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In the same week that we learned
of David's death, we were informed from the USA by Sheila
Prosterman of Steven's death in a fall in New Orleans.
Steven, his wife Sheila and Micky had made contact with
ASTRA through our presentations of the spaceflight
programmes at Albacons, and they attended the 1987 Rocket
Weekend in Largs. By then Micky had been a member for
several years, but at Albacon 88 Steven decided it was time
to enrol himself, Sheila, and Ivana Marinkovic from Croatia
who was attending the convention with them. He will long be
remembered for his late-night action at that year's Dead Dog
party, when the hotel staff refused further service to
Convention members and Steven demanded, and got, drinks for
everybody left on his credit card.
When Steven died, he and Sheila
were giving serious thought to settling in Scotland for
Micky's secondary education, and he and I were discussing
the creation of a Scottish science fiction and fact magazine
for the first time since the 1950's. His family requested
donations to ASTRA rather than floral tributes; we spent the
money on our Apollo 11 commemorative exhibition at Princes
Square, Glasgow, dedicated to Steven, where by chance a New
Orleans band was playing on the Sunday afternoon and I had
them dedicate a number to Steven. In October that year I
dedicated "Starfield, science fiction by Scottish writers",
which I edited for Orkney Press, 'To Steven Prosterman, who
wanted to encourage Scottish writers'.
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