An Host of Furious Fancies

 

A website by Garth Spencer

 

 

This is a private website on the Vancouver CommunityNet, intended partly as a self-teaching exercise in web editing, and partly as a resource centre for some friends, and partly as an exercise in sheer exhibitionism.

(I have another website advertising my professional clerical services at Garth's Office Solutions. For a copy of my services and rates, or my resume, please private-message me at garth.van.spencer at gmail.com.)

For some time, I have wanted to showcase samples of my writing – both articles, and amateur stories – and to provide some reference articles for other people who are interested in the subjects I cover below.

 

As you may gather, my interests revolve around some communication issues, some cultural or social issues, fandom, fanhistory, science fiction, self-publishing, and something I call “practicing sociology without a license”.

 

My Fandom Guide:

Comprised of club convention lists, fanzine lists, apa lists, and anything else useful I could gather

 

In preparation:

 

"The Art of Conrunning" - notes collected from greater minds than mine

"Cults" - they're still out there

"How to Human", or Supplementary Life Skills (the kind of things we thought we knew already)

 

My Nonfiction articles:

• A survey of Crank Theories
• A survey of Conspiracy Theories
• Constructed languages, or "Creative Linguistics"
• Micronations, or "Creative Nationalism"
• Worldbuilding, or "Creative Planetology"
• Constructed societies, or "Creative Sociology"

Amateur fiction:

• Boring Mundane Stories – a collection of my stories
• "Close Encounters of the Fast-Talking Kind" (previously published in BCSFAzine)
• Confabulation – an anthology of faanfiction
• "Rajiv's Fire Drill" (previously published in BCSFAzine)
  
• "Transaction Declined" (previously published in BCSFAzine and in Polar Borealis)
  

In preparation:

 

"Elves in Space" (a satire)

"If Jesus Were Texan"

"Lost in Transit" (stories)

Paragon (a novel)

"The Jade Ring"

My Links:

BC Heathen Freehold

BCSFA

Burnaby Writers Society

Burrardfjord Kindred

FreeGeek

JOF

Northwest Convention League

SF Canada

SF Lovers

SFWA

Vancouver CommunityNet