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Lan's Lantern 33 Copyright © 1989 by Teddy H<arvi«a Contends Front Cover.............................................................................Teddy Harvia Table of Contents & Artists, Colophon.............................................. 1 Heinlein and the Editor..........................................Lan.......................... 2 All fly Gurus Are Dead.......................... by James Wallace Harris...3 Some Thoughts on the Death of Robert A. Heinlein................. by Brian Youmans...8 Robert A. Heinlein................................................by Jay Sullivan...9 A Voyage Is Over........................................................ by Leo Morris..10 A Giant.....................................................................by Terry O'Brien..10 Thoughts on Robert A. Heinlein....................... by T. D. Sadler..ll A Critical Personal Inventory of Robert A. Heinlein........... by John Thiel..12 Robert A. Heinlein: Master Storyteller..................................... by Elizabeth Osborne..14 ...But I Read Him Anyway............................by Sandra M. Taylor..15 A Call to Space....................................................by Susan Shwartz..18 Table of Artists Requiem: The Day That SF Died....................... by Arlan Andrews..20 Heinlein's Legacy..................................................by Jamin Meyers..22 P.L. Caruthers-Montgomery (Calligraphy)— The Predictions of Robert A. Heinlein...............by Joe Green..24 2, 3, 8, 9, 10,11, 12, 14, 15, 18, Robert A. Heinlein: A Chronology...............by Robert Sabella..30 20, 22, 23, 24, 30, 31, 32, 37, 38, 1962 Convention Report........................................from Bob Tucker. .31 39, 40, 42, 43, 45, 48, 50, 52, 57 My Mentors..........................................................by Spider Robinson..32 Teddy Harvia — front cover, 7, 10, 12, It's All Heinlein's Fault............................. by Robert Coulson..37 20, 21, 22, Recollections of Robert Heinlein....by Margaret Middleton..38 Greg Litchfield — back cover A Rather Protracted and Roundabout Remembrance of Robert Lynn Margosian — 9, 51 A. Heinlein..................................by Michael W. Waite..39 Berislav Pinjuh — 19, 41 Glory Road.......................................................................by Jean Lamb..42 Peggy Ranson — 30 Robert Heinlein............................................by Gordon R. Dickson..43 John Thiel — 56 A Guide Through the Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein................. Phil Tortoricci — 29, 50 A book review by Bill Ware..44 Bill Ware — 44 Recent Discoveries About an Interplanetary Poet................... by Rob Levy..45 The Way of Heinlein: A Testimonial..by Anthony D. Blokzyl..48 Why You Are Getting This Tributes to Robert A. Heinlein...................from Jacqueline Lichtenberg, David Palter, Ruth Berman, Lynn Margosian..50 Contribution to this issue Growing Up with Robert A. Heinlein.................by Joe Sanders..52 The Man Who Sold the Future..................... by Arlan Andrews Sr. .57 Contribution recieved for a future Addresses of the Contributors.............................................................58 issue "Heinlein Through the Years"...by Greg Litchfield..Back cover Loc or comment recieved To Maia, as usual, and Trade __ You wanted a copy In memory of Robert A. Heinlein fan, author, and mentor to We're in an apa together so many people. I thought you would be interested in LAN'S LANTERN #33 is published and edited by George "Lan" this Laskowski, 55 Valley Way, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48013 USA. Phone (313) 642-5670. LAN'S LANTERN is available for arti­ cles, art, letters of comment, even money (US$2 post paid) and the whim of the editor. The opinions expressed are those of the contributors, and may or may not be those of the edi­ tor. This is Lantern Publication #19, a division of LanShack Press Unlimited. LAN'S LANTERN #33 is copyright (c) May 1990, by George J Laskowski Jr., except where otherwise noted. Con­ tributions (art, articles, reviews, letters) become the prop­ erty of Lanshack Press, but will be returned upon request. All rights return to the contributors upon publication. Busi­ ness manager: Maia Cowan. 2 //Lan’s Lantern #33 "fm tm- by Lan J^ctnfctrL Unlike most of the people who have So, as you can see, my encounters with written and contributed to this Special Heinlein the author were quite sporadic. I Issue, I have not been profoundly influ­ was influenced more by Nourse, Norton, As­ enced by Robert A. Heinlein. I got inter­ imov, Simak and Van Vogt than by Heinlein. ested in reading science fiction stories However, I do know how much he has guided with the Tom Swift, Jr. series, and the others, particularly after reading all the first real science fiction novel I read submissions included in this special issue was Rocket to Limbo by Alan E. Nourse. Al­ of Lan's Lantern. so in the "N01 section of the library was But what about Heinlein, the man? Andre Norton, and I expanded in both dir­ Starting in the mid-1970s, Heinlein en­ ections from there. Eventually my friend dorsed and promoted blood drives. He en­ Ken Adams recommended Have Space Suit — couraged fans to donate blood, particular­ Will Travel, which was seconded by another ly if they had rare blood types. Several friend Dan Turner (we were all in Boy convention committees held blood drives, Scouts together)• That one I liked, as I and some, including CONCLAVE, continue to did Time for the Stars. But the next few I do so today. tried were disappointments. Beyond This At SUNCON (the Worldcon in Miami Beech, Horizon, The Rolling Stones, Double Star, Florida, in 1977), I donated blood. Hein­ and The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan lein was there to sign books for those who Hoag, did nothing for me. In fact, the on­ donated, or tried tc donate and failed, or ly one I finished from that group was Dou­ who had donated within the past 60 days. I ble Star, and I found it unsatisfying. missed him. However, at CONCLAVE II, held A few years later, as my collection of in September that year, Heinlein showed up SF books grew while I indiscriminately to autograph books for those who donated picked up EVERYTHING I could find that was at their blood drive. There I met Hein­ remotely SF, another friend recommended lein, held out a copy of Glory Road for Heinlein's novels: The Day after Tomorrow him to autograph (one that I had picked up (Sixth Column). That one I enjoyed. But I in the huckster room since I had forgotten then tried Starship Troopers, and could to bring any of my copies of his books not get past the first few pages. from home), and he signed it. As I started In graduate school, seeing that Ace was to talk with him, one of the nurses reprinting some of Heinlein's juveniles, I brought in a woman who was sheet-white, picked up all I could to fill in the holes saying that the woman nearly passed out in my collection. I read Rocketship Gali­ from giving blood. Heinlein immediately leo, then Stranger in a Strange Land, and went to her aid. finally Glory Road. Both were very enjoya­ That was the only time I ever met the ble, and I wanted to read more, but the man. pressure of graduate school and a summer There was something strange about the job limited my outside reading. Still, I incident, and this only struck me years continued to pick up the novels even later. I have given blood seven times. The though I knew it would be a some time be­ last time I gave, the nurses at the Red fore I would be able to read them (as is Cross told me not to come back. You see, the case with most of my collection). after donating, and after the needle is After I met and married Maia, she ever pulled out, I have passed out every time— so gently encouraged me to read her favor­ except once. The nurses told me not to put ite Heinlein novel, The Moon is a Harsh my body through that any more. So I have Mistress, which I did and enjoyed. When not donated since. Friday was published, I picked it up imme­ The funny thing is that one time I did diately, and liked it enough to recommend not pass out: it happened at SUNCON, when it for a Hugo. Job was interesting, but I was giving blood for the Heinlein Blood not quite as good as Friday. Drive. Lan's Lantern #33// 3 Aff My Gurus Asctkact Growing up I had four literary gurus: reality. Capturing reality in words always L. Frank Baum, Robert A. Heinlein, Mark means losing more than 99.99 percent of Twain and Jack Kerouac. Three of these men the details. When these printed instruc­ died before I ever started reading their tions are retranslated by a reader, even books. Heinlein died last year, so my further distortions take place. /Thus, it reading of his books coincided with the is very difficult to judge the exact in­ last quarter century of his life. Heinlein tent of a writer, or the true nature of was by far the most important of these his design. men. Great authors always get written about, Some kids go through a phase of hero and the ironic thing is they become fic­ worship when they are adolescents. They tional characters themselves, and even get choose a Mickey Mantle or Bruce Spring­ put into books, movies and plays. Heinlein steen, Chris Evert or Madonna, Chairman the man is dead. Few people ever really Mao or Tricky Dick. Who knows why? I chose knew him. There is a literary ghost of Heinlein. I don’t know why, either. Like Heinlein for every person who still thinks most kids, my fascination with my hero fa­ about him, and reads his stories. ded as time passed and I had to go to col­ And as it is true that most fans did lege. Through the years, I would sometimes not know Heinlein, Heinlein did not know have fleeting glimpses of what Heinlein most of his fans. Heinlein had to deal used to mean to me, but only momentary with the fact that he was communicating ones. Then when he died, I started think­ with a mass of unknown people.
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