Robert Lichtman

(August 27, 1942 -- July 6, 2022)

Robert Lichtman was editor of the fanzine Trap Door and Secretary-Treasurer of FAPA since 1986. He won TAFF in 1989. He was a member of the original Fan Awards Poll Committee and is a highly inactive member of LASFS (under the "death does not release you, even if you die" provision). Also a member in their time of GDA, LNF, SIC, and DWE.

Trap Door was nominated for the 1987 Best Fanzine Hugo and the 1992 Best Fanzine Hugo.

He was a member of the Young Science Fiction Reading Group. When he was a member of N3F, he wrote one of the club's early fandbooks, The Amateur Press Associations in Science-Fiction Fandom (1962), as by Bob Lichtman. He edited a collection of F. T. Laney's fan writing titled Ah! Sweet Laney!, a fanthology of writing from Quandry titled Some of the Best from Quandry, and a collection of Walt Willis's Fanorama columns (from Nebula, the British SF magazine) titled Fanorama. He edited Fanthology 92, Fanthology '93 and Fanthology 1994, which were published by others. He made Jack Speer's Up To Now (a history of fandom as of 1939) available as a PDF (on eFanzines.com).

He married Carol Carr (her second marriage).

Fanzines and Apazines:

• 100% Whole Wheat (with Miriam Knight for FAPA)
• Acculturations (for The Cult)
• Amnesia
• The Bem & I (for SAPS)
• Best of Frap
• "Burp" Said the Turtle [1960s]
• Door Knob (for SAPS)
• Frap
• Fustian (for IPSO)
• Here There Be Saps (for SAPS)
• Innuendo (co-edited last issue with Terry Carr)
• Ishbah (for SAPS)
• King Biscuit Time (for FAPA)
• Ktp (for N'APA)
• Night-Dreams and Daymares (for FAPA)
• Northern Californian (for SFPA)
• Not Ready for Prime Time Fapazine (for FAPA)
• Outworlds (a single issue in 1959, preceding Bill Bowers's use of the title beginning in 1966),
• Psi Phi (genzine with last two issues done for FAPA)
• Quel Dommage (for CRAP)
• Some of the Best from Quandry (for OMPA)
• TAFF-Door (as TAFF administrator).
• Trap Door
• Two Heads Are Better Than One (with Don Durward die SAPS)
• Watling Street (for SAPS)
• Zounds (for OMPA)
• N'APA -- OE 1961-62
• Lilapa -- OE 1990-2000, a variety of titles
• OMPA -- President 1991-92

He was a cast member (Rebel Lee) of The Musquite Kid Rides Again and has been on the committee of several Corflus. He joined LASFS in 1958 and served as an officer in the early 60s.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1987 -- Best Fanzine Hugo nominee
• 1989 -- TAFF
• 1992 -- Silvercon 1, Best Fanzine Hugo nominee, Past President of the Fan Writers of America
• 2000 -- Trap Door wins Best Fanzine FAAn Award
• 2000 -- Number 1 Fan Face FAAn Award
• 2001 -- Best Letterhack FAAn Award
• 2001 -- Number 1 Fan Face FAAn Award
• 2002 -- Conagerie
• 2004 -- Trap Door wins Best Fanzine FAAn Award
• 2006 -- Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent FAAn Award
• 2008 -- Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent FAAn Award
• 2010 -- Number 1 Fan Face FAAn Award
• 2010 -- Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent FAAn Award
• 2011 -- Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent FAAn Award
• 2011 -- Trap Door wins Best Fanzine FAAn Award
• 2012 -- Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent FAAn Award
• 2013 -- Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent FAAn Award
• 2013 -- Trap Door #29 wins Best Single Issue Fanzine FAAn Award
• 2014 -- Trap Door #30 wins Best Single Issue Fanzine FAAn Award
• 2014 -- Harry Warner, Jr. Memorial Award for Best Letterhack FAAn Award
• 2015 -- Trap Door #31 wins Best Single Issue Fanzine FAAn Award
• 2018 -- Best Letterhack(tied with Milt Stevens) FAAn Award
• 2020 -- Lifetime Achievement Award FAAn Award

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1942—2022

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