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Intervention PR 1 INTER VYENTION THE 1997 BRITISH EASTERCON 28-31 March 1997, The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, UK ANOTHER DEADLINE WHAT'S NEEDED ROUND HERE. 1S SOME SORT AND MY MIND OF SCIENCE-FICTIONAL 1S COMPLETELY MUSSOLINI OS oo = : a OO(MPKE THE 3 ~~ \ BRAINS RUN ON TIME stow ge a ANA Hoe { NiNi \\ \ A A Re SEness @! Aan Guests of Honour: Brian Aldiss, Jon Bing, Octavia Butler, David Langford Progress Report Oxe Critical Wave the European Science Fiction and Fantasy Review Founded in 1987, Critical Wave has established a reputation for hard-hitting news coverage, perceptive essays and incisive reviews of the latest books, movies and comics. Published five times a year, its regular features include publishing news, market reports, art portfolios, fanzine reviews, author interviews and Britain's most comprehensive convention and mart listings section. Why not check out Critical Wave now and see why Michael Moorcockcalled it the “most consistently interesting andintelligent" genre magazine available ? Critical Wave #43, on sale now, features: an extensive interview with CHRIS PRIEST by DAVID LANGFORD;an interview with GWYNETH JONES; a portfolio by SMS; fanzine columns by guest reviewers DAVE HICKS and ANDREW HOOPER;reports on INTERSECTION; GRAHAM JOYCE's "Top Quark” column; the latest instalment of JOHN GOSLING's tv column; plus the usual mixture of convention updates, reviews of books, comics, magazines, videos and genre news. A sample issue costs just £2.45! Five issue subscriptions cost: £11.50 in the UK; £13 sterling, or equivalent of £17 in any other currency for the rest of Europe; $25 (£15) airmail, or $20 (£13) by surface mail to North America, Africa and the Middle East; A$33 (£16) airmail, or AS26 (£13) by surface mail to Australasia and the Far East. Cheques or money orders should be made payable to “Critical Wave Publications" and sent to: Martin Tudor, 845 Alum Rock Road, Birmingham, B8 2AG,England. INTER ENTION THE 1997 BRITISH EASTERCON Progress Report One Future Temse by Steve Green 4 Chairman’s Communicae byJobn Richards 5 Our Guests of Honour 6 . Eastercon Wars: 1983-1990: A Report from the Trenches by Mike Scott 8 intervention’s Committee 11 Membership List = 42 How to Join Intervention 14 LARGE PRINT VERSIONSof Intervention publications are available on request from the convention's address: Intervention 12 Crowsbury Close Emsworth Hants PO10 7TS UK e-mail: [email protected] Letters andarticles on any aspect ofIntervention for possible inclusion in future progress reports are very welcomeandshouldbesent to Pete Wright at the convention’s address given in large type above. Special thanks go to D. West for the cover illustration. All material in this progress report is © 1995 by Intervention. Copyright is returned to the individual authors upon publication. This publication wasedited by Pete Wright and Steve Green. Typesetting and layout was by Pete Wright and printing was by Sprintprint, Aston Road, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 7UD. vacuum upon members of our own species feel most bitter about that dream’s betrayal. Future Tense by Steve Green We shouldbe reaching for the stars; instead, wereach for guns and squander humanlife e have seen the future, and it was in tribal squabbles over handfuls of dirt. \ x | last Tuesday. For thoseof usin the But there is time yet to rewrite tomor- science fiction community who row. Intervention—like its spiritual pred- reached adolescence post-Sputnik and pre- ecessors, theWincons—still holdsthe dream, Challenger, the technological revolution andinvites you to explore the future with currently sweeping our culture—of which us. Those ofyou who attended our previous Toffler’s communications-driven ‘Third events will be aware of our reputation for Wave’ is the most relevant here—is a bi- provocative programming anda globalout- zarre mix of the disquietingly unknown and look (both geographically andculturally), thealarmingly familiar. Every kidwhocaught coupled with a natural desire to promote Dick Tracy or Thunderbirds knew mobile the more overtly fun-based aspects of telephones would arrive oneday,albeit not fandom. Hosting an Eastercon—especially built into wristwatches; we just never imag- one held in a venue with such a strong ined what abloody nuisance they’d become, fannish history—gives us the chance to or how deep an intrusion into our privacy stretch our organizational muscles and bring they could represent. our particular style of convention toa much The more things change, the more they wider audience. We look forward both to stay the same. As sf fans, we embrace the seeing you at the Adelphi, and to hearing myriad possibilities the third millennium your ownideas on makingthis an Eastercon has to offer, yet recognize that thereality is to remember—afterall, our theme is com- unlikely to be as spectacular as our own munication, and that runs both ways. visions of tomorrow. The computer upon ADVERTISING Every kid who caught Dick RATES AND Tracy or Thunderbirds knew mobile telephones would DEADLINES FOR arrive one day... INTERVENTION PROGRESS which I’m typingthis editorial is far more REPORTS powerful than the steam-driven devices which took mankind to the moon,yetit is now 23 years since last we walked its £50 PER FULL A5 PAGE surface—anda disinterested American pub- lic complained on that occasion when live £25 PER HALF A5 PAGE lunar transmission replaced a re-run of J Love Lucy. ADVERT COPY DEADLINES: Such indifference exposes NASA’s fail- ureto convey the true message of the Apollo PR2: 16 FEBRUARY, 1996 missions. For all the talk of Cold War PR3: 13 SEPTEMBER, 1996 oneupmanship and technologicalspin-offs, PR4: 20 DECEMBER,1996 the so-called ‘space race’ was our century’s Great Adventure, the first step towards PLEASE CONTACT JOHN BARK fulfilment of the Science Fiction Dream. AT THE ADDRESS GIVEN ON Little wonder, then, that those of us who once gazed across a quarter-million miles of THE CONTENTS PAGE. SF is a genre with communicationsat its heart. It allows its creators to play games Chairman’s Communicae which no other genre can deal with. In sf by John Richards you can explore the political consequences of reducing the vocabulary, you can exam- ine the problemsoftrying to reach an entity I nthe case of Intervention the purpose of with which you have nothing in common the theme is to give the programme a except sentience, you can extrapolate the shape. I want to be able to start an unexpected consequences of technical de- argumentin one item, developit in another velopments. and present the consequences in a third. I Any convention, being a social occasion, want the conversation in the bar to be is based on communications. They are de- influenced by what has been happening on rived from a desire on the part of the stage and what happens on stage to be an menbership to meet others to whom they expansion of the conversation that has been can talk without having to explain their taking place in thebar. references. They comprise people swapping ideas, acquiring and dispensing facts and opinions. They are controlled by, among SF is a genre with others, people whisperingself importantly communications at its into wallyphones sending requests for more heart. It allows its creators chairs from the back of the auditoriums. to play games which no other genre can deal with. Reading the conversations on the Internet has shown Theidea is to put together a programme an encouraging level of whereit does not seem outof place for an support for the theme of itemto contain referencesto 1 984, A Clock- communication. This is work Orange, Star Trek, Space Precinct and particularly gratifying since the Legion of Superberos. To provide a chance to be part of a human fax machine or i was worried that to imitate a dolphin in the queue for break- communication was too fast. To get people interested in the overlap nebulous a concept for between genres and not overly involved in people to get behind. the differences between them. My working life since school has been concerned with ideas of communication, Reading the conversations on the Internet and the chance to design a convention has shown an encouraginglevel of support around this theme was too goodto leave for the theme of communication. This is alone. The themeis large enough to encom- particularly gratifying since I was worried pass items on technical specifications on that communication was too nebulous a cable television transmissions andthe use of conceptfor people to get behind.It seemsI the apostrophe in names as an alienation am not alonein myfascination.If you have device. It is serious enough to cover ques- any ideas that you think that we should tions as to how wecan deal other species consider, or if you want to volunteer your- when we cannotdeal with othercultures.It self as a communicator then please get in is light-hearted enough to include work- touch with us via the standard pathways. shops on Klingon signlanguageforthe deaf. We won't be starting serious programme It can even drag us enough into the real planning until after Evolution but the pre- world to ask how we might get the genre liminaries are already taking shape and we taken moreseriously by the media (and if will take all the help we can get. it’s really worth the effort). he has collaborated with the actor-director Ken Campbell on a stage adaptation of Our Guests of Honour several of his short stories (one of which, ‘Super Toys Last All Summer Long’, has e are delighted to welcome four been optioned by 2001: A Space Odyssey guests of honour to Interven- director Stanley Kubrick). tion; Brian Aldiss, Jon Bing, Octavia Butler and David Langford. Octavia E.
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