2006 Heinlein Awards to Be Given to Williamson and Bear in Anaheim At
2006 Heinlein Awards To Be Given to Williamson and Bear In Anaheim at World Con The principal mailing address of The Heinlein Society, a non-profit charitable corporation, is PO Box 1254, Venice, CA USA 90294-1254 JulyContents 2006 2006 Heinlein Awards ......Pages 1 and 3 Secretaryʼs Report and Annual Notice Election of Directors.........Pages 2 and 3 Inaugural Heinlein Prize Awarded. .................................................Pages 4 to 9 Notice of Bylaw Amendment................ ...........................................................Page 10 Owenby Obituary..................... Page 10 New Directors Appointed......Page 11 Jack Williamson Greg Bear Committee Reports....Pages 12 to 19 Jack Williamson and Greg admired Heinlein as a writer and a Bear, two legendary authors of man, but also because he was a val- Book Reviews....Pages 20. 21 and 23 speculative fiction, have been ued friend,” said Williamson, wide- Membership Application........Page 22 named recipients of the 2006 ly recognized as the dean of sci- Robert A. Heinlein Award for their ence fiction. The author of dozens A “few small things”................Page 24 overall body of work. of novels and winner of both the The award, administered by the Nebula and Hugo Awards, in 1976 We Continue To Need Heinlein Society, will be presented Williamson was named a Damon A Newsletter Editor formally by Jerry Pournelle, a past Knight Memorial Grand Master by A successful applicant will need to be able to attend, on-line, one two-hour recipient, director of the Society SFWA — only the second author monthly board business meeting and initi- and a member of the Advisory so honored after Heinlein in 1975. ate articles of interest to membership, by Board for the Heinlein Award, at Williamson’s most recent novel is encouraging Society officers and members the World Science Fiction Conven- the world-hopping adventure The to prepare them, and by writing them him tion in Los Angeles, California, on Stonehenge Gate.
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