sprit, 1985 inicon— Digest INSIDE: MY MOST UNFORGETABLE GOH; THE UNDISCUSSED CONDITION--GAFIA! EXERCIZES YOU CAN DO AT MINICON; AT THE MOVIES; AND MORE! lepomrE ot& -y " hy a’ — * net SoAE *@&AY Sry cy& —~ Weed)aN meee | "LET'S YOU AND | GET NORMAL FOR A CHANGE" MiNIcON 20 APRIL 5, 6 & 7, 1985 ACE FANTASY LET'S YOU AND | GET NORMAL FOR A cHANGE! is roud to ublish PRO GOH: JAMES P. HOGAN these new werks from FAN GOH: THE PERMANENT THE MINNEAPOLIS CLUBee! CLUB |FANTASY WRITERS’ | MUSICIAN GOH: THE WHITE} GROUP | WOMEN seas wens FOEen ARTIST GOH: STU SHIFFMAN TOASTMASTER: WILL SHETTERLY Cats Have No Lord JERRY STEARNS PATRICIA C.WREDE & KARA DALKEY The Harp of Imach Thyssel FARIS JAMES P. HOGAN - PRO GUEST OF HONOR “Rich, MY MOST WAFORGETTARLE GOR - beautiful, original.” ~ Piers Anthony BY GERRI BALTER AND HERMAN SCHOUTEN “Outstanding!” Andre Norton Both Herman and Tf selves rather than “Engaging cia had been fans of James destroy ourselves. Publishers Weekly P. Hogan long before We both liked the we met him. We bought fact that the future his first book, In- depicted in Hogan's herit the Stars, be- books is a hopeful cause it looked inter- one. Of course’ there esting. By the time are problems, but the we finished it, we solutions are pos- were hooked on the itive, not negative. series and the author. We also enjoyed I was impressed seeing the individual by the fact that [ portrayed as being found it difficult to important. In Hogan's figure out where sci-~ stories the big corp- MICHAEL REAVES ence fact ended and orations may commis- A millennium ago magicians foughta war, and smashed the world into a thousand pieces. science fiction began, sion the technology Horrified at the destruction, It was not a matter of and pay for it, but it they set the fragments to floating about each other is the individual who in the Abyss and supplied them with suspending my dis- an atmosphere that men and beasts could breathe. belief; it was more a does the inventing and Butthat was long ago. matter of wondering if implementation, and in a thousand years even sorcerers grow old, he were privy to who takes responsi- and so do their speils. Already pieces of the Shattered World information that had bility for the con- begin to collide... not been made public sequences, yet. Needless to. say, Herman liked the we were anxious to fact that Hogan was meet James P, Hogan. pro-technology, and We finally got that that he always wrote chance at Constel- about technology that lation (much to. our helped us improve our- surprise, since he was MARCH 559516 - 416 pp. - $3.50 4 _ not on the list of for a few minutes, I pros we received be- forgot all about being fore the con). We nervous. He was warn, were walking around outgoing, articulate The ultimate the Meet The Pros and lots of fun to Party, trying to read talk with. He really multi-player name tags without much enjoys talking with success, when I sud- fans and is willing computer denly spotted one that and eager to discuss a was easy to read: great many subjects “James P, Hogan". besides his writing. D&D game! I was a bit When you see James P, Hogan at nervous about ap- You've played the others alone at home, now it's proaching him, as I Minicon, go up and time to join the ultimate interactive quest... have had some strange start a conversation The Scepter of Goth Millieu on GamBit Timeshare. experiences with pros with him. You'll see Create your own character, then explore on your who really do not want what I mean for’ your- own or band with other players in real time as you to talk with fans. self. traverse the busy streets of Boldhome, the danger- After talking with him filled backroads outside of town, or the deadly Plane of Fire. In all, over 400 rooms and over 300 player/char- acters are waiting for you, along with Private electronic mail Over 30 bulletin boards A real-time talk parlour 7) BOOMS BY JAMES P. HOGAN Other on-line interactive games GamBit Timeshare has multiple phone lines, so (THIS IS ONLY A PARTIAL LIST OF WORK BY JAMES P. HOGAN. A you'll rarely get a busy signal. 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BY JEANNE MEALY Few speak of it, For many fans, preferring to ignore these activities are it and its victims, all that stand between hoping it won't touch them and a dry life of their lives. Yet it books, magazines, com- is said to strike most puters and mundanes, An Apocalyptic A Brilliantly fans, even the young, Because of this, the War That Has No Envisioned Future at some point in their thought of contracting End—from the Earth Where Disaster fannish life. Gafia. Gafia is terrifying to Brilliant Young Has Struck—and Authorofthe Star- 4 Onlya Handfulof The very word conjures those who are depen- up visions of self- dent on the benefits fishers Trilogy People Can Save the Human Race imposed exile, social of fannish social- PASSAGE suicide, death by izing. PANDORAS ennui. And yet the Yet, as with AT ARMS reluctance to discuss other such conditions, Glen Cook GENES this very Kathryn Lance real but these fears are ex- Acrossthefrontier of mis-understood phen- aggerated, Gafia can known space, an army Abandoned billions of soldiers strong machineslie omenon has led to much be prevented. Case implacably advancestowards the Con- és rusting, useless unnecessary fear and after case has shown federation’s worlds. And its mission? The withoutfuel. Humanity faces extinction as loathing. that those fans who total enslavementof all mankind. The only recombinant DNA runs rampant. Who can effective weapon the Confederation hasis the savethis future world?Is it the Principal, the Gafia, an acronym are happy with their “climber,” a stripped-down spaceship bristling brilliant leader who strives to keep man from for Getting Away From lives do not’ gafiate. with armaments, crewed by hardened and sliding back into savagery? Orthe Traders, hard-living fliers, who knowthey're engaged the religious cult that’s fanatically opposed to It All, and its cousin And there is hope in a do-or-die struggle. all scientific knowledge? Or the Garden,the Fafia (Forced Away that, with carefully: Passage at Armsis the pulse-raisingtale community of womenscientists wholive like From It All), are con- administered dosages of one such crew pursuing the enemyina warrior nunsas they search for genetic series of increasingly desperate encounters. answers? ditions in which a fan of Sensawonda, Gafia Relentlessly pursued by the enemy, they Ordoesthe futurelie with the fierce but gen- suddenly drops all fan can be cured, And mustyet get homesafely to their base— tle courier Zach and the woman-child Ewyy? if it still exists. activity. 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