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2 February 2013 for display on eFanzines at: www.efanzines.com Feedback encouraged Please e-mail your letter of comment to: [email protected] Marvellous Melbourne 1910 – scenes of the City of Melbourne, Australia at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuVH8dgKymU Readers may be interested in these views of old Melbourne, filmed in 1910. The clip runs for about fourteen minutes. Still photos of the time are common, but movies are rare. Note the people wandering all over the road between the cable trams and horse-drawn vehicles. There were no traffic lights then. Apart from the buildings and the traffic, studying the people of an era long gone is interesting in itself. In 1910, Melbourne’s population was 650,000, compared with 4,200,000 today. Contents This issue’s cover ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 The nature of happiness ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Vale Michael Waite (1936 - 2013) ............................................................................................................................. 4 Memories of Michael ................................................................................................................................................. 4 Michael Waite – perfection in print ......................................................................................................................... 8 Letters from (North) America ................................................................................................................................. 26 Relativistic travel (continued) - Was Heinlein wrong? ........................................................................................ 30 Norma K Hemming Award 2013 ............................................................................................................................ 34 Synonyms and Antonyms ........................................................................................................................................ 34 Current information on Australian Fan Funds: GUFF, NAFF, FFANZ & DUFF ..................................... 35 Conventions on the horizon .................................................................................................................................... 38 Hugo Award Nomination Period Is Open ............................................................................................................. 43 Press the red button ................................................................................................................................................. 47 Mind reading ............................................................................................................................................................ 47 Stefan zone ................................................................................................................................................................ 48 Converting just about anything to anything else .................................................................................................. 50 The IRS Guide to Medical Terms and their Meanings ........................................................................................ 50 Views of China ......................................................................................................................................................... 51 3 This issue’s cover Goin’ ‘ome Cover and notes by Dick Jenssen Well, there’s not much of a story behind the cover illustration – just the fact that the blu-ray of the restored Lawrence of Arabia has appeared, and the film was in my mind as I constructed the graphic. The last lines of the film have always resonated with me: Lawrence huddled in the roofless car, almost indistinguishable behind the insect- and dust- covered windscreen, with his driver almost as obscured. Poor Lawrence, seemingly a broken figure, haunted by his inner passions, which, for the main, are an ugly lot, quite antagonistic to what he would wish himself to be. And the driver, oblivious to Lawrence’s pain, thinking only of the joy of returning to England, saying again and again: “Goin’ ‘ome, Sir…goin’ ‘ome…”. So the cover was born from my doodling – without, I hope, the sadness, the melancholy of the film, but with, again I hope, a gentle elegiac effect. Returning to a peaceful, welcoming abode. The locale of the action has been used previously for a few covers for Interstellar Ramjet Scoop (see, for example, the October and December 2010 issues at http://efanzines.com/IRS/index.htm). It is a planet where the dominant technology is based on the energy stored in tightly coiled ribbons of metal – as the band is allowed to unwind slowly, in a controlled manner, the energy is released. Technical Notes The usual stuff: the graphic was created in E-on’s Vue Complete 11, the resulting image was then tweaked, and text added, using Adobe’s PhotoShop CS6. Ditmar The nature of happiness The ancient Athenian philosopher Socrates (470 – 369 BCE) taught that happiness is not a state of mind achieved on a daily basis. There might be moments of “happiness” but it is not a constant state of being. Happiness was to Socrates the culmination of a life well lived - to be able to come to the end of one’s life and know that one has lived as best as one can, having arrived at a final conclusion of contentment in a life well spent. And I would suppose that means a life lived with integrity and honesty, not a life defined by extremes such as obsession with perfection or giving oneself up to the pursuit of daily pleasure. So, happiness is not an end to be strived for, but rather a state of general wellbeing that one enjoys at serendipitous occasions on our journey through life. In that connection, Ditmar’s cover graphic and his “goin’ ‘ome” interpretation are apposite. This cover graphic incorporates many metaphors. Unseen in it, but implied, is a person in the sunset of years whose awareness encompasses the stony ground on which he must travel and the vision of a glorious coming home to the Source. Michael Waite, a dear friend of Ditmar and myself, died on New Year’s Day 1st January 2013 in the fullness of years. As readers will see from the Obituary to Michael that follows, here was a man who, despite adversity and infirmity, had found his measure of happiness in life and in the circumstances of his death in palliative care with an attentive carer. In terms of Michael’s Catholic faith, may the perpetual light shine upon him, and may he rest in peace. Bill Wright 4 Vale Michael Waite (1936 - 2013) reprinted from Robert Lichtman’s obituary posted to File 770 (News of Science Fiction Fandom) on 17-Jan-2013 Michael Waite, fanzine publisher and member of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, died January 1 at home in Ypsilanti, MI with hospice care. He was 76 years old. Among the details in the full obituary posted by the funeral home are his military service – four years in the Air Force, his education – an MFA (1983) in photography and art history, and his faith – he converted from Lutheran to Catholic in 1960. Michael worked as a photographer in the 1970s and thereafter before beginning a career in human resources at SOS Community Services where he was employed from 1985 until 2011. <>--------<> Memories of Michael Dick Jenssen I am positive, though not absolutely sure, that it was Bill Bowers who put me in touch with Michael Waite early in 2000 - early enough for Michael to have sent me the first issue, February 2000, of his fanzine Trial and Air. In that issue Michael introduced himself to FAPA members by a short autobiography, which is appended below. Michael also listed his favourite authors and composers, and it seemed to me that anyone who was fond of Dante, Shakespeare, Flaubert and Hesse in literature, and Bruckner, Bartok and Puccini in music (a few of those mentioned by Michael) would most likely be a compatible correspondent. It was the Bruckner which was the deciding factor. And so we corresponded. I soon discovered that Michael and I also shared an interest in theological writings – Michael because of his deep religious beliefs, and I from the standpoint of an interested bystander. Here, although we had read a few of the same texts, Michael was much more informed than I. The same held in poetry, where also we were fond of, perhaps passionate about, some of the same poets. I mentioned to Michael that I found the poetry of Basho and Wang Wei much to my taste, and received a reply in which Michael discussed Basho at length. Michael was very keen on contemporary poets, and often sent me names of those he thought I should read. It was the third issue of Trial and Air, though, which marked a transformation in the ‘zine, and made it one of the best produced and attractive magazines I had encountered. It featured another facet of Michael’s creativity – his photography. There were four pages of his art (and I repeat, art) – with an introductory quote from Diane Arbus – to which I responded enthusiastically. And so discovered that Michael was also interested in film, where again we shared a passion. I asked him if he had any photos of himself, perhaps some self-portraits, but here Michael seemed rather coy. He sent me his visiting card (below) and pointed out that he was six years old in the photograph and had not changed