“I had been thinking about doing a Heinlein-related magazine for a few years, but I was not certain that there would be enough material to support a regular publication schedule,” Bill recalled in 2005. “They looked super professional, the text prepared with a IBM compositor at a time when the rest of us were using typewriters.”īill moved to San Francisco shortly thereafter, and he later founded The Heinlein Journal in 1997 and cofounded the Heinlein Society in 1998. “Everyone was impressed with Bill’s publications for the bid and the 1978 Worldcon,” recalled Mike Glyer. He attended Arizona State University for two years, majoring in history, and helped organize the 36th Annual World Science Fiction Convention, IguanaCon II, in Phoenix in 1978. The Patterson family would live in Indianapolis, IN, and later in Phoenix, AZ, where he became heavily involved in Phoenix SF fandom, joining a local SF club and the local chapter of the Tolkien Club. Heinlein, accepts the Retro Hugo on behalf of Heinlein, in 2001.īill was born October 28, 1951, in St. Full List of Heinlein Society Items to Shopīill Patterson, author of the two-volume biography of Robert A.Donate and Receive The Ensign’s Prize Books.
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