Ansible 139 [long]
David Langford
ANSIBLE 139
FEBRUARY 1999
From DAVE LANGFORD, 94 London Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5AU, UK. Fax
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EDITORIAL. I'm busy with hordes of book reviews for Amazon.co.uk (to
the point where Mike Ashley's _Mammoth Book of Fantasy_ blurs in my mind
with Steve Baxter's _Fantasy Book of Mammoths_), but begin to hear the
terrible siren song of Windows programming as the mild success of my _SF
Encyclopedia_ CD-ROM viewer software lures me to believe (>> HUBRIS) that
we might just be able to produce the _Fantasy Encyclopedia_ CD-ROM right
here in the barn.... Watch this space.
### AMONG THE HAIRY EARTHMEN ###
MICHAEL CRICHTON unveiled an all-purpose argument against anyone
loathsome enough to grumble about dodgy or misleading science in his
work: `In a story like _Jurassic Park_, to complain of inaccuracy is
downright weird. Nobody can make a dinosaur. Therefore the story is a
fantasy. How can accuracy have any meaning in a fantasy?' Um. [BB]
SIMON R.GREEN responds to Damien Broderick (_A138_): `I never knew about
the proposed all-Oz version of _F&SF_, but I do recall Mike Moorcock's
reaction to the all-UK one: "the Special Indictment Issue".'
JANE JOHNSON, talking about her latest `Gabriel King' collaboration in
what she fondly believed to be the privacy of the _Bucks Free Press_ (22
Jan), confessed she'd still rather be a publisher than a writer: `Most
authors that I have witnessed have been slightly mad. I am not sure that
working from home all the time is good for people, and I think I would
probably get quite neurotic.' Several British sf authors, when invited
to comment, put pencils up their noses and said `Wibble wibble.'
ELIZABETH MOON writes that it wasn't she who proposed a vote of censure
against the then SFWA President Robert J.Sawyer at Bucconeer. (Her name
was thus cut from overseas, web, etc editions of _A138_.) As others
confirmed, the proposer was eluki bes shahar; this motion was at once
seconded by everyone's favourite critic Greg Feeley, and ultimately
failed with about a third of the SFWA audience abstaining.
MICHAEL SCOTT ROHAN is trying hard not to feel paranoid about _SFX_
magazine, where his last two novels (praised elsewhere) got reviews so
vitriolic as to suggest some dreadful score being settled....
NORMAN SPINRAD announced his candidacy as SFWA president, owing to what
he calls the `extraordinarily malodorous situation' whereby, in the wake
of Robert Sawyer's resignation, almost half the SFWA board of directors
have now been appointed by fiat rather than elected.
### COND ###
Until 26 Feb [] THE RETURN OF THE TRIFFIDS: display from John Wyndham
archive, Sydney Jones Library, U of Liverpool. Contact Andy Sawyer, U of
Liverpool Library, PO Box 123, Liverpool, L69 3DA.
9 Jan - 27 Mar [] NAOMI MITCHISON: A Century of Achievement, The Writers'
Museum, Lady Stair's Close, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh. 10am-5pm, admission
free. Further details 0131 529 4901.
5-7 Feb [] XI-LOPHONE (filk), Hilton National Hotel, Basingstoke. #30 at
door, #20 unwaged. Too late to send a letter, I imagine.
6 Feb [] LONDON (MEDIA) GROUP, New Connaught Rooms, Covent Garden. #8
reg. 10am onward. (Next LMG meeting is 22 May.)
6 Feb [] PICOCON, Imperial College Union, Prince Consort Rd, London, SW7
2BB. 11am-6pm. GoH Stephen Lawhead, Jane Johnson, Mike Harrison. #8 reg
at door. Students #4/#5; ICSF members #1. Contact ICSF, 3 Salisbury
Pavement, Dawes Rd, London, SW6 7HT.
19-21 Feb [] LIGHTSPEED (media), Hilton Hotel, Coventry. Contact (SAE)
16 Bramwell St, Eastwood, Rotherham, S Yorks, S65 1RZ.
24 Feb [] BSFA OPEN MEETING, Florence Nightingale pub, on York Rd/
Westminster Bridge Rd roundabout. 7pm. With Christopher Evans.
26-8 Feb [] FAL TOR PAN (_Trek_), Britannia Hotel, Birmingham. Contact
(SAE) 26a Napier Ave, Southend on Sea, Essex, SS1 1LZ.
26-8 Feb [] REDEMPTION (_B7/B5_), Ashford International Hotel, Ashford,
Kent. GoH (slight change) Brian Croucher, Jane Killick, Sheelagh Wells,
Joe Nazzaro. #40 reg, #45 at door. #15 supp. Contact (SAE) Waveney, 28
Diprose Rd, Corfe Mullen, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 3QY.
6-7 Mar [] MICROCON 19, University of Exeter. GoH: me. Free entry, with
no advance booking, but members are asked to give to University Rag
charities. Contact 16 Fairlea Close, Dawlish, Devon, EX7 0NN.
13-14 Mar [] MECON 2, SCR, Queen's U of Belfast. GoH Michael Marshall
Smith. #10/#12I reg, to Queen's U SF Soc c/o Flat 2, 12 Ashley Avenue,
Belfast, BT9 7BT.
24 Mar [] BSFA OPEN MEETING, as 24 Feb. With Liz Holliday.
2-5 Apr [] RECONVENE (Eastercon), Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool. _Now #50 reg;
#25 supp_, children 5-14, over-60s. Under-5s free. #80 and #40 at the
door. Contact 3 West Shrubbery, Redland, Bristol, BS6 6SZ.
10 Apr [] ANANKE, Conway Hall, Red Lion Sq, Holborn, London. 2pm-9pm. GoH
Alan Moore, Dr Tuppy Owens, others. `A symposium of real magick and
global ritualism, formerly known as the International Symposium of
Thelemic Magick, hosted by the Golden Dawn Occult Society.' (`Gulp' --
_Ansible_.) #10 reg, #15 at door. Cheques to Golden Dawn c/o Mandrake,
PO Box 250, Oxford, OX1 1AP. 01865 2343671.
30 Apr - 3 May [] SUPERNOVA (_Trek_), Jarvis Piccadilly Hotel,
Manchester. #45 reg. Contact (SAE) 4 Burford Corner, Westhumble St,
Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6BS.
25-7 Jun [] POETS & SMALL PRESSES con, Barlow Theatre, Langley,
Birmingham. With Steve Sneyd talking on sf poetry. #4 advance reg to
Geoff Stevens, 25 Griffiths Rd, West Bromwich, B71 2EH.
16-18 Jul [] BAROQUON (RPG), New Hall, Cambridge. GoH Mary Gentle. #18
reg. Contact 8 Saddler's Close, Baldock, Herts, SG7 6EF.
16-18 Jul [] NEXUS (media), Hilton National Hotel, Bristol. Contact (SAE)
1 Lullington Rd, Knowle, Bristol, BS4 2LH.
27-30 Aug [] GALILEO (_Trek_), Heathrow Park Hotel. GoH Walter Koenig.
#40 reg. Contact 38 Planetree Ave, Newcastle, NE4 9TH.
25-26 Sep [] HYPOTHETICON (relaxacon), Glasgow. #15 reg. Contact Flat
O/2, 11 Cleghorn Street, Glasgow, G22 5RN.
9-10 Oct [] OCTOCON X (Irish national con), Royal Marine Hotel, Dun
Laoghaire, Co.Dublin. Oneupmanship award for the first Euro membership
rates in _Ansible_: #14(I)/E17.78 to Easter, #18(I)/E22.86 to 31 Aug,
#22(I)/E27.93 at door. Contact c/o 43 Eglinton Rd, Donnybrook, Dublin 4,
Ireland. Phone +353 (0)1 2605204, fax (...) 2694039.
5-7 Nov [] NOVACON 29, Britannia Hotel, Birmingham. GoH Ian Stewart. #28
reg, rising after Easter. Contact Carol Morton, 14 Park St, Lye,
Stourbridge, W.Midlands, DY9 8SS.
12-14 Nov [] ARMADACON 1999, Copthorne Hotel, Plymouth, Devon. GoH
Stephen Baxter; more TBA. #25 reg (to 1 Apr); concessions available, on
request. Contact PO Box 38, Plymouth, Devon.
_Rumblings_ [] Devotees of that trad fan pastime Viewing With Alarm
thrilled to news of a fire in the Adelphi Hotel on 18 Jan. _Chris Bell_
visited next day and found the smell of smoke already fading; damage was
confined to the ghastly basement nightclub not used by cons.
### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###
PATHS OF GLORY. _Clarke Award_ shortlist for 1998 UK-published sf: John
Barnes, _Earth Made of Glass_; Peter Delacorte, _Time on My Hands_; Ken
MacLeod, _The Cassini Division_; Christopher Priest, _The Extremes_;
Alison Sinclair, _Cavalcade_; Tricia Sullivan, _Dreaming in Smoke_.
Winner announced May. [] _The J.Lloyd Eaton Award_, presented since 1979
for sf critical works, went to _The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_ ed. John
Clute & John `Yahey!' Grant. [] _Sapphire Awards_ (sf romance) were voted
to: 1st place, Patricia White, _A Wizard Scorned_; 2nd, Jennifer Dunne,
_Raven's Heart_; 3rd, Laurell K.Hamilton, _Blue Moon_. The dwindling
print market for this subgenre led to the first two being published only
on-line, a state of affairs finessed by award coordinator Patricia Bray
as: `1998 will be remembered as the year that electronic books came of
age.' [] _Philip K.Dick Award_ shortlist for 1998 US paperback originals:
Geoff Ryman, _253: The Print Remix_; Paul Di Filippo, _Lost Pages_; Nalo
Hopkinson, _Brown Girl in the Ring_; Steve Aylett, _Slaughtermatic_; Paul
J.McAuley, _The Invisible Country_. Winner announced 2 Apr. [GVG]
SUBLIMINAL SMUT! In a fit of nervous prudery, Disney withdrew 3.4 million
new videos of the animated movie _The Rescuers_ (1977). A whole two
frames naughtily show -- in a window glimpsed briefly in the background
-- a naked lady's torso, lifted from _Playboy_. This was removed from the
cinema version, but by the time of the digitally remastered video
everyone had forgotten. Rumour names the culprit as animator Don Bluth,
who after _The Rescuers_ left in some disaffection (with several other
Disney animation staff) to start his own company. [PB/BB]
RANDOM FANDOM. _John Bangsund_ has been appointed editor of _The
Australian Editor_, which somehow sounds like RECURSIVE FANTASY. [] _Paul
Barnett & Pam Scoville_ are marrying in a strictly private ceremony on
27 Mar; congratulations will be in order at Eastercon. [] _Ron Bennett_
reports: `It appears that at some time during the past few months I've
had a mild heart attack. Not unpleasant to learn about this _after_ the
event. I'm now on the waiting lists for (a) a little by-pass operation
... hope Swampy doesn't hear about it ... and (b) an appearance on _15
to One_. I don't think that the two are in any way related.' [] _Vince
Clarke_ wanted his fanzine collection to remain safe in fannish hands:
it's now in Rob Hansen's cellar, while Greg Pickersgill and Catherine
McAulay salvaged the correspondence files and publishing hardware. Claire
Brialey & Mark Plummer are working on a memorial collection of Vince's
fanwriting. [] _Arnie Katz_ (in _crifanac 11_) found the ultimate
refutation of those who criticized his small-town metaphor of fandom:
`The existence of scoffer[s] didn't necessarily mean that Galileo had the
wrong idea....' [] _Jon Langford_ is still reeling from a _Minneapolis
City Pages_ write-up which called him `tireless, unbridled, grimly joyous
and ever-true' -- one to put on the business cards? [] _Andrew I.Porter_
celebrated his 200th issue of the Hugo-winning _SF Chronicle_ in Jan,
with such Bacchanalian excesses as `This is the Longest _SFC_ Editorial
I've Ever Written'.... _SFC_ is now officially bimonthly. [] _Linda
Stratmann_ seeks photos of herself garbed as Vampirella at Skycon
(Eastercon 78, `Least Costume' winner): 78 Hatherley Rd, Walthamstow,
London, E17 6SB. [] _Chris Terran_ was asked by the BSFA to stand down
as _Matrix_ editor (the issues he produced were excellent, but there were
various communications/deadline problems) and a new editorial team is now
sought. Contact 60 Bournemouth Rd, Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5AZ.
C.O.A. _Michael Andre-Driussi/Sirius Fiction_, PO Box 6248, Albany, CA
94706-0248, USA. _Paul Barnett_, c/o Pam Scoville, 330 West 45th St,
Suite 9D, New York, NY 10036, USA (from 14 Apr; longer-term US address
to follow; yes, He Who Channels Thog is emigrating). _Richard Brandt &
Michelle Lyons_, 125 Vaquero Lane #24, El Paso, TX 79912, USA. _Dorothy
M.Kurtz_, 401 East Gibbsboro Rd (Apt T-16), Lindenwold, NJ 08021-1991,
USA. _Bernie Peek_, 1B Buxton Rd, Stratford, E15 1QU. _Julie Rigby_, 50a
Warbeck Rd, Shepherds Bush, London, W12 8NT.
THOG'S PHYSICS MASTERCLASS. Sighted (briefly) as Today's Space Fact at
the NASA Human Spaceflight web site: `"How can the space shuttle move
when the astronauts are sleeping?" [] One of Newton's laws of physics
states that an object set in motion will remain in motion unless acted
upon by an outside force. Since no such (gravity) force exists in space,
the object (in this case the shuttle) falls around the Earth continually.
The shuttle is affected slightly by the gravity of Earth, which allows
it to fall around.' [GW] _Noises Off:_ far away, Newton is heard
continually falling around in his coffin.
R.I.P. _Frank Langford_ (?-1998), the comics/advertising artist who drew
_The Angry Planet_ (1963 _Boy's World_ adaptation of _Deathworld_,
scripted by Ken Bulmer) and the _Lady Penelope_ strip, died last year.
[SH] [] _Naomi Mitchison_ (1897-1999) died on 11 Jan aged 101. Her 100-
odd books -- produced over a span of nearly 80 years -- included several
fantasies and three sf novels, of which _Memoirs of a Spacewoman_ (1962)
is a classic of alien communication. UK newspaper obituaries were
numerous, but tended to pass over her genre contributions. She so very
nearly became the first sf author to live in three centuries. [] _Brian
Moore_ (1921-1999), `mainstream' author of some supernatural fiction and
borderline fantasies like _The Great Victorian Collection_ (1975), also
died in Jan. [] RON TURNER (1922-1998), who died on 19 Dec, `remains one
of the most collected of British comic artists who, alongside Frank
Hampson's Dan Dare and Syd Jordan's Jeff Hawke, redefined SF comic art
in the UK in the 1950s.' [SH] His work included early-50s Vargo Statten
pb cover art and popular comic strips like _The Daleks_ (1966-7); he was
still painting covers for Gryphon Books in 1998.
SMALL PRESS. _Light's List 1999_, now in its 14th year, tersely lists
1,375+ small-press magazines. A5, 58pp; #1.50 to John Light, 37 The
Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, TD15 1NY. [] Is it a subtle
put-down of HarperCollins and Voyager that Richard Calder's _Dead Girls/
Boys/Things_ trio, which they publish, should be honoured by _Dragon's
Breath_ newsletter with a `Small Press Award'?
FANFUNDERY. Apologies to GUFF for holding over the 1999 ballots (Davies,
Headlong, KINCAID) from UK-mailed copies of _A138_. Too many
enclosures.... DUFF voting (Eisenberg, GELB, Hooper) continues.
GEOTHOGRAPHY. `"It began in England," the old man replied as he finished
his cake. "I was born in Liverpool-on-Tyne. When I was still a boy ..."'
(Carolyn Keene, _The Sign of the Twisted Candles_, 1968.) [CB]
BSFA AWARDS shortlist ... NOVEL John Meaney, _To Hold Infinity_; Ken
MacLeod, _The Cassini Division_; Christopher Priest, _The Extremes_; Iain
M.Banks, _Inversions_; Kathleen Ann Goonan, _Queen City Jazz_. SHORT
Thomas M.Disch, `The First Annual Performance Arts Festival at the
Slaughter Rock Battlefield'; Gwyneth Jones, `La Cenerentola'; Timons
Esaias, `Shift Change'; Mary Soon Lee, `The Day Before They Came'; Eric
Brown, `Vulpheous' (all _Interzone_). ARTWORK Dominic Harman, _IZ 137_
cover; Colin Odell, BSFA _Focus 34_ front cover; ditto, back cover;
Dominic Harman, _IZ 135_ cover; Jim Burns (_Lord Prestimion_/_IZ 138_
cover). Winners to be announced at Reconvene (Liverpool, Easter).
CRY WOLF AGAIN! Notorious UK conrunner Brian Cooney of Wolf 359 fame went
transatlantic with VorCon in Los Angeles, Oct 98. The great
J.M.Straczynski was swift to comment: `Stephen Furst asked me to mention
that a huge portion of the _B5_ cast who attended VorCon here were
stiffed for the bulk of their fees. Michael O'Hare, Peter Jurasik, Mira,
Bill, Pat, Jeffrey and others were never paid what they were promised.
[] That the cast nonetheless came out and performed and did their all for
the fans in spite of this says a lot for them, I think.' [AH]
GAUGHAN ART SALE. `After years of cataloging, Jack Gaughan's widow Phoebe
Adams Gaughan is now offering selected works of Jack's for sale. Both B&W
illos and full-color cover illustrations are for sale.' [PD] Enquiries
to her at 93 Fair St, Kingston, NY 12401, USA.
LIQUIDATION HORROR! All we know of Creative Independent Productions
(London) Ltd is that they `recently embarked on a scheme to raise finance
from the public for the production of a science fiction film, to be named
_The Return_.' But the Dept of Trade & Industry wants them wound up
pronto: DTI High Court petition in Jan, Official Receiver appointed
liquidator. [BB] Hope it wasn't based on Ted Tubb's _The Return_....
OUTRAGED LETTERS ... _Almost Everyone_ pointed out that the _A138_
`Chinese retitling of _Batman and Robin_' is from a `Top Five' web site
list of droll imaginary retitlings, wickedly recirculated as news to fool
the _New York Times_ and _Ansible_. [] _Simon R.Green_ devotees will
rejoice to hear that `The last _Deathstalker_ book is now finished....
First response from my UK editor Jo Fletcher: "Your fans are going to be
_really_ pissed off with you." Heh heh heh.' [] _Patrick Nielsen Hayden_
has an editorial eye for double-entendre: `The funniest line in this
_Ansible_, of course, is "SFWA is tight-lipped about internal
frictions."' Coff, coff. [] _Michael Swanwick_ administers egoboo: `I
just sent in my year's short-fiction summary to _Locus_, in which
(presuming it survives the editorial process) your story "The Spear of
the Sun" is referred to as "almost pointlessly brilliant." I mention this
because I know you'll want to inform all your friends and blazon it
across the covers of your future books.'
THOG'S MASTERCLASS. '"At least it proves he's vulnerable to our
energies!" Morton smiled grimly. "Because he rendered them harmless."'
(A.E.van Vogt, `Black Destroyer', 1939) [TM/GF] [] `Sarah sat opposite
the noisy young people with a huge wholemeal sandwich filled with slices
of fresh ham and a half pint of Guinness.' (Graham Masterton, `Fairy
Story', 1996) [S] [] `Sherlock Holmes leafed through the papers with one
hand, as with the other he continued to crunch toast and marmalade.'
(Colin Bruce, _The Strange Case Of Mrs. Hudson's Cat_, 1997) [MKK] []
`One sight-seer shakes his head like a collecting box for a good cause.'
... `She drifted away from me, her dress clinging to her like a drowned
man.' (Jeanette Winterson, _The World and Other Places_, 1998) [PB] []
`A muscle fired in her throat and her pupils got big and floaty.' ...
`His eyes were like bottles with something moving at the bottom.'
(Windsor Chorlton, _Cold Fusion_, 1999) [] _Dept of Raunchy Thrillers:_
`The rubber left little to the imagination, and Barazo's face showed its
pleasure at the libidinous fission triggered by his woman's colliding
nuclei.' ... `The Gulf Stream was rocking the boat in the cleavage of its
D-cup bosomy swells.' (Christopher Buckley, _Wet Work_, 1991) [MMW] []
`But there was that rule of engagement that forbade any unavoidable
damage to the infrastructure.' (David Sherman and Dan Cragg, _Steel
Gauntlet_ [Starfist #3], 1999) Avoidable damage was presumably OK. [SBr]
[] `The men I went there with were killed. Most of them in the first few
years. We lost three hundred thousand men on Yeowe. They never talk about
it.' (Ursula K.Le Guin, `Forgiveness Day', 1994) [PB]
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ENDNOTES.
_That Sale of John Bangsund Fanzines_ continues, with a new selection
of other people's fanzines now added. View the catalogue and prices at
... http://www.vicnet.net.au/~sfoz/jbzines.htm
_Auld Lang Fund_ (as opposed to the Auld Bang Fund above): to help
this struggling Aussiecon travel fund whose beneficiary modesty
forbids me to name, I'm selling off a mass of grubby old Langford
fanzines ... http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/fnzsale.html
_Sidewise Awards._ `The deadline for nominating works for the 1998
Sidewise Awards (to be given at either Conucopia or Aussiecon) is
March 31, 1999. People can get eligibility guidelines and the
addresses of the judges at our website
(http://www.skatecity.com/ah/sidewise) or they can contact
me at this e-mail address.' -- Steven H.Silver, shsi...@ameritech.net
Ansible 139 Copyright (c) Dave Langford, 1999. Thanks to Paul Barnett,
Barbara Barrett, Steve Baxter, Chris Bell, Seth Breidbart, John Clute,
Paul DiFilippo, Greg Frost, Steve Holland, Alison Hopkins, Mary Kay
Kare, Matrix, Tom Marcinko, Simo, Gordon Van Gelder, Bridget
Wilkinson, Gary Wilkinson, Martin Morse Wooster, and our Hero
Distributors: Janice Murray (NA), SCIS, Alan Stewart (Oz), and Brum
Group News.
4 Feb 99
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Phil Wheatley
wrote:
>
>ANSIBLE 139
>FEBRUARY 1999
>
>
>LIQUIDATION HORROR! All we know of Creative Independent Productions
>(London) Ltd is that they `recently embarked on a scheme to raise finance
>from the public for the production of a science fiction film, to be named
>_The Return_.' But the Dept of Trade & Industry wants them wound up
>pronto: DTI High Court petition in Jan, Official Receiver appointed
>liquidator. [BB] Hope it wasn't based on Ted Tubb's _The Return_....
>
>
The controlling owner of the above company is one of the people behind
the 'Legionnaires' project. '_The Return_' might conceivably be it's
alternative title.
Which probably knocks that on the head then :-(
"Live fast, Die young, Leave clean Underwear"
Phil Wheatley mailto:ph...@world5.demon.co.uk
ICQ 8498646 URL: http://www.world5.demon.co.uk