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Texan Orville Mosher[edit]

"Texan Orville Mosher", Mosher did move to Dallas Texas in the early 1950's, however he was not a native Texan like Tom Reamy.

Al Jackson --aajacksoniv (talk) 22:07, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stylistic Revisions[edit]

The following paragraph, for instance, is written in too colloquial a style and needs to be heavily re-qorked and have citations added. "Mosher sightings" and "never to return" are not stylistically appropriate language for an encyclopedia. How do we know Mosher was astonished. What makes the club's "implosion" official (as opposed to unofficial). "Reamy only smiled and said nothing"...fit for an informal fanish history, but not for Wikipedia. The issues are myriad in most of the Reamy article.

On the last day of that convention, the Dallas Futurian Society officially imploded, dissolving their organization at Southwestercon VI's business meeting. During that meeting, co-founder Orville Mosher, the man behind much of the club's behind-the-scenes intrigue and politics, was dragged from the shadows and elected unanimously by its members as their new president. Moments later, to Mosher's astonishment, the Dallas Futurian Society was officially disbanded forever, never to return. (When asked 17 years later how such an action had been orchestrated, Reamy only smiled and said nothing.) Some former DFS members went off to college soon after the club's demise, while others continued to gather socially for years, having finally dispensed with the fan politics and other intrigues that had been dividing them as a more formal science fiction club. Mosher was never heard from again, though there were occasional reports in Dallas fandom of Mosher sightings around town. Greg Benford later moved to California, where he became a physicist and astronomer at the University of California, Irvine and an award-winning science fiction writer. Shsilver (talk) 22:19, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]