Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 07:02:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sam Scheiner <sscheiner at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Wilson "Bob" Tucker (1914-2006)
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

As a neo-fan in Chicago in the mid-70s I was welcomed
into fandom by very approachable, elderly (at least it
seemed so at the time) gentleman. Our fan club's party
at Windycon on Saturday evening would always stock a
bottle of Jim Beam for when he came around. [Those
were the days when 18 was the legal drinking age.] It
took me a couple of years to connect Bob Tucker with
that accomplished writer Wilson Tucker. Bob was always
a fan first, and his novels are underappreciated.

I am proud to have in my possession two SF Book Club
copies of The Time Master. It seems that the original
printing (the one that I first had) was missing the
last line. I found that out when getting Bob's
autograph for the book. I then hunted down a later
printing with the line restored and had Bob sign that
one also. The irony, although I never told Bob this,
was that the book was better with the last line
missing.

Bob was one of the nicest guys I know, in or out of
fandom. He will be missed. At Capclave we should be
sure to pass around a bottle of Jim Beam and do a few
rounds of smoooooth in his honor.

Sam Scheiner

--- Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> >
> >>>> 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
>

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