Procrastinations 09 (november 2011).pdf

Procrastinations nine

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Articles This Issue.

The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund by John Coxon

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My Three Heroes by Christopher J. Garcia

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Steve Jobs by John Coxon

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Threesome by Jacqueline Monahan

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Idylls or Idols: Inspiration in Retrospect by Kim Kofmel

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Inspiration is a Great Place to Start by Warren Buff

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by John Coxon

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When Heroes Go Down by España Sheriff

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Confessions of a Fanzine Editor, Part 2 by Dave Haddock

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Letters of Comment

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Chris Garcia

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Lloyd Penney

John Teehan 29

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Credits

Closing Remarks

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ISSN: 2049-1859 (Print)

ISSN: 2049-1867 (Online)

Editorial.

The more observant amongst you will have noticed, no doubt, that

this is my first fanzine of the year. Some of you will know that my

last fanzine was released in March of 2010, making this a gap of over

eighteen months. This issue should really have been released at

Novacon 40, with Procrastinations #10 following at Illustrious, but

those plans were disrupted by a sinus infection and final year

examinations respectively. (Sinus infections are not in any way fun.)

Frankly, though, you don’t really care. You just want to read the

articles contained within – and who can blame you?

This marks the first time the editorial has been moved to the inside

page, rather than being on the front cover. This is as a result of the

formatting changes required for the transition to publishing in the

ePub format, alongside the paper and PDF copies that were already

offered – I’m still working out how best to offer both as I write this,

and it’s proving to be an enjoyable challenge. I talk more about first

times in my closing remarks, which, as ever, remain on the back

cover.

This issue’s theme is personal heroes, inspired by the death of Steve

Jobs in October, and I’ve asked fans to write about people who

inspired and influenced them, or to write about the concept of role

models and icons more generally. I am a huge fan of the articles that

I’ve received this time around, and I’m really rather proud of how

on-topic everyone is.

The contents this time around include contributions from the three

candidates to make the TAFF trip to Olympus 2012. I do hope you

will read their contributions and vote. I’ve expanded on this request

in our first article, with details about the current race, my TAFF trip

and a bit of talk about my TAFF report. It’s nice being back in the

editor’s chair for this issue. Enjoy!

Procrastinations is edited by John Coxon.

Issue #9 published on Saturday 12th November, 2011.

Web: efanzines.com/Procrastinations. Email: john.coxon@gmail.com .

Address: 14 Chapel Lane, Peterborough, PE4 6RS, UK.

The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund.

John Coxon (editor, Procrastinations; 2011 TAFF delegate)

The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund, or TAFF, was formed in the 1950s as a

method by which science fiction fans on either side of the Atlantic

Ocean could cross to the other side, courtesy of donations from

other fans. Obviously, back then, it was horrendously expensive to

travel from Europe to North America (or vice versa!), so this was

very useful indeed; nowadays, the fund exists to help those without

the means to travel get to conventions in other countries and

explore the world.

As you may or may not already be aware, I won the TAFF race

earlier this year. The results were announced just after Illustrious,

the Eastercon in Birmingham; I won by virtue of something called

the 20% rule, which I’m sure will be an interesting footnote in any

chronicles of the history of the fund written in the years from now. I

went to Renovation, the 2011 Worldcon in Reno, Nevada; I also

travelled to Toronto, Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area as part

of my trip.

Since departing on my adventure to visit

our North American cousins, I have

written a lot. In fact, it’s somewhere over

the 24,000 word mark at this point (the

word count keeps changing as I edit, so a

more precise number would be

pointless). These adventures are being

published in a variety of fanzines, as

follows:

• Banana Wings (edited by Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer)

• Chunga (edited by Andy Hooper, Randy Byers & carl juarez)

• The Drink Tank (edited by Christopher J. Garcia)

• SF/SF (edited by Jean Martin, España Sheriff & Tom Becker)

The trip report will eventually be available as a compiled work. It

will consist of the text of the report (including several bits of pieces

that will not appear anywhere other than in the finished product!).

Alongside that will be a variety of photographs and hopefully some

illustrations from awesome fan artists (if you would like to

contribute artwork, please do get in touch with me at the email

address on the front page!). I’ve also arranged for several awesome,

prominent fan writers to write articles about their experiences at

Worldcon, which will form a large part of the document and

hopefully give a really interesting and dynamic view of what

Renovation was really like!

The trip report will be published after the current race has

concluded, which leads me very neatly onto talking about the

current race! The candidates, announced in October, are Warren

Buff, Kim Kofmel and Jacqueline Monahan. Each of them has

contributed an article to this fanzine, so please do read them and

then vote! A ballot form is tucked handily inside the fanzine you

hold before you, and you can vote at Novacon or mail it to me using

the address written on the paper; there really is no excuse!

The 2012 TAFF trip will send whoever wins to Olympus 2012, which

will be held over the Easter weekend at the Radisson Edwardian at

Heathrow airport. More details are at www.olympus2012.org, and if

you haven’t yet registered, you really should! The Guests of Honour

are George R.R. Martin and Paul Cornell, with Margaret Austin and

Martin Easterbrook appearing as the Fan Guests of Honour.

Of course, Eastercon will see fan fund-related programming,

whether it’s TAFF or GUFF (our sister fund, which sends Europeans

to Australasia). I will be doing some sort of panel related to my

TAFF trip and there will be fundraising, too. Hopefully, I will be

selling copies of a finished and printed trip report to the eager

masses whilst I’m there.

If it wasn’t for the generosity of the fans that donate to TAFF, I

wouldn’t have been able to attend Renovation, and countless other

fans would have been deprived of similar experiences. The funds

promote the sense of community that is so integral to fandom, so

please do vote in this TAFF race!

My Three Heroes.

Christopher J. Garcia (editor, The Drink Tank & Journey Planet)

It would make sense that a guy who has spent the majority of his life

involved in some form of writing would have at least one author on

his list of heroes. I do, but the truth is he’s the least of the influences

that have been cast on my life. There are, in fact, two others who

have been huge influences upon me and could well be called my

idols. Of these three, one was a newspaperman, who happened to be

the greatest fan writer the world will ever know. Another, a

showman of the greatest kind. The final one? Well, I’ll let that be a

surprise.

Let’s start with the fan: Harry Warner. For more than six decades,

he read and wrote to just about every fanzine that was produced.

Harry, called the Hermit of Hagerstown, only attended a couple of

conventions in his life, including the one where he was the

Worldcon Guest of Honour. In many ways, he was the exact

opposite of me: a recluse who seldom visited folks, a guy who was an

incredible writer and tireless in his communications. All things that

I am decidedly not.

I grew up reading Harry Warner’s letters of comment. I loved them.

He had a way of making every one of them feel like it was special,

different, and considered. He was amazing, and when I finally read

his book, A Wealth of Fable , I was hooked. I’d read some of his

articles in the All Our Yesterdays line, but didn’t get around to

reading the book until much, much later. Harry was the

consummate historian – he detailed everything from the surviving

records, not from personal experience. That allowed him to make

connections, and since he was reading and corresponding with

everyone around the world, he had an unparalleled view of the field.

The second of my heroes, and this one is obvious, was Forrest J

Ackerman. The man was the FAN! He collected pulps, collected

memorabilia, gave tours of his home, wrote, edited and agented; all

to various degrees of success. He was beloved, and it was his tour of

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