Who Goes Here? (Warren Peace, book 1) by Bob Shaw

[james_davis_nicoll]

Who Goes Here? (Warren Peace, book 1) by Bob Shaw

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[dormouse1953]

I know what you mean about page count. I've just been looking at a copy of Slan I have on my shelves, the 1968 Panther (UK) mass market paperback. It's 156 pages.

[ba_munronoe]

Shares his name with one of the characters on Disney's "Sky High." The joke is obvious enough that's it's probably coincidence.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Our unfortunate hero wanted to be Leo Tolstoy but he focused on the wrong part of the front cover while his memory was erased.

[supergee]

After Bob Shaw wrote Who Goes There?, he did his first and only fanzine, Perspex Parrot. In it he said that the book was going to be published in America, and worried about amusing Americans because they think Garrison Keillor is funny. I was able to reassure him that at least one American didn’t.

[voidampersand]

Technically, being a regular columnist in Hyphen and co-author of The Enchanted Duplicator don't count as “doing a fanzine.” But according to Fancyclopedia he did another one-shot Return of the Space Boggle in the 1950s. So Perspex Parrot is his second.

[supergee]

If memory serves, he said it was his first.

[(Anonymous)]

"The Return of the Space Boggle" was a (not very good) three-page cartoon strip included in Shelby Vick's fanzine Confusion 14, February 1953. I'm guessing it may also have been distributed elsewhere, leading to the one-shot description, but Supergee rightly remembers that Bob Shaw said in Perspex Parrot that PP was his first fanzine.

The full text of Perspex Parrot is included in Slow Pint Glass, a big collection of Bob's miscellaneous fanwriting available as a free download from the ebooks page at taff.org.uk, along with collections of his Serious Scientific Talks and the Glass Bushel columns from Hyphen.

Anonymous David Langford