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FEBRUARY 2007

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### MEN OF THE TEN BOOKS ###

BRIAN ALDISS was on Radio 4's _Desert Island Discs_ on 28 January, a mere
quarter-century after his last appearance. From the BBC website: `He is
best known for pioneering, alongside JG Ballard, a new wave of British
science fiction writing in the 1960s.' His luxury item: a banjo.

MARGARET ATWOOD has warmed to her favourite example of sf: `You can write
well about giant squid that talk, and you can write poorly about giant
squid that talk.' (Pacifica/KPFA radio, 11 January) [TM]

J.G. BALLARD confirms a claim about his mid-1960s work which even the
Ballard experts found hard to believe. Responding to an enthusiast who
put the question, he explained: `Yes, I did write a script for the BBC
TV children's programme, _Jackanory_ -- I really wrote it for my
children, who were keen viewers at the time.' [JMcN]

DAVID EDDINGS burned down his garage and part of his office on 25
January, by throwing a lit piece of paper into spilt petrol to learn
whether the latter was inflammable. It was. (_Nevada Appeal_) [PDF] The
same report includes the sad news that, following a series of strokes,
his wife and collaborator Leigh Eddings is currently unable to speak.

JOE R. LANSDALE has won the 2007 World Horror Convention Grand Master
Award, voted by a record turn-out of WHC members.

CORMAC MCCARTHY's post-holocaust novel _The Road_ may not have made the
Clarke Award shortlist but is up for the US National Book Critics Circle
fiction award. NBCC biography nominees include Julie Phillips's _James
Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon_.

CHRIS PRIEST enjoyed another small brush with fame: `_The Prestige_ got
two nominations for Oscars: Cinematography and Set Design. While I might
have preferred a nomination in the little-known category Best Adaption
of a Novel By Someone Living in Hastings, those two will do.' Several
other genre films picked up 2007 Oscar nominations, including _Children
of Men_ with three and _Pan's Labyrinth_ with six.

MALCOLM WICKES, UK science minister, suggested that our schools should
teach science via `a chunk of _Doctor Who_ and Billie Piper' rather than
boring old textbooks. (_Sunday Telegraph_, 7 January) [JY]

OSCAR WILDE has been honoured with an appearance on a British stamp
issued on 9 January ... that is, he's one of many background figures on
the _Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band_ sleeve, included in the
Beatles commemorative set. Also present are Edgar Allan Poe and (least
likely choice for philatelic immortality) Aleister Crowley. [JE]


### CONSTUPRATE ###

17 Feb [] PICOCON 24, Beit Quad, Imperial College, London. 10am-7pm/8pm.
Confirmed rates: Pounds8 reg, Pounds6 concessions, Pounds4 ICFS members.
Contact ICSF, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Rd, London, SW7 2BB.

23-25 Feb [] REDEMPTION 07 (multimedia sf), Hinckley Island Hotel, Leics.
Pounds55 to 9 Feb, when _advance booking closes_; Pounds60 at door. Day:
Pounds35, Pounds40 at door. Under 18s Pounds15; day Pounds10. Under 3s
free. Contact 26 Kings Meadow View, Wetherby, LS22 7FX.

28 Feb [] BSFA OPEN MEETING, The Star pub, West Halkin Mews, London, SW1.
6pm on; fans present from 5pm. With Robert Holdstock.

2 Mar [] BFS OPEN NIGHT, Ye Olde Cock, 22 Fleet St, London.

3-4 Mar [] MICROCON, Devonshire House, Exeter University. GoH: Jasper
Fforde, others. Pounds7 at door; students Pounds5; EU sf soc members
free.
 
10-11 Mar [] P-CON 4, Wynn's Hotel, Dublin. Euro25/Pounds20 reg. Contact
c/o Yellow Brick Rd, 8 Bachelor's Walk, Dublin 8, Ireland; UK c/o Dave
Lally, 64 Richborne Terrace, London, SW8 1AX.

6-9 Apr [] CONTEMPLATION (Eastercon), Crowne Plaza Hotel, Trinity St,
Chester, CH1 2BD. Pounds45 reg, Pounds30 unwaged, Pounds20 supp/junior
(13-17), Pounds5 child (5-12), Pounds1 infant. Advance booking closes 22
March. Hotel rooms Pounds85/night double/twin, Pounds75 single;
`executive' rooms Pounds20/night extra. Contact 18 Letchworth Ave,
Feltham, Middlesex, TW14 9RY.

2 May [] CLARKE AWARD CEREMONY, London -- by invitation. Held in
conjunction with and on the opening night of ...

2-6 May [] SCI-FI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL. Contact FestivalBiz, 2nd Floor,
145-157 St John St, London, EC1V 4PY. 020 7871 4555.

19-22 Jun [] SFF SF CRITICISM MASTERCLASS, U of Liverpool. Pounds180 reg
(rooms extra). Enquire by 28 Feb to farah dot sf at gmail dot com.

21-23 Sep [] EUROCON 2007, Valby Medborgerhus, Copenhagen, Denmark. Rates
to 1 Aug 07: DKK150, Pounds15, Euro22.50, $24, NOK165, SEK 195. Sterling
to UK agent Dave Lally (64 Richborne Tce, London, SW8 1AX), but you
should still fill in the form at www.eurocon2007.dk.

6 Oct [] SATELLITE 1 (50th anniversary of first artificial satellite),
Campanile Hotel, Tunnel St, Glasgow. Pounds15 reg, Pounds5 supp or child
(5-15), Pounds1 infant (0-4). Contact Flat 3/2, 132 W Princes St,
Glasgow, G4 9DB.

6-10 Aug 08 [] DENVENTION 3 (66th Worldcon), Denver, CO, USA. Artist GoH
now announced: Rick Sternbach. $130 reg until 31 March 2007. Contact
Denvention, PO Box 1349, Denver, CO 80201, USA.


### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###

AS OTHERS SEE US. Patrick Ness hopes that Tricia Sullivan will yet rise
from the gutter: `How frustrating to be a great writer who happens to
work in sci-fi. For every Jeff Noon or Neal Stephenson who breaks out to
wider arenas, there's a Tricia Sullivan or a Jeff Vandermeer stuck on the
shelves in that bit of the bookstore where most of you never wander.
Hearteningly, Sullivan may be nearing escape velocity, and about time,
too.' (_Guardian_, 20 Jan) [SN] Ness's review concludes: `Be brave. Step
into the sci-fi section. You can wear a floppy hat.' Stephen Baxter
muses: `I'm intrigued by the floppy hat; what can he mean? And I couldn't
help noticing the footnote that Ness's own new book is _Topics About
Which I Know Nothing_; evidently a weighty tome.'

ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD. Finalists were announced at a select and boozy
Soho pub gathering on 20 January: Jon Courtenay Grimwood, _End of the
World Blues_; M. John Harrison, _Nova Swing_; Lydia Millet, _Oh Pure and
Radiant Heart_; Jan Morris, _Hav_; Adam Roberts, _Gradisil_; Brian
Stableford, _Streaking_. ACCA prize money has been boosted to ...
Pounds2007! Administrator Tom Hunter writes: `We've received a fantastic
amount of positive response from people up to and following the
announcement of this year's shortlist, and I'd like to say a big thank
you to everyone for their messages and continuing support of the award.'

MAGAZINE STUFF. Further woes for DNA Publications (_SF Chronicle_,
_ABsolute Magnitude_, etc): the editor of _Fantastic_, Edward J.
McFadden, has resigned because `DNA Publications, Inc. has not maintained
a reasonable publishing schedule for _Fantastic Stories_ in some time.'
Meanwhile, Bravewords.com reported a Virginia Police Dept `Official Fraud
Investigation' into alleged non-fulfilment of subscriptions to DNA's
_KISS_ magazine, the rock group's official quarterly. It later emerged
that the Virginia Police have no jurisdiction, since the original
complaint came from Canada: they are passing information to the US Postal
Inspector's office, which _is_ investigating.
     _Weird Tales_ is being redesigned and editorially reshuffled, with
George Scithers moving upstairs as Editor Emeritus and Darrell Schweitzer
sideways to write the nonfiction departments; a new fiction editor will
be appointed.
     _SFX_ has instructed its staff and `freelance monkeys' to write
funnier, geekier and `really anal' material. Should I draft my next
column in Klingon?

BSFA AWARDS. 2007 shortlists: NOVEL Liz Williams, _Darkland_; Jon
Courtenay Grimwood, _End of the World Blues_; Roger Levy, _Icarus_; James
Morrow, _The Last Witchfinder_; M. John Harrison, _Nova Swing_.
     SHORT Ian McDonald, `The Djinn's Wife' (_Asimov's_ 6/06); Ken
MacLeod, _The Highway Men_; Benjamin Rosenbaum, `The House Beyond Your
Sky' (_Strange Horizons_); Margo Lanagan, `The Point of Roses' (_Black
Juice_); Alastair Reynolds, `Signal to Noise', (_Zima Blue_); Elizabeth
Bear, `Sounding' (_Strange Horizons_)
     ARTWORK Fangorn, _Angelbot_, (cover: _Time Pieces_ ed. Ian Whates);
`Vertebrate Graphics', _Farthing_ 2 cover; Fahrija Velic, _Droid_ (cover:
_IZ_206); Alexander Preuss, _The Return to Abalakin_; William Li, _Ring
of the Gods_ (cover: _Holland SF_ 226).
     NON-FICTION Paul Kincaid & Andrew M. Butler, ed.; _The Arthur C.
Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology_; Justine Larbalestier, _Daughters of
Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century_; Paul Gravett,
_Great British Comics_; Julie Phillips, _James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double
Life of Alice B. Sheldon_; Farah Mendlesohn, ed., _Polder: A Festschrift
for John Clute and Judith Clute_. Winners will be announced at Eastercon
in Chester.

AS OTHERS SEE US II. Film director Paul Verhoeven bewails his exile to
the ghetto as a side-effect of the critically execrated _Showgirls_
(1996): `After that they would only let me direct science fiction, not
normal films ...' (_Guardian_ interview, 12 January) [PT]

PHILIP K. DICK AWARD shortlist: Andrea Hairston, _Mindscape_; Elizabeth
Bear, _Carnival_; Chris Moriarty, _Spin Control_; Nina Kiriki Hoffman,
_Catalyst_; Tony Ballantyne, _Recursion_; Mark Budz, _Idolon_; Justina
Robson, _Living Next Door to the God of Love_. Winner to be announced 6
April. [GVG] Can anyone explain the ordering of that list (as in the
official release)? _Gordon Van Gelder:_ `Ha ha, wouldn't you like to
know!'

CULTURE SPOT. `... I was reminded of a scene in the science-fiction novel
_Fahrenheit 451_, by Kurt Vonnegut, in which a literate culture has been
destroyed.' (Suzanne Fields, _Insight on the News_, 3/7/2000) [RB]

R.I.P. _Desmond Briscoe_ (1925-2006), UK composer and sound engineer who
co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and scored _Quatermass and the
Pit_ (1958), died on 7 December aged 81. [JE]
     _Yvonne De Carlo_ (1922-2007) Canadian-born actress who played Lily
in _The Munsters_ (tv 1964-66 and two spinoff films), died on 8 January.
She was 84. [BB/GW]
     _Tudor Gates_, (1930-2007), UK screenwriter who scripted
_Barbarella_ and the Hammer lesbian vampire movies _Vampire Lovers_,
_Lust for a Vampire_ and _Twins of Evil_, died on 14 January. [GW]
     _Joe Gill_ (1919-2006), US writer who scripted Charlton comics for
30 years (_Captain Atom_, _The Blue Beetle_, etc), died in December aged
87. [PDF]
     _John Heath-Stubbs_ (1918-2006), UK poet awarded the Queen's Medal
in 1973, died on December 26; he was 88. Steve Sneyd writes: `One of his
best-known works was the 101 page Arthurian epic poem "Artorius" (1973).
His Romanized Arthur encounters multicultural myth/legend figures within
a Zodiac pattern of 12 books ... e.g. Anubis in the Otherworld and
classical Muses as well as the more traditional Celtic entities.'
     _Steve Krantz_ (1923-2007), US producer of animated tv series -- 
_The Marvel Superheroes_ (195 episodes) and _Spider-Man_ -- plus the cult
film _Fritz the Cat_ (1972), died on 4 January aged 83. [PDF]
     _Carlo Ponti_ (1912-2007), Italian-born producer of over 150 films,
died on 10 January aged 94. His genre work included _Ulysses_ (1955),
_Flesh for Frankenstein_ (1973), _Gawain and the Green Knight_ (1973),
and _Whisky and Ghosts_ (1976). [SG]
     _Liz Renay_ (1926-2007), US cult actress who appeared in
_Blackenstein_ (1973) and whose final film was the memorably titled _Mark
of the Astro-Zombies_ (2002), died on 22 January; she was 80. [PDF]
     _Iwao Takamoto_ (1925-2007), US animator (latterly VP at Warner Bros
Animation) who created the _Scooby-Doo_ characters and many others, died
on 8 January aged 81. [BBC]
     _Robert Anton Wilson_ (1932-2007), US novelist and anarchist
philosopher who gloried in the tatty complexities of conspiracy theories
-- most famously in the _Illuminatus!_ trilogy (1975), written with
Robert Shea -- died on 11 January. He was 74, and had been gravely ill
for many months; friends and fans had raised money to save him from
eviction (see _A231_). [GW] His last weblog post, on 6 January, ended:
`Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It
seems absurd.'

AS OTHERS SEE _24_. `I knew it!' gibbers Niall Harrison: `I knew _24_
would turn into sf eventually.' The nuclear strike on _[Season Six
spoiler hastily avoided]_ led Townhall.com pundit Hugh Hewitt to draw the
line between fiction and, er, fiction: `The key question is whether the
drama is a bit of absurd science fiction, or the projection of a not-so-
distant future, not in its particulars, but in its awful core depiction.'
(22 Jan)

OUTRAGED LETTERS. _John Clute:_ `Was a bit perturbed to see that this
year's Clarke Award shortlist omitted two pretty important titles from
2006, Cormac McCarthy's _The Road_ and Thomas Pynchon's exuberant and
exorbitant _Against the Day_. I gather both were left off because their
publishers either refused or failed to deliver reading copies in time for
the judges to make their decisions easily, and that each book was deemed
ineligible because of this refusal or failure. One's sympathy for the
plight of the Clarke and its judges notwithstanding, it does seem odd
that books that (on the basis of very extensive review coverage) would
seem to be plausible candidates for shortlisting were in fact not
considered for reasons extrinsic to their merit. What the Clarke must be
about -- what importantly it is seen by most of us to be about -- is the
book itself. Nothing else. Really, nothing else.'
     _David Garnett_ reminisces: `I was talking with Bram/Derek Stokes
in Dark They Were And Golden-Eyed, and this was his first shop in
Bedfordbury, so it was around -- er -- 1970. In walked this bloke who was
obviously not one of the regular clientele. Suit and tie, briefcase,
quite old, must have been in his 40s. "Have you got a book called
_Pavane_?" he asked. So he buys the Keith Roberts novel and off he goes.
It was Magnus Magnusson. Now that he's dead, he can be outed as a
(presumably one-off) sf fan....'
     _Mike Moorcock_ on _A234_: `I've complained more than once to
editors who translate my preferred "sf" into "sci-fi", but of course
without satisfaction. My piece on Pynchon had some of the references to
sf writers removed but at least was allowed to make pretty much the same
point as Terry [Pratchett]'s -- that sf techniques are these days as much
part of the mainstream as any other. I also mentioned Greybeard as a far
superior book to Children of Men. Apparently, it's not a bad movie,
thanks mostly to the director. Often the case. Though I've never
forgotten George Melly's review of The Final Programme -- he thought the
director had taken a "sci fi novel" and made it funny, rather than taking
what was certainly intended as a funny book and making it stupid. The
funny stuff in the movie was added by me and the actors (ad libbing) once
I pointed out that it was not intended to be a sci-fi drama.... / So I
was wrong about Harry going through his punk phase in _Hairy Pooter and
the Gobbet of Phlegm_. Ah, well. That'll teach me to lay heavy bets on
Captain Sensible's advice.'

C.O.A. _Peter Roberts_, Lower Pen-y-lan, Glasbury-on-Wye, Breconshire
(Powys), HR3 5NT, Wales.

AS OTHERS SEE US YET AGAIN. No mockery but just the sad truth, in a
review of Cormac McCarthy's _The Road_: `This may help to explain why the
post-apocalyptic mode has long attracted writers not generally considered
part of the science fiction tradition. It's one of the few subgenres of
science fiction, along with stories of the near future (also friendly to
satirists), that may be safely attempted by a mainstream writer without
incurring too much damage to his or her credentials for seriousness. The
anti-science fiction prejudice among some readers and writers is so
strong that in reviewing a work of science fiction by a mainstream author
a charitable critic will often turn to words such as "parable" or "fable"
to warm the author's bathwater a little, and it is an established fact
that a preponderance of religious imagery or an avowed religious intent
can go a long way toward mitigating the science-fictional taint ...'
(Michael Chabon, _New York Review of Books_, 15 Feb)

RANDOM FANDOM. _Mike Cobley_ reveals: `In keeping with my detailed
campaign for World Dominationism, I will be standing in the local
elections in May as Liberal Democrat candidate for the ward of Govan in
Glasgow. Some may be interested to learn that the Govan area has been
somewhat Labour voting since roughly the Upper Cretaceous but am I
daunted?'
     _Andrew I. Porter_'s `Pancreaticoduodenectomy' operation on 19
January (see _A234_) was successful; he came home on the 28th and now,
for safety's sake, expects 4-6 months of chemotherapy.

SF IN THE NEWS. The _New Yorker_ profile of al-Qaeda spokesman Adam
Gadahn (the first American since 1952 to be indicted for treason) homes
in on the signs of deviancy he displayed when a teenager. Not only was
he a death-metal fan, but he read Piers Anthony's sf novel _Firefly_ ...
`about an alien predator that puts people into a sexual trance, sucks out
their protoplasm, and kills them with bile.' Gadahn's review of the book,
according to the friend who recommended it: `Man, that's twisted.' (Raffi
Khatchadourian, _New Yorker_, 22 January) [MMW]

FANFUNDERY. _GUFF:_ the 2007 race is from Europe to Convergence 2, the
Australian Natcon. Candidates should send platforms, Pounds10/Euro15
bond and names of 3 European and two Australasian nominators, to Pat
McMurray (pcmcmurray at yahoo co uk) or Damien Warman (dmw at pobox com).
Ballot to appear in mid-February, so don't delay.
     _TAFF:_ Steve Stiles's long-awaited 1968 trip report, _Harrison
Country_, should be published this month! [RB] Order from the
administrators: Pounds3.55 post free from Bridget Bradshaw, 103 Rustat
Road, Cambridge, CB1 3QG; or $6 from Suzanne Tompkins, PO Box 25075,
Seattle, WA 98165, USA.

GROUP GROPES. _Herts Fans_: open house on Saturday following the first
Thursday each month, 6pm to midnight(ish). Keith Armstrong-Bridges, 75
Handside Lane, Welwyn Garden City, Herts, AL8 6SH.

THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _Dept of Insights About Telephone Wires._ `The
overhead wires gave the illusion of shelter, but in fact offered no
protection at all from the rain, a great big useless umbrella.' (Steven
Sivell, _Cloud Cuckoo Land_, 2006)
     _High Invective Dept._ `The High Sister struck her across the face.
Her eyes were like burning black coals. "You weak, pathetic, little
twit!" she hissed.' (Steve White, _Demon's Gate_, 2004) [MC]
     _Eyeballs in the Sky._ `It was as though his eyes were two planets
that had suddenly broken free from gravity and got whirled off -- victims
of centrifugal force.' (R.L. Fanthorpe, _Out of the Darkness_, 1960)


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[] 2008
21-24 Mar 08, Orbital (Eastercon), Heathrow
Spring 08, Distraction, Newbury
6-10 Aug 08, Denvention 3 (Worldcon), Denver, USA


### ENDNOTES ###

APPARITIONS.
[] 9 February: Brum Group, Britannia Hotel, New St, Birmingham. With
Robert Holdstock. 7.45pm. Pounds3 members, Pounds4 non-members.
Contact bhamsfgroup at yahoo co uk. Forthcoming: 9 March, Justina
Robson; 13 April, Ken MacLeod; 11 May, Peter Lavery (TBC).

RANDOM LINKS. Rather than save them up for _Ansible_ each month, I now
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MORE LETTERS. _Claire Brialey_ feebly waves her eyeballs in protest at
last issue's content: `There are EYES in _Ansible_! All over it! Jo
Fletcher, Lloyd Penney, Jo Fletcher _again_ (and worse the second
time, from what I couldn't avoid reading before I collapsed twitching
to the floor trying to cover mine very gently for fear of ghastly
accident). If this is to continue I demand a health warning for the
terminally squeamish.' [] _Henry Gee_ of _Nature_ mourns: `I read with
sadness (in _Ansible_) the death of Philippa Pearce on 21 December.
Spookily, this was about the time that I chose to read my yellowing
copy of _Tom's Midnight Garden_' to my 8-year-old daughter Phoebe. I
remember enjoying _TMG_ hugely when I was her age (about 1970), but
noticed that the book (written almost fifty years ago) has dated
badly. I had to explain to Phoebe what "telegrams" were, and why
children had to be isolated in case they were incubating the measles.
This was quite important, given that without such isolation, the story
couldn't have happened. The saddest thing was that a book written, at
that time, for children, was couched in language that most
contemporary adults would hardly understand. Perhaps in another fifty
years Jade Goody's autobiography will be seen as inaccessibly high
literature to the flint-knapping proletariat.' [] _Mike Moorcock_
always turns to the obituaries first: `Phew! Maybe I should be
worried. Used to be that I didn't recognise anyone in the news items.
Now I don't know anyone in the obits, either (at least not very well).
Is that my own hand fading in front of my face? Well, there are worse
ways to go.'

R.I.P. EXTRA. _Gian Carlo Menotti_ (1911-2007), Italian-born US
composer and librettist whose opera _Help, Help, the Globolinks!_
(1968) is sf, died on 1 February. He was 95. [CH] [] _Hideo Ogata_
(?1934-2007), Japanese producer who founded his country's first anime
magazine (_Animage_) and was involved with Studio Ghibli from its
founding, died on 25 January aged 73. [BB]

HIDEOUS GAFFES. _Simo_ sniffs at Steve Green's `well-matured' story
about Harry Potter and _Troll_: `You are old, Father Langford, and
your recollection grows weak. I pointed this out to you and your
readers back in _Ansible_ 185. Well-matured news indeed.' An _Ansible_
spokesman unconvincingly mumbled: `You will hear it next February.
Also January, March, and all the other months. Truth cannot be too
often repeated.'


Ansible 235 Copyright (c) Dave Langford, 2007. Thanks to Barbara
Barrett, Richard Bleiler, Randy Byers, Mike Cule, Malcolm Edwards,
Paul Di Filippo, John Eggeling, Steve Green, Chip Hitchcock, Joe
McNally, Todd Mason, Sharyn November, Paul Treadaway, Gordon Van
Gelder, Gary Wilkinson, Martin Morse Wooster, Jessica Yates, and our
Hero Distributors: Rog Peyton (BSFG), Janice Murray (N.America), SCIS,
and Alan Stewart (Thyme/Oz).

3 Feb 07
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