DOCSLIB.ORG

1 @A5 &5H9F ,HI8=CFIA D .B=J9FG=HQ 8=

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
1 @A5 &5H9F ,HI8=CFIA D .B=J9FG=HQ 8= 1 Alma Mater Studiorum Ð Universit di Bologna in cotutela con la Universidad de Granada DOTTORATO DI RICERCA IN Dottorato DESE-Curriculum Edges Ciclo XXXI Settore Concorsuale: 10/LI-LINGUE, LETTERATURE E CULTURE INGLESE E ANGLO- AMERICANA Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: L-LIN/10 UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA, RACE, GENDER, AND NEW FORMS OF HUMANISM IN WOMENS SCIENCE FICTION Presentata da: ELEANOR GUISTINA PRUDENCE DRAGE Coordinatore Dottorato Supervisore BRUNA CONCONI RITA MONTICELLI ADELINA SçNCHEZ ESPINOSA Editor: Universidad de Granada. Tesis Doctorales Autor: Eleanor Guistina Prudence Drage ISBN: 978-84-1306-319-5 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/57275 2 Esame finale anno 2019 3 To Filip Acknowledgements I would like to express my gratitude to the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Modern Cultures at the University of Bologna and The Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Granada for their constant support. For their guidance and commitment to this thesis, my thanks go in particular to Rita Monticelli, Raffaella Baccolini, and Adelina Snchez Espinosa. 4 Abstract This thesis intends to uncover new forms of humanism grounded in a critique of the systems that produce and reify race and gender, by staging a conversation between six works of contemporary science fiction (SF) and five acclaimed theorists in gender, queer, postcolonial, humanist, and cultural studies. I engage in a reading of Jennifer Marie Brissetts Elysium , Nicoletta Valloranis Sulla Sabbia di Sur and Il Cuore Finto di DR , works from Aliette de Bodards Xuya Universe series , Elia Barcels Consecuencias Naturales , and Historias del Crazy Bar , a collection of short stories co-authored by Lola Robles and Maria Concepcin Regueiro, alongside the critical theory of Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Gilroy, and Jack Halberstam. I focus on Butlers conception of subjects who become through affective encounters, Braidottis critical posthumanism, Spivak and Gilroys respective notions of planetarity, and Halberstams theory of a queer art of failure. These theorisations, chosen for their congruence with key themes from my primary sources of SF, are employed to demonstrate what I view as the complementarity of academic and science fictional enquiries into new forms of humanism that arise through interrogations of systems of race and gender. This thesis contends that womens utopian SF has, since the seventeenth century, played an important role in the dissemination of nuanced debates regarding issues of race and gender to a wider public. I include a genealogy of these texts in the first chapter to support this statement, with a focus on France, Italy, Spain, the UK, and influential texts from the USA. I also introduce the question of why and how SF appeals to the women writers who embrace the genres anti-racist, anti-sexist, and humanistic potential. The second half of this thesis argues that my corpus of womens utopian SF, which I situate within the genealogy traced in the first chapter, engages with new forms of humanism through the critique and reformulation of issues of race and gender, as I read the following narrative elements alongside the critical theory outlined in the second chapter: reparative re-historicisations of events in European history set in science fictional worlds; formulations of hybrid, nomadic, species- and gender-transgressive entities; the queering of normative consequences of sexual intercourse in outer-space; and the failure of certain characters to perform race and gender-based kinship roles. I follow this analysis with an exploration of the way in which SFs unique spatial attributes can probe the borders of the planetary humanisms or planetarity that have been proposed, in particular, by Gilroy and Spivak, and through the lens of which humanity is cast into radical alterity and the Earth can be seen anew. I conclude by assessing the extent to which SF can reassemble and amplify the achievements of these new forms of anti-racist and anti-sexist humanism. Index 5 IntroductionÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ...8-9 RoadmapÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ....10-15 Chapter 1: Contextualising the History of Science FictionÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ.16-108 1. Introduction: Feminist Commitments...16-20 A Feminist Politics of LocationÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ...16-17 ¥ A Hermeneutics of Suspicion versus Reparative ReadingÉÉ...ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..17-19 ¥ Discursive ColonisationÉÉ...ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ...ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ...19-20 2. Tracing a Lexical Field for the Terms Queer and Race..20-28 ¥ QueerÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ.................20-26 ¥ RaceÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ...................26-28 3. A Brief History of Utopia as Criticism.28-34 ¥ Origins and EnduranceÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ...ÉÉÉÉÉÉ...ÉÉÉÉÉÉ....................28-32 ¥ Utopia and Science FictionÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ....................32-34 4. Overview of Early Womens Utopian/Dystopian Science Fiction...24-42 5. Womens Science Fiction from the 1960s Onwards, in France, Italy, Spain, the UK and the USA ........42-56 ¥ FranceÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ....ÉÉÉ...42-44 ¥ ItalyÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ....ÉÉÉÉ....44-45 ¥ SpainÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ.................45-49 ¥ UKÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ........................49-53 ¥ North America: Native American, African American and South Asian American Women WritersÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..53-56 6. New Wave and the Rise of Queer Characters in North America, the UK, and France56-59 7. A Feminist and Anti-racist Approach to Science Fiction.....59-66 Race, Gender, Science Fiction, and ScienceÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉ60-63 ¥ Genre TroubleÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..63-66 8. Race, Gender, and Community in Contemporary Womens Science Fiction..66-82 Women Gather HereÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..É.............68-70 ¥ Visibility Matters: Towards Greater Diversity in Science FictionÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉ.70-73 ¥ Discrimination. ÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ...73-75 6 ¥ Forum for a FightÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉ..............75-76 ¥ Queer Science Fiction Fandom and Defining the Queer through Science FictionÉÉ..76-81 9. Science Fiction as Marginal, Lowbrow, and Popular Fiction......82-85 Chapter 2: Towards New Forms of Humanism ..... 109-199 1. Introduction.......109-114 2. Queer and Race.......114-121 3. Humanus Ex Machina: De-centring the Human and Becoming-Other in Braidotti and Butler..........121-144 ¥ Mobilising Interdependent Bodies: Interpellation, (Mis)recognition, and Resistance in the Work of ButlerÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..É..............122-127 ¥ A Counterclaim to Butlers Theory of AssemblyÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ...127-131 ¥ Inter-relationality and Collectivity in Braidotti and ButlerÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉ.......131-144 4. Race, Gender, and the Apocalypse of the Anthropocene in Spivak and Gilroy...144-162 5. Queering the Human.........162-170 ¥ The Queer Art of FailureÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..É162-164 ¥ Forgetting of FamilyÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..É.......164-167 ¥ Queer Eco-feminist Theory: Complicating the Natural/Unnatural DivideÉÉÉ.168-170 ¥ A Further Note on Queer DisidentificationsÉÉÉ..É.ÉÉÉ..É.ÉÉÉ..É.ÉÉÉ..É170 6. Geocriticism, Science Fiction, and Utopia...........170-183 Real, Imaginary, and Textual SpacesÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ172-174 A Geocritical Approach to Feminist, Queer, and Anti-racist Science FictionÉÉÉ..174-189 Feminist and Anti-racist GeocriticismÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉ179-183 7. Intersectionality........183-187 Chapter 3: Historicising in the ÔOtherwise.Õ Contextualising Systems of Race and Gender in WomenÕs Science Fiction ÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ.É..202-225 1. Prefatory Remarks........202-204 2. Introduction...........205-207 3. Re-historicising the Future in the Stories of Aliette de Bodard....207-209 7 Immersed in Another PastÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..209-218 4. Imperatives to Re-imagine the Planet in Mara Regueiro and Lola Robless Historias del Crazy Bar ..........218-223 Chapter 4: Embodying New Forms of Humanism: The Fate of Race and Gender in Queer Assemblages ÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉ...226-246 Chapter 5: Pregnancy, by Mistake: Transgressing Race and Gender Through Queered Extraterrestrial Fertility ÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ247-268 1. An Error of Judgement.........250-253 2. Emasculating Race........253-257 3. Queer Fertility...........257-263 4. Inclusive Descendancy.........263-265 Chapter 6: Non-Reproductive Planetary Communities: Race, Gender, Kinship, and Forgetting to Conform ÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉ.269-298 1. Potentia in the Scrap Heap: Embracing the Mess and Unbecoming Woman270-273 2. Anomalous Femininity, Forgetting to be Mother.....273-275 3. The Adaptive Family: Flexible Kinship for a Changing World...277-282 4. Forgetting the Mother: Alternative Kinship Arrangements..282-287 5. Deliberate Disavowal....287-290 6. Kinship as Displacement: Racialised Spaces; the Spatialisation of Precarity; Diaspora.290-294 Chapter 7: At the Borders of the Planetary .ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..299-320 Chapter 8: Conclusion. New Forms of Humanism .ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉ...321-327 Appendix: Summaries of Primary Science Fiction Texts .ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..ÉÉÉÉÉÉ..É328-346 Introduction 8 By staging a conversation between six works of contemporary science fiction (SF) written by women in Europe, and five acclaimed theorists in the fields of race and gender studies, Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Gilroy, and Jack Halberstam, 1 this thesis aims to demonstrate the complementarity of fictional
Load more

Recommended publications
  • W41 PPB-Web.Pdf
    The thrilling adventures of... 41 Pocket Program Book May 26-29, 2017 Concourse Hotel Madison Wisconsin #WC41 facebook.com/wisconwiscon.net @wisconsf3 Name/Room No: If you find a named pocket program book, please return it to the registration desk! New! Schedule & Hours Pamphlet—a smaller, condensed version of this Pocket Program Book. Large Print copies of this book are available at the Registration Desk. TheWisSched app is available on Android and iOS. What works for you? What doesn't? Take the post-con survey at wiscon.net/survey to let us know! Contents EVENTS Welcome to WisCon 41! ...........................................1 Art Show/Tiptree Auction Display .........................4 Tiptree Auction ..........................................................6 Dessert Salon ..............................................................7 SPACES Is This Your First WisCon?.......................................8 Workshop Sessions ....................................................8 Childcare .................................................................. 10 Children's and Teens' Programming ..................... 11 Children's Schedule ................................................ 11 Teens' Schedule ....................................................... 12 INFO Con Suite ................................................................. 12 Dealers’ Room .......................................................... 14 Gaming ..................................................................... 15 Quiet Rooms ..........................................................
    [Show full text]
  • The Convention Itself
    The Seventh World Fantasy Convention Oct. 30 - Nov. 1.1981 V ■ /n Jg in iiiWjF. ni III HITV Report #2 I * < ? I fl « f Guests of Honor Alan Garner Brian Frond Peter S. Beagle Master of Ceremonies Karl Edward Wagner Jack Rems, Jeff Frane, Chairmen Will Stone, Art Show Dan Chow, Dealers Room Debbie Notkin, Programming Mark Johnson, Bill Bow and others 1981 World Fantasy Award Nominations Life Achievement: Joseph Payne Brennan Avram Davidson L. Sprague de Camp C. L. Moore Andre Norton Jack Vance Best Novel: Ariosto by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Firelord by Parke Godwin The Mist by Stephen King (in Dark Forces) The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe Shadowland by Peter Straub Best Short Fiction: “Cabin 33” by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (in Shadows 3) “Children of the Kingdom” by T.E.D. Klein (in Dark Forces) “The Ugly Chickens” by Howard Waldrop (in Universe 10) “Unicorn Tapestry” by Suzy McKee Charnas (in New Dimensions 11) Best Anthology or Collection: Dark Forces ed. by Kirby McCauley Dragons of Light ed. by Orson Scott Card Mummy! A Chrestomathy of Crypt-ology ed. by Bill Pronzini New Terrors 1 ed. by Ramsey Campbell Shadows 3 ed. by Charles L. Grant Shatterday by Harlan Ellison Best Artist: Alicia Austin Thomas Canty Don Maitz Rowena Morrill Michael Whelan Gahan Wilson Special Award (Professional) Terry Carr (anthologist) Lester del Rey (Del Rey/Ballantine Books) Edward L. Ferman (Magazine of Fantasy ir Science Fiction) David G. Hartwell (Pocket/Timescape/Simon & Schuster) Tim Underwood/Chuck Miller (Underwood & Miller) Donald A. Wollheim (DAW Books) Special Award (Non-professional) Pat Cadigan/Arnie Fenner (for Shayol) Charles de Lint/Charles R.
    [Show full text]
  • Souvenir & Program Book (PDF)
    THAT STATEMENT CONNECTS the modern Steam Punk Movement, The Jetsons, Metropolis, Disney's Tomorrowland, and the other items that we are celebrating this weekend. Some of those past futures were unpleasant: the Days of Future Past of the X-Men are a shadow of a future that the adult Kate Pryde wanted to avoid when she went back to the present day of the early 1980s. Others set goals and dreams; the original Star Trek gave us the dreams and goals of a bright and shiny future t h a t h a v e i n s p i r e d generations of scientists and engineers. Robert Heinlein took us to the Past through Tomorrow in his Future History series, and Asimov's Foundation built planet-wide cities and we collect these elements of the past for the future. We love the fashion of the Steampunk movement; and every year someone is still asking for their long-promised jet pack. We take the ancient myths of the past and reinterpret them for the present and the future, both proving and making them still relevant today. Science Fiction and Fantasy fandom is both nostalgic and forward-looking, and the whole contradictory nature is in this year's theme. Many of the years that previous generations of writers looked forward to happened years ago; 1984, 1999, 2001, even 2010. The assumptions of those time periods are perhaps out-of-date; technology and society have passed those stories by, but there are elements that still speak to us today. It is said that the Golden Age of Science Fiction is when you are 13.
    [Show full text]
  • The Future of Cyberpunk Criticism: Introduction to Transpacific Cyberpunk
    arts Editorial The Future of Cyberpunk Criticism: Introduction to Transpacific Cyberpunk Takayuki Tatsumi Department of English, Keio University, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan; [email protected] Received: 19 March 2019; Accepted: 21 March 2019; Published: 25 March 2019 The genesis of cyberpunk criticism could well be dated to March 1987, when Stephen P. Brown inaugurated the first cyberpunk journal Science Fiction Eye together with his friend Daniel J. Steffan, with Paul DiFilippo, Elizabeth Hand, and myself as contributing editors. Of course, it is the impact of William Gibson’s multiple-award-winning Neuromancer in 1984, featuring the anti-hero Case’s adventures in what Gibson himself called “cyberspace,” that aroused popular interest in the new style of speculative fiction. This surge of interest led Gibson’s friend, writer Bruce Sterling, the editor of the legendary critical fanzine Cheap Truth, to serve as unofficial chairman of the brand-new movement. Thus, on 31 August 1985, the first cyberpunk panel took place at NASFiC (The North American Science Fiction Convention) in Austin, Texas, featuring writers in Sterling’s circle: John Shirley, Lewis Shiner, Pat Cadigan, Greg Bear, and Rudy Rucker. As I was studying American literature at the graduate school of Cornell University during the mid-1980s, I was fortunate enough to witness this historical moment. After the panel, Sterling said, “Our time has come!” Thus, from the spring of 1986, I decided to conduct a series of interviews with cyberpunk writers, part of which are now easily available in Patrick A. Smith’s edited Conversations with William Gibson (University Press of Mississippi 2014).
    [Show full text]
  • SF Tube Talk 24 Frames
    Winter 1999 ConNotations Volume 9, Issue 4 The Quarterly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society simulator. Efforts are underway to SF Tube Talk attempt to have it picked up and com- 24 Frames In This Issue pleted by another company so it may still News & Reviews make it to the stores. Movie News & Reviews by Lee Whiteside Straczynski has been keeping busy SF Tube Talk by Lee Whiteside .................................1 working on other projects since the Toy Story 2 - Digital All the Way The fall season is well underway with shutdown of Crusade. His comic series 24 Frames.........................................1 only one major genre casualty so far with for Top Cow, Rising Stars, is underway, By now you know that Toy Story 2 is a FYI................................................2 even more new shows debuting mid- although not quite as on time as readers very good, fun and entertaining movie. It CASFS Business Report.............2 season. would like. He’s penned a Murder She On the Babylon 5/Crusade front, the is also the first all digital movie to be Publishing On-Demand Wrote TV movie for CBS, and a script screened digitally. Last summer, Lucas- prospects of Crusade continuing are nil. for a radio adaptation of C. M. by Pat Connors..................................2 Ratings were fairly decent, especially film screened The Phantom Menace at a AZ Pro News Kornbluth’s “The Marching Morons” couple of LA theaters for a month. Disney considering the level of promotion TNT by Daryll Mallett...............................3 for NPR. He’s also been working on has decided to step up digital screenings did for the series, but the only other viable developing a new series that would be Musical Notes outlet, the SciFi Channel, just wasn’t and starting with Toy Story 2, they open- about 10% speculative fiction.
    [Show full text]
  • SFRA Newsletter
    University of South Florida Scholar Commons Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications 3-1-2006 SFRA ewN sletter 275 Science Fiction Research Association Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scifistud_pub Part of the Fiction Commons Scholar Commons Citation Science Fiction Research Association, "SFRA eN wsletter 275 " (2006). Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications. Paper 90. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scifistud_pub/90 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. #1TS lan./ Feb./ Ifareh ~006 • Editor: Chris«ine Mains Hiw3ging Editor: Janice M. Boss«ad Nonfiction Reriews: Ed McKnish« Science Fiction Research fiction Reriews: Association Philip Snyder SFIUI Re"iew The SFRAReview (ISSN 1068-395X) is published four times a year by the Science Fiction Research As­ I ..... HIS ISSUE: sociation (SFRA) and distributed to SFRA members. Individual issues are not for sale; however. starting with issue SFRA Business #256, all issues will be published to SFRA's website no less than 10 weeks Editor's Message 2 after paper publication. For information President's Message 2 about the SFRA and its benefits, see the Candidates' Statements 2 deSCription at the back of this issue. For a membership application, contact SFRA Treasurer Donald M. Hassler or get one from the SFRA website: <www.sfra.org>. Non Fiction Reviews SFRA would like to thank the Univer­ sity of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for its as­ Speculations 7 sistance in producing the SFRAReview.
    [Show full text]
  • Science Fiction, Imperialism and the Third World
    Science Fiction, Imperialism and the Third World This page intentionally left blank Science Fiction, Imperialism and the Third World Essays on Postcolonial Literature and Film EDITED BY ERICKA HOAGLAND AND REEMA SARWAL Foreword by Andy Sawyer McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and London LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Science fiction, imperialism and the third world : essays on postcolonial literature and film / edited by Ericka Hoagland and Reema Sarwal ; foreword by Andy Sawyer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7864-4789-3 softcover : 50# alkaline paper ¡. Science fiction, American—History and criticism. 2. Science fiction, Indic (English)—History and criticism. 3. Science fiction, Mexican—History and criticism. 4. Science fiction films—History and criticism. 5. Imperialism in literature. 6. Postcolonialism in literature. 7. Literature and globalization. 8. Utopias in literature. 9. Dystopias in literature. I. Hoagland, Ericka, ¡975– II. Sarwal, Reema. PS374.S35S335 20¡0 809.3'8762—dc22 2010023305 British Library cataloguing data are available ©20¡0 Ericka Hoagland and Reema Sarwal. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Cover image ©20¡0 Brand X Pictures Manufactured in the United States of America McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 6¡¡, Je›erson, North Carolina 28640 www.mcfarlandpub.com Acknowledgments We would first like to thank all our contributors, not only for their arti- cles, but also for their patience and co-operation.
    [Show full text]
  • Locus Magazine
    T A B L E o f C O N T E N T S April 2013 • Issue 627 • Vol. 70 • No. 4 CHARLES N. BROWN 46th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner Founder Cover and Interview Designs by Francesca Myman (1968-2009) LIZA GROEN TROMBI Editor-in-Chief KIRSTEN GONG-WONG Managing Editor MARK R. KELLY Locus Online Editor-in-Chief CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN TIM PRATT Senior Editors FRANCESCA MYMAN Design Editor HEATHER SHAW Assistant Editor JONATHAN STRAHAN Reviews Editor TERRY BISSON GWENDA BOND GARDNER DOZOIS AMY GOLDSCHLAGER CECELIA HOLLAND RICH HORTON RUSSELL LETSON I N T E R V I E W S ADRIENNE MARTINI FAREN MILLER Terry Bisson: Personal Alternate History / 6 GARY K. WOLFE Libba Bray: Eco-Friendly Fembot Who Survives on the Tears of Teen Girls / 57 Contributing Editors KAREN BURNHAM P E O P L E & P U B L I S H I N G / 8 Roundtable Blog Editor Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Alex Bledsoe, Ginjer WILLIAM G. CONTENTO Buchanan and Carl Sagan, Cherie Priest, Elizabeth Bear, Terry Pratchett, and many others. Computer Projects Locus, The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy M A I N S T O R I E S / 5 & 10 Field (ISSN 0047-4959), is published monthly, at $7.50 per copy, by Locus Publications, 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland CA 94611. Please send all mail to: Kiernan and Salaam Win Tiptree Awards • 2012 Kitschies Winners • 2013 Philip K. Dick Award Locus Publications, PO Box 13305, Oakland CA Judges • SFWA vs.
    [Show full text]
  • Brandon Sanderson Jane Yolen Adam Stemple Tom
    minicon50MINICON50 ARTIST MICHAEL WHELAN AUTHOR BRANDON SANDERSON AUTHOR JANE YOLEN MUSICIAN ADAM STEMPLE PUBLISHER TOM DOHERTY AUTHOR LARRY NIVEN 1 welcome! MINICON50 A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR Welcome to Minicon 50! This is my sixth and final year as chair of Minicon. Two years ago when I started planning out this guest list I never actually thought I would get every one. I am very excited about this convention and have been for quite some time. We have a great convention set up for your enjoyment. Our Guests of Honor each have connections of a sort with one or more of the other Guests. For example Tom publishes Brandon’s books, Michael’s art has been on both Brandon and Larry’s covers, Adam is Jane’s son and they’ve written books together and Tom and Michael have been friends for years. Did you know four have previously been Guests at Minicon, with Jane the year before and the year after Larry was Guest, also Adam met his wife here. If you want to have a more intimate setting with one of our Guests there is limited seating for kaffeeklatschen, bierklatschen and a literary tea, so make sure you sign up at Registration. When a convention reaches 50 it must have some history, so be sure to stop by the dealers room and check out the tables of memorabilia from previous conventions. While you’re there, check out the Art Show where there will be painting demos all day Saturday. You just don’t get a better chance than this to watch an artist at work.
    [Show full text]
  • 2004 Hugo Nomination Results
    2004 Hugo Nomination Results As required by the WSFS Constitution, we report the top 15 vote-getters in each category. (In no category did anyone else get as many as 5% of the nominations cast in that category.) We validated the eligibility and names/titles of all nominees who might have affected the final ballot, but did not attempt to validate nominees who received fewer nominations. When a nominee received nominations in more than one category, we combined nominations to the correct category where appropriate. Novel (462 people nominated) Humans – Robert Sawyer – 62 Singularity Sky – Charles Stross – 59 Paladin of Souls – Lois McMaster Bujold – 58 Blind Lake – Robert Charles Wilson – 52 Ilium – Dan Simmons – 47 --------------------------------------- A Forest of Stars – Kevin J. Anderson – 44 Pattern Recognition – William Gibson – 38 Speed of Dark – Elizabeth Moon – 37 Hybrids – Robert Sawyer – 34 Burndive – Karin Lowachee – 31 Quicksilver – Stephenson – 30 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom – Cory Doctorow – 30 Monstrous Regiment – Terry Pratchett – 28 Lost in a Good Book – Jasper Fforde – 25 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J. K. Rowling – 22 Novella (215 people nominated) "The Cookie Monster" – Vernor Vinge – 53 "The Empress of Mars" – Kage Baker – 46 "The Green Leopard Plague" – Walter Jon Williams – 44 "Walk in Silence" – Catherine Asaro – 37 "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" – Connie Willis – 24 --------------------------------------------------- "The Ice" – Steven Popkes – 21 "Welcome to Olympus, Mr Hearst" – Kage
    [Show full text]
  • 2000 Hugo Award Nominating and Voting Statistics
    2000 Hugo Award Nominating and Voting Statistics A total of 427 Hugo nomination forms (130 electronic and 297 paper) were submitted; 81 of those were from Aussiecon 3 members. 20 nomination forms were eliminated as invalid because the person had joined Chicon 2000 after the January 31, 2000 deadline or was not a valid supporting or attending member of Aussiecon 3 or Chicon 2000, for a total of 407 valid nominating ballots. Nominating Finalist Total Category Ballots Range Nominees Nominations Final Ballots Novel 334 44-103 183 929 Novella 191 28-40 58 713 Novelette 168 15-21 130 622 Short Story 189 14-26 158 659 Related Book 167 12-51 74 681 Dramatic Presentation 304 54-152 106 1007 Professional Editor 203 48-86 66 726 Professional Artist 196 21-82 103 705 Semiprozine 168 30-93 38 697 Fanzine 195 27-56 94 494 Fan Writer 191 24-31 147 503 Fan Artist 164 21-56 101 520 Campbell Award 110 12-18 72 514 Best Novel (334 ballots counted) 103 A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (Tor) 74 A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 66 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (Avon) 46 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury/Scholastic) 44 Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear (HarperCollins/Ballantine Del Rey) 39 FlashForward by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor) 31 Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card (Tor) 26 There and Back Again by Pat Murphy (Tor) 26 The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday) 21 Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen (Tor) 21 Teranesia by Greg Egan (Orion/Millennium) 20 On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe(Tor) 15 A Clash of Kings by George R.R.
    [Show full text]
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Bay Area FEBRUARY – APRIL 2020 MAIN LIBRARY Sfpl.Org /Sf-By-The-Bay
    SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Bay Area FEBRUARY – APRIL 2020 MAIN LIBRARY sfpl.org /sf-by-the-bay 1 SF by the Bay: Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Bay Area SPECIAL EVENTS SF by the Bay, the Main Library’s grand celebration of Bay Area science fiction and fantasy, opens on February 1 and continues through April 30. In partnership with Science Fiction & Fantasy Costume Contest SF in SF, Borderlands Books, Locus magazine, Tachyon Publications, AfroSurreal Sunday, Apr. 12 Writers Workshop, Consonance and other organizations, SF by the Bay presents Registration: 12 – 1 p.m., Contest: 2 – 4 p.m. over three dozen programs, including film screenings, author’s talks, live dramas, Koret Auditorium, Lower Level lectures, panel discussions, a filk music concert, book displays, a costume contest, Get your most fantastical self ready for SFPL’s Science Fiction & Fantasy Costume and an exhibit of rare books, magazines, and art drawn from the Main Library’s Contest! Fans of science fiction, fantasy, and cosplay are urged to participate and J. Francis McComas Fantasy & Science Fiction Collection, a reference collection to cheer their favorite costume entries. Winners will be announced immediately of 3000+ books and magazines. With a focus on local authors and culture, the following the contest. Contestants who have pre-registered online will be registered SF by the Bay exhibit and programs highlight the San Francisco Bay Area’s 12 – 1 p.m. on the Koret Auditorium stage. The Costume Contest begins at 2 p.m. important contributions to the history of fantasy and science fiction and celebrate CONTESTANTS MUST PRE-REGISTER.
    [Show full text]