Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:46:33 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Wilson "Bob" Tucker (1914-2006)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>
>>>> rw_lynch at yahoo.com 10/8/2006 7:25:27 PM >>>
>
>--- Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
>> > kfl at KeithLynch.net 10/7/2006 1:25:40 PM >>>
>> >Wilson "Bob" Tucker (1914-2006)
>> >
>> >As reported at http://www.sfwa.org/news/2006/wtucker.htm
>>
>> One of the Jiants of fandom.
>>
>> More on Tucker:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Tucker
>>
>> There's this amusing tale of the Olde Days:
>> http://jophan.org/mimosa/m16/cinci.htm .
>>
>> And in 1978 Disclave had as Pro GoH: Wilson Tucker, Fan
>> GoH was Bob
>> Tucker.
>>
>> HE was also a darn good writer.  If you come across his
>> fiction (sf and
>> mystery) do yourself a favor and give it a try.
>>
>
>Yes.  Especially _The Lincoln Hunters_ and _The Year of the
>Quiet Sun_.  The latter was a Hugo nominee for Best Novel
>in 1971.

Quite.   Year of the Quiet Sun is OP, but it is easily findable.  Heck,
on Amazon thereare folks selling this:
Three in Time: A White Wolf Rediscovery Trio :
The Winds of Time - Chad Oliver,
The Year of the Quiet Sun - Wilson Tucker,
There Will Be Time - Poul Anderson

Well worth picling up, & not just for the Tucker either.

>
>Here's another fanzine article featuring Tucker and Bob
>Bloch, two of fandom's best humorists.  It's still
>evergreen.
>http://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m28/bobs.htm

Nice.

I have fond memories (well, what I can recall...) of Midwestcons in the
70s and "Smooooooooothing".

Ach, for you youngsters.... fen would sit around, pass a bottle of Jim
Beam, take a sip, raise a hand high and when the bottle got back to
Tucker everyone went "Smoooooooooth", with the appropriate hand gesture.
 And usually not just once...

mjw