Mike Resnick - Roots and a Few Vines

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ROOTS AND A FEW VINES

by Mike Resnick

So I'm sitting there in Winnipeg, resplendent in my tuxedo,

and morbidly wondering how many fans have called me "Mr. Resnick"

instead of "Mike" since the worldcon began three days ago.

I don't _feel_ like a Mister. I feel like a fan who is

cheating by sitting here with all the pros, waiting for Bob

Silverberg to announce the winner of the Best Editor Hugo. He goes

through the names: Datlow, Dozois, Resnick, Rusch, Schmidt.

He opens the envelope and reads off Kris Rusch's name, and

suddenly I am walking up to the stage. Bob is sure I thought he

called out _my_ name, and looks like he is considering clutching

the Hugo to his breast and running off with it (although that is

actually a response common to all pros when they are in proximity

to a Hugo), but finally he sighs and hands it over to me, and I

start thanking Ed Ferman and all the voters.

What am I doing here, I wonder, picking up a Hugo for a lady

who is half my age and has twice my talent and is drop-dead

gorgeous to boot? How in blazes did I ever get to be an Elder

Statesman?

* * *

Well, it began in 1962, which, oddly enough, was _not_ just

last year, no matter how it feels. Carol and I had met at the

University of Chicago in 1960. We'd gone to the theater on our

first date, and wound up in the Morrison Hotel's coffee shop,

where we talked science fiction until they threw us out at 5 in

the morning. It was the first time either of us realized that

someone else out there read that crazy Buck Rogers stuff (though

we might have guessed, since they continued to print it month

after month, and two sales per title would hardly seem enough to

keep the publishers in business.)

Well, 1962 rolls around, and so does a future Campbell winner

named Laura...but the second biggest event of the year comes when

Ace Books, under the editorship of Don Wollheim, starts pirating a

bunch of Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, and a whole generation gets

to learn about Tarzan and Frank Frazetta and John Carter and Roy

Krenkal and David Innes all at once.

But the important thing, the thing that unquestionably shaped

my adult life, was that one of the books had a little blurb on the

inside front cover extolling ERB's virtues, and it was signed

"Camille Cazedessus, Editor of _ERB-dom_". Well, you didn't have

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