Hello gang! Welcome to the World Science Fiction Convention. If you do not have a wonderful time here, it will be your own fault. To you readers, we have tried to give this great opportunity to meet the men and women who create the most fas cinating literature of all, science li< tion. Authors and artists, here is your chance to get acquainted with a representative slice of your leading public. And you editors, here r tin chance of a lifetime to watch aulhm and reader get together and bailie il out, with your own two cent iai limn unwelcome. So, come on and ret i<> gether, science fiction fans readm artists, authors, editors and mal ■ this the best bang-up convention ev» i held. And we want to lake llii oppm tunity, too, to give mu hc.niHli thanks Io the publisher'. edilm a ill hors, tirl isls, and rcadei ■, ol ■.( ii’in c fiction, w'lhoul whose ndvet I islup and contributions this program and Ihin convention could mil have been imid> ii reality. We want everyone Io have an enjoyable liner dm ami win n I In I Imc < omc Io my 1 I ii ewell we hope you will all loul Imw.nd III i blggei and belli I i mivcnl Inn in lime , In tiiliir. / In Memory of
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