Joyce Katz

Arnie Katz, Moshe Feder and Joyce Katz, from left, at Corflu Nova (1984). Courtesy of Rich Lynch.

(1939 – July 30, 2016)

Joyce M. Worley (later Fisher, then Katz) co-chaired St. Louiscon, the 1968 Worldcon and was co-editor of Odd and the N3F clubzine Postwarp, in 1956. Odd was nominated for the 1968 Best Fanzine Hugo.

She was a member of the Ozark Science Fiction Association and was on the committee for Ozarkons 1–5. She was a member of The Saturday People.

In 1969, Joyce with Pam Janisch and Sue Robinson did the fanzine What About Us Grils? This fanzine lasted for three issues, at which time Joyce moved to Brooklyn and began her next zine Potlatch. During her time in Brooklyn, fan Ted Pauls dubbed her "The High Priestess of Brooklyn Fandom." She was a member of the Fanoclasts and the Brooklyn Insurgents.

She chaired Corflu 29 and was on the committee for Corflu 25 and Silvercons 1–4. She was a member and officer of the Southern Nevada Area Fantasy Fiction Union (SNAFFU), hosted The Monthly Social in the 1990s and the Vegrants. She was a member of the Fanwriting Circle and APA-V and OE of SNAPA.

Joyce's memoirs were published in her fanzine Hard Science Tales in the 2000s and her fanwriting was collected in The Sweetheart of Fanac Falls.

She was born in Poplar Bluff, MO (according to Arnie Katz, also the birthplace of Claude Degler). She married fellow fan Raymond "Duggy" Fisher in 1956, and after their divorce in 1970, she married actifan Arnie Katz. She and Katz later moved to Las Vegas where they created and sustained a local fandom. With Katz and Bill Kunkel, Joyce founded the first magazine devoted to video games, Electronic Games, in 1981. She held senior editorial roles at other gaming publications throughout the 1990s, working under her maiden name.

• Obituary by Chris Kohler, Wired, August 1, 2016.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Bring Bruce Bayside Bulletin
• A Canticle for P. Schuyler Miller [1975] (with Sam Moskowitz and Arnie Katz)
• FIAWOL (with Arnie Katz)
• FourPlay
• Four-Star Extra [1978] (with Arnie Katz, Bill Kunkel, and Charlene Kunkel)
• Hard Science Tales [2000s]
• Implications [2005]
• A Little of the Best of Bob Tucker [1995] (with Arnie Katz)
• Potlatch [1970–72]
• Quant Suff [1997–98]
• Smokin' Rockets [2000–04]
• SpinDizzy [1992–94]
• The Sweetheart of Fanac Falls [2005] (Ed. by Arnie Katz)
• Potlatch [1970–72]
• Tandem [1973] (with Arnie Katz)
• Western Romance
• What About Us Grils? [1969] (with Pam Janisch and Sue Robinson)

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1968 -- 1968 Best Fanzine Hugo nominee
• 1996 -- ConDiablo
• 2003 -- Past president of the FWA
• 2014 -- GalaxyCon

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Person

1939—2016

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