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SFRA Newsletter University of South Florida Scholar Commons Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications 9-1-2005 SFRA ewN sletter 273 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 273 " (2005). Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications. Paper 88. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scifistud_pub/88 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]. #~Tg July/ Au. Sept 1t1t1§ • Editor: Chrlis_line Malins H3n3ging Etlitor: Janlice M. Boas_ad Nonfiction Reriews: Ed McHnliah_ Science Fiction Research Fiction Reriews: Association Philip Snyder SFIUI Re",e", The SFRAReview (ISSN 1068-395X) is published four times a year by the Science Fiction Research As­ III ... 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 Report from SFRA 2.005 3 description at the back of this issue. For a membership application, contact SFRA Minutes of the Board 3 Treasurer Donald M. Hassler or get one Clareson Award: Introduction 7 from the SFRA website: <www.sfra.org>. Clareson Award: Acceptance 7 SFRA would like to thank the Univer­ sity of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for its as­ Pioneer Award: Introduction 9 sistance in producing the SFRAReview. Pioneer Award: Acceptance 10 Pilgrim Award: Introduction 12. SUBMISSIONS Pilgrim Award: Acceptance I 3 The SFRAReview encourages all submis­ sions, induding essays, review essays that Mary Kay Bray Award: Introduction 15 cover several related texts, and inter­ Grad Student Award: Acceptance Ie views. If you would like to review non­ fiction or fiction, please contact the respective editor. Non Fiction Reviews 'Alias' Assumed I 7 Christine Mains, Editor Box 66024 ProJections I 8 Caigary,AB T2N I N4 Encyclopedia of SF 2.0 <[email protected]> Inside the World of Pullman 2.1 Janice M. Bogstad, Managing Editor Liminal Lives 2.2. 239 Broadway St. H.G. Wells's The Time Machine 2.4 Eau Claire WI 54703-5553 <[email protected]> Voices of Vision 2.4 Dying Planet 2.5 Ed McKnight, Nonfiction Editor I 13 Cannon Lane Taylors SC 29687 Fiction Reviews <[email protected]> Cultural Breaks 2.7 Philip Snyder, Rction Editor Century Rain 2.7 109 Northumberland Road Llvel from Planet Earth 2.8 Rochester NY 14618 <[email protected]> Nine Muses 30 SFRA BUSINESS ) Edjtor's Messaae Christine Mains News Items: Looks like I don't have to be a broken record this issue, as President Dave The World Fantasy Awards will be Mead does the honors for me in his message below. presented at World Fantasy Con in 1bis issue is chock full of conference-related content speeches from the Madison,Wisconsin during the week­ award winenrs and those who introduced them, and reports on the conference end of November 3-6. Novel: from the organizers and on the meeting of the executive board, including a finan­ Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & cial report from Treasurer Mack Hassler. Mr Norrell; Stephen R. Donaldson, The Also in this issue is a reprint of a review from the last issue, which was Runes Of the Earth; China Mieville, mistakenly attributed to the wrong reviewer. My apologies to Mark Decker for Iron Council; Sean Stewart, Perfect printing his review under the wrong name, and my assurances that steps have been Circle; GeneWolfe, The Wizard Knight taken to change the editorial procedure to avoid similar errors in future. Novella: leena Krohn, "Tainaron: SFRA BUSINESS Mail from Another City"; Kim Newman, "Soho Golem"; Michael Presjdent's Messaae Shea, "The Growlimb"; Lisa Tuttle, Dave Mead "My Death"; Gene Wolfe, "Golden City Far". Short Fiction: Theodora Well, the annual meeting in Las Vegas has come and gone, an apparent Goss, "The Wings of Meister success for all involved (if I do say so myself). 123 persons paid to attend, includ­ Wilhelm"; Margo Lanagan, "Singing ing a few one-day visitors from Las Vegas. With guests, about 135 came to the My Sister Down"; Kelly Link, "The awards banquet, where Gerard Klein (Pilgrim), Lisa Yaszek (pioneer), Muriel Becker Faery Handbag"; China Mieville, "Re­ (Clareson), Bruce Beatie (Mary Kay Bray), and Melissa Colleen Stevenson (Best ports of Certain Events in london"; Graduate Student Paper at SFRA 2004) were recognized. A special award to Alice Barbara Roden, "Northwest Pas­ Clareson was also announced. The Conference was able to return the SFREs sage".Anthology: The Faery Reel:Tales subsidy, plus a little extra. Some of the extra funds came from the book room, run from the Twilight Realm ed. Ellen ably by Ron Larson and Joe Berlant. Special thanks to those who donated books, Datlow &TerriWindling;Polyphony 4 particularly Joan Gordon and Tor Books. ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake; Ac­ We are most grateful for the attendance of our guest authors - Ursula K quaintedWith The Night ed. Barbara & Le Guin,John Barnes, Kij Johnson, Tim Powers, Joan Slonczewski, Elizabeth Christopher Roden; Dark Matter: Bear and Steven Brust. Their presence and participation was a highlight of the Reading The Bones ed. Sheree R.Tho­ meeting. mas; The First Heroes: New Tales of the We are all looking forward to next year's meeting, which will be held in Bronze Age ed. Harry Turtledove & White Plains, NY. Look for news of the meeting on the website soon. Oscar De Noreen Doyle. Collection: Peter Los Santos and Tom Morrissey are hosting SFRA 2006 and have promised a Crowther, Songs Of Leaving; John M. strong list of guest authors, including Nancy Kress and Distinguished Guest Ford, Heat Of Fusion and Other Sto­ Author Nonnan Spinrad. ries; Eileen Gunn, Stable Strategies And Prejidential Admonition (You Know Who You Are) Others; Margo Lanagan, BlackJuice; Joe Re\-iewers must do a better job of sending their reviews to the Editors - R. lansdale, Mad Dog Summer and Ed ~.IcKrught and Phil Snyder - in a timely wa}, SFRA Review Editor Chrissie Other Stories: Ian R. Macleod. ! ~'.[~L~ I.l nn:d of fusJoing about tlus, so it is my tum to remind those who accept Breathmoss and Other ExI:r:1,kl'Ui'~',~1: i 1:. Ec::tro!l! (;', :J")'Q-5.:1".:00 tr;..-;,ik fOf re,iew that reviewing is a privilege and a profes­ luc.ius S~el:::,a,~d, Tc.;;iik_ !r';>;L;i-_;'JJ~.'l:i_YcC ?;.e,=mg fryr The SFRA Rm'ew is not a trivial or secondary 1£c:"':.C'~ ,a:d rid;"::,':r";e:, u;,ptct The Review cannot operate on any sort of schedule -.~,= AJ'.:. "'Qln loii.III"i.r'd:L, 1!l1.'!, C;ur:il'!i'lilr: :.if ri~·"~t~"<\lt-,:: ci,c,·I:·'rr!,":'rJd In their work quickly. If you are one of those who have ;\r;ll!lr,t.!:, ;:H::':I~:'~"~ ~·u)r.,M'3.~~~!- :~~"~t!1.~'T'1,!,;tdj !p~rJ'c ~;m~l"'I!,.~n:~,;jJ_, commit yourself now to turning in reviews faster. ~~I' , • .,c,"b ,In, Ih.o11ln, iungjll:lh mo'!: r;"'!I;I::~~ (.:~1":I·!~C,~.,~ Gunn Assistantship at University if Kansas •• ,t':~ ,t' !~,l: .. ~t'''1''!'j''rl(t'1J!i 1~i: \",1,' ~ l ':,~ ,r ":. -:,,~ -:--:'JO: Execun,e Committee has voted to donate $1000 to support the Gunn :'ll"))I!l~r~H-:'I"'.II~ '~Stlq:a~l c.,"" ~.d'l"' ~.s:'! _x~::~:~.<:"mrllp ill the Center for SF Studies at the University of Kansas. The Gunn !~::J"'.r~~t:~~r:-11 \'''';~'~r1~ il111 E-'r.',t;/':'· ""ll~~I'~( <!1 ! :.1 ~Z1! ".nIl develop an infonnation center for students and teachers, organizing ;'::I:~'o' ::,~~ iE~\!I,l "''l~1 aeHkv1~~,. ~~M,~l!,iet~,"- md provIding infonnation about academic programs and library holdings in SF/ ( ) Fantasy. Changes at Extrapolatiol1 (---~--') At the executive committee meeting in Las Vegas, the editors of ExtrapoZa· tiOfl- through Mack Hassler - expressed some concern that SFR..-\ might object to livre en fran~is: Les Memoires de rAre, the changes the journal is making in its publication schedule (moving from four to by Michele Laframboise; Best Short­ three issues annually). The Executiye Committee voted to express the SFRXs Form Work in English: "When the continued support of the journal as it makes what changes it must. Morning Stars Sang Together," by SFRA2007? Isaac Szpindel; Meilleure nouvelle en ,-\t present, we have no venue or host(s) for the a1UlUal meeting in 2007. ,·\t franc;:ais: "Ceux qui ne comptent this year's meeting I spoke to some members from the northwest about the pos­ pas," by Michele Laframboise; Best sibility of having our 2007 meeting in Portland, Oregon or perhaps Seattle, \Vash­ Work in English (Other): Relativity: ington. At the business meeting, it was also suggested that we mIght go to the Essays and Stories, by Robert J. Saw­ southeast instead. yer If you have ideas about where we might go year·after-next or if you would be willing to host the meeting, please email your ideas ~o me at The Locus Awards were announced [email protected]. atWestercon Due North in Calgary on July 2. Best SF Novel: The Baroque SFRA BUSINESS Cycle (The Confusion and The System A Report Irom SFRA 200S of the World), by Neal Stephenson; Dave Mead and Peter Lowentrout Best Fantasy Novel: Iron Council, by China Mieville; Best First Novel: Jonathan Strange & Mr.
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