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JUNE 2008
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### A TORRENT OF FACES ###
LISA DE MORAES, a _Washington Post_ tv reviewer, must have suffered some
past fan-related trauma: her 14 May column nervously addresses 'you scary
sci-fi fans', while on 19 May she has not only 'scary sci-fi-people fans'
but (next paragraph) a 'scary-sci-fi-people fan base'. [AL] Your editor
has tried hard to look scary but without visible success.
DORIS LESSING looked back on her 2007 Nobel Prize win and judged it 'a
bloody disaster', giving her too much media attention and not enough time
for work: 'All I do is give interviews and spend time being
photographed.' And the writing? 'It has stopped, I don't have any energy
any more.' She told the BBC that she'd probably give up writing novels
altogether. (Interview, BBC Radio 4 _Front Row_, 12 May) [DVB]
STEVEN MOFFATT became lead writer and executive producer of _Doctor Who_,
following Russell T. Davies's recent step-down. (BBC)
JANE PALMER returns to the science fiction fold, in a revisionist mood:
'I've just come back to SF after being diagnosed as a coeliac and
realising how dreadful all the books I had written were. Now I'm
rewriting everything, including the published work.' (email, April)
CHRISTOPHER PRIEST was a GoH at Aelita in Russia last month and reports
overwhelming hospitality, vodka-swilling and paintballing. 'In one of the
most seriously sensawunda moments, I did a televised interview with TASS.
Thoughts of the Cold War were never far away. Grim memories of
announcements like: "The official Soviet news agency, TASS, said today
..." The ordinary Russians I went with shared my sensawunda. They said,
"You couldn't even walk past this building without being stopped and
searched. Yet it is still exactly the same!" Inside this was confirmed
by my host. "Nothing has changed! Same gloomy lobby, same crap elevator,
same terrifying lavatory. Just no more armed goons on the door." In the
director's office were many photos of honoured guests. One was
Khrushchev, one was the poet Yevtushenko, another was the cellist
Rostropovich. Posing with the director. Wow! But who's this? Bob
Sheckley, posing with the director! (Hi, Bob.) "Mr Priest, please stand
here and pose with the director." Flash! flash! flash! Now I'm on the
same wall. Blimey.' (email, May)
J.K. ROWLING is giving this month's commencement day address at Harvard.
One writer in the student paper _The Harvard Crimson_ reacted by calling
her 'a flash in the pan [...] a petty pop culture personality [who]
tricked parents into letting their kids read books filled with sex,
murder, and homosexual role models'. This led to a strange _Guardian_
column, 'When Harry met sexism', arguing that the biased critical
establishment marginalizes female fantasists while praising the likes of
Pullman and Tolkien in accordance with 'the dominant man-worshipping
default mode.' The acclaim given to such women writers as Doris Lessing,
Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin doesn't count, since -- the article
explains -- they merely occupy 'a few token high-priestess places for the
ladies.' (Bidisha, _Guardian_, 22 May) [AO/JY] Farah Mendlesohn considers
the Bidisha thesis 'Plain bonkers' and, concerning some victims of the
alleged conspiracy, adds: 'I've been driven mad all week by this, having
to point out stuff like "Tolkien -- eighty years of rep; Mary Gentle --
thirty" and other basic bits of info. As I have noted more than once,
Marge Piercy has won a Clarke Award, is standard teaching on all utopias
courses and can _hardly_ be considered ignored unless the only people you
are talking to are people who barely know fantasy in the first place. Oh
yes, and we can add, four books on Diana Wynne Jones. Only one that I
know of on Pullman.' (email, 27 May)
SALMAN RUSHDIE risks being declared Fair Game: 'I have an early novel by
L. Ron Hubbard called _Death's Deputy_. You cannot believe the badness,
it's almost physically unreadable because the man was functionally
illiterate. The idea of him being a founder of a great world religion is
just hilarious. I don't want to claim Hubbard as any type of influence
as the horror that would bring my way would be a fate worse than death
-- there's Tom Cruise for a start! But I grew up on science fiction. At
boarding school and at college I revelled in the books and weird
magazines called things like _Amazing_ and _F&SF_. There's a lot of
allegory, unusual worlds shed light on our world, and it has always been
a very good forum for ideas. But one day I woke up and I was over it, all
these terrible novels full of bad sentences and appalling characters. Not
one single interesting woman! But then I fell in love with _Star Wars_.
That changed _everything_. I remember sitting in this huge movie theatre
watching this enormous spaceship coming over my head on the screen. The
incredible _elongation_ of that scene just blew me away. You could
imagine that this was going to be the _whole film_! It was a wonderful
way of telling you you were somewhere startling.' (Interview, _Word
Magazine_, June 2008). [GS]
JO WALTON announces: 'Emmet and Sasha and I are now Canadian -- we've
just officially become Landed Immigrants. [...] It's lovely here, you
should all come. No COA, we were here already.' (email, 19 May)
### CONFERVACEOUS ###
4 Jun [] FUTURE VISIONS (discussing sf influence on science), Dana
Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, S Kensington, London, SW7 5HD. 7-8:30pm. Free?
Bookings 020 7942 4040 or tickets at danacentre org uk.
7 Jun [] BSFA/SF FOUNDATION AGM EVENT, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square,
London, WC1R 4RL. GoH Geoff Ryman for SFF, Peter Weston for BSFA (50th-
anniversary theme). 10:30am-5pm (then to pub), with SFF AGM 12:30-1pm,
BSFA AGM 2-2:30pm. Admission free.
14 Jun [] PKD-DAY 2, celebrating Philip K. Dick: Lecture Theatre GE089,
Clifton Campus, Clifton Lane, Nottingham. 10am-5pm. Free admission
(buffet lunch available at cost), but please notify if you're attending:
John dot Goodridge at ntu dot ac dot uk; 0115 848 3375.
25 Jun [] 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 Terrance Dicks.
28 Jun [] TOLKIEN SOCIETY SEMINAR, Parkstead House, Whitelands College,
Roehampton University, London. 9am-5pm. Pounds34; members Pounds30.
Booking closes 7 June. Contact seminar at tolkiensociety dot org.
28-29 Jun [] CONRUNNER 2008 (conrunning), Britannia Hotel, Wolverhampton.
Pounds35 reg to 21 Jun; Pounds45 at door. Day rate Pounds25. Contact 56
Jackmans Place, Letchworth G.C., Herts, SG6 1RH.
6-10 Aug [] DENVENTION 3 (66th Worldcon), Denver, USA. $200 reg, $50
child or supporting. _Advance booking closes 10 July._ At-door rates TBA.
Contact Denvention, PO Box 1349, Denver, CO 80201, USA.
5-7 Sep [] ZOMBIECON, Quality Hotel, Bentley, Walsall. GoH Charlie
Adlard, Stuart Conran, David Devereux, John McCrea, Robert Rankin.
Pounds45 reg until 31 August; Pounds50 at the door (but numbers are
limited). Parent/guardian consent required for under-18s. Contact 54
Bridge Rd, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 2QP; info at zombiecon co uk.
19-21 Sep [] FANTASYCON 2008, Britannia Hotel, 1 St James St, Nottingham.
Pounds60 reg (BFS members/students Pounds50), _rising to Pounds70
(Pounds60) on 1 July_. Contact 5 Greenbank, Barnt Green, Birmingham, B45
8DH.
20-22 Feb 09 [] REDEMPTION 09 (multimedia sf), Britannia Hotel, Fairfax
St, Coventry, CV1 5RP. Added GoH: Paul Cornell. Pounds50 reg, rising to
Pounds55 on 1 September. Under-18s and supp: Pounds15. Contact 26 Kings
Meadow View, Wetherby, LS22 7FX.
26-29 Mar 09 [] EUROCON 2009 (with Deepcon 10, Italcon 35), Fiuggi,
Italy. GoH Robert Silverberg, Sergey Lukyanenko, Kate Mulgrew. Membership
rates TBA. Contact eurocon at euroconsf2009 dot it.
27-29 Mar 09 [] P-CON VI, Central Hotel, Dublin. GoH Paul Cornell.
Euro30/Pounds20 reg, Euro35 at door. Students Euro15. Euro10 supp.
Euro cheques to Frank Darcy, 253 Sundrive Rd, Crumlin, Dublin 12,
Ireland. Sterling to 'Dave Lally #2 a/c', 64 Richbourne Terrace, London,
SW8 1AX.
6-10 Aug 09 [] ANTICIPATION (67th Worldcon), Palais des congres de
Montreal, Montreal, Canada. Artist GoH announced: Ralph Bakshi. $Can190/
$US190/Pounds95/Euro130 reg _to 31 July_; $Can55/$US55/Pounds30/Euro35
supp; discounts for site selection voters, presupporters, etc. Contact
PO Box 105, Station NDG, Montreal, QC, H4A 3P4, Canada.
2-5 Apr 10 [] ODYSSEY 2010 (Eastercon), Radisson Edwardian Hotel,
Heathrow, London. Pounds45 reg, Pounds35 unwaged, Pounds20 supp. Junior
(<17) Pounds20, child (<11) Pounds5, infant (<5) Pounds1. Contact: 5
Langhaul Rd, Crookston, Glasgow, G53 7SE. Odyssey's Eurocon bid failed
-- see below.
26-29 Aug 10 [] EUROCON 2010, Cziesyn/Cesky Tesin, Poland/Slovakia. No
further details have reached me as yet.
_Rumblings_ [] RENO IN 2011 is a new bid to hold the 69th Worldcon in
Reno, Nevada, on 17-21 August 2011. $20 (or more if you like) to
presupport. Details at www.rcfi.org. This challenges the existing Seattle
in 2011 bid: $25 to presupport, with more details at seattlein2011.org.
### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###
AS OTHERS SNIFF AT US. 'If you've been in any bookstore in your lifetime,
you're probably familiar with that most peculiar of book retail locales:
the Fantasy & Science Fiction section. This strange and sweaty place is
kept separate from the rest of the bookstore so that its residents, the
soap-averse fans of Fantasy & Science Fiction novels, can go about their
plots and dark rituals without disturbing any of the normal-smelling
clientele.' (Chris Bucholz, Cracked.com) [cj]
R.I.P. _Robert Asprin_ (1946-2008), US author whose first novel was _The
Cold Cash War_ (1977), died on 22 May; he was 61. Asprin is best known
for creating (with Lynn Abbey) the 'Thieves' World' fantasy shared world,
and for his 'Phule' sf comedies (latterly written with Peter J. Heck) and
'MythAdventures' comic fantasies (later with Jody Lynn Nye). [MR]
_Danton Burroughs_ (1944-2008), Edgar Rice Burroughs's grandson and
promoter -- recently announced as chairman of the board of ERB Inc. --
died on 1 May; he was 63. [WCW]
_Alexander (Sandy) Courage_ (1919-2008), Emmy-winning composer of
the _USS Enterprise_ fanfare in _Star Trek_ (reprised in _ST:TNG_ and all
the films), died on 15 May at the age of 88. [DKMK]
_Michael de Larrabeiti_ (1934-2008), UK novelist and travel writer
most noted in genre circles for the exhilaratingly uninhibited violence
and language of his _Borribles_ trilogy of children's books, died on 18
April after long illness. He was 73. [PA]
_Julie Ege_ (1943-2008), Norwegian model and actress who played sex-
symbol parts in _On Her Majesty's Secret Service_ (1969), _Creatures the
World Forgot_ (1971), _The Final Programme_ (1973), _Legend of the 7
Golden Vampires_ (1974), _The Mutations_ (1974) and others, died on 29
April aged 64.
_Harvey Korman_ (1927-2008), US comic actor who took part in many
genre productions including _The Flintstones_ (10 episodes 1966-1966;
various one-offs) and the disastrous 1978 _Star Wars Holiday Special_,
died on 29 May; he was 81. [LP]
_John Phillip Law_ (1937-2008), US actor best remembered as the
blind 'angel' in _Barbarella_ (1968), died on 13 May aged 70. He also
starred in _Danger: Diabolik_ (1968) and _The Golden Voyage of Sinbad_
(1974). [GW]
_Joseph Pevney_ (1911-2008), US director of 14 episodes of the
original tv _Star Trek_ and 11 of _The Munsters_, died on 18 May; he was
97. [GW]
FUTUROLOGY MASTERCLASS: BIG NUMBERS DEPT. 'The first thousand primes,
expressed in the binary scale that had been used for all arithmetical
operations since electronic computers were invented, marched in order
before him. Endless ranks of 1's and 0's paraded past ...' (Arthur C.
Clarke, _The City and the Stars_, 1956).
'The speed trend curve alone predicts that manned vehicles will be
able to achieve near-infinite speeds by 1982 ...' 'By 1981, this [energy]
trend curve shows that a single man will have available under his control
the amount of energy _equivalent to that generated by the entire sun_.'
(G. Harry Stine, 'Science Fiction Is Too Conservative', _Analog_, May
1961) [via GP]
FANFUNDERY. _TAFF:_ Velma deSelby Bowen (Vijay Bowen), who owed money to
TAFF after some complications during her time as administrator, paid off
the outstanding $1,050 in May. Good for her.
COURT CIRCULAR. Christopher Tolkien continues to litigate, with 'one last
crusade' to 'terminate' rights to _The Hobbit_ and block the planned
films unless Warner/New Line cough up the claimed Pounds80 million owed
to the Tolkien estate from a deal that gave it 7.5% of profits. The
hearing begins in California on 6 June. (_Sunday Times et al_) [GW]
AWARDS. _Compton Crook_ for first novel: Mark L. Van Name, _One Jump
Ahead_.
_European SF Society Awards_ (at the Moscow Eurocon) include a
special 'Contribution to SF Fandom' recognition of the late Ken Slater;
Russell T. Davies was named as Best Promoter. [BJW]
_Max und Moritz_ (German comics awards) include a Lebenswerk or life
achievement honour for Alan Moore. [JG]
OUTRAGED LETTERS. _Paul Barnett (John Grant)_ makes my flesh creep: 'I'm
going into hospital early Monday morning for a triple bypass operation,
plus -- Free! Bargain! Buy One Get One Free! -- a reaming out of both
carotid arteries. If all goes according to plan, I'll be in the Jug for
about a week; thereafter I'll of course be taking things a bit easy
(well, sort of) for a few weeks longer ... until well enough to face
minor operations to put stents in a renal artery and some leg arteries.
At the end of a further recovery period I will change my name to Steve
Austin and get a tv series.' (31 May)
_Moshe Feder_ listens in: 'I heard an interview on our local public
radio station's "Leonard Lopate" talk show with a guy named Toby Barlow
who's written a new novel about werewolves in LA, called _Sharp Teeth_.
[...] I was immediately wondering how the heck Harper's publicist managed
to book him with Lopate, who usually interviews authors of literary
fiction and serious nonfiction. Then Leonard comes on and starts saying
that the guy has written a novel "unlike anything we've seen before" and
I'm practically sputtering at the radio that there are dozens of novels
about werewolves around these days. I'm assuming, of course, that it's
another case of mainstream media being ignorant of SF and fantasy, as
when all the reviewers praised _The Truman Show_ for its "original"
concept. But then he adds the kicker: the novel is written in free verse;
it's an epic poem. At that point, all I could do was shut up, listen, and
crank my jaw back into position.'
_Bill Higgins_ gloats: 'At the Web site of _Scientific American_,
an article on rocket belts and jetpacks was illustrated by a photo of
yours truly, wearing an original Bell Rocket Belt. (This picture is a bit
misleading; a fully-fueled rocket belt would not lift someone as heavy
as me, at least not until most of the hydrogen peroxide was burned off,
after which a flight of extremely limited duration would ensue.)'
AS OTHERS RESEARCH US. Everyone knows that K.W. Jeter coined the word
'steampunk' back in 1987, except the _New York Times_: '... Paul Di
Filippo, the author of "The Steampunk Trilogy," [1995] the historical
science fiction novellas that lent the culture its name.' (Ruth La Ferla,
'Steampunk Moves Between 2 Worlds', 8 May) [MW]
C.O.A. _Australia in 2010:_ US agent now Mark Linneman, PO Box 221878,
Sacramento, CA 95822, USA. _William Breiding_, 445 Elysian Ave,
Morgantown, WV 26501, USA. _Mog Decarnin_ is no longer in LA. _Sarah
Mooring_, 8 Sandmoor Court, Harrogate Rd, Leeds, LS17 7JY.
RECESSION: LATEST. _Publishers Weekly_ announced in May that its master
plan to 'continue to be the gold standard in book reviewing' included the
cutting of fees from $35-$50 to just $25 per review. [ED]
THE DEAD PAST. _30 Years Ago: Tyneside 'Futureworlds' conference._ 'Dr
Chris Evans and John Brunner spoke about "the future" [on 27 June 1978].
Rather to my surprise, they were both optimistic: everything was about
the Hampstead-California axis, with plenty of good hotels and credit
cards on the way. Some members of the (occasionally annoyingly talkative)
audience pointed out that only 5% of the world's population lived that
sort of carefree middle-class existence ...' (Ritchie Smith reporting in
Peter Roberts's _Checkpoint_ 90, July 1978)
GROUP GROPES. _FORTH_ (Edinburgh) has moved owing to 'extreme over-
pricing in The Doric.' Currently 9pm Tuesdays in The Standing Order,
George Street, 'until we find somewhere that is not a mega-J.D.
Wetherspoons outlet.' Contact jdspec-forth at yahoo co uk. [JD]
_A250_ ADDENDA. _David Bratman_ on Margaret Howes: 'she also wrote an
early _Tolkien Journal_ article with the splendid title "The Elder Ages
and the Later Glaciations of the Pleistocene Epoch", as a consequence of
which she was often cited in bemused journalistic accounts of the 60s
Tolkien boom.'
_James H. Burns:_ 'It's interesting that Patrick Stewart's so
vociferous in his defence of _Trek_ fans, because a few years ago, during
one of his other Broadway outings, he told a publicist friend of mine,
"The trick is: Never look them directly in the eyes...."'
THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _Fowl Play Dept._ 'Ross Duval choked back an
emotional swallow.' (Clark Howard, 'Cruel and Unusual', _Ellery Queen's
Mystery Magazine_, 2008) [TM]
_Dept of Sinister Sibilance._ '"Edward," I hissed.' (Stephenie
Meyer, _Twilight_, 2005) [BC/TM] _... And Colourful Speech._ '... he
said. His tone was livid.' _(Ibid)_
_Alternate Tissue Dept._ 'One of those old-fashioned protonic guns
... they kill without damaging tissue, by destroying brain cells.'
(Gardner F. Fox, _Escape Across the Cosmos_, 1964) [AR]
_Dept of Misadventure._ '... they were on the verge of being sucked
under a lake of molten magnetic lava when, by sheer theoretical
knowledge, they pulled out and made off into space once more. / A barrage
of cosmic rays, turned on them by inhabitants of a queer, elongated
planet, had almost spelled disaster, but radio beams saved them. / Once,
in mid inter-planetary flight, they were brought to a dead stop. The
cause? They had entered the "no-man's land" between two planets, where,
opposed to all normal theory, the two worlds, acting in complete unison,
were poised on the same plane, although millions of miles apart.'
(Terence Haile, _Galaxies Ahead_, 1963)
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[] 2008
Until 25 Oct 2008, Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain, Science
Museum, London
4 Jun 2008, Future Visions, London
7 Jun 2008, BSFA/SF Foundation AGM Event, London
14 Jun 2008, PKD-Day 2, Nottingham
20-22 Jun 2008, SF Masterclass, London
RELOCATED TO USA: 24-27 Jun 2008, SF Research Association conference,
Dublin
28 Jun 2008, Tolkien Society Seminar, London
28-29 Jun 2008, ConRunner 2008 (conrunning), Wolverhampton
6-10 Aug 2008, Denvention 3 (Worldcon), Denver, USA
21-25 Aug 2008, Frightfest film festival, London
22-25 Aug 2008, Discworld Convention 2008, Birmingham
29-31 Aug 2008, Mecon, Belfast
5-7 Sep 2008, ZombieCon, Bentley, Walsall
12-14 Sep 2008, Reunion5 (media), Coventry
19-21 Sep 2008, Fantasycon 2008, Nottingham
25-28 Sep 2008, Oxonmoot (Tolkien), Oxford
4-5 Oct 2008, Birmingham International Comics Show, Birmingham
11-12 Oct 2008, NewCon 4, Northampton
17-19 Oct 2008, Festival of Fantastic Films, Manchester
18-19 Oct 2008, Octocon, Ireland
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
26-29 Mar 2009, Eurocon 2009, Fiuggi, Italy
27-29 Mar 2009, P-Con VI, Dublin.
10-13 Apr 2009, LXcon (Eastercon), Bradford
CANCELLED: 26-29 Jun 2009, Sectus 2009 (Harry Potter), North Wales
25-26 Jul 2009, Satellite 2, Glasgow
6-10 Aug 2009, Anticipation (67th Worldcon), Montreal, Canada
[] 2010
2-5 Apr 2010, Odyssey 2010 (Eastercon), Heathrow
### ENDNOTES ###
APPARITIONS.
[] 7 June 2008: Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons & Sean Philips signing,
Forbidden Planet, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR. 1-2pm.
Duncan Fegredo was also scheduled but had to cancel.
[] 13 June 2008: Brum Group, Briar Rose, Bennett Hill, Birmingham city
centre. 7.45pm. With Eric Brown. Pounds4; members Pounds3. Contact
07845 897760 or 4bhamsfgroup at yahoo co uk. Further meetings: 11 July
TBA; 8 August 'Summer Social' meal at Black Eagle pub.
[] 14 June 2008: Steve Dillon & Bryan Talbot, Waterstone's, Oxford
Street, London. 2pm.
[] 14 June 2008: Terry Pratchett signing, Foyles, South Bank (i.e. not
Charing Cross Rd), London. 12-2:30pm.
[] 18th Jun 2008: Sarah Ash & Jessica Rydill, Beckenham Library
(Bromley Literary Festival event). 6:30pm-8pm. Free: book through
library.
[] 25th June 2008: Sarah Ash, Chaz Brenchley, & Juliet E. McKenna,
Kensington Central Library. 6pm-8pm. Contact library for details.
[] 1 Jul 2008: Hannah Berry, Paul Gravett & Bryan Talbot, Ipswich
Literary Festival.
[] 5 Jul 2008: Steven Erikson signing, Forbidden Planet, 179
Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR. 1-2pm.
[] 22 Aug 2008: Alan Grant & Bryan Talbot, Edinburgh
Literary Festival. 8:30pm.
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