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INCA 9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Colophon; Incantations (editorial) – Curt Phillips; Rob Jackson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inca 9 Contents Page Art, photos Page Who is the Killer? (guest editorial) Curt Phillips 2 Harry Bell Front cover Incantations: editorial Rob Jackson 3 Rob Jackson (photo) 4 Survival Of The Wettest Rob Jackson Bill Burns (photo) 10 Ted White Randy Mohr 14 Curt Phillips 5 Rob Jackson (photos) 16-18 Alan Dorey Lou Tabakow (photo) 19 Bill Burns Rob Jackson (photos) 22-23 Keep Brighton To The End Grant Canfield, - The Failure of Seacon ‘84 Alan Dorey 12 Jay Kinney The Gift of Memory pt. 1 Rob Jackson 15 (collaboration) 29 So Near, Yet So Far (reprint) Rob Jackson 19 Bill Rotsler 31 The Gift of Memory pt. 2 Rob Jackson 22 Jim Mowatt (graph) 33 Uncle Johnny’s Bazillion and Keith Freeman (photo) 35 Ninety-Ninth Dream John N. Hall 24 Alan Hunter Back cover Circulation (letters of comment) Various 26 Published as usual by Rob Jackson, Chinthay, Nightingale Lane, Hambrook, Chichester, West Sussex PO18 8UH. Email [email protected] . All rights returned to the authors/ artists upon publication. This issue dated April 2013. Availability: Paper version available for substantial & relevant paper fanzines in trade; letters of comment (which are usually published); contributions; other big favours; or friendship! To be available online via www.efanzines.com through the kind offices of Bill Burns. Guest Editorial: Curt Phillips Who is the Killer? (with introductory comments by Rob Jackson, Graham Charnock & Jim Linwood) Some recent horrible world events sparked a A man kills his two children and himself because conversation on the IntheBar mailing list which his wife has left him. A man walks into a school in prompted a contribution from Curt Phillips of Connecticut and kills a lot of children. A woman such heartfelt brilliance that at the time I said in straps a bomb to herself and walks into a market in reply: “Wow, Curt. I just wonder at all the Iraq and kills 50 people. A man hijacks a plane millions of people (especially soldiers, politicians and flies it into an office building killing and arms dealers) who ought to read that.” thousands. I think there must some deep solipsist Though ITB is a private discussion forum, there horror at the heart of the human psyche which is are times when what is said in there just cries out the only thing that can account for this, not to be read more widely. With permission from religion, education, indoctrination, or drugs. the authors, I am doing my bit by giving pride of Graham Charnock, December 2012 place in Inca’s editorial slot to them, and chiefly to Curt. A major western country kills nearly 200 children Rob Jackson, April 2013 in drone attacks... Jim Linwood, December 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inca 9 – page 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Colophon; Incantations (editorial) – Curt Phillips; Rob Jackson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- doubt that anyone else in the long chain of people hen I was a younger man I worked for a who were involved in those deaths have ever given company that made guided missiles that them a thought. It was “a regrettable accident”, W were designed to kill other people. I after all. And I'd rather keep on thinking about didn't think much about that at first; it was for those imaginary bloodstains than to think that “National defense”, and we weren't at war with those people who were killed by that missile would anyone. Eventually I became aware that the ever be completely forgotten by everyone . If those products of my work were being used now and people aren't worth even remembering, then what, then to kill people. I usually didn't understand the really, are any of us really worth? I can't answer reasons for this, and sometimes didn't even that question, so I'll go on remembering. understand why or how our missiles had come to be where they were, yet people still died. And no Facebook is abuzz today with talk of gun control. one could make me understand why they'd had to Nearly all the talk is so polarized right from the die. The tipping point – for me – came when I saw start that I can't see any point in responding to any an engineering report on one of the missiles I'd of it. The point of our lives – or so it seems to me worked on that had been launched at a target in – is not to develop ideas and then cling to them Nigeria –some anti-drug action, I believe – but the with a death-grip or to shout those ideas at anyone guidance control section had malfunctioned and we see. I think the point of being alive is actually the missile wound up hitting “an isolated farm in to think and to learn and to grow; and to try to find the Nigerian jungle” and killing a family. The better ways and better ideas. For everything. report was very detailed in the analysis of how the Forever. I can't see how we can grow or learn as a missile had malfunctioned but no further word people while so many of us are fixed on whatever about that family was mentioned. I don't know if ideas we happen to hold on to. Nothing wrong anyone anywhere ever even said the words “I'm with ideas, mind you, as long as they're good ones sorry” to anyone else over the incident. that work and that result in helping things without hurting others. But I've never found any one idea Sometime later my company closed its local plant that was so good that it was beyond improvement. and moved the work out west. They offered to I don't know that I can ever improve anything for move me out there too so that I could keep on anyone else, but I think that as long as I hold doing what I'd been doing. Instead I looked myself open to the possibility that I might then I'll around for some work that I could do that was as already have improved me . So that's a start. far from building death machines as I could find, and I returned to school and became a Registered Nothing anyone says or does or thinks is going to Nurse. It wasn't easy. Being out of work for two un-kill those children in Connecticut, or that farm years nearly impoverished me and my family and family in Nigeria, or the thousands of soldiers we had two young daughters to raise. But I took a killed in a single day at the Somme in WWI, or any job doing manual labour in a lumberyard, sold our of the millions of other senseless killings that farm – our wonderful, beautiful farm that I still human history reeks of. We can only go forward, miss every day of my life – and managed to get and try not to harm anyone else. That doesn't through that time. The daughters were raised, the seem to me like too much to ask of ourselves, yet family prospered again and I'm much prouder of thus far we as a people have always refused to do the work I do now. And only I can see the blood of live that way. I wish I could understand why we do those unknown Nigerian people that will forever that. stain my hands. In any event, we go forward anyway. Bloodstains But at least I know that those stains are there. No and all. I wonder where we're going? one would ever blame me for those deaths, and I Curt Phillips, December 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rob Jackson Incantations – a melange This issue After Curt’s brilliantly sober reflections above on unnecessary loss of life, and you have dried out A mix of themes this issue. We start thinking after the fine writing from Ted, Bill and Curt in about the outside world and coping with death and particular surviving storms in Survival of the disaster – but don’t worry; it all lightens up later Wettest, it’s all back to matters fannish. Alan on.... Dorey has very instructive thoughts about how the ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inca 9 – page 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Colophon; Incantations (editorial) – Curt Phillips; Rob Jackson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- path of true love within con committees does not nobody has any skin problems IntheBar. We’re all always run smooth. smooth as a baby’s bottom. That’s down to the Sudocrem....) Staying with cons, we travel back further to my trip to Suncon, the 1977 Worldcon. I have picked out Fun with FAAns the slides with fun memories, and reprinted an article about some of the scarier moments of my I made sure I voted carefully in the 2013 FAAns, travel that trip. As a taster, one more is below. which as I write will be awarded in a couple of Just before the lettercolumn, we finally visit the weeks’ time at Corflu XXX. So did lots of people – fascinating place that is John Hall’s dreamland, some people are worried that 60 voters is Not Too with friends from his Ratfannish past coming back Many, but as fannish fanzine fandom is now a to haunt him, as well as a policeman with a pretty specialised subset of fandom, I’m rather striking resemblance to John Brunner.... fantisted it is that good. (A much livelier voting bloc than the Novas in the UK, which are nearly Dreams have been called the royal road to the dead on their feet.) Damn good job, Andy as subconscious.

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