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| − | '''Science-Fantasy Correspondent''' was a science fiction and fantasy fanzine edited by Willis Conover. | + | '''Science-Fantasy Correspondent''' was a science fiction and fantasy fanzine edited by Willis Conover (1921-1996). |
Conover was a teenager when he began writing letters to ''Weird Tales'' and corresponding with other fans of weird fiction. He decided to do a fanzine, publishing it from his Cambridge, Maryland, U.S.A. home in the mid 1930s. | Conover was a teenager when he began writing letters to ''Weird Tales'' and corresponding with other fans of weird fiction. He decided to do a fanzine, publishing it from his Cambridge, Maryland, U.S.A. home in the mid 1930s. | ||
| − | Soon after beginning his fanzine he began writing to H. P. Lovecraft, and they began a regular correspondence. Lovecraft did an interview with Conover for his zine and supplied him with out-of-print poems and short stories he had written. He also put him in touch with other writers of weird fiction. | + | Soon after beginning his fanzine he began writing to H. P. Lovecraft, and they began a regular correspondence. Lovecraft did an interview with Conover for his zine and supplied him with out-of-print poems and short stories he had written. He also put him in touch with other writers of weird fiction. |
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| + | Later in life, Willis Conover became a jazz DJ for ''Voice of America'' and was known everywhere around the world, except in North America. He also published a book of his correspondence with Lovecraft, called ''Lovecraft At Last''. | ||
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| + | ==External Links== | ||
| + | *[http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2008/06/if-it-aint-got-that-swing.html Article on Willis Conover and ''Science-Fantasy Correspondent''] | ||
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Revision as of 18:49, 19 April 2011
Science-Fantasy Correspondent was a science fiction and fantasy fanzine edited by Willis Conover (1921-1996).
Conover was a teenager when he began writing letters to Weird Tales and corresponding with other fans of weird fiction. He decided to do a fanzine, publishing it from his Cambridge, Maryland, U.S.A. home in the mid 1930s.
Soon after beginning his fanzine he began writing to H. P. Lovecraft, and they began a regular correspondence. Lovecraft did an interview with Conover for his zine and supplied him with out-of-print poems and short stories he had written. He also put him in touch with other writers of weird fiction.
Later in life, Willis Conover became a jazz DJ for Voice of America and was known everywhere around the world, except in North America. He also published a book of his correspondence with Lovecraft, called Lovecraft At Last.
