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Program as the champion of Jenny Grant—even though he knows that all the odds will be in favor of Candella, who has been promising for some time to kill him.
    (This battle between Warneke and Candella, while directed by the producer, Frinkel, and intended for broadcast, is kept as far as possible within the frame of the real situation and developed as a logical outcome of the rivalry between them that has existed from the first. Frinkel is on hand to point out that this is in the fine old tradition of shows about show business.)
    In the end, despite the odds, Warneke does kill Candella. This victory turns out to be a defeat for him, however. Sharry, in fact, had been wanting to get Candella out of the way—the man was getting ideas. And with Candella dead, Jenny Grant loses her fear. She remembers the tapes and where she hid them. The machine picks up her thoughts. Sharry finds the tapes, which might have destroyed him, and burns them. It is election eve, and he is triumphant. He expects his puppets to go in, and Hansen’s forces to be defeated. Another challenger is being readied to enter Public Enemy, and kill Warneke.
    But there is another record of the tapes—in Jenny’s mind. With his skill as a psionic engineer, Warneke is able to broadcast that record of the truth. He is able to present Sharry to the world, stripped of the lies and unconscious suggestions that have made a public hero of him. The election goes the other way.
    I’ve been working on this for nearly a month now, and I’m still not entirely satisfied with the plot. It still seems a little loose and vague. Yet I believe that the thing holds possibilities of real interest—among other things, it might be made into a good satiric picture of the entertainment industries. I spent last week making tentative starts on the actual narrative without ever getting past page six.
    I’d be very glad for any comments you can make about this. How can it be sharpened and improved? If written, what are the chances of a sale? (One way or another, I’ve got to make some money. I need some good commercial advice.)

    Please let me hear from you.

    With all the best to Judy.

    Cordially Yours,

    Jack Williamson

    From the Frederik Pohl Correspondence collection, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries at Syracuse University.
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Andre Norton

    (photo by Beth Gwinn)

    Alice Mary Norton was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1912, and began her writing career early. Due to her love of writing fiction in what used to be a male-dominated market, she decided to write under pseudonyms that would not betray her gender. She would ultimately choose Andre.
    She was a prolific author, and as she became so popular as Andre Norton in the literary world she legally changed it to Andre Alice Norton in 1934.
    While she wrote in mainstream on occasion, she usually wrote genre fiction, and in 1983 she was honored with the Grand Master Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the sixth to receive the price, after Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Williamson, Clifford D. Simak, L. Sprague de Camp, and Fritz Leiber.
    She would also become the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy and the Nebula Grand Master Award.
    She was best known for her novel Witch World (1963), which spawned dozens of sequels and spinoffs set in that world. Her novel The Beast Master was adapted into a movie in 1982 starring Marc Singer and Tanya Roberts, but Andre was displeased with the treatment of the tiger used in the film, which had been dyed black to look like a panther. Having a strong love for cats (with many domestic cats living in her house) and for animals in general, she asked her name to be removed from the credits of the movie. She vowed never again to work with Hollywood.
    Late in her life she established the High Hallack Library for writers studying the genre. She had amassed over ten thousand manuscripts (including unpublished texts) and videos