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TOR BOOKS 1991 AOUR 10TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR TO s youLUIlflCDn will notice, Feinberg, who is both a top phycisistand Ballantine, 1991 and Gerald Feinberg are all there hove been a a long time SF fan. We are attempting among the best in their respective profes­ few changes this to explore all phases of the field, with sions, and weare honored thatthey chose year. The most special highlights on areas of SF pub­ to join us. They are also splendid obvious is our new lishing that don't normally get discussed people, who have been a joy to work location. Thanks at conventions. We also have a strong with, and I suspect you will enjoy meet­ to your continued Art programming track, with most of the ing them quite as much as I have enjoyed support, Lunacon has become success­ arranging to have them with us. In ad­ ful enough to require a move to larger dition to our Guests of Honor, over 200 quarters. Our new facility provides both “Thanks to other people active in all phases of Sci­ additional function space forconvention ence Fiction and Fantasy have con­ activities, and additional accomodations sented to join us and provide insights into for the attendees. All of our convention your continued their own particular specialties. facilities are on one floor, which should None of this would be possible without make things more convenient for all of support, the efforts of many people. First, our in­ you. vited guests, who have kindly agreed to We've attempted to put the additional take time out of busy schedules to join us. space to good use. Our Art Show and Lunacon Second, the staff of the Sheraton Stam­ Dealers Room are both expanded from ford Hotel, who have worked with us to previous years. We've added a few insure that all goes as smoothly as pos­ things not seen before at Lunacon, such has become sible. Third, the members of the commit­ as the Radio Room and the Fanzine tee who have labored long and hard to Lounge. We are also trying to do some successful enough make this the very best convention pos­ existing things differently, such as the sible. And last, you, the attendees, whose "Saturday Afternoon at the Movies" film continued support has made it possible programing, and to make other things to require a to produce Lunacon for the 34th year. even better than before, like our popular No words of mine are adequate thanks and highly regarded Masquerade. for your efforts and support. Programming is always a difficult task move to larger I only hope that our efforts will be for any convention. The challenge of successful, and you will agree that this is creating programming that is interest­ quarters. ” the best Lunacon yet, and that you will ing, fun to attend, and sufficiently dif­ continue to honor us with your atten­ ferent from what has been done before dance and support. is probably the greatest task facing a top names in SF and Fantasy illustration convention, and one we think we have joining us as program particiupants and My special thanks to all of you! met. exhibitors. Dennis McCunney One focus this year is on Science in We are more than fortunate in that our Chairman Science Fiction, starting with our Sci­ Guests of Honor; John Brunner, Kelly Lunacon 1991 ence Guest of Honor, Professor Gerald Freas, Harry Stubbs, Ian and Betty C O N V E N T 1 O N C CIMMITTEE

ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMMING Chairman Dennis McCunney Main Alan Rachlin Con Secretary Kathleen Morrison Philip J. DeParto Treasury William Morrison Ozzie Fontecchio Ira Donewitz Dave Stephens Hotel Liason Seth Breidbart Science John Boardman, Ph.D. Suite Davey Snyder Charles Pellegrino, Ph.D. Fan Vijay Bowen The Con Suite is the Convention- Sheraton Stamford Anthony Amendola Films James LaBarre sponsored party where Lunacon Account Manager Green Room Mike Nelson attendees may meet, chat and Den Fox relax. The Con Suite is in Celia's, FIXED FUNCTIONS Paul Molina Art Show Stuart C. Hellinger Masquerade Richard Hill located just off the downstairs Mark Richards Susan DeGuardiola lobby and is open: Book Exhibit Eileen Madison Origami Mark Kennedy Friday: 8:30 p.m. - 4 a.m. John LaBarre Special Function Brian Burley Saturday: 1 1 a.m. - 6 p.m. Con Suite Perdita Boardman Workshops Alan Zimmerman Sunday: 1 1 a.m. - ? Cecilia Hatlestad Luggage may be stored at your Dealer's Room Devra Langsam PUBLICATIONS Mary Otten Newsletter Brian Burley own risk on Sunday afternoon, in Fanzine Lounge Vijay Bowen Progress Report Bobbie Smith designated areas only. Vicki Rosenzwieg Mark Blackman Gaming Dave Stern Cecilia Hatlestad IN MEMORIUM Wendy Stern Program Book Mike Hodge Editor Japanese Animation Robert Fenelon Mark Blackman Asst. Editor Michael Pinto Art Director Robert Adams, OPERATIONS Douglas Ayen Advertising Babysitting Kathleen Morrison Pocket Program Tamara Hodge Wendayne Ackerman, Wendy Stern Publicity Paul Birnbaum Logistics John Vanible Senior Advisor Marion Stensgard Arthur Thomson, Mailroom Gloria Lucia Albasi Stuart Hellinger LunaCon would like to thank these Liz Pearce, Member Services Dave Stevens people for helping make this year's Photographer John Upton convention possible. Adrienne Fein, Registration Kathleen Morrison American Lawyer Media, L.P., Douglas Ayen, Mary Rozza At-thecon Rob Clayton, Art Coleman, Chip Hitchcock, Lola Ann Center, Sales Ray Heuer Tamara Hodge, Alex Latsko, Doug Morea, Faith Karp Michael Morrison, NESFA, Mark Olson, Kelly Jim Henson, Signage Cecilia Hatlestat Persons, David Schwartz, Technofandom Rev Ed Emshwiller, Staffing Carolyn Whitney 1.1, Monty Wells, Carl Zwanzig, Brian Vinnie Salzillo Cirulnick ,Micropage, Sharon Fox, Kamara Donald A. Wollheim, Technical Services Lee Orlando Lufkin, Robert Himmelsbach & Naomi Basner. Jeff Poretsky Don C. Thompson

this year are: Things to Come: (1935) ,100m, Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson. A preview of the future by H.G. Wells. Quartermass Experiment: (1955), 78m. The sole survivor of a space rocket expedition slowly mutates into a monster. Based on the British TV SF serial. Quartermass & The Pit: (1967) TV Films©ffleo movie. Excavations for an extension for the London Underground uncovers a urFilmProgramthisyear plete with a classic newsreel, cartoon space ship. Mass insanity follows when is integrated into the and serial chapter. Lunacon is also fea­ the ship is reactiviated. mainstream of conven­ turing shorts by the Brothers Hildebrandt Fifth Column Mouse: (1943) 7m. tion programming but and that fan favorite, Star Wreck: Mice, representing the free world, make Oatnon-traditional hours. Commotion Picture. Please check our the mistake of appeasing a barbarian We are presenting Saturday morning posted schedules for a full listing of titles cat. cartoons (for children of all ages) and and presentation times. And many more. Saturday Afternoon at the Movies, com­ Some of the movies being shown apanimation

In the 1960s about a quarter of TV Char's Counterattack: Rebellious L-5 The Radio Room returns to Lunacon cartoons were Japanese (remember colonies smash asteroids into Earth in under the supervision of WBAI-FM's Speed Racer? Astro Boy? Kimba the this, the climax of the highly over-rated Jim Freund, who promises (and White Lion? Gigantor? ). There were Mobile Suit Gundam series. threatens) some unusual SF events more by the early 80s (Star Blazers, Quite a few recent Japanese anima­ from radio past. The Radio Room is Voltron, Robotech), igniting a big Japa- tions have had a decidedly historical located in Room 222. nimation movement in fandom. In the flavor. For your edification, we present: late 80s, English translations of Japa­ Genji Monagatori: Animated version nese comics became the rage (Lum, of the world's first novel - "The Tale of Outlanders, Appleseed, etc.). Now in Genji." POLICIES AND the 90s two new trends have appeared. Yoma: A tale of betrayal and friend­ First, industrious people use their Amiga ship during a shadow war waged be­ computers to subtitle Japanimation. Sec­ tween ninja clansand demonssetduring RULES ondly, corporations are subtitling and the Shogun period. Weapons Policy: No Weapons translating Japanimation for sale. This Time Stranger: This bittersweet time of any kind are permitted. Mas­ year, Lunacon's video program is proud travel romance yarn ranges from the far queraders, please note our to premier some commercially available future to the court of Oda Nobunaga, guidelines, under "Masquerade," Japanese animation tapes, including the "The George Washington of Japan." regarding a limited exemption to following: Fire Tripper: Based on the manga by this policy. Violators will have Zillion #1,2: Inspired by popularvideo RumikoTakahashi (Lum, Ranma) a young their memberships revoked with­ games, this TV series pits three champi­ woman travels back into Japan's medi­ out compensation. Lunacon re­ ons against an endless horde of insectoid eval period and encounters culture shock, serves the rightto determine what invaders. So what there's no real plot! (reverse) future shock and love shock all constitutes a weapon. Actions or Riding Bean: The latest subtitled tape at once. Shocking, isn't it? behavior which interfere with the commercially available, this fast-paced Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Now, enjoyment of the Convention by high-tech car-chase combines the best of across the ocean and back a few hun­ other attendees will also result in James Bond and the Blues Brothers. dred centuries to the Chinese civil war. revocation of membership with­ Akira Production Report: Details the This epic follows the early career of the out compensation. Please re­ making of Akira, the biggest budgeted great warlord. member, if in doubt, ask us. Japanese animated movie yet! The En­ As in years past, we will be providing Filking: Please cover any re­ glish translation of the film is making the narration for stuff that's so new it hasn't vealing costumes in the public rounds of art theaters. had time to be subtitled yet. This time areas of the hotel - the Lobby/ The majority of our subtitled offerings around, Nadia ("The Secret of Blue Registration areas, the Bar and were done by fans for fans. These include Water") is the hottest new TV series in Restaurants. such popular offerings as: Japan. Lodoss Wars ("The Japanese Drinking: Please Note: Ranma 1/2: Gonzo martial arts/ro- Dungeons & Dragons") cross the "lan­ Connecticut's legal drinking age mance/comedy replete with ancient guage barrier" with ease. Devilman (parts is 21. The hotel's restaurant's will Chinese water curses. I and II) is from Go Nagai, Japan's check IDs. Alcohol may not be Five Star Stories: Imperial intrigue! answer to Stephen King, Michael served at open parties - and you Secret identities! Bad character designs! Moorcock, and Alan Moore, all wrapped will be asked to close down if it is. Art-deco Giant Robots! And, what about up in one masterof the macabre. Godzilla An open party is one that is open Maomi? vs. Biollante is the latest live action monster to all Convention members and is romp zn' stomp. "No more Mr. Nice advertised openly at the Con. A Monster," comes up against Bio-lante, a closed party is not advertised, is lovecraftian horror of genetic engineer­ invitational in nature and runs ing gone mad, set loose by an industrial behind closed doors. espionage shadow war. Convention Badges: You must The Japanese Animation Room will be wear your Lunacon badge to all open these hours during the convention. Convention activities. Friday: 7 p.m. - 1 a.m. And, of course, always be con­ Saturday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., siderate of your fellow attendees 5 p.m. - 1 1 p.m. Midnight - 3 a.m. and other hotel guests. Sunday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Thank you. Once again, we have dealers in two The hours for the Dealers Room are: locations, our Dealers Room (Rainbow) Friday: 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Registration is several tables larger than last year's, Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. filled with books (new and used), com­ Sunday: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Registration is in the second floor ics, posters, jewelry and more. Dealers The dealers in Dealers' Row set their lobby area. Hours are: Row is on the second floor, rooms 221 / own hours. Please remember to visit all Friday: 3 p.m. - 9 p.m. 223/225. of our "feelthy" hucksters. Saturday: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. -1 p.m. Lost Badges: If you lose your badge: 1) Check with Member Services to see if it has been turned in there. 2) If it has not been turned in at Member Services, check with Reg­ istration. If the badge was not turned in, a replacement will cost $5. (There is no badge replacement on Friday. Your first opportunity to obtain a replacement badge will be 9 a.m. Saturday. This means that if you lose your badge Friday, you won't PROGHHUI unacon '91 will present several featuring a science track of program­ be able to attend any convention tracks of programming featur­ ming. Our special Science Speaker is activities on Friday night.) ing our Guests of Honor - John Prof. Gerald Feinberg from Columbia 3) If you lose your badge a sec­ Brunner, Kelly Freas, Ian and University, a leading light in particle ond time, you will be charged $10 Betty Ballantine, Harry Stubbs (betterphysics and a fan from way back. (As a for your final replacement badge. known as Hal Clement) and Dr. Geraldstudent at Bronx High School of Science You will not receive a third replace­ Feinberg - and a host of others. There arein the '40s, he and two friends put out a ment badge. □lots of familiar faces, new faces and fanzine. They went on to win a Nobel If you find a lost badge, please friends we haven't seen at Lunacon for Prize in Physics, while Dr. Feinberg has turn it in to Member Services or many years. gone on to be Lunacon '91's Science Registration. You'll make someone Our Program this year is especially Speaker.) Also on our science schedule very happy. varied, with something for every fannish is a presentation on stargazing with Hal interest. Highlights include our ever- Clement, as well as talks on Supernovae popular "Midnight Horror Panel," a and "Sports on Mars." "Midnight HumorPanel" (and no, they're Special Interests: Representatives from balcony, and will be happy to talk with notalways the same thing), performances a variety of SF fan groups and organiza­ you about their groups. Please check the of three original SF plays, a three-hour tions of interest to SF fans have set up Convention newszine for a list of groups marathon reading from works by R.A. information tables on the second floor present and their schedules. Lafferty (Saturday 2-5 p.m.), a tribute to the late Donald A. Wollheim (Saturday, attendees consider our Book 2-3 p.m.), and SF salutes to New York Raffle to be one of the high­ and Connecticut. You'll find panels on lights of Lunacon and what comics and costuming, romance and the rallying cry "Kill Seth!" is religion, the Middle Ages and both all about. Raffle tickets are generations of Star Trek. In addition, Booh EHhibit fifty cents each, five for $2 or there will be two dozen artists panels, 250 for $ 100, and are avail­ slide presentations^ sketch off, art able at the Book Exhibit and workshops and demonstrations. Main at member Services. The Book programming will be in the Commodore Exhibit is located in the Co­ Ballroom (old-time Lunacon attendees lumbia Room, and its hours may smile nostalgically atthe name), the are from: Enterprise Room (but none of our Trek Friday: 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. programming... most illogical), the Saturday: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. America Room, the Freedom Prefunction This year's Book Exhibit will again fea­ Sunday: 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Room, and Rooms 231 and 233/235. ture books by prominent SF ana Fantasy Check the Pocket Program for schedul­ authors, as well as free magazine subscriptions, games and computer The Raffle drawing will begin after 2 ing. p.m., Sunday in the Commodore Science: For the first time, Lunacon is software, and a painting donated by Eileen Madison. Find out why some Stevens/Vanderbilt Ballrooms. FMZIHE

PHIRT we SHOPcannot accept foreign checks. Over the last few years, Lunacon's Art BeforeLOlinGE there were SF Conven­ Show has become one of the highest The Print Shop: Multiple copies of SF art quality SF Convention Art Shows in the reproductions will be offered for sale at the tions, and before there were Northeast. Our expanded art show is in the Print Shop at fixed prices. Less expensive computer nets, there were Freedom Ballroom. Our new location en­ copies of some pieces of original art, fanzines...and there still are. ables us to display more works by many pieces marked "NFS" or pieces whose For the first time, Lunacon is professional and amateur artists than ever originals are not displayed can usually be sponsoring a Fanzine Lounge. before. There are approximately 110 found for sale in the Print Shop. The Print It's in Room 226. panels of original artwork, 10 tables for 3- Shop will be open the same hours as the Art Take a look at fanzines and D art, and a larger Print Shop. show. APAs of the past and present. Attendees will be able to place bids on Photography: To protect the artists' rights, Hang out and socialize with most artwork in the Art Show. (Pieces not for no photography will be permitted in the Art fanzine fans and writers. (Dave sale are marked "NFS.") The Art Auction Show, except for supervised press photog­ Kyle says you can sit there.) will take place Sunday, from noon to 2 raphy. You will not be allowed to brina a Find out who sawed Courtney's p.m., in the Commodore Stevens/ camera into the Art Show unless it is sealed boat. Vanderbilt Ballrooms. Before Bidding, ei­ in a bag. ther at the Auction or by written bid, you Awards: All Convention attendees are must have a bidder number. To obtain one, eligible to vote for the Best Professional fill out a bidder registration form at the Art Artist and Best Amateur Artist Awards. Show desk. You will be given a copy of the Ballots are available at the art show desk bidding rules for the Art Show. Sale of and must be turned in by 8 pm on Satur­ original art is normally by written bid. day. Other awards will be chosen by a Bidding will end at 11am Sunday and panel of judges. those pieces receiving seven written bids Hours: Friday: 8 p.m. -10 p.m. will go to auction. All purchases must be Saturday: 10 a.m. -10 p.m. picked up no later than 4 p.m. Sunday. Sunday: 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. Checks, MasterCard and Visa (with proper Noon - 2 p.m. Auction (Commodore ID), along with the always-popular cash, Stevens/Vanderbilt Ballrooms) will be accepted for purchases. However, 12:30p.m.-3 p.m. Art Show Sales and Print Shop

Filksinging, a form of science Autographs B Rleetthe fiction and fantasy-based folk singing, is scheduled to begin Friday night in the America Room after 11 p.m., and will continue all day (and night) Saturday and Sunday in the Filksinging Lounge, This year it's even easier to meet your the schedule of autograph sessions. Or Room 209. Filksong collections favorite pros. Autographing by program bring your books to the Friday night and tapes are available in the participants is in the second floor lobby "Meet the Program Participants" ex­ Dealers' Room. area. There will be two autograph travaganza. Our theme is the alternate sessions with Guest of Honor John world of the Sovereign Republic of Brunner, one on Saturday the other Connecticut. Your Lunacon badge is Sunday. Check the Con Newszine for your passport. The most powerful name in SF&F takes wing!

ROBERT ADAMS MEL GILDEN KEVIN O'DONNELL, JR. BRIAN ALDISS SHEILA GILLULY MICHAEL PEAK KEVIN J. ANDERSON GREER ILENE GILMAN TERRY PRATCHETT POUL ANDERSON STEPHEN GOLDIN W.T QUICK ISAAC ASIMOV & MARY MASON GAR & JUDY REEVES-STEVENS ROBIN BAILEY ROLAND J. GREEN JOEL ROSENBERG NEIL BARRETT, JR. SIMON GREEN KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH BATTLETECH ELYSE GUTTENBERG R.A.V. SALSITZ GAEL BAUDINO ROBERTA. HEINLEIN RA. SALVATORE PETER BEAGLE BRIAN HERBERT & SHADOWRUN THE BEST OF TREK MARIE LANDIS ROBERT SHECKLEY PIERRE BOULLE CHRISTOPHER HINZ RICK SHELLEY ARTHUR C CLARKE JACK HOLLAND ROBERT SILVERBERG MICHAEL GREATREX CONEY K.W. JETER MICHELE SLUNG GLEN COOK GUY GAVRIEL KAY MICHAEL STACKPOLE HUGH COOK M. BRADLEY KELLOGG JIM STARLIN & DAINA GRAZIUNAS MATTHEW COSTELLO PATRICIA KENNEALY JOHN STEAKLEY JOHN DEAKINS URSULA K. LeGUIN BRAD STRICKLAND SAMUEL R. DELANY STEPHEN LEIGH THEODORE STURGEON CHARLES DeLINT BARRY B. LONGYEAR BORIS & DORIS VALLEJO EMILY DEVENPORT DAN McGIRT JULES VERNE WILLIAM C. DIETZ dennis l. McKiernan JOAN D. VINGE GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER R.M. MELUCH LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS PHYLLIS EISENSTEIN ROBERT METZGER H.G. WELLS HARLAN ELLISON EDWARD MEYERS T.H. WHITE BILL FAWCETT AA. MILNE ROBERT ANTON WILSON WILLIAM FORSTCHEN JANET & CHRIS MORRIS WILLIAM WU ESTHER M. FRIESNER SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU JANNY WURTS MARY GENTLE MURPHY LAWRENCE YEP ANDRE NORTON ROGER ZELAZNY RoC SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY Penguin USA members who work at least 8 hours (anyone who helps out Thursday or Sunday evenings will receive additional time credit) will be given a Convention t- shirt, featuring a design by our Artist Guest of Honor, Kelly Freas. If you want fieiusZinB to help, please come to our staff room in Room 234. It's open: All open parties registered with Lunacon is run entirely by volunteers. Friday: 3 p.m. - Midnight Member Services, along with We need help in running most areas of Saturday: 8 a.m. - Midnight program changes and other infor­ the Convention, including the Art Show, Sunday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. mation of note, will be listed in our Con Suite, Registration, Logistics and Before you may work on the Conven­ on-site newszine, tentatively called Member Services. We particularly need tion, you need to sign the Legal Release LunaConn.Man. Items for the help Sunday night for the Art Show tear­ form. If you are under 1 8, a parent or newszine may be left with Mem­ down and Convention move-out. Staff legal guardian must sign. ber Services or with the editor, Brian Burley in room 230. Copies will be available at spots through­ out the convention. Information & Sales Member Services: Anyone who needs help or information at the Convention will find it available at the Member Services desk in the hallway near Registration. Please remember: Member Services is not Registration. Member Services is the place to leave messages on our Message Board, turn in or reclaim lost property, place party announcements or other items in our newsletter, request start-up supplies (seeding) for parties, check AmTrak and Metro-North.train schedules, pick up a copy of our Restaurant Guide, or coordinate handicapped services. Sales: For attendees who would like to purchase Book Raffle tickets or a Lunacon '91 t-shirt, or various t-shirts ana jerseys from past Lunacons, the Sales office is located in the Coat Room.

Masquerade will be held on Saturday night, beginning at approximately 10 Our two gaming p.m., immediately following John rooms (May­ masquerade Brunner's Guest of Honor speech in the flower I and II) Commodore Douglas/Stevens/ will offer a wide The Masquerade is one of the most Vanderbilt ballrooms. It will be run ac­ variety of SF and popular events at Lunacon. This year's cording to the guidelines of the Interna­ Fantasy board tional Costumers Guild. We will have games and role­ lighting and sound systems available; no playing games. microphones will be used on stage. If a Lunacon will again hold a RPGA-sanc- weapon is a necessary part of a costume, tioned tournament. Also featured is a it may be worn in the Masquerade only. D&D-type game called Barroom Brawl. There will be two photo areas - one Other games likely to be held are lighted for tungsten film with a neutral Battletech, Car Wars and board games gray backdrop and one for flash with a like Nuclear War. Sign-up is on a first sky blue backdrop. come first served basis with no registra­ This year, Lunacon welcomes hall tion fee. Regular gaming will run 24 costumes and will be awarding Ribbons hours a day, starting at 3 p.m. Friday for Outstanding Hall Costumes. and ending Sunday evening. Also, consult the Pocket Program for Please note that due to a scheduling the times and locations of panels and conflict, Dreamport, the live fantasy role­ workshops on costume creation and playing game previously announced, presentation. will not be run.) •4am (§? Betty Ballantine - BY TOM DOHERTY

hey a re giants, these for their pioneering work in mass-market its parent. Ian and Betty would go on to two. More than paperbacks, and this is of course true. found the biggest of all mass-market anyone else, they But I suggest to you that this is a very publishers, Bantam, and then of course have made reading narrow view. They are publishers who Ballantine. There they would begin in the accessible to the brought the finest authors of their time to country's most important science fiction general public. the widest possible audience. The program. When they started American Penguin the Ballantines cre­ I first met Ian in a warehouse in Phila­ American Penguin ated spun off New American Library, delphia. I was checking stock for a in 1939, there were about 2,000 retail which years later would recombine with competing publisher, ana he stopped to establishments car­ rying books in this country. Perhaps 500 or them could regularly pay their bills. If you wanted a book, you went downtown, and the town had to be ei­ ther one of some sizeor some wealth. Now, books are ev­ erywhere. More than 100,000 re­ tailers display them. The Ballantines shipped their first books a month after Pocket, in 1939. Before then, the mass-market paper­ back did not exist. In 1939, less than twelve million Americans regu­ larly read books. The figure now ap­ proaches one hun­ dred million. I have heard the Ballantines praised talk to me. I was a young kid salesman, darn fine books, and operated success­ months, we shipped over eight hundred and he was already a legend, but he fully for many years until finally being thousand copies of Beagle Books, which found time to take me to lunch. The folded back into Ballantine when Ran­ was a forerunner of today's romance conversation was fascinating. He made dom House acquired the company. imprints. It was a highly successful ven­ me think in ways that would not have My fondest memory of Ian Ballantine ture for a number of years - all conceived occurred to me. I don't think Ian remem­ goes back to a sweltering hot day at a by Ian on a sweltering afternoon at the bers it, but for me it was a milestone. Washington, D.C. A.B.A. Convention A.B.A. Years later, I would have a chance to in the early '70s. The book division of Now this just boggles my mind! I can't work for him on a regular basis. I was our company had two major publishers imagine anybody envisaging, creating, Field Sales Manager for Pocket Books, that were distributed. Through a merger, contracting for, selling, and shipping an and we distributed Ballantine at the we lost both distribution contracts within entire new line in so short a period. time. The line was a delight. Already a matter of weeks. This left me with a Certainly, nobody I've ever know but the dominant in such contrasting fields as twenty-rep field force and no books to Ballantines would even attempt it. but for modern history and science fiction, they distribute. I was in the process of drown­ them it's always something new, and the were the first to see fantasy as a major category for adults. Only a few fantasy titles were published in a year. When we went out to sell it as a continuing I have heard the Ballantines praised program, most customers thought we were crazy. Then Tolkien sold seven million copies. It was the most innova­ for their pioneeringwork in mass­ tive program in publishing. Strong nov­ els, sure, but other publishers did strong marketpaperbacks, and this is of novels. Ian took the big risk, and often won big. He did non-fiction on subjects of inter­ course true. But I suggest to you that national concern, mass-market paper­ backs like "The Population Bomb," and, perhaps the biggest risk of all, the Sierra this is a very narrow view. They are Club exhibit format (trade paperback) series, wonderful books like "In Wild­ ness is the Preservation of the World," publishers who brought thefinest with full color on almost every page. If I remember correctly, we shipped over a authors of their time to the quarter-million copies of that first book in the series. It was an unbelievable gamble. If you took heavy returns on widestpossible audience. something so expensive to produce, it could cost you a fortune. But they be­ lieved in the book, and they believed in the public who would buy such books. ing my sorrows in several bottles of icy question is never "Can it be done?" - it's This is one of the great things about Heineken at a sidewalk cafe in D.C. "If it's worth doing, what's the best way Ian and Betty Ballantine: they believe on when up walked Ian Ballantine, a man I to do it?" Whether it is Betty editing a grand scale, and they make it work. hardly knew at that time. bestsellers by Shirley Melaine or writing They paid authors double the prevailing I poured out all of my misery to Ian, the text of art books by Charles Wysacki, rate from the beginning. They invented who joined me in the Heinekens. After I whether it's the pair of them working the hard/soft deal, and used it regu­ had explained my predicament to him, together on "Understanding Cancer" or larly, twenty years before the rest of the he said, with that famous Ballantine Yaeger's autobiography, or Ian's ask­ industry. (In a hard/soft deal, the author wink, that I had in my predicament an ing Fred Pohl to do the definitive book on makes full royalty from both the hard­ incredible opportunity. Then, in a few Chernobyl, or the new Air & Space cover and paperback editions, rather more Heinekens' time, he convinced me series, or the unbelievable success of than splitting the paperback royalty with that within three months, my company their Bev Doolittle project. the hardcover publisher.) They believed could be shipping one hundred thou­ To know the Ballantines has been a there was a market for books well sand to four hundred thousand copies of series of amazements and delights, a beyond what was accepted by ninety- each of six titles in a brand new book rare privilege, and an unending educa­ nine out of a hundred of their contem­ line. He immediately gave his dream the tion. poraries. They believed in sales and name of Beagle Books. marketing, and in the people who did The next day, we confirmed our con­ Tom Doherty is Publisher at Tor Books the sales and marketing. My friend versation of the long night before, and, based in New York City. He was Ralph Arnote likes to tell the story of how sure enough, Ian was dead serious. Lunacon's Publisher Guest of Honor last Ian created Beagle Books, a company He made a couple of trips to Britain to year. that saved a sales force, published some secure books and cover material. In four But he laughed, explaining to me, as I picked up his bag and carried it back with him toward my apartment: "When I got here last night and you weren't answering your door (your superinten­ dent let me in, so I could go up to your flat—that very nice Polisn woman), I confess, I got a little worried. I thought John Brunner about waiting for you—so I went down and sat on your stoop. And while I was U BYSAMUELR. DELANY sitting there, this young man came down the street, over there, saw me, and asked An anecdote to give you just a bit about Park me what I was doing. So I told him I was him: And view the Zoological Gardens ... waiting for you. He had the longest, very On one of his too-rare trips to this And just one more: blond hair—do you know him?" country, John did a reading of one of his After that first meeting with John in "I don't think so," I said. science fiction short stories over WBAI- London, when I'd returned to the States "Well, he lives right over there." We'd FM in New York City. "But do you and—a couple of months later—I'd been stopped on my stoop, and John nodded know." the astonished producer told me, away from my New York apartment a across the street. "He was very kind— a few days later, "he read for forty-five day or so, as I was returning home, and told me that I could stay at his place. minutes and didn't make one mistake— coming back up the street, I noticed a We finally arranged it that I'd wait for not one cough, not a stutter, not a missed vaguely familiar man crossina over, you another hour, and if you didn't show word or false start from the beginning to wearing a yellow short-sleeved shirt and up, he'd come back and get me. And the end? Now everybody makes mistaKes carrying a tan suitcase. you didn't. And he did. So I spent the when they read for more than five or ten I was walking, watching, when he saw night right over there, on a mattress in a minutes. Everybody! I mean, that's why me and hallood—in an English accent. second floor flat." He nodded at another we record these things—so we can edit I frowned. tenement across the street. "You prob­ out the glitches. But with John, there "Hello!" he called again. "That's you, ably know him." weren'tany! We could have gone directly Chip—isn't it?" "I probably do," I said, "at least by on the air live.!" "John . . . ?" I called. And here's another: It looked like.. .John When I first met John in 1966 in Brunner. Then, stirring London, I knew him only through a in the nether mists of handful of the novels he'd published as memory, I began to Keith Woodcott—and a single, very recall a letter, from nice note he'd sent me about one of my sometime in the previ­ own books. I hadn't actually answered ous two weeks, men­ his letter. tioning that he'd be What I did—one blowy, late-March coming over for World afternoon, after two days on the Orient Con and the Milford SF Express, another hitch-hiking, and a night Writers Conference— on the couch of a friend of a friend—was and asking could he ring the bell of John's ground floor Lon­ stay with me for his few don flat. days in New York, be­ "Hello. My name is Chip; and you fore he went out to Cleveland, where the sight." Only I never did learn who John's don't really know me, but..." But I was worldcon (Tricon) was being held that good Samaritan was. The moment is still welcomed warmly by John and his wife year. one of my greatest embarrassments with and plied with sherry, peanuts, and But in the general confusion of my John; that ne was so generous in forgiv­ biscuits. There hadn't been much op­ hectic life just then, all dates and plans ing me for it makes him a compassionate portunity for washing in the previous had fled my head—and I'd forgotten! man, indeed! week, and a few minutes later I was As I walked upto him, I said: "John, I'm But enough of anecdotes for the invited in the most unassuming and so glad I caught you! I didn't remember nonce—though if I conclude by saying friendly way to use their shower, if I what time you were coming. How long that John is a precise and warm-hearted wanted to. have you been here?" man, you'll understand that, even though And I did. John put his suitcase down on the these are traits that don't usually to And a bit after that, I recall us all sitting sidewalk. "Since last night, at about together, in John they dovetail beautifully. in a smoky London folk club, upstairs five—actually." But he was smiling. But what of John the writer? from a pleasant pub, while John sang out "You mean you had to go to a hotel for Certainly in his early-sixties SF novel with everyone else— the night? Oh John!" I was mortified. The Whole Man took the idea of "ad­ Thunder and lightening is no lark "No," he said. "Actually, I stayed right vanced powers" and gave it the most When Dublin City is in the dark. here." mature treatment it had ever yet received If you've got any money, go up to the Now I was bewildered. in science fiction. It was followed by a whole series of big, ambitious novels— itself) really belonged to John. to me. It pleases me terribly that all of you Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, An amazing mind, an amazing man. here at Lunacon '91 will get to know him The Sheep Look Up, and Shock Wave I'm honored—and warmly happy—to a bit better, not just from his always Rider—that took hold of big, ambitious be able to write a few words about a entertaining and provocative books— themes and wrested from them powerful writer and friend who's meant so much but from the whole man himself. and pointed statements, placing them in powerful and moving dialogue with the most pressing problems of our time. And BIBLIOGRAPHY John's novel [it]Quicksand,[ro] soon af­ Also writes as John Loxmith and Keith Woodcott. British, b. 1934. ter, is still the most deeply haunting tale Novels/Short stories, Science fiction, Plays/Screenplays, Poetry, Songs, lyrics and of time-travel to appear in the range of libretti. Owner and Dir., Brunner Fact and Fiction Ltd., since 1966. science fiction. Contributing Ed., Sanity (CND journal), 1965-73. John was the first person to tell me that fandom even existed; back in that first Pubis: Stand on Zanzibar, 1968; trip to London, he took me to one of the Echo in the Skull, 1959; Catch a Falling Star, 1968; Thursday night fannish gatherings at the Threshold of Eternity, 1959; Father of Lies, 1968; old Globe Pub. And he told me about The World Swappers, 1959; Not Before Time, 1968; science fiction conventions here in the The Hundredth Millennium, 1959s; The Avengers of Carrig, 1969; States and urged me to attend one. The Brink, 1959; Double, Double, 1969; Here's something that, I believe, does The Atlantic Abomination, 1960; The Jagged Orbit, 1969; Sanctuary in the Sky, 1960; reflect on John Brunner the writer. Talk­ Timescoop, 1969; The Skynappers, 1960; The Evil mat Men Do, 1969; ing about the smartest person you've Slavers of Space, 1960; Black Is the Colour, 1969; ever met is something kids do and, given (as Keith Woodcott) I Speak for Earth, A Plague on Both Your Causes (in U.S. the range of human cultures, always a 1961; as Backlash), 1969; culture-bound phenomenon—and thus Meeting at Infinity, 1961; The Gaudy Shadows, 1970; just not that smart. Nevertheless, John is (as Keith Woodcott) The Ladder in the Sky, Good Men Do Nothing, 1970; one of the three or four most widely 1962; The Devil's Work, 1970; informed people about the widest range Secret Agent of terra, 1962; Life in an Explosive Forming Press (po­ of topics that I have ever run into in The Super Barbarians, 1962; etry), 1970; what's getting on to fifty years, now. That Times Without Number, 1962, 1969; The Dramaturges of Yan, 1971; No Future in It, 1962; The Wrong End of Time, 1971; breadth of information again and again The Astronauts Must Not Land, 1963; The Traveler in Black, 1971; informs his work, right through his most Castaways'World, 1963; Honky in the Woodpile, 1971; recent novels, with weight, interest, and The Dreaming Earth, 1963; Trip (poetry), 1971; resonance. Listen! The Stars!, 1963; The Sheep Look Up, 1972; Well, I do have one more story: (as Keith Woodcott) The Psionic Menace, The Stararoppers, 1972; A few weeks after we almost missed 1963; Entry to Elsewhen, 1972; each other on his visit to New York, The Rites of Ohe, 1963; From This Day Forward, 1972; when we were both attending the Milford The Space Time Juggler, 1963; Age of Miracles, 1973; Science Fiction Writers Conference down Endless Shadow, 1964; More Things in Heaven, 1973; at the wonderfully baroque house of To Conquer Chaos, 1964; The Stone That Never Came Down, The Whole Man (in U.K. as Telepath), 1973; Damon Knight, John took a short story I'd 1964; Time-jump, 1973; just completed and pointed out that the The Crutch of memory, 1964; Total Eclipse, 1974; term I'd used for my central characters— The Altar on Asconel, 1965; Web of Everywhere, 1974; "froiks"—was almost unpronounceable, Day of the Star Cities, 1965; The Shockwave Rider, 1975; and muddled further by the fact that Enigma from Tantalus, 1965; The Book of John Brunner, 1976; some of the characters were French and, The Long Result, 1965; Interstellar Empire, 1976; in French, "oi" gets pronounced like a (as Keith Woodcott) The Martian Sphinx, Tomorrow May Be Even Worse (verse), "w." Itwould simply distract, ifnotmystify, 1965; 1978; any reader with the faintest knowledge The Repairmen of Cyclops, 1965; Foreign Constellations, 1980; of the Gallic language. Why not use The Squares of the City, 1965; The Infinitive of Go, 1980; Wear the Butchers' Medal, 1965; Players at the Game of People, 1981; "frelk?" suggested John. Then he pro­ Now Then, 1965; The Crucible of Time, 1983; ceeded to go over the rest of the story, A Planet of Your Own, 1966; The Great Stemboat Race, 1983; word by word, suggesting that I cut, No Other Gods But Me, 1966; A New Settlement of Old Scores (songs), rearrange, or replace a good number of Born Under Mars, 1967; 1983; them—all of which suggestions were The Productions of Time, 1967; The Tides of Time, 1984; clearly right and which I took. A year or Quicksand, 1967; The Complect Traveller in Black, 1986; so later when the same story won a Out of My Mind, 1967; The Shift Key, 1987; Nebula Award from the Science Fiction Bedlam Planet, 1968; The Best of John Brunner (stories), 1988; Writers of America for Best SF Short Into the Slave Nebula, 1968; Story, I couldn't help thinking that a few cubic inches in that beautiful block of crystal-shot lucits (which is the award An Appreciation of Frank Kelly Freas by Teresa C. Minambres

I first met Frank Kelly Freas in a relaxacon bombers while in the Army Air Corps, In total his has received ten Hugos, a in Toronto in the late 1970's. At the designed the crew insignia for Skylab Frank R. Paul Award, Boston's Skylark, time, I was fairly new in the Science One and was NASA artist for Apollo- Moscon's Lensman, the Phoenix Award Fiction Community and had not yet Soyuz, many covers for Ace doubles, for DeepSouthCon (1982), the Inkpot associated the artists with their work. cover art for Daw, Signet, Ballantine, Award, the Rova, the Daedalos Award Therefore, when I met him and his wife Avon, all 67 Laser Books, and many and many others. . Polly, I had no idea how celebrated he other publishers. He was also editor Frank Kelly Freas has also been named was. All I got from that first meeting was and artist for the Donning/Starblaze that here were two very giving and Editions. friendly people. However, it was not This background and his inate sense long before I was told just who Kelly of adventure are readily seen in Kelly Freas was and realized that I had ad­ Freas's work. His work appeals to the mired his art for years. heart of the viewer. He creates a world Kelly has a very distinctive style. His which is always calling to us. His art has a sense of movement and depth, paintings make us stop and view and coupled with a sensuality that is uniquely review. his trademark. It is these qualities that In November of 1950, Frank Kelly make his artwork timeless. Freas' artwork was introduced to the As a young man, Kelly studied engi­ Science Fiction community when WEIRD neering and medicine before becoming TALES magazine appeared with one of an artist. He brought a wealth of his works as its cover. However, when knowledge and experience to the sci­ the 1950's come to mind, it is with the ence fiction field. His talent and back­ legendary editor, John W. Campbell, ground have enabled Kelly to excel in and ANALOG'S "golden era" that Kelly's different genres. Kelly has done pho­ name is associated. From 1955 through tography, advertising, industrial illustra­ 1959 Kelly won four consecutive Hugos. tion, religious paintings (500 portraits A feat he was to repeat and surpass of saints for the Franciscans), cartoons several years later. (Alfred E. Neuman for MAD maga­ Over the years, Kelly has become the zine), beautiful women on the noses of recipient of many prestigious awards. However, when the 1950s come to mind, it is ANALOGS’ “golden era ’ ’ that Kelly's name is associated. From 1955 through 1959 Kelly won four consecutive Hugos. A feat he was to repeat and Dean Of Science Fiction Artists. This title Freas; the new fits him particularly well, since as a style was his fa­ surpass several years later. ” science fiction artist, Kelly has no peers. mous robot For over forty years, his work has influ­ painting. In this enced fellow artists and been the inspira­ painting of a tion for aspiring artists in the science robot that does fiction fiela. If imitation is the highest not understand form of praise, then Kelly has been the physical frailty of man, we see one early 70s, it was also picked as the cover praised over and over and over again. of Kelly's signature pieces. The robot, for the CAMPBELL ASTOUNDING ME­ However, no one has ever duplicated raising questioning eyes while holding MORIAL ANTHOLOGY. The painting the fire and soul in his work. the dying soldier in his bloodied hand, was so admired by some British fans of As so many of his paintings have displays human feelings. He is con­ Kelly's that they requested a new version proven, Frank Kelly Freas is (to coin a fused, worried and a bit frightened; all be done for an album they were produc­ phrase) an artist for all seasons. In 1953 this from a machine. To date, this ing. The album was NEWS OF THE at the WORLDCON in Philadelphia, painting has remained "new". In the WORLD (1977) and the group was there was mention of a "new artist" who past four decades it has again and QUEEN. The robot in this instance had was doing work "in a new style" The again graced the covers of books, two renditions, an outside cover and an new artist mentioned was Frank Kelly magazines and record albums. In the interior spread. Later, in the early 80's, it would become the cover for the NEW REPUBLIC magazine. Kelly Freas' love of life, the universe and science fiction is clearly depicted in his art. In the book THE ART OF SCI­ ENCE FICTION, Kelly sums up his feel­ ings in the following words: "Science fiction really does have a message to convey, and that is simply the fact that it is a very big and withal a very beautiful universe, however often the beauty may be obscured by real, present ugfiness. And there will always be a need for artists to putter around the edges of reality ana point out their perception of its beauty and its wonder. The universe, like a lovely woman, needs comprehen­ sion, not conquest: both can be best enjoyed by being understood. So enjoy. And remember that enjoying art is part of enjoying life. Remember too, that the verb 'to enjoy' means 'to put joy into'." Kelly has "put joy into" not only his life but the lives of those who he befriends. He is always eager to discover new talent and to help them make a name for themselves in a very tough and demand­ ing field. Kelly is not only a great artist he is a great person. I have never known him to turn away a friend in need and to this I can personally attest. When my aunt was stricken with cancer, it was Polly and Kelly who called me to offer advice and a shoulder to lean on. Polly herself was carrying around the same time bomb. They still found the time and strength to help me and to lend me their strength. After my aunt passed away, Kelly helped push me out of the doldrums and told me to look into myself for the strength to go forward. Very soon after that advice was given, Polly passed on and Kelly had to look into himself and go forward He is a remarkably strong man and rather than consoling himself with his friends, Kelly went forward to put joy into his life. It was this strength and resolve that led Kelly to a new lire and a new bride. Laura Brodian Kelly-Freas has brought new joy into Kelly's life and is his artistic partner as well as his life's partner. Since 1950 Kelly has touched the minds and hearts or science fiction fans everywhere, and it is fitting that we take “Because Bm a knight and the time to honor him and thank him for all the beauty he has brought into our world. Whenever possible in the past, you 're a dragon !” Kelly has given his support and exhib­ ited at Lunacon. It is fitting that now Lunacon and the Lunarianstake this year PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS AT LUNACON Roger MacBride Allen Craig Shaw Gardner Pamela Murray Susan Anderson Roberta Gellis Eugene Mydlowski Lou Aronica Alexis Gilliland Patrick Nielson Hayden Constance Ash Laura Anne Gilman Teresa Nielson Hayden Ellen Asher Ron Goulart David Nighbert to honor him and thank him for all those AJ. Austin Steven Gould Valerie Ontell Charles Grant years. For myself, I would like to add my Jim Baen John J. Ordover Betty Ballantine Geary Gravel John Ortiz, Jr. thanks for all the years of friendship, Ian Ballantine Sharon Green Susan Palwick help, laughter and love which he has so Bryn Barnard P.M. Griffin Paul Park generously and freely given. Jill Bauman James Gurney John Peel Congratulations, Kelly! And thanks for John Bentacourt David Harris Laurie Perkins creating so much beauty that you en­ Terry Bisson David Hartwell J.J. Pierce Mark Blackman Daniel Hatch Andrew Porter sured your public would "put joy into" N. Taylor Blanchard Rick Hautala Susan Protter their lives yesterday, today and tomor­ Margaret Bonanno Peter Heck Madeline Robins row. F. Alexander Brejcha Tim Hildebrandt Alan Rodgers Teresa Minambres is a New York City- John Brunner Debra Hogun Roberta Rogow based fan; member of ASF A, the Horror Ginger Buchanon Alexandra Honigsberg Christopher Schelling Writers of America, and the Dorsaii Lonny Buinis David Honigsberg Arlen Schumer Linda Bushyager Bob Howe Susan Schwartz /regulars. She was chairman ofLunaCon Patricia Campbell Jael Julius Schwartz in 1985. Thomas Canty Nicholas Jainshigg Darrell Schweitzer Editor's Note: Frank Kelly Freas is Jean Cavelos Lawrence Jenifer Lawrence Schwinger presently directing the illustration of the Paul Chadwick Sharon Jarvis Tom Sciaccia L. Ron Hubbard "Writers of the Future" Jack Chalker Frank Javor Eluki Bes Shahar anthologies. He also is Coordinating Carol Chase Jane Jewel Barclay Shaw Bryan Cholfin Kevin Johnson Josepha Sherman Judge of the L. Ron Hubbard "Illustrators Donald Clavette Ki jJohnson Jane Sibley of the Future" contest which offers quar­ Hal Clement Marsha Jones John Silbersack terly prizes and an opportunity to illus­ Matthew Costello Marvin Kaye Janna Silverstein trate an upcoming volume of "Writers of Bruce Coville Don Keller Courtney Skinner the Future." He is, of course, always on John Coyne Mark Kennedy John Paul Slater the lookout for potential illustrators dis­ Kathryn Cramer Tom Kidd Craig Specter Nancy Cucci Robert Killheffer Mark St. Germain playing in science fiction convention art Chris Curry Rosemary Kirstein Marion Stensgard shows. Richard Curtis Romas Kukalis David Stephens Author and illustrator of the books "The Don D'Amassa Lissanne Lake Lynne Stephens Astounding Fifties," "Frank Kelly Freas: Hank Davis Eleanor Lang Ken Sterling The Art of Science Fiction," and "A Tom DeHaven Jody Lee Amy Stout Separate Star," as well as a number of Philip DeParto John Lee Ian Strouck Joseph DeVito Tina Lee Harry C. Stubbs magazine articles, Kelly now resides in Samuel Delany Evelyn Leeper Michael Stutzman Los Angeles. Charles Dockerty Solomon Lichtenberg Darrell Sweet Thomas Doherty Victoria Poyser Lisi Bradley Teare John Douglas Denise Little Alan Terry Debra Doyle Jerry LoFaro Robert Thurston Jan Duursema Diane Luger Jane Tombs Doris Egan Donald Maass John Upton Bob Eagleton James MacDonald Boris Vallejo Carol Emshwiller Ricia Mainhardt Dorian Vallejo Peter Emshwiller Barry Malzberg Doris Vallejo Katherine Falk Thomas Mandrake Gordon Van Gelder A.C. Farley Marcia Marshal George Vlachos Brendon Faulkner David Mattingley Ken Von Gunden Robin Faulkner Shawna McCarthy Ron Walotsky Gregory Feeley Patricia McKillip James Warhola Gerold Feinberg Roberta Mendelson Jamie Warren Lionel Fenn Ed Meskys Lawrence Watt-Evans Michael Flynn Craig Miller Toni Weisskopf H. Bruce Franklin Judith Mitchell Michael Whelan Frank Kelly Freas Howard Mittlemack Shiela Williams Jeri Freedman Laura Mixon Joan Winston Jim Freund John Montrie Claire Wolfe Mary Frey Rowena Morrill Betsy Wollheim Michael Jan Friedman Patricia Morrissey Elsie Wollheim C.S. Friedman James Morrow Jack Womack

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Please make all checks, etc., payable to Dragon Press. P.O. Box 78, Pleasantville, NY 10570. It was beyond the Rio Falaz, there where cially with respect to the oldest son Luis the pampa lies like a dirty brown blanket who was the same age. He became y uonn urunner spread by a sleepy gaucho with hares taller and stronger ana - no question - leaping on it in p ace of fleas, that I first more intelligent, but until he was seven­ bridle... We had witnessed enough heard rumours of the man who though teen he contained his resentment, as bloodshed in two wars. We were only he walked and breathed was surely though within him a power-train were glad that now they laughed, albeit with dead. His name was variously Enero or burning under a disguise of dust. a vinegar mouth, instead of slashing one Anaquel, Retrato or Rosario, but I sensed Then, his cousin and adoptive father another with their eager knives. as the story was recounted in one farm­ considered him of an age to accompany That was before Incarnacion. kitchen, onegrimycantino, afteranother, the other men from the estancia into Yes, it is an ancient tale. Luis and he that my interlocutors knew what he should town, to drink and dance, to boast and became rivals for the same girl. It was properly be called, only they feared to let maybe fish. It is the custom in this region. said, it was probable, that she accorded the syllables pass their lips. them equally generous favours - she was On an evening when a storm was an orphan too, she had no real alterna­ about to break I came to a drab town tive - but somehow, for quite a long whose name I will not here write down. "We had while, each remained ignorant of what Its priest gave me shelter. An elderly she meant to the other. woman - silent, brown, gap-toothed - In the end the secret came to light, and served us tortillas, charred beef and witnessed enough having proved he was not only taller and hard undercooked beans washed down stronger but also faster he left Luis lying with sour beer. Afterwards the priest bloodshed in in the dirt and rode away. said as he bent to light one of my last After that nothing was heard of him for three cigars at the chimney of an oil-lamp three years. We learned that a bandit with a tarnished brass reservoir, "You two wars. We had recruited disaffected men in the will have come because of our Lazarus." country to the north and his gang was "What makes you say so?" I riposted, raiding lonely farms, rustling cattle, at­ even as I mastered my relief at finally were only tacking coaches and even the railway. hearing the right name. Also they used women with brutality. But "Because no one visits us for any other glad that now we had no proof that their leader was the reason, save those who are weary of the man we had known. pampa and a few travelling salesmen. You are neither. In the morning you can they laughed...." During early Mass Incarnacion, meet him, if you like. Do you wish to hear wearing only a nightgown, rushed his story?" screaming into the church to announce "Is he truly called Lazarus?" his return. I made haste to conclude the "Of course not." There are few distractions. ceremony and ran outside without re­ "Please continue." Within months he was notorious. In the moving my vestments. It was true. On a unfamiliar environment of the town he galled lame horse he was riding down He certainly had a name once-he was revealed his true self. He invented fouler the street, rigidly upright in his saddle. baptised - but no one speaks itany more. insults than any, yet delivered them in As it drew level with the church the poor He does not even utter it himself. His such a calm and slumbrous tone it was beast stumbled to a halt, and I saw that mother died in bearing him; his father hard to take them seriously. Soon it was in its rider's chest, exactly at the level of expired from fever some years after; a a pointof honouramong hiscompanions his heart, there was a silver-hafted knife. cousin took him in. He grew up like any to jeer at anyone who could not treat I recognised it. It had been stolen from other boy in our part of the country, them as a joke. And that included Luis. It this house. learning to ride almost before he could made no odds that occasionally when He stared straight ahead and said walk, knowing more of cattle than of he and they departed items of value nothing. I laid my hand on his and found humankind. were found to be missing, and now and it cold yet moist with sweat, like a new- The cousin having sons of his own, he then something remarkably similar was caught fish. I felt for the pulse in his wrist. must endure subordinate status, espe­ seen on that man's belt, that horse's There was none. To my dying day I shall maintain he had no pulse. Also his educated man, which I had not ex­ wicked man - a bandit, a murderer, a eyes were frozen and saw nothing. pected. "I can only tell you how it is for rapist - into the virtuous person that you Other people, roused, had started to one who dies by violence." see before you?" assemble, but neither they nor I were "Everything stops when it is worst. The I had been wondering the same, for in quick enough to stop Incarnacion . She moment when you realise what is hap­ those days I retained some vestige of cried out and snatched at the knife, and pening. The moment when the pain of religious faith. within a breath had turned it on herself. the wound becomes intolerable. Above, "It is to make you suffer as well," he I had not imagined that she loved him. all, the moment when you remember all said after a pause, making to rise. "Not Sometimes I suspect she did not, but had the mistakes that led you to this death: that I think or it in that way. For me, what loved Luis, and now hated him who by notjustthe way you were misled byyour is important is this. By dying I have being dead had cheated her hoped-for killer's feint, so thatyou tookyoureye off experienced the total vileness that only vengeance. At all events she fell to the his knife, but every error since you our creator can command. What point ground and he fell too, upon the neck of learned to talk- every lie and deception, in petty sins and crimes that are so pale his horse. a shadow of the real thing?" But she fell dead, and he fell alive. He turned to retrieve his water-buckets. Moments later his blood began to flow. "Wait!" I cried, almost reaching out to "It is a catch his arm, but suddenly afraid of There is no doctor here, but I have physical contact with him. some medical knowledge and there are Pausing, he gazed at me with eyes as curanderas, old women like my house­ god that empty as the priest said they had been keeper who understand the use of herbs. when he returned. A few days later he was on his feet. He "How is this - this fable supposed to remained pale, and said little. He made make me suffer?" I demanded. confession and spoke of evil deeds -1 do wants to "Why! Because for the rest of your life not break the seal by saying this, for he you will never be quite sure whether or has admitted them to others - and went feel us suffer, not to believe me. But I have, after all, away changed. Now he works meekly been dead." and very hard; what he is paid he gives He picked up the pails and trudged to the poor and the old; he eats what he away. gets and sleeps where he may. If he and will spends on anything he buys flowers for That was thirty-four years ago, when I Incarnacion's grave. There is no pride in was young. Ever since I have devoted him and no more lust or anger. Indeed never cease myself to the study of folklore and the some may say in death he went to exegesis of the Bible. A thousand times, paradise, and has returned an angel in a hundred thousand, I have read about the body of a man. But this I doubt. to invent new the resurrection, most frequently - of course - the tale of Jesus and Lazarus. The cigar burned to a stub. The priest Nowhere have I found comfort. It has all crushed it, rising. ways of turned out as the dead man predicted. "In the morning," he said, "you may Now in my seventy-third year, I know meet him, and decide for yourself about I cannot for much longer postpone my angels." doing so." encounter with the truth. In railing health, I must decide. He said he could only I found him as he had been described: speak for those who die by violence. I clad in castoff garments and barefoot, have purchased a bottle of poison. Its very pale, reluctant to interrupt his work effect is said to be gentle, and fatal only of carrying water in two wooden buck­ in deep sleep. If truly we are fixed in the ets. Perhaps he sensed I was a little every cruel act and mocking laugh, final instant of life, whereafter nothing different from the ordinary run of sensa­ every deed that made another person changes save for thought, I wish noteven tion-seekers who had come to view this hate you. Or mistrust you: that's as bad. to be thinking at the last. prodigy. Perhaps he regarded me as I shall blot this page and set this scholarly, and for that forgave my in­ "And there, at the crux of this agony, memoir where it will be found. A tumbler quisitiveness. Who knows? All that mat­ everything, as I said, stops. Except think­ stands ready next to the bottle. I have a ters is that after the offer of my last cigar ing. Thinking goes on. It will go on for all fire, for it is cold tonight. The flames - declined - he took me aside to where we eternity. It is a very cruel god that made flicker on the shiny surface of the glass might sit down and said without further our world. It is a god that wants to feel us and make me think of Hell. preamble, "Do you know what it is like suffer, and will never cease to invent new Is it not, in the last analysis, unspeak­ to be dead?" ways of doing so. Now you're a victim ably and inconceivably cruel that our I shook my head. too, like the priest. I told him what I've just Creator should have permitted His cre­ "I cannot speak for those who die in told you, and he claimed not to believe ation awareness of inevitable death? peace," he said. His voice was thready me. How, he said, if God is evil, could but his pronunciation was that of an I have been transformed from such a Copyright 1991 Brunner Fact & Fiction Limited Hal Clement Join us in (Author Guest of Honor) Martin Harry Greenberg (Editor Guest of Honor) Chicago Richard Powers (Artist Guest of Honor)

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Attn: Sales Post Office Box 338 New York, NY 10150-0338 probe eventually melted this mixture, out not until the probe had been dis­ LIFE BEYOND EARTH: solved and oxidized. Small amounts of solid material from the interface were recovered by another subprobe and placed in a nutrient solution containing essentials of life such as hydrogen cya­ nide, at an absolute temperature twice the normal value at the interface. At first, the solid material reacted chemically with the nutrients, liberating various gases. But after a short time, the reac­ tions stopped and no further activity was BY GERALD FEINBERG observed. The unwillingness of any hy­ pothetical organism to use rich nutrients The Results of the fifth space probe of evolve there. Finally, none of the com­ is a serious blow to the belief that minor planetoid three were being de­ plex molecules with which we associate planetoid three is a home of life. scribed at the Jovian Conference on life could be detected at the interface. A On the basis of these results, it ap­ Space Research. Sarpedon, the chief sample of the liquid region showed the pears safe to conclude that planetoid scientist in charge of the probe, reported overwhelming part of its composition to three is not a place where life can exist, on it: be oxide of hydrogen, with small and no further biological probes of that The probe passed through the thin amounts of dissolved sodium chloride planetoid are warranted. Our future atmosphere of planetoid three success­ studies of the minor planetoids should fully. From the experience that we gained concentrate on planetoid two, whose by previous unsuccessful probes, we thick atmosphere and high temperature were able to construct this probe out of Finally, at the interface make conditions there special materials that could resist the much more similar to those on our own extreme environment at the gas-liquid world, the only one that we know is interface of the planetoid. The highly none of the hospitable to life. Perhaps life, as we oxidized outer coating of the probe know it, can exist (if only in an attenu­ enabled it to avoid the fate of probes ated form) on the second planetoid from number one through four, which rapidly complex the central star, but surely not in the combined with a toxic gas in the wholly alien conditions of the third plan­ planetoid's atmosphere. When the probe etoid. reached the interface, it was subjected to molecules Sarpedon stopped burping spurts of the chemical action of the hydrogen­ hydrogen sulfide, which was his method oxygen liquid compound that forms the of communicating with his fellow scien­ main component of the interface. This with which tists. They, in turn, signaled theirapproval gradually removed the oxidized protec­ of his conclusions by producing small tive coating of the probe and so exposed pulses of heat, intense enough to boil the inner machinery to the toxic atmo­ we associate someofthe magnesium chloride crystals sphere. As a result, only seventy-two contained in parts of their bodies. The minutes of data were obtained. But this result was a small train of bubbles in the data is enough to confirm the previous life could be dense hydrogen surrounding them all, opinion of the best scientists - that life is forming a beautiful but transient pattern impossible on such planetoids. pleasing to the speaker and audience If the toxic atmosphere and liquid detected at alike. surface were not enough to show this, an On planetoid three, known to a few of immense flux of deadly radiation of its inhabitants as Earth, countless living optical light was detected at the surface, the interface. things were being born, existing, and which was hardly screened by the thin dying every second, unaware of the atmosphere. This radiation can dissoci­ negative verdict about their possible ate many chemical compounds that are existence which had been rendered by essentiaf to life, and is more intense at and other metallic salts. There are minor Jupiter's leading scientists. interface of planetoid three even than in traces of dissolved oxide of carbon, as outer space near our planet. Also, the well as traces of volatile carbon com­ Excerpt from Life Beyond Earth: The temperature of the interface is as low as pounds of a type not known on Jupiter. Intelligent Earthling's Guide to Life in the that in the uppermost levels of our planet. One mobile subprobe was lost in an Universe by Gerald Feinberg and Rob­ This means that chemical reactions pro­ unknown way, apparently falling into a ert Shapiro. William Morrow and Com­ ceed very slowly, and life processes floating mixture of hydrogen oxide with pany, Inc. blew York 1980 Copyright would be extremely sluggish, if indeed solidified and nitrogenized carbon com­ 1980 by Gerald Feinberg and Robert there had been time enough for life to pounds. The high temperature of the Shapiro CROSSWORD FOR LUNACON Clues Across

1 Girl with little gravity made slow but DEVISED BY JOHN BRUNNER sure by Shaw (5)

6 It looks like an other-worldly song can create heavenly patterns (10)

9 Spanish saint holding baulk of wood corrupted version of Gaelic war-cry (6)

10 Change pay magic?) into a piece of furniture that s not foreordained to win (8)

11 Part taken from an autopsy chosen by Robert Bloch (6)

15 Make room for scientists before what betrayed Challenger - it's very hard work (8)

1 8 The only two ancient elements that fit (5,3,5)

19 How Kepler's voyager travelled to the Moon (2,1,5)

20 Returns to original state beginning with first part of Hubbard pseudomym (6)

23 19th-century medium's play on words is rather coarse stuff (8)

26 Lamented author even more than outstandingly good (6)

28 Confused fear enters someone to be ^>ut through a matter transmitter, perhaps?

29 Old name for radon, back number Copyright Brunner Fact & Fiction Ltd. after Element 50 went the same way (5) hold the after part of a ship together (9)

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