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TITAN A.E. TM & © 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved. A member of Penguin Putnam Inc. Visit www.afterearth.com Visit Ace online at http://www. penguinputnam.com ohn Berkey aureen F. McHugh J MBy Eric M. Heideman By Greg Ketter Before Sputnik was launched, ushering in an Maureen F. McHugh was born February 12, nation. In Mission Child, culture clash ensues era of space exploration resulting in some of 1959, in Ohio. After receiving a ba from between the low-tech descendants of a plan- the most incredible views imaginable, John Ohio University she moved et’s first Earth colonists and Berkey began his career creating equally to New York City because the high-tech new Earth incredible views at Brown & Bigelow, pro- “I always felt that to write arrivals. Janna, a native, ducing over 500 calendar illustrations, most- required experience,” and goes through many trans- ly landscapes and historical scenes. In the the experience “ought to formations, gaining broad decades following, he has become, arguably, make me re-examine knowledge of her world in the greatest delineator of spaceships and things.” She earned an ma order to survive. Janna’s 2 interstellar travel the science fiction field has in English literature from narrative voice has a beau- 3 ever seen. His paintings have graced hun- New York University, tiful, seemingly artless sim- dreds of book and magazine covers. taught at the College of plicity. Only when charac- John’s style is very recognizable one; a Staten Island, temped as a ters speaking out of their loose painterly style, very impressionistic. His recruiter for a department native tongues display palette tends toward blues, with earth tones store chain and clerk for a awkward diction do we for good measure. His spaceships are not defense contractor, and notice the care the author gleaming monsters but somewhat organic wound up back in Ohio as brings to all her sentences. and sprawling; huge, imposing structures of a technical writer. On the McHugh’s “The Lincoln many levels. They are in motion, not frozen way, she taught English for Train” won the 1996 Hugo in time, but still moving along the page. a year at Hebei Teacher’s Award for Best Novelette. Blurred features, smoke and fire; tiny details College in Shijiazhuang, Several years ago she quit when viewed from afar, small paint blobs China, where she was known her day-job to write fiction when closely scrutinized. as “Ma Xiuling (Sheoling): full-time. Recently she’s John Berkey has been a tremendous inspi- the exquisite sound of tin- taught writing part-time at ration to many of today’s top sf artists. kling jade horse.” the Clarion sf writing Many, such as Vincent Di fate, will acknowl- She began writing sto- workshop, at the Viable edge John as one of the true masters of ries; eventually they started Paradise sf workshop on Science Fiction illustration. In fact, he was selling. Then her splendid Martha’s Vinyard, and at awarded the Grand Master Award from the first novel, China Moun- Cleveland University and prestigious Spectrum series for 1999. tain Zhang, won the John Carroll University. She Many of you will recognize John Berkey John did this self-portrait around 1970 Lambda Award for specu- lives in Twinsburg, Ohio, for his work on Star Wars. He did posters, lative fiction featuring a with her toy-engineer hus- book covers, record album covers, as well as John has done some Santa Claus stamps as gay male protagonist; the band, a son, and two dogs. some of the pre-production designs for well as movie star stamps. He had one book James Tiptree, Jr. Award Her fiction makes us re- George Lucas. He has also done movie collecting his work, Painted Space for (gender) role-expanding examine things. Characters posters for The Towering Inferno, Orca and (Friedlander, 1991), now sadly out-of-print. sf; and the arrive and depart in the dozens of others. Most will quickly recognize His book covers include works by Isaac for best first novel. China middle of doing something his King Kong, the only good thing to come Asimov, Ben Bova, Philip K. Dick, Glen Mountain Zhang offers interesting. People experi- out of the 1976 remake. He is a member of Cook and many more. He has done work for casual-seeming episodes in ence violence without the Society of Illustrators and has done their Omni, Science Fiction Age, Discover, the daily lives of people on learning why. We aren’t Call for Entries poster art. He did a painting National Geographic, TV Guide and The a 22nd century Earth and used to such things in sf, for a children’s book on Santa Claus and the Plain Truth. In fact, he has done so many Mars for which China is but they happen all the publishers were so excited by the work, they paintings for publication over the years, he the cultural center. The time in life. As well as any asked for one more. And one more. And still has trouble remembering who he has worked main character, Rafael Luis writer, McHugh satisfies one more, until he had illustrated the whole for. “China Mountain” Zhang, editor John W. Campbell’s book. And then there was Elvis. John is very quiet and unassuming; he is is a gay male Chinese-His- call for “fine contemporary John did the artwork for the stamp that very easy to work with and a pleasure to panic-American engineer fiction, written for a maga- some people call the fat Elvis. Actually, his know. If you see him around the convention, living in Manhattan. zine in the 25th century.” version was a younger, thinner, but definitely take a moment to tell him how much you’ve Two novels followed. This weekend, find out a Las Vegas style Elvis, in white jumpsuit. appreciated his work. This is his first conven- Half the Day is Night is a what a delight Maureen is Ultimately, another artist’s version was cho- tion as a Guest of Honor, so I hope you’ll suspense novel set in in person: warm, funny, sen to be the US Postal Services Elvis tribute. make him and his wife Demi feel welcome. Caribe, an undersea insightful, good. innowing My Folly WBy Lenny Bailes

Old Arnold Rimmer’s Dead. No, no, no, holocaust (and dried up the Chicken Vinda- he’s outside, looking in. loo supply) until the revivified jfk decided to commit suicide, restoring the continuum by Not Timothy Leary, these days, but a holo- becoming the second gunman and shooting gram with attitude from the British Red himself at the Grassy Knoll.” Dwarf tv series. Sunday night in San Fran- “I saw the one with the Cat teaching the cisco is junk-“sci-fi” night on our public spaceships to jitterbug,” Randy said. access tv station. If parades of marooned “Didn’t see it,” said Luke. Space Rastas and aging Timelords flickered In the dark insomniac hours that bridge across my tv screen on any other night, I the weekend with the workweek, I’ve found 5 would probably still be blissfully unaware of myself unnaturally susceptible to flickering them. But Sundays are a bit edgy. My Sunday uhf shadows. But, then, I’ve always had the afternoons are usually spent in composing habit of absorbing surrealistic drama and cutting-edge technoid computer product playing it back to myself in transmogrified reviews. I spend hours striving for those pro- versions. found revelations that will induce the Matrix Like Winnie the Pooh, I’m always com- (yet one more time) to dispatch catfood-scrip posing nonsense songs in my head. When I Attending Members have all of the privileges certificates to my mailbox. hear a radio playing and I’m reading an sf of membership. They can take part in all What I really do on Sunday afternoons is paperback, the two events fuse in my brain. convention activities, receive all of our pass a lot of water. The reviews are written publications and can vote on the Hugo by psychoactive coffee beans dissolved in my In the village, the Pleiades Village, Illyrion Cafe Americanos, Lattes, and Cappuccinos. sleeps tonight. Awards and the site of the 2003 Worldcon. Chicago will host the last Worldcon of the Make checks payable to “Chicon 2000” And I find it difficult to wind down after the millennium, and we plan to make it very special coffee beans have possessed my fingers to We’re the Intervention! Oh yeah. We’re the Join now. Our rates will never be lower. indeed. Hundreds of panels, seminars, readings channel the requisite spirit messages from Intervention and a whole lot more! and discussion groups featuring outstanding cyber-Loa. GUESTS OF HONOR When the subject of “Chicken Vindaloo” Shadow and Claw! Voices all voluble, knot authors, artists, editors, scientists and more. dinner came up at this year’s Corflu in that’s insoluble—issued by Tor. Ben Bova, Author The galaxy’s largest exhibition of science fiction Seattle, I made an interesting discovery: if Bob Eggleton, Artist and fantasy art. Rare and exotic SF films and you put four fans together in a hotel room, I discovered Gilbert and Sullivan in the record theatrical works. Exhibits featuring science, they will never all have watched the same collection at the Charlotte–Mecklenberg pub- Jim Baen, Editor technology, literature and fandom. Unparalleled episode of Red Dwarf. lic library, after my father’s job change forced “At least you don’t have to time-travel to our family’s relocation from New York to the Bob and Anne Passovoy, Fans opportunities to meet your favorite science fiction the Texas Book Repository and assassinate Deep South. g&s kept me sane in high school and fantasy personalities. Whether your interests jfk to order a Chicken Vindaloo dinner in (or at least entertained) while I plotted my Harry Turtledove, Toastmaster lie with Lovecraft or LeGuin, with videotapes or this town,” I remarked to Tami Vining. collegiate escape to someplace where they had palimpsests, with horrors from the dawn of time “Huh?” free, available electric mimeographs. That Join all of your fannish friends for the or the latest Windows upgrade (or are those the “Yeah,” agreed (former Minneapolis fan) place eventually became Los Angeles, when science fiction community’s annual reunion, Luke McGuff. “That’s true.” the University of California at l.a. offered me the Worldcon! same thing?), Chicon 2000 will be informative, “What?” said (Seattle fan) Randy Byers. a student loan. I had already published intriguing and fun! “Lister (quasi-dead hologram Arnold fanzines and hung out with sf fans when I Rimmer’s dread-locked buddy) wrecked the lived near New York City. In Charlotte, E-mail: [email protected] entire space-time continuum for a Chicken North Carolina, most everyone thought I had Web site: http://www.chicon.org/ Vindaloo dinner,” I explained. “The guy was a funny accent and weird ideas. However, the accidentally put into suspended animation g&s operettas were my solace. They inspired Snail Mail: Chicon 2000 for three million years as punishment for me to create my own homegrown sallies into P.O. Box 642057 smuggling a cat onto the Red Dwarf space the world of Topsy-Turvy. Chicago, Illinois 60664 station. Driven to temporal distraction by his Which I did after moving to l.a. I’ve never craving for curry, Lister bumped into Lee found anything in this world closer to the g&s European Contact: Martin Hoare, Harvey Oswald while time travelling back to Topsy-Turvy world than meetings of the Los 445 Titlehurst Road, Reading RG1 7TT Dallas for Indian takeout ⎯ thus cancelling Angeles Science Fantasy Society (or lasfs). the jfk assassination. Which caused a world When lasfs and I first met, the group “Worldcon” and “World Science Fiction Convention” are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. didn’t have its own clubhouse. Instead, meet- [Cue orchestra. Flurry of flute trills over The “Halfworld” alias for L.A. fandom was By the time some of you got a chance ings were held inside a city-owned concrete dramatic half-insane (fannish) laughter] acquired in the 1940s as a reference to to meet this experience, it was probably bunker at the Silverlake Playground in East Robert Heinlein’s story, “The Devil Makes well into its gold-plated dotage and a good Los Angeles. Collators of apa-l (the weekly When mundane clods shake down at the Law,” published in Campbell’s Unknown deal less attractive and mysterious. As lasfs amateur press association) would con- Silverlake and the fans of la convene, Worlds. If you want to know why, just read for what it felt like, I can offer you an ana- duct a mad caucus race around a table in the The eldritch spell called apa-l produces a the story (renamed and reprinted as “Magic, logy. (In fact, I did offer this analogy to back room. Mailings had to be stapled and joint crudzine — Inc.” in Del Rey’s Waldo and Magic, Inc. Lydia Nickerson, two years ago, on the distributed before custodians chased every- When the backroom teems with ungodly paperback) and then go to a lasfs meeting. newsgroup.): one out of the building promptly at 10 p.m. screams, and Bruce Pelz wails, “Shut If Bruce Pelz were attending this year’s In the front room, whacked-out parliamen- the door!” Minicon (alas, Geri tells me he’ll be sailing Imagine what it would be like if every tary debates would transpire —about things Then is the lasfs meeting day, then is the on the Suez Canal, instead), he might tell you day in your life was a permanent Minicon. like the legality of suppressing the status Halfworld’s tour! that my song seems to scan a bit better to Sir Your apartment and town are like your room report of the Committee to Put Rubber Tips Roderick’s Ruddigore declamation than it did and the Radisson. You get up in the morning on Clubroom Chairs. chorus: Ha! ha! Then is the Halfworld’s back in 1965. I’ve changed a couple of sylla- to get stuff for breakfast and pass a bunch of 6 I discovered the following record of my tour bles in response to his original complaint. people in day-glo tee-shirts on the “street.” 7 first in-person encounter with the lasfs Then is the lasfs meeting day, the Bruce was a W.S. Gilbert–like co-conspirator As you hunt for an open shop to pick up recently, while burrowing through my fanzine Halfworld’s spectral tour. for me during my first couple of years at eggs and coffee for the people crashed in collection. As the minutes are read and attendees are ucla. “There is only composition and de- your “room,” you notice all the new posters bled till bereft of their weekly dues composition in this world —and this is rot!” that have materialized overnight. Most of the recitative: You want to know what Amidst retorts, committee reports precede Bruce and I would typically eat lunch togeth- “stores” are run by hotel staff, but an really happens at lasfs meetings? dull movie reviews er and scribble some kind of frivolous fan- increasing pocket of shops is manned by Your puzzlement is quite amusing, I con- As the time speeds by, apa-l mailings fly nish nonsense every day. “convention attendees.” On your way fess till at last fans can gab no more; “home,” someone you don’t know smiles The lasfans are a zanier crew than you For Ten Bells limits lasfs Meeting Day — The Devil makes the law, the Devil makes and hands you a rose (or a potted plant, if could ever guess! the end of the Halfworld’s tour. the law. Turn on the stereo, the Devil you’re a more ecological type). makes the law! It might be helpful to imagine this as a front room chorus: We lasfans are a chorus: Ha ha! The weekly lasfs Meet- Minicon year in which you aren’t on the zanier crew than you could ever ing Day, the Halfworld’s spectral tour! So. I was talking about constantly being committee. Or the committee is an anarchy guess... haunted by doggerel like this —waiting for that somehow hasn’t gotten on the hotel’s buses, riding trains, and (especially when I nerves enough to be evicted. was young and newly employed) while per- So, after breakfast you do the sercon forming dull, repetitive clerk-typist tasks. stuff —go to the “program/classes.” But But my universe of Jungian musical there are hackey-sackers, people play- archetypes expanded when I discovered folk ing guitars, handing out pamphlets, Premiering at Minicon music and rock-and-roll. It took the “folk- wearing outrageous tee-shirts wher- rock” movement of the ’60s to open a few ever you go. And The Wrong World by Margaret Howes blocked neural sinuses. “Folk-rock” was bemused “hotel staff” Fleeing from his home world, young Tadko Darusko arrives on the planet Monna a media/marketing term for the in more formal cloth- searching for his only living relative, his father. But his father is away on a merging of intricate lyrics with ing are behind the journey, and Tadko is stranded on Monna with no friends, no means of support, catchy danceable tunes. Its exem- counters, at the desks, and no identity papers. Evading the authorities, Tadko must find a way to survive plars were the songs of the going about the daily until his father’s return, hoping that his father can intervene in his case.... Byrds, Fairport Convention, business of administer- and ur-source Bob Dylan. ing American civiliza- Margaret Howes’s novel reminds me of the science fiction I read as a high The ’60s were a Big Deal tion and watching you school student in the 1950s. It has old-fashioned sense of wonder: a vision of to me, as the decade of play. You feel safe and a future that is bigger and better than the present. If you think something’s been one’s late teens and early comfortable —if someone missing from science fiction in recent decades, try The Wrong World. And if twenties is to everyone. falls down or cries you think recent science fiction has been just fine, try it anyway. —Eleanor But I believe there was “help!” pretty soon Arnason also something definite- an ops-like long- Margaret Howes is a storyteller of subtle grace. The plot chugs along in a ly new in the external haired person mate- leisurely way that belies its relentless power—and the wonderful, apparently world —a compact that rializes and asks whether bottomless ability of Margaret Howes to invent detail. No “fate of the universe created a safe place for they can help. And even high-strung, cerebral geeks though you’re not on the at stake” here, only one young man trying to stay free long enough to ask his (like me) to explore our “committee,” you find father one question. This is good science fiction, and good story telling, and a animal natures as well yourself ready and will- memorable ride. —Mary Monica Pulver (a.k.a. Monica Ferris) as our capacities for ing to assume the role of For sale at the FTL Publications table. quick wit. “ops-like person.” Also available through amazon.com Read the first chapter at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/FTL_Publications Winner of thE Prometheus Award Now five or ten years pass after this idyl- with all the Property Deeds were shapeshift- lic interlude. You look around you and dis- ing aliens from Saturn’s moon, rather than cover that you’re not living at the “hotel” Terrestrial pan-global corporations.) anymore. But you remember the time when To young dot.com executives with stock THE STONE life was like a bazaar —organized by the options, things probably seem more like the amorphous, interchangeable “Committee.” opening phase of the Monopoly game than Who were they? Were you a member? Oh, to the final round. After years of telling Gen- find them again and fire them all put on Xers that their destiny in American life is to CANAL another “convention.” take low-paying jobs and produce/listen to grunge music on the weekends, economic This is a simplified metaphor for life in the mobility in our society has begun to shift. ’60s (or at Minicon) from the point of view Dramatically. But I’m still worried. Maybe of a middle-class college student. It skips dis- just by reflexive Boomer fears that I’ll soon cussion of “life at the convention” from the be replaced by something smarter and more Ken 8 perspective of the bellboy, the coffee shop adaptive than I am. waitress and the hotel manager. I hope it suc- But what I think I’m worried about is a ceeds in evoking the mystic essence of my relentless drive for independent innovators in MacLeod ’60s experience for you —which is what I niche markets to be acquired by Owners who wanted to do. don’t want to cater to those niche markets. Next topic: You never turned around to We had a community of creative under- see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns ground fm radio stations in the ’60s. They when they all did tricks for you. perished because Arbitron ratings proved the stations weren’t profitable enough for nation- The central novel al advertisers. From 1980 to this penultimate of MacLeod’s “Fall Revolution” series. Sometimes contemporary America seems to millennial year, thirty-five independent, sin- me like the last stages of a giant game of gle-screen theaters in the city of San Francis- Parker Bros. Monopoly. All the rents have co have been replaced by four multi-screen international praise for been multiplied by hotels on the lots. Crea- movie palaces owned and operated by media tive artisans throw the dice and circle the conglomerates. Mr. Celluloid Film Strip is ken macleod board —until eventually most people toss in seen now, slurping his Coke and shrugging their property deeds to become employees for his shoulders on almost every screen in town. “Ken MacLeod brings dramatic life to some of a few Rich Uncles. (This isn’t an original The Internet is still largely an open, free-form the core issues of technology and humanity.” metaphor. But in Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel anarchy where any artist can post an animat- The Game-Players of Titan, the landlords ed comic book, stream a concert, or start a —Vernor Vinge radio station. But this fact has been discov- ered with a vengeance by media moguls. And “This man’s going to be a major writer.” 0-312-87053-1 we know what corporate entities like to do —Iain Banks to artists and alternative communities. This may simply be the Way of the World “Prose sleek and fast as the technology it “Ken MacLeod’s novels are fast, funny and and pretty old news. But maybe we’re about sophisticated. There can never be enough books to hit some logarithmic threshold (“singulari- describes—watch this man go global.” ty” is a term that Vernor Vinge uses). We —Peter F. Hamilton like these; he is writing revolutionary science non-millionaires may find that our quality-of- fiction. A nova has appeared in our sky.” life issues as citizens have been replaced by “His prose is tight and slick, his characters live, quality-of-life issues for conglomerates. For and the story pulls you in and kicks you along, —Kim Stanley Robinson the conglomerates, our issues as individuals and leaves you with all kinds of stuff to chew may reduce to the need for our maintenance “MacLeod’s writing is smooth and sure, full of and our entertainment —as consumers and over when it’s done. I’ve been recommending employees rather than as citizens. him to everyone.” striking images and breathtaking extrapolations What this suggests to me in less dramatic terms is that “God is in the details” (as —Steven Brust of current technology. It’s a pleasure and a visionary Ted Nelson wrote in his prophetic challenge to read a book where human potential Information Age screed, Computer Lib/ “Deliciously ironic, brilliantly imagined, and human foibles are dealt with as thoroughly Dream Machines). As a writer and teacher I MacLeod’s witty and intelligent yarn packs a sometimes find myself engaged in a battle to as is scientific advancement.” preserve the details and the spirit of my tremendous wallop. More, please!” work. “That’s too geeky! No one will want —Kirkus Reviews (pointer review) on —Publishers Weekly More Lenny on Page 11 � The Cassini Division NOW AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER Visit us on the web at www.tor.com he Ubiquitous Unreliable Narrator More Lenny Here – Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter TBy Maureen F. McHugh to read it. Can’t you dumb it down a little?” “I can’t let your students take our computers I’ve been up; I’ve been down. I’ve been thinking a lot about point of view the reader as someone who is working out apart. What if they break something?” I’ve been walking ’round this town (pov) and the unreliable narrator. It’s a pretty of the context of their own personality, and I don’t know for sure, but I expect that And people want to take me on that Ride. writerly thing to be thinking about, which who misses things that the reader can pick some of you also experience these kinds of Temptation and a big door open wide; means it has about all the conversational up because of the narrator’s naivete, or frustrations when you try to engage in cre- I’m thinking ’bout the things I might pizazz of an engineer discussing chrome plat- prejudice, or prejudgment. Like Huck Finn, ative work. “Let’s be safe. Just do it the way have tried ing techniques or the difference between abs who doesn’t realize that the two guys that he I told you to and collect your check.” Till I can sit with my true love by my side. and glass-filled abs plastic. But imagine this and Jim are traveling with are con men I’m not always smarter than my bosses were a trade journal, which it is. And I were because he is a child and has never seen a and you may not be, either. It pays to listen People move so sure and fast a trade journalist, which I’m not. con, but his description of them is sufficient and think about what we’re told when we Hoping to escape the past. 10 In some sense all narrators are unreliable. for the reader to realize. There’s a tension get our brilliant brainflashes about how Consequences cannot be denied. 11 The classic unreliable narrator is someone created with an unreliable narrator —they are things might be Different (and even Better). Remember save a place for us to hide. like Nick in The Great Gatsby, whose unaware of something important that the You get those ideas, too, right? You’re a sci- I’m thinking ’bout that empty place hero worship blinds him to things reader is aware of. Will it get them ence fiction fan. But watch out (I’m telling inside about Gatsby that the reader in trouble? you along with Neal Stephenson) for people Till we can sit with our true loves can see. An unreliable narra- Every book has a narrator. who want you to forget all your ideas in side-by-side. tor has to report things that In first person books, the favor of pre-printed boilerplate instructions tell the reader information narrator is the I of the passed on to them in three-ring binders. – LB, roughly to the tune” that the narrator doesn’t book. “Call me Ishmael,” Dealing with that on a day-to-day basis can of Bob Dylan’s” deduce. A bad unreliable and Ishmael goes on to have an energy-damping, soul-deadening “Buckets of Rain” narrator is stupid. A bad narrate Moby Dick. effect. Which is why we’re lucky to have unreliable narrator fig- David Copperfield nar- Minicon to kick out the jams. Kathy Routliffe’s essay on Minicon 35 GoH ures things out a long rates David Copperfield. Wait until that deal comes ’round. Don’t Lenny Bailes was printed in PR#2. Copies time after the reader But there’s a narrator in you let that deal go down. are available on the Minicon Bridge. does for no other reason third person books too. than if the narrator figures The more limited the pov out that the weird guy who the harder it is to pick out lives upstairs, never talks to the narrator. But even in a anybody, keeps a large gun and third person limited pov where DUCKON IX: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE knife collection, and always pays the story reports only what the his rent in small unmarked bills is the one characters see and think and feel and experi- June 18-20, 2000 who is killing all the coeds, there will be no ence, someone is selecting those experiences, Sheraton Arlington Park, story. The only time a narrator should be and the cumulative selections suggest a per- stupid is if the narrator is someone like sonality at work, a narrator. 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(It took me way I see the world are going to stand re- Young Adult Author (Hal Clement Award Klingon Guest: janSIy (known among forever to figure out that he was watching vealed in ways that I don’t anticipate or in- Winner): Larry Segriff humans as Dr. Jeremy Cowan) two men play golf.) A bad unreliable narra- tend and in the end, I think this is one of the tor is unbelievable because the reader can’t values of fiction. All these voices of authors, Special Guest: Charles “DC” Nelson Filk Guests: Murray and Cathy Porath understand why the narrator hasn’t figured talking back and forth across the pages and Memberships are $30.00 through April 30, 2000; $40.00 at the door out what the reader has. now, the bits and bytes, and trying to say, A good unreliable narrator is a fine piece this is what the world is. We are all blind. Mail payment, Name, Address and Badge Name to: of work. The narrator must be presented to We are all trying to describe the elephant. DucKon IX Registration P.O. 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It meant that he would have to a moment. “Adam, why didn’t you think we accept a stranger who he didn’t know and were going to have a Christmas tree?” maybe wouldn’t really like into his home. It “Because of the new house,” he said, meant he was nearly powerless. It doesn’t 13 rather matter-of-fact. “I thought you might really matter that Adam’s father and mother not let us.” weren’t going to get back together, because It is strange to find that you have become Adam wanted to see his mom, and he want- the kind of person who might ban Christmas ed to be with his dad, and the way that it Trees. was easiest for him to get both those things We joke about me being the evil step- was for his parents to be together. mother. In fact, the joke is that I am the Nazi It’s something most stepparents aren’t pre- Evil Stepmother From Hell. It dispels tension pared for because children often court the to say it out loud. Actually, Adam and I do future stepparent. You’re dating, and it’s pretty good together. But the truth is that all exciting. Adam was excited that his father stepmothers are evil. It is the nature of the was going to marry me. He wanted us to do relationship. It is, as far as I can tell, an things together. But a week before the wed- unavoidable fact of step relationships. ding, he also wanted to know if his mother We enter into all major relationships with and father could get back together. It wasn’t no real clue of where we are going; marriage, that he didn’t understand that the two things birth, friendship. We carry maps we believe were mutually exclusive, it was more that are true; our parent’s relationship, what it they were unrelated for him. When I came says in the baby book, the landscape of our over I was company, it was fun. But real life own childhood. These maps are approximate was Mom and Dad. at best, dangerously misleading at worst. More Evil on the Next Page Dysfunctional families breed dysfunctional � families. Abuse is handed down from genera- tion to generation. That it’s all the stuff of Twelve Step programs and talk shows doesn’t make it any less true or any less profound. The map of stepparenting is one of the worst, because it is based on a lie. The lie is that you will be Mom or you will be Dad. If you’ve got custody of the child, you’re going to raise it. You’ll be there, or you won’t. Either I mother Adam and pack his lunches, go over his homework with him, drive him to and from Boy Scouts, and tell him to eat his carrots, or I’m neglecting him. After all, Adam needs to eat his carrots. He needs someone to take his homework seriously. He needs to be told to get his shoes on, it’s time for the bus. He needs to be told not

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about for days, even and champagne, the checkout clerk used to PHILOSOPHICAL RICH IN IDEAS.” Even More Evil —Los Angeles Times ask me what I was making. But no one asks SCOPE.” weeks afterwards.” more than children in non-step relationships you what you are making when you buy —Publishers Weekly (starred review) —USA Today —are hyperalert to division between parent cereal and hamburger. and stepparent. Beyond all this loomed the specter of I was thirty-three when I married. I had Adam at sixteen. The rebellious teenage boy no children of my own and never wanted from the broken home, hulking about the A NEW ODYSSEY BEGINS any. I’m a book person, so before I got mar- house, always in trouble, always resentful. ried I went out and bought books about Like many stepchildren, Adam came with an being a stepmother. I asked that we all do enormous amount of behavioral baggage. He From ARTHUR C. CLARKE, the brilliant mind that some family counseling before and during the acted out the tensions of his extended family. brought you 2001: A Space Odyssey, and time we were getting married. The books He was sullen, tearful, resentful of me and painted a dismal picture. Women got de- equally resentful of his mother. I knew that STEPHEN BAXTER, the top British science fiction pressed. Women felt like maids. Women got Adam was the victim in all this, but when sick. There were lots of rules —the child you’re up to your ass in alligators, it is hard 17 writer of the decade, comes a novel of a time, needs to spend some time alone with their to remember that your original intention is to not so far in the future, when the walls of time natural parent and some time alone with drain the swamp. I had read that I would be their stepparent in a sort of round robin of resentful, but nothing prepared me for a mar- and distance have suddenly turned to glass. quality time; a stepmother should have some- riage that was about this alien child. I didn’t thing of her own that gives her a feeling of marry Adam, he didn’t marry me, and yet her own identity; don’t move into their that is what my marriage came down to. By PRAISE FOR ARTHUR C. CLARKE house, start a new house together if you pos- the time Adam was dealt with, my husband sibly can. and I were too exhausted to be married. I liked that there were rules so I followed My relationship with Adam was good, “One of the most astounding imaginations them and they helped a lot (even though I better than the relationships described in all ever encountered in print.” suspect that, like theories of child raising, our those books. He was a happier, healthier, theories of step relationships are a fad and more behaved child than he was when I mar- —The New York Times the advice in the books will all be different ried Bob —after all, it is easier to parent fifty years from now). But I was still evil, and when there are two of you. People compli- “Arthur C. Clarke is one of the truly that was the most disheartening thing of all. I mented me on what a fine job I had done. I felt trapped in role not of my own choosing. was the only one who suspected that there prophetic figures of the space age . . . Becoming a stepmother redefined who I am, was a coldness in the center of our relation- THE COLOSSUS OF SCIENCE FICTION.” and nothing I did could resist that inexorable ship that Adam and I felt. I could console redefining. I suppose motherhood redefines myself that he was better off than he was —The New Yorker who you are, too. Part of the redefinition of before I married Bob, and he was. But I me has been just that —sitting on the bench knew that something was a lie. “Clarke‘s agile imagination stretches our notions with the row of anxious mothers at the little One day Adam said angrily that I treated league game or at martial arts. Going to the dog better than I treated him. Of course, of how things can be, should be, and might be.” school and being Adam’s mother. Being I liked the dog, the dog adored me, and —Roger Ebert Adam’s Mom. It has made me suddenly feel Adam, well Adam and I had something of a middle-aged in funny ways. I used to go truce. The kind of relationship a child would through the grocery line and buy funky have with an adult who might ban Christmas PRAISE FOR STEPHEN BAXTER things like endive, a dozen doughnuts, a bot- trees from the house. So the accusation tle of champagne and two tuna steaks. Now struck home. “ARTHUR C. CLARKE, , I buy carts full of cereal and I started to deal with my stepson the way hamburger and juice box- I deal with my dog. 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