(September 13, 1932 – December 22, 2006)

Richard H. “Dick” Eney (Dikini andDiccon F. in theSCA, andFrank M. Ford in somefanzine reviews), afan andpublishing jiant, lived mainly in theWashington, DC, area. Most famously, in 1959, hepublishedFancyclopedia 2, a 200+ page encyclopedia of fandom andfannish lore, based on and greatly expanded from the 1944 originalFancyclopedia byJack Speer. (He also did an addendum in 1960 which was bound with the 1959 version and in 1962,The Rejected Canon. In 1968, he publishedFANCYCLOPDigest, a shorter collection of just the good stuff.) He published numerous otherfanzines since discoveringfandom in 1949.

He was made aKnight of St. Fantony in 1965. He wasFan GoH atL.A.con II, the 1984Worldcon.

He was a member ofWSFA and served in multiple offices. Eney worked oncommittees forDiscon I,Discon II, andConstellation. A regular participant infilk circles, he wastoastmaster atConterpoint 1993, afilkcon.

He served asOE ofFAPA andSAPS and was a member ofThe Cult,APA-L, and theWashington in '77Worldcon bid. In 1970, Eney ran forTAFF, losing toRon Ellik.

He was a member of theN3F (and editedTightbeam 28 in November 1964.) WithAlva Rogers, he reprintedFrancis Towner Laney'sAh! Sweet Idiocy!.Operation Crifanac was hispublishing house. And, of course,It's Eney's Fault!.

Professionally, he was employed by the US Agency for International Development, a branch of the State Department that handles international foreign aid and humanitarian assistance. There was a wide-spread rumor that he was involved in covert activities while in Vietnam, which Eney thought might have been started byJohn Boardman after he referred to himself as being employed by 'The Agency' without mentioningwhich Agency.

In an issue of Boardman'sfanzineGraustark, Eney was described as a warmongering CIA double agent. In a case of "life imitating art", Eney reports that he was once approached by the super-secret U.S. National Security Agency, but "when they found out that I published fanzines, they backed off. They must have thought that showed I was too social and communicative."

He was in Vietnam from 1966 until early 1970s, stationed in Saigon, in Kien Phong province, and in Can Tho (in the Mekong River delta). In mid 1966, he was nearly hit by machine gun fire when South Vietnam sentries were shooting wildly at a suspected Viet Cong terrorist. He said, "I haven't ducked for cover so fast in years!"

He continued to be an active fan, publishingCurse You, Red Baron!, aletter-substitute about Vietnam as he saw and experienced it. He managed to keep his membership inThe Cult, though it was downgraded from the active roster, and managed to publishFantasy Rotators from Vietnam. Eney was allegedly behind theCan Tho in '74hoax bid.

He visited other places in Southeast Asia besides Vietnam; during the 1960s, he published the first ever fanzines mailed from Hong Kong, Macau, and Bangkok, and in the ’80s, on other assignments for AID, went on to publish the first fanzines from Tanzania, Kenya, Djibouti, and Addis Ababa.

Eney was married to fellow fanTamar Lindsay.

• Video of Gordon R. Dickson and Dick Eney at LAcon II.

Fanzines andApazines:

• The Alexandria Trio (forFAPA)
• Avanc (forThe Cult)
• Bilgewarp (withLee Jacobs, andH. Warren Felkel)
• Bixeltype (withAlva Rogers forOMPA)
• Century Note (forOMPA)
• Conference Call [mid-70s] (forAPA-L)
• Curse You, Red Baron!
• Depth Perception [mid-1970s] (forAlarums & Excursions)
• Discon I Proceedings
• Discon I Report
• DisconProgress Reports
• DisconProgram Book
• Discon IIProgram Book
• Egoboo for You
• FAPA File
• Fancyclopedia 2
• FANCYCLOPDigest
• Guide to the Greek and Roman Gods
• It's Eney's Fault!
• In Part Scal'd
• Keebird (forOMPA)
• Nudity (forFAPA)
• One/Fourteen (forOMPA)
• An Open Letter to Lee Hoffman [1963]
• Persephone in Elysium
• Phenotype (forOMPA)
• Protoplast
• The Rejected Canon
• Report from the Forgotten Past, (forSAPS)
• Ring Cycle
• Rock Around the CONUS
• Roc-Kon I
• The SAPS Index (forSAPS)
• A Sense of FAPA
• Shelta Thari (forOMPA)
• Snake Pit (forFAPA)
• Speculative Review (forOMPA)
• Spy Ray andSpy Ray Supplement (both forSAPS)
• Stupifying Stories (forOMPA)
• Target: FAPA (forFAPA)
• Target of Opportunity (forFAPA).

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1965 —Knight of St. Fantony
• 1984 —L.A.Con II