Ansible 382 -- May 2019 [long]

[David Langford]

ANSIBLE(R) 382
MAY 2019

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YTTERBIUM. You read it here last: the 2019 Eastercon has happened!
_The UK in 2024 Worldcon Bid_, chaired by Esther MacCallum-Stewart,
announced its venue: the Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Glasgow.
Pre-supporting memberships will be taken at Dublin 2019 and thereafter. See
www.ukin2024.org.
_Concentric_, the only serious bid for Eastercon 2020, was confirmed
and guests announced: see events list below.
_David A. Hardy_ was made an honorary fellow of the British
Interplanetary Society (presentation by Gerry Webb) for long service to
space art.
_Doc Weir Award_ for unsung fannish achievement: Jamie Scott.
_Your Editor_ was glad to see people but too often unable to hear
them. Thanks to all who bought _New Maps: More Uncollected John Sladek_,
and to the con newsletter _The Daily Drone_ for plugs. See ae.ansible.uk
for paperback and (_just released_) ebook orders.
_John Clute_ broke his femur on the Friday -- a misstep on a bus while
loaded with books -- and attended only in spirit via an emailed x-ray
image; he's now recovering at home.


### THE NORGOLIAN EMPIRE ###

JEAN M. AUEL must be less than pleased with Amazon after its email telling
a customer that her novel _The Shelters of Stone_ had been removed from the
catalogue: 'This product has been identified as a Rhino male enhancement
supplement. Rhino male enhancement supplements are prohibited for listing
or sale by Amazon policy.' [BA] It's back now.

MICHAEL DAVIS, US comics creator, is not dead despite an online
announcement of his suicide on 29 April: the perpetrator had hacked Davis's
Facebook and other accounts. (Bleeding Cool, 29 April) [MR]

N.K. JEMISIN's Patreon supporters were privileged to read the somehow
familiar opening of her alleged next novel: 'The weather beaten trail wound
ahead into the dust racked climes of the baren land which dominates large
portions of the Norgolian empire ...' (1 April) [DG]

IAN MCEWAN, according to a _Guardian_ interview by Tim Adams, 'has little
time for conventional science fiction' but nevertheless knows what sf
authors have unaccountably failed to do with AI. In his own words: 'There
could be an opening of a mental space for novelists to explore this future,
not in terms of travelling at 10 times the speed of light in anti-gravity
boots, but in actually looking at the human dilemmas of being close up to
something that you know to be artificial but which thinks like you. If a
machine seems like a human or you can't tell the difference, then you'd
jolly well better start thinking about whether it has responsibilities and
rights and all the rest.' Later, on _Frankenstein_: 'There the monster is a
metaphor for science out of control, but it is ourselves out of control
that I am interested in.' (_Guardian_, 14 April) [E]

KEN MACLEOD tweeted: 'I have little time for romance fiction, but there
could be an opening of a mental space for novelists to explore a situation
where two people are attracted to each other but seem deeply incompatible,
and the vicissitudes of how this is resolved.' (16 April)

J.R.R. TOLKIEN, in July 1961, sent a letter to young Chris Gilmore (not the
late _Interzone_ reviewer) which recently sold at auction for over GBP6,000
in aid of a Somerset hospital. I hope it's safe to quote a bit here: 'I
shall not write a sequel to _The Lord of the Rings_ because, as is really
clearly stated in the course of the story, it is the end of the kind of
world about which I write: the twilight in which mythology and history are
blended. After that there is only history.' (SomersetLive, 2 April) [PF]


### CONDON ###

Until 15 Sep [] STANLEY KUBRICK (exhibition), Design Museum, Kensington,
London W8. Tickets GBP14.50 (GBP16 with suggested donation); more at
designmuseum.org/exhibitions/stanley-kubrick-the-exhibition.

8 May [] FUTUREFEST LATES (evening talks): Jim Al-Khalili on sf and
prediction, 6:30pm at The Vaults, Waterloo, London. _Now GBP15_ (students
GBP9): 'early bird' rates ceased in April. See www.futurefest.org/lates.

11-12 May [] HORRORCON UK, Magna Science Adventure Centre, Sheffield Rd,
Rotherham, S60 1DX. Tickets GBP40 for 11am entry, GBP50 for 10am;
accompanied under-17s GBP16. Bookings at horrorconuk.com.

15 May [] ANTHONY BURGESS & _A CLOCKWORK ORANGE_: talk by Andrew Biswell,
Century Club, Soho, London W1. 6:30pm for 7pm. GBP12: see
acuriousinvitation.com/burgessandaclockworkorange.html.

15-22 May [] SCI-FI LONDON (film festival), Prince Charles Cinema and
Stratford Picturehouse, London. Further details at sci-fi-london.com.

16 May - 26 Aug [] AI: MORE THAN HUMAN (exhibition), Barbican Centre,
London. Tickets GBP15 Monday to Friday, GBP17 Saturday or Sunday (plus
fees). See www.barbican.org.uk/morethanhuman.

18 May [] LAWLESS (UK comics -- expanded from the _Judge Dredd_-only
LawGiver), Hilton Doubletree Hotel, Bristol. For ticket purchases see
www.facebook.com/groups/1417073338554565/.

23 May - 26 Aug [] MANGA (exhibition), British Museum, London. Tickets
GBP19.50; under-19s and concessions GBP16; accompanied under-16s free. See
britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/manga.aspx.

1-2 Jun [] FILM & COMIC CON COLLECTORMANIA, Birmingham NEC. GBP10/day;
GBP15 early entry. See filmandcomicconbirmingham.com.

7-9 Jun [] CYMERA: Scotland's Festival of SF, Fantasy & Horror Writing,
Edinburgh. From GBP6.25 per event: www.cymerafestival.co.uk.

17 Jul [] ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD presentation, Foyles, Charing Cross Road,
London. Tickets booking link awaited.

23-26 Aug [] THE ASYLUM (steampunk), Lincoln. GBP40 reg; GBP21 junior
(5-16). For day tickets etc. see www.asylumsteampunk.co.uk.

3-6 Oct [] GRIMMFEST (horror/cult film festival), Odeon Manchester Great
Northern cinema. Ticket prices awaited at grimmfest.com.

26 Oct [] BRISTOLCON, Hilton DoubleTree Hotel, Bristol. GBP25 reg, _rising
on 1 June_; GBP15 under-18s, concessions and disabled; under-15s free. Full
details at www.bristolcon.org.

10-13 Apr 2020 [] CONCENTRIC (Eastercon), Hilton Metropole near Birmingham
NEC. GoH Rhianna Pratchett, Tade Thompson, Alison Scott. GBP70 reg;
concessions GBP40; under-18s GBP20. See www.concentric2020.uk.

16-19 Apr 2020 [] STOKERCON (horror), Grand and Royal Hotels, Scarborough.
Editor GoH Gillian Redfearn. GBP100 reg; HWA members GBP90. Further details
and online registration at stokercon-uk.com.

28-31 Aug 2020 [] REDEMPTION (multimedia), Royal Victoria Hotel, Sheffield.
_Now GBP65 reg_ until May 2020; concessions GBP20 reduction; under-18s
GBP25; under-3s free; supp GBP15. See redemptioncon.org.uk.

RUMBLINGS. _Eurocon:_ 2021 bids are from Italy (eurocon2021.it) and Romania
(distopicon.eu); 2023, Sweden (twitter.com/Uppsala2023); 2024, the
Netherlands (eurocon2024.ncsf.nl).


### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###

AS OTHERS SEE US. 'Venturing into outer space, Claire Denis's film has very
different concerns from other sci-fi movies.' is the subhead of a _High
Life_ review that wonders whether interstellar flight is sf: 'Whether or
not this movie counts as science fiction, one thing's for sure: the fiction
is more plausible than the science. The ship, we learn, whips along at
close to the speed of light, although it appears to have been modelled on a
large shoebox.' (Anthony Lane, _The New Yorker_, 5 April 2019) [LP] If only
the budget could have run to fins and shiny streamlining. Claire Denis
agrees this is not sf because 'a sci-fi movie, it's a sort of structure
that creates other planets, other beings, things like that. I was more
interested in what we know.' (_Washington Post_, 23 April) [MMW] Such as
everyday life in a convict starship hurtling towards a black hole.

AWARDS. _BSFA:_ NOVEL _Embers of War_ by Gareth L Powell. SHORTER _Time
Was_ by Ian McDonald. NONFICTION 'On motherhood and erasure ...' by Aliette
de Bodard. ARTWORK Likhain for _In the Vanishers' Palace: Dragon I and II_.
_Compton Crook_ (debut novel): _The Poppy War_ by R.F. Kuang. [L]
_Faust Award_ (media tie-in life achievement): Nancy Holder.
_Kitschies._ NOVEL _Circe_ by Madeline Miller. DEBUT _Frankenstein in
Baghdad_ by Ahmed Saadawi. COVER ART Suzanne Dean for Haruki Murakami's
_Killing Commendatore_. [L]
_Philip K. Dick_ (paperback original): _Theory of Bastards_ by Audrey
Schulman.
_Pulitzer Prize_ for fiction: _The Overstory_ by Richard Powers.

ELDRITCH SCIENCE. A many-tentacled ancestor of sea cucumbers found by
palaeontologists at a Herefordshire site -- 430 million years old, with a
terrifying maximum size of 3cm -- has been named _Sollasina cthulhu_.
(Sputniknews.com, 10 April) [SvdK] Take a bow, HPL.

R.I.P. _Mark Alessi_ (1953-2019), US businessman who founded CrossGen
Comics (1998-2004), died on 30 March aged 65. [PDF]
_Jonathan Baumbach_ (1933-2019), US experimental novelist whose satire
_D-Tours_ (1998) plays with many sf/fantasy tropes, died on 28 March aged
85. [PDF]
_John Bowen_ (1924-2019), Indian-born UK author and playwright whose
best known sf novel is _After the Rain_ (1958; stage version 1966), died on
18 April aged 94; tv credits include seven episodes of the dystopian _The
Guardians_ (1971).
_James D. Hudnall_ (1957-2019), US comics writer and novelist whose
1986 comics debut was _Espers_ for Eclipse and whose _Harsh Realm_ (1994
with Andrew Paquette) was adapted for tv -- with no creator credit until
after a lawsuit -- died on 9 April aged 61. [PDF]
_Edward Kelsey_ (1930-2019), UK _Archers_ actor whose genre credits
include _Doctor Who_: 'The Creature from the Pit' (1979), _Danger Mouse_
(1981-1992), _Truckers_ (1992) and _The Curse of the Were-Rabbit_ (2005),
died on 23 April aged 88. [CM]
_Kazuo Koike_ (1936-2019), prolific and influential Japanese manga
writer and novelist whose comics debut was _Lone Wolf and Cub_ (1970-1976,
with six film adaptations), died on 17 April aged 82. [PDF]
_Michael Lynne_ (1941-2019), US producer, co-chair and co-CEO of New
Line Cinema and executive producer of the _Lord of the Rings_ films
(2001-2003), _The Golden Compass_ (2007) and others, died on 24 March aged
77. [AIP]
_Tania Mallet_ (1941-2019), UK model and actress who was the 'Bond
girl' in _Goldfinger_ (1964), died on 30 March aged 77. [PDF]
_John McEnery_ (1943-2019) , UK actor whose rare genre credits include
_The Land That Time Forgot_ (1974), died on 12 April aged 75. [PDF]
_Tom McGovern_, US fan and long-time member of the Southern Fandom
Press Alliance, reportedly died on 21 or 22 April. [GL]
_Vonda N. McIntyre_ (1948-2019), highly regarded US author who won
Nebula awards for 'Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand' (1973), for the novel
_Dreamsnake_ (1979) incorporating that story, and for _The Moon and the
Sun_ (1997), died on 1 April aged 70. Other stories are collected in
_Fireflood_ (1979); contributions to the _Star Trek_ universe began with
_The Entropy Effect_ (1981) and include three film novelizations. A very
recently completed novel awaits publication.
_'Monkey Punch'_ (Kazuhiko Kato, 1937-2019), Japanese manga artist
best known for the Bondian crime-romp series _Lupin III_ (1967-1969), died
on 11 April aged 81. He also illustrated superhero comics and the
translation of Harry Harrison's _The Technicolor Time Machine_. [JCl]
_Mya-Lecia Naylor_ (2002-2019), UK actress in _Cloud Atlas_ (2012),
_Code Red_ (2013) and _Index Zero_ (2014), died on 7 April aged 16. [MMW]
_Berto Pelosso_, Italian screenwriter who was assistant director of
_The 10th Victim_ (1965), died on 6 April aged 85. [PDF]
_David V. Picker_ (1931-2019), US producer of _The Man with Two
Brains_ (1983) and _Back to the Secret Garden_ (2000), died on 20 April
aged 87. [MMW]
_Nadja Regin_ (1931-2019), Yugoslavian-born actress in _The Magic
Sword_ (1950), _The Man Without a Body_ (1957), _Goldfinger_ and others,
died on 7 April aged 87. [PDF]
_Moira J. Shearman_, Edinburgh fan active since the late 1970s in
fanzines (in particular TWP, the women's APA) and at conventions, died on
17 April. Kari writes: 'She was always interesting, friendly and welcoming:
one of those rare people who everyone liked.'
_Ron Sweed_ (1949-2019), US tv horror host as title character of _The
Ghoul_ (1998-2003), died on 1 April aged 70. [LP]
_Greg Theakston_ (1953-2019), US comics artist who worked for DC,
Marvel, Warren, _Mad_ and many others, founded the Pure Imagination imprint
and gave his name to the 'Theakstonizing' process for restoring old comics,
died on 22 April aged 65. [SG]
_Geoff Thorpe_ (1954-2019), UK fan, convention-goer and South Hants SF
Group member, died in early April. [MC]
_David Winters_ (1939-2019), UK-born actor/director/producer whose
genre films include _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_ (1973), _Space Mutiny_
(1988), _Deadly Reactor_ (1989) and _Future Force_ (1989), died on 23 April
aged 80. [LP]
_Gene Wolfe_ (1931-2019), much-praised US author of many fine stories
and novels -- perhaps best known for _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_ (1972)
and _The Book of the New Sun_ (1980-1983), whose second volume _The Claw of
the Conciliator_ won a Nebula -- died on 14 April aged 87. Career honours
include the World Fantasy Award for life achievement in 1996, the SF Hall
of Fame in 2007 and the SFWA Grand Master Award in 2012. His often
deceptively simple-seeming narratives, with fractal labyrinths lurking
beneath the surface as in _Peace_ (1975), demand and greatly reward careful
reading and rereading.

THE CRITICAL HERITAGE. 'By conjuring a 1980s that is more technologically
advanced than our present, Ian McEwan has established a promising new genre
of fiction: futurist nostalgia.' (Janan Ganesh reviewing _Machines Like Me_
in the _Financial Times_, 12 April) [MMW]

_ANSIBLE_ 380 UPDATES. _Nora Roberts_ is suing the Brazilian author
Cristiane Serruya aka '#CopyPasteCris' for multiple plagiarism, and lawyers
are already smacking their lips. (AP, 24 April) [F770]
_Amelie Wen Zhao_ will release a modified version of her novel _Blood
Heir_, withdrawn after an excess of online outrage. (_NY Times_, 29 April)
[PY]

RANDOM FANDOM. _Terry Carr_'s 1986 fanwriting collection _Fandom Harvest_
is the latest addition to the TAFF site's free ebooks page: see
taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=FanHarvest.
_Flick_'s biographies of past Doc Weir award winners appeared in
booklet form at Ytterbium and online at efanzines.com/DocWeir/history.htm,
to be updated yearly.
_David Pringle_ reports excitedly that one scene of _Avengers:
Endgame_ features a security guard visibly reading _The Terminal Beach_ by
J.G. Ballard.

AWARD FINALISTS (novel categories). HUGOS: _The Calculating Stars_ by Mary
Robinette Kowal; _Record of a Spaceborn Few_ by Becky Chambers; _Revenant
Gun_, by Yoon Ha Lee; _Space Opera_ by Catherynne M. Valente; _Spinning
Silver_ by Naomi Novik; _Trail of Lightning_ by Rebecca Roanhorse.
HUGO BEST SERIES: Centenal Cycle by Malka Older; Laundry Files by
Charles Stross; Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee; October Daye by
Seanan McGuire; Universe of Xuya by Aliette de Bodard; Wayfarers by Becky
Chambers.
LODESTAR (young adult): _The Belles_ by Dhonielle Clayton; _Children
of Blood and Bone_ by Tomi Adeyemi; _The Cruel Prince_ by Holly Black;
_Dread Nation_ by Justina Ireland; _The Invasion_ by Peadar O'Guilin; _Tess
of the Road_ by Rachel Hartman.
PROMETHEUS (libertarian): _Causes of Separation_ by Travis Corcoran;
_Kingdom of the Wicked_ by Helen Dale; _State Tectonics_ by Malka Older;
_The Fractal Man_ by J. Neil Schulman; _The Murderbot Diaries_ (_All
Systems Red_ and three sequel novellas) by Martha Wells.
RETRO HUGOS for 1943 work: _Conjure Wife_ by Fritz Leiber; _Earth's
Last Citadel_ by C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner; _Gather, Darkness!_ by Fritz
Leiber; _Das Glasperlenspiel_ [_The Glass Bead Game_] by Hermann Hesse;
_Perelandra_ by C.S. Lewis; _The Weapon Makers_ by A.E. van Vogt.
For the complete list of Hugo and Retro Hugo categories, see
dublin2019.com/hugo-finalists/.

THE DEAD PAST. _80 Years Ago_, a tale of ragged horror: 'The July Unknown
hasn't even edges! Some have the top and side edges trimed, while a good
many of them aren't trimed at all. The reason for this is that the ad on
the back cover has writting too close to the bottom edge to trim it. This
was done by Street & Smith without Editor Campbell knowing it. [...] Mr.
Campbell wants it known that it will absolutly never happen again ...'
(_Fantasy News Weekly_ 49, 28 May 1939)
_20 Years Ago:_ 'In a simple yet profoundly silly ceremony after my
talk at Reconvene, Cheryl Morgan and Kevin Standlee presented _Ansible_
with a Californian car licence plate bearing the word ANSIBLE. This came
"From The Automobile of Galen A. Tripp". Er, thanks to all....' (_Ansible_
142, May 1999) It still has pride of place on the office notice-board.

MAGAZINE SCENE. After ten years of publishing, says editor Jason Sizemore,
'_Apex Magazine_ will go on an indefinite hiatus' with the May issue, #120.
He needs a rest, but _Apex_ may yet return. (Blog, 15 April)

C.O.A. _Jack Cohen_, Waterloo Care Home, Ringwood Rd, Three Legged Cross,
Dorset, BH21 6RD. Letters from fan friends are welcome.

FANFUNDERY. _TAFF:_ 211 ballots cast. Geri Sullivan, with 136 votes, won by
a first-round majority and will represent North America at Dublin 2019.
[JP/JA] Full voting details at taff.org.uk/news/2019-PR.pdf.
_GUFF:_ 73 ballots cast. Simon Litten was the winner by one vote in
the second round (after eliminating the trailing candidate) and will
represent Australia and NZ at Dublin 2019. [DMH/MK]
_A TAFF Guide to Beer_ edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
collects writing and artwork about fandom's favourite fluid by many past
TAFF winners and all four 2019 candidates: see
taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=Beer.
The Fan Funds auction at Ytterbium raised over GBP1000, with further
sales, donations and voting fees taking the weekend total well past
GBP2000. [CB]

THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _Just the Older Stuff Dept._ '. . . not much progress
had been made in installing modern sewage.' (Iain Pears, _Stone's Fall_,
2009) [PB]
_Dept of Double Entendre._ '"We've got all night, remember?" she said,
and headed across the shag rug to the small fieldstone fireplace.' (Natalie
West, _The Girls in Publishing_, 1974) [PB]
_Wrinkly Dept._ 'A pair of blue eyes sparkled with intelligence, and
wrinkled charmingly as she smiled hello.' (_Ibid_) [PB]
_Dept of Unique Skills._ 'Ayoola is wearing dungarees -- she is the
only person I know who can still pull those off.' (Oyinkan Braithwaite, _My
Sister, The Serial Killer_, 2018) [PB]
_Method Acting Dept._ 'His thoughts were etched as almost visible
manifestations on the pale fire which writhed on his countenance.' (Basil
Copper, _The Great White Space_, 1974) [BA]
_Mainstream Metaphor Mastery._ 'Unable to push her tongue against the
word, Briony could only nod, and felt as she did so a sulky thrill of
self-annihilating compliance spreading across her skin and ballooning
outwards from it, darkening the room in throbs.' (Ian McEwan, _Atonement_,
2001) [LS]


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### ENDNOTES ###

APPARITIONS.
9 May 2019: Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon, Edinburgh. See link
below for details.
https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/category/event-horizon/
10 May 2019: Daniel Godfrey talks to the Brum Group. 7:30pm for 8pm at
the Briar Rose Hotel, Bennett's Hill, Birmingham city centre. GBP6 or GBP3
for members. Contact bhamsfgroup at yahoo co uk. Future events/speakers: 14
June 2019, Jeanette Ng and Micah Yongo; 12 July 2019, Christopher Priest
and Nina Allan; 9 August 2019, summer social; 13 September 2019 TBA, 11
October 2019, Dr Amaury Triaud; 1 November 2019, TBA; 6 December 2019,
Christmas social.
22 May 2019: BSFA Open Meeting at another new venue: Central Station,
37 Wharfdale Road, King's Cross, N1 9SD. 6pm for 7pm. Guest TBA. Free. Date
and venue changes may be announced after _Ansible_ has gone to press:
always check bsfa.co.uk for the latest information.

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R.I.P. II. Late notice: _Wade Wellman_ (1937-2018), who collaborated with
his father Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986) on the stories collected as
_Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds_ (1975), died on 25 January 2018. [LP]
_Malcolm Willits_, long-time US pop-culture collector who with Leonard
Brown founded Collector's Bookstore in Hollywood (selling film memorabilia
and old comics), died on 15 April. [AIP]

SPECIAL THANKS to Martin Hoare for transporting a box of paperback copies
of _New Maps: More Uncollected John Sladek_ to Ytterbium in his legendary
Big Red Van.

SOME LINKS from the _Ansible_ home page.
Arthur C. Clarke Award complete submissions list
https://medium.com/@arthurcclarkeaward/a-record-breaking-year-the-complete-submissions-list-of-eligible-titles-for-the-arthur-c-clarke-f1c765626adb
As Others Use Us in an Example (via John D. Berry)
https://boldmonday.typenetwork.com/news/article/bold-monday-sails-to-new-horizons
Brave New Words shortlist
https://www.starburstmagazine.com/brave-new-words-award-nominees-announced
_Carl Brandon_ edited by Jeanne Gomoll
https://tinyurl.com/CarlBrandon
Ed Naha medical expenses fundraiser
https://www.gofundme.com/honey-i-shrunk-naha039s-medical-bills
Retro Fan Hugos reader at Fanac.org
http://fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos.html
Writers of the Future again (the URL title is unrelated to the post)
https://tonyortega.org/2019/04/05/scientology-admits-in-planning-docs-it-expects-only-6-walk-ins-daily-at-new-facility/

THOG'S SECOND HELPING. _Antifreeze Dept._ Our characters have found an
ancient mystery spaceship: '... the air rushing in. / "It's still got an
atmosphere," Sherrill said. / "Want to take your helmet off, Sarge?" Ganis
said. / "I wouldn't suggest it," Hanton said. "Not unless you like
breathing air that's 270[degrees]C below zero." (John Scalzi, _The
Consuming Fire_, 2018) [SF2C]
_Uses of Upholstery._ 'These two women treated me like a seat cushion
-- something to be suffocated and smothered.' (You-Jeong Jeong, _The Good
Son_, 2016; trans Chi-Young Kim 2018) [PB]
_We've All Felt This Way._ 'I was so nervous that I wanted to rip my
ears off my head.' (_Ibid_) [PB]

_Ansible_(R) 382 (C) David Langford, 2019. Thanks to Brian Ameringen, Johan
Anglemark, Paul Barnett, Claire Brialey, Mike Cheater, Jonathan Clements,
Paul Di Filippo, Everybody (re Ian McEwan), _File 770_, Paul Fraser, David
Goldfarb, Steve Green, Donna Maree Hanson, Marcin Klak, Guy Lillian,
_Locus_, Chryse Moore, Lawrence Person, David Pringle, Andrew I. Porter,
John Purcell, Marcus Rowland, _SF2 Concatenation_, Lucy Sussex, Saskia van
de Kruisweg, Martin Morse Wooster, Pete Young, and as always our Hero
Distributors: Durdles Books (Brum Group), SCIS/Prophecy and Alan Stewart
(Australia).

1 May 2019

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