Vol. Al - No. 2 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 4, i960 (Published Daily) MOSKOWITZ STATES “AMAZING" WILL REPRINT EROM EARLY ISSUES .

PITTCON CITY, 3 September, (CNS) - Sam length being reprinted and a good chance Moskowitz announced to the Pittcon audi­ of a Paul back cover. This Paul back ence today that Amazing Stories would in cover is to celebrate the fact that the very near future reprint some of the Frank R. Paul did the first cover for early classics from its back issues. Sam Amazing. ’ I t will' probably be the one Moskowitz i s doing the selection of Frank R. Paul did for a wedding present these stories which must be 20 years old when Chris and Sam were married. Chris or older, be good enough to stand along showed a colored slide of this painting the modem stories and b e outstanding, during Sam’s talk on Collector’s Panel Sam will do a 500 word introduction to part of the Pittcon Program. If these the stories picked, and where possible plans go through, Amazing will add pages the original illustration to the story for this one issue.■ will also be reprinted. It is felt that in reprinting the old stories, • modem BUDRY’S SHORT NOVEL COMING IN DECEMBER readers would also be interested in see­ I960 "FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION” ing what the old-time art work looked like, So far Sam has picked the following PITTCON CITY, 3 September, (CNS) - Bob stories to be reprinted: Mills, editor of Fantasy & Science Fic­ THE LAST MACHINE b y John Beynon tion, announced today that the December Harris. issue of his magazine will contain a THE LAST EVOLUTION by John W. Camp­ short novel of 35^000 words, ROGUE MOON bell, Jr. by Algis Budrys. The cover of this is­ UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN by David H. sue (not illustrating any story) will be Keller, M. D., and: by Mel Hunter. 1 THE MAN WHO SAW THE FUTURE by Edmond Hamilton, Each story picked will be done with a reason in mind, and why it was picked will be explained, etc., in Sam’s intro­ THE FIRST DAY - Saturday September 3* duction to each story. There is a good possibility that In the morning, registration was contin­ Amazing Stories will celebrate its 35Th ued, the display rooms were opened up, 'Anniversary issue, April 1961, -in grand and the sales room was opened for’busin­ style with selected classics of novelet ess. Outstanding’in the sales room was PAGE 2 ______Science-Fiction Times Daily the Famous Monster table, where copies All the money taken in will go to of Famous Monster & their new magazine- the TAFF Fund. Don Ford collected $99 Helpl fa MAD type mag) were passed out. from the Auction Bloch for TAFF. Editor Ackerman, Publisher Jim Warren, Hal Clement gave a most interesting talk and a scantly clad gal did the honors. "Interstellar Stage- Setting" about setting up the background and plot de­ The official program opnned at approx. tails for interspace stories. ... 1:00 P.M. with Chairman Dirce Archer­ Forrest J Ackerman and Sam Mosko— giving the Welcome speech and introduc­ witz comprised the Science-Fiction Col­ ing the hard working committee. Then lector Panel with Forry telling of rare Bob Hyde, Secretary read the rules under items, and Sam dealing mostly with col­ which the Convention will operate. lecting Dime Novels, well illustrated This was followed by Science-Fic- with colored slides by Chris Moskowitz. Rion’s Who’s Who where famous s-f per­ The last item 0 n the afternoon sonalities were introduced. Sam Mosk— program was an auction with Harlan Elli­ owitz did the introducing replacing Dr. son as Auctioneer. C. L. Barrett who took a short leave o f After the dinner intermission, the the convention to be at the wedding of Grand Costume Ball was held with some of his son. Sam introduced the following the most outlandish and ingenious costum­ with the proper back ground information: es ever seen at a s-f convention. Dr...... ,rs. Dirce Archer, James' Blish, L; C. L. Barrett acted as MC. After long Sprague de Camp, Fred Pohl, Hal Clement, and carefull judging (The Judges were Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg, Is­ Dick Eney, Phyllis Economou, and Ray aac Asimov, Hans Santesson, Forrest J Smith) the winners were: Ackerman, Eric Bentcliffe, Jay & Sandy Most original — Bjo Sanderson and Mrs. E. E. Smith. Most Monstrous - Sfcu Hoffman At This point E d Wood announced Most Beautifjzl - Earl Kemp that newsmen wanted t o take photos of Most Bizaere - George Heap some of the famous s-f authors. A score Most humorous - Virginia and Steve of authors left the hall for this pur­ Schultheis pose. Grand Prize was won by Bjo Sam Moskowitz continued giving the After the Awards those still in costumes news of Amazing Stories (see page 1). were TVed by the local CBS TV Station to At 1:50 P.M. the now famous Auction be presented over the air locally on Bloch took'place. E d Wood introduced Tuesday morning between 7 & 3 AM, Sept. the affair,, with Isaac Asimov MCing with 6, I960. his famous sense of humor and Sam Mosko­ As'this issue goes to press, the witz auctioneering: Amids gales o f Ball Room is ringing to the songs of the laughter the following well-known s-f Misfit Gless Club. Other like entertain­ personalities were sold. The deal was ment will carry on into the night. that the buyer would have one hour of the person’s time: We were told that among the Hugo 1. L. Sprague de Camp sold for $25 to winners will be a Hugo for papa Hugo Florght Gibson. ' Gernsback, the father of magazine scien- 2. Hal Clement,$12 -to Dr. Mary Martin. ce-’fiction, I t seems that with Hugos 3. Randy Garrett, $7.29 to Bruce Henn-, named after him none have ever been pre­ stell. sented to him. This convention will now 4. Dr. E.E. Smith, $8 to Ricky Brooks. see to it that the man who ‘made all this 5. Willy Ley (Willy was not in the possible gets one at last. Hall at the time, so Lu Tabakow stoo d in for him, but it was Ley’s hour they The Pittcon Edition bought), $15.00 to Andrew Meek. SCIENCE - FICTION TIMES 6. Judith Merril, $15.00 - Jack Barr. "The World Of-xTomorrow Todayl" 7, It took four fans, David and Muriel Published daily at the Penn-Sheraton Stein, John Gould and Eric Delson to buy Ho>el by SCIENCE-FICTION TIMES, INC. Isaac Asimov for $16.50. James V. Taurasi, editor