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MARCH 2007

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### THE MARK OF THE BEAST ###

PETER ATTAWAY withdrew his horror story `The Hunting Ground' from the
Infinity Plus website owing to rumours in his local community that the
content -- vampires posing as children to entrap child molesters -- 
showed him to be a paedophile. Therefore he is unfit to coach his son's
football team: `The club to which I belonged formally investigated the
complaint against me, and came to the conclusion that there was "no case
to answer", but -- somewhat bizarrely -- decided that I could no longer
continue as a coach with the club as I had "lost the confidence of the
parents".' Next, a letter from the Football Association `stating that
they "had received evidence that my conduct gave rise to a reasonable
belief that I posed a risk of harm to a child", and that I was to be
suspended from all football and football related activities.' In January
2007 the hapless author learned from the FA that `I may be prosecuted for
misconduct, due to the existence of "The Hunting Ground", even though the
story was written _seven years_ before I became a coach and therefore
officially involved with children.' How to fight this madness?

IAIN BANKS's new book, delayed by the break-up of his marriage, is
variously described. An invitation to the related `The Herald Sunday
Herald Book Series' event calls it `his first literary novel in almost
five years' -- as distinct from illiterary novels like _The Algebraist_
(2004). [JS] _Private Eye_'s phrasing is `Banks's first "proper" novel
(as opposed to the sci-fi stuff he turns out under the name of Iain M.
Banks) for five years.' And Radio 4's _Saturday Review_, after
acknowledging this author's habit of alternating the `terrestrial' and
the `intergalactic', went on to say: `_The Steep Approach to Garbadale_
is his first novel for five years ...' [TK]

GARRY KILWORTH took John Brosnan's ashes home, to `... a vineyard outside
the community of Sulky, between the large towns of Ballarat and
Castlemaine in Victoria, Australia. There we scattered the remainder of
John's ashes on the vines, with the words, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
wine to the vine." We chose the vineyard of "Dulcinea" wines because of
the literary connection -- Dulcinea being "the sweet and beautiful one"
in _Don Quixote_ as I'm sure you all know. It was a sunny day, not too
hot (though the countryside here is in the 11th year of a drought) with
a wonderful view from the vineyard which swept down to open fields, over
what we would call a dew pond (here they call it a dam) to hazy blue
mountains beyond. There was a stiff breeze which caught the ashes and
spread them down one of the lanes of vines. I had also chosen a verse
from an Australian poem called "The Old Australian Ways" by Banjo
Patterson, who wrote "Waltzing Matilda". We drove to the bottom of the
vineyard where I read it out loud, feeling the owners might wonder what
the heck was going on. _So throw the weary pen aside / And let the papers
rest, / For [you] must saddle up and ride / Towards the blue hill's
breast; / And [you] must travel far and fast / Across their rugged maze,
/To find the Spring of Youth at last, / And call back from the buried
past / The old Australian ways._' [via RH]

PATRICK MOORE still knows, to a close approximation, where his towel is.
Asked in the _Radio Times_ (3-9 Feb), `What's the answer to life, the
universe and everything?', he replied: `It's 43, isn't it?' [JD]

CHRIS PRIEST on a listed-building proposal by the Secretary of State for
Culture, Media and Sport: `Before Tessa Jowell gives Grade I listing to
221b Baker Street, she really ought to consider Hogwarts Academy and the
House at Pooh Corner.' (_Guardian_ letters, 14 Feb) [JY] Two days later
they also published Rob Holdstock's letter on `Tessa Jowell's wonderful
piece of "tongue-in-cheekery" about Grade I-listing 221b Baker Street',
in which Rob asserted that `Britain is not a theme park.' But the
_Guardian_ cut his quip about how `if not careful we'll be Grade A
listing a tree against which Thomas Hardy once relieved himself ...'

MATTHEW WARCHUS, director of that West End stage musical of _The Lord of
the Rings_, went to Tolkien's grave in Wolvercote Cemetery to say Sorry
in advance: `I visited his grave a few months ago to kind of apologise
and get his seal of approval. It was a magical moment.' (_Oxford Mail_,
13 February.) [TM] Perhaps the magic consisted of a hollow, spectral
voice that intoned: `_Please credit my input to Alan Smithee._'

JOHN C. WRIGHT explains which subgenre his fantasy isn't in: `Nor is this
book anywhere nearly gross enough to qualify for YA status. To win awards
in YA fiction, one needs to describe rapist elfs sodomizing boys with
thorn bushes, or a father having sex with the ghost of his little son he
murdered. Incestohomopedonecrophilia, we might call that: One needs
special names to describe the new perversions. I wish I were making those
examples up.' (_Sci Fi Weekly_ interview, 15 February) [DB]

JANE YOLEN on the Flappies, a new award for book jacket copy: `When I was
a young editorial assistant (back in the Cretaceous) I wrote the flap
copy for _Charlie & The Chocolate Factory_ and for many years it was the
writing of mine that was in print the longest.' [POM]


### CONDOMINE ###

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.

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

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). _Booking closes 22 March._ Few hotel rooms
left: phone 01244 899988, quoting reference 'con'. Overflow (Holiday Inn)
0870 400 9670. Contact 18 Letchworth Ave, Feltham, Middlesex, TW14 9RY.

28 Apr [] ALT.FICTION 2007, Assembly Rooms & Guildhall Theatre, Market
Place, Derby, DE1 3AH. 11am-9pm. Darwin Suite events Pounds20,
concessions Pounds15. Box office 01332 255800 or boxoffice at derby gov
uk.

16 Jun [] PKD-DAY (celebrating Philip K. Dick), John Clare Lecture
Theatre, Clifton Campus, Clifton Lane, Nottingham. 10am-5pm. Free, but
by ticket only. Contact John Goodridge, English Division, Nottingham
Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS.

_Rumblings._ EASTERCON 2009. The LXcon bid has announced its venue as the
Cedar Court Hotel, Bradford -- which according to its own website has 131
bedrooms, so overflow hotels will be essential. The rival bid, Concordia,
still plans to use the Birmingham (NEC) Metropole Hotel. See
www.LX2009.com and www.conbids.org/concordia for more.


### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###

AS OTHERS SEE _DOCTOR WHO_. Graham Sleight reports: `ITV1 have a new
Saturday night primetime series, called _Primeval_, about the threat to
present-day London from, uh, dinosaurs and giant spiders. _Metro_ (8 Feb)
ran a feature on the show by Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, which raised the
obvious point that it's an attempt to compete with _Doctor Who_. Various
cast and crew members deny this, including Christian Manz, special
effects supervisor: "_Dr Who_ is a fantasy show where they go to other
planets. _Primeval_ is based on science -- what species might actually
evolve and take over the planet." Leaving aside the point that the new
_Who_ has visited alien planets only twice in 28 episodes, I must have
missed the CNN and _New Scientist_ coverage of how dinosaurs are about
to reappear and gobble us up. But that's not "fantasy", no way....'

NEBULA AWARDS. 2007 novel shortlist: Ellen Kushner, _The Privilege of the
Sword_; Jack McDevitt, _Seeker_; Jeffrey Ford, _The Girl in the Glass_;
Jo Walton, _Farthing_; Richard Bowes, _From the Files of the Time
Rangers_; Wil McCarthy, _To Crush the Moon_. Winner to be announced in
May.

R.I.P. _Ivar Berggren_ (1937-2007), long-time Swedish fan known as
`Banjan', died on 20 January aged 69. Sam J. Lundwall writes: `He was
active in essef fandom from the late 50s, publishing a fanzine,
_Sviraren_ (The Reveller), and organizing for some 40 years the Swedish
annual Champagne Shootings where people shot champagne corks at targets
and each other. A good man, we'll miss him.'
     _George Collyn_ (Colin Pilkington, 1937-2002), whose ten short sf
stories appeared 1964-1967 in _New Worlds_ and (once) _F&SF_, died on 21
April 2002. This went unreported in sf circles, since for professional
reasons he kept his real name dark; some sf bibliographies wrongly list
Collyn as a pseudonym of Michael Moorcock.
     _Myrtle Devenish_ (1913-2007), UK actress seen in Terry Gilliam's
_Time Bandits_, _Brazil_ and _The Meaning of Life_ (`Crimson Permanent
Assurance'), died on 21 January aged 93. [AIP]
     _Patrice Duvic_ (1946-2007), French author, editor and sf
anthologist who was a valued member of the 1980s Milford UK workshops,
died on 25 February; he was 61. [MJE]
     _Walker Edmiston_ (1926-2007), US actor who voiced many roles in tv
cartoons and the original _Star Trek_, died on 15 February at age 81.
[PDF]
     _Peter Ellenshaw_ (1913-2007), London-born matte artist whose visual
effects appeared in genre films from _Things To Come_ (1936) to _The
Black Hole_ (1979) and _Superman IV_ (1987), died on 12 February aged 93.
[PDF]
     _Charles L. Fontenay_ (1917-2007), US author of dozens of magazine
stories and three sf novels published 1954-1964, and of 20 more books
including a children's series after his 1987 retirement, died on 27
January; he was 89. [SFWA]
     _Lee Hoffman_ (1932-2007), US author of four sf novels -- though
better known for her Westerns -- and long-time fan who was a major figure
of 1950s `Sixth Fandom', died from a heart attack on 6 February. She was
74. [GS] Her fifties fanzine _Quandry_ was central to that era, while
_Science Fiction Five-Yearly_ maintained its ambitious schedule from a
1951 launch -- with publishing help from friends in later years -- to the
final issue #12 in November 2006. I'm proud to have contributed. Lee
(`LeeH'), who was fan guest of honour at the 1982 Worldcon, will be
missed by very many of us.
     _Ian Richardson_ (1934-2007), UK actor honoured with the CBE, died
on 9 February aged 72. Genre appearances included _Brazil_ (1985), _The
Canterville Ghost_ (1997), _Dark City_ (1998), _Gormenghast_ (2000),
_Strange_ (2002-3), and _Hogfather_ (2006, as the voice of Death). [SG]
     _Fred Mustard Stewart_ (1932-2007), popular US author whose genre
ventures included his first novel _The Mephisto Waltz_ (1969, filmed
1971), died on 7 February; he was 74. [PDF]

AS OTHERS POACH US. The MLA has a term for it: `Genre-Poaching in
Literary Fiction [...] a proposed special session at MLA 2007 (Chicago,
27-30 December) addressing contemporary American "literary fiction" that
co-opts elements of popular genres. [...] This panel will address works
that have been shelved, reviewed, and studied in the realm of literary
fiction but whose authors use tropes, themes, and ideas explicitly drawn
from genres such as science fiction, detective fiction, romance novels,
tv, and superhero comics. Is such co-optation destined to be
condescending, reactionary, or nostalgic; or is it potentially generative
of new literary forms and approaches? [...] What do the authors have to
say about the reprobate status of the forms they're drawing from?' Some
poaching suspects are named, including Jonathan Lethem (`superheroes')
and Cormac McCarthy (`science fiction'). [GC]

PUBLISHERS AND SINNERS. Mike Resnick is the new Executive Editor of _Jim
Baen's Universe_, and Ann VanderMeer -- wife of Jeff -- is the new
fiction editor at _Weird Tales_. (Both announced February 2007.)

FAANS. Fanzine Activity Achievement Awards for 2006 work: FANZINE _Banana
Wings_; FAN WRITER Claire Brialey; FAN ARTIST Dan Steffan; LETTERHACK
Lloyd Penney; NEW FANZINE FAN Teresa Cochran.

ANOTHER BLOODY POLL. A World Book Day poll asked 2,000 readers which
books they couldn't live without. Top ten choices included _The Lord of
the Rings_ (2), the Harry Potter series (4), _1984_ (=8) and `His Dark
Materials' (=8). Further titles of genre interest in the full list: _The
Hobbit_ (16), _The Time Traveller's Wife_ (19), _Hitch-Hiker_ (25),
_Alice_ (29), _The Wind in the Willows_ (30), the Narnia books (33, with
_The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_ getting its own slot at 36),
_Winnie-the-Pooh_ (40), _Animal Farm_ (41), _One Hundred Years of
Solitude_ (43), _The Handmaid's Tale_ (48), _Lord of the Flies_ (49),
_Dune_ (52), _Cold Comfort Farm_ (53), _Brave New World_ (58), _The
Lovely Bones_ (64), _Midnight's Children_ (69), _Dracula_ (72), _The
Secret Garden_ (73), _A Christmas Carol_ (81), _Cloud Atlas_ (82),
_Charlotte's Web_ (87), _The Little Prince_ (92), _The Wasp Factory_
(93), _Watership Down_ (94), and _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_
(99). Number one, by the way, was _Pride and Prejudice_. [JY]

OUTRAGED LETTERS. _Garry Kilworth_ (in Australia for 6 months -- see
above) muses: `When you have a long list of names, egotistic authors
(like myself) instantly scan it for their own, and are irritated to find
they are not mentioned, until of course they realise they're reading the
obituary column.'
     _Ursula Le Guin_ on _A235_: `Michael Chabon doesn't belong in your
"As Others See Us" box. Enough with the paranoia, this guy's on our side.
His discussion (in _The New York Review of Books_, re Cormac McCarthy's
_The Road_) of prejudice against sf among critics and why the post-
apocalyptic novel may escape "the science-fictional taint" is subtle,
funny, and accurate. He ends the review by classifying McCarthy's over-
the-top mode not as sf at all, but as horror: an observation that is also
subtle, funny, and accurate.' _(Langford feebly protests: I too thought
Chabon was wickedly accurate about the `taint' of sf, which is why I
prefaced that quote with `No mockery but just the sad truth ...')_
     _Mike Scott Rohan_ on Magnus Magnusson (see _A235_): `I can testify
that he certainly was not a one-off SF reader; he may not have been a fan
per se, but he was well read in imaginative lit, fantasy included -- 
Tolkien, for one, which was just as well with so many Mastermind
contestants focussing on him. He was a voracious reader generally,
frequently encountered in Edinburgh bookshops in the days when we had
any. Al Scott went round Iceland with him many years back, a remarkably
liquid experience by all accounts, and, since he was given to lambasting
the mythical Viking horned helmets, made him the hero of Magnus
Thrihyrning's Saga, ie _three_ horns. Despite this Magnus very kindly
wrote the foreword to our first collaborative book, and was generous with
his time and advice. A great bloke, sadly missed.'

MORE AWARD SHORTLISTS. _Bram Stoker_ (horror): Tom Piccirilli, _Headstone
City_; Stephen King, _Lisey's Story_; Jonathan Maberry, _Ghost Road
Blues_; Jeff Strand, _Pressure_; Gary A. Braunbeck, _Prodigal Blues_.
Winners in this and other categories are to be announced at WHC on 31
March.
     _Prometheus_ (libertarian): Orson Scott Card, _Empire_; David D.
Friedman, _Harald_; Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson, _Variable
Star_; Elizabeth Moon, _Engaging the Enemy_; John Scalzi, _The Ghost
Brigades_; Charles Stross, _The Clan Corporate_; John Varley, _Red
Lightning_; Vernor Vinge, _Rainbows End_. Mr Stross, remembering the
usual listing of past winner Ken MacLeod, has suggested that the name
should be changed to the Scottish Socialist SF Writers' Award. [JG]
     _Royal TV Society_: the three-strong drama shortlist includes
_Hogfather_.

AS OTHERS SEE US II. Wendy Smith on a new Jonathan Raban novel set in
2010: `Yet _Surveillance_ is not an exercise in dystopian fiction -- or
at least the kind that sends stick figures wandering through a post-
apocalypse landscape.' (_Washington Post_, 1 March) [MMW]

RANDOM FANDOM. _1/2r Cruttenden_ warns: `Next Eastercon I will be ridding
myself of a clump of facial shrubbery -- to wit -- a set of mutton-chop
whiskers.' Sponsors are sought for this hideous public spectacle, in aid
of the fan funds.
     _Bruce Gillespie_ celebrated his 60th birthday with a dinner for 50
sf fans in Melbourne on 17 February.
     _Peter Roberts_ (Master of Mycology) on his tv appearance: `I
understand that I attracted an audience of 2.9 million viewers for the
first episode of _A New Year at Kew_ on BBC2, but the bastards have still
not contacted me about doing my own series ...' Countless Roberts fans
tuned in to see the fungus collection being moved on 27 Feb, but _Pat
Charnock_ reports: `Although Peter Roberts did appear in the Kew
programme, it was only in passing. This time, he didn't star. He did some
good box-carrying, though.'
     _Maureen Kincaid Speller_ stands proud: `I notice that my brother-
in-arms, Mike Cobley, is standing for the Lib-Dems in Govan. I'm now
confirmed as the Lib-Dems' candidate in Foord ward in Folkestone, for
both Town and District elections in May.'

C.O.A. _Howard Waldrop_, 12608 Wittmer Dr, Austin, TX 78729-7787, USA.

FANFUNDERY. _Trip Report Bounties._ FANAC's reward for completed TAFF or
DUFF trip reports has risen to $500, and this amount has been sent to
TAFF to mark the publication of Steve Stiles's 1968 report _Harrison
County_. Joe Siclari of FANAC writes: `We hope this encourages any
outstanding report writers to get started (including me).'

THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _Flatulent Simile Dept._ `They gathered pace as they
walked. The passageway grew narrow and low, causing them to crouch as
they stumbled on. The sound of water grew louder, and the gusting of the
wind was like the eerie farting of a giant animal.' (G.P. Taylor, _The
Curse of Salamander Street_, 2006) [KD]
     _Well I Never! Dept._ `With summer, evening was very long -- it
lasted until twilight.' (Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough,
_Changelings_, 2005) [LS]
     _Falsies Dept._ `He gently removed her glasses, and his hard chest
rubbed against her breasts as he leaned over to put them on the table
next to his gun.' (Julie Garwood, _Shadow Dance_, 2006) [NR]
     _Dept of Anatomy._ `"Out of my way, boy," the stranger snarled, with
a face like a dented hatchet.' `The eyes narrowed, then widened again,
and a greasy smirk slid forth.' `His head twisted back to address her,
but stopped halfway, his eyes on the floor.' `It found its focus in the
hypnotic swish of the woman's hair, the supple sway of her rounded hips,
and the seductive twitch of her heart-shaped buttocks -- which traded
kisses with every confident stride.' (all Eldon Thompson, _The Obsidian
Key_, 2006) [PM]


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[] 2008
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### ENDNOTES ###

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

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ANOTHER LETTER! _Mike Moorcock_ writes again: `As it happened,
_Children of Men_, the movie, wasn't that great. _Pan's Labyrinth_
better. But I'm tired of my expectations being raised by reviews for
films which then turn out to be nothing special as far as imagination
and inventiveness are concerned. Shouldn't we be grateful that the
likes of PD James deny this dreadful stuff is science fiction?
  `I can confirm that Ballard did a story for _Jackanory_. I watched it
with my kids at the time. He also did a scenario for _When Dinosaurs
Ruled the Earth_ (I think it was) and was lucky enough to have his
name misspelled on the credits. He made some amusing observations
about the process of his original idea to the eventual reality of
film. "They speak high-mindedly about character motivation,
psychology, symbolism and so on but, when it comes down to it, it's
about one cave man hitting another cave man on the head with a club
...."
  `Interesting to see Michael Chabon's piece in the NYT. He's
currently running a serial there at
 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28funny_serial.t.html
which is sword and sorcery, and his new novel _The Yiddish Policemans
Union_ is a straight alternate world novel where the Jewish homeland
(as promised by FDR) is Alaska rather than Israel. Michael has long
been an advocate for what I suppose I'd call "genre reunification",
having edited the "Thrilling Adventures" issue of _McSweeney_'s, and
has written comics as well as a script for _Spiderman 2_. He's a
friend of mine and a regular customer at Dark Carnival in Berkeley. I
think it's fair to say that he brings a pretty nifty quality of
writing to his sf and fantasy excursions which can only help the
process of breaking down the walls of snobbery and ignorance
separating the genres. I hope. Wasn't I saying something like this in
1965?' (6 February)

A few days later Mike returned to his fannish roots by making an
appearance at Corflu in Austin, Texas. Bill Burns took the photo: Earl
Kemp, MM, and Peter Weston ...
 http://efanzines.com/Corflu24/Corflu24EKMMPW.jpg

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