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BSFG News 369 June 2002 JUNE 2002 ISSUE 369 Brum Honorary Presidents: BRIAN W ALDISS Group HARRY HARRISON Committee: News Vernon Brown (Chairman) Vicky Cook (Secretary) The Free Monthly Newsletter of the Pat Brown (Treasurer) Rog Peyton (Newsletter Editor) BIRMINGHAM + Steve Jones & William McCabe SCIENCE FICTION GROUP NOYACON 32 Chairman: Martin Tudor Friday 14th JUNE THE BSFG WELCOMES NEW FANTASY AUTHOR JULIET E McKENNA Juliet E McKenna is a new author her wits and narrowly avoiding serious with four published works to date. All trouble. But when she attempts to sell a four books are part of the Einarinn stolen antique to a local merchant, she fantasy series published by Orbit. Titles finds herself pulled into a new and so far in the series are - in order - THE dangerous world of political intrigue in THIEF’S GAMBLE, THE SWORDS­ which the stakes are higher than anyone MAN’S OATH, THE GAMBLER’S involved can imagine. ” FORTUNE and the newly published Will there be a fifth? Why not THE WARRIOR’S BOND. The blurb come along to this month's meeting and for the first volume reads: “In Einarinn, find out. the secret of magic is known only by an Juliet visited Birmingham at the elite few. They live in deliberate end of 2001 to sign books. The Orbit isolation under the watchful eye of the rep, Nigel Andrews, ferried Juliet Archmage. But nothing lasts forever... around Birmingham signing every one Livak is a part-time thief and a full-time of her books in sight! This is her first gambler, long accustomed to living by visit to the Brum Group. RGP JULY Meeting - Fantasy and horror author and editor - and local active fan - Mike Chinn will be talking to the Group. l ! j This month’s meeting will take FORTHCOMING EVENTS place in the Lichfield room on the second floor of the Britannia Hotel, June 28-30 - the SCIENCE FICTION New Street (entrance in Union RESEARCH ASSOCIATION Passage almost opposite the Odeon, CONFERENCE will be held at New New Street). It will commence at Lanark, Scotland. Theme of the 7.45pm so please arrive early, get conference will be Utopias. Guests of your drinks from the bar and be Honour are Pat Cadigan, Paul McAuley seated in plenty of time. and Ken MacLeod. Keynote speaker At the bottom of the ramp from will be Andy Sawyer. Cost is £264.00 New Street Station, turn right, cross (all meals included) for SFRA and SFF over the road and you’ll find Union members - see website for other fees, Passage about 20-30 yards along. etc. Info from 22 Addington Road, Reading, RG1 5PT, UK. email: Farah LAST MONTH'S MEETING Mendlesohn - [email protected] or Andrew Butler, Last month should have been a ambutler@enterpr ise. net talk on science fiction conventions by website: www.sfra.org/sfra2002.htm Peter R Weston. But due to a ‘double booking’ (Peter was in Belgium visiting August 9-11 - CONTEXXT (UNICON his daughter, Alison) he was unable to 20) at University of Gloucestershire, deliver the promised talk. Hah! Didn’t I Oxon, UK. Guests of Honour: Keith warn you that the rust was starting to Brooke and Ben Jeapes. Details from affect the working of this PRW model Nigel and Sabina Furlong, 17 Cow robot? Did you really think I was Lane, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 7SZ, joking when I claimed that the early UK. email: [email protected] Brum Group members built this robot website: from a kit that we bought off a www. cix. co. uk /-bugsha w /uniconwin/ Birmingham market stall? What do you think the ‘R’ in Peter R Weston stands November 1-3 - NOVACON 32 - the for? Just like R Daneel Olivaw.... yes, Birmingham SF Group’s very own you got it. convention will be held at the Quality At very short notice - like a few Hotel, Bentley, Walsall, UK. Guest of hours - Vernon and myself decided to Honour - Ian McDonald, author of stand in and give a talk on the subject DESOLATION ROAD, ARES members were expecting. We covered EXPRESS, CHAGA, etc., etc. Cost of most conventions since 1964 along with registration is £35 - send to a potted history of the Group. Nothing NOVACON 32, 379 Myrtle Road, was thrown at us afterwards so Sheffield, S2 3HQ. presumably the evening was enjoyed by email: [email protected] those who attended. Mind you, it probably wasn’t brilliant - no-one NOVACON is the one event that offered to buy us a pint....! RGP YOU should be attending! It is not 2 CREATIVE WRITING SUMMER SCHOOLS 2002 Chris Morgan Bring a pen and paper for all workshops. Note that all centres have drinks machines but not (except for Stone Hall) food, so bring a packed lunch if you like. Please book your place in advance. Saturday 29th June at the Clock Tower Centre (0121 427 3213) POETRY WORKSHOP 9.30-11.30am and noon-2.00pm. Cost is £6.60 and £3.20 (4 hours of brand new exercises, handouts and examples to help you write better poetry. Please bring a recent poem of your own for detailed analysis). Monday 1st July at Stone Hall Education Centre (0121 706 2744) WRITING DRAMA FOR RADIO AND TELEVISION 9 30am-12 30pm Cost is £5 00 (3 hours - this will be an introduction to writing plays for radio and TV, with handouts, audiovisual examples and exercises). Thursday 4th July at Northfield Adult Education Centre (0121 475 3638) DEVELOPING CHARACTERS AND DIALOGUE FOR SHORT STORIES lO.OOam-noon and 1.00-3.00pm. Cost is £6.50 and £3.20 (4 hours of developing characters and their dialogue for short stories: lecturettes, examples, handouts, exercises). Saturday 6th July at Archbishop Ilseley School (0121 706 2744) WRITING SHORT STORIES 9.30am-12.30pm. Cost is £5.00 (3 hours of developing characters and dialogue for short stories: lecturettes, examples, handouts, exercises. Note that this will be an edited version of the 4th July workshop at North field). Tuesday 9th July at Northfield Adult Education Centre (0121 475 3638) HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL lO.OOam-noon and 1.00-3.00pm. Cost is £6.60 and £3.20 (4 hours of plotting and planning for novels: exercises, examples, handouts). Thursday 11th July at the Clock Tower Centre (0121 427 3213) HOW TO WRITE FOR CHILDREN lO.OOam-noon and 1.00-3.00pm. Cost is £6.60 and £3.20 (4 hours of new lecturettes, examples, handouts and exercises). Saturday 13th July at the Clock Tower Centre (0121 427 3213) WRITING COMEDY 9.30-11.30am and noon-2.00pm. Cost is £6.60 and £3.20 (4 hours of hysterically funny examples, exercises and handouts. Note that this is a repeat of the workshop of the same name held at Stone Hall in July last year). 3 f too soon to register! Especially if you COSMONAUT KEEP require a single room. BOOK NOW! Ken MacLeod (Orbit UK, 2000; Tor) All details are correct to the best of our THE CURSE OF CHALION knowledge, we advise contacting organisers Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos) before travelling. Always enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope when PASSAGE writing to any of the above contact Connie Willis (Bantam) addresses. PERDIDO STREET STATION Any information about forthcoming SF / Fantasy / Horror events are always China Mieville welcome - please send to me at (Macmillan UK, 2000; Del Rey) rog@rogpeyton. fs net. co.uk. tell me about it < < Er - is this the first time that TWO in the shop or phone me at the shop on authors from the UK, both with books 0121 643 1999. published first in the UK, have been nominated in the same year??? - 2002 NEBULA AWARDS RGP > > Best Novel THE PRISM AWARDS THE QUANTUM ROSE Catherine Asaro (Tor) The PRISM is a contest for published authors sponsored by the Fantasy, Best Novella Futuristic, and Paranormal subchapter “The Ultimate Earth” of RWA (Romance Writers of Jack Williamson America). The winners will be (Analog Dec 2000) announced at the RWA's annual Best Novelette National Conference in July. “Louise’s Ghost” Light Paranormal Category Kelly Link JUST WEST OF HEAVEN by (Stranger Things Happen, Kathleen Kane, HEARTS ACROSS Small Beer Press) FOREVER by Mary-Montague Sikes, Best Short Story SEVEN RINGS BINDING by “The Cure for Everything” Catherine Snodgrass Severna Park Fantasy Category (Sci Fiction 06.22.00) SHADOW IN STARLIGHT by Shannah Biondine, GODDESS BY 2002 HUGO NOMINATIONS MISTAKE by P.C. Cast, BUTTER­ CUP BABY by Karen Fox AMERICAN GODS Neil Gaiman (Morrow) Time Travel Category THE PLEASURE MASTER by Nina THE CHRONOLITHS Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) Bangs, THE ENCHANTMENT by Pam Binder, ACROSS A MOON- physically Earth-like planet. Put this SWEPT MOOR by Julie Moffett into the Formula and it is, near as Futuristic category dammit, certain that there’s life on THE STAR PRINCE by Susan Grant, other planets; all we have to do now is LOCAL CUSTOM by Sharon Lee & go and look. VB Steve Miller, SCOUT’S PROGRESS by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller BUT HOW DO THEY KNOW? Dark Paranormal Category “Many of New Zealand’s SECRET OF THE WOLF by Sue species of wildlife are unique to this Krinard, RAPTURE IN MOONLIGHT planet” says the magazine for tourists by Rosemary Laurey, DANEGELD by put out by THE GUARDIAN in Susan Squires association with Tourism New Zealand. VB < < Wow! Only the 2 Sharon Lee and Steve Miller titles really fall into the < < Both above items from NEW category labelled science fiction - they SCIENTIST 18th May 2002 > > were first published by Meisha Merlin in the US in one volume and are NEWS IN BRIEF...
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