Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:38:31 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] L.A.con IV GoH - Howard Devore - RIP Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> from http://locusmag.com/ "SF fan Howard DeVore died yesterday, 31 December 2005, after a long illness. With Donald Franson he compiled A History of the Hugo, Nebula, and International Fantasy Awards in 1978; a later revision was a Related Book Hugo Award nominee in 1999. He was scheduled to have been Guest of Honor at L.A.con IV, the 2006 World SF Convention, to be held in August 2006 in Anaheim, California. " PR 3 from L.A.con <http://laconiv.org/2006/pdf/laconiv-pr3.pdf> (which is in the mail) has a nice piece about Big Hearted Howard by Roger Sims, along with a piece by Howard about 5 fans going to the 1954 Worldcon. mjw