When I was first introduced to Science Fiction Fandom in 1977, one of the first people I ever met regularly at cons was Mike Glicksohn. I learned several things from him, even if they didn’t catch on immediately to my boyish brain - that you should never get involved in a poker game unless your were really good at it, and to avoid Diablo (a ( Read more... )

Due to other commitments, I’m unlikely to make it to Capricon until mid-day Saturday. I wish it were otherwise.
My events:

(Extraterrestrial astronomical/astrological changes)

Time: Saturday - 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Location: Botanic Garden B

Panelists: Br. Guy Consolmagno, Jim Rittenhouse, Francisco Ruiz, Isabel Schechter

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LJ: cedarseed is in Ethiopia; I’ve always been intrigued by the classical end of Ethiopian civilization (I need to pick up a Budge book on Ethiopian magic one of these days) and love looking at classic Ethiopian art.    Some good photos; check it out and her LJ in general.

Jay Lake and his family (especially his daughter, who, like mine, originated ( Read more... )

…said Abraham Lincoln.

Amidst the tons of Sidewise reading and whatnot, I’m also reading Paul Riddell’s Greasing the Pan. Since it’s all basically essays and all of the material is reprints from deceased magazines and the like, it’s not like you HAVE to read it all in one sitting.  It would make good bathroom reading material, except when Paul ( Read more... )

I’ve been busy this weekend in going through immense piles of paperwork, and scanning and dumping, and lots of side dumping in any event.  The prozines are things that I don’t believe that I will ever re-read, and that it’s a lot more sensible to pass them on than to have them take up storage space that is desperately needed here.  I need most ( Read more... )

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After thirty years of being in APAs and much of that being involved in the running of several as OE, I just gave up the editorship of POINT OF DIVERGENCE to two folks who will do a splendid job in the role, and hope to settle back into just helping and contributing, and not having the specific responsibility of running the thing.

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Originally published at Memnison Journal. You can comment here or there.

I’d forgotten about this, too. Though I don’t quite know where to start in ‘filling in the gaps…’
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