LETTERS

Dear Anders,

I read Fred's report on WorldCon and I was surprised that even though he showed up one evening at Brad and Chuck's two-night FreFan party no word of it appeared in the report. For the record, everything promised in the party flyer actually happened (how rare is that in the libertarian world)!

Lydia van Vogt charmed everyone at the party with her grace and warmth as guest of honor to hear the premiere of the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company's presentation of Brad Linaweaver's adaptation of A. E. van Vogt's The Weapons Shop. More Prometheus Award winners and Hall of Famers were in that one room than anywhere else at the con! Brad Linaweaver was there, of course, as host. Neil Schulman made an appearance and showed a portion of his film Lady Magdelene's. I was there, too (I won a couple of Prometheus awards, I recall). Other authors, such as John deChancie, Forrest J Ackerman, Brad's Anarquia co-author Kent Hastings, and Battlestar Galactica star and author Richard Hatch were all in attendance. Libertarian scholar Dr. Sharon Presley dropped by to raise a glass in SEK3's honor. Lovely libertarian filmmaker Bretigne Shaffer made an appearance, and the beautiful and talented SF cover artist Martina Pilcerova (currently working on a new cover for Captain Anger #1) came all the way from the Slovak Republic to hang with us! The Van Cleves dropped in, too. Many more showed up than I can remember (I served as bartender for others and most especially myself).

The event also introduced the first edition of Brad's New Isolationist Broadside ripping the Neo-Cons a new one—Post- Nationalism, George W. Bush as President of the World, courtesy of KoPubCo.com.

As if all of the above weren't enough, the party served not only as an opportunity to continue the 30-year tradition established by Samuel Edward Konkin III of a libertarian fannish party at WorldCon, but to announce the publication of the 25th anniversary edition of his seminal work New Libertarian Manifesto.

Victor Koman
KoPubCo

[Editor: Thanks to the lens of Victor Koman we are able to bring a few images of the WorldCon Frefan party to the readers of Prometheus, as well as the original flyer that heralded this event. We certainly hope to see reports of this annual event from future WorldCons, and invite any attendee to send in a con report. I attended a few of Sam Konkin's parties in the past, with the vivid memories of lugging crates of beer through the hills of El Paso at a WesterCon for a Konkin frefan party some years ago. The parties were always well-attended; photos appeared the next day in the Daily Frefanzine that Konkin edited.]

Fred,

Wanted to say thanks for the receipt of your Fall newsletter—and a very pleasant surprise to see a review of Kickback in the issue. I'm pleased to say I've had several great reviews of that book of mine, but this comics business being what it is, I've had all kinds of trouble getting it in stores. If retailers miss that one solicitation in Previews that heralds it's publication three months ahead of time, because the ad isn't quite big enough or they miss the page or they're tearing their hair out over Civil War or some other meaningless thing they have to get in stock for their core customers, well, it just ceases to exist for them — and that's the situation that Kickback's found itself in, despite it's quality and provenance. I'm currently entirely engaged in making up for that shortfall of knowledge by my own efforts, and getting the surprise of seeing that review in your newsletter is the sort of thing that makes those efforts very much easier to bear.

Very best,
David Lloyd