Neither Charlie nor Quina were around today. They’d taken off to Carmel to visit Ginny Heinlein, so we rattled around Charlie’s house doing the usual between-issue chores. Shelly left at one point to go across the bay to The City look at a new van she wants as a replacement for the Locus car. She returned happy and excited about the test drive.

Milton Wolf, who is writing a bio of Charlie, called and asked about the party on Sunday. He said he wants to talk to me and other Locus employees. Should be interesting

The plums on Charlie’s tree are truly beautiful this year, a sort of luminous greenish-gold. Shelly tried some and said they are very sweet.

I believe Milton Wolf is a Science Fiction scholar, currently the VP of the Science Fiction Research Association. The bio in question was likely not so much a book as an entry in a larger reference work.