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| − | ([[Heinlein]]:[[White]]) After a surprising lack of [[fan]] deaths during our previous thirty-odd years of mutual awareness, between January '''1958''' and January 1959 [[Henry Kuttner]], [[Cy Kornbluth]], [[Vernon McCain]], [[F. Towner Laney]], and [[E. Everett Evans]] -- veteran fans all, and the two former famous pro authors -- died of various natural causes, and [[Kent Moomaw]] and [[Bill Courval]], promising younger fans, committed [[suicide]]. Since [[fannish]] [[newszines]] were widely circulated at this time, practically all the active fans got the news as a simultaneous shock; distress and gloomy comment was general. | + | ([[Heinlein]]:[[White]]) After a surprising lack of [[fan]] deaths during our previous thirty-odd years of mutual awareness, between January '''1958''' and January 1959 [[Henry Kuttner]], [[Cy Kornbluth]], [[Vernon McCain]], [[F. Towner Laney]], and [[E. Everett Evans]] -- veteran fans all, and the two former famous [[pro]] [[authors]] -- died of various natural causes, and [[Kent Moomaw]] and [[Bill Courval]], promising younger fans, committed [[suicide]]. Since [[fannish]] [[newszines]] were widely circulated at this time, practically all the active fans got the news as a simultaneous shock; distress and gloomy comment was general. |
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Revision as of 07:42, 3 October 2021
| From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959 |
| (Heinlein:White) After a surprising lack of fan deaths during our previous thirty-odd years of mutual awareness, between January 1958 and January 1959 Henry Kuttner, Cy Kornbluth, Vernon McCain, F. Towner Laney, and E. Everett Evans -- veteran fans all, and the two former famous pro authors -- died of various natural causes, and Kent Moomaw and Bill Courval, promising younger fans, committed suicide. Since fannish newszines were widely circulated at this time, practically all the active fans got the news as a simultaneous shock; distress and gloomy comment was general. |
"The Year of the Jackpot" reference was to the Heinlein story of that name (Galaxy, March 1952).
As if the too many deaths were not bad enough, WSFS, Inc. was incorporated and Forry Ackerman publicized the term Sci-Fi in 1958. A very bad year!
| Fanhistory | 1958 |
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