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It’s Been A Bad Month for Old Fans

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

First Jan Howard Finder (AKA “Wombat”) died February 26.

Now Locus Online brings word that Richard E. Geis, Hugo-winning fanzine editor of Science Fiction Review and The Alien Critic, died back on February 4th.

I wasn’t particular close to either of them, but both were on the Nova Express mailing list, and I occasionally got mail from them.

Geis may be most famous for killing the porn book market for writers in the 1970s. Writers used to be able to get $1,000 a pop for a porn novel (not great, but far from chicken feed), but Geis turned them out so fast the price dropped to $500 a pop.

And here’s an appreciation of Geis by Michael Swanwick.