(continued from last issue)
Davidphan sat at the typer in the forgotten storeroom beneath the Antartic ice, unmoving, frozen by the stark terror of ... writers' block.
... there was the sound of a theremin humming nearby ... and the smell of gunsmoke in the air... it seemed that there must be some, some -- thing -- outside the door ... Davidphan had a sudden craving for a large carrot ... slowly, painfully, he typed the phrase: "Keep watching the skies!"
The End
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Jeff here. I have decided to end the saga of Davidphan. He is about to meet an overpowering carnivorous vampire vegetable (looking not unlike James Arness) and I think I've had more than enough fun for now.
My semi-official title for this issue of Science-Fiction Five-Yearly is Production Editor. This means that I get to take cover plates off of old mimeo equipment and search for parts and materials for a technology not much
supported any more in this country. I was really pleased the other week to find that a Regina B14 vacuum cleaner drive belt fit the main drive pulleys of our 40 year old Gestetner 456 electrostenciler. A year ago Geri and I drove far outstate, to Little Falls, Minnesota, to the Hennepin Paper Co., where we bought 100 cases of their discontinued Fibertone mimeo paper. I also took our negs and slides and had a Kodak Photo CD scanned from them for the photo section. Analog past, meet the digital future!
Hey, in 1986 I carried Patrick and Teresa's Gestetner down to my 1970 Chevelle Malibu and drove it to Mr. Mimeo in Manhattan (and back) for an overhaul before they started SFFY #8. That's me, the power behind the scenes.
Be aware, though, that Geri is the true crank behind the Gestetner thisish. I did most of the electrostenciling, but she laid out every page but this one, and she's running the mimeo!
So, we've gotten Gestetners from Alina Chu, Karen Cooper, Don Bailey and Margo Bratton, Lynn Anderson, and Mog Decarnin. Chris Couch found one of the 440s for me on the street in New York. Gary Tesser's big stapler
turned up with Larry Carmody's mimeo
supplies and probably should be
returned to Gary one of these days
Real Soon Now. He shouldn't have
lent it to Larry in the first place.
The receiver and speakers in the
mimeo shop came from Emma Bull and
Will Shetterly's moving sale last
summer. Kay Drache gave us the library
stool we sit on. And finally, thanks
to Garth Danielson for running a few
of these pages on his copier at work.
(This may be the '90s, but mimeos
still don't do solid black.)
(Illo: Rotsler: "I like mine of the Pope, better)
Data entry by Judy Bemis
Hard copy provided by Geri Sullivan
Data entry by Judy Bemis
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