Sid Coleman figured in our lives as the subject of innumerable anecdotes told to us (and written up in various fanzine pieces) by our and his friend, the late science-fiction editor Terry Carr. Since Terry was famously one of the perpetrators of the Carl Brandon hoax, we took to needling him about this unlikely-sounding "Sid Coleman" character whom we'd never actually met. This ended one afternoon in a Mexican restaurant on University Avenue in Seattle, when, amid the loud conversation between several physics students at the next table, we suddenly heard one of them say "Well, you'd have to check with Sid Coleman at Harvard about that."
Terry died in early 1987. Later that year, at the Worldcon in Britain, we were on a memorial panel about his fan and pro career. Which is where we finally met Sid Coleman--who arrived, late, carrying a cardboard sign over his head featuring a downward-pointing arrow and the word "REAL."
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Date: 2007-12-01 02:55 pm (UTC)Terry died in early 1987. Later that year, at the Worldcon in Britain, we were on a memorial panel about his fan and pro career. Which is where we finally met Sid Coleman--who arrived, late, carrying a cardboard sign over his head featuring a downward-pointing arrow and the word "REAL."