Thank you, Best Collection, for this year's backgrounds.
Thank you, Ian Britton, for this year's Photos.
World
Wide Fan Party 2006!
THE SPIRIT WORLD
This year's theme is dedicated to the spirits, all shapes and kinds, no matter if they live in our world or the next!
Things that are new this year:
Science Fiction meets the spirit world in Firefly Haiku by Patrick L Dey.
The Poetry continues with Jedi Haiku also by Patrick L. Dey.
Dreams allow us to the reality beneath our existence in A Midsummer Nightmare by Fred Scheutz.
A young man seeks a unique story in Singing In Summer by Catherine Mintz.
Captain Sheridan explores the spirit world of a nightmare in Perspective by Helen E. Davis.
More SF poetry in Limericks and Other Silly Poetry by an assortment of people.
And last but not least, Slaying The Monster By The Baobab Tree a tale of adventure and mystery by Alfred D. Byrd.
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Our
Archives include the Following Articles and Art:
Alfred D. Byrd starts off with a classic tale in verse in Four Chokas.
An intimate look at the disaster with Fred Schuetz in Desolation.
Who will be the next inheritor of the earth? Helen E. Davis has an idea in Relic.
Not all disasters are to Humans, as Catherine Mintz shows us in Lost.
Rebuilding life after a disaster is hard, as shown in Rebuilding, by Janette E. Davis.
Elizabeth Davis shows us the viewpoint of a soldier after a war in Memories.
Alfred D. Byrd tells us who gains the most when a great nation sinks, in Flotsam From Atlantis.
Although Atlantis has been destroyed, some of its customs are still with us, such as the Sacred Octopus Ceremony.
In leaving the destroyed Earth, Fred Schuetz shows us How To Build a Spaceship From Household Scraps.
Catherine Mintz gives us a love story in Two Martians
Al Byrd gives us a short epic of the red planet in An Aread, In Brief
Janette Davis warns us of a possible danger of colonizing other planets in This Is Our Land
Elizabeth Davis sings us a song of the red planet in Mars
Jonzid cries for a lost planet in A Solarite's Lament
Fred Schuetz greets the soltice with his short story: Solstice
What will be the end result of all these exploration craft we are sending to Mars? The thoughts of Helen E. Davis in Mars Exploration
Plus, showing that you should never throw anything away, Helen E. Davis resurrects an old piece, How To Build A Better Martian.
Al Byrd leads us on a dance of celebration at the new dawn -- on the moon: The Dance for the Lunar Dawn.
Surf and Sillhouette Dragon party on the moon in a short story
Jonzid builds a spaceship, parties on the moon, and rewrites history to come.
Helen Davis describes The Perfect Spaceship.
Al Byrd returns with the Song of the Generation Ship.
Reports from past year's parties.
Damon Knight 1922-2002, a memorial to a great founder of SF fandom.
Al Byrd tells of a fan's journey in verse.
"Equal World" Fred Schuetz tells us of a strange land.
Helen Davis explains why there are Lego™ pictures on the site.
Tom
Feller on how he met the love of his life
Helen
Davis on costuming, featuring Helen in fetching attire with practical
problems
Franz
Miklis' "An Unknown Color," 1999's WWFP feature picture
Ken
Cheslin on the perfect place for the WWFP
Catherine
Mintz and Fred Schütz on fan food and drink
Franz
Miklis on beer
Fred
Schütz on the silence in The Restaurant at the End of the World
Steve
Sneyd with Here There Be Dragons
Helen
E. Davis with Fierce Fires
Fred
Schütz on a fierce drink other than the Pangalactic Gargleblaster
We
also have Franz Miklis' Report on the 1999
parties
An
open letter from Lloyd and Yvonne Penny
on Summer of 2000
Franz
Miklis on his summer 2000 party
Ellen
Jackson comments on the summer solstice
And
last but not least, you can enter The Twilight Zone with Lee
Weinstein
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2006 Sponsors
Are:
Patrick L Dey
Franz
Miklis, Austria
Catherine
Mintz, US
Helen
Davis, US
Fred
Schütz, Germany
Wolfgang
M. Bauer, Austria
Willi
Weissenbrunner, Austria
Ken
Cheslin, UK, in absentia
Jim
Caughran, Canada
Roy
Tackett (for Albuquerque Fandom), US
Lloyd
and Yvonne Penney, Canada
Steve
Sneyd, UK
Alfred D. Byrd, US
Jonathan Stevens, US
Surf and Sillhouette Dragon, US
Next Year
we take the party to new planets, and explore what we find there! Send me your ideas! Helen E. Davis, webmistress