Tuckerize v.

Is Tuck Heyworth…a tuckerization of Bob Tucker[,] the originator of the tuckerizing process? After all, he lives in Heyworth, Illinois[,] doesn’t he?

What inspired Tucker to invent Tuckerisms, which have amused generations of fans? The instant of inspiration is hidden in the mists of the past, but Tucker explains that he started to use them mainly for his own amusement, and for the amusement of the fans who were Tuckerised. Being Tuckerised is a great honour, given to but few fans. But Mr Tucker is careful to point out that he tries not to use fannish names as the names of major characters, lest anyone get upset at an extended portrait of a character bearing their name. But this just adds to the fun, since it makes it that much more difficult to sort out all the Tuckerisms in a particular volume. The intrepid and knowledgeable reader will find that Tuckerisms add that much more to their enjoyment of Tucker’s works.

I am sure I am not famous enough to be Tuckerized.

There is some delicious Tuckerizing in this novel, too: a lecture room named after Harlan Ellison, and there is a dread disease called Malzberg’s Syndrome which causes increasing lugubriousness in its helpless victims.

Ian Sorensen is unmistakably Tuckerized in Dreams of Dawn by Marti Steussy.

I was approached by DUFF—the Down Under Fan Fund, that sends a fan to Australia every year—with an interesting request: would I be willing to Tuckerize (i.e., write someone’s name into a story) the high bidder for the right to be Tuckerized By Resnick? I said sure, and a new groom paid $650 for his wife of 6 weeks to be written into a story.

The local sf book club read Sawyer’s 1997 Illegal Alien recently, and I was amused to see that Lloyd Penney had been tuckerised therein all those years ago. I informed the club members that he was still around in fandom.