Ansible 147 [long]
David Langford
ANSIBLE 147
OCTOBER 1999
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BACK FROM AUSSIECON. Let's be obvious: it was the trip of a lifetime,
Adelaide and Melbourne hospitality was wonderful, and I enjoyed the
cosily sized Worldcon (estimated 1548 attendees). The programme may have
fallen apart a bit, but DUFF winner Janice Gelb dextrously put it back
together; the Melbourne Convention Centre may have been dry-ish (and
inclined to charge $75/hour for taping items -- so little was taped), but
the linked Centra Hotel's bar was reckoned Definitely OK by the Brits;
and ... well, I'll have to write a trip report, won't I? [] HUGOS. NOVEL
Connie Willis, _To Say Nothing of the Dog_. NOVELLA Greg Egan, `Oceanic'
(_Asimov's_ 8/98). NOVELETTE Bruce Sterling, `Taklamakan' (_Asimov's_
10/98). SHORT Michael Swanwick, `The Very Pulse of the Machine'
(_Asimov's_ 2/98). RELATED BOOK Thomas M.Disch, _The Dreams Our Stuff Is
Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World_. DRAMATIC _The Truman
Show_. PRO EDITOR Gardner Dozois. PRO ARTIST Bob Eggleton. SEMIPROZINE
_Locus_. FANZINE _Ansible_. FAN WRITER Dave Langford. FAN ARTIST Ian
Gunn. CAMPBELL AWARD Nalo Hopkinson. [] WORLDCON 2002: San Jose beat the
spoof Roswell bid by 666 votes to 120. Meanwhile, a 2007 Australian bid
is already taking shape. I must return!
### FRUITS OF THE AGATHON ###
IAIN M.BANKS, man of versatile initials, told the _Telegraph_: `If I do
cowboy novels I'll be Iain Z.Banks. And Iain X.Banks for pornography.'
RAYMOND BRIGGS of _Fungus the Bogeyman_ fame ranted -- tongue in cheek,
we hope -- about J.K.Rowling's best-selling _Harry Potter_ fantasies: `It
is very galling when a pip-squeak novice, decades younger, bursts into
an oldie's profession and has instant colossal success. It's not fair.
Some of us have been toiling in the vineyard of children's books for over
40 years. We are now just starting to draw our tiny pensions when onto
the scene leaps this teenage upstart....' There is much more. `She'll
probably turn to drink and drugs,' speculated Mr Briggs before adding,
`Mind you, I haven't read the books myself.' (_The Oldie_, Aug 99)
NEIL GAIMAN was startled by his Mythopoeic Award, a small seated lion
officially not known as the Aslan, since `the only awards I ever get are
the ugly ones: awards in the shapes of bombs, springs, bricks, lumps of
plastic, Easter Island H.P.Lovecraft heads and the occasional unlovely
wooden plaque. I never get the pretty ones.' Diana Wynne Jones, in an
unprintable communication, disagrees about the lion's prettiness.
WILLIAM GIBSON insatiably collects antique mechanical watches, bought at
unfeasible prices through eBay on-line auctions (see _A140_). As though
some bright accountant had suggested how this hobby might be tax-
deductible, his new novel _All Tomorrow's Parties_ contains a fair amount
of expertise about dealing in antique mechanical watches....
STEPHEN KING plotted revenge on the minivan which badly injured him in
June: he bought the offending vehicle and gloated that he'd be laying
into it with a sledgehammer. This didn't work in _Christine_. [BB]
CHRIS PRIEST was cited by crime author Ian Rankin as a master of
sensuality. _Sunday Times_: `What is the most erotic book you have read?'
Rankin: `One disturbingly erotic scene in Christopher Priest's _The
Glamour_. Three-in-a-bed sex, only one of the three is invisible....' [26
Sep]
BRIAN STABLEFORD, that notorious intellectual, was billed on the front
cover of the Autumn 1999 _Weird Tales_ as `Brain Stableford'. [ECL]
Messages of sympathy flowed in from Brain Lumley and Brain Aldiss.
ALISON SPEDDING was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Bolivia after
being convicted for possessing and (which she denies) dealing in
marijuana. Parole might yet halve the sentence. Messages c/o Debbie
Aliaga, British Embassy, Avenida Arc 2732, PO Box 694, La Paz, Bolivia.
### CONDOBOLIN ###
23-4 Oct [] CONVERGENCE (multimedia), Stakis Bristol Hotel, Bristol. GoH
Lionel Fanthorpe and others. #35 reg, #20 day. 200-member limit. Contact
(SAE) 46 Brins Close, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS34 8XU.
27 Oct [] BSFA OPEN MEETING, Florence Nightingale pub, on York Rd/
Westminster Bridge Rd roundabout. 7pm on. With Eugene Byrne.
30-31 Oct [] M.R.JAMES WEEKEND, Royal Victoria & Bull Hotel, Rochester,
Kent. #25 reg. Contact (SAE) 150 Elstree Park, Barnet Lane, Borehamwood,
Herts, WD6 2RP.
5-7 Nov [] NOVACON 29, Britannia Hotel, Birmingham. GoH Ian Stewart. #32
reg to 30 Oct; #35 at door. Contact 14 Park St, Lye, Stourbridge, W.
Midlands, DY9 8SS.
12-14 Nov [] ARMADACON 99, Copthorne Hotel, Plymouth. GoH Stephen Baxter,
Michael Sheard, Lionel Fanthorpe. #27 reg; #22 concessions or #11/day.
Contact PO Box 38, Plymouth, Devon.
13-14 Nov [] MEMORABILIA (vast sf and miscellaneous pop-culture
collectors' fair), Hall 17, NEC, Birmingham. Box office 0121 767 4555.
?11-13 Aug 00 [] LEXICON (Unicon 2000), St Hilda's College, Oxford. Dates
not yet confirmed. #5 supporting; full rate to be announced. Contact 18
Letchworth Ave, Bedfont, Middlesex, TW14 9RY.
29 Aug - 2 Sep 02 [] CONJOSE (60th Worldcon), San Jose, California. GoH
Vernor Vinge, David Cherry, Bjo & John Trimble, Ferdinand Feghoot. $100
reg to 31 May 00. Contact PO Box 61363, Sunnyvale, CA 94088-1363, USA;
UK agents 52 Westbourne Tce, Reading, RG30 2RP.
_Rumblings_ ... Aussiecon's business meeting ratified `No Zone' Worldcon
bidding. Instead of NA zone rotation, future bids must be for sites at
least 500m or 800km from the Worldcon where the vote is held.
### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###
THAT HIDEOUS ACRONYM. On 6 August, the UK government betrayed its spin-
doctors' unfamiliarity with C.S.Lewis by launching the National Institute
for Clinical Excellence, or N.I.C.E.... Who is its Head? Where are Merlin
and Mr Fisher-King now that we need them? [JS/TB]
PUBLISHERS AND SINNERS. There was a bloodbath at HarperCollins US on 21
September, when 75 staff were fired without warning, including SF
notables John Douglas, John Silbersack and Lou Aronica.
PULPED FICTION. Matt Weyland of Pulp Publications has filed for
bankruptcy (creditors' meeting 12 Oct in Brighton). His `Pulp Fictions'
imprint's jacket artists, notably Bob Covington, have had a long and
unsuccessful struggle for payment, return of their paintings, or even
replies to letters. Others owed money include the BSFA and _Interzone_
(ads not paid for), and David Pringle (four Pulp book introductions).
SIDEWISE AWARDS for alternate-history sf went to Stephen Fry's _Making
History_ (long) and Ian R.MacLeod's `The Summer Isles' (short).
RANDOM FANDOM. _Andrew Bartmess_, who wrote _Star Trek_ 3D chess rules
in the 70s and was long in dispute with the US Franklin Mint for pinching
same without payment (see _A92-3_), is happy at last: `I am pleased to
say this has been re$olved.' [] _Avedon Carol_ brags: `Roger Scruton
credited me on the radio the other day with being partly responsible for
the destruction of the Empire's standards.' [] _Morgan Linda Harriet
Gallagher & David Lyndon Brown_ were married in Reading, on 13 Aug. `Mr
and Mrs Brown would like to thank all their well-wishers.' [EJ] [] _Ann
& Steve Green_ were trapped in a jammed lift at Wincon, leading to a
happy realization of Ann's fantasies of being rescued by burly firemen.
[] _Linnette Horne_, FFANZ delegate at Aussiecon, entered hospital with
cardiac trouble soon after, and is recovering at home. Cherry Wilder
suggests sending good wishes: 28 Highbury Rd, Highbury, Wellington, New
Zealand. _Simon Ounsley & Chris McCormack_ were married on 17 July -- see
COA. [] _Mae Strelkov_, queen of hecto art, `is not having much luck
trying to make hecto inks by the old Henley formulas and would like to
try hecto carbons should anyone have any they can spare.' [NB via BBo]
Estafesta Postal, 4501 Palma Sola, Jujuy, Argentina. [] _Amy Thomson &
Edd Vick_ proudly announce their imminent adoption of Ding Yuan, a 7-
month-old girl orphan from Szechuan.
DEAD FILES. George Orwell, who died in Jan 1950, was the subject of a
startling revelation about paranormal CIA activities from Julie Burchill:
`And it turned out he was working for the CIA all through the 50s,
fingering fellow writers as Communist sympathizers.' [JB]
FAN PRESS. _Atom 2000_ is Ken Cheslin's 100pp (plus covers and 4pp
prelims) A4 collection of Arthur `Atom' Thomson's fan cartoons. #2/$5
asked towards costs: send more, so Ken can continue with his planned _The
Millennium Atom_. 29 Kestrel Rd, Halesowen, W.Midlands, B63 2PH.
OUTRAGED LETTERS. _Jim Burns_ on the Hugos: `I, of course, am devastated.
I shall obviously have to dedicate myself to the painting of dragons,
grow my hair to waist length and start behaving like a demented pirate.'
[] _Sue Harris_ thanks fandom for nearly 100 condolence messages about
Chuck's death. `Even people he hardly knew said what a nice man he was
and what a sense of humour he had.' Sue would now prefer to be dropped
from fanzine mailing lists. [] _Josh Kirby_ was pleased that _A144_
revealed his little-known 1761 publication: `Tom Gainsborough said it
should have gone to a 2nd edition, and Will Blake said it would have, if
_he'd_ done the engravings....' [] _Dave Lally_ clarified the _Prisoner_
shop confusion: `The old shop under Max Hora closed when Portmeirion's
"banning" of [summer] Portmeiricons led to strained relations with 6 of
1. Then Portmeirion redecorated the old shop, reopened it with a fanfare
(and net access and twee _Prisoner_ souvenirs), and announced a "better"
relationship with _Prisoner_ fandom.' To the surprise of the fans. []
_Paul McAuley:_ `At a quiz night held to raise money for the Richard
Evans Fund, the Orion team, including Malcolm Edwards, Jo Fletcher and
Simon Spanton, appeared under the uncompromisingly honest sobriquet "No
Sodding Authors". Your correspondent is only too glad to comply; his next
novel (here's the plug) will be published by HarperCollins.' [] _Nathalie
Mege_ liked Thog's people living on an uninhabited island. `This reminds
me of the often quoted Claude Levi-Strauss sentence: "The village left
leaving us alone with the women and the children in the deserted houses."
For some reason, French feminists always giggle at this one....'
C.O.A. _Michael Abbott & Anne Wilson_, 32 Rock Rd, Cambridge, CB1 7UF.
_Karen Babich_, 6215 N Glenwood Ave #2S, Chicago, IL 60660-1807, USA.
_William Bains & family_, 37 The Moor, Melbourn, Herts, SG8 6ED. _Jane
Carnall_ (to end Apr 00), The Basement Flat, 27 Christchurch Rd, Reading,
RG2 7AA. _Chris Evans_, 36 Priestfield Rd, Forest Hill, London, SE23 2RS.
_Tommy Ferguson_, 40 Deramore Ave, Belfast, BT7 3ER. _Jonathan `Jonjo'
Jones & Sharon Lewis_, 136 Kendal Way, Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 1LT.
_Murray Moore_, 1065 Henley Rd, Mississauga, Ontario, L4Y 1C8, Canada.
_Chris & Simon Ounsley_, 47 Birkdale Dr, Leeds, LS17 7RU. _Welsh SF
Association_, c/o 12 Stuart St, Treherbert, Wales, CF42 5PR. _Mark
Young_, 2 Lytham Close, Reading, RG30 3HU.
STOP PRESS. Fandom's last hand-typeset, letterpress fanzine,
_Stefantasy_, has ceased publication after 44 years and 123 issues. The
123rd appeared in Dec 1998. Editor Bill Danner started work on a new
issue but feels he's `slowed down' too much ever to complete it: he's 92.
[RL] [] Also, Robert Reginald's Borgo Press has closed down after 24
years.
FANFUNDERY. _TAFF:_ nominations are open for next year's westbound race
to the Chicago Worldcon. Nominations (3 Euro, 2 NA), 100-word platform
and #10 bond to Maureen Kincaid Speller, 60 Bournemouth Rd, Folkestone,
Kent, CT19 5AZ, by 1 Dec. [] _New Time Limit:_ `SCIFI has revised its
policy of paying a bounty for published Fan Fund reports. As of 1 Jan
2000 it will pay $500 for trip reports published within 5 years, $100 for
reports published beyond 5 years.' [BP] This replaces the past policy of
rewarding every new trip report with $500. Write fast, fans! [] _TAFF
Tales_ Missing Chapter (as noted in _A145_): Ulrika O'Brien has copies
for NA buyers of Ken Bulmer's 1955 trip report -- SAE to her, 123 Melody
Lane #C, Costa Mesa, CA 92627, USA. She can also supply the complete
report, with this one-page insert, at $10. (UK: #5 to _Ansible_.)
BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS. SPECIAL KARL EDWARD WAGNER AWARD Diana Wynne
Jones. BEST NOVEL Stephen King, _Bag of Bones_. ANTHOLOGY
Stephen Jones & David Sutton, _Dark Terrors 4_. COLLECTION Ramsey
Campbell, _Ghosts and Grisly Things_. SHORT Stephen Laws, `The Song My
Sister Sang'. ARTIST, Bob Covington. SMALL PRESS _The Third Alternative_.
THOG'S SCIENCE MASTERCLASS. OSS scientific briefing on heavy water: `This
substance [...] was water to whose molecular structure had been appended
another hydrogen atom. The Germans were apparently trying to cause a
chain -- or explosive -- effect by releasing the extra hydrogen atom so
appended.' (W.E.B.Griffin, _The Secret Warriors_, 1985)
WORLD FANTASY AWARDS shortlist. NOVEL Charles de Lint, _Someplace to Be
Flying_; Louise Erdrich, _The Antelope Wife_; Guy Gavriel Kay, _Sailing
to Sarantium_; Sean Stewart, _Mockingbird_; Thomas Sullivan, _The
Martyring_. NOVELLA A.S.Byatt, `Cold' (_Elementals_); Ursula K.Le Guin,
`Dragonfly' (_Legends_); George R.R.Martin, `The Hedge Knight'
(_Legends_); Ian R.MacLeod, `The Summer Isles' (_Asimov's_ Nov); Peter
Straub, `Mr Clubb and Mr Cuff' (_Murder for Revenge_). [] SHORT Neil
Gaiman, `Shoggoth's Old Peculiar' (_Smoke and Mirrors_); John Kessel,
`Every Angel is Terrifying' (_F&SF_ Oct); Ellen Kushner, `The Death of
the Duke' (_Starlight 2_); Kelly Link `The Specialist's Hat' (_Event
Horizon_ Nov); Kelly Link, `Travels with the Snow Queen' (_Lady
Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 1_). [] COLLECTION Jack Cady, _The Night We
Buried Road Dog_; Karen Joy Fowler, _Black Glass_; Elizabeth Hand, _Last
Summer at Mars Hill_; Graham Masterton, _Manitou Man_; Gahan Wilson, _The
Cleft_. [] ANTHOLOGY _The Best of Crank!_ ed Bryan Cholfin, _Dark Terrors
4_ ed Stephen Jones & David Sutton, _Dreaming Down-Under_ ed Jack Dann
& Janeen Webb, _Legends_ ed Robert Silverberg, _Starlight 2_ ed Patrick
Nielsen Hayden. [] ARTIST Jim Burns, Tom Canty, Alan Clark, Bob Eggleton,
Charles Vess. [] SPECIAL: PRO Les Daniels (_Superman: The Complete
History_), Jo Fletcher (editing), David Pringle (_Interzone_), Robert
Silverberg & Grania Davis (_The Avram Davidson Treasury_), Jim Turner
(Golden Gryphon). [] NON-PRO Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance), David
Marshall (Pumpkin), Stephen Pasechnick (Edgewood), Jacob Weisman
(Tachyon).
15 YEARS AGO. We wondered whether Bob Shaw had his knife into John
Sladek, who's consulted as a guru of Strange Phenomena in Bob's _Fire
Pattern_ but gives only flip, joky, useless answers. Bob explained: `John
wrote all his own dialogue for that scene.' (_Ansible_ 40, Oct 84)
GROUP GROPES. The Welsh pub meeting at the Prince of Wales, Wood St,
Cardiff, has moved to the second Monday of the month.
THOG'S MASTERCLASS. `_Cassini_ was not heading for the heart of Titan's
face ...' (Stephen Baxter, _Titan_, 1997) [PB] [] _Dept of How To
Internalize A Small 18th-Century Pavilion:_ `It is, in fact, no longer
a place, no longer out there, but a precise metaphysical node in the
inner topography of my being, a conjuncture where fallibility,
mortification and unease meet to gloat and whisper their incoherent
secrets.' (Adrian Mathews, _Vienna Blood_, 1999) [] _Dept of Split-Second
Timing:_ `He was killed on a Thursday afternoon, crossing the street; run
down by a taxicab, the driver racing to carry his passenger to Manchester
Piccadilly in time for a noon train.' (Clive Barker, _Sacrament_, 1996)
[KN] [] `She screamed as she fell through the nothingness, clutched at
the wrists that held her wrists, and, at last, believed.' (Ray F.Nelson,
_Timequest_, 1985) [KL] [] `The first thing she had done was take off the
sweater. Without so much as blinking an eye at Cal whose breast-calloused
eyes had seen the best, but were now popping and flashing signals, she
exclaimed in her soft voice: "Freedom from social inhibitions is vital.
Don't you agree?"' (Anon, _I.O.U. Me_, Ram Books undated ?60s) [G] []
`Like sleeping giants, the island's twin volcanoes reawakened from
centuries of inactivity. Neither matched the other in their violent
display.' (Clive Cussler, _Shockwave_, 1996) [HP] [] `If eyes had been
hands, he would've crushed her.' (Peter Hamilton, _The Naked God_, 1999)
### R.I.P. ###
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY (1930-1999) died on 25 September after a major
heart attack on the 21st. She was 69. Her professional career began with
short stories in 1953 and was dominated by the long-running Darkover
series that first appeared as routine sf in 1958, became increasingly
concerned with sexual politics over the years, and continued through the
1990s as, chiefly, anthologies of stories by other hands. Her most
commercially successful novel was the revisionist-feminist Arthurian
fantasy _The Mists of Avalon_ (1983). In her role as publisher and editor
of _Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine_ (1988-current) she
encouraged new writers, women in particular. Old fans also remember her
fannish roots, going back to 1946: Harry Warner Jr cites her as the first
female BNF to become a prolific pro.
JAMES WHITE (1928-1999) had a stroke on 21 August and died next day
without emerging from coma; this was at least mercifully quick.
Professionally he was best known for the Sector General series of witty
and inventive space-hospital stories that began in 1957 and was still
going strong this year despite his failing eyesight. Other notable if
underrated novels are _Second Ending_, _The Watch Below_ and _The Silent
Stars Go By_, whose Del Rey blurb line `When Irish Spies Are Smiling'
caused James to murmur, in his mild-mannered way, `Kill! Kill! Kill!'
Fannishly, he was a key member of Irish Fandom -- `the Wheels of IF' --
who co-produced _Slant_ with Walt Willis, wrote for the legendary
_Hyphen_, and created what many regard as the best fanzine piece ever,
`The Exorcists of IF' (1975; reprinted in _The White Papers_, 1996).
Personally, James was famous for being a perfect gentleman without a
trace of the stuffiness implied by that description; he was full of
gentle charm and understated wit, an ever-popular convention guest whom
fandom loved dearly. All sympathy to Peggy White, his wife since 1955.
JERRY YULSMAN (1924-1999), whose one sf book was the fine alternate
history _Elleander Morning_ (1984), died of lung cancer on 6 August.
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ENDNOTES.
_Memorial Donations._ Here are appropriate addresses for those who'd
like to send a charitable donation instead of flowers, to mark any of
four sadly recent sf/fannish deaths. In all cases, I'm happy to handle
dollar (or sterling) cheques and pass on the sterling (or dollar)
equivalent: make cheques payable to `David Langford', with a note of
the intended destination(s). $US for British causes via my account can
also be sent c/o Geri Sullivan in Minneapolis. All this fiddling
around is because _at least_ the first $16 of any US donation
converted by a British bank will normally be wasted in bank charges.
_Marion Zimmer Bradley_
Saint Mark's Episcopal Church
2300 Bancroft Way
Berkeley
CA 94704
USA
_Chuck Harris_. Sue Harris suggests one of the following:
British Heart Foundation -- Towcester & District Branch
Attn: Mr J Lesser
43 Sandringham Close
Towcester
Northants
NN12 6TE
England
--OR--
Macmillan Cancer Relief
Attn: Treasurer Mr D.R. Hobbs, FMCA
4 Hawthorn Drive
Daventry
Northants
England
(There's also a Freepost address for use within the UK: Macmillan
Cancer Relief, FREEPOST, 15-19 Britten Street, London, SW3 3BR.)
_Jean Hoare._ `Family flowers only' was Martin's request at the
funeral, but he suggested that anyone wanting to make a donation in
Jean's memory might like to contribute to the hospice that eased her
last few days:
Duchess of Kent House
Dellwood Hospital
Leibenrood Road
Reading
Berkshire
RG30 2DX
England
_James White._ Memorials should go to the British Diabetic
Association (BDA), Northern Ireland regional office. `Please mention
James so the family hears about it,' says Geri.
BDA Northern Ireland
John Gibson House
257 Lisburn Road
Belfast
Northern Ireland
BT9 7EN
United Kingdom
_Ansible 146_ was a frivolous, no-news issue printed in Melbourne for
distribution at Aussiecon 3, and so wasn't posted to the usual list
server or newsgroups. It can be read at:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/SF-Archives/Ansible/a146.html
Ansible 147 Copyright (c) Dave Langford, 1999. Thanks to Aussiecon 3,
John Bark, Paul Barnett, Barbara Barrett, Tim Bartel, Bill Bowers, Ned
Brooks, John Foyster, Gumball, Edward James, Ken Lake, Evelyn
C.Leeper, Robert Lichtman, Perry Middlemiss, Caroline Mullan, Kim
Newman, Marc Ortlieb, Harry Payne, Bruce Pelz, Yvonne Rousseau,
Jennifer Swift and our Hero Distributors: Janice Murray (NA), SCIS,
Alan Stewart (Oz), Brum Group News.
7 Oct 99
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>13-14 Nov [] MEMORABILIA (vast sf and miscellaneous pop-culture
>collectors' fair), Hall 17, NEC, Birmingham. Box office 0121 767 4555.
I don't know whether this is a correction or an update, but the event is
now billed as taking place on 6-7 November.
Dave
xSaBx
Langford) wrote:
> I don't know whether this is a correction or an update, but the event is
> now billed as taking place on 6-7 November.
The NEC has had this date advertised as the 6/7th since the
end of September. Prospective visitors should note there is
an entrance fee (I think it's £7ukp), and I know that a
number of TV SF actors will be signing at the event
(including B5's Claudia Christian, according to the umtsb5
group) There's also the chance to get in before anyone else,
(the show starts on 10 on the Saturday) if you are prepared
to pay a tenner. This will allow you entrance at 9am.
Anyone who collects SF memorabilia in the UK shouldn't miss
this event (there's normally another event at Olympia or the
SECC in 6 months) as there are genuine bargains to be had.
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