Bob Tucker

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Name: Arthur Wilson Tucker
Alias(es): Bob Tucker, Wilson Tucker, TuckerBob
Type: fan writer, zine editor, zine publisher, GOH, professional author
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Arthur Wilson Tucker (November 23, 1914 – October 6, 2006) was a theater tech; a professional writer of science fiction and mysteries (as Wilson Tucker), and a member of science fiction fandom, known to fandom as Bob Tucker, TuckerBob or Hoy Ping Pong. His fanzine Le Zombie was published intermittently from December 1938 to August 2001. He coined the term space opera and pioneered the literary technique of fan cameos and shoutouts known as a tuckerization.

He was also responsible for one of the first fan surveys with "Lez" Done-Took a Poll! in 1939, where he sent 90 postcards to Le Zombie readers to vote on their favourite fan, zine and published magazine. He also frequently reviewed other zines of the period in his editorials, including Cosmic Tales, Science Fiction News Letter, Futuria Fantasia, Polaris, Spaceways, Horizons, FMZ Digest, Fantasy-News, The Satellite and Future Science Fiction and Science Fiction Stories, helping to spread interest in them among the science fiction fan community.

He was also the director of the Illini Fantasy Fictioneers (IFF), who were awarded the running of the 2nd WorldCon in Chicago in 1940, the acting president of the National Fantasy Fan Federation in 1945 and president (1940-41) and vice-president (1945-46)[1] of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association.

Awards

Hugo Awards

1970 - Best Fan Writer

2001 - Best Fanzine for Science Fiction Newsletter (a.k.a. Bloomington News Letter) (Retro Hugo for 1951)

2004 - Best Fan Writer (Retro Hugo for 1954)

2018 - Best Fanzine for Le Zombie (Retro Hugo for 1943)

2019 - Best Fanzine Le Zombie (Retro Hugo for 1944)

Also nominated for the 1951 Best Fan Writer Retro Hugo and the 1946 Best Fan Writer Retro Hugo.

The Bob Bloch Black Block Award

1970

John W. Campbell, Jr. Memorial Award

1976 - Special Award for The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970)

First Fandom

1985 - First Fandom Hall of Fame Award

Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction

1986 - The Skylark Award for significant contributions to science fiction through work in the field AND good personal qualities.

Southern Fandom Confederation

1990 - Phoenix Award - for contributions as a pro to Southern fandom

1998 - Rebel Award - Lifetime Achievement Award

Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame

2003 - Inducted along with Kate Wilhelm; Damon Knight; Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Notable Works

Zines

As Publisher

  • The Planetoid (1932)
Distributed in November 1932, or thereabouts, The Planetoid was a midget-sized printed four-sheet chock full of "scientific facts" to, stun the fan world. And stun them it did. The offering met a thundering reception. So thundering, in fact, that I lost the courage to distribute the second issue, and slunk away to hide. Thus ended my first publishing spree.

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As Contributor

Articles

Conventions

Honors and GoHships

Trivia

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