ANSIBLE 232
NOVEMBER 2006

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CONVOY CANCELLED. As warned in _Ansible_ 230, the 2007 Eastercon needed
a hefty membership boost and had committed itself to getting further
assurances about Adelphi Hotel security in order to continue. One or both
failed to materialize, and the cancellation was announced on 31 October.
The Convoy bid was assembled late in the day when no one else was
prepared to bid for the 2007 event. Now, though, plans for a last-minute
replacement -- to be held over Easter, though probably on a smaller scale
than Eastercon -- are being energetically discussed.


### MINIONS OF THE PUKON ###

MARGARET ATWOOD ran true to form in the _Wired_ anthology of six-word sf
stories: `Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.' [EK]

JOHN CLUTE revealed more or less unexpected longings in a recent
appreciation of Kim Stanley Robinson: `A tureen might balance on the top
of the head of Stan Robinson, like the antlers of Bambi ... We noticed
the low center of gravity of the man. The assumption of balance. The
calmness of the eyes under the tureen one kept longing to place upon the
head.' (_Capclave 2006 Convention Guide_) [KMcA]

CHRIS PRIEST saw _The Prestige_ film at last and was alarmed by the
dropping of a name that wasn't in his novel, nor in the annals of magic:
one scene turns on the appropriate use of a stage magician's Langford
knot, or `Langford double'. (`I can slip a Langford under water ...') []
_Meanwhile, on 5 November:_ `The premiere was a blast of tremendously
enjoyable unreality, the like of which I had never experienced before.
It was all incredibly good fun, with wonderful food, more champagne than
we could drink (but had a good shot at, and did drink more than we should
have), plus glittery company with names and faces of vast familiarity ...
Michael Caine, Andy Serkis, Hugh Jackman, and so on. We have Lizzy and
Simon's photos to prove most of it. [] I thought the red carpet outside
the cinema where the premiere took place would be laid from the door of
the cinema to the kerb, where the car would drop us. Instead, the car
stopped what felt like two tube stops away from Leicester Square,
whereupon we were confronted with a red carpet stretching away into the
distance. It was lined on both sides by hundreds of fans with cameras,
all calling my name and trying to get me to wave to them. (They had a
funny way of pronouncing "Chris" ... it sounded more like "Hugh". Wonder
if that was anything to do with the actor who was walking a few paces
behind us?)' [CP]

SENATOR RICK SANTORUM (R) had a blinding political insight: the USA has
avoided terrorist attack for five years because the `Eye of Mordor' was
instead fixed on Iraq. `As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye
of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else,' Santorum said ... `It's being
drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S.,' he continued. `You
know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back
here to the United States.' (_Herald Standard_, 17 Oct) [JDB] Exactly who
are the hobbits in this analogy remains uncertain. We await a new Middle
East analysis when Santorum has read Doc Smith.

MICHAEL SWANWICK writes: `I was on a panel at Capclave this past weekend,
where -- at last! -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden explained reading for the
_Wired_ Generation: "The book is the source code, the brain is the
compiler, and the experience produced in the reader is the executable."'

TERRI WINDLING's Devon house went on the market with a unique selling
point: `The images adorning the walls of Weavers Cottage were created by
a British artist who won an Oscar for best set decoration on _The Lord
Of The Rings_. Alan Lee's _The Goblin Market_ mural is based on Christina
Rossetti's 19th century "fairy tale" poem of female sexuality. It is
housed in the kitchen ...' Other artists involved were Brian Froud and
Charles Vess. The estate agent naturally tries to have it both ways: `the
murals had added Pounds25,000 to the value of the cottage. But the new
owner could paint over them if they wished.' (_Metro_, 10 October) [FM]


### CONTRISTATION ###

10-12 Nov [] ARMADACON 18, Novotel, Plymouth. _Now Pounds30 reg._ 

10-12 Nov [] NOVACON 36, Quality Hotel, Walsall. Pounds40 at the door.

22 Nov [] BSFA OPEN MEETING, The Star pub, West Halkin Mews, London, SW1.
6pm on; fans present from 5pm. With Jo Fletcher.

8 Dec [] BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY open night, Devereux pub, Essex St, off
the Strand, London. 6.30pm onwards. All welcome.

6-9 Apr 07 [] CONVOY (Eastercon), Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool: CANCELLED.
Refunds will follow. Contact Convoy, 81 Western Rd, London, E13 9JE.
Watch this space for a possible alternative.

19-22 July 07 [] SECTUS 2007 (Harry Potter), Park Crescent Conf Centre,
London. _Now Pounds55 reg_ until 31 Jan 07; Pounds65 thereafter. Contact
251 Reddicap Heath Rd, Sutton Coldfield, W Midlands, B75 7ES.

3-5 Aug 07 [] MECON 10, Queen's Elms Centre, 78 Malone Rd, Belfast. GoH
Iain M. Banks. Pounds14/Pounds12 concessions, rising to Pounds16/Pounds14
concessions on 1 Jan 07. Contact 115 Malone Road, Belfast, BT9 6SP.

2-4 Nov 07 [] NOVACON 37, Walsall (again). Pounds35 reg, or Pounds34 at
Novacon 36. Contact 379 Myrtle Rd, Sheffield, S2 3HQ.


### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###

AS OTHERS SEE US. _Slate_ can tell what's too good to be sf: `_Battlestar
Galactica_ (Sci Fi, Fridays at 9 p.m. ET), now entering its third season,
is not science fiction -- or "speculative fiction" or "SF," or whatever
you're supposed to call it these days. Ignore the fact that the series
is a remake of a late-'70s Star Wars knockoff. Forget that its action
variously unfolds on starships and on a colonized planet called New
Caprica. And never mind its stunning special effects, which outclass the
endearingly schlocky stuff found elsewhere on its network. Sullen,
complex, and eager to obsess over grand conspiracies and intimate
betrayals alike, it is TV noir.' (Troy Patterson, 13 October) [MG]

R.I.P. _Paul Ableman_ (1927-2006), UK author and playwright whose
metafictional sf novel _The Twilight of the Vilp_ appeared in 1969, died
on 25 October aged 79. [JE]
     _Ed Benedict_ (1912-2006), animator of _The Flintstones_, died on
28 August; he was 94. [PDF]
     _Ron Bennett_ (1933-2006), long-time UK fan who was the 1958 TAFF
delegate and edited the classic sf newsletter _Skyrack_ (1959-1971, now
archived on line), died on 5 November soon after being diagnosed with
leukaemia. He was 73. [AB] Another pillar of fandom gone, alas.
     _Nelson S. Bond_ (1908-2006), old-time US author and rare book
dealer whose first sf story appeared in _Astounding_ in 1937, died on 4
November; he would have been 98 this month. SFWA honoured him as Author
Emeritus in 1998. [AIP/RR] Who could forget his other 1937 title, `Mr
Mergenthwirker's Lobblies'?
     _Nelson de la Rosa_ (1968-2006), Dominican-born `world's smallest
actor' (at 2' 4") who was Moreau's henchman in the dire _The Island of
Dr Moreau_ (1996 remake), died on 22 October aged 38. [GW]
     _William Franklyn_ (1925-2006), veteran UK actor who took over Peter
Jones's role as the Book for the 2004 Radio 4 _Hitchhiker_, died in
October; he was 81. [SJD]
     _Phyllis Kirk_ (1929-2006), US film actress who was the menaced
heroine in _House of Wax_ (1953), died on 19 October aged 77. [CH]
     _Arthur Hill_ (1922-2006), Canadian-born character actor whose genre
credits included _The Andromeda Strain_, _Something Wicked This Way
Comes_ and _One Magic Christmas_, died on 22 October aged 84. [SJD]
     _Nigel Kneale_ (1922-2006), UK tv scriptwriter and novelist most
famous for his BBC serials _The Quatermass Experiment_ (1953),
_Quatermass II_ (1955) and _Quatermass and the Pit_ (1958-9), died on 29
October. He was 84. Other highly regarded tv productions were his 1954
adaptation of Orwell's _1984_, and the original plays _The Year of the
Sex Olympics_ (1969) and _The Stone Tape_ (1972). [JL]
     _Darrell Richardson_ (?1918-2006), US fan and Southern Baptist
minister who was an expert on Edgar Rice Burroughs, died on 19 September
aged 88. He had been active in 1940s Cincinnati fandom. [AIP]
     _David Stewart_ (1960-2006), Irish journalist and sf fan who worked
on several Octocons and was a highly effective head of Promotions for the
2005 Glasgow Worldcon, died from oesophagal cancer on 12 October. There
are plans for a one-day Dublin event in his memory on 3 February 2007.
[POM]
     _Philip Strick_ (1939-2006), UK film critic and sf enthusiast who
taught Britain's first adult sf evening classes and wrote the 1976
_Science Fiction Movies_ (`one of the best early books on the subject'
-- _SF Encyclopedia_), died suddenly on 7 October. He had been a popular
speaker at conventions.
     _Wilson `Bob' Tucker_ (1914-2006), much-honoured US sf author,
inventor of the term `space opera', and unquestioned dean of fandom as
we know it, died on 6 October; he was 91. I fondly remember his 1979 UK
visit and his insistence on seeking out insignificant young fan Langford
`to shake the hand that tweaked Harlan's nose.' (Don't ask.) A lovable
and greatly loved man who `served for 70 years as the most intelligent
and articulate and sophisticated fan the American science-fiction
community is ever likely to boast of.' (John Clute, _Independent_, 12
October)
     _Jane Wyatt)_ (1910-2006, US actress who co-starred in _Lost 
Horizon_ (1937), and much later played Spock's mother in the original
_Star Trek_ and in _ST IV: The Voyage Home_, died on 20 October; she was
96. Her other genre film was _Amityville: The Evil Escapes_ (1989).
[AIP]
     LATE ENTRIES: _Pamela Cleaver_, UK children's author and creative
writing teacher at UEA, died in November 2005; she published a handful
of stories in Richard Davis's _Armada Sci-Fi_ and _Space_ anthologies,
1974-1980. [CC]
     _Ivor Latto_, Scots architect who as a fan artist drew covers and
interiors for _Speculation_, _Vector_, and other 1960s fanzines, and
published one issue of his own zine _Fankle_, reportedly died in Spring
2004. [AIP]

THOG'S TRANSLATION MASTERCLASS. `Just before she collapsed, her nipples
had pointed proudly to the sky.'
     `Tyler was fuming with hatred, so much so that he was in tears. He
was, in fact, sad.'
     `Leslie had sensitive ears. Flora's voice seeped into every one of
his cells through his eardrums, and rocked him gently from within.' (all
Koji Suzuki [of _Ring_ fame], _Paradise_, trans Tyran Grillo, 2006) [RF]

WORLD FANTASY AWARDS, presented on 4 November: NOVEL Haruki Murakami,
_Kafka on the Shore_. NOVELLA Joe Hill, _Voluntary Committal_. SHORT
George Saunders, `CommComm' (_New Yorker_ 8/05) ANTHOLOGY Marvin Kaye,
ed., _The Fair Folk_. COLLECTION Bruce Holland Rogers, _The Keyhole
Opera_. ARTIST James Jean. SPECIAL/PROFESSIONAL Sean Wallace, Prime
Books. SPECIAL/NON-PROFESSIONAL David Howe & Stephen Walker, Telos Books.
LIFE ACHIEVEMENT John Crowley, Stephen Fabian.

HOW TO WRITE HEADLINES. The _Sunday Telegraph_ magazine ran a (good and
serious) article on James Tiptree Jr by her biographer Julie Phillips,
flagged on the front cover as _The Woman from Mars: How a sex-change
socialite became a sci-fi god_.
     John M. Ford would surely have laughed no end at the _St Paul
Pioneer_ headline for his 27 October memorial event: _Crafters of sci-fi
attend obscure writer's eulogy_. [ML]

MOVING PICTURES. The Childsplay tv production of Terry Pratchett's
_Johnny and the Bomb_ is shortlisted for an International Emmy (results
20 November) and two BAFTAs: best drama and best script. [CS]

RANDOM FANDOM. _Saxon Bullock_ wants someone, anyone, to rent his flat
in Bounds Green (London N11) for 6 months to June 2007, when the lease
runs out: 07904 009859.
     _Graham Charnock_, self-confessed Old Man whose fanzine _Phile_
appeared in 1966, is 60 this month.

AS OTHERS SEE US II. _Slate_ continues to treat _Battlestar Galactica_
as a very special case: `But most critics take pains to point out that
this is more than another dorked-out sci-fi fest.' (13 October) [HF]

FANFUNDERY. _TAFF:_ with Eastercon 2007 cancelled, Chris Garcia and Mary
Kay Kare are racing to ... where?
     _JETS_, the one-off Europe to Nippon 2007 fund, has two known
candidates: Liam Proven and Robert Sneddon. Nominations close 13 Nov.
     _Bellissimo!_ is a fine showcase of Harry Bell's fan art, compiled
by Rob Jackson (Chinthay, Nightingale Ln, Hambrook, nr Chichester, PO18
8UH) and available from him or US agent Rich Coad (124 Cottage Ave,
Richmond, CA 94801) at Pounds8/$14 post paid. A4; 122pp inc card covers.
Proceeds to the Get Harry fund (Bell to Corflu 2007); any surplus to
TAFF, GUFF, etc.

THE SOFT SELL. Fine Condition Books offers a particularly mouth-watering
copy of Keith Roberts's _Molly Zero_: `Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine.
Signed by Author. An immaculate, unread copy of the first edition of this
1980 novel, published in the genre-defining yellow dustjacket by the
golems of Gollancz. Pristine blue boards are kept in place by a spine so
tight, solid and clean that the Bridge over the River Kwai would lean on
it for support, pages as white as a pair of tennis shorts after their
first biological washday and a dw whose superlative condition redefines
the concepts of cleanliness and shine ...' [BA]

C.O.A. _Lilian Edwards_ has moved to take up a Chair of Internet Law for
a year': 52 Orchards Way, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1RE. _Derek
Pickles_, Flat 4, Holroyd Ct, 18 Aygill Avenue, Bradford, BD9 6JL.

THE HARD SELL. _Battlestar Galactica_ (what, again?) has unveiled a sure-
fire scheme to boost the viewer figures. Synopsis: `When Baltar is held
hostage and tortured, Six will take pity and mentally "pleasure" him to
ease his pain. In fact, nudity and free love are rampant on the Cylon
base ship. "We reveal a very sensual, libertine permissiveness among the
Cylons," says exec producer Ron Moore. There's even a rumor that we'll
see some three-way Cylon sex. "Oh, that's way more than a rumor," Moore
promises.' (_TV Guide_, 2 October) [TW] Oh dear.

INTERNATIONAL HORROR GUILD AWARDS. NOVEL Brett Easton Ellis, _Lunar
Park_. SHORT FICTION Rick Bowes, `There's a Hole in the City' (_Sci
Fiction_). MID-LENGTH Caitlin Kiernan, `La Peau Verte' (_To Charles Fort,
with Love_). LONG Gary Braunbeck, `Kiss of the Mudman' (_Home Before
Dark_). COLLECTION Joe Hill, _20th Century Ghosts_. PERIODICAL
_Postscripts_. ILLUSTRATED Enki Bilal, _Memories_. NONFICTION S.T. Joshi
& Stefan Dziemianowicz, eds, _Supernatural Literature of the World: An
Encyclopedia_. ART Clive Barker exhibition: `Visions of Heaven and Hell
(and Then Some)'. LIVING LEGEND Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. All presented 2
November at WFC.
 
OUTRAGED LETTERS. _Brian Ameringen_ finds science imitating sf: `Galaxies
banged into each other 210 million years ago, scientists believe ...'
(_Metro_, 19 Oct) I thought E.E. Smith phrased it rather well [_Two
thousand million or so years ago two galaxies were colliding_ ...] and
what's an order of magnitude between friends!'
     _John Bark_ has a book report: `... _The Complete Polysyllabic
Spree_ by Nick Hornby, which records Hornby's awesome embarrassment at
buying _Excession_ (it has a SPACE SHIP on the cover, cringe, cringe).
Feel his struggle with the blurb enigmatic: surely an artefact is
something you find in a museum? Learn of his painful tears as he manfully
tries to relate the plot to the blurb. Pity his ultimate realization that
he does not understand SF at all and must abjure the genre for at least
6 months to recover from the trauma -- so different from the intense
pleasure felt 100 pages earlier re-reading _The Sirens of Titan_ (now
apparently forgotten).... Unfortunately, I can't vouch for the entire
accuracy of the above (I might have made up the tears) and I'm not buying
the thing, not even for _Ansible_.'
     _Sam J. Lundwall_ continues to flatter: `Thank you so much for
keeping me on the _Ansible_ e-mailing list, a shining light in this
darkness before the end of whatever it is the end of. I love your
intellectuality, your wit, your hair, your way of sloshing the beer. I
am mostly silent these days -- problems with eyes and various other
orifices and limbs &c makes me live a quiet life -- but I do enjoy
_Ansible_, my main window into That Void Out There.'
     _Vonda McIntyre_ takes _Ansible_ to task for not stating with
sufficient vigour that `Ursula [Le Guin] _doesn't_ sell inscribed books.
She doesn't sell used books at all. She doesn't donate _inscribed_ books
to the library charity, either -- she sends them to the University of
Oregon to reside with the rest of her papers, because otherwise the books
would outpace the room in her house (rather than just the room in her
bookcases). Your report in the last _Ansible_ kind of overlooked the fact
that the McNally book got into the wrong stack _by mistake_ ...'

SMALL PRESS. _The Hub_ is a new, bimonthly UK sf/f/horror print magazine
(`80pp colour glossy') edited by Lee Harris and launching in early
December 2006. Contact: www.hub-mag.co.uk or Hub Magazine, 3 Cobble Court
Mews, York, YO24 1BB. Payment for fiction is Pounds25/thou, but they have
a full list and are not yet accepting submissions.

THE DEAD PAST. _30 Years Ago_, Britain's sf newsletter revealed a little
known US election promise from Jimmy Carter: `If I become President, I'll
make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings
available to the public and the scientists. I am convinced that UFOs
exist because I have seen one.' (_Checkpoint_ 76, Nov 1976)

GROUP GROPES. _Bristol Beer & Blake's 7_ meeting, 25 Nov: Knight's
Templar, Temple Sq, Temple Quay, Bristol, BS1 6DG. 12:30-7pm/later.

THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _Dept of Female Characterization._ `"So much for your
methodical methods!" said Ilsa scornfully, wrinkling her nose at him and
putting out her little pink tongue.' (Bill Spencer, `The Watchtower',
_New Worlds_ 97, August 1960) [JB]
     _Neat Tricks Dept._ `I tilted my face up, eyes closed against the
stinging drops, and watched the garden flash bright with the crack of
lightning.' (C.E. Murphy, _Thunderbird Falls_, 2006) [MKK]
     _Dept of Public Nudity in 18th-Century Glasgow._ `... two hundred
and seventy three years ago [...] The inmates of these hovels earned a
living by knitting caps and mufflers for the inhabitants of Glasgow who,
even then, wore almost nothing else.' (Alasdair Gray, `The Crank That
Made The Revolution', 1971) [BA]
     _Influence of Stephen R. Donaldson Dept._ `Their horses were foul
spine-sprung things, malandered about the necks, beshat greenly across
the hindquarters, and trailing ropy harls of yellow snot blown from all
the orifices of their heads.' (Charles Frazier, _Cold Mountain_, 1997)
[MWW]


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[] 2007
?? Feb 07, Picocon 24, London
2-4 Feb 07, D'Zenove Convention (filk), Basingstoke
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20-22 Jul 07,Year of the Teledu, Leicester
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30 Aug - 3 Sep 07, Nippon 2007 (Worldcon), Yokohama, Japan
21-23 Sep 07, Eurocon 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark
2-4 Nov 07, Novacon 37, Walsall
[] 2008
21-24 Mar 08, Orbital (Eastercon), Heathrow
Spring 08, Distraction, Newbury
6-10 Aug 08, Denvention 3 (Worldcon), Denver, USA


### ENDNOTES ###

APPARITIONS.
[] 9 November: M. John Harrison signing at Forbidden Planet, London.
6-7pm.
[] 18 November: Adam Roberts at Folkestone Literary Festival. 4:30pm,
Metropole Galleries, Folkestone. Free.

RANDOM LINKS. Rather than save them up for _Ansible_ each month, I now
add topical links to a sidebar column on the links page:
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THE PRESERVING MACHINE. Rob Ensor writes: `2007 will be the 25th
anniversary of the death of Philip K. Dick. We hope to commemorate
this occasion by producing a memorial volume of [new] short stories,
poetry, reviews, animadversions, essays & artwork.' No contributor
payments, no profits expected; just a fannish labour of love. Contact
The PKD Project, 4 Drews House, Druids Heath, Birmingham, B14 5PQ, or
robensor at tiscali co uk.

IT'S THE ARTS. Heather & Ivan Morison (appearing with Adam Roberts at
the Folkestone festival, above) have developed a cunning formula for
turning old sf books into Art by taking them abroad and inserting
floral souvenirs between the pages: _Foundation and Empire_ with
Mongolian wildflowers (2003), _A Clockwork Orange_ with Ecuadorian
wildflowers (2005), _Star Maker_ with Bulgarian mountain wildflowers
(2005).... _Ansible_ wonders if one could storm the bastions of the
Turner Prize by lovingly pressing cat-doings within a copy of
_Battlefield Earth_ while visiting East Grinstead.
 http://www.morison.info/


Ansible 232 Copyright (c) Dave Langford, 2006. Thanks to Andrew
Bennett, John Boston, Charles Christian, Paul Di Filippo, Steven J.
Dunn, John Eggeling, Henry Farrell, Rose Fox, Mike Godwin, Chip
Hitchcock, Mary Kay Kare, E Kronos, Jim Linwood, Kyle McAbee, Making
Light, Padraig O Mealoid, Farah Mendlesohn, Andrew I. Porter, Rick
Riffel, Colin Smythe, Peter Wareham, Gary Wilkinson, Taras Wolansky,
Martin Morse Wooster, and Hero Distributors: Rog Peyton (BSFG), Janice
Murray (NA), SCIS, and Alan Stewart (Aus).  

7 Nov 06
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