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SFRA Newsletter 254/255 University of South Florida Scholar Commons Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications 12-1-2001 SFRA ewN sletter 254/255 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 254/255 " (2001). Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications. Paper 73. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scifistud_pub/73 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]. #254-5 Sept-Dec. 200. Coeditors: Barbara Lucas Shelley Rodriao Blancliard Nonfiction Reviews: Ed McHniahi Rction Reviews: Philip Snyder I .....HIS ISSUE: The SFRAReview (ISSN 1068- 395X) is published six times a year Notes from the Editors In vervie ws by the Science Fiction Research As­ Shelley Rodrigo Blanchard 2 Jack McDevitt 2 sociation (SFRA} ;Jr1d distributed to Ed McKnight 2 Maureen McHugh 12 SFRA members. Individual issues are not for sale. For information about Non Fiction Reviews the SFRA and its benefits, see the The Art of Chesley Bonestell 18 description at the back of this issue. The Art of Richard Powers 20 For a membership application, con­ Evolution & Ground Zero 21 tact SFRA Treasurer Dave Mead or Wings of Twilight 22 get one from the SFRA website: John Carpenter 21 <www.sfra.org>. The Modern Fantastic 23 Planet of the Apes Revisited 24 SUBMISSIONS Mystery in Children's literature 24 The SFRAReview editors encourage The Reader's Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction 2S submissions, including essays, review Cyberpunk 26 essays that cover several related texts, The Martian Named Smith 27 George Orwell and interviews. Please send submis­ 28 Simulacrum America sions or queries to both coeditors. If 28 The Quest for Postcolonial Utopias 30 you would like to review nonfiction The Hidden library of Tanith lee 31 or fiction, please contact the Ramsey Campell and Modern Horror Fiction 32 respective editor and/or email Student Companion to Edgar Allen Poe 32 [email protected]. The Modern Weird Tale 33 Terry Pratchett 34 Barbara Lucas, Coeditor Ursal K. le Guin 3S 1352 Fox Run Drive, Suite 206 J.R.R. Tolkien 3S Willoughby, OH 44094 Book of the Dead 36 <[email protected]> Hong Kong Invaded! 37 Comics & Ideology 37 Shelley Rodrigo Blanchard, Coeditor The Josh Kriby Discworld Portolio 38 6842 S. 40th Place American Foreign Policy and the Utopian Imagination 39 Phoenix,AZ 85040 Dystopian Fiction East and West 40 <[email protected]> Surprised by C. S. lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante 40 Painted Worlds 41 Ed McKnight, Nonfiction Editor Frightening Fiction 41 I I3 Cannon Lane A Dreamer and a Visionary 42 Taylors SC 29687 Fiction Reviews <[email protected]> Maelstrom 43 Aurthur C. Clarke 49 Hammerfall 44 The Pershawar lancers 5 I Philip Snyder, Fiction Editor British Future Fiction 4S Strange Days 51 109 Northumberland Road The Temple and the (rown 47 Appleseed 52 Rochester NY 14618 Perdido Street Station 48 Dogged Persistence 53 <[email protected]> NOTES FROM THE EDITOR WRAPP... G Up W-''JI'H A SUPER-'SSUE ~helley Rodrigo Blanchard DIRECTORY Belated Happy New Year! CORRECTIONS & I hope you all had a fabulous holiday season. Hopefully this super-issue UPDATES (combined materials from the September/October and November/December I would like to apologize to Richard issues) will act as a belated holiday gift from SFRA Review Editorial group. Al­ Bleiler for collapsing his entry into his though this past year's issues were not exactly timely-among the many unforseen father's. Please be sure to note that events of the year, a pulmonary emboism in October was themost significant­ we are happy with the materials that did make it out. Richard's entry starts right after his The other editors and I are looking forward to a great 2002. Obviously, father's (Bleiler, E. F.) on page 5 of our major goal is to get the issues back on a regular schedule. We would also like the 200 I directory. to invite you to help us out by submitting ideas and materials to the Review. Feel Shelley free to contact Ed McKnight, the new Non-Fiction editor, with ideas or reviews Bleiler, Richard of new non-fiction materials. Phil Snyder, the new Fiction editor, would also like 233 Moose Meadow Road volunteers for fiction reviews. Joan Gordon <[email protected]> would willington CT 06279 appreciate ideas and submissions to the "Theory and Beyond" column. Barb H: (860) 487-7129 Lucas and I would also love suggestions and submissions to the ''Approach­ W: (860) 486-1246 ing ... " series on critical SF texts to teach in the classroom. Finally, feel free to email Fax: (860) 486-6 I 00 Barb or I with any questions, suggestions, tips, and corrections about the publi­ cation of the Review. E-mail: [email protected] I look forward to seeing both new and returning names in the bylines Interests: Pulp magazines, history, and on the mailing list. bibliography. Other directory errors: NOTES FROM THE EDITOR Barron, Neil A "O... E FROM ...HE ..o ..-F.c .... o .. H: (760) 726-3238 REV'EW-S EID''JI'OR No fax number. fd McKnight Frelik. Pawel Department ofAmerican Literature This is officially my first issue as non-fiction reviews editor, although all and Culture of the real work for this issue-selecting books to be reviewed, requesting them from the publishers, lining up reviewers-was done by my illustrious predecessor, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Neil Barron. Nevertheless, I'd like to take this occasion say a word of thanks to Neil PI. Marii Curies-Sklodowskiej 4 for doing so much to smooth the transition, as well as to our reviewers for all the 20-031 Lublin, Poland work they've done going from one editor to another. Tel.: +48 81 537 5389 One of the most important tasks I have is maintaining and updating Fax: +48 81 537 5279 the index of our reviewers' various areas of interest, and I would like to ask your assistance in that endeavor. If you are a new member, or if your areas of interest E-mail: [email protected] have changed, please e-mail me at [email protected] with a current Reginald, Robert list of the authors, genres, etc., that should appear beside your name. In addition, work phone: 909-880-5 I 09 if you are aware of a specific work that you feel ought to be considered for review, E-mail: [email protected] or please contact me at the same address. Thanks! [email protected] Address Changes INTERVIEW I also apologize to all of you who ' .....ERV'EW- W-' ...H ..lACK NcDEV.'JI''JI' have changed addresses during this f. Brett (ox past year and I have not notified the Conducted at the Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference in Mo­ organization through the SFRA bile, A.labama, Junc 1999; updated September 2001. Review. I just realized that this should be an ongoing project. cox: \'('hen you intcrview a writer, usually you have a choice of either starting at Elms, Alan (through June 2002) the beginning or starting with what the writer's working on now. In this case we UCWashington Center;3rd Floor can do both, bccausc you'vc revised your first novel for another edition. Could you talk a little bit about your revisiting The Hercules Text? 1608 Rhode Island Ave., NW MCDEVITT: Tnat's for an edition that's out [August 2000] from Meisha Merlin Washington,DC 20036 Press, \vhich is connccted with the Science Fiction and I-.Iystery Bookstore in :\tlanta. "111CY\'C done an omnibus edition of A Talentfor lVar[McDevitt's second novel] and The Hercules Text under the title Hello Out There. The Hercules Text was written in 1985, published in 1986. I knew that the technology was long since outdated. Also, there's a cold war that runs through a fairly signifi­ cant part of the book, and I felt that none of that was relevant anymore and had to La Bare, Sha go. I went back and threw that out, and I discovered that there was a lot of other I 17 Kennan St. stuff that had to go, too. After somewhere in the middle of the book, there's a Santa Cruz,CA 95060 major divergence and it simply goes in other directions. The second half of it is a Mains, Christine new book. The first half's the same. IAFA newsletter editor COX: So this is a significant rewriting. It's not just an updating. It's a complete E-mail: [email protected]. reVlSlon. New Members MCDEVITT: Yeah, I think that's fair to say. The last few chapters, for example, Cornell, Christine are completely different from the original version. Department of English COX: Well, you've said that you were dissatisfied with the original ending of the St. Thomas University book. There were some external circumstances that affected that. Fredericton. NB E3B 5G3 Canada MCDEVITT: Yeah. I didn't face up to all the implications of the situation that Crossley, Robert T. I set up. I've tried to do a better job of it this time. In the first novel, I got away English Department from what amounted to a very difficult situation by simply burying the problem. University of Massachusetts-Boston In the new version, the protagonist really is forced to confront the ramifications of Boston MA 02125 a decision.
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