Hugo Award For Best Fan Writer

picture info	Hugo Award For Best Fan Writer The Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer is the Hugo Award given each year for writers of works related to science fiction or fantasy which appeared in low- or non-paying publications such as semiprozines or fanzines or in generally available electronic media during the previous calendar year. There is no restriction that the writer is not also a professional author, and several such authors have won the award for their non-paying works. The award was first presented in 1967 and has been awarded annually. During the 67 regular and retro nomination years, 114 writers have been finalists; 28 of these have won, including ties. David Langford has received the largest number of awards, with 21 wins out of 31 final ballot nominations. He was nominated every year from 1979 through 2009, and won 19 times in a row from 1989 through 2007. The other writers to win more than once are Richard E. Geis, with seven wins out of sixteen nominations; Mike Glyer, with four wins out of twenty-five nominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members. The award is administered by the Worldcon#World Science Fiction Society, World Science Fiction Society. It is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine ''Amazing Stories''. Hugos were first given in 1953, at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention, and have been awarded every year since 1955. In 2010, Wired (magazine), ''Wired'' called the Hugo "the premier award in the science fiction genre", while ''The Guardian'' has called it the most important science fiction award alongside the Nebula Award. The awards originally covered seven categories, but have expanded to seventeen categories of written and dramatic works over the years. The winners receive a trophy consisting of a stylized rocket ship on a base. The design of the tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Amazing Stories ''Amazing Stories'' is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but ''Amazing'' helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction. ''Amazing'' has been published, with some interruptions, for 98 years, going through a half-dozen owners and many editors as it struggled to be profitable. Gernsback was forced into bankruptcy and lost control of the magazine in 1929. In 1938 it was purchased by Ziff-Davis, which hired Raymond A. Palmer as editor. Palmer made the magazine successful though it was not regarded as a quality magazine within the science fiction community. In the late 1940s ''Amazing'' presented as fact stories about the Shaver Mystery, a lurid mythos that explained accidents and disaster as the work of robots named deros, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1974 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1974. Events February – Novelist Juan Carlos Onetti is one of a group arrested by the Uruguayan dictatorship for selecting as a competition prizewinner and publishing in the newspaper '' Marcha'' a short story implicitly critical of the military regime. He subsequently goes into exile in Spain. February 12 – After publication at the end of 1973 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's ''The Gulag Archipelago'' (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ), the author is arrested for treason; the following day he is deported from the Soviet Union. In spring and summer the first translations into French and English begin to appear. * August 8 – The first of Armistead Maupin's '' Tales of the City'' is published as a serial in ''The Pacific Sun'' (Marin County, California). October 21 – New Guildhall Library opens in the City of London. ''unknown dates'' The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1973 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1973. Events March 6 – The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, founded as the Montenegrin Society for Science and Arts (''Crnogorsko društvo za nauku i umjetnost'') in Podgorica, elects its first members. March – 5 Italian fascists abduct Franca Rame (wife of Dario Fo) and rape, beat and mutilate her. She and Fo continue to write and tour drama in Italy, although Fo is arrested by police in November. May 14 New orthography for the Greenlandic language is introduced. François Truffaut's film ''Day for Night (film), Day for Night (La Nuit américaine)'' premieres; novelist Graham Greene (credited as Henry Graham) has a cameo role as an English insurance company representative. June 21 The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in the List of landmark court decisions in the United States, landmark case ''Miller v. California'', establishing the "Miller test" for d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1972 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1972. Events May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of novelists Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard in North London, which he has shared with his wife and son – actors Jill Balcon and Daniel Day-Lewis – and at weekends with Kingsley's writer son Martin Amis and others. June 4 – The poet Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union. October – In Somali Democratic Republic, Somalia, the government of President Siad Barre formally introduces the Somali Latin alphabet as the country's official writing script. October 6–October 7, 7 – The new Staatstheater Darmstadt is opened. October 8 – The play ''Sizwe Bansi is Dead'' has its first performance at the Space Theatre (Cape Town), South Africa, before a multiracial audience. Playwright Athol Fugard directs, with co-writers John Kani and Winston Ntshona in lead roles. October 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1971 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1971. Events March 25– December 14 – The 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals reaches a peak. April 21 – The 13th-century ''Codex Regius'' manuscript is returned by Denmark to Iceland under naval escort. June – The federal Australian Government removes 1969 novel '' Portnoy's Complaint'' from the list of books prohibited from import into Australia in the face of its widespread legal availablity in the country. It is the last literary publication to have been challenged with censorship before the Australian courts. June 30 – Release of musical film ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' in the United States, based on Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel '' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory''. Although Dahl is credited for the screenplay, creative differences with the production team cause him to disown the picture. July 4 – Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1970 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1970. Events January 16 – The Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus opens with a performance of Georg Büchner's '' Dantons Tod''. March – Magdalena Mouján's story "" ("We and Ours") in Basque is suppressed by the authorities in Francoist Spain. June 10 – The English novelist Anthony Burgess delivers an inflammatory lecture, "Obscenity and the Arts", at the University of Malta; its reception leads to him leaving Malta. He has begun a novel that will become '' Earthly Powers'' (1980). June 17 – The première of David Storey's play ''Home'' at the Royal Court Theatre, London, is directed by Lindsay Anderson and stars Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. August 21 – The Penguin Books paperback imprint is acquired by Pearson PLC, following the death of its owner Sir Allen Lane. August 27 – Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company introduces a revolutionary production of Shakespeare's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1969 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1969. Events February 8 – After 147 years, the last issue of ''The Saturday Evening Post'' in its original form appears in the United States. March 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of the English poet Ted Hughes and ex-wife of the Canadian poet David Wevill, gasses herself and their daughter at her London home. April 22 – The first Booker Prize, Booker-McConnell Prize for fiction is awarded to P. H. Newby for ''Something to Answer For''. August – "Penelope Ashe", purported author of a bestselling novel, ''Naked Came the Stranger'', is revealed as a group of ''Newsday'' journalists. ''unknown date'' – ''The Times Literary Supplement'' begins using the abbreviation "TLS" on its title page. New books Fiction Eva Alexanderson – ''Kontradans'' (Counter-dance) * Eric Ambler – ''The Intercom Conspiracy'' Jorge Amado – ''Tenda dos Milagres (novel), Tenda dos Milagres'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1968 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1968. Events January 1 – Cecil Day-Lewis is announced as the new Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. April – The American edition of Paul Winterton, Andrew Garve's thriller ''The Long Short Cut'' becomes the first book printed completely by electronic composition. May – The Action Theater in Munich is disbanded after its building is wrecked by one of its founders, jealous of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's growing power in the group. June 17 – Tom Stoppard's parody, parodic comedy ''The Real Inspector Hound'' opens at the Criterion Theatre in London's West End theatre, West End, starring Richard Briers and Ronnie Barker. July 28 – ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' is cleared of obscenity in the English appeal court. John Mortimer appears for the defence. September 26 – Theatres Act 1968 (royal assent July 26) ends censorship of the theatre in the United Kingdom. November – The Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1967 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1967. Events January The first publication of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel ''The Master and Margarita'' («Ма́стер и Маргари́та»), in the form left at the author's death in 1940, concludes in the magazine '' Moskva'', although censored portions circulate only in samizdat in the Soviet Union. It is first published in book form this year, by the YMCA Press in Paris. The Barbara Gordon version of Batgirl is introduced in ''Detective Comics''. March 16 – The first performance of D. H. Lawrence's January 1913 play ''The Daughter-in-Law'' is given at the Royal Court Theatre in London. April 24 – The 18-year-old S. E. Hinton's ''Bildungsroman'' '' The Outsiders'' is published in the United States by Viking Press. She wrote it at the age of 15–16. August 9 – The English playwright Joe Orton (aged 34) is battered to death by his partner, Kenneth Halliwell, who commits suici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1966 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1966. Events February * The Nottingham-based chain of pharmacy stores Boots UK closes the last of its circulating " Booklovers' Library" branches. ** Managers of the Royal Court Theatre in London are convicted of presenting an unlicenced play, last November's premiere of Edward Bond's '' Saved''. This prosecution is considered influential in the abolition of the Theatres Act 1843 under which it is brought. February 1 – Chinese playwright Tian Han is attacked for his historical play ''Xie Yaohuan'' (1961), an opening salvo in the Cultural Revolution. February 10 – Author Jacqueline Susann has her first novel, '' Valley of the Dolls'', published. From a friend she obtains a list of the bookstores on whose sales figures ''The New York Times'' relies for its bestseller list. She then uses her own money to buy large quantities of her book at these stores, causing it to head the list. ''Valley of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Abigail Nussbaum At The Hugo Award Ceremony At Worldcon In Helsinki Abigail () was an Israelite woman in the Hebrew Bible married to Nabal; she married the future King David after Nabal's death (1 Samuel ). Abigail was David's third wife, after Ahinoam and Saul's daughter, Michal, whom Saul later married to Palti, son of Laish, when David went into hiding. Abigail became the mother of one of David's sons, who is listed in the Book of Chronicles under the name ''Daniel'', in the Masoretic Text of the Books of Samuel as ''Chileab,'' and in the Septuagint text of 2 Samuel 3:3 as Δαλουια, ''Dalouia''. Her name is spelled Abigal in in the American Standard Version. Name Derived from the Hebrew word ''ab,'' "father", and the Hebrew root ''g-y-l'', "to rejoice," the name Abigail has a variety of possible meanings including "my father's joy" and "source of joy". Biblical narrative In 1 Samuel 25, Nabal demonstrates ingratitude towards David, the son of Jesse (from the tribe of Judah), and Abigail attempts to placate David, in order to sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

picture info	Hugo Award For Best Fan Writer The Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer is the Hugo Award given each year for writers of works related to science fiction or fantasy which appeared in low- or non-paying publications such as semiprozines or fanzines or in generally available electronic media during the previous calendar year. There is no restriction that the writer is not also a professional author, and several such authors have won the award for their non-paying works. The award was first presented in 1967 and has been awarded annually. During the 67 regular and retro nomination years, 114 writers have been finalists; 28 of these have won, including ties. David Langford has received the largest number of awards, with 21 wins out of 31 final ballot nominations. He was nominated every year from 1979 through 2009, and won 19 times in a row from 1989 through 2007. The other writers to win more than once are Richard E. Geis, with seven wins out of sixteen nominations; Mike Glyer, with four wins out of twenty-five nominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members. The award is administered by the Worldcon#World Science Fiction Society, World Science Fiction Society. It is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine ''Amazing Stories''. Hugos were first given in 1953, at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention, and have been awarded every year since 1955. In 2010, Wired (magazine), ''Wired'' called the Hugo "the premier award in the science fiction genre", while ''The Guardian'' has called it the most important science fiction award alongside the Nebula Award. The awards originally covered seven categories, but have expanded to seventeen categories of written and dramatic works over the years. The winners receive a trophy consisting of a stylized rocket ship on a base. The design of the tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Amazing Stories ''Amazing Stories'' is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but ''Amazing'' helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction. ''Amazing'' has been published, with some interruptions, for 98 years, going through a half-dozen owners and many editors as it struggled to be profitable. Gernsback was forced into bankruptcy and lost control of the magazine in 1929. In 1938 it was purchased by Ziff-Davis, which hired Raymond A. Palmer as editor. Palmer made the magazine successful though it was not regarded as a quality magazine within the science fiction community. In the late 1940s ''Amazing'' presented as fact stories about the Shaver Mystery, a lurid mythos that explained accidents and disaster as the work of robots named deros, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1974 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1974. Events February – Novelist Juan Carlos Onetti is one of a group arrested by the Uruguayan dictatorship for selecting as a competition prizewinner and publishing in the newspaper '' Marcha'' a short story implicitly critical of the military regime. He subsequently goes into exile in Spain. February 12 – After publication at the end of 1973 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's ''The Gulag Archipelago'' (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ), the author is arrested for treason; the following day he is deported from the Soviet Union. In spring and summer the first translations into French and English begin to appear. * August 8 – The first of Armistead Maupin's '' Tales of the City'' is published as a serial in ''The Pacific Sun'' (Marin County, California). October 21 – New Guildhall Library opens in the City of London. ''unknown dates'' The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1973 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1973. Events March 6 – The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, founded as the Montenegrin Society for Science and Arts (''Crnogorsko društvo za nauku i umjetnost'') in Podgorica, elects its first members. March – 5 Italian fascists abduct Franca Rame (wife of Dario Fo) and rape, beat and mutilate her. She and Fo continue to write and tour drama in Italy, although Fo is arrested by police in November. May 14 New orthography for the Greenlandic language is introduced. François Truffaut's film ''Day for Night (film), Day for Night (La Nuit américaine)'' premieres; novelist Graham Greene (credited as Henry Graham) has a cameo role as an English insurance company representative. June 21 The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in the List of landmark court decisions in the United States, landmark case ''Miller v. California'', establishing the "Miller test" for d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1972 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1972. Events May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of novelists Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard in North London, which he has shared with his wife and son – actors Jill Balcon and Daniel Day-Lewis – and at weekends with Kingsley's writer son Martin Amis and others. June 4 – The poet Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union. October – In Somali Democratic Republic, Somalia, the government of President Siad Barre formally introduces the Somali Latin alphabet as the country's official writing script. October 6–October 7, 7 – The new Staatstheater Darmstadt is opened. October 8 – The play ''Sizwe Bansi is Dead'' has its first performance at the Space Theatre (Cape Town), South Africa, before a multiracial audience. Playwright Athol Fugard directs, with co-writers John Kani and Winston Ntshona in lead roles. October 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1971 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1971. Events March 25– December 14 – The 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals reaches a peak. April 21 – The 13th-century ''Codex Regius'' manuscript is returned by Denmark to Iceland under naval escort. June – The federal Australian Government removes 1969 novel '' Portnoy's Complaint'' from the list of books prohibited from import into Australia in the face of its widespread legal availablity in the country. It is the last literary publication to have been challenged with censorship before the Australian courts. June 30 – Release of musical film ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' in the United States, based on Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel '' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory''. Although Dahl is credited for the screenplay, creative differences with the production team cause him to disown the picture. July 4 – Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1970 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1970. Events January 16 – The Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus opens with a performance of Georg Büchner's '' Dantons Tod''. March – Magdalena Mouján's story "" ("We and Ours") in Basque is suppressed by the authorities in Francoist Spain. June 10 – The English novelist Anthony Burgess delivers an inflammatory lecture, "Obscenity and the Arts", at the University of Malta; its reception leads to him leaving Malta. He has begun a novel that will become '' Earthly Powers'' (1980). June 17 – The première of David Storey's play ''Home'' at the Royal Court Theatre, London, is directed by Lindsay Anderson and stars Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. August 21 – The Penguin Books paperback imprint is acquired by Pearson PLC, following the death of its owner Sir Allen Lane. August 27 – Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company introduces a revolutionary production of Shakespeare's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1969 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1969. Events February 8 – After 147 years, the last issue of ''The Saturday Evening Post'' in its original form appears in the United States. March 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of the English poet Ted Hughes and ex-wife of the Canadian poet David Wevill, gasses herself and their daughter at her London home. April 22 – The first Booker Prize, Booker-McConnell Prize for fiction is awarded to P. H. Newby for ''Something to Answer For''. August – "Penelope Ashe", purported author of a bestselling novel, ''Naked Came the Stranger'', is revealed as a group of ''Newsday'' journalists. ''unknown date'' – ''The Times Literary Supplement'' begins using the abbreviation "TLS" on its title page. New books Fiction Eva Alexanderson – ''Kontradans'' (Counter-dance) * Eric Ambler – ''The Intercom Conspiracy'' Jorge Amado – ''Tenda dos Milagres (novel), Tenda dos Milagres'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1968 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1968. Events January 1 – Cecil Day-Lewis is announced as the new Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. April – The American edition of Paul Winterton, Andrew Garve's thriller ''The Long Short Cut'' becomes the first book printed completely by electronic composition. May – The Action Theater in Munich is disbanded after its building is wrecked by one of its founders, jealous of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's growing power in the group. June 17 – Tom Stoppard's parody, parodic comedy ''The Real Inspector Hound'' opens at the Criterion Theatre in London's West End theatre, West End, starring Richard Briers and Ronnie Barker. July 28 – ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' is cleared of obscenity in the English appeal court. John Mortimer appears for the defence. September 26 – Theatres Act 1968 (royal assent July 26) ends censorship of the theatre in the United Kingdom. November – The Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1967 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1967. Events January The first publication of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel ''The Master and Margarita'' («Ма́стер и Маргари́та»), in the form left at the author's death in 1940, concludes in the magazine '' Moskva'', although censored portions circulate only in samizdat in the Soviet Union. It is first published in book form this year, by the YMCA Press in Paris. The Barbara Gordon version of Batgirl is introduced in ''Detective Comics''. March 16 – The first performance of D. H. Lawrence's January 1913 play ''The Daughter-in-Law'' is given at the Royal Court Theatre in London. April 24 – The 18-year-old S. E. Hinton's ''Bildungsroman'' '' The Outsiders'' is published in the United States by Viking Press. She wrote it at the age of 15–16. August 9 – The English playwright Joe Orton (aged 34) is battered to death by his partner, Kenneth Halliwell, who commits suici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1966 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1966. Events February * The Nottingham-based chain of pharmacy stores Boots UK closes the last of its circulating " Booklovers' Library" branches. ** Managers of the Royal Court Theatre in London are convicted of presenting an unlicenced play, last November's premiere of Edward Bond's '' Saved''. This prosecution is considered influential in the abolition of the Theatres Act 1843 under which it is brought. February 1 – Chinese playwright Tian Han is attacked for his historical play ''Xie Yaohuan'' (1961), an opening salvo in the Cultural Revolution. February 10 – Author Jacqueline Susann has her first novel, '' Valley of the Dolls'', published. From a friend she obtains a list of the bookstores on whose sales figures ''The New York Times'' relies for its bestseller list. She then uses her own money to buy large quantities of her book at these stores, causing it to head the list. ''Valley of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Abigail Nussbaum At The Hugo Award Ceremony At Worldcon In Helsinki Abigail () was an Israelite woman in the Hebrew Bible married to Nabal; she married the future King David after Nabal's death (1 Samuel ). Abigail was David's third wife, after Ahinoam and Saul's daughter, Michal, whom Saul later married to Palti, son of Laish, when David went into hiding. Abigail became the mother of one of David's sons, who is listed in the Book of Chronicles under the name ''Daniel'', in the Masoretic Text of the Books of Samuel as ''Chileab,'' and in the Septuagint text of 2 Samuel 3:3 as Δαλουια, ''Dalouia''. Her name is spelled Abigal in in the American Standard Version. Name Derived from the Hebrew word ''ab,'' "father", and the Hebrew root ''g-y-l'', "to rejoice," the name Abigail has a variety of possible meanings including "my father's joy" and "source of joy". Biblical narrative In 1 Samuel 25, Nabal demonstrates ingratitude towards David, the son of Jesse (from the tribe of Judah), and Abigail attempts to placate David, in order to sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]