Fwd: looking for Clinton Thomas and Q. Cruz

[Steve Sloan]

Attila,

I recognize some of the names from your list, but I don't know  
anything more than their email addresses from the time when I was  
active on some of the Asimov lists. I am forwarding your email to two  
groups that might have a better idea.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Torkos Attila" <a.torkos at sslx.orl.szote.u-szeged.hu>
> Date: February 10, 2008 4:01:14 PM CST
> To: steve at sloan3d.com, ... [SNIPPED]
> Subject: looking for Clinton Thomas and Q. Cruz
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Please forgive me for disturbing you. My name is Attila Torkos. I am  
> also
> a fan of the late Asimov. I am the one who compiled a detailed  
> timeline to his Robot-Empire-Foundation Universe which was published  
> in David Brin's Foundation's Triumph and Mark Tiedemann's Aurora.
>
> I am writing to you because I know you are the most respected Asimov
> scholars available on the web.
>
> I am desperately trying to contact two persons, both of whom have  
> written
> Asimovian fanfiction.
>
> One is Q. Cruz, the person who began writing "Foundation's End".  
> About 2
> months ago I was actually able to write to him using the email address
> presented on the Beyond Asimov page (procounsul at hotmail.com) and he  
> wrote
> back, offering to send me a 200-page-long working copy of his  
> novella and
> asking for my mail address. He never got my reply with my address,  
> though,
> as my email (and my later tries, too) came back as undeliverable.  
> Hotmail
> says his account ceased. I am unable to reach him. Since then I  
> tried to
> track him, but I don't even know his full name so I ran into a dead  
> end.
>
> The other person is Clinton Thomas from Manchester, England. I found  
> his
> message in an Asimov discussion group (groups.yahoo.com/group/ 
> galactica)
> while I was trying to track down Q. Cruz. In his message to the  
> discussion
> group Clinton Thomas wrote that he nearly finished writing a
> 1000-pages-long (!) fan novel entitled "The Solarian". Of course, his
> email presented on the discussion group is also out of date.
>
> I know from my correspondence with Robyn Joan (daughter of Asimov)  
> and the
> Asimov Estate that there will be no further Foundation sequels  
> written, so
> all we fans have for a conclusion of the Robot-Empire-Foundation  
> saga is
> the works of fans. This is why I am so desperate to find the  
> mentioned two
> guys.
>
> I would like to ask you if anyone knows Q. Cruz's or Clinton  
> Thomas's new
> email address, ordinary mail address, telephone number, messenger ID  
> or
> any other contact information. Or does anyone have the fan writings of
> these two people?
>
> Please please someone help me. If you do not know the answer to any  
> of my
> questions, you might still help me by telling me the actual, working
> contact info of some other Asimov fans who participated either in the
> discussion list or in publishing Asimovian fanfiction:
>
> Deb Reed
> Alfonso Mantero
> Guido Nunez
> Harald Muecke
> Gary Conkle
> David Cross
> Alexander j. Vincent
> David Pinkston
> Greg Toland
> Wendell Urth
> Wei-Hwa Huang
> R. Jay
> Stan Pope
>
> Thank you so much for reading my long letter. I am looking forward to
> receiving your reply.
>
> Attila

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