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Sam Moskowitz
By the time I knew Sam, his booming voice was gone, now only the stuff of legend. He spoke with the aid of a voice box that gave every utterance a cold, synthetic quality, like the sound of a car radio entering a tunnel. At first, I tried to keep our conversations short. Surely this must be unbearable for him. But as I worked with him, I grew to treasure our conversations. Sam was the fount of all knowledge. And I? I was inept. I didn't even know the right questions to ask. I just knew that if I asked enough questions, eventually I would get something of tremendous value in return.
I met him once, finally. At the 54th World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles. It was my second WorldCon, and my first as a dealer. I had a shiny new goatee, pressed slacks, a colorful button down shirt, and a pair of Armani designer eye-glasses - looking every bit as professional as I could muster. Sam took one look at me and said, "I knew you were young, but I didn't know you were that young."
When Sam agreed to write an introduction to an unexpurgated edition of Stanley G. Weinbaum's The Black Flame (he also supplied the text copy of the book), his endorsement lent Tachyon instant credibility.
Thanks Sam! We'll miss you.
Jacob Weisman
Editor & Publisher
Tachyon Publications
. . . Sam Moskowitz did more original research in this field than any other scholar of his period and few since; no later history of science fiction has not made use of Sam Moskowitz's painstaking work, especially his research in to the early history of science fiction in periodical publications.
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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