MacGREGOR, Loren (Joseph) (1950- )

American fan, active since 1967. First activity via mail to the CentralOhio Science Fiction Society, with letters printed in the COSFS clubzine,Cosign

Born and raised in Seattle, Washington; encountered Seattle fandom two years after discovering fandom through the mail. Moved precipitously from Seattle to San Francisco in July, 1979, at the time of "Ricky's Palo Alto Westercon," held in San Francisco at the Palace Hotel that July 4th weekend. (When I got out of Ole Kvern's pickup truck in front of Wendy Timer's home, I looked at the sun and decided to stay. After a few months spent living in Debbie Notkin and Tom Whitmore's back room in Berkeley (while Tom was in Washington, D.C. at the Department of Energy), I found my own place in San Francisco, near Golden Gate Park. I lived in San Francisco for almost 15 years.)

I moved from San Francisco to Glendale (near Los Angeles), California in October of 1994; at the time, I'd spent about three years traveling five days a week from San Francisco to Phoenix, Dallas, Portland, Seattle,New York, Las Vegas, Reno and Los Angeles at the behest of my then-employer.

A move is in the offing in the near future. Likely points-down places will be Eugene, Oregon, or back to the Pacific Northwest and either Seattle/Tacoma or Olympia, Washington.

Fan Guest of Honor at (I believe) Norwescon 3 in -- 1978? 1979?

Author of The Net, an Ace Science Fiction Special edited by Terry Carr (1987). Publisher/edit (with John D. Berry) of Pacific Northwest Review of Books, a magazine with fannish roots which published work by (among others) Susan Wood, Paul Novitski, Jeff Frane,Gary Farber, Jerry Kaufman and Stu Shiffman.

First Contact:  Dick Byers and the Central Ohio Science 
                Fiction Society.  Through the clubzine Cosign, 
                met other sf fans (including Don D'Amassa, whose fanzine 
                Mythologies was a big influence).  I do not 
                recall who suggested that Seattle had an organized fan 
                group, but whoever it was mentioned Wally Weber, 
                whose address was in the Seattle phone book.  I met Wally  
                and began attending Nameless meetings in his home around 
                mid-1968.

First Con:      Norwestercon, Portland, Oregon, ça 1971.

Concoms:        None.  Loosely associated with Potlatch 2.

Fanzines:       Talking Stock (approximately 20 issues, early 70s)
                Quota (approximately 10 issues, mid-70s);                
                TerVex (one-shot, with Chris Sherman)

Apas:           Apa-50
                Cowboys and Horses Amateaur Press Society (CHAPS); 
                Fannish Little Amateur Press (FLAP)
                Boys' Own Apa (BOA)

Online:         Compuserve, 1983 - present
                SF Net, 1991 - present                
                Usenet, 1992 - present
                Homo BBS, 1992 - 1994                
                Tater Tot Liberation Front, 1992 - 1994
                Greenheart Internet Services, 1994 - present                
                Subculture Shock, 1993 - present

                I am sure there are others I'm not presently remembering.

E-mail:         churnworks@metacentre.com  <--- Primary e-mail address.     
                lmacgreg@metacentre.com             
                lmacgreg@greenheart.com             
                loren.macgregor@sfnet.com           
                73404.3666@compuserve.com

...last updated 16 Jan 97.