With some exceptions, I can no longer remember where I got each autograph. Almost all were collected in the 1970s and early 1980s. Here are four locations where I got multiple SF autographs:
- A woman who was planning to publish an SF magazine organized a series of evening sessions at USC with SF writers. There were just a handful of us who regularly attended, so the talks were quite informal. I loved them, and gathered quite a few autographs, too. I do specifically recall Harlan Ellison and Larry Niven. Maybe A.E. Van Vogt. We also took a group field trip to Forrest J. Ackerman's Hollywood home, the Ackermansion.
- An event at UCLA's Ackerman Union with several SF authors on stage, including Theodore Sturgeon and Robert Silverberg, maybe also Roger Zelazny.
- Once (or was it twice?), I hung around outside the annual SFWA Nebula Awards Banquet with a bag of books, collecting autographs. I remember Ray Bradbury. I also remember Robert Heinlein, who looked so frail in his wheelchair with an attendant that I couldn't bring myself to bother him and ask for his autograph!
- Book signing events at A Change of Hobbit bookstore.
Here's an alphabetized link list of the SF autographs I have:
- Ray Bradbury
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Samuel R. Delany
- Thomas Disch
- Cory Doctorow
- Harlan Ellison
- Philip José Farmer
- Frank Herbert
- Fritz Leiber
- Larry Niven
- Robert Silverberg
- Norman Spinrad
- Theodore Sturgeon
- A. E. Van Vogt
- Roger Zelazny
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