Ansible 276, July 2010
From David Langford, 94 London Road, Reading, Berks, RG1 5AU, UK. Web news.ansible.co.uk. ISSN 0265-9816 (print); 1740-942X (e). Logo: Dan Steffan. Cartoon: Brad W. Foster. Available for SAE, anzid, barbitide, sprine or wockle weed.
July's Hot Sun
Mike Ashley was guest of honour at a London party thrown by Constable Robinson to celebrate his 50th anthology for them, The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF. Among those present were Deirdre & Liz Counihan, Steve Jones and D. Langford. The latter caused general bafflement by congratulating the publishers on placing dozens of miniature thematic mammoths in nearby Green Park just for this occasion (actually some of the 258 variously decorated Asian elephants then infesting the capital).
J.G. Ballard's private archives – including first drafts of fiction, from early unpublished stories to Empire of the Sun – were acquired by the British Library under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme, thus reducing the whopping tax bill following Ballard's death last year. [JY]
Sir Ian Blair, ex-Metropolitan Police commissioner, showed off his sf erudition regarding the number of UK police forces: 'It's 43, which is, by coincidence, the secret of the universe in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and about as rational.' (Radio 4 Today, 25 June) [JB]
Pat Cadigan revealed her and a schoolfriend's 1960s fantasy of being alien twins with the awesome responsibility of 'secret exclusive contact with The Beatles', who 'came to us for advice about their songs and how to deal with fame and other important matters. [...] On occasion, they would ask us to use our highly developed shape-shifting ability to become them, and finish recording sessions and concert tours when they were too tired to go on themselves.' (www.npr.org, 3 June) [BT]
Neil Gaiman is weary of the current sparkly-vampire glut: 'My next big novel was going to have a vampire. Now, I'm probably not. They are everywhere, they're like cockroaches.' (Independent, 25 June) [MPJ]
Ray Harryhausen celebrated his 90th birthday on 29 June. Ray Bradbury – his friend since they were both 18 – will be 90 on 22 August.
James Herbert received an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for 2010. So did Brian Clemens, screenwriter and – for its last three 1960s tv series – co-producer of the legendary The Avengers; and actress Sophie Okonedo, recently seen in Doctor Who's 'The Beast Below'. [MPJ]
Terry Pratchett and Transworld announced a £20,000 competition for best novel with a past/future/alternate-Earth setting. New (no published novel) UK, Irish and Commonwealth authors only. Deadline 31 December 2010. Fuller details from Transworld, 61-3 Uxbridge Rd, London, W5 5SA; or pratchettprize at transworld-publishers.co.uk.
J.K. Rowling made it on to the Forbes list of dollar billionaires, though only just: equal 937th with a miserable $1bn (estimated), thus sharing the ignominy of the bottom rung with 74 other strivers. [MPJ]
Conjoun
Click here for longlist with links • London • Overseas
4 Jul • When It Changed (panel/reading), Southbank Centre, London. With Geoff Ryman. 3:30pm. £7. Box office 0844 875 0073.
17 Jul • Terror Scribes Gathering, The Lansdowne pub, 121-3 London Rd, Leicester. 1pm-ish to 8pm. With readings, raffle, etc. Free.
24 Jul • Beer & Blake's 7, Knight's Templar, Unit 1 Temple Sq, Temple Quay, Bristol, BS1 6DG. From 12:30ish to 7pm. Free.
24-27 Jul • The Sirens of Titan (open-air theatre), Sydenham Wells Park, London. 7:30pm. Also 29 Jul - 1 Aug Southwark Pk; 3-9 Aug Oxleas Woods; 11-14 Aug Hilly Fields Pk. Booking 020 7237 1663.
28 Jul • BSFA Open Meeting, The Antelope, 22 Eaton Tce, London, SW1W 8EZ. 5pm for 6pm. With Lauren Beukes (interview).
31 Jul • BFS Open Night (afternoon, actually), The George, 213 Strand, London, WC2R 1AP. 1-5pm. With Lauren Beukes as speaker.
31 Jul - 1 Aug • Caption (small-press comics), East Oxford Community Centre, Princes St/Cowley Rd corner. Usually £10 at door; £5 day.
13-15 Aug • Festival in the Shire (Tolkien), Y Plas, Machynlleth, Wales. Many complex price tiers; some or all discounts ceased 30 June. See www.FestivalintheShire.com for more. Bookings 0800 6125469.
26-29 Aug • Tricon (Eurocon), Cieszyn/Cesky Tesin, Polish/Czech border. €22.50 reg, rising to €25 on 1 August. Guest list, online registration and other booking details at http://tricon.info/.
23-24 Oct • Unconvention (Forteana), U of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, London, NW1 5LS. More TBA at www.forteantimes.com.
19 Feb 11 • Picocon 27, Imperial College Union, London. 10am-7/8pm. GoH Juliet McKenna, Kari Sperring. Membership TBA. Contact ICSF, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BB.
17-19 Jun 11 • Eurocon 2011, Stockholm – now combined with Sweden's national Swecon. Current rates £35/€40/SEK400; free to those under 26 when it starts. Payment info: www.eurocon2011.se.
Infinitely Improbable
As Others See Us. 'Trekkers / how to refer to Star Trek fans unless you want to make fun of them, in which case they are Trekkies.' (Guardian/Observer style guide) [GS] No, there's no entry for 'sci-fi'. It is suspected that, even while avoiding the hate-speech 'Trekkies', David Cameron was making fun during Parliamentary Question Time when he referred to 'the Labour leadership election [...] beginning to look more like a Star Trek convention – beam me up!' (Hansard, 16 June) [MPJ] Another sf view of this contest was that, excluding the sole female contender, 'the rest of the leadership line-up made the Midwich Cuckoos look like a Benetton ad.' (Lucy Mangan, Guardian, 12 June) [PW]
Awards.
BAFTA (British tv): the only genre winner, for Drama Series, was
E4's superpowers saga Misfits. [MPJ]
• Carnegie Medal (children's fiction): Neil Gaiman, The
Graveyard Book. The Independent mysteriously commented 'The
Graveyard Book is the first children's book to win the Carnegie
award ...' (25 June; presumably a garbling of '... to win both the
Carnegie and the Newbery Medal') [MPJ]
• David Gemmell Legend (heroic fantasy): NOVEL
Graham McNeill, Empire: The Legend of Sigmar. NEWCOMER
Pierre Pevel, The Cardinal's Blades. COVER ART
Didier Graffet & Dave Senior (illustration) and Laura Brett (art
direction) for Best Served Cold. [L]
• Lambda (LGBT), SF/Fantasy/Horror category: Catherynne M.
Valente, Palimpsest.
• Locus: SF NOVEL Cherie Priest, Boneshaker.
FANTASY NOVEL China Miéville, The City &
The City. FIRST NOVEL Paolo Bacigalupi, The
Windup Girl. YOUNG ADULT Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan.
NOVELLA Kage Baker, The Women of Nell Gwynne's.
NOVELETTE Peter S. Beagle, 'By Moonlight' (We
Never Talk About My Brother). SHORT Neil Gaiman, 'An
Invocation of Incuriosity' (Songs of the Dying Earth). ANTHOLOGY
Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds, The New Space Opera 2.
COLLECTION Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe.
NON-FICTION/ART Ursula K. Le Guin, Cheek by Jowl.
ARTIST Michael Whelan. EDITOR Ellen
Datlow. MAGAZINE F&SF. PUBLISHER
Tor.
The
Weakest Link. Q: In the 1968 film Rosemary's Baby,
which actress played Rosemary? A: Audrey Hepburn. Q. Who
wrote The Happy Prince and Other Tales – Wallis Simpson,
or Oscar Wilde? A. Wallis Simpson. (BBC1, 16 June)
• Q: In which sci-fi sitcom did the computer, Holly,
change sex when the actress Hattie Hayridge replaced Norman Lovett? A:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (18 June) [MPJ]
R.I.P.
Dede Allen (1923-2010), US film editor whose genre work included
Terror From The Year 5000 (1948), Slaughterhouse-Five
(1972), The Wiz (1978) and The Addams Family (1991),
died on 17 April; she was 86. [MPJ]
• Everett F. Bleiler (1920-2010), US editor,
bibliographer, critic and translator who compiled the pioneering The
Checklist of Fantastic Literature (1948), died on 13 June aged 90.
[RB] Besides further important genre checklists, he edited the first
regular Year's Best SF anthologies (1949-1956) with T.E. Dikty,
and – especially while at Dover Publications, 1955-1977 –
many notable anthologies and critical editions of sf and fantasy
writers.
• Arthur Herzog (1927-2010), US author whose debut novel
was The Swarm (giant killer bees, 1974) and who wrote several
other sf disaster and dystopia books, died on 26 May; he was 83. [JC]
• Jerry Emerson Loomis (1933-2010), US author and SFWA
member who began publishing short sf in 1972, died on 30 March. [SFWA]
• F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre (?1948/9-2010), Scots-born
author, journalist and illustrator whose sf novel is The Woman
Between the Worlds (1994), apparently died in a 'suspicious' fire at
his Brooklyn apartment on 25 June. [AIP] He suffered from depression and
had issued various farewells; police and fire officials believe this was
suicide. (NY Daily News, 26 June)
• David Markson (1927-2010), US author of the surreal
last-woman-on-Earth novel Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988), died
on 4 June aged 82. [JC]
• Joe Messerli (1930-2010), US comics artist who worked on
'funny animal' titles (e.g. Daffy Duck, Pink Panther,
Woody Woodpecker) and designed tv's famous Twilight Zone
logo, died on 23 June; he was 79. [PDF]
• Ronald Neame (1911-2010), UK film director whose genre
work included Blithe Spirit (1945, as cinematographer), Scrooge
(1970) and Meteor (1979), died on 16 June; he was 99. [AW]
• Howard 'Howie' Post (1926-2010), US comics
artist/writer, cartoonist and animator, best known for creating DC's
prehistoric hero Anthro (1968-1969) and the newspaper strip The
Dropouts (1968-1981), died on 25 May aged 83. [SG]
• José Saramago (1922-2010), Portuguese novelist
who frequently used sf/fantasy themes – such as the epidemic
blindness in his novel Blindness (1995, trans 1997) – died
on 18 June aged 87. He received the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.
[AW]
• Al Williamson (1931-2010), US comics artist who worked
for EC in the 1950s, on Creepy, Eerie and Flash
Gordon in the 1960s, and adapted Star Wars for comics, died
on 13 June; he was 79. [io9]
We Are Everywhere. Only an sf simile can do justice to World Cup background noises: 'Though insufferable to any foreigner, the vuvuzela is a piece of hardware to which the entire South African nation appears to have developed aural immunity – a bit like Omega IV, the planet in Star Trek where all the indigenous population is immune to the deadly virus in its biosphere, but a 400-strong exploratory Federation party immediately snuff it.' (Guardian, 11 June) [PW]
Award
Shortlists. John W. Campbell Memorial: Margaret
Atwood, The Year of the Flood; Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup
Girl; Iain M. Banks, Transition; Cory Doctorow, Makers;
Nancy Kress, Steal Across the Sky; Paul McAuley, Gardens of
the Sun; China Miéville, The City & The City;
Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia; Kim Stanley Robinson, Galileo's
Dream; Robert J. Sawyer, WWW: Wake; Bruce Sterling, The
Caryatids; Robert Charles Wilson, Julian Comstock: A Story of
22nd-Century America.
• Sidewise (alternate history): SHORT Paul
Di Filippo, 'Yes, We Have No Bananas' (Eclipse 3, ed Jonathan
Strahan); Alastair Reynolds, 'The Fixation' (Solaris Book of New
Science Fiction 3, ed George Mann); Chris Roberson, 'Edison's
Frankenstein' (Postscripts 20/21); Bruce Sterling, 'Black Swan'
(Interzone 4/09); Sarah Zettel, 'The Persistence of Souls' (The
Shadow Conspiracy ed Phyllis Irene Radford & Laura Anne Gilman).
LONG Robert Conroy, 1942 (yes, one contender
only).
• British Fantasy: NOVEL Joe Abercrombie,
Best Served Cold; Sam Stone, Futile Flame; Conrad
Williams, One; Mike Carey, The Naming Of The Beasts;
Stephen King, Under The Dome. NOVELLA Rio
Youers, Old Man Scratch; Rob Shearman, 'Roadkill' (Roadkill/Siren
Beat); Sarah Pinborough, The Language Of Dying; Joel Lane,
The Witnesses are Gone; Stephen Volk, Vardoger. SHORT
Justin Carroll, 'Careful What You Wish For' (Dragontales); Rob
Shearman, 'George Clooney's Moustache' (BFS Yearbook 2009); Nina
Allan, 'My Brother's Keeper' (Black Static 12); Sarah
Pinborough, 'The Confessor's Tale' (Hellbound Hearts); Michael
Marshall Smith, 'What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night' (Nightjar).
ANTHOLOGY D.F. Lewis, ed, Cern Zoo: Nemonymous 9;
Holly Stacey, ed, Dragontales; Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane, eds,
Hellbound Hearts; George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, eds,
Songs Of The Dying Earth; Stephen Jones, ed, The Mammoth
Book of Best New Horror 20. COLLECTION Ian McDonald,
Cyberabad Days; Ramsey Campbell, Just Behind You; Robert
Shearman, Love Songs For The Shy And Cynical; Allen Ashley, Once
& Future Cities; Joel Lane, The Terrible Changes.
SMALL PRESS Newcon Press, Screaming Dreams, Subterranean
Press, Telos Publishing, TTA Press. COMIC/GRAPHIC Fables,
Freakangels, Locke and Key, The Girly Comic,
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? ARTIST
Charles Vess, Les Edwards, Shaun Tan, Steve Upham, Vincent Chong.
NON-FICTION David Langford, 'Ansible Link' (Interzone
column; gosh!); Peter Tennant, 'Case Notes' (Black Static
column); Axelle Carolyn, It Lives Again! Horror Movies in the New
Millennium; John Scalzi, Whatever (scalzi.com/whatever); George
Beahm et al, Knowing Darkness. MAGAZINE Black
Static, Cemetery Dance, Interzone, Midnight
Street, Murky Depths, Theaker's Quarterly Fiction.
TELEVISION Battlestar Galactica, Being Human,
Doctor Who, Lost, Torchwood: Children of Earth.
FILM Avatar, Coraline, District 9,
Let the Right One In, Watchmen.
Outraged
Letters. Diana Wynne Jones loves her fans: 'Meanwhile
the DWJ List, having supplied me most generously with a vast bouquet of
exotic blooms and a fine picture, are now selecting quotes from my books
to put on T shirts. Farah Mendlesohn has pronounced this a breach of
copyright, but since I have said I don't mind in the least, I don't
think it is. Actually my own favourite quote is a sentence from a
student thesis I was once sent: "Jones disagrees". Understand
that this applies to Farah and not the List.' [Later: please note
that Farah's copyright concern – that permission should be asked
before printing t-shirts for sale – ceased at once when Diana
granted that permission.]
• Mike McInerney looks forward to August: 'Along the
waterfront on the Embarcadero in San Francisco they will install a 40
foot high 8 ton sculpture of a rocketship starting in August for about a
year ... looks like a giant Hugo Award to me!' This artefact has its own
web page, including a blurb of Clutean fluency: 'The Raygun Gothic
Rocketship is a rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between
yesterday's tomorrow and the future that never was, a critical kitsch
somewhere between The Moons of Mongo & Manga Nouveau.' (www.raygungothicrocket.com)
Censorship! Marion Pitman, as an AbeBooks vendor, found that John Norman's Kajira of Gor (2007) is banned: 'Abe's banned books policy is bizarre – they have a list of banned books. They cannot let you see it. They don't know where it came from or why any particular book is on it. If you list a banned book they will pull it from your inventory – but – it is absolutely impossible for them to tell you they have done so!'
The Dead Past. 30 Years Ago, D. Langford took a momentous step: 'For reasons shrouded in official secrecy and middle-class reticence [...] this humble editor has left AWRE for the far more thrilling and less remunerative field of pro writing. Undaunted by the encouragement of publishers ("It's an easy decision to make, but ...") and agents ("The book trade is in the worst depression it has known for a great many years ..."), your hero freed himself with a single bound and is now self-employed!' (Ansible 11, 1980) And still doesn't have a proper job.
Random
Fandom. John Berry (not the US John D. Berry) has been
lying low after a difficult twisted-bowel operation last year. He spent
some time in a convalescent home, and on return to his own house 'had no
interest in writing or his other hobbies – which is most unlike
him.' [PWe] Though still not fully recovered, he seems more cheerful
now.
• Jeanne Bowman & Alan Rosenthal were married on 26
June.
• Peter Cohen was at John Birchby's funeral on 15 June:
'Eleven fannish persons duly turned up, making up roughly a quarter of
the congregation. We learnt about John's time in the TA, his
marksmanship and that his middle name is Varley. After the service those
fans without urgent work commitments went on to a pub where we
collectively bought a half of lager, John's usual tipple, which for once
he couldn't insist on paying for himself.'
• Anne & Brian Gray, North American TAFF
administrators, were married on 22 May (note name change from Anne K.G.
Murphy).
• James Nicoll posted links to J. Neil Schulman's joke
claim that he'd sue the US government for swiping ideas from his sf
novel Alongside Night (see
A275), and
also to Nicoll's own review of the book. This provoked an irate reply,
seemingly from JNS, taking Nicoll to task for being lukewarm about a
work once endorsed by Anthony Burgess (So Who Do You Think You Are?);
followed in turn by the real JNS, dissociating himself from this
graceless 'anonymous defender'.
C.o.A. Andrew Adams, 902 Landstage Ryogoku, 1-20-12 Midori, Sumida-Ku, Tokyo 130-0021, Japan. Anne & Brian Gray, 2726 Sagebrush Cir #203, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103, USA.
Thog's
Masterclass. Neat Tricks Dept. 'Odan lifted his head
so that it jutted from between his shoulder blades ...' (Manning Norvil
[Ken Bulmer], Dream Chariots, 1977)
• Dept of Too Much Anatomical Information. 'With Mordred
looking over his shoulder, and flanked by Arthur and Agravaine, Tich
eased his bulk carefully onto a stool, rested his hands on his belly and
puffed out his bulbous cheeks.' (Alan Fenton, The Hour of Camelot,
2010) [DVB]
• Choice of Sense Organ Dept. 'Lili rested a hand on the
head of the control divan and pressed her lips together and looked
around at us, mostly with her eyes.' (Fritz Leiber, The Big Time,
1961) [PB]
• Crossing the Jordan. 'Romanda took a longer look, and
nearly gasped herself.' 'They were disparate men, alike only in the way
a leopard was like a lion.' 'His scowl deepened creases on his flushed
face that needed no deepening.' 'They slept together like puppies of
necessity.' 'Elayne laid one finger atop a bronze horseman less than a
hand tall, standing a few leagues west of the city.' 'His ears quivered
with embarrassment yet again.' 'He looked furious. And near to sicking
up.' 'She tried to work moisture into her mouth, but it was thick.' 'She
showed him her teeth, hoping he did not take it for a grin.' 'Before you
can have eyeless prisoners, you need an eyeless victory. What we've had
are a string of eyeless defeats.' (all Robert Jordan, Knife of
Dreams, 2005) [AR]
• True Romance Dept. 'And so it was, with full belly and
empty bladder, Fred plowed into Mary like a moose through a windshield.'
(David Marusek, Mind Over Ship, 2009) [CB]
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Apparitions.
• 9 July 2010: Brum Group, Briar Rose Hotel, Bennett's Hill,
Birmingham city centre): 7:30pm for 8pm. With Steve Feasey. £4;
members £3. Contact 07845 897760 or bhamsfgroup at yahoo co uk.
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R.I.P. Supplement. Corey Allen (1934-2010), US actor-director who directed several episodes of Star Trek: TNG (including the pilot) and Star Trek: DS9, died on 27 June – two days short of his 76th birthday. [F770]
Editorial.
Some links. The Encyclopedia of SF (third edition still in
progress) is showing sample entries for recently deceased sf people,
often linked from Locus Online death reports. A new issue of the
infrequent Cloud Chamber appeared on the Langford website in
June. I put together a page of relevant 2009 links for the Aussiecon
Hugo Voter Packet: this may be of interest for the larger versions of
Ansible masthead artwork. And 'A Short History of "The Eye
of Argon"' (Banana Wings 41, March 2010) is now on line,
menacing visitors' sanity like the Langford Death Parrot mentioned in
The Fuller Memorandum by that nice Mr Stross.
http://sfe3.org/rip.html
http://ansible.co.uk/cc/cc161.html
http://news.ansible.co.uk/misc/ansible2009.html
http://ansible.co.uk/writing/argon-timeline.html
Award
Shortlists II. Mythopoeic (fantasy): ADULT
LITERATURE Barbara Campbell, Trickster's Game: Heartwood,
Bloodstone and Foxfire; Greer Gilman, Cloud &
Ashes: Three Winter's Tales; Robert Holdstock, Avilion;
Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest; Jo Walton, Lifelode.
• CHILDREN'S Kage Baker, The Hotel Under the
Sand; Shannon Hale, Books of Bayern: The Goose Girl, Enna
Burning, River Secrets and Forest Born; Grace Lin,
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon; Malinda Lo, Ash; Lisa
Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars.
• SCHOLARSHIP: INKLINGS Gavin Ashenden, Charles
Williams: Alchemy and Integration; Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien, Race,
and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits; Douglas Charles Kane,
Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion;
Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of
C.S. Lewis; Elizabeth A. Whittingham, The Evolution of Tolkien's
Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth.
• SCHOLARSHIP: OTHER Lucas H. Harriman, Lilith
in a New Light: Essays on the George MacDonald Fantasy Novel; Farah
Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of Fantasy; Marek Oziewicz, One Earth,
One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd
Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card; Leslie A.
Sconduto, Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from
Antiquity through the Renaissance; Caroline Sumpter, The
Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale.
Random
Fandom II. Jim Darroch was at the Edinburgh
International Film Festival: 'Monsters: Well, seen it all now. A
road movie with an offbeat love story set against a Mexico being
destroyed by ambulatory giant squid from Outer Space, I kid you not.
Excellent. Jackboots on Whitehall: Bizarre stop-motion animation
alternative history view of WW2, with Churchill retreating to a lawless
Scotland, wherein the battle against the invading Nazi hordes commences.
Hilarious.'
• Andrew I. Porter celebrated the 50th anniversary of his
first ever sf news column, in James V. Taurasi's newszine Science
Fiction Times. [AIP]
William
Gibson's Book Expo America speech:
http://blog.williamgibsonbooks.com/2010/05/
Thog Extra. Eyeballs in the Sky. 'Randori searched Morgan's eyes and saw the wounds his words made.' (John DeFrank, Condemned To Freedom, 2010) [MMW]
Ansible 276 Copyright © David Langford, 2010. Thanks to Brian Ameringen, Paul Barnett, David V. Barrett, Richard Bleiler, Jason Boissiere, Chaz Bufe, John Clute, Paul Di Filippo, Steve Green, Martyn P. Jackson, Locus, Andrew I. Porter, Adam Roberts, Graham Sleight, Bruce Townley, Peter Wareham, Andrew Wells, Peter Weston, Martin Morse Wooster, Jessica Yates, and Hero Distributors: Dave Corby (Brum), SCIS/Prophecy, Alan Stewart (Aus). 1 Jul 10.