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| Title | Fritz Leiber's speech for Seacon '79 |
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| Description | A speech presented by Fritz Leiber to Seacon '79. |
| Donor | Leiber, Fritz; Leiber, Justin |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | ID 1984-003, Box 57, Folder 30 |
| ArchivesSpace URI | /repositories/2/archival_objects/5302 |
| Original Collection | Fritz Leiber Papers |
| Digital Collection | Fritz Leiber Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention Flyers & Programs |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/1984_003 |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | In Copyright |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Page 10, front |
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| File Name | uhlib_1984_003_b057_f030_069_019.jpg |
| Transcript | 10 But names of individuals don't matter. What happened to me at the Seventh World SF Convention, what had a lasting and irrevocable effect on me, was that I ^felmt met ■y readers at long last, met them en masse, my popular and critical audience both, and I was never the same afterwards. Without the Insights gleaned from such minds as Judith Merril's (with her profound understanding of the imaginative writer's full spectrum: scientific, supernatural, philosophic, religious, adventuring, technical, mystical) I don't think I could have written stories such as I did for the new magazine. Galaxy, that started tfflfjp #\&yj& year, such stories as "Coming Attraction," "Poor Superman," n and The Moon is Green. n Nevertheless I have a confession to make. When I traveled baok to Chicago Monday night from Cincinnati (I think I had a sleeper this time) my chief conscious thought was this doubtless over-optimistic one, "Gee, I wish I'd had all those people's addresses at the beginning of this year — I oould have tripled the circulation of New Purposes." Frederick Pohl was my first agent and also the cleverest editor I ever had. I'd gone through a very bleak dry period after World War II — that's when I was earning my living as associate editor of the science- |