… plus a ubiquitous fan known as Harry Somebody many people have taken the model for him to be Harlan Ellison, but I'm sure it was actually Joe Fann that damon had in mind. Kornbluth's propensity for the prank is indicated by an incident where "At the convention Bob Tucker paid a 1¢ bribe to Kornbluth in order to escape being given a hotfoot" ( The Futurians, p. 185).Ī "hotfoot" is "a prank in which a matchbook is lit and inserted into an unsuspecting victim's shoe" ( New Partridge Dictionary, p. Mort Klass, the younger brother of Phil Klass (see Damon Knight's The Futurians, p. It's hard to tell whether this was intentional or an accident of the anagram, but Shaw does say that Knight was fond of sneaking risqué jokes into his stories. "B.U." was 1930s slang, standing for "biological urge" and meaning "sexual attraction" (see New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, p. Possibly an allusion to the artist Marcel Duchamp, as suggested in the other answer. Īn allusion to the folk characters Punch and Judy.īetter known by his pseudonym William Tenn. Ned Burgeon, wearing a sky-blue dinner jacket and a pepper-and-salt goatee, played his famous twenty-one-string guitar. developed a commercially viable method for condensing soup" The ubiquitous fan, Harry You-Know, the one with the glasses and all that hairĭorrance Canning, an old idol of mine he wrote the "Woman Who Slept" series and other gorgeous stuff -įar-fetched, possibly a joke on (from a history of Campbell Soup) "In 1897, John T. Leigh MacKean with her pale protoNordic face. Jones went by in a hurry, carrying a big camera. Rod Pfehl (the P is silent, as in Psmith) Below are the names, and my guesses for those that I have an idea about. Some may, of course, just be funny names. Many of the names of attendees at the meeting are clear parodies of names of SF authors, but I can't identify most of them. loosely speaking, an association for professional science fiction writers."
The setup is a meeting of "The Medusa Club", ". The Infinity magazine of February 1956 contains the short story "A Likely Story" by Damon Knight.
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