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CASFS - In Memory
F.M "Buz" Busby
1921-2005
F. M. "Buz" Busby, the award-winning publisher and author of more than 20 novels and collections, died Feb. 17 at Health and Rehabilitation of Seattle, where he was moved following several weeks of surgery and treatment at Swedish Hospital of Seattle. He was 83.
Francis Marion Busby was born in 1921. As F. M. Busby he published over 20 novels and collections, including his most prominent
Along with his wife, and others, he published the fanzine, Cry of the Nameless, which won the Best Fanzine Hugo Award in 1960. Other fanzines titles included Cry and Polarity.
Buz chaired Westercon 12 in 1959 and was a Guest of Honor or special guest at many conventions. He was Toastmaster of IguanaCon II, the 1978 World Science Fiction Convention. From 1974-1976 he was Vice President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
Busby survived by his wife, Eleanor Busby.