No Time This Issue Is No Energy Dedicated To Harry Warner, Jr. & Not Much To Say One of the Cornerstones of Fandom #8 Is Gone Editor: dwain Kaiser One of the Cornerstones P.O. Box 1074 of Fanzines Claremont, CA 91711 Will Be No More e-mail: [email protected] (Please Put “No Time” in the header so I don’t delete.) Sercon: Artwork by William Rotsler A Tip of the Propeller Beanie to Bill I must be in a sercon mood these days. Burns & eFanzines Or maybe it’s escapism into the world March, 2003 of SF. This issue will “feature” a piece on the Dune sequels by Larry Parr and a e-list discussion of SF in general by a batch of Old Fart Phans on the Valhalla e-list. There are also a couple of poems from Mark Weber. More about my friend Mark next issue when I’ll be running one of his short stories. Mark is, as they say, “clean and sober” these days, but that certainly wasn’t always true. What was always true is his undying love and his profound knowledge of jazz and the jazz field. Some of the finest evenings of my life were spent with him in some dim smoky jazz cafe. One of my friends said I was being disingenuous concerning there being Artwork by William Rotsler LosCon ‘90 little humor to be found in death... he dK’s sketchbook reminded me that I do have a “death” story that is, sadly enough, quite funny. The Death of Larry Neilson. With some headpounding I should manage to write down that happening from beginning to end by my next deadline (whenever the hell that is). It certainly got me in a shitload of trouble for at least six months. As I said, next issue (or Real Soon Now) which ever comes last). consider this a little more “serious” I can’t even talk about Harry Warner, than much of his writing. (At least Jr.’s death. Too depressing. As long as until page 25 and Corflatch Apocrypha. I’ve been a fan (hell, longer than I’ve Now that was truly a “walk on the wild been alive) his essays, his zines, his side”.) Only half a dozen chuckles a LoCs, his histories have enriched page instead of the full Bakers Dozen. fandom. Shuffled into the mixture are deeply Fandom will truly not be the same for insightful commentaries on fanzines me now. and fandom today, TAFF and fannish bureaucracy among many topics. Fanzines & Fanzines Other fan authors would get a series of mini reviews articles out of, what is to Arnie, throw away lines. Wanna see a “real” e-list genzine? Go to eFanzines and read eI from Earl It’s a very interesting question (and one Kemp. There’s none finer around. which, I’m afraid, I have no reasonable answer to) that Arnie brings up More faanish might be Peregrine concerning those “fans” who bid up at Nations from Jan Stinson (also auctions our older classic zines with available on eFanzines). She manages enthusiasm (and fistfuls of dollars), yet the remarkable task of producing one show little or no interest in supporting of the most readable and accessible our current zines. Why? If they’re not zines put out today. Each issue being interested in fandom today why are better than the last (a trick I’d love to they interested in fandom of learn). However if you download a copy yesteryear? I’ve seen this same thing in remember that all of us editors live off fan lounges I’ve volunteered in...”fans” egoboo produced by our readers. interested in our history but not in the path we’re blazing now. Strange. Convention reports are customarily of Maybe it’s the smell of twilltone and more interest to those writing them and mimeo ink? those mentioned in them, than to the general readership. Now as far as I’m Thirty one pages of priceless faanish concerned one Huge exception to that prose is what you can get by is con reports written by Arnie Katz. downloading this zine from eFanzines. His often eccentric mixture of Thirty one pages by one of our most reality/fantasy/faanishness might not underrated talents. I’d be remiss not to be to the taste of everyone but I’ve mention the excellent Rotsler illos always found them a complete delight. scattered throughout the issue. Corflatch Considered as a Helix of Semi- Precious Stones (A Corflu 2000 Report) But don’t read what I’m saying about has to be one of the most delightful, this zine (hah, great advice two interesting, thought provoking con sentences from the end of the review), reports I’ve ever read. What a complete read the zine itself and make up your delight! own mind. But don’t forget that feedback to Arnie, he certainly deserves Arnie toned down the “fantasy” aspects it. Rarely has any convention report of his con adventures in this report so made me so annoyed over having in that regard I suppose we could missed the con... We’re At War It has a little spine damage but I’m not sure what else to say. I had a otherwise is in fine shape...not super rather long article on France’s place in rare these days but fairly hard to find. American history which I erased as it’s (I should have several other editions now too “dated”. I’m not about to around but, if memory serves, I attempt an editorial concerning our rescued those out of a library trash can latest “adventure” in Iraq. Like most when they discarded them back in the Americans I wish no harm to our late '60s or so). It was a “find” as it troops, but then neither do I have any had been completely buried in a box ill will towards those Iraqis defending filled with old C-64 software and long their homeland. out of date computer mags for that machine. I’m glad I looked before I I find war so costly, so dangerous to a pitched. nation’s well being that it should not be indulged in lightly. We’re still paying I ended up trashing boxes of old C-64 off debts incurred during our Civil War, software. There doesn’t even seem to our great grandchildren will long be be a market for that software on e-Bay. paying off this war. Hopefully it’ll be And I thought you could sell just about worth it. Only time will tell. As Bruce anything there! Pelz would say, “the dK position”. When we first moved in I put bookcases on three of the garages four walls and The Advantage two nearly four foot high cases (back to of back) down the center...those were all Being Broke filled with pbs, mags and misc hardcovers (mainly non-SF). A small An afternoon bookhunting is an single garage too... What I hadn’t afternoon well spent. But like most counted on was moving a couple of types of “hunting” there is a certain truckloads of misc. unsorted stuff (all amount of expense involved....and within an hours time) into the garage. being fairly broke lately I’ve had to Into every odd corner I could stuff a work off my bibliophile disorder by box or pile into. Adding four foot of cleaning/clearing/sorting out our messy boxes on top of what had been garage. fairly neat bookcases. I just found a box mainly stuffed with I had planned on sorting it out before '52 and '53 Galaxys...those were great putting it away, what I hadn’t counted years for the mag. Lots of great on was an unexpected rain storm. That rereading here. But for now I’m going forced me to put it away no matter to leave it packed and put it up in where. Quickly, way too quickly. Then storage. of course that was eleven years ago and little work has been done on the garage And speaking of finding things in my since then. At the worse it got down to garage, I just discovered a copy (one of crowded pathways with all the several I own “somewhere”) of Little bookcases buried under unsorted Black Sambo (A New Story of Little Black boxes. Sambo), illos by Earnest Vetsch, copyright by Whitman 1926). If I have nothing better to do it can always provide me with an hour or two worth of book hunting. I can only take I’m not going to try to explain Keeler, about two hours working in the garage I’ll let Ramble House try to do it for me (and that’s with long breaks). The (lazy dK, lazy dK)...he’s unique, and at damn dust really starts getting to me times very funny (or very weird, or very after awhile. The garage door has weirdly funny...you catch my drift I’m never been shut in the last eleven years sure.) for one thing. Even some fanzines turned up in the Are there any Marcus Van Heller fans odd box. I found a copy of The Robert out there? I dug up his Adam and Eve Bloch Fanzine from ‘72. I’ve wondered porno novel...it's interesting as the for years where that had disappeared publishing company, Collectors to. Now I’ll have a chance to read it (if I Publication was in Covina in July of '67 don’t misplace it again). Just looking when this edition came out).