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Thanks, and More Thanks

Editor’s Notes by Mike Glyer

Rocket Night: While Teddy Harvia tore

open the envelope containing the name of

the winner of the Best Fanzine Hugo, I

sat with my notebook open and my pen

ready to write. But not ready to write the

name of my own fanzine. Not even when

Teddy reacted to the little piece of paper

by exclaiming his delight. Then he read

“File 770” aloud and I headed for the

stage in a fog of not-quite-speechless

amazement, where someone handed me

the rocket on its beautiful wooden base.

Now comes my chance to say a coher-

ent thank-you to so many people who

make File 770 fun to publish.

First, thank you Diana. You’re my

number one source of encouragement and

you’re always willing to help me “think

out loud” about the future of the zine.

Thanks for being my circulation man-

ager, and coming up with ideas for get-

ting more fans interested in File 770 . And

thanks for all the times you read my copy

before it went to press and saved me from

numberless gaffes.

Thanks to all of you whose creativity

is woven throughout these pages – pro-

lific artists Ray Capella, Brad Foster, Ian

Gunn, Teddy Harvia, Joe Mayhew, Bill

Rotsler, Taral Wayne, and Alan White

(three of them living on through their

cartoons); feature writers including John

Hertz, Francis Hamit, Chris Barkley,

David Bratman, Janice Gelb, and Steven

Silver; those who write LoCs; and those

whose news items are the lifeblood of

File 770 .

As a postscript, thanks also to the late

Irene Danziger. In 1990, she used her

wizardry with a Mac and Pagemaker to

create layouts for File 770’s earliest pho-

tocopied issues, launching the zine into

era of desktop-publishing.

Torcon 3: And more thanks – to the

Toronto fans who invited me to be Fan

Guest of Honour for the 2003 Worldcon.

I appreciate the honor, and the pleasure is

all the greater because I coincidentally

follow in the footsteps of Torcon 2’s

GoH’s Robert Bloch and Bill Rotsler,

two other LA fans I knew for many

years. (Bloch was Pro GoH at both previ-

ous Torcons, in 1948 and 1973, and has

been named Torcon 3’s “GhOst of Hon-

our.”)

I’ll be in Toronto with fellow GoH’s

George R.R. Martin and Frank Kelly

Freas, toastmaster Spider Robinson – and

many of you, I hope. See you there!

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File 770:136 is edited by Mike

Glyer at 705 Valley View Ave.,

Monrovia CA 91016. No animals

were harmed in the making of this

fanzine.

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CONTACT FILE 770

Telephone: (626) 305-1004.

E-Mail: Mglyer@compuserve.com

Art Credits

Ray Capella: Cover, 15, 30

Alan White: 2, 5, 11, 16, 20,

22, 24

Joe Mayhew: 17, 18, 25, 26,

Diana Harlan Stein: 2

Bill Rotsler: 10, 19, 29

Sheryl Birkhead: 29

Rose Marie Donvan: 3(photo)

Jason Boehm: 4 (photo)

Chaz Boston Baden: 9(photo)

The Retro Hugos Are Back!

Millennium Philcon’s Hugo Administra-

tors, Rick Katze and Saul Jaffe, have an-

nounced the 2001 Worldcon will award

Hugos for works written in the year 2000

and a set of Retro Hugos for the year

1950. The WSFS rules allow Retros to be

given by a Worldcon held 50, 75 or 100

years after a year when regular Hugos

were not awarded. Members of L.A.con

III in 1996 voted on the first Retro Hugos,

for works published in 1946. The next

four Worldcons, though eligible, chose not

to give them.

Rick Katze wrote online, “We expect

to have links set up from the Millennium

Philcon web page listing the works eligi-

ble for the categories in 1950 to make it

easier for the nominators. When you catch

something that was not listed, e-mail me

personally with the header reading Retro

Omission and I will have it added to the

list.

“Both Joe Siclari and Bruce Pelz will

be sending me fanzine material which I

will scan and then send to Joe who will

put it on the web for the voters to ex-

amine. I have no idea what they intend

to send to me. If you have a fanzine,

fan writer or fan artist who you believe

should be included, send me e-mail

with the header reading Retro Fan . I

will contact you regarding further de-

tails regarding how to get the material

included in this project.”

For further details, check the Mil-

lennium Philcon Web page.

COMING NEXT ISSUE

A complete report on Chicon 2000

will be in the next issue.

Art Credits

September 2000 3

Chicon 2000

Hugo Winners

Best Novel

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (Tor)

Best Novella

""The Winds of Marble Arch" by Connie Willis

( Asimov's 10-11/99)

Best Novelette

"10 16 to 1" by James Patrick Kelly ( Asimov's 6/99)

Best Short Story

"Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" by Michael Swanwick

( Asimov's 7/99)

Best Related Book

Science Fiction of the 20th Century

by Frank M. Robinson (Collectors Press)

Guy H. Lillian III insisting Challenger deserves the

Best Fanzine Hugo. Photo by Rose Marie Donovan

Best Dramatic Presentation

Galaxy Quest

Toronto Wins

2003 Worldcon Vote

Best Professional Editor

Gardner Dozois ( Asimov's Science Fiction )

Best Professional Artist

Michael Whelan

Toronto will host the 61st Worldcon, after winning the Site Se-

lection vote on the first round:

Best Semiprozine

Locus edited by Charles N. Brown

Pre-Con Thurs Friday Saturday Total

Toronto 253 162 389 571 1,375

Cancun 50 25 41 131 247

No Preference 15 4 10 27 56

None of the

Above 3 0 2 3 8

Write-In __0 ___2 __ 1 __9 ___ 12

Total 321 193 443 741 1,698

Best Fanzine

File 770 edited by Mike Glyer

Best Fan Writer

Dave Langford

Torcon 3 will be held August 28-September 1, 2003 at the Metro

Toronto Convention Centre, the Royal York Hotel, the Crowne

Plaza Hotel and the Renaissance Toronto Hotel at Sky Dome.

Guests of Honour will be George R. R. Martin, Frank Kelly

Freas and Mike Glyer. Toastmaster: Spider Robinson. GoHst of

Honour: Robert Bloch, “the spirit of Toronto Worldcons.” Peter

Jarvis is the chair.

Membership and conversion rate information may be found

online at www.torcon3.on.ca

Best Fan Artist

Joe Mayhew

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Cory Doctorow (2nd year of eligibility )

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News of Fandom

“Here's where the story gets fannish:

While in the emergency room another doctor

came in and asked Jack if he was the Jack

Chalker who ‘wrote all those books.’ Turns

out he's Michael Kerr, and has ties to North-

western fandom, but he's come East for per-

sonal reasons and works at the Carroll

County General emergency room.

They asked Jack to go to his M.D. for

follow-up and our doctor -- who has come to

Balticons and, in fact, showed up at one of

my panels at the last Balticon -- gave Jack

the okay to travel on two conditions: one,

Jack stay off his feet as much as possible,

and even keep his leg up (hence the scooter)

and two, Give him a copy of the Chicon pro-

gram book (he's getting mine). It's a way of

life, truly it is.”

Vows and More Vows

Trapdoor readers learned from Robert

Lichtman’s editorial in the July issue that he

married Carol Carr “early this year.” Want-

ing to be married in Yosemite, they located a

minister willing to drive up to the park and

perform the ceremony. “So there we were, on

a beautiful spring afternoon with the dog-

woods in full bloom, standing under a large

oak tree on the banks of the swiftly flowing

Merced River – Half Dome and Lower Yo-

semite Falls in our view – and exchanged our

rings and our vows to go steady forever-

more.”

While one wedding was revealed in July,

another was affirmed.

Bjo and John Trimble marked their 40th

wedding anniversary by renewing their vows

before a crowd of friends and family in their

Monrovia backyard. Bjo shone in a 1918-

style wedding dress, and John celebrated by

wearing a brilliantly quilted vest. The occa-

sion was so irresistibly romantic that Jennifer

Jumper, who spent her teenage years living

with John and Bjo’s family, announced her

own plans to wed in the near future.

Because all husbands are required by law

to balance the sentiment of these occasions,

John mentioned between vows, “I've been

exasperated to the point of murder quite a

few times, but I've never been bored.” To this

day they still make a spectacular couple,

John and the girl he met under the grand

piano at Forry Ackerman’s party all those

years ago.

More pictures can be seen at:

htt p:/ / home. ear thli nk. net/ ~j fboehm/

index.html

Guy H. Lillian III asked, and Rose

Marie Donovan said yes, and that’s how the

couple became engaged at Chicon 2000. Guy

adds, “We haven't set a date, but we're both

certain of our intent.”

Karen Johnson and John Gory likewise

announced in the Australian fannish press

that we are engaged to be married. The wed-

ding is planned to take place in Florida in

February 2001. Karen wrote, “ Look out

America! I’m on my way!”

Whitley Chalker:

“We arrived at the Liverpool Ferry (on

August 20) just as it was pushing off, Steve

clambered aboard, and I was waiting for the

loadmaster to lower the deck to climb on (I'm

aware of my own limitations), and I was

amazed to see Jack climbing aboard when he

tripped over his own feet and went down.

“The next day he was purple from knee to

ankle. On the August 25 he went to the emer-

gency room with the beginnings of cellulitis

(which we can now recognize by sight). The

hospital wanted to admit him, but when he

pointed out we have no health insurance, he

was able to talk them into an IV there with

follow-up antibiotics.

Dragon*Con Founder Arrested

Ed Kramer is being held without bond in a

Georgia county jail on charges of aggravated

molestation of a 13-year-old boy, according

to the September 15 issue of the Atlanta

Journal Constitution . Kramer is a co-founder

of Dragon*Con, the huge pop culture con-

vention held in Atlanta.

The highly-charged article emphasized

that Kramer’s work and hobbies gave him a

great deal of access to children. Defense

attorneys replied that “Kramer's interest in

children is legitimate. He had been working

on a film depicting the adventures of a group

of boys --- similar to Lord of the Flies but set

in space.” Witnesses at Kramer’s bail hearing

included his employer, Milton Levy, who

testified that Kramer “has been a dedicated

employee for 11 years, working for the

Metro Regional Educational Service Agency,

which provides educational resources to

metro Atlanta school districts. Kramer is a

technology consultant in charge of a federal

grant that serves schools in the metro Atlanta

area. He has worked in the schools, but lately

has been working solely in an office….”

The judge denied the request for bond,

saying there was reason to believe Kramer

could be a threat to the community and might

try to intimidate witnesses.

Before his arrest on August 25, Kramer

agreed to come to police headquarters for

questioning. First, he headed to the boy's

home, knocking on the door and then throw-

ing himself against the door three times, as if

trying to force it open, police said. “The fran-

tic mother called police, but Kramer was

gone before officers arrived…. He was en

route to the Police Department, telling inves-

tigators he was running late due to traffic

congestion, [Gwinnett County police investi-

gator Curtis] Clemons testified.”

Police began their investigation in re-

Ferry Wins This Time

Jack Chalker passed me in the hall at Chicon

– driving an electric cart. Jack said he was

riding because he mangled his leg falling

from a ferryboat.

“The rest of the story” comes from Eva

John and Bjo Trimble at their

vow renewal. Photo by J. Boehm,

used by permission

September 2000 5

sponse to an anonymous complaint made to

the Department of Family and Children Ser-

vices. Authorities said the boy initially de-

nied any abuse took place, but “became upset

and ran from the interview room at his

school,” then later confided in his mother and

investigator Clemons.

Canvention, which will be a

part of VCon 26, and the

business meeting decided

Vancouver it will be. Just

wish I could get there. Van-

couver isn't just down the

street.”

Fan Funds

DUFF

Janice Gelb did her job –

writing and publishing her

1999 DUFF Trip Report.

Now you do yours — buy a

copy! All it takes is a dona-

tion of $5 in person or $6.50

by surface mail in either

U.S. or Australian currency

(more if you're feeling gen-

erous!)

Janice will bring copies

with her to five upcoming

conventions: Orycon, Lo-

scon, SMOFcon, Boskone,

and ConCave – where

Janice will be guest of

honor. But why wait? Buy

immediately! Send your

money to Janice Gelb, 1070

Mercedes Ave. #2, Los

Altos, CA 94022; or Cathy

Cupitt, P.O. Box 915, Ned-

lands 6909 WA Australia.

Checks should be made out to the addressee.

Requests from outside the U.S./Australasia

s h o u l d b e s e n t t o J a n i ce a t

j_gelb@yahoo.com.

Nominations Open: Also, your chance to

follow Janice’s splendid example has arrived.

Nominations have opened for the 2001

DUFF race. The winner will travel from

North America to Australia and attend the

40th Australian National Science Fiction

Convention being held April 13-16 in Perth.

Candidates need three North American

nominators and two Australian nominators.

Nominations, a 100-word platform, and a

$25 bond pledging (barring acts of God) to

attend Swancon 2001 should be sent to

Janice Gelb, the North American administra-

tor, by midnight on October 31, 2000.

TAFF & DUFF at Chicon: East met west

as DUFF’s Cathy Cupitt and TAFF’s Sue

Mason presided over a tea party in Chicon’s

fan lounge, during the meet-the-fan-fund-

winners reception. More details next issue.

Errata: Sue Batho did lose the 1974 DUFF

race to Leigh Edmonds, another candidate

from Down Under, but that was not the first

DUFF race, as stated last issue. Andrew Porter

remembers this quite clearly because he lost to

Rusty Hevelin in the original DUFF race of

1972.

TAFF

Sue Mason came to Chicon courtesy of the

Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund, the choice of fannish

voters on both sides of the Pond. She's a tal-

ented and generous artistic presence in many

fanzines, including Hugo-nominated Plokta .

Sue has been involved in fandom since

1982 as a dealer, artist, gamer, costumer, con-

runner, and fanzine fan. She has other inter-

ests, too: "When I'm not in fan circles, I like

canal boating, English Civil War re-enactment

and good beer."

Fans mounted an expedition to show TAFF

delegate Sue Mason around the Minnesota

State Fair on August 29. On that day, it didn’t

matter whether you thought MinnStF was the

abbreviated name of the club or the fair.

MinnStF’s newzine Einblatt! encouraged fans

to rendezvous at various times, either at the

base of the Space Needle at 2 p.m., in the

Dairy Building by the Princess Kay butter

sculptures at 4 p.m., or at the Star Tribune

booth at 7 p.m.

Tales of the Aussie Corflu Bid

Eric Lindsay read the coverage in File

770:135 and responded with the latest de-

tails:

“Regarding Corflu Down Under, it gets

better. The start of June 2002 is probably

when the New Zealand National Convention

will be held. If we can put all our plans to-

gether, we have a chance that travelling fans

could have the New Zealand Natcon, fol-

lowed the next week by the Australian Nat-

Con (Convergence) in Melbourne. If we can

get Corflu that would be the week after, also

in Melbourne.

“Meanwhile, I'm trying to talk the Sydney

fans into doing something the following

week. And finally the relaxacon at beautiful

Airlie Beach, with the Great Barrier Reef as

the tourist attraction. Just remember, June

2002 is the time to travel to Australia and

New Zealand. Start saving those frequent

flyer points.” Contact Eric Lindsay by e-mail

at: eric@wrevenge.com.au

CUFF

Past CUFF winners Yvonne and Lloyd Pen-

ney met this year’s delegate, Sherry Neufeld,

at TorontoTrek 2000 (Canvention) in July.

Lloyd comments that she was “fun to talk to,

and she represented Western fandom well.

Now to see what she says in her trip report.”

He also reports that it looks like two candi-

dates may step forward to compete for the

2001 CUFF race. There may actually be a

contested vote for a change.

There was some concern that CUFF was

out of balance, focused on sending delegates

from west to east because of its ties to Can-

vention. “The Canvention is supposed to

rotate east to west and back, but for the past

four years, it's been in eastern Canada: To-

ronto in 1997, Montréal in 1998, Fredericton,

New Brunswick in 1999 and Toronto again

in 2000. The problem has been that Western

fandom has been short on activities and

funds for a while, and only now is conven-

tion fandom there on the rebound. So, the

rotation is rotating again... At the Canvention

business meeting, I made a presentation on

behalf of Vancouver fandom to host the 2001

Staple War Surplus

For those who missed this year’s Corflu in

Seattle and want to get Fanthology ‘94 and a

Corflu t-shirt, Andrew Hooper makes the

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