ANSIBLE 241
AUGUST 2007

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### THE GREAT WASH ###

J.G. BALLARD enjoyed a rare mention in the _Popbitch_ celeb-gossip email:
'In 1962 JG Ballard wrote _The Drowned World_, a fictional account of a
flooded London, "a garbage filled swamp". This week London has been under
flood alert, with the water full of with _[sic]_ human sewage and
bacteria. / Coincidentally, Ballard's own street in Shepperton is under
threat [of evacuation] ...' [GW] Nothing came of this.

GARDNER DOZOIS had his scheduled quintuple bypass operation on 6 July.
A week later, following a serious setback, there was a second op to
implant a defibrillator; he's since been making good progress. [L/EG]

HUGO GERNSBACK (1884-1967) was more of a prophet than we suspected. His
recently published autobiography, _Hugo Gernsback: A Man Well Ahead of
His Time_, anticipates sf developments ten years after his death:
'Today's eight-year old, with his black plastic _Darth Vader Starwars_
style helmet and his _Light Saber_ ...' Alas, it seems that editor/
publisher Larry Steckler inserted that bit. [MS] The book, possibly
ghosted by Sam Moskowitz, avoids all false modesty: 'Those who rashly
brushed him aside merely as a cheap sensationalist or as an impractical
dreamer with scientific stars in his eyes were really never able to
follow him for lack of imagination. Following Gernsback is no job for a
_clot on a clod_. One has to capture a mood to understand him else one
is left floundering in the turbulent wake of his restless, speeding mind
with only enough breath left to scream out insults.' Take that, Brian
Aldiss!

CLIVE JAMES strayed away from his topic of J.K. Rowling Envy: 'I still
haven't forgiven CS Lewis for going on all those long walks with JRR
Tolkien and failing to strangle him, thus to save us from hundreds of
pages dripping with the wizardly wisdom of Gandalf and from the kind of
movie in which Orlando Bloom defiantly flexes his delicate jaw at
thousands of computer-generated orcs. / In fact it would have been even
better if CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien could have strangled each other, so
that we could also have been saved from the Chronicles of Narnia....'
(BBC Radio 4, _A Point of View_, 29 July 2007) [JE]

ROBERT LUDLUM (1927-2001) 'is solidly among the most prolific of dead
authors,' says the _Publishers Lunch_ newsletter, with 12 new books
released since he died and a 13th due in September. Eric Van Lustbader
has been bashing out new Jason Bourne adventures, and (according to
_Publishers Lunch_): 'Now a "veteran science-fiction writer" is
resuscitating another Ludlum character, Peter Chancellor ...' Who could
this be?

MICHAEL MOORCOCK had an unexpected plug in a _Daily Express_ 'Richard and
Judy' column about terrorism, the weather and similar sources of gloom:
'The summer of 2007 will not be remembered as a happy one. The brilliant
Seventies sci-fi writer Michael Moorcock predicted all this: jihad would
sweep the world, he wrote, and it would be the end of civilisation as we
know it.' (7 July) [KF] Mr Moorcock is slightly bemused: 'Um, yes. I
never predicted a jihad would sweep the world, though. In the 1970s or
otherwise. Indeed, I thought I saw the future in quite a jolly light ...
I wonder what it was like back then in the 70s. They probably meant I was
IN my 70s.'

MICHAEL SWANWICK sends a useful lexicological insight: 'I learned that
Gordon Van Gelder's rejection letters for _F&SF_ are commonly called
"alas notes." Because they almost always say something on the lines of,
"You wrote a good story and I almost liked it well enough to buy. But,
alas ..."' Another vital datum for the _OED_ sf citations project.


### CONTRAT ###

10-12 Aug [] RECOMBINATION/HARMUNI III (Unicon 21/RPG/filk), New Hall,
Cambridge. _Advance booking closed._ Pounds32 at door. Day: Fri Pounds8,
Sat Pounds16, Sun Pounds12. Children 11-17 half price, 5-10 quarter
price.

11-12 Aug [] CAPTION (small-press comics), East Oxford Community Centre,
Princes St. 10am-late Sat, 11am-6pm Sun. Pounds10 reg; Pounds5 day.

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

30 Aug - 3 Sep [] NIPPON 2007 (65th Worldcon), Yokohama, Japan. Current
(and at-door?) rates Pounds142/$283/Euro208; Pounds104/$208/Euro153
ages 13-19; Pounds54/$108/Euro80 7-12. Day Pounds63/$125/Euro92Euro
Thur or Fri; Pounds83/$168/Euro122 Sat or Sun; Pounds42/$83/Euro61 Mon;
also child/youth discounts too tedious to list here. Contact (UK) 68
Crichton Avenue, York, YO30 6EE; (USA) PO Box 314, Annapolis Junction,
MD 20701; (Europe) Koninginnegracht 75a, 2514AH Den Haag, Netherlands.

31 Aug - 2 Sep [] FESTIVAL OF FANTASTIC FILMS, Day's Hotel, Sackville
St., Manchester. Pounds70/$140 reg; Pounds30/$60 day. Hotel may be fully
booked. Contact 95 Meadowgate Rd, Salford, Manchester, M6 8EN.

31 Aug [] SCI-FI SYMPHONY II, Symphony Hall, Birmingham. City of
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra plays numerous sf film/tv themes. 7:30pm.
Tickets Pounds8-Pounds39. Box office 0121 780 3333; www.cbso.co.uk.

31 Aug - 2 Sep [] WADFEST (Discworld), Trentfield Farm Camp Site 
Church Laneham, Retford, Notts, DN22 0NJ. Campers Pounds15 (2 nights),
visitors Pounds5. Online booking only? See www.wadfest.co.uk.

14-16 Sep [] OXONMOOT (Tolkien Soc), Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Now
Pounds32 reg (members Pounds28), closing 24 Aug; day rates may be
available. Contact 7 Rievaulx Dr, Morton-on-Swale, Northallerton, DL7
9UE.

15-22 Sep [] MILFORD WRITERS' CONFERENCE, Trigonos Centre, Snowdonia.
Published authors only. Contact Liz Williams, Homeway House, 40 Westhay
Rd, Meare, Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 9TL.

21-23 Sep [] EUROCON 2007, Valby Medborgerhus, Copenhagen, Denmark.
_Advance booking closed on 1 August_; DKK 200 at the door on Friday, or
DKK 100 per day. More information at www.eurocon2007.dk.

13-14 Oct [] OCTOCON (Irish national con), Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth,
Ireland. GoH Alastair Reynolds. Euro30 reg; Euro15 student; Euro12
under 18; Euro10 supporting. Contact c/o Electric Dragon, 19a Main St,
Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Updates awaited at www.octocon.com.

29-30 Mar 08 [] P-CON V, Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin. GoH C.E.
Murphy. Euro25/Pounds15 reg (to rise in mid-October), Euro15
supporting. Contact 253 Sundrive Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12, Ireland.
Sterling cheques to 'Dave Lally #2 a/c', 4 Richbourne Tce, London, SW8
1AX.

24-27 Jun 08 [] SF RESEARCH ASSOCIATION conference, Trinity College,
Dublin, Ireland. Guests include Karen Joy Fowler, David Mitchell and
Zoran Zivcovic. Euro160/$185/Pounds110 reg; students Euro100/$120/
Pounds70. Banquet Euro75. Contact 23 Ranelagh Road, London N17 6XY.
Dollar cheques to Edward James, sterling cheques to Farah Mendlesohn,
PayPal transfer to sfra2008 at googlemail dot com.

20-22 Feb 09 [] REDEMPTION 09 (multimedia sf) -- Britannia Hotel, Fairfax
St, Coventry, CV1 5RP. Note new venue, replacing the original Hinckley
Island Hotel. Pounds45 reg, _rising to Pounds50 on 4 Sep 07_. Under-18s
and supp: Pounds15. Contact 26 Kings Meadow View, Wetherby, LS22 7FX.

_Rumblings_ [] NOSTROMO SF FESTIVAL, Newcastle upon Tyne, ?8-10 Feb 2008:
no more info as yet. Contact ronan.dodds at gmail dot com.


### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###

AS OTHERS SEE SFWA. Bruno Maddox at the Nebula Awards event: '... this
gathering of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America is
palpably low on excitement. We're on the 38th floor of a Marriott hotel
in Lower Manhattan, in a poky beige suite filled with the same cheap,
gestural furniture you find in those fake rooms that get set fire to in
fire-safety videos. And with the exception, obviously, of this
correspondent, we're a fairly drab and subdued sort of bunch. The
demographic is middle-aged to old. The median shirt type is sweat-. And
there are several grown men apparently untroubled by the fact that
they're wearing backpacks to a social event, yet troubled to the point
of madness and eczema by pretty much everything else. / Not that there's
anything wrong with that. This is, after all, a gathering of fiction
writers, and if fiction writers were good at going to parties, well, most
of them wouldn't be fiction writers. Fiction is a job for people with Big
Ideas, not a flair for small talk ...' The bottom line is 'that science
fiction, the genre that lit the way for a nervous mankind as it crept
through the shadows of the 20th century, has suddenly and entirely ceased
to matter.' (_Discover_, 20 July 2007) [BS] And _Ansible_ never noticed!

AWARDS. _Campbell Memorial:_ Ben Bova, _Titan_.
     _Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery:_ Daniel F. Galouye.
     _First Fandom Hall of Fame:_ Algis Budrys and (posthumous) Dan Daly.
     _Heinlein:_ Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon.
     _Mythopoeic_ (fantasy). Adult fiction: Patricia A. McKillip,
_Solstice Wood_. Children's fiction: Catherine Fisher, _Corbenic_.
Scholarship/Inklings: Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, _The J.R.R.
Tolkien Companion and Guide_. Scholarship/Other: G. Ronald Murphy, SJ,
_Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival_.
     _Rhysling_ (verse). Long: Mike Allen, 'The Journey to Kailash'
(_Strange Horizons_, 1/06). Short: Rich Ristow, 'The Graven Idol's
Godheart' (_The Shantytown Anomaly_ 2).
     _Sidewise_ (alternate history). Long form: Charles Stross, _The
Family Trade_, _The Hidden Family_, and _The Clan Corporate_ ('Merchant
Princes' series 1-3). Short form: Gardner Dozois, 'Counterfactual'
(_F&SF_ 6/06).
     _Sturgeon_ (short story): Robert Charles Wilson, 'The Cartesian
Theater' (_Futureshocks_). 

R.I.P. _Ingmar Bergman_ (1918-2007), legendary Swedish film director,
died on 30 July; he was 89. The symbolic chess game with Death in _The
Seventh Seal_ (1957) may be the most famous and frequently homaged
fantasy sequence in cinema. [GW]
     _Alice Borchardt_ (1939-2007), US nurse and author of several
historical fantasy novels -- notably the werewolf sequence beginning with
_The Silver Wolf_ (1998), died on 24 July aged 67. She was Anne Rice's
sister.
     _Laszlo Kovacs_ (1933-2007), Hungarian-born cinematographer for
_Ghostbusters_ and other genre films, died on 21 July; he was 74. [CH]
His first and most memorable title was _The Incredibly Strange Creatures
Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?_ (1964).
     _Charles Lane_ (1905-2007), US character actor whose long career
(1931-2006) included _It's a Wonderful Life_ (1946) and many other genre
films, died on 9 July aged 102. [SJD]
     _Frank Maher_ (1929-2007), UK actor/stunt-man involved with _The
Prisoner_ and (as stunt coordinator) _Blake's 7_, died on 21 July; he was
78. [SR]
     _Peter L. Manly_ (1945-2007), US fan, airman, astronomer and author
of several stories in _Analog_ etc (plus two self-published novels), died
on 27 July.
     _Kerwin Mathews_ (1926-2007), US actor who starred in _The 7th
Voyage of Sinbad_ (1958), _The 3 Worlds of Gulliver_ (1960) and _Jack the
Giant Killer_ (1962), died on 5 July. He was 81. [GW]
     _Art Stevens_ (1915-2007), long-time Disney animator whose genre
work included _Peter Pan_ (1953), _101 Dalmatians_ (1961) and _Bedknobs
and Broomsticks_ (1971), died on 22 May aged 92.
     _Peter Tuddenham_ (1918-2007), UK actor who voiced Orac and Slave
for _Blake's 7_ and appeared three times in _Doctor Who_, died on 9 July;
he was 88. [SR]
     _William Tuttle_ (1912-2007), makeup artist who won a special
Academy Award (before makeup became a standard Oscar category) for _7
Faces of Dr Lao_ (1964), died on 27 June aged 95. Other genre work
included _The Picture of Dorian Gray_ (1945), _The Time Machine_ (1960)
and _Young Frankenstein_ (1974). [CH]

AS OTHERS SEE SOME OF US. 'Autograph-hunters are easily maligned. When
not frequenting sci-fi conventions, they are to be found lurking like
discomfited pigeons at film premieres or the opening nights of West End
theatre productions, clutching pocketbooks bearing signatures of the
famous. Their glasses are bottle-bottomed relics of the NHS. They reek
of sweat and charity shops. Their anoraks are zipped up tight, come rain
or sun.' (Patrick Marmion, _Spectator_, 28 July) [MM]

SMALL PRESS. Sarob Press (based in Wales) is closing down at the end of
2007: its proprietor Robert Morgan is 'giving up the rat-race and the
daily 130 mile commute and moving abroad', to France.

OUTRAGED LETTERS. _Charles Butler:_ 'Hearing on last night's _Front Row_
(BBC R4) that Booker-shortlisted author Sarah Hall had set her latest
book, _The Carhullan Army_, in a dystopian future, I remarked ... "I
wonder how long it will take for her to deny it's science fiction?"
Forty-five seconds into the interview, Hall obliged: 'I suppose the idea
with dystopia is that it's not something completely unrecognizable, so
we're not falling into the realm of science fiction or anything like
that."' It is, rather, an everyday tale in which 'Britain -- now entirely
dependent on the US for food and energy -- is run by an omnipresent
dictatorship known simply as The Authority.' (Amazon)
     _David A. Hardy_ is wary of political spin: 'I've just been watching
Al Gore on TV kicking off Live Earth in the USA. All very stirring and
worthy stuff, and I fully approve of the sentiments; so it's probably
churlish of me to mention that that lovely Earth on the big screen behind
him was spinning clockwise. What would _that_ do to the climate?!'
     _Ursula Le Guin_ notes that Jon Carroll reprinted her _A240_ piece
(also on her website) in his _San Francisco Chronicle_ column without,
apparently, asking anyone's permission.
     _Lloyd Penney_ gloats that David C. Onley, tv journalist who wrote
the sf novel _Shuttle_ (1981), is to be Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario,
Canada.

BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS. This year's novel shortlist has more than the
statutory five items, owing to multiple ties: Chaz Brenchley, _Bride of
Dreams_; Mike Carey, _The Devil You Know_; Mark Chadbourn, _Jack of
Ravens_; M. John Harrison, _Nova Swing_; Tim Lebbon, _Dusk_; Scott Lynch,
_The Lies of Locke Lamora_; Sarah Pinborough, _Breeding Ground_; Mark
Samuels, _The Face of Twilight_; Conrad Williams, _The Unblemished_.

C.O.A. _Bridget & Simon Bradshaw_ -- from 10 September, for a year, while
doing Masters degrees -- 39 (1F2) Viewforth, Edinburgh, EH10 4JE. _Rich
Coad_, 2132 Berkeley Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95401, USA. _Jim Young_, 4232
Irving Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419, USA.

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE. _Sunshine_ director Danny Boyle on making sf
films: 'They are really tough, they're very tough [...] I would recommend
it to everybody. You should do one. But nobody does more than one -- 
unless they're doing a _Star Wars_ or something like that -- no director
goes back into space.' (ABC News Australia, 18 July 2007) [AJ] Send your
counterexamples on a postcard, but not (please) to _Ansible_.

FANFUNDERY. _TAFF 2008:_ the eastbound race from North America to Orbital
(Eastercon 2008) is now on, with candidates Chris Barkley, Linda
Deneroff, Chris Garcia and Christian McGuire. Voting deadline is 17
November. Ballot forms from taff.org.uk or the administrators, Bridget
Bradshaw (see C.o.A. above) or Suzanne Tompkins, PO Box 25075, Seattle,
WA 98165, USA.
     _The Corflu Award_ grew from one-off funds to bring various fans to
the Corflu conventions: Steve & Elaine Stiles are the recipients for
2008. Money comes from the 'Corflu Fifty' email list, whose members
pledge $25/Pounds15 annually; outside donations also welcome. Contact
Rich Coad (see C.o.A), richcoad at comcast dot net; or Rob Jackson,
Chinthay, Nightingale Ln, Hambrook, nr Chichester, PO18 8UH;
jacksonshambrook at tiscali co uk.

MAGAZINE SCENE. _Nature Physics_ seeks a topical 'Futures' story for its
Christmas issue: contact Henry Gee, H.Gee at nature dot com.
     _Science Fiction Chronicle_ and all other titles from Warren
Lapine's DNA Publications appear to be dead, Jim. The
www.dnapublications.com site has now been replaced by a zombie
simulacrum, festering with ad links.
 
RANDOM FANDOM. _Dave Langford_ was cheered to be described in a Swiss
news magazine as 'uno dei massimi esperti internazionalia del fantastico'
(_Ticino 7_, July 2007), even if the context was H*rry P*tter.... (Thanks
to _Ansible_ reader Giovanni Valerio for the plug.)
     _James Nicoll_ found his most famous line misquoted: 'One of her
friends at the Academy had a T-shirt which proclaimed that "Ransaran
doesn't _borrow_ from other languages. It follows other languages down
dark alleys, knocks them on the head, and goes through their pockets for
loose grammar."' (David Weber & Linda Evans, _Hell's Gate_, 2006)
     _Rog Peyton_ announced his resignation as editor of _Brum Group
News_ in the July issue, number 430: '... my interest in SF, and reading,
is perhaps at its lowest for 50 years.' William McCabe took over in
August, though as 'acting editor' only.
     _Greg Pickersgill_ is collecting donations for a Dave Wood memorial
plaque which will go 'on Clevedon Pier, which was an important place to
our man.' He reports good progress.

COURT CIRCULAR. Harlan Ellison's 2006 defamation claim against
Fantagraphics was settled in late June. Gary Groth of Fantagraphics,
whose sins had included using the great man's name (with the subtitle
'Famous comics dilettante') on the jacket of a book that legitimately
reprinted an old Ellison interview, explained tersely: 'The parties are
not at liberty to discuss the terms of the resolution at this time.'

HIDEOUS GAFFES. _Steve Swires_ (1951-2006): my source for the _Ansible
240_ death notice was uncertain of this writer's birth year, 1951 or
1952. SFWA has since confirmed 1951.

THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _Literary Similes Dept._ 'His dust-iced skin zebraed
by the sharp stripes of winter light which gushed apologetically -- like
hordes of white-frocked debutantes flashing their foaming silk petticoats
in eager curtsies -- between the regimented slats of his hand-built
shutters.' 'A fierce blush -- like two clumsily upended measures of sweet
cherry brandy -- slowly stained the immaculate cotton tablecloth of her
soft complexion.' (both Nicola Barker, _Behindlings_, 2002) [MMW]
     _Colour Coding Dept._ '... his face went darker than usual. "Now
they all think I'm yellow"' (Ben Bova, _Titan_, 2006) [AR]
     _Dept of High Fantasy Diction._ 'Finwald's dark eyes were steady and
true, and he alone of the "nonfighters" was committed to the fight. In
a way, he was "in with the big boys," "one of the lads." He made Bolldhe
feel so lame.' (David Bilsborough, _The Wanderer's Tale_, 2007)
     _Senior Citizen Ailments Dept._ '... a ghastly old crone, withered
with age, eaten away by malice, disease, and invertebrates, glowing red
with fire.' (_Ibid_.) [BMS]


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[] 2007
Until 31 Sep 2007, Josh Kirby exhibition, Liverpool
Until 5 Nov 2007, Doctor Who exhibition, Manchester
10-12 Aug 2007, Recombination/HarmUni III (Unicon/RPG/filk), Cambridge
11-12 August 2007, Caption 2007 (small-press comics), Oxford
30 Aug - 3 Sep 2007, Nippon 2007 (Worldcon), Yokohama, Japan
31 Aug - 2 Sep 2007, Festival of Fantastic Films, Manchester
31 Aug, Sci-Fi Symphony II, Birmingham
31 Aug - 2 Sep, Wadfest (Discworld), Retford, Notts
7-9 Sep 2007, Reunion5 (media), Coventry
15-22 Sep 2007, Milford Writers' Conference, Snowdonia
14-16 Sep 2006, Oxonmoot (Tolkien Society), Oxford
21-23 Sep 2007, Eurocon 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark
21-23 Sep 2007, Fantasycon 2007, Nottingham
6 Oct 2007, Satellite 1, Glasgow
13-14 Oct 2007, Birmingham International Comics Show, Birmingham
13-14 Oct 2007, Octocon (Irish national con), Maynooth, Ireland
19-22 Oct 2007, Cult TV 2007, Chipping Norton
2-4 Nov 2007, Novacon 37, Walsall
9-11 Nov 2007, Armadacon, Plymouth
[] 2008
8-10 Feb 2008, SF Ball (media), Bournemouth
21-24 Mar 2008, Orbital (Eastercon), Heathrow
Spring 2008, Distraction, Newbury
3-7 May 2008, Roscon or Euroscon (Eurocon), Moscow
24-27 Jun 2008, SF Research Association conference, Dublin
26-29 Jun 2008, ConRunner 2008 (conrunning), Wolverhampton
6-10 Aug 2008, Denvention 3 (Worldcon), Denver, USA
22-25 Aug 2008, Discworld Convention 2008, Birmingham 


### ENDNOTES ###

APPARITIONS.
[] 29 August: William Gibson signing, Forbidden Planet, 179
Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR. 1-2pm.
[] 14 September: Brum Group, Britannia Hotel, New St, Birmingham. With
'The Write Fantastic' group. 7.45pm. Pounds3 members, Pounds4 non-
members. Contact 07845 897760 or bhamsfgroup at yahoo co uk. (The
August event is a ticket-only pub meal at a different venue.)
[] 13 October: British Fantasy Society Open Night in York Brewery
(5min walk from York central station). 7pm. Free, but extra charge for
6:30pm brewery tour. Attendees are asked to register:
 http://www.hub-mag.co.uk/bfs


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_THRILLING WONDER STORIES_. Following the _Ansible 239_ note about
this magazine's reported revival by Winston Engle, some people asked
for contact details. Although there's been no indication that it's
open for submissions, on-line search reveals that _Thrilling Wonder
Stories_ was the subject of a US trademark application in August 2006,
processed or granted in May 2007: '(APPLICANT) Gravitational Lens
Media Winston E. Engle, a U.S. citizen SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP CALIFORNIA
400 S. Burnside Ave., #12-M Los Angeles CALIFORNIA 90036.'


Ansible 241 Copyright (c) Dave Langford, 2007. Thanks to Steven J.
Dunn, John Eggeling, Keith Freeman, Eileen Gunn, Chip Hitchcock, Adam
Jenkins, Locus, Mike Moorcock, Adam Roberts, Steve Rogerson, Michael
Saler, Brian M. Scott, Bruce Sterling, Gary Wilkinson, Martin Morse
Wooster, and our Hero Distributors: Janice Murray (NA), Rog Peyton
(Brum Group News editor no more, but thanks for all the fish), SCIS,
and Alan Stewart (Oz). 

8 Aug 07
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