Ansible 213, April 2005
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Paragon2.
Once again the UK Eastercon took place in the eerily familiar
surroundings of what is now called the Hinckley Island Hotel (formerly
known as the Hanover International, Howling Wilderness, A Junction on
the M69, etc).
• BSFA Awards. NOVEL Ian McDonald, River
of Gods. SHORT Stephen Baxter, 'Mayflower 2'.
ARTWORK Stephan Martinière, Tor US cover of Newton's
Wake by GoH Ken MacLeod.
• Most terrifying con newsletter quote, ascribed to the bar staff:
'You don't drink as much as the Discworld folk.' O tempora, O mores.
• More Awards. Phlosque, for cute but significant
artwork: Bridget Bradshaw. Doc Weir, for unsung good folk: Dave
Lally, plus a special for Faldo the retiring guide dog (see
A210). Hall Costume: Ian
Watson(!).
• Eastercon 2007. The shock horror lack of any bid left UK
fandom strangely unperturbed. Could this be the end of Eastercon, or of
two-year bidding? A bid for Croydon is rumoured: 'Possibly apocryphal
sources suggest that James Bacon is involved.' [PT] Meanwhile, Chris
Bell and others are planning a bid provisionally titled Convoy, using
the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool: 'They would love us to go back ...'
• Hugo
Nominations were also revealed and caused much stir at Easter.
We apologize to Ian 'Ansible is all bloody boring award lists!'
Sorensen:
• NOVEL (424 nominating ballots): Iain M. Banks,
The Algebraist; China Miéville, Iron Council;
Charles Stross, Iron Sunrise; Susanna Clarke, Jonathan
Strange & Mr Norrell; Ian McDonald, River of Gods.
• NOVELLA (249) Charles Stross, 'The Concrete
Jungle' (The Atrocity Archives); Charles Stross, 'Elector' (Asimov's
09/04); Bradley Denton, 'Sergeant Chip' (F&SF 09/04);
Michael A. Burstein, 'Time Ablaze' (Analog 6/04); Lois McMaster
Bujold, 'Winterfair Gifts' (Irresistible Forces).
• NOVELETTE (215) Benjamin Rosenbaum, 'Biographical
Notes to "'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes'
by Benjamin Rosenbaum"' (All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories);
Michael F. Flynn, 'The Clapping Hands of God' (Analog 7/04);
Kelly Link, 'The Faery Handbag' (The Faery Reel); Paolo
Bacigalupi, 'The People of Sand and Slag' (F&SF 2/04)
Christopher Rowe, 'The Voluntary State' (Sci Fiction 5 May 04).
• SHORT (269) James Patrick Kelly, 'The Best
Christmas Ever' (Sci Fiction 26 May 04); Michael A. Burstein,
'Decisions' (Analog 1/04); Mike Resnick, 'A Princess of Earth' (Asimov's
12/04); Robert J. Sawyer, 'Shed Skin' (Analog 1/04); Mike
Resnick, 'Travels with My Cats' (Asimov's 2/04).
• RELATED BOOK (263) Pat and Dick Lupoff, The
Best of Xero; Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn, The Cambridge
Companion to SF; William Tenn, Dancing Naked; David A. Hardy
& Patrick Moore, Futures; Peter Weston, With
Stars in My Eyes.
• DRAMATIC – LONG (340) Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,
The Incredibles, Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow,
Spider-Man 2.
• DRAMATIC – SHORT (161) Stargate SG-1
'Heroes' 1&2, Angel 'Not Fade Away', Lost Pilot
Episode, Angel 'Smile Time', Battlestar Galactica '33'.
• PRO EDITOR (296) Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois,
David G. Hartwell, Stanley Schmidt, Gordon Van Gelder.
• PRO ARTIST (232) Jim Burns, Bob Eggleton, Frank
Kelly Freas, Donato Giancola, John Picacio.
• SEMIPROZINE (238) Ansible, Interzone,
Locus, The New York Review of SF, The Third
Alternative.
• FAN WRITER (241) Claire Brialey, Bob Devney,
David Langford, Cheryl Morgan, Steven H Silver.
• FANZINE (218) Banana Wings, Challenger,
Chunga, Emerald City, Plokta.
• FAN ARTIST (179) Brad Foster, Teddy Harvia, Sue
Mason, Steve Stiles, Frank Wu.
• WEB SITE (311) eFanzines, Emerald
City, Locus Online, Sci Fiction, Strange
Horizons.
• JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD for new writers (187; not
a Hugo; asterisks mark second and final year of eligibility) Elizabeth
Bear*, K.J. Bishop*, David Moles*, Chris Roberson*, Steph Swainston.
The Sect of the Phoenix
Iain M. Banks (yes, that's what the official announcement calls him, with the Middle Initial of Space Opera) will receive a honorary DLitt degree from the University of Glasgow on 15 June, for being an 'Acclaimed author and ambassador for Scotland's literary culture'. [JK]
Samuel R. Delany had an emergency appendectomy on 5 March, followed by complications – a split suture leading to infection though luckily not peritonitis – requiring further hospital treatment. He is still recovering and would like to do so in private (no messages, please).
Michael Swanwick offers a soothing 'As Others See Yet Others' encounter: 'As part of my campaign to fight self-pity in my chosen genre, I went to a brunch with E.L. Doctorow at Kelly Writers House here in Philadelphia, where the great man denied that he wrote historical fiction. "The Scarlet Letter was set 150 years in Hawthorne's past," he pointed out. "Does that make it historical fiction?" Well ... yes. / Doctorow has just turned in a new novel, incidentally. The March takes place during the Civil War but is by no means you-know-what.'
Dave Wolverton has been outed. From the copyright page of Worlds of the Golden Queen (advance reading copy, forthcoming from Tor): 'This omnibus edition comprises The Golden Queen and Beyond the Gate by David Farland, which were originally published under Mr. Farland's pseudonym Dave Wolverton.' [GF] Next, it will be revealed that Stephen King is actually Richard Bachman.
Conure
11 Apr • Reading at Borders, Oxford St, London. Top floor, 6:30pm. With Pat Cadigan and guests TBA.
16 Apr • Looking Upwards (BSFA/SF Foundation), Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1. 10:30am-5pm. GoH: BSFA Ian McDonald, SFF Karen Traviss. Admission free. Includes both AGMs.
27 Apr • BSFA Open Meeting, The Star pub, West Halkin Mews, London, SW1. 6pm on; fans in bar from 5pm. With Susanna Clarke.
4 May • British Fantasy Society open night, Walkers of Holborn, 9 Norwich St, London, EC4A 1EJ. From 6.30pm. All welcome.
11 May • Clarke Award Ceremony, English Heritage Lecture Theatre, London. By invitation.
3-5 Jun • Construction V (yet another Interaction staff weekend). Location TBC but most likely to be Stevenage, Herts.
29-31 Jul • Precursor 2: The Smithcon (relaxacon), Quality Hotel, Walsall. £25 reg to 8 The Orchard, Tonwell, Herts, SG12 8HG, or $44 to Jae Leslie Adams, 621 Spruce St, Madison, WI 53715, USA.
4-8 Aug • Interaction (63rd Worldcon), SECC, Glasgow. £110/$195/Euro165 reg to 30 Jun. Contact 379 Myrtle Road, Sheffield, S2 3HQ.
11-15 Aug • The Ring Goes Ever On (Tolkien Soc): Aston U, Birmingham. Now £60/$115/Euro103 reg; society members £55/$105/Euro95. Contact 28 Loverock Crescent, Rugby, CV21 4AR.
15-16 Oct • Octocon, Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth, Ireland. Guests TBA. Euro20 reg, student Euro15, under-18 Euro10 until 1 May, to Octocon, Basement Flat, 26 Longford Tce, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Sterling £15, £10, £7 to 'Dave Lally #2 A/C', 64 Richborne Tce, London, SW8 1AX.
28-31 Oct • Cult TV 2005, Birmingham. Various guests. £99 reg, £49 child (10-15). Contact PO Box 1701, Wolverhampton, WV4 4WT.
23-25 Feb 07 • Redemption 07 (B7/B5/general), Hinckley Island Hotel, Leics. £40 reg to 15 Apr 05, £45 to 9 Aug; £50 to 31 Aug 06; £55 to 9 Feb 07; £60 at door. Day: £35, £40 at door. Under 18s £15; day £10. Under 3s free. 26 Kings Meadow View, Wetherby, LS22 7FX.
Infinitely Improbable
As
Others See Us. Susan Mitchell knows what's fiction and what
isn't: 'Read any good novels lately? Read any bad novels lately? My
guess is that if you've read anything, for pleasure or interest, it
hasn't been fiction. Book sales of fiction, particularly literary
fiction, are down. By fiction I don't mean fantasy, as in Harry Potter
or Lord of the Rings, I mean a story about our lives created
from an author's imagination.' (Weekend Australian Financial Review,
19-20 Mar) [DW]
• Mark Lawson, connoisseur of fantasy, reports the news that Ian
McKellen will feature in Coronation Street: 'The explanation for
Sir Ian's soap debut may simply be that he wanted to speak some proper
dialogue after appearing in all that Tolkein [sic] trog tosh ...' (Guardian,
12 March)
Group Gropes. London First Thursdays: Eastercon flyers announced a move to Walkers of Holborn, 9 Norwich St, EC4A 1EJ (near Chancery Lane tube), which has been booked for 7 April and beyond. [PT]
Even
Still Yet More Awards. Dick Award: Gwyneth Jones, Life;
also special citation to Lyda Morehouse for Apocalypse Array.
• Tiptree: Honours for best 'gender-bending' sf of 2004
went to two novels, Joe Haldeman's Camouflage and Johanna
Sinisalo's Troll: A Love Story, the US translation of her
Finlandia Prize-winner Ennen päiävanlaskua ei voi
(2000; UK Not Before Sundown, 2003).
• ICFA Awards. At this year's International Conference on
the Fantastic in the Arts, the William L. Crawford Award for best new
fantasy writer went to Steph Swainston for The Year of Our War,
while Damien Broderick received the Distinguished Scholarship Award.
• SF Hall of Fame: latest additions are Philip K. Dick
(token print-media person), Steven Spielberg, Ray Harryhausen, and
Chesley Bonestell.
• The Sir Arthur C. Clarke Awards or 'Arthurs', first
presented on 2 April 2005 for British contributions to rocketry and
space, should not be confused with the established 'Clarkes' for sf
novels published in Britain. But they will be. [PT]
Marmite Ads homaging The Blob have terrified young children and earned the disapproval of the Advertising Standards Authority. (BBC News) I too was terrorized by Marmite when little, but the callous media ignored my sufferings. Today's brats have it too easy. Harrumph!
R.I.P.
K.V. Bailey, whose death was briefly reported in
A210, is appreciated in a supplement to
that issue by Steve Sneyd.
• Gertrude M. Carr (1907-2005), old-time US fan who
discovered fandom in 1949, was the original editor of Cry of the
Nameless, and continued her APA activity until 2003, died on 6
March. She was 97.
• Karen Wynn Fonstad (1945-2005), US cartographer who
created The Atlas of Middle-Earth (1981) and other fantasy and
sf map-books, died on 11 March. [SFS]
• Willis Hall (1929-2005), UK playwright and children's
fantasy novelist, died on 7 March aged 75. His TV work
included many scripts for Worzel Gummidge. [JE]
• Debra Hill (1950-2005), US screenwriter and producer who
worked on various Halloween films from 1978, The Fog
(1980), and Escape From New York (1981), died on 7 March. She
was 54. [GW]
• Brian Kelly (1931-2005), US actor of Flipper fame
and executive producer of Blade Runner (1982), died on 12
February. He was 73.
• David Kossoff (1919-2005), UK writer and actor whose
genre credits included Journey Into Space (BBC radio 1953-5),
The Mouse That Roared (1955) and The Mouse on the Moon
(1962), died on 23 March aged 85.
• Raylyn Moore (1928-2005), US author who was married to
Ward Moore (1903-1978) and whose one novel is What Happened to Emily
Goode After the Great Exhibition (1978), died on 27 February; she
was 77. [L]
• Andre Norton (1912-2005), US author who needs no
introduction, died on 17 March at age 93, following long illness and
weeks of hospice care at home. She published over 130 books, from a 1934
historical debut to a final solo sf novel awaiting publication this
month (Tor rushed her an early copy), and in 1984 became the first woman
to be honoured as SFWA Grand Master. Her many sf series, most famously
'Witch World', were formative influences on countless younger readers.
Some obituaries: SFWA,
CNN
,
Daily
Telegraph,
Steve
Holland in The Guardian.
• Redmond A. Simonsen, who with James Dunnigan founded
Simulations Publications Inc (SPI), publishers of many sf/fantasy board
games, died on 9 March. He was 62. SPI began in 1969 and was bought by
TSR in 1982. [AIP]
Thog's
Critical Masterclass. Trenchant opinions from the creator of a
certain new Doctor Who series: 'It pisses me off when purists
say: "Why have Disney done The Little Mermaid and changed
the ending?" Well, they've reinvented it so that many more millions
of children than have ever read the original Oscar Wilde story can come
to know and love The Little Mermaid.' (Independent, 14
March)
• '[Marion Zimmer] Bradley's husband, Leigh Brackett, wrote The
Darkover Concordance: A Reader's Guide (1979) to help sort out the
complexities of the series.' (Applewhite Minyard, Decades of Science
Fiction, 1998) [DL]
Fanfundery.
Trip Report Bounty. Joe Siclari announces that FANAC has donated
$200 to TAFF to mark the appearance of Peter Weston's 1974 report (in
With Stars In My Hugo Nomination), and James Bacon's 2004 report
WorldConNomicon (available from him: £5/Euro7/$9 inc post,
to 211 Blackhorse Ave, Dublin 7, Ireland). STOP PRESS:
Tobes Valois's 2002 TAFF report tortured out of him in marathon
Eastercon session!
• GUFF (Australasia to Interaction): voting deadline is 29
April 2005.
List
to Starboard. Nice to see that the Scottish Book Trust's
'100 Best
Scottish Books of All Time' list features several genre titles,
not only classics like Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Strange
Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Wind in the Willows,
but such cult oddities as David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus.
Selections by living authors include Alasdair Gray's Lanark,
Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory, and the ubiquitous Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone of Scone (in America, Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Cookie). Particularly surprising is the
appearance of 1984 by that braw, sonsie lad George Orwell, on
the flimsy basis that he wrote it on the Isle of Jura. (Justifying the
inclusions of Heart of Darkness and From Russia With Love
is left as an exercise for readers.)
•
Another
list, of inspirational war-related books, is maintained by the US
Marines and was recently (Feb 2005) purged of its
1996
version's sf selections Starship Troopers and Ender's
Game. [JD] Our whistleblower mysteriously attributes this change to
the War on Terror.
Who's This? From a newspaper feature on dud predictions (Sunday Express, 27 March): 'Another expert – respected sci-fi author Howard Harrison – predicted in 1979 that a severe food shortage of natural produce would cripple Britain. He reckoned we'd be eating Weetabix "three times a day".' [KF] Harry, was that you ...?
Random
Fandom. John Bangsund 'is making a great recovery'
from his stroke, writes Sally Yeoland: 'enormous improvement ... his
short term memory has now completely returned, and John is now able to
finish his sentences and thoughts.' It's hoped that he can move from
hospital to sheltered accommodation in mid-April.
• Richard E. Geis, despite his famous reclusiveness, was
the subject of a sympathetic
Steve
Duin column in The Oregonian for 15 March. His many Hugos
for SF Review/The Alien Critic get an admiring mention. [KY]
• Alice Turner and Dave Field were married in Coventry on
27 March. [SG]
Editorial. Let there be no unseemly, chauvinistic gloating over that all-British Hugo novel shortlist. Thanks to those who nominated me! Heroic efforts at modesty are doubtless being made by Charlie Stross and Cheryl Morgan, with three nominations apiece, and by Iain Banks and Ian McDonald, who both achieved the rare feat of having a novel shortlisted without prior US publication (forthcoming in each case). • Meanwhile, Paul Di Filippo's March books column in Asimov's SF mentions a collection close to my heart....
C.o.A. Chris Amies, 18 Jemmett Close, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, KT2 7AJ. Geoff & Hui Hill, 42 Imperial Ave, Westcliffe-on-Sea, SS0 8NQ. Naomi Saunders (from 3 May), 603 Newmarket Rd, Cambridge, CB5 8PA. Ian Sorensen, 3 Portia Place, Motherwell, ML1 1EL.
As
Others See Us II. Further reassurance regarding Kazuo
Ishiguro's rip-snorting space opera about rogue clones, Never Let Me
Go: 'This is not a book of science fiction. I doubt that Ishiguro is
even particularly interested in the science or ethics of cloning. So
don't go to the novel for a Peter Singer workout. What you will find is
an intense, but undramatised exploration of the intricacies of human
emotion and human interplay.' (Morag Fraser, The Age, Melbourne,
12 March) [MR]
• On-line sexual advice from
Nerve.com:
'[Q] What do the following books say about a person's sexual
characteristics: A man currently reading The Da Vinci Code? [A]
This guy is going to be awful in bed. This is just one step up from a
sci-fi reader, someone who thinks sex can't measure up to masturbation.'
[HF]
Euroclarion. Geoff Ryman and others are raising funds to launch a European equivalent of the legendary Clarion sf writers' workshops. Keep an eye on developments at http://www.euroclarion.org.uk/.
The
Dead Past. Let's raise our glasses in bicentennial
appreciation of Hans Christian Andersen, born 2 April 1805, who inspired
one long-cherished assessment of Ansible: 'As a newszine, it is
the Emperor's New Clothes.' (Mike Glyer, File 770, 1987).
• Robert Louis Stevenson, drug-crazed hippy, was allegedly high on
an ergot-derived hallucinogen while writing Jekyll and Hyde – according to a
Times
story on 20 March.
Outraged
Letters. Mat Coward enjoys another grumble: 'In Radio
Times, 12-18 March, the intro to an article about the "Supervolcano"
film: "A billion people killed and the start of a new ice age.
Science fiction, right? Not according to a disturbing hi-tech thriller."
Ah yes, quite – hi-tech thrillers, you can rely on them. Not like that
daft fiction about science nonsense.'
• John Jarrold feels quietly smug: 'For the second year
running, a book I commissioned for the much-lamented Earthlight imprint
has won the BSFA Award for Best Novel, with River of Gods
following on from Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Felaheen....'
Thog's
Masterclass. Hazards of Spaceship Acceleration Dept.
'Grant slept fitfully, dreaming that some giant hand was shaking him,
pummeling him mercilessly. He snapped awake and found that it was no
dream.'
• 'Abruptly the thrusters shut off. Grant felt it like a blow to
his crotch.' (both Ben Bova, Jupiter, 2000) [AR]
• Arithmetic Dept. 'Caine [...] hobbled to the kitchen,
closing the door behind him, 1.3 seconds before three soldiers burst
into the room. ... Their names are Martin Crowe, Juan Esposito, Ron
McCoy, and Charlie Rainer.' (Adam Fawer, Improbable, 2005) [FB]
• Dept of Supersonics. 'The ships were so big, so vast, so
fast. Faster than sound. The noise reached you after the ship made it.
That was why there was never any warning.' (Nicholas Fisk, Starstormers,
1980)
• Theory of Numbers Dept. 'The number of vertices of the
shapes on the left-hand frame are the first four primes: one, three,
five and seven.' (Alastair Reynolds, Diamond Dogs, 2001) [LC]
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Longlist
Details at http://news.ansible.co.uk/ansilink.html#cons
• 2005
16 Apr 05, A Galaxy of Stars (Dr Who/Star Wars), Weston-Super
Mare
11 May 05, Clarke Award ceremony, London
27-28 May 05, Flying Swan Large (Rankin), Derby
3-5 Jun 05, Construction V, ?Stevenage
29-31 Jul 05, Accio 2005 (H. Potter), Reading
29 Jul - 1 Aug 05, Precursor 2, Walsall
4-8 Aug 05, Interaction (Worldcon), Glasgow
11-15 Aug 05, The Ring Goes Ever On (Tolkien Soc), Aston U
12-14 Aug 05, Consternation (RPG), Cambridge
9-11 Sep 05, Reunion3 (media), Leicester
1-2 Oct 05, NewCon3, Northampton
15-16 Oct 05, Octocon 2005, Ireland
28-31 Oct, Cult TV 2005, Birmingham
11-13 Nov 05, Armadacon, Plymouth
11-13 Nov 05, Novacon, Walsall
• 2006
12-13 Mar 06, P-Con III, Dublin
14-17 Apr 06, Concussion (Eastercon), Glasgow
18-20 Aug 06, Discworld Convention, Hinckley, Leics
23-27 Aug 06, L.A.con IV (Worldcon), Anaheim, California
• 2007
30 Aug - 3 Sep 07, Nippon 2007 (Worldcon), Yokohama, Japan
Endnotes
Apparitions.
• 3 Apr: Bryan Talbot talk/slide show at Words05 (Leigh and Wigan
Literary festival). 2pm. Derby Room, Turnpike Centre, Civic Square,
Leigh, Lancs.
• 8-30 Apr: The Day of the Triffids – stage adaptation by
Shaun Prendergast, New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Box office 01473 295
900.
• 19 May: Peter F. Hamilton at Leicester Writers Club, Small Hall,
Adult Ed Coll, Wellington St, Leicester. 7pm-9pm. 'Admission £3/2
on the door', whatever that means exactly.
• 15 Jun: Iain Banks gets his honorary DLitt (amid other
presentations, of course) in the Bute Hall, University of
Glasgow. Entry tickets are free but numbers are limited. Apply to Mike
Findlay, m.findlay[at]admin.gla.ac.uk. [MM]
• 10 Jul: Stephen Briggs speaks at the Faringdon Arts Festival,
11am. 'No idea what it'll really be about ...'
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April Foolery. Proofreading in this issue may be less than perfect, since the usual eagle-eyed editorial scrutiny has been impaired by a slight though tiresome post-Eastercon eye infection. But there are no intentional hoaxes. (This sentence, however, contains threee erors.)
The Alien Online, that popular British sf webzine, is phasing out book reviews. Editor 'Ariel' will continue his news and personal weblog postings, but hopes to spend more time on other work and real life. This decision follows the acrimonious 'Pavlougate' affair in which James Lovegrove's strongly negative TAL review of Gene by Stel Pavlou (since nervously removed from the site) caused the wounded author to respond in such mature terms as: 'Eat shit and die you sad lamentable little fuck.'
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