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In reply to the discussion: We should have been colonizing the solar system by now. [View all]a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)I'm beginning to think that I ought to organize a mass reading of my thesis...
As a (somewhat) gracious host, I'd have to provide pizza and beer (geek soul food).
1.) I've grown up with Makers and rocketeers in my family and extended family (and my family of choice), since birth.
2.) The question is one of ultimate motivations. What was the underlying reason for the evangelizing of the socialists in Fandom. It's pretty clear that Sykora's bid was destroyed in a fractious takeover bid. The question there is: was the takeover bid an attempt to create a front organization? Or were Wollheim and Michels attempting to save Sykora's faltering group?
3.) Sam Moskowitz's book The Immortal Storm, and Damon Knights's answering The Futurians both point out that the Rocketeers (those of us obsessed with seeing things fly into the air with a mighty WHOOSH) left immediately after the first Worldcon. I attempted to find out why they would do that, by taking the emotional pulse of modern Rocketeers. There are no surviving Rocketeers fro the time period in question, so primary sources are a little hard to come by.
Pizza and beer, in a neutral location.