Outworlds 2724 Susan A. Manchester: Unemployed in November the eclectic fanzine from 2725 Bill Bowers: Post-it Notes™ from an Unrepentant Fanzine Editor BILL BOWERS 2730 Patrick Nielsen Hayden: 1975 posthumously edited by 2732 Sherry Thompson: Fandom 101 Jeanne Bowman, Rich Coad, Alan Rosenthal, and Pat Virzi 2737 Bob Tucker: Beard Mumblings design, layout & production by 2742 Harry Warner, Jr.: The Notebooks of Lazarus Warner Pat Virzi 2746 The Three LoCcers ArtWorlds 2747 Gregory Benford: The Verily Dune [a column] Outworlds 71 Front Cover Graphic by Ditmar (Dick Jenssen) 2749 Gregory Benford: Thirty-Nine Years Later… ATom 2890 • Randy Bathurst 2725, 2925 • 2750 Skel: Thots in a Sunday Morning Drizzle Sheryl Birkhead 2806, 2856, 2863, 2872, 2873, 2751 Denny Lien: “Earliest Use of Term “Fanzine” per SaM 2875, 2888, 2898, 2911, 2913, 2916, 2919, 2922 • Grant Canfield 2729, 2902, 2904, 2905 • Jackie 2752 Chris Sherman: No Quarter Causgrove 2805 • Jim Cawthorn 2880 • Ditmar 2759 Wm. Breiding: Father and Son (Dick Jenssen) 2721 • Kurt Erichsen 2909, 2910, 2918 • Brad W. Foster 2808, 2819, 2762 Skel: Another Father, Another Son 2821, 2826, 2851, 2854, 2869, 2897 • Jack 2765 Stephen Leigh: A Quasi-Journal Gaughan 2789 • Mike Gilbert 2774, 2855, 2912 • Derek Grime 2742, 2853 • David R. Haugh 2728, 2776 “Faulty Bowers” (via Chris Sherman) 2750, 2751, 2800, 2836, 2837, 2840, 2857, 2858, 2777 Skel: From Our Gardening Correspondent… 2859, 2860, 2870, 2871, 2874, 2876, 2878, 2896, 2906, 2907, 2917 • Alan Hunter 2730, 2733, 2734, 2779 Devon Leigh: Interview with Tanya Huff 2735, 2736, 2752, 2779, 2780, 2781, 2784, 2932 2782 Joe Haldeman: Gordon R. Dickson (1923–2001) • Terry Jeeves 2777, 2844, 2845, 2846, 2848, 2849, 2852, 2884, 2914, 2928 • Vic Kostrikin 2744 2784 Bill Bowers: Off-line fanac • Ivor Latto 2765 • Linda Michaels 2850, 2900 2788 Seen on eBay in 2002 • Randy Mohr 2930 • Peggy Ranson 2723, 2727, 2792, 2881, 2923, 2926 • William Rotsler 2737, 2789 The Price of Fanac 2738, 2739, 2740, 2743, 2745, 2747, 2748, 2749, 2790 A.L. Sirois: Review of Outworlds 70 2755, 2766, 2767, 2768, 2769, 2770, 2771, 2772, 2773, 2775, 2776, 2796, 2801, 2802, 2830, 2793 …the Lettercol (as of March 26, 1999) 2831, 2838, 2839, 2841, 2842, 2843, 2847, 2882, In order of appearance: Mae Strelkov, Carolyn Doyle, Karen Johnson, Murray Moore, 2887, 2889, 2891, 2892, 2899, 2903, 2908, Lloyd Penney, Dave Rowe, Curt Phillips, Lenny Bailes, Dale Speirs, Ned Brooks, 2915, 2920, 2927, 2931 • Stu Shiffman 2901 E.B. Frohvet, Dave Locke, Michael W. Waite, Chris Sherman, Bruce R. Gillespie, • Craig Smith 2861 • Steve Stiles 2804, 2862 • Taral Wayne 2724, 2833, 2895 Larry Downes, Alan Hunter, Dave Rowe, Dick Jenssen, Richard Brandt, Susan A. Manchester, Brad W. Foster, Brian Earl Brown, Mike Glicksohn, Syd Bounds, George Photographs Flynn, rich brown, Gregory Benford, Arnie Katz, Lee Hoffman, Roger Waddington, Wm. Breiding 2759 • Christina H. Hionides 2760 • Stephen Leigh 2933 • Andrew Porter 2782 Jerry Kaufman, Skel, David R. Haugh, Wm. Breiding, Merlin Haas, Marty Cantor, • Chris Sherman 2757, 2758, 2776 • Ahrvid Engholm, Gary Deindorfer, Joe Christopher, Sandra Bond, Al Curry, Art Metzger, Skel 2762, 2763 • Michael W. Waite 2807 Milt Stevens, John Hertz, Irwin Hirsh, Patty Peters, Buck Coulson, Linda Krawecke, Joseph T Major, Sherry Thompson, Robert Lichtman, Lloyd Penney, Bob Smith, by Derek Carter Murray Moore, more Murray Moore, Mae Strelkov, and Harry Warner, Jr. I Also Heard From: Harry Andruschak, John D. Berry, Sheryl Birkhead, Jeanne Bowman, Pre-publication of this issue was made possible in G. Sutton Breiding, Kevin L. Cook, Dick Geis, Ed Gorman, Terry Jeeves, Randy large part by a 1998 donation from D Gary Grady Mohr, Jodie Offutt, Al Sirois, Craig Smith, Toni Weisskopf, Paul Williams, and to Bill Bowers, in memory of Lynn Hickman, Jackie Billy Wolfenbarger Causgrove, and Eleen Tackett. A large portion of Bill’s post-OW70 mailing costs were covered by the Plus sidebar email excerpts from Richard E. Geis, Joe R. Christopher, D Gary Grady, Michael Waite Centre for “Outdated” Postage Stamps. Bill Bowers, Wm. M. Breiding, and Alexander Yudenitsch 2932 Susan A. Manchester: Advertisement Outworlds 71 / Afterworlds is available by Editorial Whim, or $20 US via Amazon LoCs & Comments on this issue: Wm. Breiding will be publishing the Final Locs on Outworlds 71 / (proceeds to benefit the Fan Funds) Afterworlds in a final issue ofInWorlds . It will be produced as a print-on-demand zine and will go to all Copyright © 2020, by Pat Virzi, for the Contributors LoCcers/WAHFs. For completists who don’t LoC, it will available for purchase from Amazon for $5 (US). 213 Pages • Approximately 132,300 Words There is no timeline for publication date, but Wm. says he’ll likely wrap it up in a fairly timely manner after Published 11/11/2020 • “My Publication #227” OW71 has been published (“maybe six months?”). [email protected] | [email protected] Please send your LoCs and comments to both [email protected] and [email protected]. [ Peggy Ranson ] Outworlds 71 • 2723 Unemployed in November hot chocolate and a bum near me in the muffin shop on Bloor zero degrees and I wonder how he will feel when it is minus ten he watches me I wonder who he was the hot chocolate is just hot Turner and Porter funeral directors across the street people come in looking cold not nearly cold enough to die non-English speakers around me the bum talks to himself in a voice that comes from somewhere else “And I Love Her” on the radio is out of place for the bum and me he could wonder what I write if he wonders at all Ukranians in their crisp words in a country not their own no one is native here their chatter continues wonderful words there are no translations for I believe I might have worked at something by now my hot chocolate is gone —Susan A. Manchester 2724 • Outworlds 71 [ Taral Wayne ] Post-it Notes™ from an Unrepentant Fanzine Editor Bill Bowers HELLO. In the meantime, after a nap My name is Bill. and several hours reflection, I’m …and I’m a fanzine fan. beginning to accept the inevitable: Despite investing $4.70 per copy in August 26, 1998 less-than-crisp printing, that issue is done. March 15, 1999 LATE “LAST” NIGHT, having taken Move on, Bill. the masters for OW70 to the copy …A MONDAY, on the mundane MOVING ON has been helped, im- “calendar”; an epiphany in the center, and anticipating picking up measurably by the fact that the Mail, Bowers Universe. the finished product this afternoon, which came Very Late today – I’d This past Saturday I sent an I dreamed the basic layout for the given up on it, actually – included e-mail to an Australian fan. One next issue: this one. I really do a package containing a neat little who only has e-mail access at his things like that. book [SCIENCE FICTIONISMS, place of em ploy ment; therefore I It’s just as well that I can still compiled by William Rotsler] I’d really didn’t “expect” to hear back dream; reality is no respecter of previously been unaware of, a note from him until today, at the earliest. Hope & Sweat. of encouragement, and a rather Last evening – Sunday, ’twas, the As I stood at the counter this generous cash donation toward the 14th – I logged-on around 8:30, after noon, checking the initial postage costs on OW70. and in popped his response… printed copy, I almost cried… not That didn’t Make Everything bad enough to demand a reprint Well, of course, but it’s the totally Dated: “Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:57:26 but still, after having had the last unanticipated gestures such as that, +1000” two issues printed at the same that make me want to Do Better, – still Far Into My Future, at that chain store (albeit, a different next time. moment. branch), a total, crushing disap- It is now a little after ten in the pointment. I do take it personally. August 31, 1998 morning, Monday morning, here I’ll likely ‘reprint’ a couple of RECEIVED THE FIRST Response in the Real World. And I have it the photos/halftones – the ATom today, from a copy mailed 8/28 – figured out. But I still marvel at this illo (in Tucker’s column) literally Book Rate! ability to peer into the “future”. shows the creases in the paper, Yes, I Know about the almost like parchment. I imagine Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:28:50 -0700 International Date Line. that some of you, along about now, Subject: Bill Bowers is a fannish god After all, I left the Philippine are going to dig out your (readily I just got Outworlds 70. Islands on Labor Day morning locatable) copies of OW70, wonder- Wow. It’s a brick. And pretty too. (Baycon morning…) 1968, and, ing what the fuss I’m talking about. Good work, Bill. I promise I’ll send a LoC, after a Forever Flight via Japan and You haven’t seen the Masters I pro- just as soon as I finish reading it. That Alaska, landed in the Bay Area at vided; if I think about, I’ll lug them might be by Christmas or so… roughly the very same time, on the to my next con… and show you. Victor Gonzalez same Labor Day morning. [ Randy Bathurst ] Outworlds 71 • 2725 But it’s one thing to experience (foolishly?) took me at my word assumed that I’d simply Went that Great Leap Forward when one when he created that cover. Away, again. is crammed into a stretched DC-8 I am a bit surprised that none It probably would have been along with several hundred others – of my more observant readers preferable, had that been true! I lived that Lost Day – and quite charged with keeping me “accurate” another to press an icon, and then [attn.: Mr.