From: MarkLFischer at aol.com
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:10:07 EST
Subject: [WSFA] Old Schoolkids [was: Old School]
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

In a message dated 3/31/2005 9:55:41 AM Eastern Standard Time,
bnewton at ashcomp.com writes:

>Mark, trust me, in this group, you *are* in your youth!

My apologies, you're right, this is the Washington Superannuated Fandom
Association ;-) (no flames please, I have no doubt that's been done often and
better).

This has sent me down a slightly depressing thought-path.

I was born in 1960, and discovered written SF around 1970.  I started  going
to cons a couple of years later.  The proverbial "long story" forced  me to
set active fandom aside until very recently, but I had friends who kept up  with
it.  As I think about it now, I've seen fans in my broad age bracket  or
older, but not a great many younger ones.

I suppose I should wait until I've been to a contemporary con or two to  ask,
but is there actually a younger generation of fen following us up in any
numbers, or is my lot *it*?

Mark