Jim Theis
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Jim Theis (born c.1954, died in 2002 at age 48) was a science fiction fan who published the notoriously bad fantasy novella The Eye of Argon in a fanzine in 1970. While the writing is comically inept, readers should remember that the author was just 16 years old at the time. Whether later examples of his writing were published is not known, or at least not widely known.
The author was once interviewed on Hour 25, a talk show on KPFK, the presenters of which would periodically stage a reading of The Eye of Argon: he was hurt that his story was being mocked and said he would never write anything again.
External links
- The Eye of Argon (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/SF-Archives/Misc/Eye_Of_The_Argon) — full text (OSFAN #7)
- Interview with Jim Theis (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=30mac7%249jd%40panix2.panix.com&oe=utf-8) — OSFAN #13, November 21, 1970
- More recent interview information, 1980s, and some in 2000 (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/eyeargon/argnmail.htm)