Ansible 207 [long]
David Langford
ANSIBLE 207
OCTOBER 2004
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### THE OCTOBER COUNTRY ###
JEFF BERKWITS is the new editor-in-chief at _Amazing Stories_.
KYRIL BONFIGLIOLI had a four-page profile by Leo Carey in _The New
Yorker_ (20 Sep), focusing on his life and splendidly rancid thrillers,
but mentioning that in the mid-60s `he was the editor of a couple of
small science-fiction magazines for which he wrote occasional items.'
[MMW] The famous _TNY_ fact-checkers didn't spot that it was a single
magazine, _Science Fantasy_, twice retitled under Bonfiglioli (_Impulse_,
_SF Impulse_).
RICHARD BRANSON charmed _Star Trek_ fans by announcing that his first
`Virgin Galactic' suborbital spaceplane will be the _VSS Enterprise_.
Pounds110,000 for a 3-hour flight with 3 weightless minutes.... [DKMK]
STEPHEN FRY on writing/directing a film adaptation of _Vile Bodies_ (as
_Bright Young Things_): `Waugh wrote the book in 1928 and set it in an
imagined gay '30s [...] He was writing science fiction. I can hardly make
a film in which I posited that a world war in 1933 ended all wars -- we
know it didn't happen.' (_San Francisco Chronicle_, 11 Sep) [DC]
NEIL GAIMAN has the last word in a _Wired_ article on the 2004 Worldcon:
`"I come from comic books," said Gaiman. "If sci-fi is the gutter of
literature, comics are the place that the gutter flows into."'
GRAHAM JOYCE was taunted in _Private Eye_ (1 Oct) for wangling a PhD from
Nottingham Trent U by the `brilliant wheeze' of writing a `140,000-word
study' of his own novel _Smoking Poppy_. Adam Roberts crossly notes that
this is not true. It wasn't a PhD in literature as implied, but in
creative writing, for which it's entirely normal to submit fiction (that
novel and the novella `Leningrad Nights'), plus no more than 15,000 words
of critical commentary on the candidate's writing practice. Adam adds:
`Farah Mendlesohn and I were the two examiners; and believe me we were
sticklers for doing it exactly by the regs.'
SAM J. LUNDWALL noted our anniversary: `Is it really 25 years since
_Ansible_ appeared as a beacon of shining, unbearable truth in the
darkness? I remember vividly the Brighton 1979 con. At least I vividly
remember parts of it. I remember the bars and the drink and and the
drunken parties and many things, including your smiling countenance and
the beer that always followed you around, or maybe it was the other way
around. Such glorious times, such glorious youth. How beautiful we all
were. But nothing, nothing, was even half as beautiful as you with your
first issue of _Ansible_ in one hand, and the beer in the other. I am so
grateful I was there, witnessing history in the making. [] I am sorry I
will not be able to kiss you gratefully in Glasgow next year. My eyes are
failing, not to mention the rest of my body. BUT my beautiful 26-year old
daughter Karin -- slightly older and even more beautiful than Ansible --
will be there to kiss you from me.' Promises, promises.
TERRY PRATCHETT's Discworld© enjoyed a boozy 21st birthday party on 28
September. Next day on Radio 5, Simon May marvelled that the latest DW
novel features a successful, profit-making postal service -- prompting
the Pratchettian reply, `Truly I am a fantasy writer.' [SG]
ANNE RICE was irked by negative Amazon reviews of her final vampire novel
_Blood Canticle_ -- some disappointed, some nastily personal. Pausing to
award her book five stars, she posted a vast unparagraphed tirade which
perhaps unwisely revealed that: `I have no intention of allowing any
editor ever to distort, cut, or otherwise mutilate sentences that I have
edited and re-edited, and organized and polished myself. I fought a great
battle to achieve a status where I did not have to put up with editors
making demands on me, and I will never relinquish that status. For me,
novel writing is a virtuoso performance. It is not a collaborative art.'
Some of us lesser writers still need that editorial whisper in the ear,
`Remember thou art but mortal.'
MICHAEL SWANWICK has yet another `self-promoting' anecdote: `The accounts
of Terry Pratchett's mock-yearning after a Hugo in Ansible put me in mind
of my own first such award, given the year the Worldcon was in Australia.
My son's D&D buddies were present when I got the traditional drunken
phone call. So when I heard the news, I said, "Hey, guys, I just won a
Hugo!" "That's nice, Mr. Swanwick, congratulations," they said, being
polite, well-brought-up young men. Then I added the information that
Pratchett had been the presenter. Their eyes grew wide with awe and, as
one, they said, "Wow!!!" So, forget the money, if Terry Pratchett wants
to trade one-fifth the awe in which he's held for one of my Hugos, I'll
make the swap in a heartbeat.'
WILSON `BOB' TUCKER will be 90 on 23 November; a fannish celebration is
planned in Bloomington, Illinois, on Saturday the 27th.
PETER WESTON has written a book! I must seek out the details....
JAMES WHITE's and WALT WILLIS's Retro Hugo for _Slant_ was presented to
Peggy White on 19 September by James Bacon, who writes: `Peggy said of
the award: "It's absolutely fabulous. Such a handsome and beautiful
award, it looks gorgeous and is a real honour from the fans. [...] James
would have dearly loved it: it's a shame Walter and he are not here to
see it, they would be both very proud. James never had great notions and
would be quite startled as he would never have expected such a
recognition." She was very happy, and proud.'
### CONTRIST ###
11 Oct [] READING AT BORDERS, Oxford St, London. 6:30pm. With Pat
Cadigan, Susanna Clarke and China Mieville. _Originally announced for 12
Oct, and later moved from Tuesday to Monday. _(Pat told me on 15 Sep that
the event she had announced for 14 Sep didn't happen. Sorry.)
16-17 Oct [] OCTOCON 2004 (Irish national con), Glenroyal Hotel,
Maynooth, Co.Kildare, Ireland. Euro40 reg. Contact Basement Flat, 26
Longford Terrace, Monkstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Sterling cheques:
Pounds30 to Dave Lally #2 A/C, 64 Richborne Terrace, London, SW8 1AX.
27 Oct [] BSFA OPEN MEETING, The Star pub, 6 Belgrave Mews W, London,
SW1. 6pm on; fans present from 5pm. With N.M. Browne.
5-7 Nov [] ARMADACON 16, Copthorne Hotel, Plymouth. GoH Lionel Fanthorpe,
Bernard Pearson, more TBA. Pounds30 reg, Pounds27 concessions. Contact
Mrs M.Pritchard, 4 Gleneagle Ave, Plymouth, PL3 5HL.
5-7 Nov [] NOVACON 34, Quality Hotel, Walsall. Pounds36 reg to 26 Oct;
Pounds40 door. Contact 379 Myrtle Rd, Sheffield, S2 3HQ; 0114 281 1572.
13-14 Nov [] P-CON 2, Ashling Hotel, Parkgate St, Dublin 8. GoH Juliet
E.McKenna. Pounds15/Euro20[?]30 reg. Pounds7/Euro10 supp. Contact:
Yellow Brick Rd, 8 Bachelors Walk, Dublin 1, Ireland.
4-6 Feb 05 [] CONSTRUCTION 4 (Interaction staff weekend). Location TBA:
`probably one of the hotels close to the SECC', for site access.
23-27 Aug 06 [] L.A.CON IV (64th Worldcon), Anaheim, California. _Now
$150 reg._ Contact PO Box 8442, Van Nuys, CA 91409, USA.
30 Aug - 3 Sep 07 [] NIPPON 2007 (65th Worldcon), Yokohama, Japan. $160
reg to 31 Dec; presupporters $100; other discounts for site voters etc.
Contact (UK) 23 Ivydene Rd, Reading, RG30 1HT.
_Rumblings_ [] INTERACTION, the 2005 Glasgow Worldcon, will raise
attending memberships from Pounds95/$170 to Pounds110/$195 on 1 December.
### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###
AS OTHERS SEE US. David Gates reviews Philip Roth's alternative history
_The Plot Against America_ in _Newsweek_, beginning: `Literary novelists
generally leave alternative history (take a big _what if_ and go from
there) to writers of pop fiction and sci-fi. This is either because of
its fundamental unseriousness -- at bottom, who cares about an _if_ that
never happened -- or because of the sheer drudgery involved in
elaborating some counterfactual premise.' _Ansible_'s informant Andrew
Love deduces that we can care about (say) Hamlet or Anna Karenina only
because their lives really happened.
AWARDS. _Booker Prize:_ David Mitchell's _Cloud Atlas_ is the closest
thing to a genre title among the six finalists (announced 21 Sep), and
is the favourite. Against bookies' expectations, the list omits Susanna
Clarke's _Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell_.
_Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire._ Best translated novel: China Mieville,
_Perdido Street Station_. [SFS]
R.I.P. _Tim Choate_ (1954-2004), US actor who appeared in _Ghost Story_
(1981) and played Zathras in _Babylon 5_, died in a motorcycle accident
on 24 September; he was 49. [DLa]
_Alfred Coppel_ (1921-2004), US sf and thriller writer whose sf
career ran from a 1947 _Astounding_ story to the 1990s `Goldenwing'
trilogy, reportedly died in May. [GVG]
_Konstantinos `Gus' Dallas_, US journalist whose sf story appeared
in _Fantastic_ (10/79), died on 22 September. He was 75. [AIP]
_Janet Leigh_ (1927-2004), US actress of _Psycho_ shower fame, died
on 3 October aged 77. Her 63 films also included _Night of the Lepus_
(1972) and _The Fog_ (1980). [BB]
_John E. Mack_ (1929-2004), Harvard professor and ufologist who
wrote _Abduction_ (1994) and _Passport to the Cosmos_ (1999), died in a
UK car accident on September 27. [SFS]
_Frank Thomas_ (1912-2004), one of the legendary `Nine Old Men' of
Disney animation, died on 8 September aged 92. [DKMK]
_Doug Webster_, British fan active before and during WWII, died at
the end of August. Harry Turner writes: `He was a key figure in keeping
fandom alive during those chaotic war years after the SFA folded. He
helped out Mike Rosenblum with stencil-cutting and production of
_Futurian War Digest_, as well as taking over publication of the fanzine
_Fantast_ when Sam Youd [`John Christopher'] was called into the forces.
He personally contacted many fans during occasional "hitch-hikes", as per
the enclosed pages from the last _Zenith_ I published before the RAF
claimed me in 1942....'
_Harvey Wheeler_ (1918-2004), US political scientist who with Eugene
Burdick wrote the accidental-nuclear-war novel _Fail-Safe_ (1962), died
from cancer on 6 September. He was 85. [PDF]
_Fred Whipple_ (1906-2004), US astronomer and co-author of the 2004
Retro Hugo winner _Conquest of the Moon_ (1953), died at age 97 on 31
August -- just four days before the award was announced. [BH]
OOPS. The 3 October _Independent on Sunday_ UK hardback bestseller list
has, entering in fourth place, _Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell_ by (it
says here) `Alexander McCall Smith (Polygon)'.
Karen Traviss was alarmed by the BSFA's _Vector_ 247 cover image,
which though looking a bit like her is described as a `Composite photo
of Saturn and Phoebe.' Karen: `It's only my planet-sized ego that's
regularly confused with a gas giant. Most of the time I pass quite easily
for an asteroid.'
RANDOM FANDOM. _Paul Harland_ (John Paul Smit), sf author and fan, was
reported as committing suicide last year -- but this September a Dutch
court sentenced his Bosnian husband `T.D.' to 12 years' imprisonment for
the premeditated murder of Paul Harland. The motive was apparently T.D.'s
fear of losing Dutch residence rights if an intended separation had gone
through. [MAH, PNN]
_The Los Angeles SF Society_ is 70 years old: an anniversary
celebration follows the usual clubhouse meeting on 28 Oct. [VVW]
_Geri Sullivan_ remembers the Worldcon: `Peter Weston was simply
marvelous as a GoH. He did a splendid job interviewing the other guests
during the Friday Night "Time Machine" event (with Retro Hugos and short
interviews). He had his charm turned on high the whole weekend, and was
a master at managing the running gag of promoting his book, mentioning
it at every opportunity and then some. / James Bacon was equally
splendid, both as TAFF delegate and as a working shadow in the Children
Services area, which he is running next year. He was one of 15 people
working on the convention to receive an "Unattached Lensman" medal, our
"Hero" award.'
_Peter Weston_, author of the fine fannish autobiography _With Stars
In My Eyes: My Adventures in British Fandom_ (NESFA Press, 2004), begs:
`Hope you'll like it and will give it a mention in your Award-losing
newsletter.' Later: `Hope you'll give me a review in _Ansible_.' Still
later, after my review elsewhere: `Now if you can squeeze a tiny bit into
_Ansible_ next time, if you have room, please, guv, bless you ...' Even
later: `My wants are simple, merely a line or two in the All-Powerful
_Ansible_. Is that too much to ask?' Will this do?
BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS, presented at Fantasycon on 26 September: NOVEL
(August Derleth Award) Christopher Fowler _Full Dark House_. SHORT
Christopher Fowler, `American Waitress' (_Crimewave 7_). ANTHOLOGY
Stephen Jones, _The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14_. COLLECTION
Ramsey Campbell, _Told by the Dead_. ARTIST Les Edwards. SMALL PRESS PS
Publishing. SPECIAL (Karl Edward Wagner Award) Peter Jackson, for _The
Lord of the Rings_. [PSP]
ANOTHER BOOK NOT TO READ ON PLANES. They'll be rounding up the Stephen
King fans next, after New York's scare about a `possible [Bush] assassin'
whose wife -- quoted in a US Secret Service report -- called him
`obsessed with weapons, Timothy McVeigh and the book _The Dead Zone_ --
a novel about the stalking and attempted assassination of a presidential
candidate'. (_New York Daily News_, 21 Sep) [TW]
FANFUNDERY. _TAFF._ Nominations are open for the TransAtlantic Fan Fund
race from North America to the Glasgow Worldcon next year. Candidates
should send 5 written nominations (3 NA, 2 EU), a platform of up to 101
words, and $20 bond -- to Randy Byers, 1013 N 36th St, Seattle, WA 98103,
USA. E-mail fringefaan atsymbol yahoo.com. Deadline is 24 Nov.
_GUFF._ The race from Australasia to Glasgow in 2005 has four
candidates: Sue Ann Barber, Alison Barton, David Cake, and (jointly)
Damien Warman and Juliette Woods. UK ballots from administrator Pat
McMurray, 88 Poppleton Rd, London, E11 1LT.
ONLY APPARENTLY REAL. David Fury, co-executive producer of the coming ABC
sf series _Lost_, explained to _SCI FI Wire_ that `realism is the key in
making it all work. [...] We'll try to root it in real science or real
pseudo-science.' (_Sci-Fi Weekly_) [DLe]
OUTRAGED LETTERS. _Andrew M. Butler_ on Terry Pratchett's remark about
not winning awards before his YA work: `Am I misreading this as
suggesting that Mr P. has never won an award for any of his novels prior
to the YA stuff? If so, could I be among the several million to mention
his BSFA award for _Pyramids_? It is, of course, possible that the
administrator of the award or the committee of the time neglected to tell
him.' Or maybe TP was misquoted.
_Simon R. Green_ strikes again. `I can definitely assure you that
you made it through the [_Deathstalker Coda_] editing process, and thus
you die again, horribly, in a Simon R. Green book. Perhaps you'd like to
be born in the next one ...?'
_Arthur Hlavaty_ reports: `George Flynn is already missed. I checked
the NESFA Press site for the Worldcon books, and read: "We published Once
More* With Footnotes by Tetty Pratchett".'
_Jeff VanderMeer_ bounces back: `Our fake disease guide finished
second in the Hugo balloting for best related book. I figure that this
means that should the Chesley Awards art book that won be unable to
perform its duties and attend to its responsibilities in the coming year
as a Hugo winner, the disease guide will be prepared to step in and
assume those duties and responsibilities. Say, should nude photos of the
art book be published in _Playboy_.'
_Peter Weston_ enquires anxiously, `If you should happen to put in
a mention for my little book in your next _Ansible_ ...'
EUROCON AWARDS presented this August in Plovdiv, Bulgaria: AUTHOR Nick
Perumov (Russia). ARTIST Otto Frello (Denmark). PUBLISHER Minotauro
(Spain). TRANSLATOR Vladimir Bakanov (Russia). MAGAZINE _Science Fiction
Reality_ (_Realnost' Fantastiki_) (Ukraine). FANZINE _Emitor_ (Serbia &
Montenegro). PROMOTER Atanas Slavov (Bulgaria). DRAMA SCRIPT Timur
Bekmambetov & Sergey Lukianenko (Russia) for film _Night Watch_. SPECIAL
AWARD _Concatenation_ webzine (UK). [BS]
SMALL PRESS. _Interzone_ 194 (Sep/Oct 2004), the first issue to appear
from Andy Cox's TTA Press, has no editorial message about the new future
of the magazine -- but I'm told that there's one in _The Third
Alternative_ 39 (Autumn 2004). _IZ_ subscribers remain in the dark....
Meanwhile there are plans to rename _TTA_, but to what is uncertain.
C.O.A. _Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer_, 59 Shirley Rd, Croydon, Surrey,
CR0 7ES. _Andy Hooper & Carrie Root_, 11032 30th Ave NE, Seattle, WA
98125, USA. _Ian McDonald_, 16 Abbot's Wood, Holywood, Co Down, Northern
Ireland, BT18 9PL.
TWENTY YEARS AGO. _J.G. Ballard_ made the Booker shortlist with _Empire
of the Sun_, but lost to Anita Brookner's _H“tel du Lac_.
_Jerry Kaufman_ on _The Last Dangerous Visions_: `Harlan is claiming
that he'll have the MS in to his publishers in October; all he has to do
is pry in the last purchased story, bought over Worldcon weekend from
non-attending Steven Bryan Bieler....' (_Ansible_ 40, October 1984)
EDITORIAL. Nerves are jangled at _Ansible_ HQ as builders loudly try to
fix our cellar flooding problems, while the promised contract for a third
Clute/Nicholls/Etc _SF Encyclopedia_ is still delayed....
UPDATE. _A203:_ Basil Wells died on 23 December 2003, not 3 May 2004 as
stated in previous reports. [RS]
_A206:_ apologies to Peter Weston for our September issue's shocking
failure to mention his book.
THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _Genealogy Dept._ `When a hot-air balloon crashes on
a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor carrying
on the family work ...' (IMDB on _Frankenstein Island_) [JMcN]
_Dept of Annoying Your Proofreader._ `Aenea was excellent at chess,
good at Go, and terrible at poker.' `I'd spent ten months dealing
blackjack and had watched a lot of gamblers; this eleven-year-old [Aenea]
would be one hell of a poker player.' `Aenea [...] playing cards in the
evening (she _was_ a formidable poker player) ...' Aenea speaks: `Just
an old pre-Hegira book that Uncle Martin used to read to me. He used to
say that proofreaders have always been incompetent assholes -- even
fourteen hundred years ago.' (all from Dan Simmons, _Endymion_, 1995)
[EF]
_Sirius Cybernetics Dept._ `_ENTER_, the door chimed, as it slid
open soundlessly.' (C.S. Friedman, _The Wilding_, 2004) [SM]
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CONVENTION LONGLIST
Details at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Ansible/ansilink.html#cons
[] 2004
16-17 Oct 04, Octocon 2004, Dublin
5-7 Nov 04, Armadacon 16, Plymouth
5-7 Nov 04, Novacon 34, Walsall
13-14 Nov 04, P-Con, Dublin
[] 2005
11-13 Feb 05, SF Ball (media), Bournemouth
25-27 Feb 05, Redemption (_B5/B7_), Hinckley, Leics
11-13 Mar 05, Mecon 8, Belfast
25-28 Mar 05, Paragon2 (Eastercon), Hinckley, Leics
29-31 Jul 05, Accio 2005 (H. Potter), Reading
4-8 Aug 05, Interaction (Worldcon), Glasgow
11-15 Aug 05, The Ring Goes Ever On (Tolkien Soc), Aston U
12-14 Aug 05, Consternation (RPG), Cambridge
[] 2006
14-17 Apr 06, Concussion (Eastercon), Glasgow
23-27 Aug 06, L.A.con IV (Worldcon), Anaheim, California
[] 2007
30 Aug - 3 Sep 07, Nippon 2007 (Worldcon), Yokohama, Japan
### ENDNOTES ###
APPARITIONS. [] 8 Oct: Birmingham SF Group, Britannia Hotel, New St.
7:45pm. With Stephen Hunt.
[] 26 Oct: SF Book Group, Waterstone's, Princes St, Edinburgh. 6-7pm.
Discussing _Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde_. All welcome.
[] 9-13 Nov: Stephen Donaldson UK tour. *Tue evening, Foyles, Charing
Cross Rd, London; *Wed evening hosted by Ottakars, George St,
Edinburgh at Assembly Rooms; *Thur evening, Waterstones, Deansgate,
Manchester; Sat afternoon, Forbidden Planet signing, Charing Cross Rd,
London. (*Ticket only, from relevant shop.)
[] 12 Nov: Brum Group as above. With Peter Weston, talking about, oh,
some book or other.
[] 22 Nov (previews) to 2 Apr 05: _His Dark Materials_ returns to the
National Theatre, dir Nicholas Hytner. Box office 020 7252 3000.
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
GUFF ballots come in alternative versions for on-line voting and for
print-out:
http://www.ericlindsay.com/guff/ballot04.htm
http://www.ericlindsay.com/guff/GUFFballot2004.pdf
PETER WESTON shyly insists on squeezing in just one tiny mention of
his book: `Good old Bill Burns has set up an Annexe on his website.
This shows another 60 or so photographs left out of the book, plus my
Additions and Corrections so far (with a good Charles Platt story).'
http://efanzines.com/PW/Stars/
Ansible 207 Copyright (c) Dave Langford, 2004. Thanks to Barbara
Barrett, Dave Clark, Paul Di Filippo, Emil Fortune, Steve Green,
Martin Hoare, Bill Higgins, David K.M. Klaus, Dave Lally, David
Levine, Joe McNally, SF Site, Stef Maruch, PNN, Andrew I. Porter,
Boris Sidyuk, Richard Simms, Phil Stephensen-Payne, Gordon Van Gelder,
Vanessa Van Wagner, Peter `Don't Forget My Book!' Weston, Taras
Wolansky, Martin Morse Wooster, and Hero Distributors: Rog Peyton
(Brum), Janice Murray (NA), SCIS, and Alan Stewart (Thyme).
8 Oct 04
--
David Langford
http://ansible.co.uk/
Latest book: =Different Kinds of Darkness= (collection, Cosmos, 2004)
Keith Stokes
wrote:
>SAM J. LUNDWALL noted our anniversary: ... I am sorry I
>will not be able to kiss you gratefully in Glasgow next year. My eyes are
>failing, not to mention the rest of my body. BUT my beautiful 26-year old
>daughter Karin -- slightly older and even more beautiful than Ansible --
>will be there to kiss you from me.' Promises, promises.
Perhaps I will start a fanzine!
>WILSON `BOB' TUCKER will be 90 on 23 November; a fannish celebration is
>planned in Bloomington, Illinois, on Saturday the 27th.
For more details: http://www.midamericon.org/dawnpatrol/tucker90.htm
Keith
Randy Byers
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, David Langford wrote:
> FANFUNDERY. _TAFF._ Nominations are open for the TransAtlantic Fan Fund
> race from North America to the Glasgow Worldcon next year. Candidates
> should send 5 written nominations (3 NA, 2 EU), a platform of up to 101
> words, and $20 bond -- to Randy Byers, 1013 N 36th St, Seattle, WA 98103,
> USA. E-mail fringefaan atsymbol yahoo.com. Deadline is 24 Nov.
The deadline is actually midnight 20 Nov, gov.
And what's this you say about a book by Peter Weston?
--
Randy Byers <rby...@u.washington.edu>