l MOSCONIV September 24-26, 1982 Moscow, Idaho The magnificent new Darkover novel by MosCon IV's Guest of Honor MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY HAWKM STRESS! Ten years leading the sf & fantasy fields. They thought Romilly was a werewolf, for she rejected humanity's evils and jealousies and lived among the beasts of hill and forest. She possessed the rare MacAran gift of laran, her mastery over hawk and horse, and wanted nothing of war in the lands of Darkover. But there were those who shared her talents: Varzil and the men and women of the Towers. And for them, Romilly was the key... DAW PAPERBACK ORIGINAL $2.95 ($3.50 in Canada) . Available wherever paperbacks are sold. DAW Books publishes over four hundred science-fiction and fantasy titles by such authors as Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Brunner, C.J. Cherryh, Jo Clayton, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Philip Jose Farmer, Ron Goulart, Tanith Lee, Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock, A E. van Vogt, and Jack Vance. _________ The Science-Fiction and Fantasy Line ____,--,---,,-------- Selected by DONALD A. WOLLHEIM For our annual Catalog, please write: DAW Books 1633 Broadway New York, NY 10019 MOSCONIV September 24-26, 1982 Marion Zimmer Bradley, Wendy Pini, Steve Forty, Jane Fancher CONTENTS; About our Guests of Honor-- Page Marion Zimmer Bradley (by Jane Fancher). oo •••••··•·•·• J MZB Bibliography (by Jane Fancher, with Vicki Mitchell) .......... J Wendy Pini (by Richard Pini) ........ o••·········•··•·· 4 Letter from Wendy Pini ......•....•......... o•••·•••••• 5 About the Cover (by Wendy Pini) .•....... o••···•····•·· 6 Steve Forty (by Fran Skene) .•... o o ••••••••••• o ••••••• o 6 Jane Fancher (by Jon Gustafson) ..•....•..... ••·••o••·• 7 Con Committee messages to you-- Be Kind to the Hotel (Beth Finkbiner) ••.•..• oo••••••o• 9 Art Auction (Vicki Mitchell & Phrannque Sciamanda) .... 9 Costume Contest (Nina Hoffman & Craig Steed).0••······11 The Dance (Craig Steed & Mike Finkbiner) .....•........ 11 Noble Volunteer Labor (Craig Steed) .•..............•.. 11 Programming (Rod Sprague) ..............•..•.•..... 15, 16 Miscellaneous-- Apaloosa (Chris Nilsson) .. o. o ...•....•................ 11 Restaurant Gui'de (Amy Thomson & Craig Steed) .........• 12 Are We Not Fen? (Jon Gustafson) ....•....•....•••.•.... 13 Map of Moscow . • . • . • . • . • . • . 14 Membership List (Charlie Leaphart) ........ o••••• o•••·•17 In Memoriam-- A Hot Pink Rose (by Tim Hammell) ........... "° ••••••••• 8 This convention is dedicated to E.E. "Doc" Smith. Grateful thanks are due to all the people who have given their time and energy to make MosCon a success ... there are too many to thank individually, but you all know who you are. Many thankso Cover copyright 1982 by Wendy Pini. The MosCon IV Program Book is copyright 1982 by PESFA; all rights are hereby returned to the contributors with thanks . 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Outside Door 15 Chris Nilsson 19. Stairs to Upper Guest Rooms 16 535 N. Hayes Moscow~ 10 83843 17 2 What more is there to say about a lady who Author Guest of Honor says she just wants to be remembered for tell­ ing a good story? Plenty, but space is limit­ MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY ing,- so I will be brief. On my shelf lives a battered and abused by Jane Fancher copy of THE BLOODY SUN which I rescued from the dregs of my brother's closet some fifteen Marion Zimmer Bradley was born June J, 1930 or more years ago and which i ntroduced me t o i n East Greenbush, New York, very probabl y ·.vi th t he worl d of Darkover. In those fifteen years, Puccini on her lips and a typewriter in her the "incredibly bad novels" which were the i n­ hands. She grew up on a farm and spent her cubator for Darkover, have grown into a highly free time "reading, memorizing opera scores complex and sophisticated forum from which both and writing incredibly bad novels." After a Marion and her readers can explore some very couple of years as a member of the American fundamental questions about human nature. The Amateur Press Association, she decided the work basic concept of diametrically opposed cultures being done in SF fanzines was more to her taste (which are yet essentially Human) striving to in style and subject matter, and had her first coexist and to understand one another (or to a­ published story in one in 1946. void that understanding) provides a wide open 1952 saw her professional debut with a story arena to explore two essential notions - per­ for women only in the magazine VORTEX. This sonal integrity and immortality. Whether it magazine, like many others of the era, lasted is choosing a lifestyle, accepting the respon­ all of two issues .•.. As Marion put it, " • .• the sibilities your talents entrust to you, how to magazines lasted about as long as the checks I change in order to remain the same, or any num­ received from them." ber of other deeply psychological questions, For the next ten years, she wrote SF short Darkover and its people dare readers to con­ stories for the pulps and, in 1961, sold her front themselves. Exciting stories coupled first novel to ·Ace, THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE. In with endearing characters capture the reader thetwenty years since, she has written or edit­ and encourage him to extrapolate into his own ed some JO-odd books, mostly SF but with a ro­ reality. · mance or two mixed in. She also wrote T!tE Sound confusing? These are not the ideas CATCH TRAP, an excellent study of ciTcus life­ to be expressed in a few short words. Twenty style. (She is a long-time circus fan and at books and hundreds of short stories by Marion one time appeared as the target for a knife and her readers have only begun to break the thrower.) surface. Persons ·who .have read the books un­ Her most recent release is HAWKMISTRESS!, derstand my difficulty; those who have not, I just out from DAW. In the works are GREYHAVEN envy ••• they have the discovery ahead of them. (DAW), an anthology of SF&F stories by the In short, Marion gives us far more than a rol­ talented group which swarms in and around her licking good story. She encourages us to think brother Paul's abode (coincidently called Grey­ and to feel and to examine our very natures •.• haven) in Berkeley; MISTS OF AVALON (January, for which we thank her. HC, Knopf), an extensively researched Arthurian For those interested in the STARSTONE and story about Morgan Le Fey;_ a sequel to THE other Darkover publications, contact: SHATTERED CHAIN, TKENDARA HOUSE (DAW), and a sequel to that, CITY OF SORCERESSES (DAW); and Friends of Darkover finally, NIGHT'S DAUGHTER (Ballantine), SF but Thendara Council not Darkover. Box 72 In all her spare time, she enjoys very much Berkeley, CA 94701 working with young authors, one-on-one or in groupslseminars at conventions and colleges. She holds an annual short story contest for the MZB _Bibliography (Novels Only) Friends of Darkover, the best of which she prints in her publication, STARSTONE. She con­ by Jane Fancher, with additional stantly encourages young authors and has helped several amateurs on to professional careers. information from Vicki Mitchell In fact, two of the anthologies she has pub­ lished were composed of the best of all the THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE, Ace, 1961 Darkover stories she has received. SEVEN FROM THE STARS, Ace, 1961 As if this were not enough, she runs her own THE PLANET SAVERS, Ace, 1962 convention, The Bay Area Fantasy Festival (this THE SWORD OF ALDONES, Ace, 1962 year being held at the Airport Hyatt in Oak­ THE COLORS OF SPACE, Mon, 1963 land, March 18-20) which caters to any and all THE FALCONS OF NARABEDLA, Ace, 1964 fantasy, not just Darkover. THE DARK INTRUDER AND OTHER STORIES, Ace, 1964 Somewhere in here, she has managed to incor­ THE BLOODY SUN, Ace, 1964 porate a family. Her brother, Paul, an author STAR OF DANGER, Ace, 1965 in his own right, is thirteen years younger SOUVENIR OF MONIQUE, Ace, 1967 than she is: he has collaborated with her on THE BRASS DRAGON, Ace, 1969 two novels, HUNTERS OF THE RED MOON and SURVI­ THE WINDS OF DARKOVER, Ace, 1970 VORS. She has a thirty-two-year-old son, THE WORLD WRECKERS, Ace, 1971 Davis, by her first husband, Robert Bradley, DARK SATANIC, Berkeley, 1972 and two children, Patrick (16) and Dorothy DARKOVER LANDFALL, DAW, 1972 (17), inherited from her second husband, Walter IN THE STEPS OF THE MASTER, Temp, 1973 Breen, from whom she is now amicably separated. THE JEWEL OF ARWEN, T-K Graphics, 1974 She retains the name Bradley because she was THE PARTING OF ARWEN, T-K Graphics, 1974 "tired of always being at the end of the alpha­ THE SPELL SWORD, DAW, 1974 betical lists." ENDLESS VOYAGE, Ace, 1975 Personally, she is lively and outspoken, THE HERITAGE OF HASTUR, DAW, 1975 friendly and extremely cooperative.