Proper Boskonian 37 01 8? <> WORKS op FICWN q I! JU us 5 F E? ?<s> o SJJ sf >5 luS F2 il? s *3. ^71 isjs -r-.f ’cJ Ss VST^" TS=a= ’>B*t»i4 RsS «? 5 i? F 3» ■'' \S \aMUl £W-^ 8 s ’ ■{€>*< h ^Awemm3f si *Wol1 S'* s"- S3 COMVftflAMfOkkS WITH >lwM>'6|8 JWENVIEoF * uLEVJTAUONfi’ o iMfc »«AZJH6r At>v£>rrupcj CF CAPTAIM MftM‘1 Mia' fit^PYS I^^JTIONCK 5Te/wPAMFHlfi 0COK of PoPUptA AHf> MCA. 'XfrUUlK. Mt $ TORY Iwi RjfcPiP SPAMiEL yflfir WONfcK T>/ 2 W <nC CllW d-iAM-rft *V'/ *N> PYamfc OF B&cci^ >P Or Kow io Pin L3Q-QJ MMWt» SA vvTi IM 22^22*’^ ie©i ‘•Wo -2.60S op avhousend a Surprises. Featuring the Art of Ian Gunn 1996 Hugo Nominee The New England Science Fiction Association invites you to join us at: BOSKONE 34 JohnM. Ford Guest of Honor Official Artist Ron Walotsky Tom Smith - Featured Filk Performer February 14-16,1997 Sheraton Tara, Framingham MA John HI. Ford is the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning The Dragon Waiting and "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station", Nebula Award finalist Fugue State, and a wide range of science fiction and fantasy novels, stories, poetry and songs, including Growing Up Weightless, the Casting Fortune collection and other tales set in the Liavek shared world, and How Much For Just The Planet? (a Star Trek novel in which no one dies of anything... but embarrassment). Ron Walotsky has produced exciting and insightful cover art for almost 30 years, most recently for Ancient Echoes (Robert Holdstock), Panda Ray (Michael Kandel), Temporary Agency (Rachel Pollack), The 37th Mandala (Marc Laidlaw), and Primary Inversion (Catherine Asaro). His latest projects also include a collection of the Comic Images "Starquest" series game cards. Tom Smith is a midwestem musician with a flair for parody, a keen sense of the absurd, and a truly evil genius for sneaky puns in such songs as "I Want to be Peter Lorre", "Domino Death", and "Divine Irregularity". You've been warned. Boskone 34 will also be hosting FanHistoricon, a mini-con dedicated to preserving and recording fannish history. We'll be including program items and discussions, and a Time Binders meeting is also planned - all are welcome. MEMBERSHIPS: $34 through 1/19/97. Make checks payable to Boskone 34. We also accept VISA and MasterCard. Please don’t mail cash. 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Leeper 10 are service marks of the World Science Fiction Upcoming New England Conventions 21 Society (WSFS), an unincorporated literary society. Orbita Dicta by Bob Devney 22 Copyright © 1996 by the New England Science Recommended Reading by Mark Olson FN 25 Fiction Association, Inc. (NESFA); all rights Contributors to PB 37 27 reserved. Space ★ Time Buccaneers by Ian Gunn 28 All bylined articles copyright © 1996 by their authors Collecting Science Fiction and Fantasy Art and printed here by permission. All artwork copyright by Thomas A. Endrey 32 © 1996 by the artists and used here by permission. The Pros and Cons of Fan-to-Pro Transition by Michael A. Burstein 34 All opinions expressed herein are the opinions of the Letters, letters and more letters: individuals, and do not represent the views of NESFA. Richard Newsome 36 Harry Cameron Andruschak 36 This zine is available as part of NESFA membership Tom Endrey 36 ($16 a year for subscribing members); or for a Teddy Harvia 37 contribution of writing, art, and/or LoC; $3.00 per Joseph T Major 37 issue; trade and/or editorial whim. Lloyd Penney 39 PB 38 will be out around Worldcon (this year). R-Laurraine Tutihasi 39 The issue will highlight the writings of James Phil Stephensen-Payne 40 Blish. Reviews and material about him are Sheryl Birkhead 41 welcome. Harry Warner Jr. 41 Brad W. Foster 42 PB 39 will be out in December. Boskone 34 Ray Bowie 42 Guest of Honor John M. Ford will be highlighted. Bob Devney 43 Reviews of his work are wanted. Artists Non-members, an * on your label means you are about to be dropped. You must send me Ian Gunn Front Cover, 2,7, 9, 27, 33, 35, 36, something or you will not receive the next issue. 38, 40, 41, 44, and Back Cover Teddy Harvia 32 Joe Mayhew FN 27 Editorial Ramblings by Kenneth Knabbe Joseph T Major's letters are the kind most fanzines find hard to get. Lengthy discussions that add to what the last Over the past year PB has been fortunate to include issue contained. Just the sort of dialog an editor strives for. material from six people on this years Hugo ballot. As you Besides doing Iocs, Joseph also does book reviews for consider your ballot (please do vote!), let me point out Fosfax on a regular basis. their work. Since the appearance of his Hugo-nominated story, This issue's feature artist, Ian Gunn, has been doing art "TeleAbsence", in the July 1995 Analog, Michael A. since at least 1989. (That's the earliest date on what he sent Burstein has been in Mimosa 17 (available on-line at me.) Most of the art in this issue is 1991 or later, with the http://www.fentonnet.com/smithway/fstuff/other.html), and back cover being a new 1995 piece. Episode five of is now a regular in PB. His next professional sale, the "Space-Time Buccaneers" is in the most recent issue of novelette "Broken Symmetry," will appear in Analog early Thyme, which regularly contains his art. Mimosa 18 has a next year. In the meantime, we just agreed on the topic for new wraparound cover by him, and you can often find his work in Fosfax. Ian has also been doing a lot of the art for the Australia in '99 Worldcon bid. With any luck, he will become a regular contributor to PB. Teddy Harvia won the Best Fan Artist Hugo last year at Intersection, and his art in PB 35 and 36 shows why. His art is crisp and often has a humorous side. Much of the art in Speaking of next issue, it will be mailed in late the LoneStarCon 2 progress reports has been by him. In September. With any luck, I will have some advance copies addition, he has done many of the ads for Boston in 2001. at L.A.con III. The issue will feature the work of James Hopefully he will find time to send me some more soon. Blish. (Reviews or comments on his work are wanted.) Joe Mayhew has the distinction of being the only There will be a special back cover by Joe Mayhew, a person to be in every issue of PB since number 27. In 1995 filksong by Denise A. Gendron, 20TH CENTURY Joe branched out. Besides all the art in fanzines, and the DRYAD by Talis Kimberley & Fox, art by Anna Hillier and hand-carved staves and walking sticks he had in many East Patricia Pierce-Phillips, and of course more fanzine Coast art shows, his art appeared on T-shirts and tote bags. reviews. All this and a few more surprises are coming your He is also the person who has done most of the art for way in September. Bucconeer. In his 20+ years as a fan artist, this is only the In December, the work of Boskone 34 GOH John Ford second time he has been on the ballot. Joe will be going to will be featured. You still have time to read his work and L.A.con III, and we wish him well. The back cover of next get me reviews. This is your opportunity to let others know issue will contain a new piece he did especially for PB. what books they should be trying to get at Boskone. The convention reports of Evelyn C. Leeper have been a Last words: Since it is sometimes a year between when welcome part of PB for six issues now. Her detailed and someone sends me material and when I use it, let me list the in-depth descriptions of panels have been well received. people who have material in the files for future use. Brad With most conventions doing at least three tracks of Foster, Joe Mayhew, Ian Gunn, and Sheryl Birkhead. As the program, even for those of us who went to the conventions perfect spot presents itself, their art will be used. Notice that she covers, her reports help fill in on interesting parts we I am short on articles? Three assignments for the September missed.