge paws rimmed with curved, sharp claws. Just sit there, eating fruit seeds! The most timid of all creatures, they shouldn't be there. But...they aren't afraid of me either. A drop of red juice splatters on a bunides' white head. He only blinks, then continues eating his seed. Slowly, I realize...he protects them. The beast protects the bunides.
Removing the arrow from the string, I drop my arms. I feel as if my bones are melting as my long tensed muscles relax and I sink to the ground.
"If the bunides are safe, I'ms afe," I mutter, my teeth knocking together like drumsticks on a festival drum.
Waiting for my trembling to stop, I see a small stream winging across the clearing. Now I am not only exhausted, I'm ready to collapse. Fear and excitement have taken most of my reserve strength. And...I'm still not completely at ease.
Thirsty, I summon my remaining strength and pull myself to my feet. Widely skirting the animals, I stumble to the water. Thrusting my hot head into the stream, I drink long of its green coolness.
I wade across the shallow stream, the icy water sloshing over the tops of my dragonskin boots. I decide to make camp next to some green bumbleberry bushes where I can still see the beast and the bunides. Dropping my pack, I search for sweet smelling seed cones for my fire. I heat water for blue-seed tea to drink with strips of dried dragon meat and fruited trail bread. As I wait for the water to boil, I think of telling my days adventure to my aquaintances in the village. But I know they would think only of killing him. With a twinge of guilt, I sigh. I almost tried to kill him too. Although it would have been in self defence.... Vigorously I poke the fire with a stick. But they would have killed, in spite of the bunides' trust. If they even noticed them.
"No. Never will I tell of this day's adventure."
I pour steaming water into my cup. "Not only would I be named Liar, but, to show their bravery, those villagers would band together and hunt the gentle animal."
All the time I watch. The bunides still fearlessly bunch at the feet of the beast.
Spreading my blankets, I prepare to sleep.
After a bit, the beast lumbers to the stream to drink while I cower in my blankets. Then he curls up under the fruit tree. A pale fringe in the dusky light, the bunides cuddle next to him. The sleeping sounds of the gentle beast and the bunides drift across the stream. Finally, I believe. I sleep.
by Elizabeth Warren
Greetings! For those of you who haven't heard, I have been promoted from Hospitality to the top of the heap. This means that Hospitality will now be run by our capable Dragonette, Debbie Tatarek. She has been running the day shift of Hospitality for many years and now gets to run the whole thing. I get to prove that I really do have legs -- you've only seen the upper half of me over the bar for a few years now.
Norwescon is coming along just fine. The move to a new hotel in a new city was a bit rough, but we identified a few snags and we are working on them. Hospitality has moved and so has Registration. We also will have a place for all you late night talkers to meet. The hotel will be staffing the elevators, so hopefully your trip to the upper floors will be a little faster.
Be sure to read this Progress Report carefully, as we have implemented a lot of changes and some or all of them may be important to you.
We are all looking forward to a safe and happy experience, meeting friends, old and new, and learning together. See you there!
by Jon Gustafson
Algis Budrys was born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, on the 9th of January, 1931; he remained a Lithuanian citizen, under diplomatic passport, until 1987. He married Edna, his charming (and patient) wife, in 1954 and has four children. They've recently moved to Los Angeles, which makes it a wonder that he makes it to Norwescon at all, let alone almost every year.
Not content (apparently) to contain his considerable talents to science fiction, he has been involved in advertising and public relations since the mid-1960s. Some of his clients have included Rand McNally, International Harvester, U.S. Gypsum, and Colt Industries.
Budrys has been writer, editor, and critic for almost 35 years. His first short story was published in October, 1952, and he has had about 200 more published since then. They have appeared in all the major sf magazines, plus The Saturday Evening Post and Playboy. He has also written 120 articles for magazines such as Esquire, Popular Electronics, Bike World, and The New Republic. He has been an assistant editor for Venture SF Magazine, F&SF, Galaxy, and Gnome Press. He has been an editor for Regency Books, and is currently editing the Writers of the Future anthologies from Bridge Publications.
Algis Budrys is one of the foremost critics in the field. His book reviews have appeared in Galaxy, Analog, F&SF, Science Fiction Review, Books West, The Washington Post, and The Chicago Sun-Times, to name but a few. He has also had a book of his Galaxy reviews published (Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf, Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).
While not terribly prolific as a novelist, he is unique in that, of the eight novels he has had published, fully half are recognized as true classics. His novels are: False Night, Man of Earth, Who?, The Falling Torch, Rogue Moon, Some Will Not Die, The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn, and Michaelmas. He has also had three short story collections published: The Unexpected Dimmsion, Budrys' Inferno, and Blood & Burning.
Budrys, like many SF writers, has long been interested in seeing the knowledge of writing pass on from his generation to others. He has taught at the famous Clarion SF Writing Workshop for almost a decade and has been a visiting writer or a writer-in-residence at a number of other workshops. He recently directed the Taos Writers of the Future Experimental Workshop, taught a six-day intensive workshop for the Moscow Moffia Writers' Program, and takes part in convention writers' workshops just about everywhere he goes.
Such hard work does not go unrewarded (or unpunished...it depends on your point of view); Algis Budrys is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and a member of the Mark Twain Society. He won an "Edgar" award from the Mystery Writers of America, and numerous other awards. He is a member of SFWA, SFRA, and MENSA. And others. He was Moscon V's special Guest of Honor when Fritz Leiber had to cancel due to health problems.
Budrys is currently working on a science fiction novel, a book on bicycling, an sf teaching text, an sf writing text, a collection of F&SF book reviews, and a short story collection.
In his spare time, Budrys also is coordinating editor for the Writers of the Future Contest and anthologies, both started by the late L. Ron Hubbard.
Budrys bas been a friend and supporter of Norwescon for some time. As Toastmaster of Norwescon 6, as coordinator and presenter for the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, as panelist, workshop member, and party person, and, now, as Guest of Honor.
Welcome, Algis Budrys, friend. Welcome!
[Portions originally published in MosCon X Program Book (c) 1988, 1989.]
by Yvonne V. Richardson
David Mattingly has graciously accepted our invitation to be Artist Guest of Honor at Norwescon 11. To say that he is prolific is a gross understatement; after having done his first SF cover for A Wizard in Bedlam ten years ago, he has gone on to create over 200 more covers since then. His works have graced books by authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert E. Vardeman, Lester Del Rey, A Bertram Chandler, Frank Herbert, Fred Saberhagen and many others. Paperback publishers such as Ace, Baen, and DAW have proffered his work to the public; in fact, be has been published by most of the major paperback houses.
David studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and worked for 3 years as a matte painter for Disney Studios. He works mostly in acrylics and guacbe; his art bas been displayed at Worldcons, Boskones, World Fantasy Cons, and of course, Norwescons. He keeps his favorite works, as most artists do, but has also sold many to private collectors.
David's work depicts mostly fantasy and "soft" science fiction, and often uses the stars as background; view the cover for Richard Paul Russo's Inner Eclipse in the Norwescon 10 Program Book Art Gallery.
David Mattingly lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, and is owned by a cat named Orson.
by Andy P. McQuiddy
Alan E. Nourse's writing career has had an almost symbiotic relationship with his training in the medical profession. Since his birth in Des Moines, Iowa in 1928, Dr. Nourse (pronounced "nurse") has paid some of his way through medical education with his writing, garnering a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Rutgers in 1951 and his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine fours years later. His fiction, in tum, has owed some of its elements to his medical background, especially in such works as A Man Obsessed (expanded as The Mercy Men), Star Surgeon, and the story collection Rx For Tomorrow. Aside from the many novels and collections of science fiction and fantasy he's written (frequently regarded as juveniles, because oftheir straightforward themes and the ages of their protagonists), Dr. Nourse has also published a So You Want To Be... series exploring the professions of doctor, physicist, scientist, etc. He was vice-president ofthe Chamberlain Press, and has had fiction and non-fiction printed in magazines as disparate as Playboy and Better Homes and Gardens. His current writing emphasis is combined with his medical background; he is heavily involved in terminal disease research, including AIDS and cancer.
Space opera pervades much of Dr. Nourse's fiction, but his writing talents go beyond the limits of that structure, as evidenced by his diverse bibliography. He's been writing full-time since 1963, and lives in Thorp, Washington.
by Yvonne V. Richardson
This man's attitude could probably be described as "humour uber alles". He is responsible for the Hogus, hoax awards that are given at ranquets at various Worldcons. (Yes, the words you just saw are "hogu" and "ranquet".) These awards are given for virtually every silly reason you can think of, and then some. After all, an IRS agent has to find a way to relax SOMEHOW. Mike Glyer relaxes by attending and/or running conventions, writing columns for various APAs and publishing File 770, one of the leading SF newzines in the country.
Mike has at1ended many Worldcons; he also attends Westercons, LOSCON, and the occasional CORFLU, including the one in Seattle in 1988. Not only that, but be has been Fan GOH at Ad Astra in Toronto. Mike has been the fanzine reviewer for Holier than Thou since issue #10, and also occasionally does a fanzine named Scientifriction. He is also the recording secretary for LASFS, a position he may keep forever as long as his monthly minutes, published in De_Profundis, continue to be funny. He still has the occasional article published somewhere in fandom other than the above mentioned sources.
For someone with such a prominent funnybone, Mike Glyer is quite serious about fandom. The 1986 Fanthology used a good portion of his material, and he co-edited The Neofan's Guide to Scrence Fiction Fandom, 6th edition, with Marty Cantor. He is also working with Marty on a general history of fandom, Fancyclopedia, 3rd edition. He goes to conventions to socialize, to work, and to catch up with friends and his worldwide network of correspondents. He's connected with enough sub genres of F&SF to be a popular guy at any convention, even the ones he's working (he's helped run LOSCON, LACON II, co-chaired an LA Westercon, and was Program Coordinator for NOLACON...).
Keeping in such close contact with as many aspects of fandom is just a small part of what has made Mike Glyer and File 770 repeat Hugo Fan award winners. File 770 has won the Hugo (not the hogu) for Best Fanzine in 1984 and 1985; it was also nominated for the same award in 1987 and is a contender for the 1988 award.
Mike Glyer himself has won the Hugo for Best Fan Writer in 1984 and 1986, and was nominated in 1985 and 1987. He is in the running for the 1988 Hugo for Best Fan Writer as well. He is also a member of SCIFI, the Southern California Institute for Fan Interests.
Since we have dragged the man away from his typewriter, his mimeo machines, and the daily newzines he does at most large conventions so that he can enjoy all of Norwescon 11, you'll probably run into him sometime. But watch out for that sense of humor, or you'll be the recipient of a Hogu at OUR ranquet!!
by Yvonne V. Richardson
We are happy to welcome Steven Barnes to Norwescon 11 as Toastmaster. Born in Los Angeles in 1952, he is a dedicated writer and an all-around good guy. He has gone so far as to change the name he published under when he was told that his legal name was already in use -- as someone else's pseudonym!
Steve was nominated for a Hugo in 1980 for the short story, Locusts. Shortly thereafter he decided novels were more fun, so he co-authored Dream Park with Larry Niven in 1981 and collaborated with him again on The Descent of Anansi in 1982. The Legacy of Heorot, with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, is his latest collaborative effort. Barnes also has two solo novels to his credit: Streetlethal, published in 1982, and The Kundalini Equation, which came out in 1986. As if that weren't prolific enough, he has written screenplays for The Twilighl Zone, been a creative consultant for The Secret of NIMH and is a contributing editor to Black Belt Magazine. His qualifications for that position include taking second place in the National Korean Karate Championships in 1972. He also has two more books forthcoming in 1989, a sequel to Dream Park and a sequel to Streetlethal.
Strangely enough, Steve doesn't spend all his time behind a typewriter or in the gym; some of his primary interests are human mental and physical development -- finding the proper balance between Mind, Body, and Spirit. I'm sure he'll find the proper balance at several of our dances.
They say that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; that's definitely not true of Steve. He's kind, he's witty, he's entertaining, he's friendly, and he can out-boogie just about anybody. We're pleased to have Steve Barnes back in the Northwest, as Toastmaster of Norwescon 11. He's pleased to be coming -- he has said that "Norwescon is my very favorite convention of the year."
As ofDecember 31, 1988:
Kathleen Alcala
Kevin J. Anderson
Alicia Austin
Gordon Baker
Sharon Baker
Bill Baldwin
Damon Bard
Steve Bard
STEVEN BARNES
Donna Barr
Astrid Anderson Bear
Greg Bear
Clare Louise Bell
Steven Bryan Bieler
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Ginjer Buchanan
ALGIS BUDRYS
Elinor Busby
F. M. Busby
Grant D. Callin
Mary Caraker
Karen Lee Carmack
Frank Catalano
Michael Coney
Debra Gray Cook
John G. Cramer
Julie Cummings
John Dalmas
Lonnie Davis
John De Camp
David R. Deitrick
William C. Dietz
Ted Dikty
David Doering
Rich Dutcher
M. Coleman Easton
Laurie Edison
Elton Elliott
L. Rodayne Esmay
Gregory Feeley
James Fiscus
Rod Garcia
Stephen L. Gillett
Alexis Gilliland
MIKE GLYER
Parke Godwin
Eileen Gunn
Jon Gustafson
George Guthridge
Richard Hallock
M. Elayn Harvey
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Bob Howe
Steve Jackson
Eileen Kemaghan
James Killus
T. Jackson King
Greg Kusnick
Julia Lacquement
Megan Lindholm
Monika Livingston
Mark Manning
Diane Mapes
Stephen Marcellino
Cyn Mason
DAVID MATTINGLY
Julian May
Catherine McGuire
Bridget McKenna
Carl Miller
Vicki Mitchell
Janet Morris
Kirn Nelson
Sharan Newman
ALAN E. NOURSE
Steven G. Oliver
Jerry Oltion
Tanya Opland
Ted Pedersen
Ray Pelley
Steve Perry
Charles Platt
Teresa Plowright
D. A Quackenbush
Rob Quigley
Alis Rasmussen
Rhea Rose
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Paul Sammon
Michael Scanlon
Stanley Schmidt
Rob Schouten
Carol Severance
Jay Silverstein
Sharon Sinclair
Mark Skullerud
Dave Smeds
Dean Wesley Smith
Leta Smith-Gharret
Sara L Stamey
John Stith
Scott Stolnack
Bruce Taylor
Lynne Taylor
Amy Thomson
Brian Tillotson
William R. Warren, Jr.
Don Webb
Simone Welch
Deborah Wessell
Richard Wright
by Andy P. McQuiddy
A few weeks after Philip K. Dick died, Thomas M. Disch found himself writing a Guest Of Honor speech for his appearance at Norwescon. In it, he proposed that an award for Best Original F/SF Paperback (as so many of Dick's books were published in that form) be created in the late author's name as a lasting tribute to Dick's contribution to the field. Thus, the Philip K. Dick Award was born. The following year, the first one was sponsored by the Philadelphia SF Society (who continues to sponsor the award), and presented at Philcon. The next year, 1984, the ceremony was held at Norwescon, which has been the sponsoring convention ever since. Each PKD Award is voted upon by a panel of five judges, who both narrow the selection to a handful of finalists and vote on the winners. The judges then choose a successor to themselves. Disch was one of the judges for the first year, as well as Administrative Chairman for the award, which be remained until handing over the reins to Algis Budrys in the mid-eighties. The other current Administrators are David G. Hartwell, Russell Galen (who is also the Treasurer), and Paul Williams, the Executor ofthe Dick estate. Hartwell and Budrys usually hand out the award, but twice it has been presented by Dick's children -- once each by Laura and Christopher. Three of the awards have been won by Tim Powers (2) and James P. Blaylock (1), who both knew Philip. First Place receives a plaque and a check for $1000. Second Place, or Runner-up, receives $500 and a plaque. The Award presented in 1983 went to Software byRudy Rucker, and The Prometheus Man by Ray Faraday Nelson, respectively. Next came The Anubis Gates by Powers (1st) and Tea With The Black Dragon by R.A MacAvoy (2nd), followed by Neuromancer (William Gibson) and The Wild Shore (Kim Stanley Robinson), then Dinner At Deviant's Palace (Powers, again) and Saraband Of Lost Time (Richard Grant). At the '87 Norwescon it was Homunculus (Blaylock) and The Hercules Text (Jack McDevitt), and last year's $1000 check went to Patricia Geary for Strange Toys, withthe $500 going to Memories by Mike McQuay. The next Philip K. Dick Memorial Award will be presented at Norwescon 11 over the weekend of March 23-26, 1989 in Tacoma, Washington. The judges are Olarles Platt, Kim Stanley Robinson, Eleanor Amason, Michael Levy, and Mike McQuay.
This year our talented group of nominees are:
Roger McBride Allen
Orphans of Creations (Baen Books)
Mark Laidlaw
Neon Loris (Bantam Books)
Paul McAuley
400 Billion Stars (Del Ray Books)
Rebecca Ore
Becoming Alien (Tor Books)
Rudy Rucker
Wetware (Avon Books)
D. Alexander Smith
Rendezvous (Ace Books)
TO BE HELD AT NORWESCON
Time And Place Posted At Con
For more information contact Carol Teguns
The Green Room, hosted by Doug and Dora Shirk, is in the same place as last year. What was our main room will be our secondary room this year. Our main room is the suite next door. We will have only the two rooms instead of three, but we will have more space -- you figure it out. For those of you who aren't familiar with the functions of a Green Room:
The Green Room is open from noon on Thursday till about 9 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we open at about 8:30a.m., and close whenever the paneling slows down in the evening (usually between 7-9). We shut down during the Autograph Party and the Banquet (although this may change if the staff increases).
If you think you would like to work with us, drop us a line or give us a call (we're in the Green Book). Now for a short lecture on what we don't want. Don't call us if you think this is where you can volunteer for an hour and call it quits -- our volunteers usually sign up for several "tours of duty" throughout the weekend, and believe me, it is WORK. Droolers need not apply, and autograph hunting is not allowed. Well, that's enough negativism for now. Come join us if you want to work hard and not have to stay out there in those noisy halls!!
Volunteer now and avoid the rush -- we need to know if you're interested before March 1st.
Something old, something new,
Something borrowed, something blue,
Something alien, something fun,
There's something here for everyone!
Meet the Pros or eat up hearty
At banquet, lunch, or Sasquatch Party;
Watch the films or Masquerade
Dance until your feet are flayed
Writers' Workshops, fanzines too
And Hospitality for you!
Kibbitz, SMOF 'til con is o'er
That's all there is, and still there's more--
From Thursday 'til Sunday we'll run
'Til finally the con is done.
There's more that won't fit in these rhymes
but you'll find them and have good times!!!
Ok, ok, so it's corny. What do you expect people to come up with at 3:00 in the morning? But it's a reasonable description of Norwescon 11 programming. Extensive research is being done to bring you the best of previous conventions, as well as new and current topics. I'm sure there will be aliens, both in hall costumes and in the Masquerade. I'm still looking for blue things -- if you have any ideas (and dare to admit that you read that poem) you could let me know via the P.O. Box.
We're trying for the smorgasbord effect this year; we do not expect to be all things to all people (that's the buffet version), but we do hope that all attendees will find an event or six that they particularly enjoy. There will also be the usual and traditional events: the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, the Banquet, Writers' Workshops, the Meet-the-Pros Autograph party, Dances, Art Show and Dealers room.
There will be an emphasis on science and literature this year, featuring topics of interest to the F/SF community. Some of these include:
After Challenger: Is the Dream Still Alive?
The Future of Art, Animation, and Special Effects
Robert A Heinlein Memorial Blood Drive
Destroying the World for Fun and Profit
How to Survive Waiting for Fame and Fortune
How to Survive Fame and Fortune
The Death of the SF Con
New Developments·in Superconducting Technology
The Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback of the previous year will be presented at Norwescon again this year; the SAM room (Science, Art, and Mind) will also be back. There will also be children's programming and three channel video; in addition to the two small viewing rooms on the 4th floor of the Sheraton, the North Room will be available for truly pseudo-mondo video viewing. Static Programming will include a gaming room and a fanzine room, and Lazer Tag and the Fannish Olympics will be back, although not necessarily resembling previous incarnations. And, by popular request, there will be a dance EVERY evening.
There's far more planned than can be mentioned here; to find out everything that's happening, you'll just have to attend the convention. If there's something special that you'd like to see, or if you have some terrific new ideas for Norwescon events, drop me a line at the P.O. Box and we'll see what happens. One of the BESTways to help make Norwescon a convention you can't afford to miss is to let us know what you'd like to see -- it's your convention too!!!
Once again, things are changing. This year, in addition to our regular childcare facility where you leave your kids and go out to enjoy the convention, we are offering some main track programming for kids and parents to enjoy together. We are also offering some programming events where parents can sign up and leave their children with Sue Bartroff for one or two hours to see or do something very special for kids only at no extra cost.
Some of the child/parent activities we have in mind are to indicate in your pocket program what panels, movies, etc., are especially good bets for you to enjoy together. We are hoping to have a child/parent panel about aspects of science fiction (like Saturday morning cartooning) that kids might particularly enjoy.
Some of the "for kids only" programming events will be our famous hotel tour, a visit to the art show with one of the guest artists, and a chance to produce and hang art of your own. ("For kids only" programming is on a check-in basis, and for limited time periods.) Some really special gaming programming for preteens and teens only will include a TOP GUN tournament and an introduction to -- and chance to play -- other favorite games. There will also be a dance with music programmed by some of your peers. Just perhaps, the Easter Bunny may pay a visit. Stay tuned for further information.
IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION Norwescon welcomes its young and future fans. We will have programming throughout the convention geared for different age groups. Also, for a nominal fee, we will have daytime programming for children under 12 in our Childcare Room for those times when Mom and Dad want to go off on their own. Starting this year, Norwescon will provide a quiet room for the purpose of feeding, changing, or resting a child.
Children 12 and under must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian at all times, unless in the Childcare Room; children 10 and under are not allowed in any after-midnight programming room or Hospitality. Children found unattended in public areas of the hotel will be taken to Childcare until picked up by their parents, who will be charged for the time Childcare has watched their children for them.
Teens 13 to 17 years of age must have a parent or adult guardian who is a Norwescon 11 member; said guardian must be on the premises at all times, and parents must sign a permission slip for minors to attend the convention. Permission slips can be obtained via the Norwescon P.O. Box beforehand, and will be available at Registration. You may also return the slips to us before the convention if you like, or turn them in at Registration when you arrive.
Remember, parents are responsible for the safety and actions of their children at all times. These programs are here to foster enjoyment for all Norwescon members, but primarily for the safety and well-being of the children. Young fans are welcome at Norwescon but are expected to behave or be cared for in a responsible manner.
If parents believe that their convention activities will be constrained by these responsibilities, then Norwescon encourages the children be left at home under proper care.
Child Care will once again be open for children from three to twelve years ofage. The younger ones must be potty-trained and have had pre-school or nursery school experience (your child needs to know how to play with others and be able to separate from you with a minimum of shrieking). This facility is a place where you can leave your children (for a fee) and go off and enjoy the convention.
Because of the large number of small children we serve, we have to close occasionally to revive the staff and clean up the room. Therefore, it is expected that you will return every two to four hours, pick up your children, and feed them something nutritious.
We have several tracks of programming that run constantly in these rooms, including video programming for separate age groups, crafts, special projects, and visits by our Guests of Honor. We hope to have a magician or storyteller to entertain our small guests this year, and have our annual costume parade and dance.
Once again, parents who participate will receive care at a lesser cost than parents who don't participate. If you provide goods or services to our group, it will cost less to leave your children with us. Since there are so many new babies and toddlers in our group this year, we are opening an unsupervised room, near Childcare, where you must stay with your child. This room can be used for a changing, napping, get-away-from-thecrowd room. This year the daycare staff will NOT be finding babysitters for children that do not meet our age and other requirements. There are just too few of us to help you out. If at all possible, find a sitter for that wee one, and leave him or her at home. You will both be happier.
The Dealers Room at this years convention has already recieved enough requests to fill to capacity and it looks like another great year with something for everyone. There is still CLUB TABLE space availible on a first come first serve basis. If you would like to be put on the mailing list for next year just drop us a line at the Norwescon P.O. Box. Please include your name (and the name of your company if any) address and phone number. If you move between now and then, don't forget to send in a COA.
Great news! Hospitality has moved! This year we will be located in the Board Room on the third floor lobby where registration was last year. Also, we are under new management. Ma, the Dragonlady has gone on to bigger and better things and has left this glorious kingdom to me, the Dragonette.
Hospitality is your place. It is what you make it. It is a place for you to come and relax, to meet new friends and greet your old friends.
We will be serving beer and wine along with our special punches. There will be coffee, tea, and pop along with tons of munchies. We may even have a few new surprises.
Remember, the hospitality suite runs on your generous donations. So don't be shy, donate!
Hospitality Hours: Thursday 6:00 pm to 2:00 am; Friday 9:00 am to 2:00 am Saturday 9:00 am to 2:00 am; Sunday 9:00 am to 12:00am
Beer and wine served from 7:00 pm to 1:00 or 1:30 am, at the Dragonette's whim.
A few people have asked (complained) why we moved to Easter weekend. At this point I quickly correct them: Norwescon did not move to Easter weekend...Easter moved to Norwescon. We're still in the same place we've always been. And to celebrate Easter coming to Norwescon we will be presenting some special events.
Throughout the weekend we will be having hunts for all age groups: walking to 3 years, 4-7 years, 8-12 years, 13-17 years, and 18 and up. Candy, toys and special prizes will be found in eggs for all ages. See your pocket program for times.
In your Easter Bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you could be the grand prize winner in our Easter parade. What kind of head dress can you create? Old fashioned, modern, futuristic, alien? Whatever it is, put it on and join our Easter Parade through the lobby on Sunday. Full costumes are not required but are invited. Judging will be done on "bonnets" only. First, second and third place awards will be given.
Just how bizarre, wild, silly, elaborate or beautiful can a bonnet be? With our group I'm sure we'll find out.
For those ofyou who would like to celebrate the Easter holiday in a more traditional manner, we will be listing churches in the area and the times of their services. Also, Sue Bartroff is inviting all who wish to join her early Sunday morning at the local mission to help serve Easter breakfast to the poor and homeless. Call Sue for details at (redacted).
This year's banquet promises to be a gala affair with an Easter flair. Our Sunday banquet will include speeches from our Guests of Honor, and the presentation of some special awards and entertainments that are sure to enjoy. We might even have a surprise or two. The menu and price are listed on the flyer accompaning this Progress Report. On that flyer is a coupon to fill out and mail with your check. The banquet is limited. Get a jump on thecrowd and get the bonus of spending less time in the registration line and more time partying. See you at the banquet.
A Norwescon-style media program would not be complete without its annual film contest. Those of you filmmakers out there willing to enter your works are welcome to try for the coveted cash prize and praise which comes from winning such a respected contest. Entries may be Super 8, 16mm, or video. Contestants should call Mark Schellburg at(redacted) or Jim Cobb at (redacted) for more information.
Hotline: (redacted)
Chairman: Elizabeth Warren: (redacted)
Art Show: Kathryn Howes (redacted)
Dealers: Bruce Thompson: (redacted)
Convention Services: Judy Suryan: (redacted)
Volunteers: Kathy McLean: (redacted)
Office (Gofers, Info): Becky Simpson: (redacted)
Child Care/Kid Kon: Sue Bartroff: (redacted)
Site Services: Kathy Smith: (redacted)
Programming/Stage Services: Michael Citrak: (redacted)
Masquerade: Norah Hogoboom: (redacted)
Stage Management: Beth Dockins: (redacted)
Gaming: Craig Bowie: (redacted) S.A.M.: Sky Andrews & Brian Sullivan: (redacted)
Registration: Carolyn Palms: (redacted)
Publications: Michael Brocha: (redacted)
Programming: Yvonne V. Richardson: (redacted)
Green Room: Doug and Dora Shirk: (redacted)
Writers Workshop: Michael Scanlon: (redacted)
There are some small changes and additions over last years' workshops. There will be sections for short stories, as usual, and limited section(s) for novel excerpts and novellas. In addition, poetry section(s) and non-fiction science writing sections will be organized if demand is present. The guidelines are as follows:
All manuscripts except science articles must be fantasy or science fiction.
Length of short story/non-fiction articles manuscripts will be limited to five thousand (5,000) words.
Poetry is limited to twenty (20) pages of verse, which can be one or more poems.
Novel manuscript submissions will consist of the first three or four chapters (no more than seventy five (75) pages of manuscript). With each novel excerpt, an outline/synopsis of the entire novel should be included, not more than 10-12 double-spaced pages.
Novella submissions are limited to twenty thousand (20,000) words.
All manuscripts will be double-spaced, with margins at least one inch on all sides, typed or computer-printed on one side of the paper. Justify computer printing only on the left hand side.
Start the manuscript halfway down the first page, and put your name, address and phone numberon the upper left hand corner of the first page. Put your last name, one or two words from the title, and the page number on the upper right hand corner of each page after the first page.
Send seven copies of short stories, five of novella or novel mss. for submission for the workshop to the Norwescon PO box, marked "ATTN: Writing Workshops". The postmark deadline for submissions will be 24 February 1989.
Full Page (81/2 x 11) $115
Half Page $60
Fourth Page $35
Eighth Page $25
Rates do not include agency fees. ($10 discount for ads from clubs, conventions & fan publications) All ads must be camera ready unless prior arrangements have been made.
Closing date for reserving ad space is February 10th.
The most significant change in Lazer Tag this year is that the event will NOT be a formal competition. The new format, is a supervised free-style playing arena, hosted by the Cascade Rangers Team Banzai. The emphasis will be on fun, fair play, sportsmanship and playing frequently. Participation will be limited to the first 60 players to show up. Players under 18 years old must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian at the event. I.D. required. Also, all players must sign a release waiver before playing.
Another change in the Lazer Tag program is NO rental equipment available, so players must supply their own. Basic kits (chest sensor and pistol) are preferred, but rifles and head sensors will be allowed. It is recommended that players provide their own knee/elbow pads and eye protection (goggles or safety glasses).
Basic rules are: No running, stay 5 feet away from opponents at all times, expose your sensor to the player you are shooting at, and, no matter where you go, there you are!
Norwescon will host Clarion West's Fifth Annual Scholarship Auction, early Saturday evening on March 25. Auctioneers Ed Bryant and Steven Bryan Bieler promise to generate spirited bidding.
It's always fun, and for a good cause -- to help students attend the Clarion West SF and F Writers' Workshop. Whether you're a dealer, a fan, or a writer, you'll find something you want at the auction. There will be autographed books, manuscripts, art, food, and folly. Greg Bear will autograph limited edition Clarion West T-shirts bearing his artwork, and we anticipate offering unpublished works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Vonda McIntyre, and others.
A catalogue and auction items may be previewed at the Clarion West's club table, where you may learn about Clarion West's workshop and other programs. We will offer refreshments at an open reception an hour prior to the Auction.
For more info, contact Clarion West at (redacted).
Robert Anson Heinlein was always fiercely devoted to science fiction and its people. He was also a strong believer in the maxim "you don't pay back -- you pay forward." He nurtured the people around him, giving of his time, his money, his story ideas and his love. If they felt the need to repay him, he would often ask them to donate blood; a pint was once the "price" of his autograph. The Convention Committee of Norwescon 11 asks that you pay homage to the memory of this Grand Master of F&SF by giving blood to the Pierce County Blood Bank. There will be a Bloodmobile at the convention; pay Robert Heinlein forward by giving the gift of life on Saturday, March 25.
The Fannish Olympics department head is Mark Richardson. He plans for this year's event to be the best yet. Teams are composed of members of other convention staffs or club members (i.e., Moscon, Team Tug, Orycon, Hogan's Goat) and ALL are invited to participate. If your group or convention staff has not yet received an invitation and you wish to participate, please contact Mark via the Norwescon P.O. Box, marked "ATTN: Fannish Olympics". We have room for a limited number of teams and are accepting teams on a first-come, first-served basis. Sign up at the convention at the Information table. There will be a quick orientation meeting at the conventionon Friday evening. See your Program Book for more information. If you have never seen the Fannish Olympics, come on down and see the fun!! This may be even more fun if you've never been to a convention before, since the events are supposed to imitate skills needed for convention survival. This year's events will include the Scavenger Hunt, the Elevator Stuff, the (non-alcoholic) Bheer Ghuzzle, and the Gossamer Mailing. If you need more information, call Mark Richardson at (redacted).
This years' Art Show is again in the Rotunda, with a few changes. The natural lighting in the Rotunda is good enough that artificial lighting will not be needed. However the Art Show must close when all that wonderful natural light goes away. Yes, that's right, the Art Show will be closing at dusk Instead we will be opening at approximately 9 a.m. Friday through Sunday.
Art Show information can be obtained by writing to the Norwescon P.O. Box. There will be over 130 4'-by-4' panels as well as space for three-dimensional art. Requests are being processed shortly after they're received so get yours in ASAP.
Programming and Stage Services have some of the more visible departments at Norwescon: The volunteers that make up these departments are dedicated to helping produce a great convention and helping to keep events running on time, as much as possible. These people work well as a team. Experience is not necessary for you get the best and silliest on-the-job training that friendship can buy.
Stage Management is one of the keys to how we keep up the caliber of our panels. This group acts as host(ess) as well as a time keeper. They see that panelists are all there and any equipment that is needed is present. Communication of any problems to the Con Services is easy via a telephone. If you've enjoyed the panels in the past contact the Stage Management Department Head, Beth Dockins, at the Norewscon P.O. Box and give your support this year by volunteering. You can also help out by being responsible for two or three panels at the same time. I know one man who did that last year and found it to be a breeze. This is a fun job and it highly recommended.
The Technical Department has a team that transports, sets up, and operates the audio-visual equipment for all the panels and events. (NOTE: The Media Department has its own tech dept. and these two groups collaborate on some events.) This job offers a view of the con few get a chance to see and it is (surprisingly) more fun than you'd expect. For further information or to volunteer, call the Department Head, Keith Johnson at (redacted). Experience is NOT necessary as you will be trained on the equipment.
If you like to Dance continue reading: At Norwescon 1 (NWC), there were no dances. At NWC 2 there were two, a live Punk Rock Band followed by a Disco. We have grown from a 2 1/4 day con to an almost 4 full days...along with this the need to boogie has grown to a dance each night. Though we can not please everyone's musical tastes most will be happy with the following format; Thursday night, Oldies 50s, 60s, 70s, Friday night; The Stardance with current music plus some weird stuff plus lights plus the Legendary Ice Cream Social plus the Opening Number. Saturday Night; Teen Dance with Guest DJ. (This is more than what it sounds like and I don't know if this is a good name for it or not. The plan is for the early part of the event to be geared towards the young members of fandom...but if I know the people who have 'Happy Feet' age has nothing to do with dancing.) Sunday Night, this is the time for the Dead Sasquatch Party, Pajama Party, and Spring Rites. This last part is not to be confused with the Richard Wrights. The music will be Potpourri. We will take all of our tapes and shuffle them, then play them until our feet fall off, or until 1 am, whichever occurs first. Monday Night, Muzak. As always if you have music suggestions please send them to the P.O. Box, Attention: Dances. Thank you.
The Property room is headed by Pat Oros. This unseen section stores, handles, controls and helps distribute most of the audio-visual equipment that supports programming and the special functions. Properties interfaces closely with the Technical Services Volunteers who distribute and set-up most of the equipment in the programming rooms. This job is anything but boring and working with Pat is lots of fun.
As with last year, there is a free taping service for those who want a top-quality audio presentation to complete that special costume. If you remember Godzilla, Doctor Whoopee or Phoenix you know what a good tape can do for a costume. The service is FREE, and you get to keep the tape. If you have a costume that deserves that special touch, call Keith Johnson at (redacted).
The Masquerade will occupy its usual place of honor on Saturday night. Once again Judy Swanson is Director and Norah Hogoboom is Secretary/Assistant Director. The Masquerade is in the same facility as last year and we will continue to have use of the dressing rooms and showers (remember to bring your own towels, shampoo, and soap).
If you participated in last year's Masquerade, you will recieve a Norwescon 11 Masquerader's packet. If you have moved, did not receive one by the end of January, or did not participate last year and would like to now, please contact us.
There will be a few changes in rules and procedures:
Keith Johnson has once again generously offered his time and expertise to help contestants with their tapes. He was the sound wizard responsible for tapes accompanying some award-winning costumes. Call him at the number above.
We're looking forward to a fabulous Masquerade and hope to see you there! Although we have a lineup of enthusiastic volunteers, we're always looking for more; positions include Stage Ninjas, Den Moms, Ushers, and Assistants for various project heads. The Masquerade is a popular volunteer event, so sign up early! Call Judy Swanson at (redacted) or Norah Hogoboom at (redacted) for more info.
Site Services includes those departments that are concerned with the safety, security, and cleanliness of the convention. We're among the most noticable of the convention staff. If you like being noticed, call Kathy Smith at (redacted).
SECURITY ROVERS are those people with radios that seem to be everywhere at once. This team can move fast -- preventing problems from developing, assisting the fans and helping everything move a little smoother.
SECURITY WATCH is there to help you get where you thought you wanted to go or maybe want to be where you landed. The Watch checks badges, handles crowd control, and answers some of the geographical questions the con-goer has (Where is the Hospitality?). If you can carry the floor plans of seventeen different floors in your head, get a con-goer to produce a badge by lifting your eyebrow, and stand your ground when 1000 fans are rushing the door you're blocking, we have a job for you.
MAINTENANCE When you're walking down a stair or crowded hall, clean is safe and that's the job of our Maintenance department. You can help by using the nearest garbage can for your throw-aways. This is a job for younger con-goers (no one under 13, please), so if you like leaving a clean sweep behind you, call Robin Smith at (redacted) (but not during school hours).
Let's talk about -- Weapons Policy. First. Weapons not allowed: crossbows, slingshots, pellet guns, bows and arrows, water pistols, blowguns, catapults or any type of functioning projectile weapon. This includes any device that could be construed as a projectile weapon, loaded or unloaded (please, no real guns), or any extension of the human hand. The only exceptions are non-functioning replicas that are kept in their holsters, or daggers, knives and swords that are kept in their sheaths. All spears and staves must be no longer than six feet and the end of said devices must never project more than 12 inches from the bearer's body. This policy is in direct line with the rules of the Sheraton Hotel and their security department. There will be no appeal to a violation of these rules. Hotel Security will ask you to leave the Hotel, and Norwescon will ask you to leave the Convention. Remember, if it's drawn...your gone! The only type of peacebonding allowed is that provided by the convention. Fashion coordinated substitutes will not be allowed and do not forget, all allowable weapons must still be peacebonded. The only exceptions to this policy are weapons in conjunction with costumes to be displayed during the masquerade, and during programming specifically designed for weapons display. Bonding ties will be removed for such an event and replaced immediately afterward. If you remove the bonding tie in a private room to display your weapon, please return to have the bonding tie replaced.
Basic policy will remain the same. All blades must have protective covering in all public areas and function spaces. Please remember to keep your polearms and staves upright at all times.
Peacebonding will be available in the registration area, in the Security office, and from the Rovers. If you have any questions about this policy, write to Peacebonding, c/o Norwescon, (redacted), Seattle, WA 98124. As always, bonding is always looking for a few good beings.
IMPORTANT NOTICE!! Your room party and party host or hostess must be registered with the Convention Office. The host or hostess of your room party must stay sober. You are responsible for the good health and safety of your party attendees.
Once again we'll provide a no-charge Cloak Rooms for our members. Yes, as with last year, we have two rooms. The Main Cloak Room is on the Ballroom level. It opens early and closes late (with a few closures during the day) Thursday through Sunday. The Upper Room, beween the Boardroom and the SouthCenter room, is open during the day on Saturday and Sunday. Check your Pocket Program or the signs outside the rooms for the hours.
BE SURE the room you wish to use will be Open when you want to put something in AND WHEN YOU WANT TO TAKE IT OUT! We are Not open 24 hours a day. As always, use is at your own risk, and we do reserve the right to say "You're Not Bringing THAT In Here!"
The Lost and Found is located in the Main Cloak Room and shares the same hours. Remember to check with us if you lose an item during the Con. Items not claimed by closing Sunday night will be held until June 1, 1989.
Hotel room reservations should be made early!! The Tacoma Sheraton is full up as you read this, To check if there is a waiting list or cancelations have been made, phone the hotel, at (redacted), Other hotels in the area at which Norwescon members can get rooms are the La Quinta (formerly the Holiday Inn) and the Quality Inn (once known as the Tacoma Dome Hotel).
Room rates for the LaQuinta only are: $45 for singles, $50 for doubles and double/doubles. Rooms at the Quality Inn only are: $50 for singles, $56 for doubles and double/doubles. Room rates for the Sheraton only are as $60/night for Single or Double. Triples and quads are $66/night. Call the hotels for suite prices.
Your questions, suggestions, ideas, art, etc. are welcome and wanted for NORWESCON. Please write to us at: N0RWESCON 11, (redacted), Seattle, Washington 98124. Or, you can call the 24-hour Hotline at (redacted).
In order to be sure that all people under 18 have parent permission to be at the convention and to also insure that said minor has a guardian accompanying them to Norwescon, we will be asking some of you to show proof of age. We also are requesting that you purchase your membership using your REAL name. (Of course, you can still have your fannish name on your badge, with or without your real name.) Please bring ID with you and keep it with you at all times. If you do not have a driver's license, learner's permit, passport, military ID, or other identification, now's the time to get one! If ID is requested of you and you do not have any, you will be considered a minor by Norwescon and the hotel. The Washington State Department of Motor Vehicles issues I.D. cards; other states may do so also. (For the complete list of rules for people under 21 please see the Young and Future Fans colume on page 21.)
The Hospitality Suite cards people at the door; private parties often do the same thing, due to liability laws. In the interests of responsible conventioneering, and keeping the convention fun for EVERYONE, please do us all this favor and BRING I.D!!
Registration will be located in the second floor main lobby. We will be open on Thursday from 2:00pm to 10:00pm, Friday, 9:00am-10:00pm, Saturday, 9:00am-7:00pm and Sunday, 10:00am-2:00pm. Carolyn Palms is still in need of volunteers to help our members get their badges and packets quickly and speed them on their way to a fun weekend.
The following is a list of our current membership as of Jan. 1.
(Membership list not transcribed here.)
And not just as an attendee (although we are very happy that your coming.) Norwescon, like all other science fiction cons, run on one main ingredient...FAN POWER; you, me, and everyone of us who want good, safe and enjoyable weekends with our families and friends. Just paying your membership fees all the time is NOT enough. Volunteers area special group of fans. Wecome in all shapes, sizes, colors and life forms. We do everything from quietly guarding props to managing whole staffs of volunteers. We work anywhere from a few hours to all year around.
We are a Team.
This year some really neat items just for the Norwescon Volunteer Team are coming our way. Each team has it's very own tokens of identification. (ie; dice for the gamers, a security blanket for Security and Binkies for the Child Care crew). They will be yours to keep as a gift for helping. Our staff lounge will be stocked with munchies and drinks as well as things like a foot massage and back roller and lots of T.L C. administered by our volunteer department head, Kathy McLean. You'll have a chance to receive part of our can of Cogs and meet tbe GoH's close up at the Volunteers gathering on Sunday of the con. We will also receive original prints designed just for the volunteer staff as a "Thank You" to us a1l. There are also some events in the planning for us before and after the con including the SNEAK PREVIEW on Sat Feb 25 (see details about this event on the back page) where we will have our photo taken for the Program Book. There will also be a very special announcement made at the Sneak Preview of interest to all volunteers. Come and find out! Come and join the Team. Call Kathy at (redacted) and volunteer today.
You are cordially invited to the attend the
NWC 11 Sneak Preview
Saturday, February 25 at 2:00 p.m.at the Sheraton Tacoma Hotel
Ballroom
1320 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma
Admission is free. Refreshments served.
An afternoon full of fun and silliness and some interesting snippets of what's coming up at Norwescon. You can find out: what the Program Book cover will look like, the NWC schedule revealed, what ice cream flavors will be served at the ice cream social, this year you decide, the latest on attending pros, what is a "COG" anyway? and more
Featuring the Norwescon 11 Players
Special note: To all ofyou who have signed up to volunteer or are planning to at this event. This is a little pre con party hosted for you by the Norwescon Committee and the staff of the Sheraton Hotel. It's their way to say thank you in advance of the convention. Our picture will be taken for inclusion in the NWC Program Book. Also discover the gifts you'll receive for joining the volunteer Team(s) including poster art designed just for NWC volunteers only. You will also be taken on a tour of the hotel. Please call of you have any questions.
A Westwind subscription is included with a NWSFS membership, at $ per year.
Westwind is mailed during the first week of each month.
Contributions of art, reviews, articles, etc., are welcome. Deadline is the 5th of the month prior to issue.
(redacted) Seattle, WA. 98124
Advertising is accepted - see page 2
Convention hotel: TACOMA SHERATON HOTEL;
(redacted) Tacoma, Wa. 98402
(redacted)
Rates: $60-S/D/DD: $66-Trip/Quad
Other hotels with NWC 11 room blocks;
QUALITY INN-TACOMA DOME HOTEL;
(redacted) Tacoma, Wa. 98421
(redacted)
Rates; $50-S: $56-D/DD
LA QUINTA INN;
(redacted) Tacoma, Wa. 98421: (redacted)
Rates; $45-S: $50-D/DD
Norwescon will provide a limited shuttle service between these hotels. The shuttle hours have been extended over last year's.
Driving in the Tacoma area on I-5 take the City Center (Hwy 705) exit and head north on 705 into the downtown area. Take the South 15th, Pacific Ave. exit off of Hwy. 705. There is a stop light at the end on the ramp. Go straight up the hill two blocks, turn right on Broadway and you are at the Sheraton Hotel. For those ofyou who are making one of the other hotels your first stop, take the City Center/Tacoma Dome exit off of I-5 and exit off ofthe Tacoma Dome ramp. Turn right on East 25th St. The Quality Inn-Tacoma Dome Hotel is just a couple of blocks down on East 16th and "E" St. next to the Dome. The La Quinta Inn is about 1/2 mile farther down on East 27th St.
To get to the Sheraton by bus is easy. All Pierce Transit busses lead to 9th and Commerce. Walk one block up the hill and four blocks south (left) to 13th and Broadway and you're there. You can transfer to a Pierce Transit bus at the Federal Way Park and Ride. The 500 comes directly to 9th and Commerce.
For more info you can call Pierce Tansit at (redacted) from 6am to 6pm during the week and 9am to 5pm on weekends.
From south Seattle and the Burien area, Hwy. 99 comes into Tacoma by way of Fife and pretty much ends at Pacific Ave. Turn right and go to 15th, turn left up the hill two blocks to Broadway and your there.
There is a shuttle bus from Sea-Tac Airport to Tacoma and the Sheraton Hotel called Travelines Airporter. It leaves from the north or south ends of the airport on the baggage level. It leaves approximately every hour during the week from 8am to 4pm and on the half hour in the evenings starting at 5:30pm. On the weekends it leaves about every 90 minutes. The fare is $11.00 for adults.
Norwescon will be providing a shuttle service between the three hotels already mentioned during the peak hours ofthe convention. This service will be expanded over last years. Check your pocket program for the hours.
SEE BACK OF FLYER FOR AREA MAP
The Norwescon Easter Banquet is a brunch buffet and wi11 be held at about 12:00pm on Sunday (check your pocket program for the exact time) and will include the following delectable delights;
Assorted Chilled Juices
Mixed Green Salad-Choice of Dressings
Pasta Salad
Je11o Salad
Scrambled Eggs
Sasage
Bacon
Honey Glazed Ham Carved in Room
Rolls and a Variety of Condiments
Home Fried Potatoes
Blueberry and Bran Muffins
Butter and Preserves
Coffee, Tea, Decaf or Milk
The price of this yummy repast is $15.00 per person. That includes your tax and gratuity. Don't forget all the other neathings that wi11 be happening at the banguet (check the Progress Report). The Banquet is limited. Fill out the coupon on this flyer and mail with check payable to Norwescon to same at (redacted), Seattle, Wa. 98124.