Ansible 134 [long]
David Langford
ANSIBLE 134
SEPTEMBER 1998
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YO-HO-HO. As Bucconeer, the piratical Baltimore worldcon, hauled down
its Jolly Roger with a final attendance of 5,306, there were appreciative
fannish cries of `Avast, me hearties!', `Pieces of eight!' and `Arr, no
more publications written in bloody pirate-speak!' [] 2001. The
Philadelphia worldcon bid beat the mighty Boston-for-Orlando machine by
1,145 votes to 940. [] HUGOS. NOVEL Joe Haldeman, _Forever Peace_: `Like
clockwork, every twenty-two years I win a Hugo for a novel ...' NOVELLA
Allen Steele, `... Where Angels Fear to Tread'. NOVELETTE Bill Johnson,
`We Will Drink a Fish Together ...'. SHORT Mike Resnick, `The 43 Antarean
Dynasties'. RELATED BOOK _The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_ ed John Clute &
John Grant. DRAMATIC _Contact_. EDITOR Gardner Dozois (_Asimov's_).
ARTIST Bob Eggleton. SEMIPROZINE _Locus_. FANZINE _Mimosa_. FAN WRITER
David Langford. (Thanks! _Everyone:_ `Will no one rid us of this
turbulent Langford?') FAN ARTIST Joe Mayhew. JOHN W.CAMPBELL AWARD Mary
Doria Russell. John Clute recollects: `Joe Haldeman was over the moon.
Martin Hoare read your funny bits very well.... Charles Sheffield, spaced
beyond Mars on nerves, did the toastmaster gig in a pirate costume. David
Streitfeld did a genuinely competent piece on the Con for the _Washington
Post_. So it went.' [] SHIVER ME TIMBERS! This year's small (`Thank God'
-- M.Hoare) and tasteful Hugo base incorporates wood `from the Sloop-of-
War USS Constellation. Launched 1854, last Civil War ship afloat.'
Secrecy shrouds the pirate raid that carried off this spoil. []
QUOTABLES. _Weapons Physics Wisdom:_ `The idea of using rocks as kinetic
weapons is not a new one.' -- John Maddox Roberts. [RBW] _Steve Jones_,
having begged in vain for his rightful Hugo lapel pin ever since being
nominated in 1992, was boggled and gratified by the gift of Bob
Eggleton's: `Steve should have this one, because I've got the real
thing!' _Martin Hoare_, very loudly, on seeing Elspeth Kovar Burgess
eavesdropping on his traditional 4am phone call to Reading: `Don't! Stop
that! Stop taking your clothes off right now!'
### THE GLORY THAT WAS ###
JOHN CLUTE wrings our hearts ... `About a year ago Paragon Films, a
Canadian firm producing a movie called _The Secret Laughter of Women_,
got hold of me through Little Brown. They wanted to hire the use of some
sf/fantasy awards as props, because one of the film's protagonists was
an sf writer, and some sequences were set in his award-bestrewn study.
[] After being given a copy of their insurance cover, and being assured
that all risks to me were more than amply covered, I hired my trophies
to Paragon, along with 5 sf books they also wanted. [] After considerable
delay, they have now paid the rental on the trophies. They have never
paid the invoice for taking the 5 books from me. [] In October, Paragon
came back to me to say all 11 trophies had been lost in transit, as well
as the 5 books; but assured me that I would gain an adequate insurance
settlement for the loss of objects of such symbolic and (in career terms)
substantial importance. [] The insurance company, however, subsequently
informed the local London adjuster -- who had agreed with my estimate of
the loss -- that their agreement with Paragon only covered cost of
physical replacement. The fact that most of these trophies were
irreplaceable -- all manufactured under special circumstances, usually
on behalf of temporary organizations like WorldCons -- was irrelevant to
them. [] I faxed Paragon at this point, without any response. There has
never been a word of response to me from Paragon. [] The insurance
company has now paid out, very generously in terms of a roughly estimated
cost of manufacture, but very much less than generously in terms of the
actual loss. [] So if _The Secret Laughter of Women_ is ever released,
look for a row of trophies going West.'
KEN MACLEOD had a good gloat over his Prometheus (libertarian sf) Award
win for _The Star Fraction_. The glory was shared with Robert A.Heinlein,
whose _Time Enough for Love_ got the Hall of Fame award.
ROBERT J.SAWYER succumbed to fatal temptation and protested at a hostile
review; the result was a lawsuit for $5 million (Canadian). Allan Weiss
attacked Sawyer's _Starplex_ in the Canadian free magazine _Realms_,
under the headline `The best book did not win': `Robert J.Sawyer's self-
promotion was what landed him the Aurora Award.' The irate response was
headed `Reviewer had conflict of interest' and claimed a `personal
vendetta' following Sawyer's rude remarks about some Weiss bibliography
of Canadian sf. Weiss hit back with multi-million-dollar libel actions
against both _Realms_ and Sawyer.... The _Toronto Star_ sees Canada's sf
community as `divided', with many fundraising for Sawyer while some
support the `underdog' Weiss. [MA] Though always unhappy about such daft
lawsuits, _Ansible_ also recalls US critic Paul Fussell's term for angry
rebuttals of reviews: the ABM, or Author's Big Mistake.
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Tce, London, SW8 1AX; 0171 735 3819.
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Scotland, KA10 7PZ.
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Convention Center & Philadelphia Marriott Hotel. GoH Greg Bear, Stephen
Youll, Gardner Dozois. FGoH George Scithers. Contact Suite 2001, 402
Huntingdon Pike, Rockledge, PA 19046, USA.
### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###
WELSH SF NEWS! This year's National Eisteddfod Prose Medal was won (for
the first time ever?) by an sf novel: _Blodwyn Tatws_ by Eirug Wyn,
published 7/98. The title means, of course, _Potato Flower_. [DW]
_TOMORROW SF_ is having convulsions. By late Aug, all visible website
stories were reprints by editor Algis Budrys; story submissions are being
returned unread, though nonfiction and cartoons still seem acceptable.
THE WRAP PARTY. This _B5_-based Aug event reportedly went well despite
organizational eccentricities, with capital-P Performances from J.M.
Straczynski and H.Ellison. The latter's denunciation of a certain
dragonish lady book-dealer was at first thought over the top, but even
ever-nice James White complained when this dealer -- firmly told that
James was too tired to sign more than half her stock -- was found feeding
the other half by sleight of hand into his mysteriously undiminishing
pile of books for signature. Hardly cricket when the author is almost
blind. The committee, resigned to a membership shortfall, had propped up
the event by putting #8,000 of their own into the kitty ... when this
emerged, HE and JMS overrode the committee's reluctance and raised
#11,000 by auctioning trips to the _B5_ set and Chez Ellison. Coo!
Meanwhile, refused admission for tortuous reasons, Wolf 359's Bryan
Cooney (`The Man in the Mac') sat balefully in hotel reception for four
days.
RANDOM FANDOM. _John Bangsund & Sally Yeoland_ recently separated but
remain good friends. [] _Ken Cheslin_ is reprinting John Berry's 60-odd
Irish Fandom stories in 4 fat volumes. Free to fans, but help with
expenses is welcome: 29 Kestrel Rd, Halesowen, W.Midlands, B63 2PH. []
_Robert Lichtman_ has irresistible offers: (a) the Fantasy Amateur Press
Association has vacancies, and (b) the cutoff date for $8 presubscribed
copies of his Walt Willis _Nebula_ column collection is now 1 Oct (more
subscribers needed!). Either way, apply to PO Box 30, CA 95442, USA. []
_Keith Oborn_ had a phildickian moment in Athens. His hotel's automatic
welcome system used the room TV to display this Hellenically personalized
message: MR. KEITH OBORN, WELCOME TO THE MOAT HOUSE HARROGATE. [] _Martin
Tudor_ fled the horrors of 7.5 years editing the Brum Group newsletter;
a new incumbent is sought.... [] _Walt Willis_ was admitted to Ulster
Hospital in late Aug, dazed from what was diagnosed as a mild stroke.
He's expected home 4 Sept. Cautious optimism prevails, but Madeleine
Willis fears `there is a little brain damage.' [CH/GS]
C.O.A. _Socorro Burbee_, 12723 Gabbett Dr, La Mirada, CA 90638-2109, USA.
_Anthony & Joy Hilbert_, 34 Grange Ave, Leeds, LS7 4EL. _Vince Clarke_
is in a Sidcup residential home until 11 Sep, `to get some rest.'
_Elizabeth Kerner_, 9 Harlawhill Gdns, Prestonpans, East Lothian,
Scotland, EH32 9JQ. _Ken Lake_, 36 Barrington Rd, Loughton, Essex, IG10
2AY. _Joseph T.Major_, 1409 Christy Ave, Louisville, KY 40204-2040, USA.
_Mark Manning_ (but not Getsu-shin), c/o 1300 W Nickerson #119, Seattle,
WA 98119, USA. _John Richards_, 11 Cardiff Rd, North End, Portsmouth, PO2
_8BH_ ... postcode correction. _Nigel Rowe_ (but not Karen Babich), 431
S Dearborn, #402, Chicago, IL 60605-1121, USA.
SMALL PRESS. K.V.Bailey's sf/fantasy poetry collection _The Vortices of
Time_ is unusual for light-heartedness and a high proportion of triolets.
#3 post free; 1 Val de Mer, Alderney, Channel Isles, GY9 3YR. [] _Holt!
Who Goes There?_ assembles Tom Holt's funny columns for the BFS
newsletter. #4.99 plus 50p p&p UK, 75p Europe; #7.00 post free elsewhere.
British Fantasy Society, 2 Harwood St, Stockport, SK4 1JJ. [] Marcus
Rowland's _Forgotten Futures_ disks of (mostly) strange old out-of-
copyright sf are now collected as a CD-ROM: #18, or #12 to previously
registered _FF_ users. 22 Westbourne Park Villas, London, W2 5EA. [] _New
Earth_, yet another new sf mag, invites submissions. Guidelines are
available: SAE to 54 Hollicondane Rd, Ramsgate, Kent, CT11 7PH.
SIDEWISE AWARDS for alternate history, presented at Bucconeer: LONG Harry
Turtledove, _How Few Remain_. SHORT William Sanders, `The Undiscovered'
(_Asimov's_). SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT Robert J.Sobel, _For Want of a Nail
...; If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga_.
THOG'S CYBERPUNK MASTERCLASS. How to make a web search sound exciting:
`Entering key-words and key-phrases in every permutation she could think
of, she prepared her hard drives for a worldwide 'Net-trawl ... The hard
drives, in their racks, growled their readiness like hounds straining at
the leash. Hitting "Enter", she let them slip.' (J.M.H.Lovegrove, _The
Krilov Continuum_, 1998) [GW]
TAFF. Velma (Vijay) Bowen and Sarah Prince emerged as candidates for the
1999 eastbound TransAtlantic Fan Fund trip, from North America to
Reconvene in Liverpool. Ballot forms are now available from _Ansible_ and
others of the usual suspects. Voting closes 5 Dec.
NASA CONSPIRACY. The true reason for that announcement of ice on the Moon
was revealed by the Association of Autonomous Astronauts -- who aim to
`leave this society behind' in backyard spaceships by 2000, without the
tainted assistance of multinationals. NASA's March `news' was in fact
cunningly timed to upstage and discredit the AAA Intergalactic Conference
(Bologna, Apr). It all makes sense now.... [JN]
MORE _WIRED_ TALES. The _San Francisco Chronicle_ chortles that _Wired_
magazine, for all its cyberspatial trendiness, is prohibited from using
its name on a web site. When Wired Digital sold the printed mag to S.I.
Newhouse of Conde Nast fame, they retained all on-line rights to the
brand name. [DC] Maybe Newhouse could instead license _Hardwired_ from
famous _Wired_ fan Walter Jon Williams (see _Ansible 123/4_)....
WORLD FANTASY AWARDS. 1998 nominations slate ... NOVEL Charles de Lint,
_Trader_; Jeffrey Ford, _The Physiognomy_; Harvey Jacobs, _American
Goliath_; Eric Nylund, _Dry Water_; Patrick O'Leary, _The Gift_. (Arturo
Perez-Reverte's _The Club Dumas_ was originally included and then found
ineligible owing to a 1996 UK edition; _Dry Water_ replaces it.) []
NOVELLA Richard Bowes, `Streetcar Dreams' (_F&SF_); Brian Hodge, `The
Dripping of Sundered Wineskins' (_Love in Vein II_); Ellen Kushner &
Delia Sherman, `The Fall of the Kings' (_Bending the Landscape:
Fantasy_); Kim Newman, `Coppola's Dracula' (_The Mammoth Book of
Dracula_); Douglas E.Winter, `The Zombies of Madison County' (_Dark of
the Night_). [] SHORT P.D.Cacek, `Dust Motes' (_Gothic Ghosts_); Lisa
Goldstein, `Fortune and Misfortune' (_Asimov's_); Paul Park, `Get a Grip'
(_OMNI On Line_); Robert Charles Wilson, `The Inner Inner City'
(_Northern Frights 4_); Jack Womack, `Audience' (_The Horns Of Elfland_).
[] ANTHOLOGY _Modern Classics of Fantasy_ ed Gardner Dozois; _Bending the
Landscape: Fantasy_ ed Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel; _Northern Frights
4_ ed Don Hutchison; _Dark Terrors 3_, ed Stephen Jones & David Sutton;
_Millennium_ (aka _Revelations_) ed Douglas E.Winter. [] COLLECTION Peter
S.Beagle, _Giant Bones_; Ray Bradbury, _Driving Blind_; Paul Di Filippo,
_Fractal Paisleys_; Brian McNaughton, _The Throne of Bones_; Michael
Swanwick, _A Geography Of Unknown Lands_. [] ARTIST Rick Berry, Jim
Burns, Alan Lee, Don Maitz, Dave McKean. [] PROFESSIONAL Ellen Datlow,
editing/anthologies; Gardner Dozois, editing/anthologies; John Clute &
John Grant, editing _The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_; _Stephen Jones_,
editing/anthologies; Gordon Van Gelder, editing (books/_F&SF_). [] NON-
PROFESSIONAL Richard Chizmar, _Cemetery Dance_ mag/CD Publications;
Fedogan & Bremer, book publishing; Chris Logan Edwards, Tigereyes Press;
Barry Hoffman, _Gauntlet_ mag/publishing; Jeff VanderMeer, Ministry of
Whimsy Press. Results 1 Nov at World Fantasy Con, Monterey, CA. [SJ]
WORLDCON RULES. In a vote awaiting ratification at Aussiecon next year,
Bucconeer's business meeting changed the bidding constraints from US
regional rotation (with furriners bidding when they like) to a 500-mile
exclusion zone. Thus new bid venues must be at least 500 miles from the
current worldcon site, with hotel accommodation situated over 500 miles
from the convention centre, and the business meeting held 500 miles from
both Tim Illingworth and Ben Yalow.
R.I.P. _Ariane von Orlow_, an enthusiastic German fan, died on 8 August
from a brain tumour. She was only 32.
OUTRAGED LETTERS ... _Diana Wynne Jones_ is `_tediously_ slowly getting
better -- I hope -- but as the hospital evidently don't expect me to have
recovered before October, I suppose I do quite well.' [] _Bruce Pelz_
learned the hideous secret that _Ansible_ first-edition typos etc may be
fixed for overseas printings: `Collectors are doomed -- there are
probably dozens of Variant Edition issues to be chased down in order to
have a Complete Collection of _Ansible_. As this is obviously an
Impossible Task, I shall have to give the whole fanzine-collecting idea
up and recycle the several tons of now valueless wastepaper. Oh You
Fiend, Langford!' [] _Several Of You_ insist that though David Brin's
rant about the persecuting Swiss did happen (`Ask Tim Powers!'), it was
all a year or two ago.
THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _Dept of Careful Word Choice._ Context: hero finds
that, unknowingly, he was hypnotized and involved in a homosexual orgy
with naughty monks of the Society of St Peter Martyr. He investigates
these events: `For the first time in several days, Peter thought he had
a chance of getting to the bottom of the Society of St Peter Martyr.'
(John Saul, _Punish the Sinners_, 1978) [] `And before you can come to
mass, [said Father McBride] you'll need to come to confession, which, for
your information, is held every Wednesday from ten in the morning till
two in the afternoon. Because if, as you say, you pursued sexual
relations with that Venetian woman outside the sanctity of marriage, it's
still adultery plain and simple, even if she was dead when you did it.'
(Robert Girardi, _Vaporetto 13_, 1997) [PB] [] `To the Clan, a new life
was formed by the ubiquitous essences of the totems and any relationship
between sexual activity and childbirth was beyond conception.' (Jean M.
Auel, _The Clan of the Cave Bear_, 1980) [RP] [] _Dept of Weird Science._
`You're one of these mad-scientists one hears about, I take it?' (Jane
Gaskell, _Atlan_, 1965) ... `Professor Morgenstahl, the mathematical
genius who had upset every previous conviction respecting the relative
distances of the planets, who had mapped space, who had proved that lunar
eclipses were not produced by the shadow of the earth ...' (Sax Rohmer,
_President Fu Manchu_, 1936) ... `A six-foot-high working model of the
DNA double helix stood against another wall.' -- and would presumably
soon fill the room. (George Chesbro, _The Beasts of Valhalla_, 1985) ...
[all RC] [] _Dept of We Have No Shame._ `His landlady came to the door,
loosely wrapped in dressing-gown and shawl; her husband followed
ejaculating.' (H.G.Wells, _The War of the Worlds_, 1898) [DG]
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ENDNOTES.
_That Clute Calamity._ I can't help wondering whether some of John
Clute's lost trophies couldn't be replaced from resources in the
cupboards and attics of fandom. For example, I still have a left-over
Hugo base that wasn't used in 1979 (not, alas, a relevant year), and
the rockets themselves are presumably purchasable from Peter `Mr
Knobs' Weston. But does anyone, anywhere, have a spare Hugo base from
ConAdian in 1994 -- when JC shared the nonfiction award with Peter
Nicholls for the second edition of the _The Encyclopedia of SF_ -- or
LAcon III in 1996, when he won this category solo for _Science
Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia_? The Pilgrim Award may be more
difficult....
Ansible 134 Copyright (c) Dave Langford, 1998. Thanks to Martin Abela,
Paul Barnett, Rachel Carthy, Dave Clark, John Clute, Dave Gullen,
Chuch Harris, Steve Jones, Joseph Nicholas, Ray Proven, Geri Sullivan,
Roger Burton West, Gary Wilkinson, Dave Wood and our Hero
Distributors: Janice Murray (NA), SCIS, Alan Stewart (Oz), and Martin
Tudor (BSFG).
3 Sep 98
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Margaret Hall
<ans...@cix.co.uk> writes
>
>ANSIBLE 134
>SEPTEMBER 1998
>
>From DAVE LANGFORD, 94 London Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5AU, UK. Fax
>0118 966 9914. ISSN 0265-9816. E-mail ans...@cix.co.uk. Available for
>SAE, whim, or pop-science books on adeledicnander.
>
>
>### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###
>
>WELSH SF NEWS! This year's National Eisteddfod Prose Medal was won (for
>the first time ever?) by an sf novel: _Blodwyn Tatws_ by Eirug Wyn,
>published 7/98. The title means, of course, _Potato Flower_. [DW]
>
was _Seren Wen Ar Gefndir Gwyn_ (White Star on a White Background) by
Robin Llywelyn which won the prose medal in 1992.[1] And yes, that is
the very same Robin Llywelyn who is manager of Portmeirion and who seems
to be trying to stop the Prisoner conventions there, or at least move
them to the depths of winter instead of allowing them in August, which
AFAIK is the traditional month. He is also using a vandalism incident
to add support to his claim that the conventions are somehow
inappropriate for the unique Italianate village, despite the fact that
the convention organiser is sure that no convention goers were involved
and have offered to pay for the repairs. (All this according to the
reports in the Daily Post and Cambrian News.)
Margaret
[1] Which though it sits on my bookshelf, I haven't read owing to my
Welsh not being good enough yet.
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Margaret Hall, Gwynedd, Wales
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David Langford
>KEN MACLEOD had a good gloat over his Prometheus (libertarian sf) Award
>win for _The Star Fraction_.
Er, that is, for _The Stone Canal_. Argh. It was a pun, I tell you. A
palindrome. Doelcam.
Dave
Evelyn C. Leeper
David Langford <ans...@cix.co.uk> wrote:
> WORLDCON RULES. In a vote awaiting ratification at Aussiecon next year,
> Bucconeer's business meeting changed the bidding constraints from US
> regional rotation (with furriners bidding when they like) to a 500-mile
> exclusion zone. Thus new bid venues must be at least 500 miles from the
> current worldcon site, with hotel accommodation situated over 500 miles
> from the convention centre, and the business meeting held 500 miles from
> both Tim Illingworth and Ben Yalow.
As many will undoubtedly point out, the regional rotation is North
American, not US.
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Ed Dravecky III
<snip>
> WORLDCON RULES. In a vote awaiting ratification at Aussiecon next
> year, Bucconeer's business meeting changed the bidding constraints
> from US regional rotation (with furriners bidding when they like)
> to a 500-mile exclusion zone. Thus new bid venues must be at least
> 500 miles from the current worldcon site, with hotel accommodation
> situated over 500 miles from the convention centre, and the business
> meeting held 500 miles from both Tim Illingworth and Ben Yalow.
Now to see if Gary can detect the joke in *this* post that he was
unable to do in the post (by some other person) about Ted White. :->
--
Ed Dravecky III <*>
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/2727/
John Lorentz
<35f0a44a...@news.demon.co.uk>...
>
> ANSIBLE 134
> SEPTEMBER 1998
>
> ...
> ### CONSUETE ###
>
>
> 26-27 Sep [] MULTICON 98 (media, commercial), Norbreck Castle Hotel,
> Blackpool. Many media guests. #30 reg, to Dave Prowse Promotions Ltd c/o
> 12 Marshalsea Road, London, SE1 1HL.
>
> 14 Nov [] DANGERCON 7 (_Dangermouse_), Ruskin House, Croydon. 11am-11pm.
> Fan GoH Alan Sullivan. #5 reg at door. Cheques to Robert Newman, 37 Keens
> Rd, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 1AH; 0181 686 6800.
>
get a mention? <g>
--
John Lorentz, Chair OryCon 20, PO Box 5703 Portland, Oregon 97228-5703
http:/www.teleport.com/~osfci/orycon
James Nicoll
>review; the result was a lawsuit for $5 million (Canadian). Allan Weiss
>attacked Sawyer's _Starplex_ in the Canadian free magazine _Realms_,
>under the headline `The best book did not win': `Robert J.Sawyer's self-
>promotion was what landed him the Aurora Award.' The irate response was
>headed `Reviewer had conflict of interest' and claimed a `personal
>vendetta' following Sawyer's rude remarks about some Weiss bibliography
>of Canadian sf. Weiss hit back with multi-million-dollar libel actions
>against both _Realms_ and Sawyer....
>
I am fairly skeptical that Weiss will get anything close to what he is
asking for, although since (again ims) contingency fees are illegal in
Canada, the lawyers should be well fed.
--
Whenever someone quotes that old Heinlein comment about
specialization being for insects, I like to reflect on how much more
successful than hominids insects have been. Remove humans and you end
a K/T level Extinction Event. Remove insects and you _cause_ one.
David G. Bell
ans...@cix.co.uk "David Langford" writes:
> WORLDCON RULES. In a vote awaiting ratification at Aussiecon next year,
> Bucconeer's business meeting changed the bidding constraints from US
> regional rotation (with furriners bidding when they like) to a 500-mile
> exclusion zone. Thus new bid venues must be at least 500 miles from the
> current worldcon site, with hotel accommodation situated over 500 miles
> from the convention centre, and the business meeting held 500 miles from
> both Tim Illingworth and Ben Yalow.
Somebody nominate this man for another Hugo!
--
David G. Bell -- Farmer, SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.
Ed Dravecky III
> Now to see if Gary can detect the joke in *this* post <SNIP>
Let me state publicly that I am an idiot for not researching the
whole Owings/White situation before going for the laugh line.
I've cancelled the original message and wish to apologize to
Gary and Ted for any misunderstanding.
Geri Sullivan
>
> David Langford <ans...@cix.co.uk> wrote in article
> <35f0a44a...@news.demon.co.uk>...
> >
> > ANSIBLE 134
> > SEPTEMBER 1998
> >
> > ...
> > ### CONSUETE ###
> >
> >
> > Blackpool. Many media guests. #30 reg, to Dave Prowse Promotions Ltd c/o
> > 12 Marshalsea Road, London, SE1 1HL.
> >
> > 14 Nov [] DANGERCON 7 (_Dangermouse_), Ruskin House, Croydon. 11am-11pm.
> > Fan GoH Alan Sullivan. #5 reg at door. Cheques to Robert Newman, 37 Keens
> > Rd, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 1AH; 0181 686 6800.
> >
> get a mention? <g>
It doesn't get listed until the November issue if the Minicon example is
anything to go by. <big grin>
But that's okay -- if you published a fanzine, you just might get 9,133
words from him after the fact. <even bigger grin, and hoping to have
copies at OryCon 20>
> John Lorentz, Chair OryCon 20, PO Box 5703 Portland, Oregon 97228-5703
> http:/www.teleport.com/~osfci/orycon
--
Geri Sullivan FanGoH liaison Minicon 33
g...@toad-hall.com
Marcus L. Rowland
> Marcus
>Rowland's _Forgotten Futures_ disks of (mostly) strange old out-of-
>copyright sf are now collected as a CD-ROM: #18, or #12 to previously
>registered _FF_ users. 22 Westbourne Park Villas, London, W2 5EA.
One small point; the prices include a 10% donation to the Imperial
Cancer Research Fund.
So far this has raised UKP 62.60 for charity, of which UKP 53 has been
handed over to the fund. This includes several generous donations over
and above the 10%. See my Demon web page for full details.
--
Marcus L. Rowland
http://www.ffutures.demon.co.uk/ http://www.forgottenfutures.com/
"We are all victims of this slime. They... ...fill our mailboxes with gibberish
that would get them indicted if people had time to press charges"
[Hunter S. Thompson predicts junk e-mail, 1985 (from Generation of Swine)]
Terry Pratchett
<mrow...@ffutures.demon.co.uk> writes
>>Rowland's _Forgotten Futures_ disks of (mostly) strange old out-of-
>>copyright sf are now collected as a CD-ROM: #18, or #12 to previously
>>registered _FF_ users. 22 Westbourne Park Villas, London, W2 5EA.
>
>Cancer Research Fund.
>
>So far this has raised UKP 62.60 for charity, of which UKP 53 has been
>handed over to the fund. This includes several generous donations over
>and above the 10%. See my Demon web page for full details.
It's great stuff, too. It really deserves a much wider circulation.
Of course the compiler was totally remiss in not including The Black
Octaarghaarghaargh...
:-)
--
Terry Pratchett
Ray Radlein
>
> ans...@cix.co.uk (David Langford) wrote:
>
> >KEN MACLEOD had a good gloat over his Prometheus (libertarian sf)
> >Award win for _The Star Fraction_.
>
> A palindrome.
YM "Irony." HTH.
- Ray R.
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