Ansible 427 -- February 2023

[David Langford]

ANSIBLE(R) 427
FEBRUARY 2023

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### THE CLAM OF CATASTROPHE ###

MARGARET ATWOOD and IAN McEWAN were among the targets of Italian fraudster
Filippo Bernardini's scheme to acquire unpublished manuscripts (reportedly
over 1,000) by online impersonation of publishers, editors, agents, talent
scouts, etc. He was arrested at JFK airport on 4 January, pleaded guilty in
a US court on 6 January, and should be sentenced on 5 April: '15 to 21
months of imprisonment, a fine of between $7,500 and $75,000, and
restitution of $88,000.' (_Vulture_, 6 January) [JDB]

PAUL DI FILIPPO was badly bruised in a road accident on 19 January, reports
his partner Deborah Newton: 'Last night while on his evening walk, Paul was
hit by a woman driving a large SUV. I will not write in all the details,
but suffice it to say he was hit at dead center of the front of her
vehicle, his body flew through the air and landed on the street.' 12 hours
in ER; many bruises but no broken bones; he was soon recovering at home and
posting online. All sympathy to both Paul and Deborah.

JO FLETCHER noticed the _New York Times_ tantalizing readers with a
stupendously cryptic challenge: 'Here's a clue from the Sunday crossword:
37 Down: Literary award shaped like a rocket". (8 January) One suspects
that 'International Fantasy Award' wouldn't fit.

BEN JEAPES does not write only sf, as revealed in an _i_ feature (7
January) about celebrity ghostwriters, in the context of a Certain Royal
Memoir that he would have hesitated to take on: 'I have friends who have
worked for the Royal Family and even the nice ones, in inverted commas,
seem to be so demanding.' Just which children's adventure series Ben
ghosted for which famous person remains shrouded in deadly secrecy.

TOM MONTELEONE ranted on Facebook and YouTube about recent winners of the
Horror Writers Association life achievement award. From a YouTube
transcript: '... the last three years of these awards have been severely
skewed towards you know people that have been in the past called quote
marginalized or not unquote okay so you know you've been oh wow you've been
writing while Indian wow we're going to give you an award you you've been
writing while black you get an award no problem and and you're you're a
female and you're not a white male you get one right yeah that's evil it's
literally what it is that's what's been going on but I'm not allowed
_[...]_ to have that opinion ...' [SW] And thus: 'The Board of Trustees has
voted to expel Mr Monteleone from the Horror Writers Association, thus
revoking the benefits of his Lifetime Achievement Award ...' (HWA, 31
January) He's also banned from future HWA events. [TM]

JUSTIN ROILAND, co-creator, executive producer and star (voicing both title
roles) of the popular animated sf series _Rick and Morty_, has been dropped
from the show after US felony charges of 'domestic battery with corporal
injury' and 'false imprisonment'. (_Deadline_, 24 January)

NAVAH WOLFE has joined DAW Books -- owned since last year by the
Beijing-based Astra Publishing House -- as executive editor. [L]


### CONVOLVULACEAE ###

3-6 Feb [] SCOTIACON (furry), Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow. GBP100 reg.
Other details at www.scotiacon.org.uk.

16-19 Feb [] UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL, Museum of Making, Derby. Talks etc.
are separately ticketed: see www.ukghoststoryfestival.co.uk.

17-19 Feb [] SCI-FI BALL (media), Southampton. Tickets from GBP145 (GBP35
child) plus various more expensive options at scifiball.com.

25-26 Feb [] SURREY STEAMPUNK CONVIVIAL, Stoneleigh, Epsom. See
bumpandthumper.wixsite.com/steampunkconvivials.

10-12 Mar [] FRIGHTFEST (film), Glasgow. Weekend pass GBP75; for individual
tickets see frightfest.co.uk/filmsandevents.html.

10-12 Mar [] MINAMICON (anime), Novotel Hotel, Southampton. GBP65 reg.
Further details at www.minamicon.org.uk.

11 Mar [] PICOCON 40, Imperial College, London. First GoH Alma Alexander.
Details awaited at www.union.ic.ac.uk/scc/icsf/picocon/.

16-19 Mar [] CAMP SFW, Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth. 3-day pass
GBP130; 2-day GBP99; more options at www.scifiweekender.com.

18 Mar [] BEDFORD WHO CHARITY CON (_Doctor Who_), King's House, Ampthill
Road, Bedford, MK42 9AZ. 10am-5:30pm.GBP49.50; concessions/under-18s GBP25;
under-15s GBP15. See bedfordwhocharitycon.co.uk.

7-10 Apr [] CONVERSATION (Eastercon), Hilton Metropole, Birmingham NEC.
GBP80 reg, _rising to GBP90 on 5 February_; GBP45 concessions; GBP40
supporting or online- only membership; under-18s GBP20; under-13s GBP5.
More information at conversation2023.org.uk.

14-16 Apr [] CONPULSION (games), Teviot Row House, Edinburgh. Further
details awaited at conpulsion.org.

26-28 May [] SATELLITE 8, Crowne Plaza, Glasgow.GBP70 reg; under-25s GBP60;
under-18s GBP20; under-12s GBP5; under-5s GBP2. _These rates may rise on 1
March._ See eight.satellitex.org.uk.

2-4 Jun [] JODIWORLD (Jodi Taylor), Doubletree by Hilton, Coventry. GoH
Jodi Taylor, others. GBP70 reg; GBP10 supp; see www.jodiworld.org.

10 Sep [] POPCORN (media), Magna, Sheffield. Tickets GBP11.22; under-17s
GBP9.09; under-7s free. See popcorncon.com.

18-22 Oct [] WORLDCON 2023, Chengdu, China. _New dates (moved from August)
and venue:_ now to be held at the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, currently
under construction as part of a vast sf theme park at Jingrong Lake.
(Twitter, 20 January) Hotels have also changed from those first announced.
A Chinese fan post expresses concern that such decisions are being made by
the marketing planning company of 'Chengdu Business Daily ... a news media
organization that has nothing to do with science fiction' rather than by
the appointed Worldcon committee. [F770] Hugo nominations open 'soon' and
close at the end of April. Online registration is at last accepting
non-Chinese credit cards, but it's now too late to join as a voting WSFS
member. More at en.chengduworldcon.com.

20-22 Oct [] FESTIVAL OF FANTASTIC FILMS, Pendulum Hotel, Manchester.
GBP110 reg. For day rates see 'Book Tickets' at fantastic-films.uk.

21 Oct [] BRISTOLCON, Hilton DoubleTree Hotel, Bristol. GoH TBA.GBP35 reg;
GBP20 under-18s, concessions, disabled; under-14s free; GBP10 supp.
Registration opened on 1 February at www.bristolcon.org.

RUMBLINGS. _Eurocon 2024_ (Rotterdam, August) offers adult memberships for
Euro125 at www.erasmuscon.nl but still gives no exact date.
_Worldcon 2024:_ Glasgow published its first Progress Report in
January, leading to some caustic remarks about Chengdu's failure -- despite
a year's start -- to do as much.
_Worldcon 2025:_ the deadline for bidders to file their papers is now
21 April 2023. The only definite bid is for Seattle, Washington, USA.


### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###

WE ARE EVERYWHERE. The newly-elected US representative Robert Garcia
announced that he'd take his oath to Congress on the Constitution and
(_inter alia_) a vintage 1939 _Superman_ #1. (_Raw Story_, 4 January) [JB]

AWARDS. _Philip K. Dick_ finalists: _Arboreality_ by Rebecca Campbell;
_Widowland_ by C.J. Carey; _Ymir_ by Rich Larson; _January Fifteenth_ by
Rachel Swirsky; _The Legacy of Molly Southbourne_ by Tade Thompson; _The
Extractionist_ by Kimberly Unger.
_Robert A. Heinlein Award:_ John Scalzi. [] _Oscar_ best-film
nominations include _Avatar: The Way of Water_ and _Everything Everywhere
All at Once_.
_Otherwise_ (was Tiptree): _Light from Uncommon Stars_ by Ryka Aoki
and _Sorrowland_ by Rivers Solomon.

PUBLISHERS AND SINNERS. JABberwocky Literary Agency apologized for an error
in its POD paperback of Aliette de Bodard's _The Red Scholar's Wake_: all
copies sold up to 9 January are missing a whole chapter, and will be
replaced free of charge. (Awfulagent.com, 23 January) [SB]

THE DRAGON VARIATION. _Host:_ 'In cinema, the 2000 Ang Lee film that was
nominated for a best picture Oscar was called _Crouching Tiger, Hidden_ ...
what?' _Contestant:_ 'Cupboard.' (BBC1, _The Weakest Link_) [PE]

R.I.P. _Tim Barlow_ (1936-2023), UK actor in _Doctor Who_ ('Destiny of the
Daleks', 1979), _10,000 BC_ (2008) and _Cockneys vs Zombies_ (2012), died
on 21 January aged 87.
_Jeff Beck_ (1944-2023), UK musician with soundtrack credits for
_Gremlins 2_ (1990) and genre tv series, died on 10 January aged 78. [LP]
_Earl Boen_ (1941-2023), US actor in _Battle Beyond the Stars_ (1980),
_The Man with Two Brains_ (1983), _The Terminator_ (1984 plus sequels),
_Alien Nation_ (1988) and others -- plus voice work for many genre
videogames -- died on 5 January aged 81. [LP]
_James D. Brubaker_ (1937-2023), US producer of _The Right Stuff_
(1983), _The Nutty Professor_ (1996), _Bruce Almighty_ (2003) and others,
died on 3 January aged 85. [PDF]
_Wally Campo_ (1923-2023), US actor in _Beast from Haunted Cave_
(1959), _The Little Shop of Horrors_ (1960) and _Master of the World_
(1961), died on 14 January aged 99. LP
_Suzy McKee Charnas_ (1939-2023), much-admired Hugo- and
Nebula-winning US feminist author who began publishing sf with _Walk to the
End of the World_ (1974) -- first in the 'Holdfast Chronicles' sequence --
and had particular success with _The Vampire Tapestry_ (1980), died on 4
January aged 83. [ED]
_Inna Churikova_ (1943-2023), Russian actress in _Frosty_ (1965), _The
Cat Who Walked by Herself_ (1988) and _The Land of Oz_ (2015), died on 14
January aged 79. [LP]
_David Crosby_ (1941-2023), US musician and actor seen in _Hook_
(1991), died on 19 January aged 81. [LP]
_David Gold_ (1936-2023), UK publisher and football executive whose
Compact Books (an imprint of the family firm Gold Star) published _New
Worlds_ and _Science Fantasy_/_Impulse_ in the 1960s, died on 4 January
aged 86. [DP]
_Hakan Gulliksson_ (1956-2022), Swedish physicist whose five
interesting sf novels were published 2020-2022, died _circa_ 1 September
2022 aged 66. [J-HH]
_Piers Haggard_ (1939-2023), UK director of _The Blood on Satan's
Claw_ (1971), _Quatermass_/_The Quatermass Conclusion_ (1979), _The
Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu_ (1980), _The Lifeforce Experiment_ (1984)
and others, died on 11 January aged 83. [AIP]
_Stepan Kaymanov_ (1979-2023) Russian author of sf/f (four novels)and
popular science, died on 17 January. [AM]
_Roger Kean_, UK magazine publisher who with his partner Oliver Frey
(died 2022) published the original _Fear_ magazine (1988-1991, ed. John
Gilbert), died on 3 January. [JG]
_Lance Kerwin_ (1960-2023), US actor in _Enemy Mine_ (1985),
_Outbreak_ (1995) and genre tv series, died on 24 January aged 62. [LP]
_Robbie Knievel_ (1962-2023), US actor/stuntman in _Ninja III: The
Domination_ (1984), died on 13 Junary aged 60. [LP]
_Elka Konstantinova_ (1932-2023) Bulgarian literary critic (and
Minister of Culture 1991-1992) who wrote three books on sf, died on 12
January. [AM]
_Paul LaFarge_ (1970-2023), US author of mostly borderline-fantastic
novels including _The Night Ocean_ (2017) -- featuring H.P. Lovecraft and
the Futurians -- died on 19 January aged 52. [GVG]
_Chris Ledesma_ (1958-2022), US music editor best known for 734
episodes of _The Simpsons_, died on 16 December aged 64; further credits
include _The Stepford Children_ (1987), _Dracula: Dead and Loving It_
(1995) and _Teen Angel_ (1997). [LP]
_Gina Lollobrigida_ (1927-2023), famed Italian actress with a genre
credit for the tv series _Le avventure di Pinocchio_ (1972), died on 16
January aged 95. [AIP]
_Lisa Loring_ (1958-2023), US actress who played Wednesday in the
original _The Addams Family_ series (1964-1966), died on 28 January aged
64. [O]
_Sulambek Mamilov_ (1938-2023), Russian director of the sf film _Day
of Wrath_ (1985) died on 13 January. [AM]
_Maya Menglet_ (1935-2023), Russian actress in _Shans_ (1984) and the
Bram Stoker-based _Burial of the Rats_ (1995), died on 19 January aged 87.
[AM]
_Graham Oakley_ (1929-2022), UK author and illustrator of the 'Church
Mice' animal fantasies for children, beginning with _The Church Mouse_
(1972), died on 19 December aged 93. [AIP]
_Sal Piro_ (1950-2023), US fan and president since 1977 of _The Rocky
Horror Picture Show_ fan club -- a founder of the audience-participation
cult, about which he published two books -- died on 21 January aged 72.
[AIP]
_Edward R. Pressman_ (1943-2023), US producer whose many credits
include _Phantom of the Paradise_ (1974), _Conan the Barbarian_ (1982),
_Martians Go Home_ (1989), _The Crow_ (1994 plus sequels) and _The Island
of Dr Moreau_ (1996), died on 17 January aged 79. [AIP]
_Quinn K. Redeker_ (1936-2022), US actor in _The Three Stooges Meet
Hercules_ (1962), _Spider Baby_ (1967), _The Andromeda Strain_ (1971),
_Return to the Batcave_ (2003) and genre tv series, died on 20 December
aged 86. [LP]
_Owen Roizman_ (1936-2023), US cinematographer whose films include
_The Exorcist_ (1973), _The Stepford Wives_ (1975) and _The Addams Family_
(1991), died on 6 January aged 86. [AIP]
_Jeff Shuter_, US producer/director of _28 Days Later: The Aftermath_
(2007), _Invincible_ (2008) and _Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion
Comic_ (2010), died on 10 November 2022. [AIP]
_Aleksey Slapovsky_ (1957-2023), Russian author whose 25 novels
include adult work with fantastic themes and a pair of children's
fantasies, died on 8 January. [AM]
_Sylvia Syms_ (1934-2023), UK actress with genre credits for _Asylum_
(1972) and _Doctor Who_ ('Ghost Light', 1989), died on 27 January aged 89.
[SJ]
_Svetlana Tulina_ (1968-2023), Russian fan, genre anthologist and
award-winning short story author, died on 8 January. [AM]
_Agusti Villaronga_ (1953-2023), Spanish director of _99.9_ (1997) and
_Moon Child_ (1989), died on 22 January aged 69. [AM]
_Fay Weldon_ (1931-2023), UK mainstream author who frequently explored
sf/fantasy themes -- perhaps most famously in _The Cloning of Joanna May_
(1989; tv series adaptation 1991) -- died on 4 January aged 91. [DP]
_Hubert Wells_ (1934-2022), Hungarian-born US animal trainer with
genre credits from _Doctor Dolittle_ (1967) to _Babe: Pig in the City_
(1998) -- in which he also acted -- died on 25 December aged 88. [LP]
_Annie Wersching_ (1977-2023), US actress in _The Vampire Diaries_
(2015-2016), _Timeless_ (2016-2018), _Star Trek: Picard_ (2022) and
episodes of other genre tv series, died on 29 January aged 45. [AIP]
_Ted Whitehead_ (1933-2023), UK playwright and screenwriter for Fay
Weldon's _The Cloning of Joanna May_ (see above), died on 13 January aged
89. [AIP]
_Cindy Williams_ (1947-2023), US actress in _Gas-s-s-s_ (1970),
_Beware! The Blob_ (1972), _The Creature Wasn't Nice_ (1981), _Uforia_
(1984) and _The Stepford Husbands_ (1996), died on 25 January aged 75.
[AIP]

WHAT'S THAT IN WELSH SWIMMING POOLS? '2 asteroids the size of 22 penguins
to pass Earth this weekend -- NASA'. (_Jerusalem Post_, 19 January)

RANDOM FANDOM. _FAAn Awards_ voting for work published in 2022 opened in
early January and will close on 6 March. Details in Nic Farey's _The
Incompleat Register_ at efanzines.com/TIR/Incompleat2022.pdf.
_Chicon 8_ (Worldcon 2022) issued an apology for having initially
followed the tradition of calling the Worldcon bidders' Q&A session The
Fannish Inquisition: 'This phrase was initially created as a riff off the
Monty Python sketch. However, the actual Spanish Inquisition was of course
an atrocity against many groups, and the descendants of those groups
understandably find this to be an offensive joke.' (Email, January) I hope
no one will call for Jerry Kaufman's and Suzanne Tompkins's 1970s fanzine
_The Spanish Inquisition_ to be removed from Fanac.org and bibliographies.
_Forrest J Ackerman_'s papers 'are now fully processed and open to
researchers' at Syracuse University. [PB] See
library.syracuse.edu/digital/guides/a/ackerman_fj.htm for the catalogue.
Rob Hansen disputes some of the FJA biographical factoids on that page:
'"In 1923, at the age of seven, he was a charter member of the Science
Fiction League." Since Gernsback didn't create the SFL until February 1934
that's quite a feat.'

THE NUDE PAST. _20 Years Ago:_ 'Jim Battista charmed me with his revelation
on Usenet that the great Forrest J Ackerman "had a bit part as Judge
Reinhole in _Nudist Colony of the Dead_. Of all the musicals I've seen
about zombie nudists who kill only fundamentalist Christians, it was the
most recent."' (_Ansible_ 187, February 2003)
_30 Years Ago:_ 'Patrick Nielsen Hayden sends a flyer about _Nude Trek
2: The Wrath of Klothes_, the first nudist Trek convention, run by The
Slugs Nudist Club in chilly Washington State (22 Jan). Perhaps the most
macabre aspect is his covering note: "NOT A HOAX".' (_Ansible_ 67, February
1993)

MAGAZINE SCENE. _Daily Science Fiction_, in the 9 January email of its
daily story to subscribers, announced that '_Daily Science Fiction_ is
officially on hiatus.' The web archive remains at dailysciencefiction.com.
[IN]
_Interzone_ emailed subscribers and contributors on 30 January to
assure us all that 'Interzone #294 is now out in all its forms' and being
shipped.

COURT CIRCULAR. Fox News is in trouble for an almost science-fictional
reason: they played the US Emergency Alert System attention tone for three
seconds as part of an NFL tv ad. Broadcasting this is 'prohibited to
prevent people becoming desensitized to something you should only hear in
the most dire circumstances', such as imminent nuclear attack or
multi-penguin asteroid impact, and the Federal Communications Commission is
talking about a $504,000 fine. (_The Register_, 27 January)

DOOMED ENTERPRISE. _80 Years Ago_, an ambitious cat-herding scheme was
launched by 'Chief Futurian Attorney Vol Molesworth of the Futurian Society
of Sydney: "I am preparing a standard Futurian Law text-book. To do this I
need a copy of the rules and constitution of every fan club in the world,
past and present. It is a big long task, but I intend to tackle it, for if
all fan clubs adopted a standardised law it would make Futurian intercourse
easier. Briefly, I want a complete set of data on a Society -- copy of its
policy, constitution and rules in toto, full list of decisions and
precedents that are within the scope of the word 'jurisdiction'. When I get
this from all fan-clubs, and after comparison, sift out the common parts, I
intend to roneo it off, bind it, and send a copy to each fan club.'"
(_Futurian War Digest_ 26, February 1943)

FANFUNDERY. _TAFF_ voting continues at taff.org.uk/vote.php. Further TAFF
trip reports released as free ebooks are _A Fake Fan in London_ by Bob
Madle (1957), _Epitaff_ by Eric Bentcliffe (1960), _The Squirrel's Tale_ by
Ron Ellik (1962) and _The Moffatt House Abroad_ by Len & June Moffatt
(1973); also in the pipeline is _Colonial Excursion_ by Ron Bennett (1958).
For the full list of ebooks, newest first, see
taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?all&chron.

THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _Raconteur Dept._ 'I am going to tell you the story of
Madame Bertaux, and that the powder of instruction may be properly balanced
by the jam of amusement I am going to ...' (H. de Vere Stacpoole, 'The
Ten-Franc Counter', _Munsey's_, 1926)
_A Moustache Worth Twirling._ '... and above his thin lip, more dark
hair falling in waves inelegantly to his shoulders...' (Steven Brust,
_Athyra_, 1993) [BA]
_Hairy Eyeball Dept._ 'Private Walsh swung his glower, beard and all,
across Roan ...' (Theodore Sturgeon, 'Granny Won't Knit', 1954) [VS]


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VIRTUAL MEETINGS.
15 February 2023, evening: London Zoom meeting, third Thursday of each
month. 'Please share this with people who you know typically come to the
Bishop's Finger, but aren't on Facebook.'
https://bohemiancoast.medium.com/first-thursday-london-sf-fan-virtual-drinks-5232021e961f

R.I.P. LATE REPORTS. _Noah Gordon_ (1926-2021), US author best known for
medical novels, who reviewed sf in 1953 issues of _Avon Science Fiction and
Fantasy Reader_, died on 22 November 2021 aged 95. [PDF]
_Denis MacEoin_ (1949-2022), UK novelist who wrote international
thrillers as Daniel Easterman and ghost stories as Jonathan Aycliffe, died
on 6 June 2022 aged 73. [DP]

RUMBLINGS II. Early-bird weekend passes for Cymera, the Scots festival of
sf, fantasy and horror writing (Edinburgh and online, 2-4 June) will be on
sale from 1 March to 1 April. See www.cymerafestival.co.uk.

EDITORIAL. Thanks are due to many fans who work behind the scenes on all
those TAFF ebooks (and are, I hope, always credited in the ebook text) as
proofreaders, researchers, transcribers, suppliers of hard-to-find material
and providers of bright ideas. Such significant contributors to recent and
ongoing projects include Sandra Bond, Claire Brialey, Pat Charnock, Rob
Hansen, Rob Jackson, Curt Phillips and Ted White, without whom etc., etc.
Oh noes, I am running out of ISBNs....

SOME LINKS from the _Ansible_ home page.
BSFA Awards Longlist
https://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-longlist
Fanzine Activity Achievement (FAAn) awards voting guide and form
https://efanzines.com/TIR/Incompleat2022.pdf
Glasgow 2024 Worldcon PR1 published
https://glasgow2024.org/publications-press/publications/
_SF2; Concatenation_ Spring 2023 Newscast
http://www.concatenation.org/news/news1~23.html

THOG'S GOLDEN OLDIES from _Ansible_ 187, February 2003. _Dept of
Dimensional Analysis._''If you could enlarge the human body, blow it up to
a vast size, you would see that it was literally nothing but a swirling
mass of cells and atoms, clustered together into smaller swirls of cells
and atoms.' (Michael Crichton, _Prey_, 2002)
_Dept of One-Off Use._ 'Passing over the roadie's ceramic teeth was a
tongue that would help the man form a single word.' (P.P. Hartnett,
_Rock'n'Roll Suicide_, 2002)
_Dept of Arresting Simile._ 'When he was yet a million miles away the
bright ring of fire that marked its portal filled the sky in front of him,
flexing and twisting like the devil's anus in spasms of immortal agony.'
(Alan Glasser, _The Demon Cosmos_, 1978)
_Relativity Dept._ '"I once read somewhere," said Peter, "that a
minute on Mars is equal to a year on our Earth, so that would be the reason
why everything is terrifically speeded up."' (Prof A.M. Low, _Adrift in the
Stratosphere_, 1937)

_Ansible_(R) 427 (C) David Langford, 2023. Thanks to Brian Ameringen, Peter
Balestrieri, John D. Berry, Sandra Bond, John Boston, Ellen Datlow, Paul Di
Filippo, _File 770_, John Gilbert, John-Henri Holmberg, Steve Jones,
_Locus_, Todd Mason, Andrey Meshavkin, Ian Nichols, Omega, Lawrence Person,
Andrew I. Porter, David Pringle, _Private Eye_, Vernon Speed, Gordon Van
Gelder, Sean Wallace, and as always our Hero Distributors: Durdles Books
(Birmingham SF Group), SCIS/Prophecy, and Alan Stewart (Australia).

1 February 2023
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