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NORWESCON 4
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SEATTLE
[Cover art by Rowena Morrill of a busty blonde woman almost falling out of a tight red dress as she’s picked up in the tentacles of a slobbering frog-like monster with sharp teeth.]
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[Art by Wolatsky of a knight on horseback near crashing waves.]
[Art by Rowena of a dragon following a young boy on a sidewalk.]
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Rowena is definitely the first lady of science fiction and fantasy art today, with many fine works outside the field to her credit. BOSKONE’s Guest of Honor, Don Maitz, has received the top award at the World Fantasy Convention, a Society of Illustrators award, and is widely recognized for his work on magazine and book covers. Ron Wolatsky is noted for his illustrations for authors Roger Zelazny and Piers Anthony, as well as his record jacket and shirt designs, and other works outside the field. Wenzel is best known for his book, “Kingdom of the Dwarves”.
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NORWESCON 4
Fourth Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction Convention
Sponsored by the Northwest Science Fiction Society
P.O. Box [REDACTED]
Seattle, WA 98124
SEATTLE * -, * AIRPORT HYATT HOUSE
Guest of Honor
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Artist Guest of Honor
ROWENA MORRILL
Fan Guests of Honor
JACK, PAULINE and TILDA PALMER
Toastmaster
PHILIP KLASS (William Tenn)
Program Book Editor: Kennedy Poyser
The Norwescon 4 Program Book is dedicated to II. Warner Munn, Susan Wood and Sue Petrey.
Convention Committee
General Chair: Steve Bard. Administration: Steve Bieler. Business Manager: Richard Wright. Treasurer: Thom Walls. Membership Services: Lauraine Miranda. Mailing Services: Cliff Wind. Publications: Kennedy Poyser.
Operations Management: Judy Lorent; Robert Hess. Office Staff: Lynne Hess. Signs: Shirley & Jay Palmer. Information Center: Kit Canterbury. Security-Hospitality: Pat Mallinson. Troubleshooters: Don Glover. Stage Management: Shelley Dutton; Janice Murray. Special Lighting & StarDance Michael Citrak, Peter Citrak, Michael Kenmir, Beth Dockens, Paul Wocken. Volunteers: Tamara Vining. Property Management: Doug Booze; Linda Hoffer. Film Operations: Tony Blankinship. Video Operations: Dennis Pernaa, Theo Williams. Spontaneous Masquerade: Jennifer Parkinson. VIP Liaison: Judy Lorent, Robert Hess.
Program Director: Steve Bard. General Programming: Cliff Wind. Fan-Neofan Room: Alan Bostick. Short Story Workshop: Steve Bieler. Art Show: Constance Maytum; Rebecca Lesses. Video Program: Dennis Pernaa. Dealer’s Room: Dave Bray. Masquerade: Kit Canterbury, Richard Wright. Photo Services: Thom Walls. Technics & Games: Paul Schaper; Brass Dragon, Don Forbis. Food Functions: Lauraine Miranda. Media Program Liaison: Gordon Erickson, Blake Mitchell.
Public Relations and Hospitality: Elizabeth Warren. SF Fair Director: J.T. Stewart. And many, many more staff volunteers (Thanks!)
Copyright © by the Northwest Science Fiction Society for the contributors.
Contents
Operator’s Manual 4
Programming 5
Hotel Map 6
Masquerade 10
Dealers 10
Art Show 11
Fantasy Role Playing Games 11
Neofan Lounge 13
Phone Numbers 13
Restaurants 14
Twentieth Anniversary of Man in Space 15
Samuel R. Delany - Guest of Honor 16
Rowena Morrill - Artist Guest of Honor 17
Jack, Pauline and Tilda Palmer - Fan Guests of Honor 19
Philip Klass (William Tenn) - Toastmaster 20
Guests of Norwescon 22
Round Robin Conspiracy 38
Seacon: 1961 Worldcon Reunion 40
Seattle 45
Writer’s Guide to Procrastination 48
Films and Video 50
Norwescon Membership 54
In Memoriam 56
Acknowledgments 60
Art Credits:
John P. Alexander - 6, 7, 8, 13, 50
Alicia Austin - 10, 56
Jim Barker - 60
George Barr - 40
Lela Dowling - back cover
Steve Gallacci - 6, 7, 8, 50
Rick Gauger - 19
Alexis Gilliland - 20
C.L. Healy - 50
Ken Macklin - 35
Rowena Morrill - front cover
Wendy Pini - 41
Steve Perry - 13, 50
Victoria Poyser - 46
Bill Rotsler - 38
William R. Warren, Jr. - 1, 14
David Wenzel - 54
Michael R. Whelan - 4, 5, 11, 17
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Norwescon 4 Operator’s Manual
Important!
Read instructions carefully before attempting to operate your Norwescon membership! Improper use may result in serious damage to your fun.
Thank you for selecting Norwescon ® Brand as your first-blush-of-spring convention choice. Your Norwescon Model IV is engineered to give you many hours of flawless operation and should last throughout the entire weekend, even under the heaviest use.
SIMPLE, EASY-TO- FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS:
Step 1: Foreplay
Find a quiet corner, put brain in gear, grasp your program book firmly with both hands, and refer to the program schedule on the next page.
Step 2: Planning Ahead
Carefully read ALL the detailed descriptions for all three days of convention activities and annotate (in pencil) those items of programming that you will probably wish to attend.
You now have your own personalized “plan of action.” This should help preclude the Program Remorse Syndrome which occurs when you read your program book for the first time AFTER you get home from the con and suddenly realize you missed a panel (or seven) you would really have wanted to see had you only known what it was about.
NOTE: Thou shall NOT skip Step 2. Neither shall thou proceed to Step 3 without first doing a THOROUGH job of Step 2.
Step 3: Pocket Program Personal Plan
You will note that our lovely program book doesn’t fit conveniently into your shirt pocket no matter how hard you’ve tried. To alleviate this frustration, you’ll find in your registration packet the very chic and cleverly designed (and often copied) Norwescon Pocket Program. Simply transfer your Personalized Plan of Action from the program book schedule to the Pocket Program matrix. Be sure to then pocket your program.
Step 4: Orientation
Directing your attention to the hotel map in this section of the program book (and also found on the obverse of your Pocket Program), you should first determine where you’re at before you attempt to go elsewhere.
Taking your Pocket Program and map in hand, set out on a voyage of exploration. Locate ALL those rooms you will eventually need to find during the con. Among the more obscure ones are:
The third-track programming room/film room is in the Flight Lounge (center wing), just across from the new registration location atop the overpass ramp.
The new “Neofan Room” is situated just around the corner from the Hospitality Suite (Governor’s Suite), which is just around the corner and down the hall from the art show.
Hucksters are again located in the Satellite Room on the second floor above Hugos Restaurant.
Video games can be found in the second-floor Conference B.
Computers are in the third-floor Directors' Room.
And the new room for the continuation of hot panels is on the far side of the pool in the International Suite.
Should you become lost, simply look for moss on the north side of someone in the video room, or follow an author and he/ she will lead you safely back to the bar.
Step 5: Groceries
If you haven’t already acquired a banquet ticket and yet desire a choice seat for the Sunday speeches and awards, you may well have to motor on back to your friendly neighborhod registration desk with $11 (ouch!) before they sell out.
Moreover, since Hugos Restaurant is very popular, you should make reservations immediately upon arrival at the con, if not sooner, should you fancy a Friday or Saturday evening dinner therein.
Step 6: Funny Clothes
If you wish to be adjudicated at the Saturday evening costume masquerade, you should probably have signed up at the desk while you were getting that banquet ticket. Sorry about that…
[Art by Michael R. Whelan of a cute, furry, humanoid creature with big eyes.]
Copyright © by Michael R. Whelan
CAUTION
Science fiction conventions can be too much fun and a word of warning is perhaps in order. Sometime during the con, you will undoubtedly see a few strange beings alone in a corner somewhere amidst scraps of shredded program book. They will be staring fixedly ahead, with a sort-of “fragmented” expression on their faces, while quietly muttering incoherently. These are what you call “casualties.” You should try not to be one.
Unable to decide which of several exciting scheduled alternatives to pursue (and being painfully shy), they experience a sensory overload and, uh … well, they blow a fuse, to put it politely. What you are seeing is, of course, the quiescent latter phase of the malady. Heaven forbid that you should be unfortunate enough to witness the sudden spectacular onset of the syndrome — it’s…it’s…well, let’s just say that it’s not for the squeamish. However, if you should hear a sort of popping/sputtering sound, whatever you do, don’t look back!
I perceive your paranoia. Let me assure you that this is not a peculiarly fannish shame. No, rest assured my friends, the “heartbreak of indecision” is even more prevalent in the mundane world. As a matter of fact, this condition, in its chronic form, generally asserts itself in a not-insignificant statistic on public-opinion polls.
In any event, should you espy one of these poor souls, have a heart. Take it by the hand to wherever you happen to be going at the time, or at the very least, nudge it in some direction. Alternatively, if it is particularly cute, pet it on the head and if it smiles, take it back to your room to play with.
Programming
[Art by Michael Whelan of several insectoid aliens gathered around a table with two human adults and a child, all enjoying ice cream cones.]
Copyright © by Michael R. Whelan
Hospitality Suite Opens (Governor’s)
Art and Dealer Room Set-up Begins
Practice Party (Governor’s Suite) Opening party in the Hospitality Suite.(Early registration available.)
Film - Omen III (Phoenix A-B-C) Early-bird showing of this final installment of the Omen series. Damien ascends to the U.S. Presidency and unleashes Armageddon. (First run in 35mm!)
Video Show Starts (Continental and Glacier Rooms) Our non-stop, 24-hours-a-day video program commences in the two video rooms and onchannels 3 and 8 of each and every television in the hotel.
The following schedule delineates major programming items only. All events are one hour in duration unless otherwise specified. The film schedule is shown on the pocket program and the video schedule is listed on its reverse side.
Cassette recordings of most programming will be available in the convention lobby within minutes after the end of each event.
Registration Opens (Upper Lobby) Bright, cheery, friendly faces prepare for the onslaught (and vow to remain so).
Hospitality Suite Opens (Governor’s) Hostess Elizabeth (Dragon Lady)Warren becomes hospitable. (The new neofan lounge can be found just around the corner in Conference A.)
Film Room Opens (part-time in the Flight Lounge) Celluloid addicts rejoice! (See pocket program for schedule.)
Art Show Registration Begins (Phoenix D) Artists register all art for which they have reserved space at thru . Waiting list art registration noon 'til .
Tarot Class (Phoenix A thru ) “Secrets of Inner Space,” a fortune telling workshop presented in a hands-on format by Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ninguable of the Seven Eyes.
The Fran Skeene Show (Phoenix B-C) Vancouver fan Fran Skene performs with puppets and magic.
Dealer Room Opens (Satellite Room - above Hugo’s Restaurant) Huckster Room opens with the usual mad dash of slavering collectors. Dealers wring their hands and cackle evilly.
Superman II Previews (Phoenix B-C) Craig Miller narrates slideshow and film clips of the second half of the Superman story. Will Lois and Superman get it on? Was Larry Niven right?
Orbiting Spaceport (Phoenix A) Northwest L-5 Society president Roger Arnold describes the spaceport depicted in his Analog article.
Dragonslayer Previews (Phoenix B-C) Our Hollywood correspondent, Blake Mitchell, narrates a slideshow and film clip preview of this new heroic fantasy film from Disney and Paramount.
[Drawing of a cow-like creature sniffing at a pot of flowers.]
Construct An Alien Character (Flight Lounge) The physiology and psychology of extraterrestrial creatures, as fabricated by F.M. Busby, Michael Coney, Pat Murphy, and Michael Conner.
Film Premier - The Howling (Phonix A-B-C) Studio sneak preview (in 35mm!) of a major new horror film to be released in by Avco Embassy.
Art Show Opens (Phoenix D) Initial glimpses of splendid renderings.
Dead Authors Panel (Flight Lounge) Mary Shelley (Elinor Busby) leads moldy oldies H. Rider Haggard (Bob Brown), Jack London (Martha Sandeman), Robert Louis Stevenson (Richard Wright), and others in some reminiscing.
Space Shuttle Countdown (Phoenix B-C) Greg Bennett, operations section head for the space shuttle simulator at the Johnson Space Center, narrates a slideshow update concerning the imminent first shuttle launch.
Behind the Scenes in Publishing (Phoenix A) Kipy Poyser probes the real workings behind the slick facade of the publishing industry with panelists David Hartwell (Pocketbooks editor), Susan Allison (Ace editor), Charles N. Brown (LOCUS publisher), Dan Levant (Madrona publisher), Rowena Morrill (artist), and Genevieve Lofgren (book buyer for Seattle’s paperback distributor).
4 p.m.
Outland Previews (Phoenix B-C) Blake Mitchell, West Coast Editor of Fantastic Films magazine, narrates a slide presentation and film clips about this exciting new sf film from the Ladd Company.
Word Processor Class (Phoenix A) Computer/word processor vendors demonstrate the workings and features of word processors suited to the needs of professional writers. Boeing Computer Services office automation specialist Judy Dyer moderates.
The Limits of Fandom (Phoenix B-C) Patrick Neilsen Hayden moderates an analysis of what and what not to expect from fandom. With Tom Whitmore, Denys Howard, and Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
New Wave Revisited (Flight Lounge) A look back at the New Wave in science fiction; what was it? what was the extent of its influence? does it still exist? With Samuel Delany, Norman Spinrad, Eileen Gunn, Dick Kearns, and Steve Perry.
The Jody Scott Show (Phoenix B-C) “Why Settle for Dull,” a talk by the controversial Jody Scott, forwarding the theory that science fiction is a form of social control…which explains why sf hasn’t had any new ideas since H.G. Wells.
Dhalgren: A Discussion (Flight Lng) Mog Decarnin, Jerry Kaufman, Kate Schaefer, and Patrick Neilsen Hayden discuss Delany’s controversial novel and other works.
[Map of the Hyatt Seattle showing locations of various convention spaces.]
[Drawing of a lizard-like creature in a metal garbage can.]
Trivia Bowl Preliminaries (Flight Lounge) Yet again those teams of minutia experts match wits at lightning speed to determine whose mind is the most cluttered with useless information (finals at ).
Early Autograph Session (Upper Lobby) Samual Delany, Poul Anderson, William Tenn and other prolific writers sign a few autographs to mitigate the crush at the Saturday evening session. (At the authors' request, please limit your autograph hunting to these scheduled sessions.)
Opening Cermonies, Entertainments, and GoH Interview (Phoenix B-C) Toastmaster William Tenn forces the various Guests of Honor to take a bow. Vaudevillian humorist Reverend Chumleigh delights you, magicians Mazuba and Kirk Charles amaze you, and Patrick Neilsen Hayden interviews GOH Samuel R. Delany.
Norwescone Ice Cream Social and Stardance (Phoenix A-B-C) All the luscious ice cream you can eat, no-host cocktails at the bar, and dancing to all types of music until .
Volcano Party (Governor’s Suite) Special festivities designed to appease a certain mountain that erupted for the first time during NORWESCON 3. Sacrificial victims apply within. Come and get your own free piece of ash!
Dawn Breaks, Registration Crows and Opens for Business (Upper Lobby Ramp)
Art Show Reopens (Phoenix D)
Tax Breaks for Writers and Artists (Phoenix A-B) Artist Roscoe Wright moderates a discussion with Susan Coon, Frank Robinson, Eileen Gunn, and George Guthridge on methods for foiling the IRS.
Art Reproduction Techniques (Phoenix C) Darrel Anderson shows slides of his unique art reproduction techniques.
Dealer Room Reopens (Satellite) Hucksters cleverly bring out the hot stuff that they held back on Friday.
Elfquest Presentation (Phoenix A-B) Elfquest publisher Richard Pini narrates slideshow of this popular independent fantasy comic produced by him and wife/artist Wendy.
How Not to Sell Your Story (Phoenix C) Marta Randall leads editors Susan Allison, David Hartwell, and Alan Ryan in recounting horror stories about the strange things that come in the mail.
Trends in Horror Fiction and Film (Phoenix A-B) Steven Dimeo, Dennis Etchison, Alan Ryan, and Charles Grant discuss new ways to scare you spitless.
Fan Guests of Honor Interview (Phoenix C) Clifford Wind interrogates the entire Palmer family: Pauline, Jack and Tilda.
Humor and Satire in SF (Phoenix A-B) Toastmaster Phil Klass (William Tenn) endeavors to moderate funny folk Robert Sheckley, Theodore Sturgeon, Nicholas Yermakov, Christopher Stasheff, Alexis Gilliland, Phyllis Ann Karr, and himself.
[Drawing of a robot, a man, a woman, and an alien sitting at a table as if paneling at a convention.]
Saturn, Jupiter and Mars Photos (Phoenix C) Mike Shanahan of the Pacific Science Center narrates a stunning slideshow of the heroic robot explorers of our solar system.
SF Poetry (Flight Lounge) Gene Van Troyer, John deCamp, J.T. Stewert, Pauline Palmer, and Jon Post discuss the marriage of verse and science fiction.
Art Jam (Convention Lobby) Darrell Anderson and friends concoct a collaborative art work of awesome proportions.
Raiders from the Lost Ark Preview (Phoenix A-B) Producer Frank Marshall shows slides and film clips from this new George Lucas film directed by Steven Speilberg. Action/adventure set before WW II starring Harrison Ford.
Tele-Con with Isaac Asimov (Phoenix C) The inimitable Isaac Asimov is interviewed. What more can you say.
How to Buy SF Art (Flight Lounge) Art Show director Constance Maytum discusses the ethics of art reproduction and the responsibilities of the artist with Darrel Anderson, Jack Palmer, and others.
Homophobia (Phoenix A-B) Debbie Notkin moderates Joanna Russ, Samuel Delany, Rebecca Lesses, and Loren MacGregor on the fear and prejudice enountered by gay people.
Is Armageddon Survivable? (Phoenix C) A discussion of nuclear war scenarios with moderator Richard Reinert, Dr. Judy Lipton, Dean Ing, and George Harper.
The Mystery Connection (Flight Lounge) Willo Davis Roberts, M.K. Wren, Susan Coon, Frank Robinson, and Frank Denton investigate why so many writers and readers dabble in both sf and mysteries.
Bio-Social Science (Phoenix A-B) Alexander Schauss from the “American Institute for BioSocial Research” shows how a certain shade of pink can make you docile and how eating a banana might turn you into a homicidal maniac.
Short Fiction Workshop (Phoenix C) Steve Perry leads Vonda McIntyre, Patricia Jo Clayton, William Barnwell and George Guthridge in disemboweling the three “best” stories submitted to the NORWESCON short story contest.
Worldcon Reunion (Flight Lounge) Slides and reminiscences of the World Science Fiction Convention which happened right here at the Hyatt. Charles N. Brown, F.M. Busby, Elinor Busby, Poul Anderson, George Scithers and Wally Weber nostalgiate.
Joanna Russ/Samuel R. Delany Dialogue (Phoenix A-B) Lively discourse between two writer’s writers.
Aging and Life Extension (Phoenix C) Dr. George Martin of the University of Washington School of Medecine shares his expertise on the genetic and chemical factors which determine the rate at which you age.
Space Settlement Options (Flight Lounge) Gordon Woodcock, Boeing Aerospace expert on spaceports, solar power satellites, et al., explores pros and cons of settlements in space, on the moon, on Mars, and elsewhere.
Is There An Idea Shortage in SF? (Phoenix C) …and if so, is it caused by a glut of competent workshop-produced writers who lack “sensawunder.” Cherie Wilkerson moderates David Hartwell, Phil Klass, Richard Cowper, Bubbles Broxon, and Eric Vinicoff.
Jessica Salmonson Reading (Flight Lounge) Jessica Amanda Salmonson reads from an unpublished work.
Fannish Olympiads (Phoenix A-B) The Canadians defend their world championship against PESFA, NWSFS, PSST and all other challengers in the collating race, beer guzzling contest, beer keg race (across the pool), and other less dignified events. Steve Perry emcees.
Eileen Gunn Reading (Flight Lounge) A reading from a new story by Eileen Gunn.
The Fanatical, Political, Christian Assault on Science (Flight Lounge) Richard Kearns leads Norman Spinrad, Ursula LeGuin, Alexis Gilliland, and Michael Kurland in a consideration of the merits of Creationism and other philosophies espoused by the Moral Majority and other fundamentalists.
[Drawing of an alien, a dragon, and an armadillo-like creature, all holding books, standing in line before a table at which a Pierson’s Puppetter is signing autographs.]
Meet the Pros Autograph Party (Phoenix A-B-C) Once again NORWESCON hosts the world’s largest autograph party with all the 90-plus attending professional authors, editors, and artists happily signing books (or anything else you’ve got) as long as you continue to ply them with drinks.
Spontaneous Costuming (Conference A) Those of you who didn’t bring a costume but are overflowing with creativity will have 1–1/2 hours to build one out of makeup, tinfoil, glue, glitter, colored paper, and other assorted goodies provided by the con.
Filksing (Convention Lobby) Bill Warren and others stir up some rousing good filking while you wait for the Masquerade to convene.
[Drawing of a feminine snake-like creature dropping something as another creature looks on with bugging-out eyes and long tongue flopping out of its mouth.]
Masquerade and Entertainments (Phoenix A-B-C) NORWESCON’s gala costume parade featuring Frank Catalano as emcee and halftime entertainment by the fabulous Artis the Spoonman and a reprise by the Reverend Chumleigh.
Seattle in Bidding Party (Governor’s Suite) Our LAST passionate celebration of having lost the Worldcon bid. Whew!
Dancing with Pro Jr. (Flight Lounge) Seattle’s own Pro Jr. Dancing with a great live band!
Film: Omen 3 (Phoenix A-B-C) “The Last Conflict” unfolds in this excellent horror thriller by 20th Century Fox (first run in 35mm!!).
Film: Fade to Black (same place) American Cinema’s story of a fellow who so loves movies that he sometimes kills for them (in 35mm!).
Registration Opens Reluctantly (Convention Lobby)
Art Show Reopens (Phoenix D) Preparing for the first Auction.
Collectors Anonymous (Phoenix A-B) Frank Robinson, Bill Broxon, Steve Bard, and others offer advice about your 50 book a month habit.
Gay SF (Phoenix C) Eric Garber and Lynn Paleo discuss the instances of homosexual characterization in sf and their bibliography thereof.
The Microelectronics Revolution (Phoenix A-B) Jonathan Post leads Roger Arnold, Jon Inouye, Richard Wright, and others in a discussion of talking appliances and musical calculators and predict which electronic marvels will arrive next.
First Art Auction (Phoenix C) Auctioneers Jane Hawkins and Bob Doyle foment some spirited haggling among you wealthy art patrons.
Hollywood Hotline (Flight Lounge) Blake Mitchell reports on what the studios are doing to with your favorite science fiction stories.
The Future That Was (Phoenix A-B) The different ways in which science fiction imagined the future during each decade of this century. Perspectives by Norman Spinrad, Christopher Stasheff, Richard Cowper and Frank Catalano.
Confessions of Script Writers (Flight Lounge) Jerry Sohl moderates Michael Kurland, Ted Pederson, John Varley, Michael Reaves and Marc Zicree in a sobering analysis of the trials and tribulations of writing for Saturday morning TV and/ or high budget films. Do the financial incentives somehow compensate for all that mental anguish?
Fan Art Examined (Flight Lounge) Teresa Neilsen Hayden, Loren McGregor, Jack Palmer, and Bill Gibson probe the merits and limitations of fan art.
[Drawing of a six-limbed creature holding the hoof of an antelope-like creature.]
Banquet, Guest of Honor Speeches (Phoenix A-B-C) Roving musicians supplement quiche or turkey, followed by ham in the form of toastmaster Philip Klass (William Tenn). Guest of Honor speeches, and art show, masquerade, and tacky awards.
Trivia Bowl Finals (Flight Lounge) Survivors of round one match cluttered minds in this duel to the death.
Genetic Engineering (Flight Lounge) Paul Novitski leads Vonda McIntyre, James Kahn, and Karl Hansen in an exploration of the limitless possibilities for genetic manipulation.
Second Art Auction (Phoenix C) All wallets, checkbooks and pockets are emptied in this final session.
Selling Space (Phoenix A-B) Northwest L-5 Society president Roger Arnold moderates a discussion of the near-term opportunities for space to pay its own way. With Jonathan Post, Patti Smith, and Frank Catalano.
The Art of Costuming (Flight Lounge) A slideshow about studio costuming narrated by Blake Mitchell and James Ferguson.
With the Eyes of a Child (Phoenix A-B) Nicholas Yermakov, Norman Spinrad, Poul Anderson, and Mildred Downey Broxon liken the writing of sf and fantasy to the whys and hows in a child’s view of the world.
Art Technique with Rowena (Phoenix C) Artist Guest of Honor Rowena Morrill narrates a slide presentation of her spectacular fine-art technique.
Criticism and SF (Phoenix A-B) Samuel R. Delany moderates Paul Novitski, Jeff Frane, Greg Burton, Cherie Wilkerson, and Richard Purtill in seeking to define the unique role of literary criticism in the sf field.
Excalibur Previews (Phoenix C) Craig Miller narrates a slideshow and film clips previewing this film recreation of the Arthurian legend. From Orion Films.
Closing Ceremonies and Chain Story Reading (Phoenix A-B-C) Toastmaster Phil Klass offers a few parting shots. Ted and Jayne Sturgeon read the dreaded chain story of your choice until your screams for mercy move them to stop. Brave editors debate the merits of this mighty work.
Dead Sasquatch Pajama Party (Governor’s Suite) The “Dragon Lady” hosts our final bash of the con with leftover chocolate mousses from the banquet, leftover sandwiches from the snack bar, and leftover conventioneers.
Film: Fade to Black (Phoenix A-B-C) American Cinema’s tribute to film fans with Marilyn Monroe look-alike, Linda Carriage. (35mm!)
Film: Omen 3 (Phoenix A-B-C) The perfect late show fare with this creepy tale of Armageddon a la 20th Century Fox (First run in 35mm!).
Dead Sasquatch Ceremonies and Orgy Traditional arcane rites with the usual sacrificial rituals on the lawn of the Washington Memorial Cemetery (just North of the hotel).
Survivors' Brunch (Coffee Shop) Self-explanatory.
[Drawing of a box labeled ‘lost and found’ that appears to contain a gold ring, a potion bottle, a spikey rat-like creature, one of Mickey Mouse’s gloves, and a triple-cupped bra.]
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Masquerade, Dealers, Etc.
MASQUERADE
The Norwescon Masquerade this year will be bigger and flashier than ever before, a highlight of the convention. Some of the contestants have spent months putting the final detailing into their costumes, resulting in an elegance and attention to detail not often seen these days. Others will turn their walk across the runway into a theatrical experience. Whether you come to the Masquerade as a contestant or as a spectator, you will be sure to enjoy it. The Masquerade will be held in the Phoenix Rooms, starting at .
All Norwescon members are urged to enter, or at least come and see the fun as five noted judges rack their brains to pick the four caSh winners. Enjoy, too, the wit of guest MC Frank Catalano as he introduces the incredible contestants and keeps you feeling warm through the unintentional, but unavoidable delays.
Start with the skill of the Juvenile Jugglers, thrill at the antics of the invincible Reverend Chumleigh, and marvel at indescribable moves of Artis the Spoonman, as they cover the breaks in the costume parade. And then, the final moments, and the costumes that win the accolades of the judges will be shown again for a final round of enthusiastic applause.
Prepared costumes will be entered into either the Fantasy or Science Fiction categories. Character name, source, and history should be prepared and listed on the entry form. A short act for the character may also be prepared.
Alternatively, contestants may enter the Impromptu Spontaneous category, where you bring yourself and your imagination to Conference A and spend an hour putting together a costume from bits of this and that which we have available.
Entry forms for all contestants will be at the Information Desk in the Convention Lobby. Fill out the form (sorry, there is no way to avoid filling out all four sections) and leave it at Information. Registration forms must be in before .
All contestants, prepared or impromptu, must be at Conference A (around the corner from Hospitality) at for rehearsal. If you have a piece of costume which restricts your movement or sight, or is included in your prepared act, please wear that piece, at least. Impromptu contestants meet at Conference A at to work on their costumes.
Contestants return to Conference A at , ready to go, for pictures and the masquerade. The formal awards ceremony will be during the banquet on Sunday.
[Art by Alicia Austin of three bellydancing women.]
Copyright © by Alicia Austin
Hucksters
by Dave Bray
We are proud to present an excellent huckster’s room with booksellers, gamesellers, artists, artisans, and publishers from across the country and Canada. This year we offer over 60 tables in a spacious 3500-square-foot facility.
Many booksellers will feature used and rare books and paperbacks, new and limited editions, pulps, magazines, rare art, posters and prints, and many other items.
Many artists and artisans will be selling original creations in variousmedia, limited edition prints and portfolios and will be available to discuss their craft or perhaps arrange for a specially commissioned item.
Gamesellers will have all the latest in D&D, board games, miniatures, and electronic and computer games.
Publishers w ill be show casing their latest releases as well as many earlier items.
We earnestly invite you to visit the huckster’s room. Browse leisurely, enjoy yourself, and spend plenty of money so that those who spent so much time and effort to bring their goods to you can also enjoy themselves.
The huckster’s room is right above the restaurants and bar, off the hotel lobby (not the convention lobby).
Hours: —
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Artshow
by Constance Maytum
Welcome to our artshow. We have enjoyed putting together this exhibit for you this year. We have art from the greater United States and Canada. Enjoy it. Talk about it. Feel free to give us your thoughts on how you react to the show. We have a comment book at the front desk of the show.
Our judges this year will be:
Jane Hawkins—former director of Norwescon artshows and an active member of Seattle fandom.
Jack Palmer—this year’s Fan Guest of Honor (with Pauline and Tilda) and an artist. He has a shop called The Postcard Palace in Bellingham, Washington.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden—artist, Seattle fan, fanzine co-editor and graphic design businesswoman.
Ctein—a professional photographer and print maker in San Francisco. He was also co-director with Terry Garey of the Westercon 32 art show in .
Our awards this year will be in three categories: color, monochrome and 3-D. Each category will receive Best of Show, Second Place and Honorable Mention, with cash awards. The certificates will be designed and produced by ZEITGEIST, a Seattle-based graphic design firm.
For scheduling of artshow hours and auctions, refer to your Pocket Program.
We are glad that you are here to share our show with us.
Fantasy Role-Playing Games
The phenomena of fantasy role-playing games has definitely established a new arm of SF&F fandom. Whether you are playing “Dungeons and Dragons,” “Traveller,” “Chivalry and Sorcery,” or any one of a number of emerging games, you can adapt your favorite character from your favorite book or story to the “world” of the game and become that character.
Norwescon members will this year again be able to learn about this exciting new sport by attending introductory seminars and by playing in short introductory games. These are being conducted by the Brass Dragon Society, a group of Game Masters who regularly play, and gamemaster, fantasy role-playing games.
Games also will be run for more experienced players. Experienced and novice players alike can join together into teams who will compete for the coveted Brass Dragon trophy, a rotating team trophy sponsored by Norwescon and the Brass Dragon Society. The Brass Dragon trophy will be on display in the Art Room.
There will be seminars, open game playing, and team tournament playing all day (and night) in the conference rooms on the first floor of the 100 wing. Go to the Board Room, room 114, for more information.
Introduction to AD&D
Introduction to Traveler
- Troll ball (Elim tnmt)
Troll ball (Elim tnmt)
Introduction to Runequest
- AD&D Tournament
Role Playing Lecture
Introduction to AD&D
Introduction to Traveler
- Troll ball (Closed elim)
Introduction to AD&D
[Art by Michael R. Whelan of a dark-haired man holding a crystal up before his eye.]
Copyright © by Michael R. Whelan
COMPUTER ROOM
Atari, Pet, TRaSh-80, SOL-20, and several more exciting examples of the modern line of personal microcomputers will be up and running in the Norwescon Computer Room, located in the Directors Room on the third floor of the 400 wing. There you can see, in one tiny box, all the computing power that ten years ago took up a big room full of space.
These mighty micros let you write computer programs in BASIC and other computer languages. They let you talk to Eliza the Shrink. With them you can become Luke Skywalker and zip up the trench of the Death Star, or dogfight Darth Vader in the depths of space. Or, you can take your lamp and Adventure into the Dungeons under the Pyramid.
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Neofan Lounge
by Alan Bostick
Have you ever wondered just what it is that fans do in between conventions? You now have the opportunity of finding out by visiting the Neofan Lounge, located in Conference A. There you will find displays representing SF fandom’s history and current scope, a library of amateur publications—fanzines—to be browsed through, and friendly people on hand who can answer your questions about just what is going on.
If this is your first SF convention, then you will find that visiting the Neofan’s Lounge will be of special value to you. Not only is this the opportunity for you to find out about fandom, but you also will find their suggestions and advice about how to make the most of Norwescon.
But most importantly, the Neofan Lounge is a place where you can meet other people in a relaxed atmosphere, more quiet than the loud enthusiasm that fills the all-night parties and more peaceful than the confusing flash and splendor of the daily programming. There are many people who feel that the point of attending a convention is to meet and get to know other people who share with you an interest in sf and fantasy. If you are one of those people, then do come by the Neofan Lounge for a little while. There will be interesting people to meet there.
At press time, we are planning to have the Lounge open from to on , and from to on and . (This may change though. Check your pocket program and any posted announcements you might find for changes in the schedule.) During these times there will be a host in the Lounge to answer any questions you might have about the convention or fandom.
The location is Conference A (Room 601). We’re just around the corner from the Hospitality Suite (see the map in the program book for the location). If you have any difficulty finding us, ask a convention worker or at the information table on the convention floor.
We look forward to meeting you. Enjoy the convention!
[Cartoon of a person saying, ‘No, no, not spoon, dune!’ to a large worm-like creature holding a spoon in its mouth.]
The Dragon Returns to Hospitality
The Hospitality Suite (Governor’s Suite room #429) will be run by the Dragon Lady this year. We have a party planned for every night of the convention. Saturday night we will hold our infamous 'Seattle in ‘81’ party, complete with Irish Coffee. Please drop in and say hello.
[Drawing of a person collapsed in a bathtub surrounded by beer cans, bottles, and ice, holding one beer can aloft.]
Tapes
Cassette tapes of most major programming items are available at the convention in the lobby within minutes after the end of each program item. After the convention, tapes are available through the mail from:
A&P Custom Recording
10066 Waters Ave.
South Seattle, WA 98178
Video Program
A special feature of the video program this year is the presentation of short films by Andy Oakland, Portland amateur filmmaker. His satirical efforts, which have won both regional and national awards, include such titles as Duperman, Lego Trek, Attack of the Killer Nike, Western, and The Effects of Various Drugs on Froggius Normalis.
A Word About Weather
As this is, after all, early Spring in Seattle, it will undoubtedly be overcast and drizzly when you arrive at the hotel. Not to worry, though —a science fiction convention should generate sufficient localized hot air to dissipate the clouds before long. (Or, in meteorolgists jargon, “a natural high will set in.”) If not, you are well advised to carry a hat or umbrella, and a light coat, should you plan to do extensive sightseeing in Seattle or anywhere around Puget Sound.
Handy Phone List
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Poison Control Center: [REDACTED]
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Fan Guest of Honor: Suzle Tompkins
Special Guest of Honor: Damon Knight
This year, MosCon is bringing you, in art, what Norwescon is bringing you in authors— our art show/auction will boast such luminaries as Freas, Barr, Emshwiller, Van Dongen, Whelan, Powers, Bearcloud, and many more! (see flyer for full details)… and as usual, we will be giving a signed, limited-edition Kirk print to the first 150 registrees. Plus, we will have such goodies as a Whelan con nametag, our Jacuzzi parties, the third Lensman award, and much more!
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Around the Hyatt
Our convention hotel offers many diversions for those who may momentarily wish to get away from the excitement. Chief among the attractions is Hugo’s, the hotel’s award-winning dining place. Top of the menu is their roast duck, mouth-watering, delicately sauced. Each of the other menu items is special in its own way. Hugo’s is a real dining treat, though moderately high in price. Reservations are a must.
Next door is the Bistro lounge, always nice for a quiet drink with your favorite friend.
The coffee shop is open for feast or snack 24 hours a day. This is a great site for a late night SMOF session, an early breakfast, or a quick lunch. And the food is very good - especially recommended is the Kentucky Jack and the New York Steak dinner.
However, if you wish to eat on the run, the closest stop would have to be the Norwescon Snack Bar located right in the convention lobby. Good, quick food and a price that’s just right.
If you need a pack of cigs, or a nice present for a new friend, try the gift shop across from the hotel desk. Frazzled? Have your hair frizzled in the beauty/barber shop.
If you have any other needs ask the hotel desk or a member of the convention staff.
And just down the street …
[Map of the streets surrounding the Seattle Hyatt showing key businesses and locations.]
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The Space Program Comes of Age
by Greg Bennett
Man’s effort to travel through the cosmos was born at 09.07 hours, Moscow time, on , when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched from the USSR’s Tyuratam site for a historic one-orbit spaceflight. Its early development came quickly, with America’s first astronaut, Alan B. Shepherd, Jr., making his fifteen-minute suborbital trip on , followed by Virgil Grissom on and Gherman Titov’s 17-orbit flight on .
This effort’s growth has followed the pattern established by nature over the millenia—rapid development as it adapted for survival and procreation, a period of exploration and wonder as it reached for parts of the universe just beyond its grasp, and finally an era of orderly growth where the new adult works to make use of its knowledge as it expands its horizons with the confidence of a mature individual.
As with all children, random external factors have served to guide the space effort to its place within its environment. Competition with the USSR drove the US to reach for the moon, while technological development drove its commercial applications toward a space- borne communications system that, today, is more than an order of magnitude larger than the early pioneer’s prediction. As with all adults, the mature space program faces the challenges of survival. Finding its place within the social and economic forces of the world will be a constant effort, because these efforts can no longer rely upon the excuse, “What good is a child?”
In the U.S., unencumbered by the tin gods of socialism, this means that the space program must now begin to pay its own way. It must prove itself in the marketplace, by providing services that other people and other programs need and want. Fortunately, because of the foresight of its planners, the U.S. space program is well-positioned to do just that.
Soon after Norwescon 4, the Space Shuttle will make its first of six test flights. By the time the space effort reaches its twenty-first birthday, it will have demonstrated its ability to provide myriad services to a world hungry for better communications, more energy, and less costly natural resources. The Shuttle will dramatically reduce the cost of that all-important first step in reaching out beyond the Earth’s atmosphere to low Earth orbit. From there, the rest of the cosmos is within the reach of any scientist, any explorer, or any businessman willing to take the risk.
In its young adulthood, the space effort will offer ease of communication unprecedented in human history. This new communication will decrease the need for energy-intensive travel and bring all the people of the world closer together, thereby causing a ripple that will permeate all of industry and society on the planet.
The offering of nearly unlimited energy for production both in space and on the ground will be there for the asking. All that is needed is for an entrepreneuring entity with sufficient resources to take advantage of the offer, and many such entities exist, in the form of business or governmental corporate bodies. When this offering becomes apparent, the question will no longer be, “Why bother?”, but rather, “How can we be the first?”
And finally, the offering of natural resources, whether mined from the surface of Luna or moved by slowboat from the asteroid belt, promises to revolutionize production techniques, and the products themselves, that are demanded by man’s unlimited wants.
Beyond these early services of the space effort’s early adulthood there are no apparent limits, except perhaps for the Theory of Special Relativity. The opportunities are here now, for all of us. All we need do is to employ this bright, newly-graduated adult to our best advantage, and to keep alert to whatever new opportunities it may surprise us with along the way.
For the Listening at the Verge of Brinkless Space
by Gene Van Troyer
Slow through the lightyears
and listening into epochs past
as if expired moments happened now:
these steel ears gather starlight
in the higher spectrum
sifting cosmic garble for articulation
like ears of human flesh
that probe a silence for some voice
some sign of constellation
meaning so much more.
These great dishes cupped
against the sky, the shout of stars
and tuning in on radionic fossils
perhaps the call of far away companions
buried in the endless fall of space:
We seek community
with ears of steel we reach
for commensality with origin
we reach to find some other
in the distance, giving echo
to give us sounding
in that profound repose of time
this listening poised like archeologists
before the vast interiors of caves
waiting for amazement at the portraiture.
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The Guest of Honor: Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany
Photo of by Sutor & Lindsey
Samuel R. Delany
by Frederik Pohl
The thing about Samuel R. Delany is that he isn’t just like everybody else. In a lot of ways he’s better, but what he reliably is is different. A Delany science-fiction novel is not in the least like a Heinlein or a Clarke or a Le Guin. It isn’t always even a whole lot like science fiction, as witness Dhalgren. In the thirty-nine years I worked as a science-fiction editor I published something like twenty million words of sf, give or take a few million, but the one story that I am most pleased with myself for having put into print was Dhalgren.
It’s fortunate for my self-image that this is so, because it is also the one story that I am never going to be allowed to forget about publishing. It’s five years since Dhalgren was published, and even now no con passes without somebody coming up to me to talk about publishing it. Sometimes they bring it up with admiration and delight. Sometimes not. Dhalgren is not the easiest novel ever published. I very much fear that out of the half million copies sold (I don’t know, it may be a million by now) there may well be two or three that have not been read all the way through. It got some spectacularly adoring reviews, and some outraged ones. The review I like best was by a radio critic in Washington, D.C., who admitted it was a difficult book but went on to say: “When somebody like Samuel R. Delany writes a book that’s hard to read, it is not his obligation to make it easy. It’s the reader’s job to make himself follow it.” And I couldn’t agree more….
What is it about Delany that makes him worth so much trouble? That’s easy: Talent. Not only talent, but a truly remarkable private vision of the world, not like anyone else’s, which he communicates for us all. It isn’t all difficult; sometimes it is as lucid as anyone can wish, and it is always beautiful. Science-fiction writers as a class are interesting people, most of them pretty smart, many of them brilliant. But I can’t think of any who possess more grace and more wisdom —as writers, or simply as human beings—than Samuel R. Delany. I am proud to call him friend.
Samuel R. Delany: A Selected Bibliography
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
A selected bibliography. A reasonably complete one could fill a book, and in fact has: Samuel R. Delany: A Primary And Secondary Biblography, by Michael W. Peplow and Robert S. Bravard, one hundred and twelve pages long and available for $15.00 from G.K. Hall Reference Books, 70 Lincoln St., Boston, MA 02111. What follows here is a sort of minimum program of basic fiction, criticism, and miscellany, sans any attempt to track down Delany’s vast output of academic writing, fanzine contributions, incidental journalism, rock criticism, political writing, and what-have-you. Books have been given in their first editions, with no attempt made to list subsequent reprintings except in cases of large-scale revision. Particularly incomplete is the list of unanthologized critical essays; the six cited here are mostly a (hopefully) representative selection, chosen as much for their relative easiness to procure as for anything else. Serious researchers and collectors are strenuously urged to get the book mentioned above and use it, rather than this, as a guide.
As far as this writer can determine (publishing being the chimereal business that it is), all of the books listed here are currently in print, with the exceptions of the earlier editions of The Jewels Of Aptor and The Fall Of The Towers, and, more surprisingly, Driftglass. The Tides Of Lust has been out of print in the U.S. since the collapse of Lancer and the flooding of their warehouse shortly following that book’s publication; currently, a British paperback is theoretically in print, though a recent report of several thousand copies having been seized by police over there (for “obscenity,” he said with a straight face) lays doubts as to its easy availability.
Several projects are rumored for release in the reasonably near future: a second anthology of essays entitled Starboard Wine; a massive, far-future, sf novel entitled Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand; a novel of Neveryon taking place some years after the events of Tales; and a collection of short stories, earmarked for publication this fall by Ace, entitled Distant Stars. Further, deponent knoweth not.
The Novels
The Jewels of Aptor. (First version) Ace, New York, , 156p, paper.
Captives of the Flame. (First version) Ace, New York, , 147p, paper.
The Towers of Toron. (First version)Ace, New York, , 140p, paper.
City of a Thousand Suns. (First version) Ace, New York, , 156p, paper.
The Ballad of Beta-2. Ace, New York, , 96p, paper.
Empire Star. Ace, New York, , 102p, paper.
Babel-17. Ace, New York, , 173p, paper.
The Einstein Intersection. Ace, New York, , 142p, paper.
The Jewels of Aptor. (Second version) Ace, New York, , 159p, paper.
Out of the Dead City. (Second version, formerly Captives of the Flame) Sphere, London, , 143p, paper.
The Towers of Toron. (Second version) Sphere, London, , 140p, paper.
City of a Thousand Suns. (Second version) Sphere, London, , 141p, paper.
Nova. Doubleday, Garden City, , 279p, cloth.
The Fall of the Towers. (Third versions of Out of the Dead City, The Towers of Toron, and City of a Thousand Suns) Ace, New York, , 413p, paper.
The Tides of Lust, Lancer, New York, , 173p, paper.
Dhalgren. Bantam, New York, , 880p, paper.
Triton. Bantam, New York, , 370p, paper.
Tales of Neveryon. Bantam, New York, , 264p, paper.
The Short Stories
“The Grave Digger”, Literary Cavalcade. May .
*“The Star Pit”, World of Tomorrow, February .
*“Driftglass”, If, June .
*“Corona”, F&SF, October .
*“Aye, and Gomorrah”, Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Doubleday, Garden City, , cloth.
*“We, in Some Strange Power’s Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line”, F&SF, May . *“Cage of Brass”, If, June .
*“High Weir”, If, October .
“The Power of the Nail” (with Harlan Ellison), Amazing, November .
*“Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones”, World’s Best Science Fiction , ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Terry Carr, Ace, New York, , cloth.
“The Unicorn Tapestry”, New American Review 9, ed. Theodore Solotaroff, Signet, New York, April , paper.
*“Night and the Loves of Joe Dicostanzo”, Alchemy & Academe, ed. Anne McCaffrey, Doubleday, Garden City, , cloth.
*“Dog in a Fisherman’s Net”, QUARK/3, ed. Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Paperback Library, New York, May , paper.
“They Fly at Ciron” (with James Sallis), F&SF. June .
“Prismatica”, F&SF, October .
“Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand” (extract from a novel in progress), TriQuarterly, Winter -.
Stories marked with an asterisk (*) have been collected in:
Driftglass. Doubleday, Garden City, , 274p, cloth.
The Editing
QUARK/1 (with Marilyn Hacker). Paperback Library, New York, November , paper.
QUARK/2 (with Marilyn Hacker). Paperback Library, New York, February , paper.
QUARK/3 (with Marilyn Hacker). Paperback Library, New York, May , paper.
QUARK/4 (with Marilyn Hacker). Paperback Library, New York, August , paper.
Fundamental Disch (anthology of short stories, essays, and a libretto by Thomas M. Disch). Bantam, New York, , 398p, paper.
The Comic Books
Wonder Woman #202 (with art by Dick Giordano). National Periodical Publications, October .
Wonder Woman #203 (with art by Dick Giordano). National Periodical Publications, December .
Empire (with art by Howard Chaykin). Bantam, New York, , 108p, paper.
The Criticism
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IN BOOK FORM
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw. Dragon Press, Elizabethtown, , 303p, cloth, collection of essays.
The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch–Angouleme. Dragon Press, Elizabethtown, , 243p, cloth, single book-length essay. -
UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS: A VERY BRIEF SELECTION
“The Scorpion Garden”, White Pelican, A Quarterly Review of the Arts, (introduction to Delany’s unpublished novel Hogg).
“Star Wars”, Cosmos. November (Essay on the film of the same name).
“The Word is Not the Thing”, Janus 12–13, Summer-Autumn (talk on sf, politics, and the relationship of “the subject to the ground”).
“Science Fiction as ‘Literature’ or the Conscience of the King”, Analog, May (essay on sf and the history of critical definitions).
"The Order of ‘Chaos’ ", Science-Fiction Studies. November (essay on Joanna Russ' novel And Chaos Died).
“Introduction” to Fundamental Disch, ed. Samuel R. Delany, Bantam, New York, , 398p, paper (overview of Disch’s development as a short story writer).
The Semi-Autobiographical Book-length Essay
Heavenly Breakfast. Bantam, New York, , 127p. paper.
[Art by Michael R. Whelan of a woman in armor standing next to a horse at the top of a hill; at her feet is the body of a vanquished foe.]
Copyright © by Michael R. Whelan
Artist Guest of Honor: Rowena Morrill
[Photo of Rowena Morrill]
Rowena Morrill
by Victoria Poyser
Savor your Norwescon program book cover, art lovers—you’ll never see the original. It’s gone-destroyed in a fire at a studio which handled the photography for most of New York’s illustrators.
When Rowena told me this in early March, she said, “I felt so depressed I couldn’t paint for a day and a half.” Christ, I wouldn’t be able to work for a week, I thought. I suspect this ability to keep painting regardless is part of what makes Rowena the professional she is.
Born in in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Rowena Morrill took her first painting lesson 23 years later, “just for something to do.” After receiving an art degree from the University of Delaware, she spent four and a half years in Philadelphia doing portraits and developing her technique by reading art books, visiting galleries and spending an awfully long time on each piece. (Now she can do a book cover illustration in as little as a week, and claims that painting is a lot more fun once you know what you’re doing.)
Rowena moved to New York City in , where she first worked for a “horrible” and “frantic” advertising agency. She escaped from the ad business through the Yellow Pages—looked up some publishers' addresses and showed her portfolio to a few art directors. Ace Books hired her for a nurse-romance cover and a fantasy assignment soon followed.
Rowena hadn’t set out to be a fantasy illustrator, but discovered she liked it. While growing up she’d enjoyed mythology, fairy tales and the fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The combination worked and she soon had all the cover assignments she needed.
In the past few years she’s done dozens of paperback covers, a selection of which can be seen in Ian Summers' Tomorrow and Beyond. She’s also shown her work at the New Britain Museum’s fantasy illustrators' show in May , and a few months later at Boston’s Earthlight Gallery. Her work also will be featured soon in the Kent State University Museum. And, of course, she’s brought a number of marvelous paintings to Norwescon; go visit the art show, often.
Her paintings, done in oils because the blending qualities suit her style, are exquisite, detailed and meticulous. They work not only as commercial covers, but also as paintings in their own right. Her love of fantasy and attention to the human form are readily apparent and, depending on which pieces she brought to Norwescon, you’ll also see evidence of an early interest in surrealism and fantastic art.
A collection of her work is due to be published soon (well, probably not soon enough). In the meantime, enjoy the art show and welcome Rowena back to the Northwest—she used to live in Tacoma, that aromatic city south of Norwescon.
Rowena Morrill
by Boris Vallejo
A question most frequently asked of fantasy artists is: where do you get your ideas? My own answer is that ideas come from everywhere: the play of shadow and light, other paintings, photographs, things half seen or seen in dreams. Imagination has no limits. Ideas per se spark new ideas. The real challenge, I have found, is not in getting the initial idea but in translating it into a visual reality, filling an empty canvas with life.
True, the idea comes first. And innate talent, too, is naturally essential. But for the successful transmutation from the intangible, wholly personal imagery in an artist’s mind to the wholly tangible imagery in a beautiful painting, a high degree of industriously honed skill is necessary. The combination of superior talent, well- developed imagination and unusual skill is what distinguishes an artist from his peers.
The richly colored and exquisitly polished paintings of Rowena Morrill truly mark her as one of the select. In a very short time she has gained much admiration and respect not only from the exacting and critical aficionados of fantasy art, but from her equally exacting and perhaps even more critical colleagues as well.
Fan Guests of Honor: Jack, Pauline and Tilda Palmer
[Jack, Pauline, and Tilda Palmer]
The Palmer Family
by Cliff Wind
The Palmer family is responsible for many things in my life, including my first convention, my first car accident, the doubling of my family of pet carrots, an addiction to fine art postcards, many very pleasant conversations, and three friendships I value most highly.
I met Pauline Palmer for the first time three times. The first time was, as is often the case in fandom, in print. I had only just begun writing and receiving fanzines in the early 70s, when without notice I received from the far town of Bellingham, WA, a Wild Fennel. That issue, like the ones that followed, was an odd little thing unlike any zine I’d seen before, and unlike any I’ve seen since. It varied for a time in shape and size before finally settling on its final format, offset on newsprint, but it never changed in flavor. It was friendly, unpretentious, confident in its own uniqueness. It never strived to be sercon, but was at times serious, and always literate. It never fought to be oh-so-fannish, but was often funny, sometimes rollicking- ly so, sometimes gently so. It contained the widest range of things, from quirky bits of art, cartoons, fine illustrations, poems, stories, odd fillers, outrageous puns and other wordplay, conreports, columns on metaphysics, cats, and caterpillars, to letters from the world over, England, Australia and Argentina. A picture slowly emerged of its editor, Pauline, a picture of one who was literate, sensitive, friendly and unpretentious. The picture emerged slowly, for Pauline chose often to write but little herself, letting her contributors speak, and standing in a sense behind Wild Fennel’s publisher, one P.W. Frames.
The second time I met Pauline was in person, but at a distance. It was my first convention, with such overpowering persons as Harlan Ellison and Ursula K. Le Guin, and I was too shy in those days to simply introduce myself to someone, even the one who’d sent me the convention flyer. Too shy, and perhaps a bit upset still from having run my car into a dog-catcher’s truck soon after arriving in the city. The convention, instigated by Pauline, was called The First Fact and Fantasy Future Fair, but was known more simply as BelliCon. I saw someone busy behind a table of baked wholegrain goods, vegies, and home brew, a small woman with straight dark hair pulled simply back, and knew somehow that this had to be Pauline.
The third time was the real time. It was and I was soon to leave for Australia and not return for two years. I had a short list of things to do before I left. High on that list was to drive the 90 miles to Bellingham to meet this woman, this family that many Seattle fen knew, but had never met. I drove to the address I had, the address of P.W. Frames. There I found that I had been framed, by the Palmer humor. P.W. Frames was not a person, but a shop, a shop that sold frames. Behind the counter was Jack Palmer. He immediately invited me home to dinner.
The Palmer residence, near Bellingham city and yet near a lovely lake as well, and having large gardens and the occasional grazing deer, reflects its owners in its neat clutter of the most interesting items: Jack’s handmade stringed instruments, books, Jack’s own and other paintings, books, bottles and jugs of homemade wines and liqueurs, and more books. There I spent a most pleasant several hours in rambling conversation over fine food, and later, at daughter Tilda’s suggestion, over a Monopoly game. It was very late in the evening when I finally arose to make the trip home, and Tilda said, ''Oh, can’t he stay overnight, Mom? We could finish the game?" I wish I could have.
That was six years ago. Pauline hasn’t published Wild Fennel for a couple of years now. She still keeps up her fannish contacts, though, through correspondence and such amateur press associations as CRAPA, and through the welcoming of the occasional horde of Seattle fen come to picnic in Bellingham. Jack no longer works at framing prints, but is the proud owner of Postcard Palace, a splendid shop that specializes in note cards, postcards and kites. At conventions these days Jack can be found behind his huckster table selling those cards, some of them sf, some art, and some simply, beautifully, tacky. Tilda is now twelve, almost thirteen, a rapidly rising fan. Her energy is not now wholly devoted to Monopoly, or even her guitar. Legos set, skates, or Beatles records. She co-edits, with friend Golden Brainard, a fanzine by the name of Kumquat, and is as well the official editor of an apa she herself founded, CRAPA, Jr.
I really do wish I’d stayed the night, six years ago. The few times a year I see the Palmers, the few moments or few hours spent with them at cons or in their home, is never enough.
[Cartoon by Rick Gauger of an astronaut pulling a book off of a bookshelf labeled ‘science fiction’ with a smiling, tentacled alien hiding behind it.]
Copyright © by Rick Gauger
Toastmaster: Philip Klass (William Tenn)
[Philip Klass]
Copyright © by Dan Brady Studio
Professor Philip Klass: An Appreciation
by Michael Kurland
It was said of d’Artagnan the musketeer (by Alexandre Dumas pere, who knew such things) that he was a born swordsman; he could skewer an opponent with either hand and with any weapon. There are a few such natal geniuses in any generation, and Professor Philip Klass is such a man.
Phil Klass is a born storyteller, he has the ability to entrance an audience with either hand, and with any weapon. The size, age, or gender of the audience doesn’t matter so long as they understand. And the necessary understanding, at times, transcends language. I have seen three Japanese tourists, whose knowledge of English was limited to the word “please,” stand spellbound on a pier on Fisherman’s Wharf, in San Francisco, while Professor Klass explained to them the amazing similarities between Japanese and Yiddish humor, with illustrations from each, in a language which was neither, and which they did not comprehend.
Professor Klass’s weapons of choice are his voice and an Underwood typewriter that was honorably retired after the Battle of the Marne. The subjects of his stories are as unbounded as the human imagination; the details are as varied as the human condition. And each of his humorous anecdotes, each of his visionary stories, whether it takes place on Venus or inside the walls of an alien’s house, is a statement about the human condition.
Philip Klass was born in London in , but as his mother did not want him to grow up speaking with a Cockney accent, the family moved a year and a half later to Brooklyn, New York. He served in the U.S. Army during the War to End All Wars, Part Two, and then went to sea for a couple of years in the Merchant Marine.
Klass began writing after the war and, under the pen name of William Tenn, submitted stories to several Markets. His first science fiction story, “Alexander the Bait,” was grabbed by John Campbell, Jr. for Astounding in . His second story, “Child’s Play,” was similarly scooped up by Campbell, ans appeared in . It has become one of the most anthologized stories to come out of the pulps, and remains today one of the outstanding cautionary tales on the perils of time travel.
After this auspicious beginning, “Tenn” continued writing, more slowly than his fans would have liked, but over the course of years turning out a body of distinguished fiction. His stories have been widely anthologized, and have been translated into every major language spoken from Moscow to Tokyo. He is one of the few masters of the fields of humor and satire who has chosen to work almost entirely within the science fiction/fantasy genre.
In Philip Klass went to visit Pennsylvania State University, at the school’s invitation, to teach one course in writing from a professional writer’s point of view. He fell in love with teaching, and has been at Penn State ever since. Despite his constantly reminding them that he possesses not so much as a baccalaureate, the university insisted on raising him from an assistant professor to an associate professor and then, in , to a full Professor of English.
Speaking as one who has been taught by Philip Klass, in those long ago days when we both lived in Greenwhich Village and the Rienzi Coffee Shop was the center of the known universe; I would like to say that I greatly envy those students in State College, Pennsylvania, who, merely by signing up for his course in fiction writing, can sit at the feet of William Tenn. Imagine, if you can, what English literature would be like today if William Shakespeare had left the Mermaid Tavern and gone to Oxford to teach playwriting.
Say! That’s an idea –
[Cartoon by Alexis Gilliland of two police officers wearing black and white patterened caps arresting a clown with a black and white nose with the same pattern; one cop is saying, ‘We’re from the Federal Bureau of Humor, Bozo. We want to talk to you about that nose.’]
Copyright © by Alexis Gilliland
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[Susan Allison]
Photo by Charles N. Brown
Susan Allison is SF editor at Ace Books.
[Darrel Anderson]
Darrel Anderson, an artist from Colorado, has shown his work at several Northwest conventions, and at many others around the country. His highly popular prints are direct-image offset lithographs which use up to seven ink colors. Anderson’s work has also appeared in a variety of magazines.
Poul Anderson has been writing SF and fantasy for over 30 years and is past President of the Science Fiction Writers of America. To date, he has written more than 75 books and 300 stories. His writing has earned Poul Anderson six Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards and the Gandalf (Grand Master) Award. Among his better-known works are the Technic Civilization Series which includes about 14 novels and 28 shorter works; the Hoka stories (written with Gordon R. Dickson); The Avatar; Brain Wave; The Broken Sword; Byworlder; The High Crusade; Operation Chaos; Tau Zero; and The Winter of the World. His most recent work is The Devil’s Game (Pocket Books, ). Poul Anderson lives and works in California.
[William John Barnwell]
William John Barnwell’s first novel, The Blessing Papers, has been published by Pocket Books. He has two novels forthcoming, Imram and Curve of the Sigmoid, and a couple more in the works.
[Steven Bryan Bieler]
Steven Bryan Bieler (the i is silent) has published science fiction in Unearth and New Dimensions 11 and poetry in Dark Horse. A native of Massachusetts, he now lives in Seattle with his dog Cedric.
[Charles N. Brown]
Photo by Susan Allison
Charles N. Brown is founder and editor of Locus, the premier newspaper of the science fiction field, and is known to virtually everyone in the field. He has won five Hugos for Locus.
[Mildred Downey Broxon]
Photo by William J. Murry III
Mildred Downey Broxon, a Seattle resident, has had short fiction in Chrysalis, Stellar 3, Universe 5, Isaac Asimov’s and Vertex. Her most recently published short story, “Walk the Ice,” appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction (Jan. ). Her first book, a collaboration with Poul Anderson, was The Demon of Scattery. Her second novel, Too Long a Sacrifice, was released in March by Dell.
F.M. (“Buz”) Busby of Seattle is the author of numerous short stories and the novels The Demu Trilogy, All These Earths, Rissa Kerguellen and its spinoff, Zelde M’tana. His most recent works are “First Person Plural” in Terry Carr’s Universe 10 and “Balancing Act” in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine (February ). Buz has completed a sequel to Rissa, enti-tied Alien Debt, and is planning another novel set in the same universe, Tregare: The Pirate Years.
[Octavia E. Butler]
Octavia E. Butler, a resident of Los Angeles, has written the novels Survivor, Patternmaster, Mind of My Mind and Kindred. Her most recent novel is Wild Seed (Doubleday, ).
[Frank Catalano]
Frank Catalano has had fiction published in F&SF. In civilian life, he works at KTNT radio station in Tacoma. He will be MC at Norwescon’s ever-popular Masquerade.
[Patricia Jo Clayton]
Patricia Jo Clayton is the author of five novels in the Diadem Series: Diadem from the Stars, Lamarchos, Irsud, Maeve and Star Hunters. A sixth book in the series, The Nowhere Hunt, will be published by DAW Books. She has had several shorter works published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. A short story, “Nightwork,” will appear in Jessica Salmonson’s Amazons II.
[Carl Waluconis]
Carl Waluconis (a.k.a. Wally Coins) is the author of Whispers of Heavenly Death (Manor). He has a short story forthcoming in Amazing this fall and has an SF and a fantasy novel in progress.
[Michael G. Coney]
Michael G. Coney, a resident of British Columbia, is author of the books Syzygy, Monitor Found in Orbit, The Jaws that Bite, Rax, Friends Come in Boxes, The Hero of Downways and Charisma. His latest work, Neptune’s Cauldron, is forthcoming from Tower. He is currently working on The Reluctant Mariners, a history of the B.C. Forest Service launches.
[Michael Conner]
Michael Conner is the author of I Am Not the Other Houdini (Harper & Row, ). He has recently finished a juvenile fantasy and an SF novel.
[Susan Coon]
Susan Coon is the author of two SF novels, Rahne and Cassilee. Books scheduled for release in are The Virgin and Chiy-lne. She is currently working on two more novels.
[Richard Cowper]
Richard Cowper (a.k.a. John Middleton-Murry) is the author of such books as Breakthrough, Phoenix, Twilight on Briareus, Clone, The Road to Corlay, Out There Where the Big Ships Go, Time Out of Mind and Profundis. A sequel to Corlay, entitled A Dream of Kinship, is being published in the United Kingdom. His short fiction has appeared regularly in Fantasy & Science Fiction.
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[Joel Davis]
Omni correspondent Joel Davis is a science writer whose articles have appeared in Omni’s “Continuum,” “Explorations” and “People” columns for nearly two years. Joel also writes for Science Digest, Astronomy and is a contributing editor for Star & Sky. He lives in Olympia, Washington.
[John DeCamp]
John DeCamp is primarily a mainstream poet, but his book In the Shadow of Atlantis is a poetic fantasy. He currently has a book and a couple of short stories out looking for publishers.
[Ted Dikty]
Ted Dikty resides in Mercer Island, Washington, and currently publishes SF nonfiction. His latest titles are Fritz Leiber and Frank Herbert in the Starmont Reader’s Guide to Contemporary SF and Fantasy authors.
[Steven Dimeo]
Steven Dimeo, a resident of Hillsboro, Oregon, is editor of the New Oregon Review, a literary journal. He regularly reviews SF/horror films for Amazing, Cine-fantastique and Fantastic. His short fiction has appeared in such publications as Michigan Quarterly Review, Weirdbook, Amazing and Oui. He is currently working on an occult/horror novel to be titled Come Away, O Human Child. Mr. Dimeo’s hobbies include jogging, gardening, photography and neurasthenia.
[Sketch of a dragon with Lela Dowling’s signature.]
Artist Leia Dowling, from Sunnyvale, California, did the back cover of this program book. Her artwork is always popular at SF convention artshows, and her first portfolio, published by Schanes & Schanes, sold out quickly. Her new “Unicorns” portfolio will be available soon.
[Dennis Etchison]
Photo by Jo Fletcher
Dennis Etchison, a resident of Los Angeles, has had stories published in Dark Forces, Frights, Nightmares, Horrors, Shadows, The Year’s Best Horror Stories (DAW) and most of the other horror/dark fantasy anthologies, as well as such magazines as Orbit, F&SF and Fantastic. He has recently worked on the script of a horror film for Dino De Laurentis and has completed the screenplay for a film based on Stephen King’s “The Mist.”
[Jeff Frane]
Photo by Charles N. Brown
Former Seattlite Jeff Frane now lives in Berkeley, where he is a Locus contributing editor. His book on Fritz Leiber was recently published by Starmont.
[Rick Gauger]
Rick Gauger, a Tacoma resident, has had stories published in Omni, Best SF of the Year '79, Analog and Destinies.
[William Gibson]
A Vancouver, B.C. resident, William Gibson has had stories published in Unearth and Universe 11. He has sold several other stories, including one to Omni.
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[Self-portrait sketch of Alexis Gilliand]
Alexis Gilliland is a well-known fan artist whose work has been seen in such magazines as The Alien Critic, Science Fiction Review, Locus and Algol. A collection of his satirical cartoons has been published in The Iron Law of Bureaucracy (Loompanics). His first novel, The Revolution from Rosinante, has recently been published by Del Rey and a second, Long Shot for Rosinante, is forthcoming. Alexis Gilliland won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist.
[George Guthridge]
Photo by Gene Mayo
George Guthridge has had SF stories published in Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Galileo, No Room for Man and others. He has stories forthcoming in Alien Encounters, Enless Frontier. Until recently a resident of Mcleary, Washington, George moved to Missoula in January to accept a job as editor of the University of Montana’s Western Wildlands.
[Eileen Gunn]
Eileen Gunn of Seattle has had a story published in Amazing. She has a story forthcoming in
[Karl Hansen]
Karl Hansen’s short fiction has appeared in Analog, Galileo, various volumes of Chrysalis and Berkley Showcase 1 and 2. He is a Doctor of Internal Medicine and lives in Colorado.
[George Harper]
George Harper is a science writer by trade and is listed in Who’s Who in Technology Today. For some reason, the Feds were stirred up by his Analog article “How to Build Your Own A-Bomb and Blow Up Your Neighborhood.” George is currently marketing two SF novels. He lives in Tacoma.
[David Hartwell]
David Hartwell is editor of Timescape Books (Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books SF line) and editor of the Gregg Press line of SF.
[Dean Ing]
Dean Ing’s novelette “Devil You Don’t Know” was a Hugo and Nebula finalist in . He is the author of the novels Soft Targets and Anasazi, both published by Ace. His short SF and science fact articles have appeared in Analog, Destinies and Omni. His story “Down and Out on Ellfive Prime” recently appeared in Best of Omni 2. His hobbies include backpacking, fly-fishing and designing and flyer rubber-powered models. Dean Ing resides in Eugene, Oregon.
[Kevin Johnson]
Kevin Johnson, a resident of Olympia, has done covers for Pinnacle Books' Blade series and the Thongor books published by Warner. Additionally, he has done advertising posters for the Seattle Opera productions of “The Queen of Spades” and “King Roger.”
[Phyllis Ann Karr]
Photo by Jack Mattson
Phyllis Ann Karr, a resident of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, has recently published her first fantasy novel, Frostflower and Thorn (Berkley, ). A sequel currently resides in Berkley’s backlog. She has also written a sword-and-sorcery novel tentatively entitled Outlaw God. Ms. Karr is also the author of several Regency novels.
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[Richard Kearns]
Richard Kearns, a resident of Los Angeles, has written for Orbit. His short story, “From Bach to Broccoli,” recently appeared in Dragons of Light, edited by Orson Scott Card. Before trying his hand at fiction, Kearns was an editor for various magazines.
[Drawing of Ursula K. Le Guin]
Ursula K. Le Guin’s first SF stories were published in the early 1960s and she has won many SF and mainstream literary awards, including four Hugos, three Nebulas, the Jupiter Award, the National Book Award and the Gandalf Award. She has, in fact, the distinction of having two books, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. Some of her other books are Rocannon’s World, City of Illusions, the Earthsea trilogy, The Word For World Is Forest, Orsinian Tales, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters and Malafrena. One of her novels, The Lathe of Heaven, was produced as a film by PBS. A collection of her essays on fantasy and science fiction was published under the title The Language of the Night (Putnam, ). Her most recent novel is The Beginning Place (Harper & Row, ). Ms. Le Guin lives in Portland, Oregon.
[Roger Lovin]
Roger Lovin is the author of the novel Apostle (Starblaze), The Presence (Fawcett) and The Roger Robert Lovin SF Hornbook (Stardragon). Mr. Lovin lives in New Orleans.
[Elizabeth A. Lynn]
Photo by Paul Nelson
Elizabeth A. Lynn has written several novels including A Different Light and the three books of The Chronicles of Tomor. One of her novels, Watchtower, won the World Fantasy Award. Her most recent novel is The Northern Girl (Berkley). Her short fiction has been published in such places as F&SF, Isaac Asimov’s, Millenial Women, Berkley Showcase 1, Amazons!, Basilisk, and Other Worlds 1. One of her recent short stories tied for a World Fantasy Award. Elizabeth Lynn lives in San Francisco.
[Julian May]
Julian May, from Mercer Island, Washington, has two SF books forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin: The Many-Colored Land and The Golden Tore.
[Vonda N. McIntyre]
Photo by Jeff Levin
Seattle’s Vonda N. McIntyre won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her novel Dreamsnake. She has published another novel, The Exile Waiting, and a short story collection entitled Fireflood and Other Stories. Her latest book, The Entropy Effect, will be released in June by Pocket Books.
[Blake Mitchell and James Ferguson]
Blake Mitchell and James Ferguson, residents of Los Angeles, share the title of West Coast Editor of Fantastic Films magazine. When not writing about films they are making them; in the past two years they have produced three award-winning Super 8 SF films. They have won over 100 costume competitions in the past 10 years and are currently working on novels: his first, her third.
[Pat Murphy]
Pat Murphy, a resident of San Diego, has had stories published in various magazines, including Isaac Asimov’s and Other Worlds 2.
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[Paul Novkitski]
Seattle’s Paul Novitski has had stories published in Amazing, Fantasize, Isaac Asimov’s, Universe 9 and Wings. He claims to have had eight years of practice Breaking Into the SF Field as an Upcoming New Writer.
[Ted A. Pederson]
Ted A. Pedersen, a resident of Santa Monica, has written SF for TV and films. He is currently working on a screenplay for a full-length animated film of Forward’s Dragon’s Egg. He was story editor of the “Flash Gordon” animated TV series and has written about 50 TV scripts for shows ranging from “The Bionic Woman” to “Thundarr the Barbarian.” He is currently working on his first SF novel.
[Steve Perry]
Steve Perry (“Jesse Peel”) of Aloha, Oregon has had stories published in Isaac Asimov’s, Galaxy and Other Worlds 1. His first published novel, The Tularemia Gambit, will be released by Fawcett in May. Steve Perry has finished several novels and is currently working on his fifth, The Hansen Variation.
[Drawing by Wendi Pini of Wendy and Richard Pini with large elfin ears.]
Richard Pini (soul name “Stamplicker”) is, along with his wife Wendy Pini, coauthor of the fantasy comic Elfquest. In , Elfquest won the Ed Aprill award at the New York Comic Art Con, an Alley Award from The Comic Reader, the Best Comic and Best Artist awards from the Small Press Writers and Artists Organization, and two prestigious Inkpot Awards from the San Diego ComiCon.
[Jonathan Post]
Jonathan Post, a Seattle writer, has had speculative science articles published in Omni and has also sold science articles, poetry, plays and songs elsewhere. He is currently busy advancing the state of the art in software technology with Boeing Aerospace.
[Victoria Poyser]
Victoria Poyser of Olympia has done interior illustrations for Ace Books (The Fuzzy Papers and Dragons of Light), Galaxy, Starship, Fantasy Newsletter, and for many fanzines and convention publications. She recently completed 19 illustrations for a game based on Robert Asprin’s Thieves' World.
[Richard Purtill]
A philosophy professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Richard Purtill has written books on ethics, the philosophy of religion, logic, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He has written the fantasy novels Golden Gryphon Feathers and The Stolen Goddess. Murdercon, an SF mystery, is forthcoming from Doubleday.
[Marta Randall]
Photo by Karen Preuss
Marta Randall is the author of the novels Island, A City in the North, Journey and its sequel, Dangerous Games. She has a fantasy novel forthcoming from Dell, tentatively titled Priory Rising. Ms. Randall is also the new editor of the New Dimensions series of anthologies. She lives in Oakland, California.
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[Michael Reaves]
L.A. resident Michael Reaves is the author of the novel Dragonworld (with Byron Preiss) and has had short fiction published in F&SF, Universe, Weird Heroes and other magazines. He has written numerous TV scripts as well.
[Martha Kay Renfroe]
Photo by Ruth D. Grover
Martha Kay Renfroe’s (“M.K. Wren”) first SF novel, Sword of the Lamb, Book One of The Phoenix Legacy, has recently been published as a Berkley paperback. Books Two and Three, tentatively titled The Shadow and the Swan and The Fire and the Wolf, will be released in June and October. Martha Kay Renfroe is also the author of four mystery novels published by Doubleday. A fifth, Seasons of Death, will be published in April. Ms. Renfroe lives in Otis, Oregon.
[Willo Davis Roberts]
Willo Davis Roberts has written the SF juvenile, The Girl with the Silver Eyes. Aveteran writer, she is the author of 57 published books in such fields as suspense, historicals and gothics.
[Frank Robinson]
Photo by Jerry Bauer
Frank Robinson is the author of The Power and The Prometheus Crisis (a collaboration with Thomas N. Scortia). He has two novels forthcoming: The Gold Crew (another collaboration with Scortia) scheduled by Warner for May and A Life in the Day of to be released by Bantam this fall.
[Oscar Rossiter]
Oscar Rossiter (a.k.a. Vernon Skeels), a Seattle doctor, is the author of Tetrasomy Two. He has recently finished a new novel, The A C. Scroll.
[Joanna Russ]
Joanna Russ is the Nebula Award-winning author of such novels as Picnic on Paradise, And Chaos Died, We Who Are About To, The Two of Them and Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic. She has also written short fiction and contributed book reviews to Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her most recent work is On Strike Against God (Out & Out Books, ). Joanna Russ is a member of the English Department at the University of Washington and lives in Seattle.
[Alan Ryan]
Photo by Jay Kay Klein
Alan Ryan was a John W. Campbell Award nominee on the basis of his first six short stories. His stories have been published in such anthologies as Chrysalis, Other Worlds, New Dimensions and Shadows. Mr. Ryan’s first novel, Panther! (non-SF), has recently been published by NAL/Signet. He is currently editing Perpetual Light, an anthology of science fiction dealing with the religious experience. Alan Ryan resides in New York City.
[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]
Jessica Amanda Salmonson edited Amazons! (DAW), taking the World Fantasy Award for it in . She presently is editing Amazons II. The Disfavored Hero, the first novel in “The Tomoe Gozen Saga,” will be forthcoming from Ace this June. The second novel in the series will be entitled The Golden Naginata. For Thomas Doherty Associates she is writing Swordswoman of Endsworld, first of a series. Her short stories appear (or are forthcoming) in Dragons of Light, Amazing, Berkley Showcase 3, Hecate’s Cauldron, and others. She edits the newsletter Naginata for amazon heroic fantasy fans.
[Alex Schomburg]
Artist Alex Schomburg did his first color magazine covers for Hugo Gernsback in and worked for him through . He also illustrated SF pulp magazines and in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, he painted covers for Amazing, Fantastic, F&SF, Future, Galaxy, Satellite and Wonder. His work currently appears in Analog, F&SF and Isaac Asimov’s.
[George H. Scithers]
Photo by William Rotsler
George H. Scithers has been both an amateur and a professional editor during his career in SF. As editor of the fanzine Amra, he won two Hugo Awards for Best Fanzine. He is currently the editor of Isaac Asimov’s and has received the and Hugos as Best Professional Editor for his work there.
[Jody Scott]
Jody Scott of Seattle has written the satirical SF novel Passing for Human (DAW).
[Wilmar Shiras]
Wilmar Shiras is the author of Children of the Atom, originally published by Gnome Press and recently (-) a Science Fiction Book Club featured alternate. Ms. Shiras resides in northern California.
[Jerry Sohl]
Jerry Sohl is the author of numerous SF novels, including The Haploids, The Transcendent Man, Costigan’s Needle, The Altered Ego, Point Ultimate and I, Aleppo. His latest work, The Third Eye, will be published by Coward, McCann. In addition to novels, Mr. Sohl has written several screenplays and numerous TV scripts for such shows as Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and Man from Atlantis.
[Drawing of an imp-like creatrure with wavy orns and a furry spotted tail.]
[Norman Spinrad]
Photo by William Rotsler
Norman Spinrad made his reputation as one of SF’s Young Turks with such novels as Bug Jack Barron and The Men in the Jungle. His other novels include The Solarians, A World Between, The Iron Dream and Agents of Chaos. His short stories have been collected in The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde, No Direction Home and The Star-Spangled Future. His most recent SF novel is Songs from the Stars (Simon & Schuster, ).
[Christopher Stasheff]
Christopher Stasheff, Ph.D., is the author of The Warlock in Spite of Himself, King Kobold and A Wizard in Bedlam. Mr. Stasheff is a professor at Montclair State College in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
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[J. T. Stewart]
Photo by Sue Langref
J. T. Stewart is a main organizer of the Science Fiction Fair currently taking place at Seattle Central Community College and is an accomplished poetess.
[Theodore Sturgeon]
Theodore Sturgeon sold his first SF story, “Ether Breather,” to Astounding in . Since then, he has had numerous novels and collections of short stories published, including Beyond, Case and the Dreamer, Caviar, E Pluribus Unicorn, Golden Helix, More Than Human, The Stars Are the Styx, A Touch of Strange, A Way Home, Without Sorcery. One of his novels, More Than Human, won the International Fantasy Award, and a short story, “Slow Sculpture,” garnered both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in . Sturgeon has also written scripts for TV shows, including Star Trek. His book reviews graced the pages of Galaxy for several years.
[Jayne Tanehill]
Jayne Tannehill is also known by her married name, Jayne Sturgeon. She has been published in Chrysalis, and in Hustler under the pseudonym Pepper Parrish.
[Gene Van Troyer]
Photo by Bernard Versari
Gene Van Troyer has had short stories in Vertex and Eternity. He is editor of Portland Review, a literary journal published by Portland State University. He has recently published “Gonna Laugh Dem Rollin' Bones,” a cycle of poetry and prose poems.
[John Varley]
John Varley won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for his novella “The Persistence of Vision,” the title story of his first story collection. His novels are The Ophiuchi Hotline, Titan and Wizard. A second story collection, The Barbie Murders, was recently released by Berkley. John Varley lives in Eugene, Oregon.
[Eric Vinicoff]
Eric Vinicoff has sold over 20 stories to magazines and anthologies. His short story “The Politics of Plenty” appeared in Analog (Feb. ). He is currently marketing two novels and a short collection.
[Robert Wilson]
Seattle resident Robert Wilson’s first book was Tentacles of Dawn. He has finished a novel entitled The Ghosts of Ea and is working on a fantasy called The Alchemist’s Daughter.
[Gene Wolfe]
Photo by Charles N. Brown
Nebula Award winner Gene Wolfe is the author of nearly a hundred SF short stories and novellas. His published books include The Fifth Head of Cerberus, The Devil in a Forest, The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories, and The Shadow of the Torturer, the first book of the multi-volume Book of the New Sun. Forthcoming are Gene Wolfe’s Book of Days (Doubleday) and The Claw of the Conciliator (Timescape), the second volume of the Book of the New Sun. Gene Wolfe lives in Barrington, Illinois, with his wife and four children.
[Roscoe E. Wright]
Roscoe E. Wright published a short story in the March issue of If and currently has two short stories and a novel in progress. Wright teaches art at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon.
[Nicholas Yermakov]
Photo by Mitch Kessler
Nicholas Yermakov has been a full-time writer for three years. His short fiction has appeared in various SF magazines and anthologies. His first novel, Journey from Flesh, has recently been released by Berkley. Forthcoming novels are Last Communion (June, NAL), An Affair of Honor (Berkley) and Clique (Berkley). Mr. Yermakov lives on Long Island and is presently working on a fifth novel.
As co-editor of Cry, Elinor Busby won a Hugo Award in for Best Fanzine. She has sold two SF stories and currently is working on several Regency novels.
Charles L. Grant of Budd Lake, New Jersey, is the author of the novels Legion, Ascension and several gothic/horror novels. He edits two horror anthologies, Nightmares and Shadows. His short fiction has appeared in such places as F&SF, The Year’s Best Horror Stories VII and VIII and Midnight Sun 5.
Norman Hartman has had a short story, “Lycanthrope,” published in Microcosmic Tales, an anthology edited by Isaac Asimov.
Jon Inouye currently writes computer programs for Xerox when not writing SF. His short story, “Axioms of SF,” appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. His first novel, The Last Zeppelin, was serialized in in Space & Time Magazine and won him the Small Press Writers and Artists Award in the category of Writer, SF. He is currently working on a new novel.
James Kahn, a physician, is the author of the SF novel World Enough, and Time (Del Rey, ). It is the first book of an eventual trilogy. In addition to writing and his medical practice, Dr. Kahn is a singer-songwriter and a fencing enthusiast.
Michael Kurland of Kensington, California, is the author of such novels as The Whenabouts of Burr, Tomorrow Knight and Psi Hunt. One of his recent non-SF novels is The Infernal Device, a mystery whose protagonist is the famous Professor Moriarity. A minor British detective by the name of Sherlock Holmes has a cameo role. A sequel, Death by Gaslight, is forthcoming.
Robert Sheckley is probably best known for his witty, short sardonic stories, many of which appeared in Galaxy in the 1950s and 60s. His short story collections include Untouched by Human Hands, Citizen in Space, Shards of Space, Pilgrimage to Earth and Store of Infinity. Three vignettes by Sheckley appeared in the April issue of Twilight Zone. Robert Sheckley’s SF novels include Dimension of Miracles, Journey of Joenes, Mindswap and Crompton Divided. Robert Sheckley is currently the Fiction Editor at Omni.
A resident of Long Beach, California, Cherie Wilkerson has sold a short story to the forthcoming Shadows anthology and is currently working on a novel.
In , an SF convention gave Donald Wollheim a special award as “the fan who has done everything.” During his career in SF, he has been fan, writer and editor. His career as editor began with Stirring Science Stories and Cosmic Stories in . He edited Ace Books from to and DAW Books since .
[Cartoon of a figure saying, ‘Who?’]
The Round Robin Conspiracy
Continuing a Norwescon tradition, most of the attending authors will be collaborating (so to speak) on a “round-robin” or chain story, during Saturday and Sunday of the con.
Guest of Honor Samuel R. Delany wrote the exposition of the story prior to the con. The other authors will attempt to finish it (to use the term loosely) during one-hour shifts at a typewriter in the Upper Lobby.
Again this year, there will be two stories, one science fiction and the other fantasy, both to be developed from the same Delany start.
The schedule for this madness will be as follows:
Science Fiction Story
| Time | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Yermakov | Karl Hansen | |
| Robert Sheckley | Steve Perry | |
| Ted Pedersen | Eric Vinicoff | |
| Frank Catalano | Paul Novitski | |
| Jerry Sohl | Jon Inouye | |
| James Kahn | Michael Conner | |
| Jonathan Post | John Varley | |
| Blake Mitchell | Marta Randall | |
| Dean Ing | Vonda McIntyre | |
| George Harper | editor |
Fantasy Story
| Time | ||
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Stasheff | Richard Kearns | |
| Phyllis Ann Karr | Susan Coon | |
| Theodore Sturgeon | Alan Ryan | |
| William Barnwell | Dennis Etchison | |
| Jo Clayton | Cherie Wilkerson | |
| Michael Kurland | Pat Murphy | |
| Roger Lovin | TBA | |
| TBA | TBA | |
| Elizabeth Lynn | Charles Grant | |
| Willo Davis Roberts | editor |
NOTE: While you are encouraged to quietly observe the authors at work, please do not attempt to converse with them while they write. Even the most domesticated of the species has been known to bite when aroused.
Even as the manuscripts of these masterpieces are exuded from the typewriters, they will be posted page by page on the bulletin boards in the Upper Lobby for all to behold and admire. The finished stories will be read aloud at 8 o’clock Sunday evening, complete with editorial commentary.
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Seacon Seattle’s Worldcon
Seacon '61 photos supplied by Elinor Busby
[Drawing of a woman seated on a bed with lots of large fluffy pillows.]
Copyright © by George Barr
Wally Weber, Seacon Chairman
Steve Bard’s request for Seacon anecdotes resulted in a very enjoyable evening of reactivating dormant memories. Here are a few I’ve dusted and polished for display.
In those ancient times, Worldcon sites were selected only one year in advance, so there we were at Pittcon in attempting to assemble a Seacon in '61 party. Buying supplies from the hotel would have bankrupted the con committee. We therefore purchased the vital ingredients elsewhere at more reasonable prices. But trouble awaited our endeavor to transport a large bag of ice on the freight elevator at the hotel.
“You can’t do that,” we were told. “You have to use hotel ice.”
We learned that only the hotel sales manager could authorize the entry of our rapidly melting ice, and soon I found myself facing that gentleman alone in his office. We each explained our respective positions and it was obvious that his presentation was far superior to mine.
In retrospect, it is sad that my facial expressions were not recorded for future study, because after a few short moments, as 1 contemplated with growing dread the prospect of returning to the others to watch our party iceturn to water, the sales manager suddenly blurted out, ''Okay, okay, you can use the elevator!"
“We’ll need some glasses,” I explained.
“I’ll have four dozen sent up,” and he did.
I thanked him and fled. Recounting the experience later, we were informed that other party suppliers had carried their dripping containers of ice right in through the front door of the Penn-Sheraton, across the lobby, and up the passenger elevators without challenge. (They didn’t get free glasses, however.)
Seattle won the bid without opposition, by the way. 1 had never witnessed an unopposed Worldcon bid before or since, and I’ve always suspected Buz was primarily responsible for that unique event, but how I don’t even pretend to know.
Selecting Hyatt House as our convention hotel took a certain amount of courage. It was a departure from what conservative fandom considered customary. It was more motel than hotel, and the room rates, even at Seacon discount, were higher than fans had expected. But the complaints we anticipated were evidently shunted to some alternate universe. One fan, Ben Jason, who had a professional knowledge of plumbing equipment, confided to Buz and Elinor that he had considered moving to a less expensive motel until he saw the top-of-the-line quality bathroom fixtures at Hyatt House. Perhaps Ben’s experience provides a clue as to why the hotel was so well accepted.
Despite all the normal convention mayhem that went on, only once was I contacted by the hotel management to control excessive noise. What roudy gang of carousers caused this disturbance, you ask? Why, none other than the tea-drinking, chess-playing inhabitants of the N3F Hospitality Room. The real problem was the non- convention guest next door who couldn’t sleep through the murmur of all-night sercon conversations.
[Wally Weber with a bemused look on his face.]
Wally Weber, Seacon chairman, on hearing that Ella Parker is coming
How about our Guest of Honor, Robert Heinlein? He held open house at his poolside room all during Seacon (paid for his own booze, too, which shows what a frugal con committee we were). He delivered his banquet speech while running a fever from near-pneumonia.
As I recall his speech, he predicted that in twenty years China would have occupied the United States mainland, one third of us attending Seacon would be dead, and the remaining two-thirds would be starving. Twenty years from then comes to , so either a lot is going to happen in the next few months or else we can be thankful we switched to a less turbulent time track.
[A.J. Budrys at Seacon] A.J. Budrys
The primary ingredient in the Seacon recipe from my personal viewpoint was Ella Parker’s presence at the convention. Ella had first registered on my detectors as a new contributor to the Cry lettercol. Noting her distant address (London) and assessing her to be a cowable neofanne, I thought it would be amusing to call her a "Stupid Clod of a Woman'' in print.
I have never recovered from the shock brought about by that cosmic- miscalculation.
My “victim” proved to possess Lensman-class weapons. I had witlessly attacked one of London fandom’s major energy sources. Ella leaped the Atlantic Ocean in a single bound to visit the fan centers of America, and while attending Seacon, she took time to observe the insect from Seattle who had thought to intimidate her. She did allow me to survive the experience, and that, all by itself, was enought to make Seacon an especially momentous occasion.
You may be amazed to learn that not everything was perfect at the Seacon. I personally authored what was probably the most bungled event of the convention, surpassing even my overselling of banquet tickets that left one of the Hugo Award winners without a place to sit.
The debacle developed roots well before the convention itself, during the time we were soliciting auction material from the prozines. To my provincial mind, prozines were limited to U.S. publications. Then, too late for. surface mail to dependably deliver material from England in time, we learned that Ted Carnell was curious as to why we hadn’t contacted his British publications about donating. I hastily air-lettered a request, suggesting that Ella Parker could deliver his contributions to Seacon personally.
Ted’s reply was gentle as he tactfully pointed out the incredible gall that would be required to ask Ella to lug awkward-sized material across an ocean and a continent, especially considering airline baggage weight restrictions, customs problems, and the fact that I hadn’t even asked Ella for permission before offering her services. He did, however, authorize Seacon to give away a limited number of free subscriptions to his magazines.
Late one convention day, we put our chosen method of distributing the subscriptions into action. We put all the convention membership numbers into a container (probably about 500— how times have changed!) and randomly drew out numbers one by one until a number was found that belonged to a fan present in the room. With only about 40 persons in the room, drawing four winners was time-consuming and tedious, but I was as persistent as a recruiter for the N3F, so eventually we obtained our winners, one of whom already had subscriptions to both of Carnell’s publications.
[Drawing by Wendi Pini of two ElfQuest elves tugging on a scarf.]
Would you believe, after all of that, I misplaced the winners' names and never notified Ted Carnell!
There is a mini-sequel to this misadventure. Years after, by a sequence of events that could only happen in the unique cosmos of fandom, I was guided by none less than Ella Parker herself into the office of none other than Ted Carnell himself. Ted greeted me cordially enough, but his first subject of conversation was about a “misunderstanding,” and I knew what he must be referring to. Fixing my I’m-such-a-nice-and-harmless- fellow-you-wouldn’t-hit’me-would- you? smile in place, I awaited the terminal blow. But just as the verbal guillotine was about to slice, Ted diverted it smoothly so that his remarks actually pertained to Joe Greene, a member of the Seattle Nameless Ones whose stories Ted had been publishing in his magazines.
Later, while walking away from Ted’s office after a pleasant talk that never once referred to my past dereliction of duty, Ella broke out her most diabolical smile and gleefully informed me, “Weber, I could hear the sweat oozing out of your pores back there!”
[Charles Brown, Dave Kyle, Sue Sanderson, Fred Pohl, George Scithers at Seacon.]
Charles Brown, Dave Kyle, Sue Sanderson, Fred Pohl, George Scithers
[Barbara and Bob Silverberg. Harlan Ellison at Seacon.]
Barbara and Bob Silverberg. Harlan Ellison
Robert Silverberg
I remember the Seattle Worldcon as not merely small but downright intimate. The motel where it was held had no more than a hundred rooms or so, arranged in a quadrangle around the swimming pool. There was no problem finding the parties every night; one simply went to the swimming pool and looked around the quadrangle to see which of the glass-walled rooms had its lights on and a bunch of people milling around. There was no problem about having the Wrong People crash the parties, either; with only a couple of hundred attendees, there were no Wrong People, or not very many, and those who might wander in could easily be tossed in the pool and ignored thereafter.
Imagine the sort of con where the guest of honor (Heinlein, and a model of graciousness) could hold more or less perpetual open house in his suite and never feel overcrowded….where the likes of Ellison and Budrys and Silverberg could be seen trying to duck each other in the pool and no one came around for an autograph….where mysterious clean-cut young men who called writers things like “Mr. Budrys” and “Mr. Silverberg” invited one into rooms stocked with cases of expensive hard booze, and were content to stand admiringly by while we sampled their wares.
It’s the sort of Worldcon that will not happen again, except in some parallel universe; but I’m enormously glad that it did happen and that I was there for the fun.
[Robert Heinlein and F.M. Busby at Seacon.]
Robert Heinlein, F.M. Busby
F. M. Busby
The upstairs banquet hall of the SeaTac Hyatt House was full of naked studs. But when a place is still under construction, you can expect a few bare two-by-fours. The manager told us how it was going to look, and spelled out the deal he could give us for our Worldcon. After a little dickering, the deal shaped up a lot better.
“Seacon” wasn’t our first choice of title; it had long been held that any convention occuring on Puget Sound should have a different name, and all our early campaigning had been for “PuCon in '61!” But the local sf group blew gaskets, so we gave in and called it Seacon.
Our committee numbered six. Wally Weber chaired it; I did the outside liaison, and everybody else did all the rest. The 19th World Science Fiction Convention had a total membership of 507, with 305 attending (plus or minus four, those two numbers) and 204 at the banquet. Today, to our benefit, you can do it in Moscow, Idaho, on a regional at short notice. But at the time, we thought we’d done pretty well.
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Never before had there been a “poolside” Worldcon, away from downtown hotels and interminable waiting for crowded elevators. Nor a poolside Westercon, for that matter. We were blazing new trails, and a little shaky about doing so. It worked, though.
Well, mostly it worked. Nothing’s perfect. The very first night we realized that the coffee shop wasn’t going to be big enough; hurriedly we arranged for a “coffee shop annex,” and sometimes it got into action at the right times and sometimes it didn’t. That’s fate. But for the most part, we didn’t have to dodge too many thrown rocks.
People didn’t travel as readily then as they do now, but we did attract a fair sampling of luminaries in the sf field. Guest of Honor Robert Heinlein, Toastmaster Harlan Ellison, Keynote speaker Fred Pohl, for starters. Poul Anderson came and received the first of his impressive collection of Hugo awards, that one for “The Longest Voyage.” Algis Budrys came, even though he knew his fine novel Rogue Moon had been aced out in the Novels category. Other notables included Bob Silverberg, Doc Smith, Alan Nourse— and one afternoon sitting in the audience at a panel I met J.F. Bone, and then didn’t see Jesse again for something like fifteen years; too long.
My photos also show some fans who turned pro later, such as Ted White and George Scithers. Well, me too, come to that.
I know I’m missing some folks, here; one always does. Sorry.
Since a lot of water has been passed under the bridge; the sf field changes and so do cons, and what else is new? On the good side is the proliferation of regional concs; on the bad side is having Worldcons so big that you can be there five days and never see some of your best friends who are also there. Win some, lose some.
[Poul Anderson at Seacon.]
Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson
Over the years, conventions tend to blur together in memory. Seacon One is among the exceptions. Too much about it was unique and unforgettable.
There was the pleasant, airy setting (I don’t remember that it ever rained, and the poolside was crowded with bikini-clad stewardi)—the first such, at least in my own conventioneering experience. There was the friendly, relaxed atmosphere, such as cannot be found in today’s gigantic Worldcons,but only survives in some of the regionals. There were splendid parties, though, including a truly epical last night out which ended after sunrise. We were naming the different drinks after rocket fuels, and the hydrazine hydrate was actually straight grain alcohol….
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Of course, it was a great experience to get my first Hugo there. However, an even greater one was getting to know the guest of honor, Robert Heinlein. We had met him just briefly before. Now, despite that ominous speech he delivered in that dazzling gold-colored suit, he proved to be a wonderful human being, courteous and accessible to even the humblest fan or bellboy, a lavish host, an indefatigable and fascinating conversationalist, and quite a humorist in his dry Midwestern fashion.
Seacon One was also where I first met Jerry Pournelle, who became a close friend, and—oh, lots of others, as well as people we had already gotten to like very much.
Not every experience that Karen and I had there can be told publicly, but all of them we still treasure in memory.
[Phyllis Economov. Jeannie and Doc Smith, and Fred Pohl at Seacon.]
Phyllis Economov. Jeannie and Doc Smith. Fred Pohl
Alan E. Nourse
For me, Seacon was the best Worldcon I’d ever attended, before or since. Near the end of the big Magazine Boom of the 50s, and I was in the middle of it. Meeting Robert Silverberg for the first time, over breakfast in the Hyatt Coffee Shop. First time I really had a chance to get acquainted with Jesse Bone (by-line J.F. Bone), one of the most charming and durable friends ever to wander around the fringes of science fiction.
Jim Webbert on the con committee, running around like the proverbial paper-hanger, wearing a black string tie and smoking long thin cigars. Great idea to have the con down there and not in center-city—it kept people around so they didn’t just disappear into the bowels of Seattle all the time. Hot sunny days at the Hyatt House pool.
Harlan Ellison, just appointed editor of some sort of unknown (and long- forgotten) paperback house out of Chicago, offering me $1500 up front for a medical novel, any medical novel, and handing out copies of his own new paperback, an item called Gentleman Junkie—well, we didn’t any of us have crystal balls in those days, did we?
Robert Heinlein as GoH holding forth graciously in a poolside suite, developing pharyngitis the day before his GoH speech and sending up smoke signals for the convention doctor (I was still in practice then) and antibiotics from his little black bag.
Discovering that I didn’t really like staying half drunk around the clock, even at a Worldcon.
Fascinated by Heinlein’s prediction in his GoH speech that the 20th Century would go down in history not forall the obvious things, but as the century when people around the world learned to read.
One evening the Andersons, the Heinleins and the Nourses planned dinner together and were turned away at the door of the Hyatt House main dining room because of the “impropriety” of Karen Anderson’s dress (she was merely being Karen in the early 60s and wearing an exotic costume gown)—we told the maitre d' where he could deposit his expensive dinners and went out to some happa-Chinee place down the pike. I advise people to do so this time around too, just as a silent gesture.
Excellent art show, where I bought an abstract painting by someone called Ron Bergeron, I think, which is still hanging on my study wall and wearing well after all these years.
Well, those were the days.
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[The Seattle skyline, with the Space Needle in the foreground and Mt. Rainier in the distance.]
Seattle is a place where spicey Douglas firs, startlingly blue lakes, and an inland sea surround mirrored skyscrapers and a montage of unique communities built on seven hills.
Within the city you can tour historic Pioneer Square, taking time off from browsing turn-of-the-century shoppes, art galleries, and the incredible 19th century Underground Tour to enjoy a cup of Espresso and a plate of steaming butter clams at a sidewalk cafe. Two blocks away at the waterfront you can choose from a variety of seafood restaurants and import shops, drinking in the sweet salt air while you toss morsels of food to the seagulls to quibble over.
Be sure also to visit the Seattle Center, site of the World’s Fair and the Pacific Science Center. Plan to spend at least one full afternoon if you want to see the Laserium show and a significant percentage of the exhibits, displays, and hands-on toys. Towering above all this in the Needle’s revolving restaurant is almost as spectacular as the view.
We who live here tend to take it for granted, but perhaps the greatest attraction of Seattle for most visitors isthe scenic splendor which surrounds it. Western Washington has an embarrassingly complete inventory of quiet lakes, salt water, islands, rivers, waterfalls, forests, beaches, snow-capped mountains, and even our very own active volcano. What more could one ask for.
One of our many dormant volcanoes, Mt. Ranier, not only has the greatest recorded annual snowfall of anywhere on Earth (and thus is the most glaciated peak as well), but is also one of the most majestic and beautiful peaks on the planet. Among the other must side-trips in any visit to Seattle are a one-day trip to our Pacific Ocean beaches and the nearby rain forests, a ferry-boat ride across Puget Sound to the Indian village on Blake Island, an afternoon drive past Snoqualmie Falls and up over the Cascade Mountain range to the “Bavarian” town of Leavenworth. Somewhat farther afield is a one-day boat trip up through the San Juan Islands to quaint old Victoria, British Columbia, where the Empress Hotel, Parliament buildings, museums, and Buchart Gardens are mandatory. Even farther afield, but no less unmissable, is aweekend trip along the rocky Oregon coastline with its sandy beaches, sea lion caves, and forty miles of the largest sand dunes in the world juxtaposed with lakes and forests of breathtaking beauty.
[A ferry on Puget Sound.]
How to Savor Seattle
by Steven Bryan Bieler
Natives of the East Coast habitually think of the western part of our country as a vast, untamed wilderness, populated chiefly by cattle, wheat and the cast of Gunsmoke. To the Easterner, civilization begins on the shores of Massachusetts and ends on the Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel. Chicago is perceived as a dusty prairie town, with more saloons than churches and a citizenry fluent in both English and Cow. Seattle, twice as distant, is thought to be a brawling frontier outpost, devoid of such civilized amenities as electrical utilities, innovative artistic endeavors and a winning baseball team. As a native Easterner I too held these beliefs, and thought them incontrovertible.
But a year in the West has taught me the truth. Seattle is indeed civilized, and as proof I append the following list of places to eat and things to do. Only the very best places and things have been listed.
From downtown Seattle you can get to any of them. To get downtown, head north on 99 if driving; board bus #174 (75¢ exact change) if dependent on public transit ([REDACTED] for schedules and route information). While on 99 watch for the Kingdome, home of major league sports in Seattle. The Kingdome is a triumph of contemporary architecture and urban design. It looks like a parking garage wearing a pie plate. When you pass it, you’re downtown.
[The Kingdome.]
Begin with a look around. Proceed to the PLAZA 600 BUILDING, corner of Sixth and Stewart. The windows in the restrooms on the 19th floor offer an exciting panorama of northeastern Seattle; cars and parking lots stretch outward to the steep slopes of Capitol Hill, once the throbbing hub of Seattle’s fan community. As you exit the elevators, turn left and left again for the men’s room, right and right again for the women’s. The views, I am told, are similar.
[Drawing by Victoria Poyser of a sorcerous reading a spellbook as various imps and demons bring her supplies for a potion boiling in a large cauldron.]
Copyright © by Victoria Poyser
Speaking of Capitol Hill, why not go there for dinner? Walk south three blocks to Pine and catch the #7 (50¢). Debark at the front door of Seattle’s most prestigious eating establishment, ANDY’S CAFE. Andy’s, 214 Broadway East ([REDACTED]), is distinguished externally by the bright yellow facade and the missing letters from the “Free Parking” sign. Here you may enjoy gourmet dining in tres elegante surroundings. Andy’s has more bowling trophies than any other restaurant in Seattle. Intimate booths, some with tables so cozy there’s no room for food on them, cram the floor, and if you want to experience the cutting edge of Seattle streetlife you can sit at the counter. Be careful who you start a conversation with. Formal attire is suggested; shoes are required.
Time for dessert! Just two blocks north, at 416 Broadway, the finest chocolate in the Pacific Northwest is whipped up at THE DILETTANTE ([REDACTED]). The chocolate buttercremes are so good they are being investigated by several government agencies, and the marzipan has been described as preferable to income tax refunds. You may sample the wares before you buy.
But perhaps the glamor and excitement of Andy’s and the unrestrained hedonism of The dilettante is not for you. If so, get back on that #7 and check out THE IRON HORSE, 311 - 3rd South ([REDACTED]). The Iron Horse, justtwo blocks north of the Kingdome, broils the best burgers in town and serves them by model train! This is a place for the entire family. Don’t touch the tracks while the trains are running or you’ll french-fry your fingers.
[The monorail through downtown Seattle.]
Looking for that 24-hour eatery with cosmopolitan appeal? Where the beautiful people go to stuff their faces? Have I got a restaurant for you! BETH’S CAFE, 7311 Aurora North ([REDACTED]), offers omelettes a footsquare and an inch deep on a foundation of home-fried potatoes. Each omelette contains ten to twelve eggs and a filling of mushrooms, cheese, bacon, or whatever you like. Trowels are distributed with the knives andforks. The last customer to finish one of these cholesterol nightmares quarterbacked three teams in the NFL. From downtown take the #6 (50¢) to the intersection of Aurora (Rte. 99) and Winona North. Walk south one block on Aurora. Beth’s is located between Skippy’s and the Aurora Poodle Parlor. Bring a friend and split an omelette.
Culture enthusiasts will want to walk off their dinner along the quarter-mile length of the FREEWAY NATURE TRAIL. From downtown take #’s 71, 72, or 73 to the corner of Eastlake East and East Galer. Walk east on Galer to Franklin. Franklin parallels the Trail, which runs almost fifty feet beneath the thundering spans of Interstate 5. Enter the trail and proceed north; observe the flora and fauna abounding among the concrete support pillars, walk the ancient paths, read the graffiti. Can you find my initials? You will eventually emerge on Lakeveiw East, where you may catch #’s 25 or 32 and return downtown. The Trail is open year round, but should be avoided in wet weather. Nighttime trailwalking is permitted if done in groups; bring flashlights and stout shoes.
Finally, the Seattle/King County Convention & Visitors Bureau, located on Seventh between Stewart and Olive, is open 8–5 weekdays and will answer any questions about Seattle you might have after reading this guide. Call them at [REDACTED]. Don’tmention my name.
Copyright © by Steven Bryan Bieler
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Writer’s Guide to Procrastination
by Victor Hill
Are you desperate? Does your typewriter loom like a hideous, bloated metal idol on your desk, demanding you pay it homage? Have you run out of excuses, delays, excursions, errands? Have all your usual procrastination tactics failed you?
Don’t give up and start typing–there may be truly ingenious techniques you haven’t tried. Here are a few ideas to help delay the ultimate torture still longer.
- Your plants need watering. You don’t have any plants? Go out and buy some.
- You recall that you haven’t written your great Aunt Martha in fifteen years. Never mind that she’s been dead fifteen years. Contact your local mystic and prepare yourself for a ritual at midnight.
- You suspect you’ve just developed a rare fungoid infection, the same one that Marcus Welby cured yesterday on daytime television. You need to examine your toes with a magnifying glass.
- You need to reorganize your desk again, only this time according to the latest research in desk efficiency. Of course, this means going to the library and spending hours searching for a book on the topic.
- Remember cousin Bartholomew?Normally you never speak to him if you can avoid it, since he’s incredibly longwinded and boring, and the last time you called him on the phone you fell asleep. Nevertheless, you’re convinced you must in fact speak to him now. Perhaps you’ve missed some vital gossip.
- The refrigerator should be defrosted.
- When was the last time you shampooed the rug?
- Looking at yourself in the mirror, you realize you must get some exercise. You go out and jog vigorously. When you return, you are chilled and exhausted. You really did overdo it, and now need to go back to bed until you recover.
- You really don’t feel alert, and drink eight cups of black coffee. You start• to tremble, and decide to go back to bed until you recover.
- You didn’t read last week’s want ads carefully enough.
- You didn’t read last year’s fanzines carefully enough.
- You are impossibly horny and cannot concentrate, so it’s back to bed until you recover.
- Even though you are allergic to strawberries, you are overcome by a sudden craving, rush out to the local market, and devour a pint basket of them on the way home. Afterwards you feel ill and develop a rash. You’llprobably recover after a few hours' rest.
- There should have been a response by now to the story you sent out two weeks ago. You start waiting impatiently for the mail, checking the box every five minutes. When you get the mail and find only bills, you get depressed. You can’t write in this state of mind and resolve to start fresh, after a short nap.
- You are out of cigarettes; you cannot write without them. You cannot go out and buy cigarettes until you’re dressed. You cannot get dressed until you’ve showered. You don’t see any point in showering until you’ve done the laundry and have clean clothes to wear. You cannot go to the laundromat until you’re dressed. You decide to go back to bed and allow the unconscious mind to resolve the dilemma.
- You are out of coffee. (Same as above.) 17. Go to a convention. Better yet, go to one far away, such as Norwescon. The guilt won’t even catch up to you until Tuesday morning.
Victor Hill, world’s foremost authority on procrastination, has failed to complete 17 novels, has dodged requests for contributions from 49 fanzine editors, shelved the plots for 23 short stories, and otherwise avoided the typewriter over a lackluster six-year career.
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The Hollywood Seattle Connection
by Blake Mitchell
In just three short years Norwescon has won a reputation for being the SF convention with the most firsts. That reputation is justified and this year is no exception. Rarely ever do conventions get “first-run” films for their programs, so it is with great pleasure that we announce Norwescon will be presenting not one but THREE major feature films
Omen III - The Final Conflict The 20th Century Fox conclusion of the famous “Omen” trilogy. Damien, the anti-Christ, wages a spectacular screen confrontation with the forces of good in this last segment of the trilogy.
The Howling Avco Embassy Pictures presents Joe “Piranha” Dante’s return to the screen with this stylish modern-day werewolf film. Special effects are truly phenomenal. Members of the press, in a local LA screening, predict this may well be the most exciting film of its kind ever made.
Fade To Black American Cinema proudly presents this recent first-run release. Nominated for several “Academy of Science-Fiction, Horror and Fantasy” awards, this picture offers an excellent example of what filmmakers are doing with the small-budget film.
For those of you who sat through The Changeling premiere last year, and are now groaning with the memory of the problems we experienced with the projectors, have faith! Thanks to the kind assistance of projectionist Fred Mill, thisyear Norwescon can boast NEW 35mm projectors.
ALSO, this year representatives from many of the major film studios in Hollywood will be attending Norwescon with information, previews and surprise extras on new production for the coming year. Among those attending will be;
The Ladd Company: Outland
From the man, Alan Ladd, Jr., who gave you Star Wars and Alien, comes his first independent film release. Outland stars Sean Connery and was written and directed by Peter “Capricorn I” Hyams. This space action-adventure is due for release in May. If you are bored with cute little robots, dogfights in space and carnivorous alien creatures, check this one out. You’re in for a surprise.
Disney Paramount: Dragonslayer
Written and produced by Hal Barwood, this film, due for release in early June, is the first of this year’s fantasy films. A special “product reel” heretofore only available to theatre owners will be shown. So if dragons and sorcery are your thing, you won’t want to miss this one. The baby dragons are out of this world.
Lucasfilms, Ltd: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Lucasfilms, always first to bring their products to the fans, will be showing film and slide previews of this newest Steven Speilberg action-adventure film starring Harrison Ford.
Warner Bros: Superman II
A film and slide look at the further adventures of America’s number one Superhero.
Orion Films: Excalibur
Orion proudly presents a glimpse of John “Zardoz” Boorman’s re-creation of the Arthurian legend. This film will be released this summer.
[Drawing of Darth Vader holding Yoda’s head.]
An unprecedented number of studio presentations are being made at Norwescon this year. They are for you, the film fan, so don’t miss a one. Please check your pocket schedule for times and new entries to the program.
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Films and Video
The Monitors Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Keenan Wynn, Ed Begley). A super race from outer space has decided to give each human what they want, whether they want it or not. A small group of revolutionaries fights for man’s inalienable right to conduct himself in an irrational and self-destructive manner.
Creation of Humanoids Don Megowan. Erica Elliot, Frances McCann). Atom bomb blast makes surviving people use human blood for existence.
La Jetee (b&w, France, , subtitled). A haunted survivor of World War III journeys into the past in search of a fleeting memory, only to discover the terrifying moment of death. Told almost entirely in still photographs, director Chris Marker’s tour de force of philosophical cinema has been hailed as a film of “heartbreaking nostalgia for our present” (Film Quarterly).
Freaks (b&w, . Olga Baclanova. Harry Earles, Henry Victor, Leila Hyams, Wallace Ford). Tod Browning, director of the original Dracula, searched the circuses and sideshows of the world for “actors” to populate his bizarre world, where horror and comedy merge in the story of a midget who falls in love with a “normal” trapeze artist. “The most compassionate movie ever made about the human condition” (Andrew Sarris).
The Bed Sitting Room (Ralph Richardson, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Marty Feldman, Rita Tushingham). Richard Lester’s black comedy about the survivors of a nuclear war who discover that radiation is turning them into the strangest things. Never released to American theaters because its sense of humor was “too British.”
The Last Wave (Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett). Director Peter Weir’s mesmerizing thriller about five Australian aborigines accused of ritual murder. A series of bizarre occurrences gives terrifying insight into the primeval powers that threaten the civilized world.
The Woman in the Moon (b&w, , silent. Fritz Lang). A group of men and women are sent up in a rocketship to find gold on the moon, but greed and jealousy set them against each other. An imaginative treatment which set the style of space design for several decades.
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The China Syndrome
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Day the Earth Stood Still
Day of the Triffids
Lord of the Rings
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Time After Time
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
War of the Worlds
Circle of Iron
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Blake
Circle of Iron
Space Patrol
Brave New World
Moonraker
Rollerball
The China Syndrome
Forbidden Planet
Last Remake of Beau Geste
Time After Time
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In Memoriam
[Photo of Harold Warner Munn]
Harold Warner Munn
(—)
by Phil Garland
The real story of Harold Munn is not recorded in any book. It exists in our minds and hearts. Each of us is a chapter or a few paragraphs in that story, because each of us was a part of his life—just as he was a part of ours.
He had many facets—and we each saw him from a different angle. It is possible to look at a single facet of a diamond and see more than its surface. Through this window, one may often detect clarity, a play of colors, even a flaw or two. So it is with a man.
The Harold I knew for almost thirty years was a story-teller with a twinkle in his eye. His tales were filled with elves, werewolves, and vampires. He wrote of the constant battle between good and evil—but, unlike most others, his heroes had weaknesses, which made them human. His villains had compassion, which made them more than inhuman.
He was a poet. He wrote unabashedly of love—which, w hen done by other writers, often makes their work seem maudlin. But he believed in love, so this sincerity shone through to make his poems glow.
He always found time for aspiring young writers, and for his fans. His correspondence was answered promptly, often at great length. Some of his letters ran on for more than twenty pages of single-spaced typing. Had all this energy gone into fiction, it would have doubled his output.
He researched his backgrounds thoroughly. He was an authority onthe Arthurian legends, on ancient Rome, and on Joan of Arc—subjects in which he took a great interest.
He was a magnet. People of all ages and types were attracted to this man. Young ladies, in particular, found him fascinating. I used to suspect he carried a magic amulet which bewitched them. It was magic, of course, for his charm was real. They saw in him a romantic, one of the last of that species in this age of plastics and computers.
He was not immune to their charms, cither—for he saw in each the daughter he never had—and, knowing his fondness for Joan of Arc, I suspect he saw a bit of her in each, too.
He had a talent for finding the good in people. To my knowledge, he never required anyone to prove worthy of his trust, but gave it unselfishly. Because of this, he was hurt on occasion. But, more often than not, he was right.
He was short in stature, but stood tall in every way that matters. He had courage, and fought his share of dragons. He would have given a good account of himself against this last one, but modern medicine failed to discover it until after he was mortally wounded—so he fell on the field of battle, and never had a chance to draw his sword.
His story will go on as long as someone, somewhere, still finds joy in reading his words.
(Phil Garland, to whom Harold Munn dedicated his book, The Transient, has published a number of Munn titles, including his final Christmas booklet, The Baby Dryad.
This eulogy, in a slightly different form, was delivered at Harold’s memorial service on January 14th.)
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[Photo of Susan Wood]
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Susan Wood
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by John D. Berry
What was special about Susan was her creative enthusiasm. She brought all her intellectual and emotional talents to it; she had the rare ability to share her enthusiasm intelligently. She did this professionally as a critic and as a teacher, teaching Canadian literature and science fiction at the University of British Columbia and writing lively, informed criticism for everything from sd magazines and fanzines to academic journals. Her writing was a synthesis in the finest sense: weaving together divergent threads both playfully and seriously to make a statement about what had meaning.
She brought her enthusiasm to editing, in a series of fanzines, and more recently in The Language of the Night, the collected essays of Ursula Le Guin, and in the special issue she put together of the Vancouver magazine Room of One’s Own on feminist science fiction and fantasy. In her fanzine writing she could make her enthusiasm come alive for other people; the writing could shine with joy and make people feel that joy, which is much harder then putting despair or cynicism on paper. At conventions like this one she was always on the program, and at the parties, full of energy, talking and sharing her care for the sf community and her conviction that science fiction and its community mattered.
It was Susan who first organized the Fan History Room, to give newcomers a focus on the contexts and history of fandom, and A Room of One’s Own, to give women in sf a rallying point at conventions and a focus on their own experiences in sf and fandom.
Susan was particularly adept at sharing the excitement of new, developing communities and the discovery of newly shared modes of thought. In fandom she communicated the energy and joy of the growing edge of feminist sf and a feminist challenge to the male-preserve aspects of fandom. She shared her enthusiasm for science fiction with her students; and her faith in Canadian literature, which has been coming into its own in the last decade, she shared with students and even the more conservative faculty at the university (and also, through writing in fanzines about what she cared about, with members of the science fiction community outside of Canada). She introduced her American friends, myself among them, to Canadian culture, the growing self-awareness of her country. She championed women’s studies in the academic institution (where all her loves—sf, Canlit, feminism—were viewed as popular and suspect) and took the time to personally help and encourage many of her women students.
Susan touched us all. As I tried to find the link between the public Susan Wood and the private person I knew, I found it there: she touched us all. She had an effect. She used to say that rather than leading a revolution she would affect the institutions she dealt with by “niggling from within,” and she did that, leading people to question their assumptions, to open themselves up and learn. She helped many people to be more than they were before.
Susan Wood was a much-loved friend to many of us. Through her work she was an influence for joy and creative sanity. In person she was an inspiration and a catalyst. She accomplished an enormous amount in her life, but more than that she was loved simply for who she was. Her absence leaves a very wide, deep hole in our lives.
[Photo of Susan Petrey]
Susan Petrey
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by Steve Perry
Nobody seemed certain why. The best medical opinions seemed to favor either an allergic reaction or some kind of synergistic effect. Synergistic: that’s where two things added together to make more than the sum of the parts. Two plus two equals five. This harmless cough medicine taken with that harmless nerve pill might sometimes do that. A terrible accident could happen.
, in Portland at home, in her bed, Sue Petrey died. She was only thirty-five, a budding writer already a professional; a sometimes- nervous-but-nice lady; a laboratory technician. She played mean mandolin, was learning Russian and Turkish, was learning about herself. All the stories she would have written won’t be, now.
Sue didn’t have a lot of confidence in her ability to write. She thought it was a fluke when Ed Ferman bought her first story. Only after she sold four more short stories (three of them to F&SF), did she begin to feel that maybe she could write.
She was working on a novel, based on the adventures of the Varkela leechmen who peopled her stories. It made her edgy, thinking about doing a novel, but she was doing it. She had boxes of research, notebooks full of ideas and background, a matrix outlined. We won’t see the book she started. Leechcraft, she called it, and I have no doubt it would have been a good book. She didn’t write a lot, but what she did write she did well.
We were at a workshop together, Sue and I, with a dozen other beginning writers. It was in Los Angeles during Christmas and New Year’s season, 1979. Sue brought a story called “Spidersong.” The fifteen of us sat around in a cabin in the mountains, tearing each other’s stories down. We trashed “Spidersong.” We pointed out all the problems the thing had, why it would never sell, not in ten thousand years.
Within a few weeks of our return to Portland, Sue called to tell me Ed Ferman had bought that story, just as we’d seen it, unchanged. We laughed about that, she and I. What do writers know? You have to please editors.
After Sue died, I was contacted by Art Saha, an editor from New York. He was, he said, the new editor for DAW’s The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories; he had heard I was handling Sue’s literary estate. Could he use “Spidersong” in the new anthology?
Sure, I said. I’d like that. I’m sure Sue would have been tickled.
After I cradled the phone’s receiver, it really came home to me that she was gone, more than when I’d heard it first, more than at the memorial service. I wanted to call her, to tell her about “Spidersong,” to laugh about how dumb us writers were. And I couldn’t, because she was gone.
What she could have been we won’t know; what she was was enough. I’m going to miss you, Sue.
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Acknowledgments
[The seventeen members of the Norwescon 4 convention committee.]
Photo by Thom Walls
Norwescon 4 Convention Committee. Standing (left to right): Steven Bieler, Kennedy Poyser, Judy Lorent, Lauraine Miranda, Dave Bray, Pat Mallinson, Linda Hoffer, Doug Booze, Liz Warren (Dragon Lady). Kneeling: Shelley Dutton, Constance Maytum. Cliff Wind, Richard Wright, Paul Schaper. Seated: Tony Blankinship, Steve Bard.
The NORWESCON 4 program book is published by the Northwest Science Fiction Society, Richard Wright, Chairman. Kennedy Poyser edited and produced the book, with assistance in format and initial design from Jim Gibson, a graphics student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia. Layout was done by Kennedy Poyser and William R. Warren, Jr., with editorial assistance from Steven Bryan Bieler, Linda Hoffer, Judy Lorent, Jennifer Parkinson, and Thom Walls. Steve Bard wrote the program notes and much of the uncredited copy. Jerry Anderson wrote the brief biographies in the “Guests of Norwescon” section. Color separations by Sun Graphics of Parsons, Kansas. The program book was printed by ABC Printing of Olympia, Washington; with typesetting by ABC and Jeff Levin of Portland, Oregon. Michael Goodwin painted “City Under the Suns,” the artwork used on the convention nametags. Programming assistance was provided by Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Joanna Russ, Suzle Tompkins, and Jerry Kaufman. Lighting equipment was provided by Pacific Northwest Theater Associates, and sound equipment by Photo and Sound andFutureLove Productions. Shopping bags for the dealers' room and registration were provided by Elliott Bay Book Company, Magazine City, b. bailey books, and Trident Imports.
NORWESCON gratefully acknowledges the contributions of these people and of the convention committee listed on page 1 of this book. We also appreciate the many hours given at the Convention by the dozens of volunteers who are helping to host the doors, run errands, work registration, and to produce all the behind-the-scenes magic that makes this Convention work. If you wish to join them (hint, hint), the volunteers coordinator can be found in Operations.
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The Unknown Five
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Twilight Rose
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