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Abi got a mention in the obituaries section of the Hugo Ceremony at Montreal and Geoff Ryman was incredibly kind and sent me a text to tell me about it. I just never got round to mentioning this because it's one of those acknowledging she is dead moments that I am still having a problem with.
Meanwhile, Dave Langford is still - bless him! - scanning old Abigail APA postings and putting them on the website he has created for her. There's a particularly fine piece here which is both funny and forensically solid in its demolitions of a particular piece of woo-woo literature, and a famous hippy poster, and on the reasons that people are drawn to them through wishful thinking. One of the reasons why people loved her, and some people hated her, was that she was a toughie and scathingly funny when her blood was up.
Gods, I miss her. And what a shame it is, to reiterate a point I have made already and endlessly made to her, that she refused to get involved with the Internet and never posted here.
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Anonymous
August 18 2009, 15:04:58 UTC 2 years ago
Abigail
Yes a fine piece of vinatge Abigail (and I wonder if anyone still has a full set of New River Blues).I also liked what I presumed is DL's editing, giving some detail on the origins of Desiderata; nice to see that the Net can encourgae truth (although alas these days a lie is now 10 times round the world before Truth has even considered putting her boots on),
Graham
August 18 2009, 15:51:54 UTC 2 years ago
Re: Abigail
Yes, I put in the editorial footnote -- it seemed only fair.I think my set of New River Blues is complete, and everything signed AJF that my OCR software can decipher is now on line. The joint Roz/Abi report on Seacon '79 (written in alternation?) is the major omission. If Roz is willing and someone volunteers to rekey it, then maybe.
David Langford
August 18 2009, 23:09:36 UTC 2 years ago
Re: Abigail
I would have no problem whatever.August 19 2009, 08:30:55 UTC 2 years ago
Re: Abigail
Nine and a bit pages of pale but just legible mimeography, less one short section already transcribed here (http://ansible.co.uk/misc/ajf-fragments.html) (top of page). I'll be happy to supply anyone who's prepared to retype a bit with a scanned page or pages -- but not today because I'm visiting family. There are also about ten further pages of Abigail's solo apazines, already scanned by Robert Lichtman ... so far I've cherrypicked the best reproduced examples.August 21 2009, 19:33:27 UTC 2 years ago
Re: Abigail
An update. With a bit of scanner tweaking, the Seacon '79 report came through OK, and so did most of the Frank's APA contributions. All now up at the usual address, http://ansible.co.uk/misc/ajf.html -- see "Latest additions" links in the opening paragraph. But I still have at least one poorly reproduced piece that needs rekeying, should anyone care to volunteer.August 18 2009, 15:29:41 UTC 2 years ago Edited: August 18 2009, 15:30:04 UTC
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August 22 2009, 15:01:10 UTC 2 years ago
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