2 File 770:111 Special Year End Clearance File 770:111 is edited by Mike Glyer ing about twenty of us went to Ana­ Editor's Notes at P.O. Box 1056, Sierra Madre, CA heim and toured the Convention 91025. File 770 is available for news, by Mike Glyer Center, Hilton and Marriott. The artwork, arranged trades, or by sub­ projects haven't stopped since then: scription. Subscriptions cost $8.00 September Song: The days dwindle down the newest is Progress Report 4. for 5 issues, $15 for 10 issues, to a precious few, says the song. And it's mailed first class in North America or surface mail rates overseas. Air quite late, when a newzine hasn't pub­ The demands of L.A.con III on my printed matter service is available for lished since September.... File 770 stayed time are obviously only going to in­ $2.50 per issue. Telephone: (818) on a bimonthly schedule the first eight crease over the next nine months. It 355-3090; CompuServe 72557,1334; months of-this year. I found the jobs of might be neater to put the zine on GEnie M.GLYER worldcon chair and newzine editor sur­ hiatus than to promise it will keep prisingly compatible until I hit the wall at appearing at unpredictable intervals. Intersection. But publishing this fanzine is my most ART CREDITS enjoyable fannish outlet. The scales I have worked on this issue between two would really tilt out of balance if I fell Ray Capella - Cover, 21 and six hours every week since Intersec­ out of contact with the people who Steve Fox - 3, Back cover tion. But it takes me eighty hours of work enjoy File 770. Expect to keep seeing Bill Rotsler - 12. to produce an issue and there's a brutal it. truth in dividing eighty by six. A cold equation. So here's a great metropolitan Hugo Nominations: Speaking of Prog­ BucConeer: 1998 Worldcon newzine publishing its Intersection report ress Report 4, it will contain the Hu­ two days before New Year's. go nominating ballot. I've asked a lot Baltimore won the right to host of people for advice, and quite un­ the 1998 Worldcon (see page 8). The first six weeks after I returned from characteristically of fans, most of the The con's nickname will be Buc­ Intersection was devoted to organizing people I asked had no opinion wheth­ Coneer. Its guests of honor are: L.A.con Ill's first general committee er I should remain eligible for a Hugo CJ. Cherryh, Milton A. Rothman, meeting. For any other size of convention, while chairing the con. Stanley Schmidt, Michael Whelan. having meetings of the full committee is The Toastmaster will be Charles the rule. Contemporary worldcons divide At least since 1973 that I know of, Sheffield. The 56th worldcon will the work among divisions that are larger when the Glicksohns were on the be held Wednesday, August 5 than most regional concoms, and include worldcon committee, fandom has through Sunday, August 9, 1998. fans from a very wide geographic area. recognized that the awards can be One side effect of this is to make it more administered by an autonomous sub­ Membership rates: Supporting difficult for everyone to feel the same committee, leaving the rest of the $30; Attending $80; Child $40 sense of community that comes from committee eligible for Hugos without (ages 4-12). Children who will be working on smaller conventions. Even a any taint on the integrity of the pro­ less than 4 years old on August 5, meeting of one of the working groups like cess. 1998 will be given free admission. the worldcon Program Division requires Children who will be 13 years or some people to fly cross-country. The call L.A.con III also has an autonomous older on August 5, 1998 must buy on people's time and money to attend a Hugo administering subcommittee. By a regular attending membership. general worldcon committee meeting is not naming myself to it I could have All children must be in child care, great, but the benefits also can be great. remained eligible for the award. In children's programming (ages 4 reality, I would not feel comfortable and above), or be accompanied by On October 14, over 100 fans converged winning an award at a convention I a parent or other responsible on the LASFS Clubhouse (some traveling chaired. That's not to say I assume adult at all times while attending from the Bay Area, Boston and New that I would win anything, but it's the BucConeer. York) to meet and get to know each logical thing for a nominee to hope to other better, and hear about our facilties happen! So I am withdrawing from The con's mailing address is: Buc­ and plans. Fans shed their old sense of consideration for the 1996 awards. Coneer, P.O. Box 314, Annapolis being disconnected names on a chart or, Junction, MD 20701. The con's e- at best, an e-mail address. Now we have mail address is: baltimore98^acc- faces. Joyce Sperling and her crew fired ess.digex.net. Its web page address up the barbecue after the meeting and the is: http://www.access.digex.net/ - smoffing (and cardplaying, and Magic) balt98 went on past midnight. Then in the morn­ December 1995 3 Intersection - The 1995 Worldcon by Mike Glyer Over the Sea to Skye: Glasgow isn’t all that big, but if a fan convention center, a well-staffed registration area to move fans doesn’t know the way around he may do what I did: ask a cab along, and many hospitable touches including a wine reception to take me to a print shop that I contacted through the yellow after Opening Ceremonies. pages, and eight left-hand turns later discover the place was only three blocks from my hotel. The weekend’s only calamity was beyond any fan’s power to prevent. Being in an unfamiliar country can be inconvenient, even daunting. If someone besides the committee had been reading The Death of John Brunner: A stroke hospitalized John Intersection committee e-mail from "She who must be obeyed" Brunner on Friday morning and he passed away around 5 and the division head who ended every post "Warning: you p.m., with his wife, LiYi, and two friends by his side. have entered a tact-free zone" they might have found that daunting, too. But in reality, Martin Easterbrook and Vince Everyone was shocked, for everyone had seen Brunner on the Docherty’s committee made extensive preparationsto welcome first day of the convention, talked to him, made plans to be the world’s sf fans: shuttle buses from the main hotels to the with him later in the weekend. I sat near him at Opening 4 File 770:111 1995 Worldcon Attendance The Intersection committee gave the following attendance figure after the con. In the right-hand column, these figures are compared to attendance at the last U.K. Worldcon in 1987 (Conspiracy). Intersection Conspiracy A. Members of all types (B+C+D+E) 7012 5452 B. Registered Attending (incl no-shows) 4985 4631 C. Registered Supporting 1259 542 D. Day Admissions 688 238 E. Other types (children etc) 80 41 F. No-Shows (Reg. Att. who didn't come) 1139 839 (Press or corporate visitors are not included the membership totals above.) Warm bodies at-con (B-F+D+E+Freebies) 4800 4200 Ceremonies. Matthew Tepper enlisted him as guest of honor memorial to John Brunner without leaving a cloud over the for a Hogu Ranquet (an annual awards parody). Jane Jewell Hugo ceremony." Samuel Delany also started his GoH speech passed by an opportunity to take his photo on Thursday night - on Saturday with heartfelt remarks about the loss of Brunner. - the last chance, as it turned out. After Brunner’s death, Mary Turzillo found the "very nice note" he left for her in the Brunner’s funeral took place September 6 at the Dean Cre­ convention message center saying he would try to make it to matorium, in Taunton, UK. His widow encouraged "fannish the poetry readings. and professional tributes [in] the tangible form of financial contributions to Friends of Foundation towards a John Brunner Several people on the committee were incapacitated with grief, Memorial." some to their own surprise. Brunner had a reputation for being one of the 20% of the guests who make 80% of the work for An Epistle About an Abyssal: Samuel Delany began his program organizers, though never in an angry way and he guest of honor speech on Saturday afternoon with the subject showed his appreciation — for example, he shared pate and on everyone’s mind, the death of John Brunner. "I have lost crackers with the program staff one morning at the 1990 a very good friend this weekend," said Delany, who had his Worldcon. Some fans who tried to keep on working in the own memories of John’s last day: after making a few remarks con’s short-handed Green Room simply broke down and were at opening ceremonies, Delany returned to his front row seat cared for by co-workers. and Brunner had reached over, tapped him on the shoulder and told him, "Well done." The Intersection committee struggled with how to acknowl­ edge this emotional earthquake. I think they were wise to turn Delany said he was 24 when he first met Brunner. Delany aside from the idea of a memorial service. Instead, they came to England after a trip to Greece and went straight to accepted Bob Silverberg’s offer to eulogize Brunner, and knock on Brunner’s door.