Robert, I will have you know that this loc comes so quickly after receiving it (less than a week ago, and for me, that's lightning loccing speed of late) is for a few reasons, which I shall tackle in order.

The first thing that caught my eye - besides the wonderful header art on page one by John Cody - was your commentary about you causing rainfall ( Read more... )

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So here I've fallen in love with this band, such talented young men, and now this has happened. I wish the best for Jon Sprague; in fact, I would be honored to write some songs with him. He is a gifted artist and performer, and I so hope ( Read more... )

Dear Fred,
Your opening section certainly brought back memories of when I used to actively collect pulp magazines, mainly during my first decade of fan activity (the 1970s, to be precise). I didn't have the income to acquire the truly rare or important issues of Amazing, Astounding, Weird Tales, and the like, but I did have a fair amount of those ( Read more... )

Hello, Espana, and the rest of you Bayreans!

Congratulations on your seven year milestone. Amazing, isn't it, how quickly the time zips by when you're having fun. Naturally, that is one of the big attractions of being a science fiction fan: there are so many fun things to do within fandom that it's hard to focus on just one or two or three items. ( Read more... )

Hello, Warren!

I am glad that you had a good time at DeepSouthCon 50; from all reports, it sounds like it was a splendid convention and makes me wish Valerie and I could have made it. Next year's will probably be out of the question since our major convention in 2013 will be LoneStarCon 3 just west of us in San Antonio. (Well, it is a 3-hour drive, ( Read more... )

Good evening, Thomas! Just a little bit ago I was debating on which fanzine to loc tonight, and yours won the coin flip. It was up against Challenger, but I just received that zine last Friday, so there's plenty of time to loc that one before its next issue even is begun.

Like all of us, the loss of Ray Bradbury greatly saddened me, but you know, ( Read more... )

As promised, here's that loc I've been meaning to write to your new zine.
Glad to  see that New Toy isn't dead: just on hiatus then.  Sometimes that's just how these things work, and that's fine by me. Besides, you've never been one to be at a loss for words, nor topics to write about.
Yes, I know Arnie Katz is redefining yet again; it seems that's a ( Read more... )

Congratulations, Mike, on the Best Perzine FAAn Award. Richly deserved, and one to be proud of. Hard to believe that Eric Mayer called the shot this time. Myself, I thought it was a tough call since there are so many good perzines floating around right now. In any event, well done, sir.

Overall I really enjoyed your trip report to the Great American ( Read more... )

Good evening, Arnie.

As you now know - and have acknowledged in your zine - my fanzine Askance is *not* folding: The usual quarterly issues come out in March, June, September, and December, but June of 2012 was largely devoured by an online graduate statistics class to complete my doctoral degree plan in Education. So because of that commitment, I ( Read more... )

Here we go again, Joe and Lisa: another issue, another loc.Nothing wrong with that, when you get down to it.

First off, the death of Ray Bradbury was not only a blow to our genre, but to literature in general. Bradbury was one of the few sf writers who appealed to the mass market not because he could explain scientific concepts clearly, but he put ( Read more... )