FILE 770 IA/hAT oF FAM5 F'il_F 770 7 TIME VALUE Assorted facts: Chicon IV reports commitments greater than needed to make the room-night guarantee at the Hyatt, less than those needed at four overflow hotels. Total membership was ^615 as of 7/16, 3980 attending} shortly afterwards ^866/^231 was reported. The Directors cut Chicon’s budget about $25,000 to anticipate a shortfall of $50 memberships. While no dailies will be sold, Chicon has scaled its memberships from $75 at the door Wed, Thur and Fri, to $6o/Sat, $35/Sun, $15/Mon, CASE IN POINT: While Chicon feels the pinch, other cons are evidently being crushed by a combination of the economy and their own numbers. Reports Darrell Schweitzer: "Brandycon, an attempted relaxacon slated for June 18-20, in Delaware, didn’t make it. Robert Whitaker tells me that about 15 people showed up, most of them dealers who made no $$. Jack Chalker, GoH, left after Friday night. This, with the failure of Summercon this year, drives home a point: there are too many conventions, and the weaker ones are being eliminated by fannish Darwinism. I’ve already missed one con I wanted to go to (Unicon) because there was another I wanted to go to (NECon) the same weekend. I was invited to speak at both. I wanted to go to Paracon too, but I had two speaking engagements at other cons (one admittedly in Georgia & set up by my publisher) the two weekends /succeeding/. The propsect of 3 solid weekends of cons just before the Worldcon was too much.” DONALD MILLER DIES: From Don Franson, of the N3F: "I received the following postcard July 7 from Mrs. D. Miller: ’Dear Mr. Franson, I received your postcard and I regret to inform you that my husband Don died last month. He had another battle with cancer and this time he lost the fight. Sincerely, Stella F. Miller.’ “I never met Don Miller, though I have known him for twenty years. But that’s the way it often is, in correspondence and fanzine fandom. He joined N3F in 1963 (I don’t know his age), was Director­ ate Chairman and Editor of TNFF for several years, ending in 1968, and was very active (at one time) in Washington DC fandom, though I doubt if most of them there know him any more, he’s been inactive so long because of illness and stays in the hospital. "He put out giant issues of WSFA JOURNAL and later his own title, F&SF JOURNAL, and many smaller zines, such as gamesletters. He was (turn to page 22) F770:3^ August 1982 «>,/ I Ballots received & counted! 123. Signed, in order of receipt! Jon • Gustafson, Marty Massoglia, Scott Dennis, Paul Koch, William Rotsler, Bruce Pelz, Bev Clark, Frank Gasperik, Kathy Trebian, Guy Lilliin III, Owen K. Laurion, Valeria Beasley, Joy Goodin, Marjii Ellers, Sourdough Jackson, Kennedy Poyser, John Bradley, Charlie Williams, Irvin Koch, Somtow Sucharitkul, Terry Carr, Ken Porter, Sheldon Linker, Robert Sacks, Marty Cantor, Thea Popu, George Wells, Sandy Cohen, Matthew Tepper, Moshe Feder, Richard H.E.. Smith II, Mike Resnick, Carol Resnick, .Arthur Hlavaty, Ann Streeter, Alexis Gilliland, Steve Simmons, A. Joseph Ross, Lee Smoire, Margaret Middleton, Priscilla Pollner, Roy Lavender, Fred Lerner, Paul Abelkis, Ben Yalow, Dave Travis, Dave Locke, Jackie Causgrove, Richard Onley, Jay Kinney, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Dick Lynch, Walter Willis, Bill Trojan, Janice Gelb, Sarge Workman, Arthur Rubin, Ruth Minyard, Mark L. Olson, Fred Cleaver, Lucy Takeda, Penny Terry, Adams Douglas, Craig Miller, Dan Deckert, Leah Fisher, William Goodson Jr., Dennis Lien, Neil Rest, Richard Brandt, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Martin Morse Wooster, George Flynn, Becky Thomson, Mike Rogers, .M. Turlington, Seth Goldberg, Ira Riddle, W. Perry, Edward. Bryant, Dave Rike, David Stever, Lawrence Ruh, Sally Fink, Sheila Strickland, Patty Bushman, Georges Giguere, Joe Sokola, James R, Madden, Steve Stanley, Michael Walsh (Balt.), Robert R. Taylor, George Laskowski Jr., Jack Collinson, Allyson Dyar, Cyndi Hartman, Virginia Bauer-Tapia, Jim Meadows II, David Govaker, Teresa Minambres, Leland Sapiro, Mike Sohns, Allan Beatty, Jeff Ford, Terry Floyd, Pascal J. Thomas, Ciane McAuliffe, Bryan Barrett, Becky Haley, Renee Arceneaux, Scott Bauer„ S. Maple's, C. Handfield, Chintz, Lee Smith, S. Tait, R. Pavlac, A.J. Foster. 11 unsigned. Disqualified ballots: 11. Although I had no objection to having the Poll ballot xeroxed for the use of friends, I had to draw the line when confronted with blatant ballot stuffing on behalf of a local Southern fanartist who received no votes from any source besides his hometown club, 1982 Poll Lj Policing the Polls FANWRITER FANARTIST TOTAL BALLOTS i 82 TOTAL BALLOTS: 84 1. Mike Glyer 33 1. Alexis Gilliland 22 2. Arthur Hlavaty 2. William Rotsler 18 3. Dave Langford 12 3. stu Shiffman 12 4, Richard Geis 10 4, Joan Hanke-Woods 11 5. Lon Atkins 7 5» Charlie Williams 10 ■ Ted White 7 Dan Steffan 10 7. Bob Shaw o 7, Steven Fox 6 8. Chris Atkinson 5 Marc Schirmeister 6 9. Avedon Carol Steve Stiles 6 Guy H. Lillian III 4 10. hen Fletcher 5 Tied with 3 votes each: Tied with votes each: George Flynn, Joseph Nicholas, Tarai, Kurt Erichsen, Victoria Dave Locke, Harry Warner Jr,, Poyser, Grant Canfield, Richard Bergeron, Tied with 2 votes each: Terry Carr, Tom Digby, Chris • Tied with 3 votes each: Priest, Darrell Schweitzer, Jay Kinney, Linda Leach, Alan .Lee Gold, Dan Stef fan, Rusty Hutchinson, Clay Fourrier, Burke, John D. Berry (US), Amy Falkowitz. Paul Skelton, Claire Graham, Lynne Holdom, Cliff Biggers, Tied with 2 votes each: Doug HoyIman, Marc Ortlieb, Sylvia Stevens, Phil Foglio, Matthew Tepper, Rich Coad, William Warren, D. Harris, Lisa Bernadette Bosky, Ed Zdrojewski, Free, Tim Hammell, J. Collins, Jerry Kaufman, R.A. MacAvoy, Rondeau. 61 tied with 1 vote each. 51 tied with 1 vote each. t SAGE COMMENTS: Having observed what a hopeless task it was to get conscientious trufen to fill out a Hugo nominating ballot, in which they’re responsible for knowing the field well enough to sift out the best talent of the year, I tried to encourage participation by making 'this strictly a popularity contest., with no place-points assigned for the order fans were named in. A little over 2/3 of the fans who sent in a ballot named somebody, anybody, <as their favorite artist or writer. Interestinglyt over 2/3 of those voters picked somebody as their favorite who was named by no one else... Maybe there’s something to that ‘"fragmentation of fandom"’ talk, and it’s gone much farther than the worst cynics claimedl vQUESTION ONE: I listed nine suggested amendments to the Fanzine Hugo rules -- every one seriously suggested by some fan sometime or other — and asked voters to list them in order of preference. They were (A) Make no change in the rules, (B) Disallow fanzines to win consecutive Hugos, (C) Permanently disqualify a fanzine which has won once, (D) Disqualify any fanzine that sells advertising, (E) Disqualify any fanzine that pays for material, (F) Divide the FILE 770:3^ Annual Poll cate-gory into two Hugos based on amateur vs. semi-pro, (G) Divide the Hugo into two c-ategories based on circulation, (H) Ban LOCUS and SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW from competition, (I) Disqualify any fanzine editor who derives a substantial portion of his living from the zine. Several voters thought of one I forgot, (J) Eliminate the fanzine category altogether. Not everyone voted a full ticket, but 123 voters made at least one tick mark. These are the raw numbers* PLACE* 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 Points* (A) No change 19 9 13 9 9 IT 7 88 Third (B) Non-consecutive 8 10 6 6 7 6 9 7 1 50 (C) One-win 5 0 3 2 3 2 6 17 10 18 (D) No advertising 6810 13 16 9 3 2 0 : 44 (E) No payments 13 12-16 13 10 7 2 1 0 79 (F) Am/Semi-pro split 42 19 9 7 8 2 2 0 0 173 First (G) Circulation split 6 19 15 7 11 5 2 2 72 (H) Ban LOCUS,SFR 5 1 5 3 1 5 18 6 15 22 (I) Makes living 15 22 12 13 3 4 4 3 1 101 Second (J) Eliminate Hugo 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 Just to help emphasize the direction in which opinion was weighted, I decided to calculate a figure based on 3 points for first place votes, 2 points for second and 1 point for thirds. By this method, there appeared to be tremendous interest in dividing the Hugo into 2 categories for Amateur and Semi-Fro fanzines, and another area of interest in somehow knocking off editors who made a living from their fanzines. Otherwise, the status quo was a significant favorite. There was very negative response to the proposals that would restrict anyone to one win, or~that singled out LOCUS and SFR for banishment. QUESTION TWOi “If Melbourne wins the '85 Worldcon, fans in the following towns are contemplating bidding for a NASFiC. Rank in order of preference.” Votesi 113. AUSTIN* 59 DETROIT* ^6 Write ins* Columbus (2), Albuquerque, Minneapolis, Knoxville, etc,(8) QUESTION THREE * "Rank the following 1986 Worldcon bids in. order of preference.” Votes* 102. (Bear in mind there is now only one Atlanta bid, formerly Satterfield/Frierson.) TOWN RANKING 1 2 3 ATLANTA (S/F) 3^ 18 19 2 ATLANTA (Celko) 5 23 9 24 NEW YORK 28 25' 16 22 PHILADELPHIA 35 23 25 10 See, that’s why I take these polls.