Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:08 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
 WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omniroot at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: found Ghu's Lexicon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 4/9/2007 02:59 PM, dicconf wrote:

>While digging through a box of Miscellaneous,
>I found a copy of a small booklet,
>    "Ghu's Lexicon, translated from the original
>    Venusian cuneiform by Ralph M. Holland, for
>    the National Fantasy Fan Federation. 1958"
>
>Most of the words are still in use, but
>"Slan" meaning "fans who deny they are fans"
>and "Slum" as "any food"
>were not usages I had seen.
>
>=Tamar

This sounds like something that should be on the net...any chance the
author is still around to ask permission of?  If so, I have a scanner
and some OCR software that will get most of the work done pretty
easily.  Proofing is always needed though.

<googles a bit>

Ok, no, he's not still around.  I found this at
http://www.worldpath.net/~bullsfan/entropy/issues/23.html

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two different editions of FANCYCLOPEDIA, a little booklet done by the
late Ralph M. Holland for N3F members when he was president, GHU'S
LEXICON (it was about 4 x 5 inches), a digest sized one mimeographed
for the N3F a few years later by Al Lewis (the
-----

Perhaps N3F has the rights?  What did copyright law say in 1958 about
such things?  I *think* it was 50 years after the death of tha
author, but I'm not certain.  Even so, it's still not public domain, right?

-- Mike B.

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