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Speaking of the program, just like last year, we have some programs and other goodies left over and available for those who could not attend. Be sure to check out the contents of the program, it is not to be missed. We should have some photos from the weekend online by the next update.

While helping Bette's family sort through Phil's files in the basement, we made two astounding discoveries. The first is that Phil's short story, Totem and Taboo which originally appeared in the December 1954 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and had only been reprinted three times (in English), all three times in Farmer collections, had in fact been reprinted elsewhere. Strangely enough in the April 17, 1955, Sunday edition of The New York Post! It makes you wonder just how many more reprints like this are out there waiting to be rediscovered.

However, the second find was even more of a jaw dropper, but in some ways, perhaps not so surprising. The Open Air Crusader was a newsletter published by the Peoria County Tuberculosis Association, a group whose function was to educate children of the importance of good health. Many children wrote letters thanking them for their work, but Phil, only ten years old at the time, sent them a short story! So, while O'Brien and Obrenov is still the first story Phil sold (as far as we know), Christmas Seal's Fight was, eighteen years earlier, his first published fiction.

Last month we reported: ...we're honestly not sure what item by Phil is going to be in the new issue of Dark Discoveries but our best guess is it is a reprint of the article To the Wizard of Sci-Fi. But as it turns out, this magazine actually contains, "Ackerman and Farmer: A Strangeness of Mind," by Henry Covert, an article telling of Phil and Forry's five decade long friendship.

Any day now we hope to hear that Sanctum Books' DOC SAVAGE Volume 27, containing MURDER MIRAGE, THE OTHER WORLD and a tribute to Phil by Will Murray, is ready to order. We should have a full report on this tribute by the July update.

The same goes for Monkeybrain Book's reprint of TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH. Now that the book is finally on their website, we believe it will be shipping very soon now.

While the wait for Rhys Hughes' novel, TWISTHORN BELLOW (which is full of references to Phil), will be substantially longer, here is an announcement from his publisher, Atomic Fez, to hold you over. If you spend a few minutes perusing their website, you will see that publisher Ian Alexander Martin might well be worth keeping an eye on.

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