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Prolapse 11, Mostly About ‘Science Fiction’ (You Remember) Brought to You by Peter Weston, 53 Wyvern Road, Sutton Coldfield, B74 2PS (Tel; 0121 354 6059) “Prolapse ... once again did its best to ruin a morning's work” - Chris Priest, LoC Vargo Statten Magazine has come in yet!" Follow George Locke’s hunt for science fiction in 1950s London - With the usual apologies to ‘Giles ’ INSIDE: ‘A Boy and his Bike’ by George Locke; ‘Forbidden Planet and other Creations’ by Stan Nicholls; ‘Think I’m Going Back’ by Greg Pickersgill; PLUS; Peter Roberts, Chuck Connor, Brian Varley, and more. This is Prolapse 11, mostly about ‘science fiction’ (you remember) brought to you by Peter Weston, 53 Wyvern Road, Sutton Coldfield, B74 2PS (Tel; 0121 354 6059). Once again we’re breathing new life into some very old bones and I’m hoping you’ll be motivated into sending a LoC and your reminiscences to me at pr.weston@,btintemet.com. This remains a ‘Paper First’ fanzine but I’m e-mailing an increasing number of pdfs these days and the issue goes onto the eFanzines website (with coloured pictures, yet) a month after paper copies have been posted out. Prolapse travels the time-stream to explore British SF fan-history. Chief Researcher; Greg Pickersgill. Assistant Deputy Researcher (1st class); Mark Plummer. “I opened the Prolapse envelope with quivering, salacious anticipation.” - Ian Watson, LoC While working on this issue (well, so I was watching Run, Fat Boy, Run, but I was thinking about doing some work, honest) Ian Sorensen called and was kind enough to advise me that at Corflu in Las Vegas it had just been announced that Prolapse had won the ‘FAAN’ Award for ‘Best Fanzine’. Goshwow! At first I think Eileen was more pleased than I was because my initial reaction was mild disbelief that a convention dominated by American fanzine fans should have voted for something which a) hardly ever mentions America and b) only goes to a handful of U.S. readers (and rarely prints their LoCs, either). I suppose it shows that people do look at Prolapse on Bill’s site after all, even though they never write to me about it. But now the news has sunk in and I AM very pleased, of course; while I produce this thing primarily for my own satisfaction and enjoyment rather than to win awards, it’s always nice to be appreciated! My thanks to everyone who voted! So no, I didn’t go to Corflu after all. I’d looked forward to it for months but when push came to book I weighed-up all the other things which I ought to be doing at that time of year and mundanity won. Still, I did have a good time at the Orbital Eastercon which may seem surprising after my comments elsewhere about ‘Big Tent’ conventions - and Orbital was a very big tent indeed, with something like 1300 attending. It worked for me, partly because I was kept so busy. I was on six panels, starting with ‘Reassessing Heinlein’ (which drew a good audience in the main hall, though I noticed Malcolm Edwards sneaking out at the halfway mark) and going on with ‘Save the Planet’ in which to Joseph Nicholas’ considerable surprise I kept agreeing with him (and that’s a first). Then there was something called ‘Crossing the Streams’ where I was the Bad Guy who argued with Graham Sleight and everyone else that there is a fundamental difference between SF and fantasy and yes, it does matter. That one was recorded for Vector and I’m eagerly awaiting the transcript. It also helped that just about everyone I wanted to see was there, enough of us (and enough fannish programming) so that we could get together in that room fourth floor (once we found it!) and talk about the BSFA and fanzines to our heart’s content. As Keith Freeman said, the con worked because it was almost like a series of mini-cons under one roof. Extra bonuses for me came with the get-together of the IntheBar crowd in the hotel across the road on Saturday lunchtime and Gerry & Mali Webb’s three-hour champagne party in their room on the Sunday, during the course of which I developed a novel and entirely useless psi power... but maybe I’ll have room for that story7 next time. After it was all over, Greg Pickersgill (who features large in this issue, and who is sometimes a Hard Man to Please) was musing that some of the con-reports he’d read about Orbital made it sound like “a whole load of things that apparently happened in some other country at the same time as 1 was at the convention.” Greg wrent on to say that “the expectations and background of the average convention attendee at an Eastercon are now so outside our own (and I of course use 'our' as shorthand for 'me') that there’s almost no point commenting on it, nor especially whinging about it. Fandom is conclusively a different place now and that's it. But the need remains; I'd love to go to even a 1970s-style convention again. Or even an early Mexican, where SF and fandom were treated as one and the same, indivisible. I’d even be happy with a MiScon event (well, an early one anyway, before The Influx) where everyone did everything and there was a presumption that we were all interested in both SF and fandom. Is it possible to re-do any of that, albeit for a perhaps smaller and ever-shrinking audience? I even want Peter Weston to run or even licence his ReRePeterPeterCon]ust so us over-40s have somewhere to be in a warm puddle of shared enthusiasms.” Jim Linwood helpfully suggested, “There’s always The George at Kettering. Is there still time to celebrate the 1958 Cytricon IF? 1 don't see why fans of an uncertain age should be excluded provided they dress-up in clothes of the period and can handle a zap gun.” And just like that, fans, it seems we’re going to have a 50th anniversary celebration at Kettering. Eileen and I visited The George that same weekend and walked around consulting old photographs and trying to work out where so much fannish merriment had taken place. Some things have changed - the Devil's Kitchen has become the hotel reception area and it looks as if the original bar has recently been ripped-out. However the main con hall seems almost unaltered and I walked around touching the pillars in awe - this was where the BSFA was founded! But gosh, wasn’t it small! I've provisionally booked the two nights Friday/Saturday 3-5th October, the idea being (as with ReRePetercori) that we arrive on Friday afternoon, have a meal together that evening and spend Saturday doing fannish stuff, leaving on the Sunday. “Call it Cytricon Vf I wrote, and automatically invited is “everyone who ever attended a Kettering event, and all those people who were around at the time but who somehow never got to Kettering. It's also open to more recent fans who understand the deep mythic significance of Kettering to fannish culture in Britain.” Response has been good and if you’re interested and haven’t already signed-up, do get in touch with me RSN and I’ll send you all the details. // PW 12/5/2008 LOOKING BACKWARD: Next issue is on London fandom, with Bruce Burn’s epic ‘The Wandering Ghu’, his eye-witness account of arriving in Britain from New Zealand in 1960. There’ll be reprint articles from Ken Bulmer and Arthur Thomson, and Greg Pickersgill’s entry in the ‘Forgotten Fans’ series, this time featuring Alan Dodd - the ‘Hermit of Hoddesdon’. 2 At the Orbital Eastercon Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer arranged a clever series of discussions with the titles ‘It was 50 years ago today..’ ‘...40 years ago..’, and so on, to mark the 50th anniversary of the BSFA. I moderated the first session and we were a bit handicapped because (in the absence of Ina) we didn’t actually have anyone on our panel who had been there in 1958, but nonetheless Rob Hansen, Jim Linwood and I bravely put forward our theories about how it all came about. Ad-libbing furiously, I said the surprising thing was that the BSFA hadn’t taken off more rapidly than it did. And then someone mentioned the situation in 1974 when a notice in Science Fiction Monthly caused such a flood of enquiries that the membership secretary promptly went gafia. What was the difference? Greg Pickersgill was intrigued and started a discussion on the wegenheim e-list which led to some surprising conclusions. ?Y(H should join the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION!’ Greg & PW on the ‘40 years ago’ panel. Photo by Rob Hansen. Greg wrote: “I was at a convention the other day, and it was not organised by the BSFA. (In some other slice of reality it was, but where did ours go wrong?). I was intently watching Peter Weston, see, as usual, and he was as usual being Peter on a panel, talking for all the world as if with authority about 1958 and the Ur-moment of the BSFA. It was all very interesting and we wondered, via PRW, exactly why the BSFA had never attracted large numbers of members. In the early days, we know from the membership lists, many if not most were arguably obligation or tithe members in much the same way that some of us buy Foundation today. Or belong to the BSFA come to that. They were mostly known fans, by and large, and while the membership did swell over the first few years there is no sign at all of there being at any point a Great Leap Forward as the thousands of SF readers (who we know existed because they were the paying customers for such as New Worlds and Science Fantasy and yea even unto \he Astounding BRE, never mind the books) came to know of the BSFA's existence.
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