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The Reluctant Famulus #116 The Reluctant Famulus 116 March-April 2017 Thomas D. Sadler, Editor/Publisher, etc. 305 Gill Branch Road, Owenton, KY 40359 E-mail: [email protected] Contents Introduction, Editor 3 Where The Media Go, Frederick Moe 8 The Off Center Viewpoint, Joe Napolitno 11 The Horror Master, Eric Barraclough 14 Mystery at Moundville, Alfred Byrd 19 The Crotchety Critic, Michaele Jordan 25 NAE, Part One, Gayle Perry 29 NAE, Part Two, Gayle Perry 35 Letters 40 Artwork/Photos Steve Stiles, Front Cover Anna Byrd 19-24 Teddy Harvia 40 Locs header A. B. Kynock 41, 43, 45 Robert Limós (Internet) 6 Denny Marshall 7, 46, 47 Spore 40,42,44 Milt Stevens 44, bottom left Internet 7,14, 24 bottom right, 28, 49 Me (Ed.) back cover The Reluctant Famulus is a product of Strange Dwarf Publications. Some of the comments expressed herein are solely those of the Editor/Publisher and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts of any sane, rational persons who know what they are doing and have carefully thought out beforehand what they wanted to say. Material not written or pro- duced by the Editor/Publisher is is printed by permission of the various writers and artists and is copyright by them and re- mains their sole property and reverts to them after publication. TRF maybe obtained for The Usual but, in return for written material and artwork, postage costs, The Meaning of Life, and Editorial Whim. 2 The Reluctant Famulus Entering its 29th year! Introduction: A Trip Down Fannish Memory Lane I hope no one was offended by Kurt’s front If my memory is correct the first convention I cover and my pathetic back one. They were attended was a World Fantasy Convention which meant as satire and nothing more. was brought to my attention by another aspiring Here, is my introduction to TRF 116 for what pro writer, Joan Vander Putten who had a story of little it’s worth. hers appear in a collection called Devils & De- This—I hope—is intended to be a continuing mons, collected by Marvin Kaye. Again, if my feature of The Reluctant Famulus aside from my recollection is accurate the convention was in usual introduction. My Introduction will serve as Nashville, TN. Some of you may be aware of the a sort of guide to let readers what to expect and World Fantasy Cons which are more or less the what I would liked to see. The guidelines are few equivalent to SF’s Worldcon but also more in a and to the point. What I hope to achieve are items pro manner. I didn’t know that at the time but I voluntarily written by any and all readers of this paid the necessary fee and attended it because it fanzine as a way of infusing fannishness in TRF was a chance to meet some big name writers with which has sadly been lacking. The subjects could whom I was familiar from having read some of be, for example, what was your first convention their works. And what a bunch of Pros were and how you felt being a newbie to Fandom cons. there! There was a mass autographing event I at- What was your most memorable or best conven- tended and where I got some autographs— tion. Who was the first well-known fan you met naturally. Ones such as Fritz Leiber and his son, and how you got along with him or her. Who was Justin, Park Godwin (along with a drawing of the first big name pro SF (And Fantasy) writer himself smoking a cigarette) Marvin Kaye, you met and how you got along with her or him. Charles Fontenay, Hugh B. Cave, Andre Norton, Were there any funny or memorable events that Connie Willis, and so on. Oh, there was also stand out. How you felt being among all those Gregory Benford. (I think that was where I met other SF fans. Did you feel awed or right at him and got his autograph. Oh cursed memory.) home. Did you restrict yourself solely to being an There is one more because it was by the first attendant or eagerly join in on panels or in other Pro writer whose works I eagerly read and the ways; i.e. help run a convention or as a dealer (or first one I met and actually had a conversation huckster as they’re often called). There may be with beyond “may I have your autograph”. When other aspects regarding fandom that I’ve missed I saw him I took a deep breath and nervously got but if anyone has a sample of such please feel to his attention and spoke with him briefly without contribute. The articles could be mere brief anec- saying something stupid. He is one of the recipi- dotes or two or three pages or whatever it takes to ents of this fanzine: Gene Wolfe. I doubt very tell your experience. much he remembers such a brief meeting because There. That’s enough of the preliminaries. he must have had many conversations with im- 3 portant people. But I sure do! I’ve met and talked SF fandom are the SF magazines we fans read to him a few times after that. There is an occasion almost religiously (does religion fit in with SF? which might be one he would remember. My Well, Out of the Silent Planet might. I’ll have to wife and I were at a convention in Detroit, I think re-read that along with a bunch of others I have- it was. We stopped at a restaurant adjacent to the n’t read in decades. Good grief! I’m talking about con for dinner. After giving the waitress our order decades. Am I really that old to think in such I looked around and there was Gene Wolfe in a terms? booth kitty-corner from our table. He had just fin- Back to the subject I started to expound on. ished dinner and paid for it. The he stood up and The history of SF magazines goes way back, at started walk away. It as then I saw something fall least as far as the pulps in the 20s, 30s, into the on the floor. It was his wallet. I swiftly picked it 40s and forward. There have been dozens of up, got his attention, and gave it to him. Just pulps at least and one major factor of them aside think. I could have had a souvenir of Gene Wolfe. from the fiction in them are the covers on them But I’m an honest man—mostly—and I wouldn’t designed to draw attention to the magazines. stoop to such a vile act. Ever since that first meet- Those born later than the era of the pulps likely ing with Mr. Wolfe, as I noted, I’ve seen him a know little or nothing about them or haven’t seen few other times and I’ve felt comfortable enough them. Now, thanks to the wonders of the digital to go up and chat with him. In my book he’s one age and the Internet or www, there are online of those good people who graciously puts up with sites what have collected and conserved digital a nut bird like me. May he live long and write images of those magazine covers. I know, be- many more novels for me to buy and read. Some- cause I recently found a couple of those sites. how, somewhere, I hope to meet him in person They are goldmine for any SF fans who might again. I promise I’ll do everything I can not to want reminders of those glorious days or would say something stupid to him. like to see such covers for the first time. That There. That’s one example to explain what providentially fits in with my plans for TRF. I’m looking for. There are some others but I’ll Some of you who have been around long enough save them for other issues. I want to show that will be able to relive those times with their old I’m striving not to write a one-time trip down friends, the SF—and other—pulp covers. And fannish memory lane. I hope that at least some of those who know little or nothing about them will you will be kind enough to help with my goal of have a chance to see some of them for the first injecting more fannishness in TRF. That’s some- time. thing I’ve grievously neglected in this fanzine. I The photo on the back of this issue should hope I can somehow atone for that. be self-explanatory. It’s the cover of a magazine If any of you have had the misfortune of en- I’ve owned for what seems like ages. I’ve had it countering me at a con you are absolved of hav- for so long I can’t remember when I got it or ing to recall the traumatic experience and reliving where from. I do recall an uncle on my mother’s it again to save your sanity. side had loaned me some SF magazines and I Here is another aspect of the changes I’d like think but can’t be certain, it might have been one to make in TRF and which you readers should of those. I don’t recall how old I was at the time quickly notice. One of the major factors involving but it was almost certainly when I was a young 4 teenager maybe around the legendary age of 12 diverges from his/her usual conceptions.
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