The Carl Combine in Old Seattle

[randy_byers]

So in March 1979 the Carl Combine traveled from Eugene to Seattle for Norwescon. It was my first science fiction convention. Our surrealist spirit guide was Carl-sub-pi, the irrational Carl:






Carl-sub-i, the imaginary Carl, that is I, was the driver:



Carl-sub-e, the natural Carl, was the artistic photographer:



We visited the Seattle Center, where Carl-sub-pi and Carl-sub-i got abstract (a frequent problem in those days):



At Norwescon, we learned that science fiction conventions are all about sex. Oh yeah, and we met Poul Anderson:



We actually already knew John Varley, with whom we had played pinball in Eugene. Friends called him Herb. He was the white hot new SF writer of the day, writing stories of cyborg implants and alien symbiosis that were disturbing and exhilarating to my eighteen-year-old self. Science fiction conventions were apparently also all about beer, although we were actually more sercon than anything else at that point:

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[spikeiowa.livejournal.com]

Snort! LOL