（外文电子版资料）Spider Robinson - Live on Tape.pdf

Live on Tape Spider Robinson The fantasy and horror magazines have been thoroughly independent for the most part, without institutional, commercial, or grant support. In the United States, where grant support is next to impossible anyway, this attitude is a blessing. In Canada, where there is a lot of grant support available, it becomes more attractive to go for the mainstream package and get funded. Hence Canadas highly active small presses have left less room, compared to the lower half of North America, for fantasy magazines. A few exceptions have been Dark Fantasy, Potboiler, Borderland, Dragonfields, and Stardock. This latter ran only two issues and was edited by Charles R. Sounders, who has since gone on to considerable success as a screenwriter and, for DAW Books, a novelist. For the premiere issue of Stardock (Summer, 1977), the multiple award-winning author Spider Robinson, always supportive of his fellow Canadians, contributed the following tale. Dear StarWolf: I wont tell you at the outset how the following came into my hands. All I can say is that the more I think about it, the scareder I get. Its implications are terrifying. You may as well run it in your fanzine as sf: no mainstream editor would touch it -- for reasons, which will become obvious. I cant claim authorship of the manuscript -- but for equally obvious reasons, no one else ever will. Figuratively yours (?) Spider It is said that the most terrible moment of all comes when you reach within yourself -- and close on emptiness. I, on the other hand, am afraid that I will not. But I must find out. I have been accustomed to think of myself as a reasonably talented writer. I am not the kind of writer who can produce pay-copy on command, with regular working hours and a dependable