Paperback (Trade)
Weight: 1.1
ISBN-13: 978-1-886778-56-6
ISBN-10: 1-886778-56-6
Page count: 192
Book Size: 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"
Fancestral Voices
by Jack Speer
Table of Contents
- On His Folly
- Introduction, by Art Widner
- About Science Fiction
- Brachiation.
- Decimal Classification of Fantasy Fiction
- Fantasy Fiction Decimal Classification
- The Far Future of Science-Fiction
- Missing the Issue
- On Time
- A Good Year for Time
- Though with Rule and Line
- Resilient Time
- Edith Keeler Need Not Die
- Fan History
- The Phanerofanish Eon.
- Blitzkrieg
- Speer in Los Angeles
- What Transpired at the Michiconference
- Personal History
- Trip to Moon
- 1934: The Making of a Fan
- The Eofannish Era in Comanche
- My Proterofannish Period .
- "—When a Telephone Pole Got in the Way—"
- Fiction
- High Policy
- Ramac in the Sky
- Scoring
- Or Age from Avarice
- Words Words Words
- Wasted Words
- Minced Profanity
- Cryptic Communication for the Cognoscenti
- The Ancient Cry
- Issues
- Seeking What Is Not
- Use Your Clone for Spare Parts?
- Book Wanted
- It's Up To Us
- L'envoi
- Novus Ordo Fandorum.
Jack Speer
Jack Speer was one of the "founding dinosaurs" of fandom. He was one of those who defined our history because he not only helped shape it, he was the first to write it. Jack wrote "Up to Now", the first real history of SF fandom in 1939. A few years later he codified our "fanspeak" along with a lot more history when he wrote the first Fancyclopedia in 1944. Jack's influential articles created the idea of "numbered fandoms" by identifying key traits and changes in various generations of fandom. He investigated and reported on feuds, the Cosmic Circle and other contretemps as well.
The Noreascon Four Committee is saddened that Jack passed away the morning of June 28, 2008. Please see the excerpts from the Noreascon Four Souvenir Book.
"I'm very sorry to hear this, and I'm very grateful that we had a chance to honor Jack at Noreascon Four. He was an amazing, gentle, frighteningly bright, wonderful man, and he was a great guest."
—Deb Geisler, Chairman, Noreascon Four.
Cover by Charles Williams
Cover design by Alice N.S. Lewis
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