Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 16:54:58 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ted White in Jan 05 Asimov's magazine
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> twhite8 at cox.net 11/6/04 9:05:37 PM >>>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sam Lubell" <samlubell at verizon.net>
>To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:25 PM
>Subject: [WSFA] Ted White in Jan 05 Asimov's magazine
>
>> Ted White is mentioned a few times in the "Thought Experiments"
column by
>> Roger Ebert in the January 05 Asimov.  Once in a list of fanzine
writers
>> for Xero, once in a list of attendees at a Chinese dinner in Times
>square,
>> and he even got his own sentence, "I actually sold two stories to
Ted
>White
>> when he was editing Amazing and Fantastic, circa 1970."
>
>I'll have to get a copy.  Egoboo is egoboo.
>
>Actually, I've known Roger since the very early '60s, when he got
rides to
>Midwestcons with Bob Tucker.   And I was delighted to buy those two
stories
>by him -- I just wish he'd sent me more.  And I well remember that
Chinese
>dinner -- a farewell to Roger, because he was going to Africa with
the
>Peace Corps.
>
>I believe Roger's piece is also the introduction to THE BEST FROM
XERO, a
>recent hardcover book which I noticed Mike had copies of last night.

A nice piece of marketing on the part of Tachyon Publications
<http://www.tachyonpublications.com/> publisher of The Best of Xero.

Roger Ebert's intro is quite fascinating and well worth picking up
either Asimov's, or better yet, the actual book.  Discover what all of
this fannishness is about.

The author photo used in the book is amusing:

"Dick and Pat Lupoff as Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel at the World
Science Fiction Convention in Chicago, 1960. Dick's costume was made
from a set of long-johns; Pat's from a T-shirt. Both wore pillow cases
for capes."

Ah, back when costuming wasn't as dreadfully serious as it is now.

Which reminds me . . .it was at a pre-Discon II (I believe) Worldcon
Masquerade where Ron Bounds and Jerry Jacks were Fafrd & the Gay Mouser.
 "Come, Fafhrd, bring your mighty weapon - and your sword"  (This was
one of the quotes on the pillars in the N4 Concourse, more here:
http://www.noreascon.org/exhibits/pillarquotes.html.  Test your
fannish knowledge!)

mjw