Wilson Tucker

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I though I'd start a thread on this author and Science Fiction fan, as it seems to me he was someone who through his work in fandom made it feel like a welcoming community.
I'm sure fandom was a less commercialised place back when Wilson was active. Nowadays a lot of conventions seem moneymaking enterprises. You often can't get anywhere near the star guests without paying hundreds of pounds or dollars for a special ticket. Some guests seem only there to be paid or sell merchandise. It is a pity, it really seems to have lost something. Fandom must have been fun in its youth.
Anyway after that complaint this is the cover of the book that made me notice this author and look him up.



A few noted about him from Wiki.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Tucker_(writer)

Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker (November 23, 1914 – October 6, 2006) was an American author who became well known as a writer of mystery, action adventure, and science fiction under the name Wilson Tucker.

Tucker was also a prominent member of science fiction fandom, who wrote extensively for fanzines under the name Bob Tucker, a family nickname bestowed in childhood (his own mispronunciation of the nickname "Bub"). He became a prominent analyst and critic of the field, as well as the coiner of such terms as "space opera".

Although he sold more than 20 novels, Tucker made his principal living as a movie projectionist and theater electrician, starting as a prop man at the Majestic Theater in Bloomington, Illinois.

Tucker's habit of using the names of friends for minor characters in his fiction led to the literary term "tuckerization" or "tuckerism(s)". For example, Tucker named a character after Lee Hoffman in his novel The Long Loud Silence, after Robert Bloch in The Lincoln Hunters, and after Walt Willis in Wild Talent.