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BSFG News 371 August 2002 AUG UST 2 0 0 2 ISSUE 371 Brum Honorary Presidents: BRIAN W ALDISS Group HARRY HARRISON Committee: News Vernon Brown (Chairman) Vicky Cook (Secretary) Pat Brown (Treasurer) The Free Monthly Newsletter of the Rog Peyton (Newsletter Editor) BIRMINGHAM + Steve Jones & William McCabe SCIENCE FICTION GROUP NOVACON 32 Chairman: Martin Tudor Friday 9th AUGUST HOLIDAY SOCIAL No speaker this month as many So what we gonna do then? I members will be on holiday. And not suggested having a meal out somewhere really worth booking our usual venue but we’ve probably left it too late to either. But to have no meeting at all guarantee a booking anywhere. But let’s seems very, very wrong. So a not rule out the possibility. programme-free social meeting seems to Vernon has suggested that we meet be in order. at 8.00pm in the first floor bar (or is it We had previously suggested that designated a mezzanine floor?) at the we would be meeting at the Tap and Britannia Hotel, New Street (entrance Spile in Gas Street, just off Broad in Union Passage almost opposite the Street, but on reflection we thought that Odeon, New Street). At the bottom of Broad Street on a hot summer Friday the ramp from New Street Station, turn evening might be far too hectic and right, cross over the road and you’ll crowded. Too many drunks around - find Union Passage about 20-30 yards and adding even more drunks in the along. form of BSFG members might be too We can have a drink, chat and much for the police to handle. decide where to go by 8.30pm. Sounds good? RGP September Meeting - Liz Holliday, editor of the new SF magazine 3SF will be talking to the Group about editing, short stories, the new magazine, ODYSSEY and why it failed... 1 From METRO Thursday August 1st named it Silverpit and called it a ‘wonderful find’, although it is GIANT SQUID TAKE OVER relatively small compared with other THE WORLD major craters, such as the “It has long been the stuff of myth 93-mile-wide Chicxulub in Mexico. and legend. Silverpit, 87 miles east of With eyes as large as a human Scarborough, was discovered by a head and weighing 40st, giant squid scientist examining seismic data for have taken over the world. oil giant BP.” But this isn’t the stuff of science Diagrams alongside this report also fiction. Australian scientists have said discovered that 60ft tentacled “The meteor would have been monsters of the deep take up more about 650ft in diameter, weighing 2 space on the planet than people. million tons, and would have been Global wanning has led to the travelling at thousands of miles an sexually prolific creatures mating more often and growing bigger, hour. ” eating anything in their path. A drop “The energy force on impact would have been equivalent to 2000 in the number of whales, their main megatons of TNT - or more than predators, has also helped them 100,000 Hiroshima bombs.” become the big fish of the high seas. The findings, published in the AUSTRALASIAN SCIENCE journal, BESTSELLING SF IN UK may explain a 50ft female squid washed up in Tasmania and a 10ft According to Book Track, the top eight monster caught off Scotland in bestselling SF books in the UK, in the January.” year ending March 16 2002 were:- < < Also in the same newspaper.... > > LOOK TO WINDWARD by Iain M Banks (2001) 57,089 copies sold THE 2M-TON SPACE THE HITCH-HIKER’S GUIDE TRILOGY by Douglas Adams (1992) INVADER 25,935 sold “A crater formed by the impact of COLONY by Rob Grant (2001) an enormous meteorite 65 million 22,645 sold years ago has been discovered off the REVELATION SPACE by Alastair Yorkshire coast. Reynolds (2001) 17,873 sold Found by chance 3280ft under the HOUSE HARKONNEN by Brian North Sea, it measures 1.9 miles wide Herbert & Kevin J Anderson (2001) and nearly 1000ft deep. It was 17,857 sold probably created when a 2-million-ton THE HITCH-HIKER’S GUIDE TO meteorite smashed into the shallow THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams waters which covered most of Britain (1979) 11,490 sold at the time, scientists said. They 2 CONSIDER PHLEBAS by Ian M Dark Paranormal Category Banks (1992) 10,832 sold DANEGELD by Susan Squires DUNE by Frank Herbert (1968) 10,685 sold. THE SPECTRUM AWARD The top 5 SF authors were:- The 2002 Spectrum Award recognises units titles Ian M Banks 115,137 16 work of special interest to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered Douglas Adams 73,000 18 people from 2001. The finalists are:- Herbert & Anderson 37,059 8 Arthur C Clarke 35,577 38 Best Novel Stephen Baxter 34,701 24 BOUNCING OFF THE MOON David Gerrold (Tor) The top 5 Fantasy authors were:- DREAMER J R R Tolkien 1,007,134 25 Steven H arper (Roc) Terry Pratchett 797,685 69 THE GHOST SISTER David Gemmell 114,131 43 Liz Williams (Bantam) Raymond Feist 87,499 22 THE KAPPA CHILD Robert Jordan 86,128 28 Hiromi Goto (Red Deep Press) J K Rowling does not feature as her KUSHIEL’S DART books are classed as ‘children’s’. Her Jacqueline Carey (Tor) works are currently selling at the rate of A PARADIGM OF EARTH 20,000 copies per week! Candas Jane Dorsey (Tor) POINT OF DREAMS THE PRISM AWARD WINNERS Melissa Scott & Lisa Barnett (Tor) THE SONG OF THE EARTH The 2002 Prism Award winners Hugh Nissenson (Algonquin) for science fiction and fantasy romance novels published in 2000 were:- Best Short Fiction Light Paranormal Category “The Anth voke” Steve Berman JUST WEST OF HEAVEN “The Devil and Mrs Faust” by Kathleen Kane Ian Phillips Fantasy Category “If On a Moonlit Night” GODDESS BY MISTAKE M Shayne Bell by P.C. Cast “Kindred” Alexis Glynn Latner Time Travel Category “Love On a Stick” Carrie Richerson ACROSS A MOON-SWEPT MOOR “Passing” Mark Tiedemann by Julie Moffett “Shiomah’s Land” Nisi Shawl Futuristic Category “Soul of Light” Catherine Asaro SCOUT'S PROGRESS “Triangle” Ellen Klages by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller Best Other Work (Sharon Lee & Steve Miller also took BENDING THE LANDSCAPE second place with LOCAL CUSTOM) ed by Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel 3 (anthology/Overlook Press) “There's a whole range of new BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER British SF writers who I'd like to by Joss Whedon (TV) know more about, and who I've CHARM SCHOOL (comic) missed through not doing as many CODENAME: KNOCKOUT #0 - #6 conventions lately as I used to. Steve by Robert Rodi (DC comics) Baxter and Paul McAuley are now old GREEN LANTERN #137 & #140 hat - didn't I see a publisher's blurb Judd Winick (DC comics) somewhere describing someone as ‘a SEXTOPIA Steve Baxter for the new century’? ed Cecilia Tan (anthology/Circlet Press) But I'd turn out to see the likes of TRYSTS Steve Berman Eric Brown, John Meaney, China (collection/Lethe Press) Mieville, Alastair Reynolds or Adam X-FORCE #117-118 (Marvel comic) Roberts. I’d also like to see Ben Jeapes talking about being a small THOSE LISTS.... publisher. But the guy I rate remains Ian McDonald.” Well - a FEW of you actually read the June newsletter and sent in some lists. < < And don’t forget that Ian McDonald is BUT NOT VERY MANY OF YOU. Guest of Honour at this year’s NOVACON (see elsewhere in this newsletter for details) So I’ll keep collecting the lists of - R G P > > favourite books and films but just include the random lists for now. From member Pauline Morgan here in Brum...top 5 speakers From member Paul Thompson she’d like to see at the Brum Group... in Holland...his three biggest hates:- 1) Lisanne Norman 1) Absolutely, without a shadow of 2) Ben Jeapes doubt anything containing the word 3) Kate Jacoby ‘Pokemon’. 4) John Meaney 2) “ “ “ “ anything containing the 5) Sally Spedding words ‘Dragonball Z \ 3) British beer served in a Dutch bar - < <That makes two requests for Ben somehow it will ALWAYS be served Jeapes and John Meaney. I believe John has at several degrees below the freezing a new book out in the not too distant future point of water! so we’ll try and arrange a talk by John. Ben And the speakers he’d like to see at the Jeapes is actually the publisher of the new SF magazine 3SF which launches later this Brum Group? year...we’ve got the magazine’s editor ANY (will I ever make it to a Brum talking to us in September but it might be a Group meeting?) good idea to invite Ben next year as a follow-up after the magazine has had time to From member Robert Day in settle down. - RGP> > Coventry - on authors he’d like to see at the Brum Group... 4 NEWS IN BRIEF .... co-author with Randall Garrett, using the pseudonym ‘Mark Phillips’, of .... ANDROMEDA vacated 2-5 Suffolk BRAIN TWISTER (“That Sweet Little Street and went into storage at Walsall. Old Lady” in ASTOUNDING 1959 - it It has now found new premises at 1 never appeared in the UK reprint due to Suffolk Street (!!!) and should be the paper-strike that year), and the operational by the time you read this sequels THE IMPOSSIBLES (ASF .... Congratulations to Terry Pratchett 1960 as “Out Like a Light”) and on winning the Carnegie Medal Award SUPERMIND (ASF 1960-61 as for THE AMAZING MAURICE AND “Occasion for Disaster”). More HIS EDUCATED RODENTS - a recently he was author of the trilogy humorous young adult novel set in the SURVIVOR, KNAVE IN HAND and Discworld universe ...
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