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We Dear Jim & Barbara, done-its” rather than “who-done-its” will be visiting our son John and his Len but the stories he once wrote for family in Wallingford, Connecticut, the pulps and the slicks included There certainly is a connecting Bruce Pelz recalls for me the first in early September, and I was s-f, mystery and suspense, bond between science fiction and days I came to LA, joined the dub, going to go over to the convention westerns, adventure, etc. mystery fiction—and their fandoms. met you and Bjo Tremble, and the for two or three days. However, I When I was young I wasn’t The first mystery fiction convention, rest, and first met my future wife will not be able to now. passionately devoted to reading. the Anthony Boucher Memorial Barbara. Bruce was an abrasive Reading with the machine is Science-fiction, fantasy, and Mystery Convention aka personality but smart, and ahead of much slower than normal. I got rid mystery fiction have been what I BoucherCon (and nowadays it is the rest of the world on “Lord of the of all the books I had read (250 or also called the World Mystery liked to read for as long as I can Rings". JH so) and also sold most of my remember, as well as westerns, Convention!) was created and put magazines, except for Analog. on by science fiction fans who also sea stories, high adventure, BOB PETERSON Best, happened to be mystery fiction historical novels, and on into the Bob fans. night. I won’t take up time and I just received the most recent That was back in 1970 in the space to mention my preferences / hope you will consider continuing in non-fiction. First Fandom Quarterly. Here is a Los Angeles area. The next two Notes and your other writings by One of the main similarities letter for the next issue. I am were also put on by the same crew recording onto a cassette tape. between s-f and mystery are the having to quit publishing my Notes (Bruce Pelz, June and me with Before my cataracts were stories where problems have to be from Bob Peterson due to macular help from various fans and the diagnosed and I had lens solved in order to arrive at a degeneration. It started last local MWA chapter), the fourth was replacements, I could only read on satisfactory ending. One uses summer with a burst blood vessel in Boston with Bob Briney chairing the computer by enlarging the some sort of super science (or in my left eye, and until January I it, and the fifth in Oakland with image. I know how frustrating pseudo-science) and the other could still drive and read with a Adrienne Martine-Barnes as the insufficient vision is, but it is uses detection, deduction, or magnifying glass, but in early chairperson. important for you to compensate sometimes dumb luck, or all of the January my right eye started going On the pro side, a number of and continue. I will personally above. bad and I had to quit driving and I pulp magazine authors wrote both transcribe your submissions to this now have a magnifying machine to s-f and mystery or crime fiction and We hope that you two had as read by. Even large print books I column from a voice tape. some wrote in other genres too, good a time at Left Coast Crime Barbara such as westerns and adventure (mystery fandom's version of the have to use the machine for. fition, etc. Our late friend, John D. WesterCon) as we did. We It has been an interesting 20 or SAM J. LUNDWALL MacDonald is a good example. He certainly enjoyed your radio show so years I have had with Notes. I wrote for a variety of magazines panel and seeing old friends like have corresponded with several DearJim, before he made his name and Dick and Pat Lupoff made the old timers, including E. Hoffman Many thanks for Scientifiction - fame in hardcovers and paper­ convention even more enjoyable Price and Ross Rocklynne. I always a great pleasure to receive, for us. always heard from Harry Warner 4 5 of 120 pieces a day which was booked in at the Con Hotel. living as I do far away in the North. for cash. I mentioned my interest costing me both time and money The piece on fanzines covered Makes me rather nostalgic, too... in the radio and movie versions of just deleting the stuff. one I had never heard of, but that's I first found fandom and became Tom Mix and he began sending me SPECIAL NOTE I'll put this in not unusual. active more than 50 years ago. Of valuable old Swedish editions of most e-mails for a while. Do not Many thanks for another good course, in those days there were Tom Mix comics for free. After use my old address (erg40 etc) as issue. no US science fiction anywhere; I several, I told him I couldn’t have it is choked with spam. For some Terry Jeeves didn't know there existed any such him giving away so much to me. JH reason my new address tends to thing. The big names SF names send out the old one, so please Emails with attachments came in were (and are still for me) the RON SMALL make sure you are writing to the from people whose names we French (Jules Verne, Andre Laurie, following one .... Please use my knew but if you open them - BAM Camille Flammarion), the British (H Good issue! And for those new address - you got the Virus. It goes into G Wells, John Wyndham), the members to appreciate Arthur [email protected] your address book and sends all a Germans (Kurd Lasswitz, Hans Clarke's wistful references to his I met Hal Clement at the 1980 copy of itself. Our Norton Anti-Virus Dominik), the Hungarians (Maurus dogs, I recommend that they read Noreascon when he met Vai and I prevented anything going OUT, but Jokai), the Russians (Belayev etc). his short "Dog Star"....a highly at Logan airport and ferried us to kept the computer too busy for And of course the Scandinavian sf moving story. the Sheraton. He also offered us anything else. A professional authors, of which there were quite Ron Small the run of his house, but we removed the vims for $65. a number in those days. Oh well. declined his generous offer as not Suspicious attachments still come. What I really wanted to do, was Clarke has always been one of my only was it out of town, but we had ...My two new books below. JH to notify you of an address change. favorite authors. We appreciate My wife and I have moved from his sending- letters to our - let’s central Stockholm to a house in face it - tiny circulation fanzine.
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