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ANSIBLE 247
FEBRUARY 2008
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### THE TERMINAL BEACH ###
J.G. BALLARD told the _Sunday Times_ that in mid-2006 he'd been diagnosed
with advanced prostate cancer. [20 January] This led him to write his
autobiography, _Miracles of Life_ -- published this month.
CORY DOCTOROW announced the birth on 3 February of a daughter proudly
named ... Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow.
SHIRLEY JACKSON (1916-1965) is commemorated by the new Shirley Jackson
Awards 'for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological
suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.' These juried awards in various
categories will be first presented for 2007 work.
STEVE VAN DER ARK writes about the intended print edition of his _Harry
Potter Lexicon_, which is currently delayed by legal action: see _A245_.
Despite the impression given at one stage by his publishers, this differs
from the on-line Lexicon and its very free use of quotations -- probably
beyond the bounds of fair use -- from J.K. Rowling's fiction. 'The book
is _not_ simply a cut and paste of the Lexicon website. The entries on
the website provide much more detailed and complete information than the
entries in the book. We took the information on the site and did a lot
of editing, condensing, and in some cases complete rewriting. We avoided
direct quotations whenever we could and clearly cited any quotations that
we kept in. In the case of entries from Rowling's own "encyclopedia"-
style books, we intentionally left a lot out and urged readers in the
introduction to the book to go buy her books for the complete
information. A large portion of the Lexicon book text is available online
as part of the filings from Warner Bros last week if you'd like to see
what the final result looks like. [] While I was working on the Lexicon
book, I received assurances from several copyright and intellectual
property experts that the book we were creating was legal. Part of the
problem all along has been the automatic assumption on the part of many
that Rowling has the right to completely control anything written about
the Harry Potter world. That's quite a huge power grab on her part and
from everything I can tell, not legal. You and I are part of a subculture
that lives off the creative work of others. We always try to do that in
a legal and respectful way. However, if Rowling manages to extend her
reach that far into our subculture, she will choke us off very quickly.
And if she doesn't, what's to stop the next person from taking this legal
precedent to even more dangerous places?' [21 Jan] [] _Statistics:_ when
I checked, the on-line _Lexicon_'s 1500 words on Albus Dumbledore had
about 300 words of direct quotation from Rowling (which seemed risky) and
linked to a page with some 3000 words of quotes (which seemed suicidal).
The same entry's book version, as seen in PDF proof, has less than 70
words of mostly fragmentary quotation.
### CONNEMARA ###
8-10 Feb [] SF BALL (media), Carrington House Hotel, Bournemouth.
Pounds90 weekend (still some tickets left), Pounds29 day; child
Pounds29/$15. More expensive options: 'gold ticket' Pounds175, 'dining'
Pounds105; child Pounds88/Pounds53. Contact Flat 3, Blighwood, 57 Surrey
Rd, Poole, BH12 1HF.
23 Feb [] BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY OPEN NIGHT, Ye Olde Cock Tavern, 22
Fleet St, London, EC4 1AA. From 6pm. All welcome.
23 Feb [] PICOCON 24, Imperial College Union, London. 10am-7pm/8pm.
Pounds8 reg, Pounds6 concessions, Pounds4 ICFS members. Contact ICSF,
Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BB.
27 Feb [] BSFA OPEN MEETING, The Antelope, 22 Eaton Terrace, London, SW1W
8EZ (closest tube, Sloane Square). 6pm on; fans present in the bar from
5pm. With Chris Beckett. _Note new venue:_ the former pub, The Star, no
longer has an upstairs function room.
21-24 Mar [] ORBITAL (Eastercon), Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow,
London. Pounds55 reg; Pounds20 supp or junior (12-17), Pounds5 child (5-
11), Pounds1 infant. Contact 8 Windmill Close, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 3AL.
Credit card bookings: www.orbital2008.org.
29-30 Mar [] P-CON V, Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin. _Rates held
at Euro25/Pounds15_, Euro15 supporting; Euro30 at the door. Contact 253
Sundrive Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12, Ireland. Sterling cheques to 'Dave
Lally #2 a/c', 64 Richbourne Tce, London, SW8 1AX.
3-5 May [] FFORDE FFIESTA, De Vere Hotel, Shaw Ridge, Swindon. GoH Jasper
Fforde. Pounds25 reg, rising to Pounds30 on 1 March. Day tickets will be
available. Online booking: www.ffordeffiesta.com. Cheques to The Fforde
Ffestival, 37A Oak Close, Bristol, BS34 6RB.
28-29 Jun [] CONRUNNER 2008 (conrunning), Britannia Hotel, Wolverhampton.
_Revised rates:_ Pounds30 until after Easter; Pounds35 to 21 Jun;
Pounds45 at door. Day rate Pounds25. 'Social event' on evening of Fri 27
Jun. Contact 56 Jackmans Place, Letchworth G.C., Herts, SG6 1RH.
7-9 Nov [] ARMADACON XX, Novotel, Plymouth. GoH Adrian Cole; more TBA.
Pounds35 reg; Pounds30 concessions; Pounds10 supp/deposit secures current
rate. Contact 20 Pinewood Close, Plympton, Devon, PL7 2DW.
_Rumblings_ [] NOSTROMO SF FESTIVAL (Newcastle): announced for February
2008 but now postponed until, tentatively, Summer 2008.
### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###
_MATRIX_ REBOOTED. The British SF Association's newsletter _Matrix_ --
a regular feature of BSFA mailings since 1975 -- saw its last print
edition with #186, distributed in January. Henceforth it will be
excitingly 'reactive and interactive' on line at www.bsfa.co.uk, where
it's hoped that new _Matrix_ pages will be launched later this month. The
domain www.matrixmagazine.co.uk (currently down) is to be abandoned. [IW]
AS OTHERS SEE US. Mark Harris rips the lid off sf cinema: 'Let's turn our
attention to an unlikely candidate for a heart-and-brain transplant:
science fiction. / Sci-fi is in trouble, although it's not the kind of
trouble that can be measured at the box office, where it looks as healthy
and robust as a T-rex must have seemed five minutes before it realized
there was nothing left to eat. The genre has been around for as long as
the movies themselves, and flourished for the last 30 years. The problem
is, none of the ideas are getting any newer. Scratch that: the problem
is, there are no ideas.' (_Entertainment Weekly_, 11 January) [MMW]
Philip K. Dick is outed, again: 'But Dick himself really wasn't a
"sci-fi author". He was essentially a serious writer, who used the genre
of science fiction as a disguised delivery system ... for a complex,
self-generated philosophy Dick very much believed in.' (Paul M. Sammon,
_Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner_, revised edition) [FS]
R.I.P. _Christopher Allport_ (1947-2008), US character actor seen in _The
Twilight Zone_, _Invaders from Mars_ (1986), _The X-Files_, _Quantum
Leap_ etc., was killed in a California avalance on 25 January; he was 60.
[SFS]
_Joe Beedell_, UK fan who founded the Southend sf group (Orion) in
1982, attended 50+ conventions and ran South Trek 96 and 97 in Southend,
reportedly died on 3 January. [O]
_Frank Hamilton_ (1918-2008), US artist who worked in a pulp mode
-- recreating classic _Doc Savage_ and _Shadow_ magazine covers as well
as original art -- died on 28 January; he was 89. He co-authored _Amazing
Pulp Heroes_ (1988; expanded 1996) with Link Hullar. [AIP]
_Dwight Hemion_ (1926-2008), US tv director/producer remembered in
sf circles for his dire 1978 _Star Wars Holiday Special_ (later disowned
by George Lucas), died on 28 January aged 81. [AIP]
_Edward D. Hoch_ (1930-2008), US author of over 900 stories since
his 1955 debut, died on 17 January; he was 77. He is best known for crime
fiction, for which he received the Mystery Writers of America Grand
Master award. However, his early 'Simon Ark' detections are tinged with
fantasy; he also wrote horror and sf, including three 1970s sf/detective
novels. [AIP]
_Heath Ledger_ (1979-2008), Australian-born actor who played a title
role in _The Brothers Grimm_ and the Joker in the forthcoming Batman film
_The Dark Knight_, died on 22 January; he was 28. [CH]
_Maila Nurmi_ (1921-2008), Finnish-born actress who as 'Vampira' was
the first ever tv horror host (_The Vampira Show_, 1954) and famously
appeared in Ed Wood's _Plan 9 from Outer Space_ (1959), died on 10
January aged 86. [SG/S]
_Derek Pickles_ (1928-2008), UK fan whose _Phantasmagoria_ (1950-
1955) was a notable fanzine of its day, died on 5 January; he would have
been 80 this month. [AP] Derek was at Britain's first post-war convention
in 1948 and stood for TAFF in 1954; _Phantasmagoria_ contained John
Brunner's first published works (verse) and was the first fanzine to
announce itself as available for 'the usual' (trade, letter of comment
or contribution) rather than subscription. After a long absence following
his 1956 cancer operation, Derek renewed his fan contacts in the 1990s,
attending the 1991 Mexicon and the 1998 Leeds Corflu. [SS/PW]
_Jinzo Toriumi_ (1929-2008), Japanese anime scriptwriter since 1964,
died on 17 January aged 78. Genre work included _Astro Boy_, _Speed
Racer_, and _Gatchaman_ (aka _Battle of the Planets_). [PM]
DUMBWATCH. The Booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr website does its teasing
research by comparing the most popular fiction and nonfiction read at
1,352 US colleges (as revealed by that scientific tool, Facebook) with
said colleges' average SAT/ACT scores, to chart a 'correlation between
books and dumbitude.' The _Boston Globe_ coverage continues: 'Science
fiction, for some reason, appears at both ends of the chart: Near the top
[test scores], we find Ayn Rand's pro-capitalism dystopia "Atlas
Shrugged," Kurt Vonnegut's apocalyptic novel "Cat's Cradle," and Orson
Scott Card's uber-geeky "Enders Game," about a kid whose mad video-game
skills allow him to save the planet from real space invaders. Near the
bottom, we find Ray Bradbury's apocalyptic dystopia "Fahrenheit 451."
Bradbury's book is a classic work of fiction, never mind the genre;
"Enders Game" is drivel. So ... what does it all mean?' (Joshua Glenn,
30 January) [DK] According to a hasty straw poll at _Ansible_ HQ, it
means that Orson Scott Card is less than pleased.
BSFA AWARDS. The shortlist has been released. NOVEL Bryan Talbot, _Alice
in Sunderland_; Richard Morgan, _Black Man_; Ian McDonald,_ Brasyl_; Ken
MacLeod, _The Execution Channel_; Alastair Reynolds, _The Prefect_;
Michael Chabon, _The Yiddish Policemen's Union_.
SHORT Ken MacLeod, 'Lighting Out' (_disLocations_); Chaz Brenchley,
'Terminal' (_disLocations_); Ted Chiang, _The Alchemist and the
Merchant's Gate_; Ian Whates, 'The Gift of Joy' (_TQR_); Alastair
Reynolds 'The Sledge-Maker's Daughter' (_Interzone_ 209).
ARTWORK (all covers): Andy Bigwood, 'Cracked World'
(_disLocations_), Les Edwards, 'H P Lovecraft in Britain' (Stephen Jones
chapbook), Richard Marchand, 'Lunar Flare' (_Interzone_ 211); Kenn Brown,
'Metal Dragon Year' (_Interzone_ 212).
BEST NOVEL OF 1958 James Blish, _A Case of Conscience_; Robert A.
Heinlein, _Have Spacesuit, Will Travel_; Brian Aldiss, _Non-Stop_; Fritz
Leiber, _The Big Time_; James Blish, _The Triumph of Time_ aka _A Clash
of Cymbals_; Algis Budrys, _Who?_
_Alice in Sunderland_ is the first graphic novel to reach the novel
shortlist. No nonfiction category owing to lack of nomination consensus.
Winners to be announced on Saturday of Eastercon (22 March).
IN TYPO VERITAS. _The Bear Facts:_ 'Jenna nodded sheepishly, then cut Cob
off as he began to describe, in grizzly detail, what he intended to go
say to them.' (Mark J. Ferrari, _The Book of Joby_, 2007) [PM]
FANFUNDERY. _DUFF:_ Sue & Steve Francis won the southbound race, North
America to Australia, by a simple majority: 163 of 218 votes. Murray
Moore 48; no preference 2; other 5. [JS]
_ConRunner Bursaries:_ there are two, each of Pounds150 (sponsored
by Contemplation, the 2006 Eastercon), to help individuals or couples
attend ConRunner 2008 -- see events list above. Details at
www.conrunner.org.uk. Apply by 31 March.
_TAFF:_ 2008 voting figures now released. European/North American/
Total: Chris Barkley 0/13/13, Linda Deneroff 4/26/30, Chris Garcia
41/66/107, Christian McGuire 4/14/18, Hold Over Funds 0/2/2, No
Preference 5/5/10; totals 54/126/180. A few more ballots turned up after
the _A245_ announcement but made no difference; a single Rest Of World
voter is included in the NA total to conceal his/her choice. [ST]
AS SYMPATHIZERS SEE SF. From a positive review of that nice Mr Aldiss's
_A Science Fiction Omnibus_: 'Fiction generally moves through a
retrospective landscape, solid with the detail of personal and social
memory. The future is not its natural territory.' (Dinah Birch, _Times
Literary Supplement_, 30 January) [AJW]
OUTRAGED LETTERS. _Richard E. Geis_ confesses, again: 'You know, I'm
still writing erotic fiction even though there isn't a decent paying
market, because I simply enjoy it and enjoy the challenge of doing it
well. There must be a name for this kind of insanity.'
_Patrick Nielsen Hayden_ on Mr Green's plaint that his US book title
was changed because the word 'damned' is verboten: 'This no doubt
accounts for the commercial failure of Anne Rice's _Queen Of The Damned_
(1989), Laurell K. Hamilton's _Circus Of The Damned_ (2002), and for that
matter F. Scott Fitzgerald's _The Beautiful And Damned_ (1922). Doomed
to obscurity by the bluenoses who dominate American bookselling.
Alternately, maybe someone is pulling Simon R. Green's leg.'
_Steve Sneyd_ reports: 'At Derek Pickles' funeral, the officiant in
her talk about deceased's life said she'd been a Trekkie herself, and was
clearly in sympathy with his science fiction (she actually called it
thus, not sci-fi) connections (tho' gently dismissive of his enthusiasm
for _Red Dwarf_), and even explained his origination of "the usual" and,
briefly, what that actually meant. She also said DP was the first person
she'd done a funeral for who had a significant Google entry, because she
always looked.'
AS OTHERS SEE EVOLUTION. 'History looks more and more like a science-
fiction novel in which mutants repeatedly arose and displaced normal
humans -- sometimes quietly, by surviving starvation and disease better,
other times as a conquering horde' (Gregory Cochran, co-author of a paper
on human evolution, quoted in _Newsweek_ , 19 January) [AL]
RANDOM FANDOM. _Greg Pickersgill_ will be offering a vast bonanza of free
fanzines at Eastercon 2008 (mostly post-1970 US material): be sure to
come with suitable crates and pantechnicons. Greg is still acquiring
selected 20th-century British fanzines.
_Peter Weston_'s British Convention Archive wants-list includes
programme books for Novacon 23, 26, 27, 28 and 30. 'PRs and "Read Me"s
will also be useful.' Contact at 53 Wyvern Rd, Sutton Coldfield, West
Midlands, B74 2PS.
MAGAZINE SCENE. _Farthing_ has been suspended since issue 5, owing to
editor Wendy Bradley's poor health and a general lack of funds. She was
also irked that SFWA never recognized the magazine as a qualifying
market: 'I'm not saying it's SFWA's fault _Farthing_ ran out of money and
is on hiatus till I have some more.' (weblog, 2 December) The _Farthing_
website and editorial weblog have both ceased.
MORE AWARDS. _IAFA Crawford Award_ for best first fantasy novel:
Christopher Barzak, _One for Sorrow_.
_Philip K. Dick Award_ (US paperback original) shortlist: Jon
Armstrong, _Grey_; Elizabeth Bear, _Undertow_; Minister Faust, _From the
Notebooks of Dr. Brain_; M. John Harrison, _Nova Swing_; Adam Roberts,
_Gradisil_; Karen Traviss, _Ally_; Sean Williams, _Saturn Returns_. [GVG]
PUBLISHERS AND SINNERS. _Dedalus Books_, publishers of important
translated work including much fantasy, lost its modest Arts Council
funding in January and may well close. The AC has behaved oddly, failing
to follow its own 'disinvestment' procedures and disclose reasons for the
decision: there seems to be some hidden grudge here. [IC]
_HarperCollins_ invites cover designs for a limited edition of J.G.
Ballard's _Crash_. Deadline 30 April. Just as with fanzines, the winner
will apparently receive no payment but a copy of the book. J.G. Ballard
design competition, Times Online, Times House, 1 Pennington St, London,
E98 1TT.
GROUP GROPES. _Orion_, Southend's sf group, is closing this month
following the death of its founder (see R.I.P.). [O]
_Birmingham SF Group:_ please note that the monthly meetings have
now moved to The Briar Rose Hotel, 25 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham, B2 5RE.
ALA HONOURS. _Margaret A. Edwards Award_ (teen-fiction life achievement):
Orson Scott Card for _Ender's Game_ and _Ender's Shadow_.
_2008 Genre Reading List_ recommendations include: Patrick Rothfuss,
_The Name of the Wind_ (fantasy); Joe Hill, _The Heart-Shaped Box_
(horror); Kathleen Ann Goonan, _In War Times_ (science fiction). This,
released in January, is the first such ALA genre reading list.
THE DEAD PAST. _Thirty Years Ago:_ 'Meanwhile, in the sercon strongholds
of The Sf Foundation, Malcolm Edwards has replaced Peter Nicholls as
boss, and David Pringle has moved in as an Igor figure. [...] Harlan
Ellison plans to sleep in a tent at Iguanacon for political reasons.
Look, don't ask me, I just print the bloody news.' (Peter Roberts in
_Checkpoint_ 86, February 1978)
C.O.A. _Yvonne Rowse_, 23 Roach Rd, Sheffield, S11 8UA.
THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _Telling Simile Dept._ '_He looks like a basilisk_.
She wasn't quite sure about it -- what a basilisk was, much less what one
looked like -- but its sound had the _feeling_ of his face.' (Rufus King,
_Valcour Meets Murder_, 1937) [BP]
_Philosophy Dept._ 'If the shortest distance between point A and
point B is a straight line, how do you go from point A to point B? This
sort of debate could take a long time.' (Colin Kapp, _Transfinite Man_
aka _The Dark Mind_, 1964) [AR]
_Worsening Odds Dept._ 'Outspace there was one chance in infinity
squared that he would not die.' _But later:_ "'I don't give you one
chance of survival in infinity raised to the infinite power,' said
Madden.'" _(Ibid)_
_Dept of As Others See SF._ 'The sun didn't want to go down that day
because it was a sci-fi sun, big and fat and red, and it wanted only to
dry out everything in creation.' (T. Coraghessan Boyle, 'Ash Monday',
_New Yorker_, 21 Jan 2008) [MMW]
_Dept of Logical Consequences._'You could have cut off an arm or a
leg and I wouldn't have been able to lift so much as a finger in
protest.' (Amber Dean, _Chanticleer's Muffled Crow_, 1945) [BP]
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[] 2008
8-10 Feb 2008, SF Ball (media), Bournemouth
POSTPONED: 22-24 Feb 2008, Nostromo SF Festival, Newcastle upon Tyne -
- now aiming for Summer 2008
21-24 Mar 2008, Orbital (Eastercon), Heathrow
29-30 Mar 2008, P-Con 5, Dublin, Ireland
3-5 May, Fforde Ffiesta (Jasper Fforde), Swindon
15-18 May 2008, Roscon or Euroscon (Eurocon), Moscow
RELOCATED TO USA: 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
18-19 October 2008, Octocon, Ireland
5-7 Sep 2008, ZombieCon, Bentley, Walsall
7-9 Nov 2008, ArmadaCon XX, Plymouth
14-16 Nov 2008, Novacon 38, Bentley, Walsall
[] 2009
20-22 Feb 2009, Redemption 09 (multimedia sf), Coventry
?? Mar 2009, Eurocon 2009, Fiuggi, Italy
10-13 Apr 2009, LXcon (Eastercon), Bradford
26-29 Jun 2009, Sectus 2009 (Harry Potter), North Wales
6-10 Aug 2009, Anticipation (67th Worldcon), Montreal, Canada
### ENDNOTES ###
APPARITIONS.
[] 8 February 2008: Brum Group, Briar Rose, Bennett Hill, Birmingham
city centre. 7.45pm. With Roy Gray speaking for Boskone (I'm sorry,
I'll type that again) _Interzone_. Contact 07845 897760 or bhamsfgroup
at yahoo co uk. Further meetings 14 Mar Andy Sawyer, 11 Apr Michael
Scott Rohan, 9 May & 13 Jun TBA.
[] 13 February 2008: Robert Rankin signing (also Andy Serkis and
others), Forbidden Planet, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR.
5pm-6.30pm.
[] 23 February 2008: the British Fantasy Society open night (see
above) features the launch of Stephen Jones's bio-bibliography _Basil
Copper: A Life in Books_.
RANDOM LINKS. Rather than save them up for _Ansible_ each month, I now
add topical links to a sidebar column on the links page. Note the new
(2007) shorter URL:
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CYBERHORRORS! _Boskone_, the New England SF Association's annual
convention, and NESFA itself are planning to take action against a
cybersquatter's exploitation of the Boskone.com domain. [AIP] []
_David Langford_'s main working computer expired with a terrible smell
of burning motherboard in mid-January: disorganization continued for
the rest of the month, because the replacement machine had a problem
too. Asked about the state of his backups, Mr Langford looked weary
but smug. [] _Peter Weston_'s desktop computer mysteriously lost the
entire contents of its hard disk on 4 February, including the 40,000
words of his new issue of _Prolapse_. Asked about the state of his
backups, Mr Weston said 'Oh dear.'
SFWA STOP PRESS. 'Home-grown Texas authors Joe R. Lansdale and Ardath
Mayhar have been named Toastmaster and Author Emeritus, respectively,
by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America for the 2008
Nebula Awards(R) Weekend April 25-27 in Austin, Texas.'
LATE MAIL. _Brian Aldiss_ gets in just under the wire: 'I was at the
splendid festivity last Wednesday to celebrate Doris Lessing's Nobel
Prize for Literature. Doris was warmly feted by some of the many who
love and revere her. We had quite a long chat and she mentioned with
pride that she had heard from the BSFA. This had pleased her greatly.
Good stuff BSFA! Well done for writing to her.' [6 Feb]
Ansible 247 Copyright (c) Dave Langford, 2008. Thanks to Ian Covell,
Steve Green, Chip Hitchcock, Dan Kimmel, Andy Love, Orion, Petrea
Mitchell, Andrew Pickles, Andrew I. Porter, Bill Pronzini, Adam
Roberts, SF Site, Frank Shailes, Simo, Joe Siclari, Steve Sneyd,
Suzanne Tompkins, Peter Weston, Ian Whates, Gordon Van Gelder, Martin
Morse Wooster, A.J. Wright and our Hero Distributors: Vernon Brown
(Birmingham SF Group), Janice Murray (North America), SCIS/Prophecy,
and Alan Stewart (Australia).
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