Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:36:17 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: "Designating June 27, 2009, as Will F. Jenkins Day in Virginia."
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 2/24/2009 10:38 PM >>>
>> http://www.richmondsunlight.com/bill/2009/hj755/fulltext/
>
>Thanks.  How did you happen to find it?  I watch what the Commonwealth
>is doing pretty closely, but not that closely.

http://www.locusmag.com/

>For those unclear on who Will F. Jenkins was, he's better known as
>Murray Leinster.  He was the guest of honor at the 1970 Disclave.

Which was my second Disclave.  Gosh, Mother's Day this year: 4 decades of =
Disclaves & Capclave .... how time flies.

>He's probably best known for "Sidewise in Time," one of the first
>parallel-worlds stories, "A Logic Named Joe," which predicted the
>Internet, and "First Contact," which gave its name to a whole genre
>-- first contact stories.

And for a good representative selection of his writings:
http://nesfa.org/press/Books/Leinster.htm

You won't find it most bookstores.

If your library doesn't have it, there's always interlibrary loan.

Also, a Leinster website: http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/leinster.html

>You can follow the progress of the bill at
>http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=091&typ=bil&val=HJ75=
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mjw