Geez, that ConFusion one-shot, which includes pieces by Lenny Bailes, mentions Diane Drutowski in Fred Haskell's (as he was then) reprint piece, and, well, I could make a long list of Friends in it or part of it, reminds me of the 1977 ConFusion where I had a special ultra-cheap good-for-only-72-hours Greyhound bus ticket, and was lunatic to use it to go from NYC to Ann Arbor, MI, knowing I'd spend more time on the road than at the con.



Little did I know that that a massive snow storm would shut down the entire Ohio State thruway, and leave our bus and a couple of thousand stranded in -- was it Cleveland, or Cincinnati? -- where the Red Cross brought us cots and doughnuts and coffee, and I managed to get a phone call through from a phone booth (no cell phones in those days, children!) to the con suite, where someone desultorily took a phone call -- possibly Jack Chalker? -- and I later found that someone had scrawled a chalk message on a chalk board that "Gary Farber is trapped in a phone booth in Ohio in a blizzard."



Greyhound was nice enough to extend the ticket for a day.

Ah, yes, from that oneshot, and Fred Haskell's report of the time:

Oh, yes, by Fred Haskell: "Gary Farber called later in the evening to say he was stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again in a bus terminal in Cleveland or somesuch."

Joe Haldeman writes on the FB iteration of this:





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http://efanzines.com/Energ umen/Energumen01_s.pdf ok page about him notes that he published me before I was a professional, and it reproduces a page from his fanzine Energumen, with a poem and drawing I sent to him from Vietnam in 1968. I wasn’t much of a poet then, but the last couple of lines are poignant. This is what I wrote elsewhere --Our old friend Mike Glicksohn died today. He’d been ill with cancer for a long time, so no surprise. But always a shock, a blow. Our hearts are with Susan Manchester, whom he left behind, tonight.A Facebo

Poor Mike. I knew him mostly as a convention fan, when he used to hang out with me and Joe Haldeman and others at Disclaves and Midwestcons in the early '70s. A great guy. He'll be missed.

I wanted to point out, though, that I raised the cost of the CD to $20 plus $2 postage, even though I think it says $15 plus $2 on the disk. The actual costs ended up being a little higher than I originally expected, due to lavish packaging of the content. I doubt I'd do another with a label, for instance.

A service of remembrance for Mike Glicksohn will be held at Windermere United Church, 356 Windermere Avenue, Toronto ON, at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday March 23.

Sara Stratton, a family friend, has also sent out a preview of the announcement that will appear in the Toronto Star next week:

Michael David Glicksohn (“Honey”), born May 20, 1946 in Portsmouth, England, died March 18, 2011 in Toronto after a lengthy illness. Amazing husband of Susan Manchester, he will also be missed by brother Manning (Louissa) and nephew Ray (Mary Ellen), cousins Dale (Petra), Jo (Howard) and Abby, great-nieces Willow and Jade, cousins Alison Purdy and Kevin Purdy (Rosemary), step-mother Hilary, and by many, many good friends. Predeceased by his parents, Paul and Ellen (nee Mullane). Mike taught mathematics at Humberside Collegiate Institute for 34 years. He was involved in science fiction fandom for many years and won a Hugo Award for best fan writer. Each Memorial Day weekend for more than 25 years, Mike and his friend Michael Harper hosted MikeCon, which was attended by hundreds of friends and fans from across Canada and the U.S. A service of remembrance will be held at Windermere United Church, 356 Windermere Avenue, on Wednesday, March 23 at 7 p.m. In lieu of flowers or donations, Mike would probably appreciate it if you raised a glass to him.

Energumen ed. by Michael Glicksohn and Susan Wood Glicksohn

Best Fanzine Winner: Energumen ed. by Michael Glicksohn and Susan Wood Glicksohn 2 Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown and Dena Brown 3 Algol ed. by Andrew I. Porter Runners-up:

Granfalloon ed. by Ron Bushyager and Linda Bushyager SF Commentary ed. by Bruce Gillespie Best Fan Writer Winner: Terry Carr 2 Susan Wood Glicksohn 3 Richard E. Geis Runners-up:

Charles N. Brown Sandra Miesel Rosemary Ullyot Best Fan Artist Winner: Tim Kirk 2 William Rotsler 3 Grant Canfield Runners-up:

James Shull Arthur "ATom" Thomson

I liked Mike. We were never close friends, but he was always kind and friendly to me. I haven't seen him in decades, heard varying bits and pieces about his illnesses and battles with cancer for many years now.I'll still miss him. We'd not had any contact in decades, but he was a presence all over the sf fandom of my youth, a man who helped create much of the environment I grew up in, the culture that was so important to me for so long, and I'm very sorry he's gone.RIP, Mike, and have a smooooth one with Bob Tucker More pictures of Mike here [A variant edition of this is crossposted on Facebook , readable to everyone; both of these may be revised, almost surely not identically.] [UPDATE, 3.21.11, 6:24 p.m.: there seems to be a glitch keeping the FB post, which should be readable by everyone, and which no one has before informed me was not, but which I was just informed wasn't readable by those not on FB, and have checked myself, found this to be true for at least the moment, haven't been able to figure out why, and thus am now warning you until I see that the problem/glitch/whatever has passed, that you may not find that link operable unless you have an FB account, or... beats me, until such time as I find that it's definitely working for all again; my apologies to all and anyone who may have been affected, and any resulting confusion; this is the first time in a couple of years of using FB that this has ever happened, so I'm guessing it's just a temporary glitch, but I'm obviously in no position to say. Again: sorry about that!; these two posts are substantially the same, so mostly what you're missing are the many wonderful comments by other folks -- if those were visible anyway -- and a few minor variations.]By Mike Glicksohn , a wonderful set of memories, and I'm... full of mixed emotion at rereading this, and realizing how I, too, have now been around for, gulp, about 40 years of activity in the sf field, even more than the 35 years Mike had when he wrote this, though Mike was understandably about 10,000 times justifiably more beloved than I am. But I couldn't identify more with those feelings of how one goes from awe at one's elders to finding that, hey, wait,can't be an elder: I'm still just a kid!And I've never been a thousandth the sf fan Mike was; I'm just...also older. You should read this piece ADDENDA: Geri Sullivan Mike Glyer . Lots on Facebook and LJ and sff.net and all over. I'll add some of the more substantive to both my posts as I catch them, when time allows, if I can. People are encouraged to send me links, as always.Some include: ConFusion one-shot of great quality:Digressively: Gardner Dozois comments:ADDENDUM, 11:40 p.m.: Taral Wayne remembers.Also, apparently I didn't make it clear that Mike died earlier today; if he'd died on some previous day I'd have mentioned that. He died at 5:30 a.m. Eastern time according to Robert Sawyer who put it on Facebook and tweeted it within the hour.I've also neglected to say here that I know that I first met Mike at the Aussiecon party at Discon II, in 1974, when I had been reading and loccing fanzines for a couple of years, but had just missed going to Torcon II, the year before, because I was still young and neoish enough to wave goodbye, literally, to a car full of NYC fans driving off to it, without realizing, as I subsequently did, that I could have have squeezed in, and, in those days, found crash space, eaten cheap food, andthat wonderful Torcon I heard so much about, while I was still 14 years old.In 1974 I wasneoish enough as a con fan, and all around, to be awed to be among my fannish elders, and it was still a couple of months before I started reading slush for Lou Stathis (unbeknown to Ted White, I think, until later), and was even more awed to be a Galactic Observer, very quietly leaning against the walls of that Aussiecon party, listening and watching as Mike Glicksohn, and Robin Johnson, and Leigh Edmonds, and Susan Wood, and Valma Brown, and Joe Haldeman, and so many others, conversed, played cards, told stories, and I just soaked it all in, learning what The BNFs Were Like, and that not incidentally, in those days, as in the many decades previous, so many professional writers, editors, agents, and artists started in fandom, and the field was so small, that while there were always some pros who came from outside, and, of course, many fans who were awed by various pros, it was perfectly common -- as it still is today to some extent in at least some circles -- for there to be no social or other distinction between "pros" and "fans" since so many people were both.(They certainly mixed it up in fanzines, and had ever since the Forties, as well, while, of course, some did maintain a distinction separation, as Robert Heinlein very much did, while yet others I'll leave nameless were more, um, variable, depending upon who they had in mind -- as well they might.)UPDATE: March 20th, 2001, 7:18: a.m., PST: Mike Glyer reports Mike's memorial service:Also that:As Mike notes, themanages to get wrong which Hugo Award Mike won. It was the 1973 Best Fanzine