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The SFRA Newsletter Published ten times a year for Tile Science Fiction Research Association by Alan Newcomer, Hypatia Press, Eugene, Oregon. Copyright !£l 1989 by the SFRA. E-Mail: [email protected]. Editorial correspondence: SFRA Newsletter, English Dept., Florida Atlantic U., Boca Raton, FL 33431 (Tel. 407-367-3838) Editor: Robert A. Collins; Associate Editor: Catherine Fischer; Review Editor: Rob Latham; Film Editor: Ted Krulik; Book News Editor: Martin A. Schneider; Editorial Assistant: Jeanette Lawson. Send changes of address to the Secretary, enquiries concerning subscriptions to the Treasurer, listed below. Past Presidents of SFRA SFRA Executive Thomas D. Clareson (1970-76) Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. (1977-78) Committee Joe De Bolt (1979-80) James Gunn (1981-82) Patricia S. Warrick (1983-84) President Donald M. Hassler (1985-86) Elizabetll Anne Hull Liberal Arts Division Past Editors of the Newsletter William Rainey Harper College Fred Lerner (1971-74) Palatine, Illinois 60067 Beverly Friend (1974-78) Roald Tweet (1978-81) Vice-President Elizabeth Anne Hull (1981-84) Neil Barron Richard W. Miller (1984-87) 1149 Lime Place Vista, California 92083 Pilgrim Award Winners J. O. Bailey (1970) Secretary Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1971) David G. Mead Julius Kagarlitski (1972) English Department Jack Williamson (1973) Corpus Christi State University I. F. Clarke (1974) Corpus Christi, Texas 78412 Damon Knight (1975) James Gunn (1976) Treasurer Tilomas D. Clareson (1977) Tilomas J. Remington Brian W. Aldiss (1978) English Department Darko Suvin (1979) University of Northern Iowa Peter Nicholls (1980) Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614 Sam Moskowitz (1981) Neil Barron (1982) Immediate Past President H. Bruce Franklin (1983) William H. Hardesty Everett Bleiler (1984) English Department Samuel R. Delany (1985) Miami University George Slusser (1986) Oxford, Ohio 45056 Gary K. Wolfe (1987) Joanna Russ (1988) Ursula K. Le Guin (1989) SFRA Newsletter. No. 168, June 1989 President's Message Time Capsule s I write this, I'm preparing to leave forthe World SF Meeting, which Ais being held this year in conjunction with Eurocon, in the Republic of San Marino, the tiny country entirely encompassed by Italy. It's a bit eerie to realize that you will be reading this after our own SFRA annual meeting at Oxford, Ohio. So what can I say that will be relevant to the future? Much seems to depend on the discussion of questions at the annual meeting. Shall we keep the benefits package as is, or modify it, and if the latter, modify it in what ways? What other changes will our organization require to keep it healthy? Shall we alter the way we select awards, or the way the jury is selected, as proposed by Adam Frisch? Last month Fred and I participated in the awards ceremonies of the Writers of the Future at the UN Headquarters in New York. As a judge of the WotF, Fred was asked to contribute a prediction to the time capsule they sealed (to be opened in the year 2089). The last time he was asked to write a similar prediction he told me he could see too many possible futures to predict just one; there are so many ways things could go wrong and end In disaster. Don't worry, I advised him. You can be completely optimistic .. 1 pointed out that if anyone is around to open the capsule, that means we at least avoided all the terminal disasters, such as a nuclear war, in which case all our other problems should be solvable. This time, however, it seems that there are other ways than nuclear holocaust to destroy the habitat. We may experience a population "sink" or die off, the sort of thing that occurs in the ecology when one species overpopulates a limited area or some natural disaster curtails the food supply. But even If we survive this, our great-grandchildren may experience such poverty that they may never be able to share the optimism we feel about the possibilities of space exploration, much less space colonization. Or we may be survived by an illiterate genera­ tion that is barely wealthy enough to support a very few "antiquarian scholars" who can decipher our time capsule messages. Gloomy, sobering thoughts! Somethow, though, this challenge gives me a perspective that :\ SFRA Newsletter. No. 168, June 1989 makes my own load look lighter. After all, all I have to do is talk to SFRA members, you who can not only read but also write. I know this to be true because I have received a half dozen letters from SFRA members this spring, each with constructive suggestions for ways to Increase membership and/or make SFRA a better organization. I'm looking forward to some lively debate at the meeting, but for those of you who cannot be there, I Invite you especially to drop me a line about your ideas and concerns, and I will share them with the Executive Committee. - Elizabeth Anne Hull -President Editorial Note: The next issue of this newsletter will be a July/August double-issue containing a full report on the SFRA meeting in Oxford, with pictures, minutesof the executive and business meetings, and the Pilgrim Award acceptance speech. So as not to keep those of you who did not attend the meeting In suspense, however, we would like to indicate that this year's Pilgrim winner was Ursula K. Le Guin, whose speech of accep­ tance was both brilliant and charming. Also, we would like to add a footnote to some of President Hull's musings above: Neil Barron's proposal for a flexible membership benefits package was voted down at the business meeting, and would seem to be a dead issue. Barron received approximately 75 responses to his poll, and the general trend of the responses indicated that Science-Fiction Studies and Extrapola­ tion, the two journals included in the current package, were far and away the most popular choices among members. Discussion at the meeting stressed the importance of SFRA maintaining its scholarly identity by continuing to offer these journals to members. Fuller details will appear In next month's issue. Feminist Forum Forms A t the SFRA meeting in Oxford, a feminist caucus announced the organization of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Feminist Forum, a group designed to provide a network of support for scholars inter­ ested in feminism in/and speculative fiction. Immediate plans are to begin a newsletter and seek new members. Send dues ($5) to Joan Gordon [Hulip Lane, Commack, NY 11725], news to Patrick Murphy [English Dept., Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705]. More in the conference report next month. -- Rob Latham 4 SFRA Newsletter, No. 168, June 1989 Editorial ~ Now We Need Help We Got a Pretty Good Thing Going .. ET'S take a moment to survey our accomplishments in the last two Lyears. When Fantasy Review folded in August, 1987, your Newslet­ ter undertook publication of its review section, somewhat shortened but without a break. Though few people realize it, that made the SFRA Newsletter the largest and most comprehensive review service in the field. For the past two years our monthly issues have reviewed more books than any other venue, Including LOCUS, Thrust, SF Chronicle, and the New York Review of Science Fiction. We've presented an average of 21 reviews per issue, each averaging about 500 words (one page), including several longer review articles. More of the latter have been planned, in response to encouragement from members at the June meeting in Oxford, Ohio. (A full write-up of the meeting, inciden­ tally, will be featured in our next issue.) SFRA's determination to underwrite this review service is admirable, to say the least, since it's expensive. Earlier this year a crisis in membership, plus the high cost of commercial printing, almost did us In. A generous offer from Hypatia Press, to produce the magazine for us almost at cost, plus an aggressive campaign to retrieve lost mem­ bership, has rectified that situation, however. We have more than 300 members at present, and we've reduced costs to slightly less than $300 per issue. That brings the cost under control at a buck per member per issue, or about $10 a year taken from annual dues. Wider circula­ tion of the journal could reduce costs further - we might consider marketing the newsletter in specialty bookstores, or offering subscrip­ tions separately (not Insisting on full membership as a prerequisite for subscriptions), but that's a policy decision for the future. In any case, our financial problems appear to have been solved. Now The Editors Need Relief Though few people know It, the major workhorse In producing this successful effort has been Rob Latham. Latham has not only assigned the books and edited the reviews, he has "keyboarded" and "for- SFRA Newsletter, No. 168, June 1989 matted" the review copy, which ranges from 50% to 90% of the content In each issue. Rob will be moving to Stanford University in Palo Alto this fall, where he has been awarded a Jacob Javits Fellowship for four years of doctoral study. He does not feel he can jeopardize his progress there by continuing to produce the newsletter. I, too, am weary, after eight years of meeting (or trying to meet) monthly deadlines. During the past few years my health has seriously deteriorated, so that I feel I owe myself and family some "rehab" time. Accordingly, I announced, through Betty Hull at the June conference, my resignation as Newsletter editor, effective with the July/August Issue. That still leaves us plenty of time to make a smooth transition to a new editorship, provided a qualified volunteer can be located quickly.
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