What it looks like from the Deca

holyoutlaw got an awesome panorama of the Olympic Mountains from the top of the Deca. (Those of you who were at Corflu Zed last year will note that Potlatch got just a tiny bit better weather. It waited until *after* the convention to snow!)

QOTD

On one occasion in about 1951, which it embarrasses me to recall, I actually said to Walt Willis, "Fanzines don't print enough about SF, which is what brought us all together in the first place." He gave a tolerant smile and handed me a plate of egg-and-onion sandwiches, knowing that my aberration would be short-lived. And he was right. My fannish sanity soon returned and I reverted to my comfortable insular belief that fandom, although engendered by SF, is a thing apart – in much the same way that alcoholic drinks contain no yeast although it is yeast which makes them what they are.

-- Bob Shaw, "When Fandoms Collide", originally published in The Zine That Has No Name #3 in 1982, reprinted just now in the Corflu Cobalt progress report #3 (PDF) -- it's a fascinating discussion of the differences between the science fiction fandom of the '50s and that of the '80s -- and now it's thirty years later again, and it makes me think about the difference between my generation (the '80s) and the current one -- another great quote from this article, by the way is, "Science fiction publishing trebled, and then tribbled." Shaw was a wonderful writer.