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#~.T Ian / Feb / Ifar fOtH Editor: Christine Mains Hanaging Editor: Janice M. Bosstad Nonfiction Reriews: Ed McHnlsht fiction Reriews: PhlUp Snyder The SFRAReview (ISSN III ... HIS ISSUE: 1068-395X) is published four times a year by the Science Fiction ResearchAs­ sociation (SFRA) and distributed to SFRA Business SFRA members. Individual issues are not Editor's Message .2 for sale; however. starting with issue #256. all issues will be published to SFRA's website no less than two months Features after paper publication. For information Final Chapter of SFt Part .2 .2 about the SFRA and its benefits. see the description at the back of this issue. For a membership application. contact SFRA Non Fiction Reviews Treasurer Dave Mead or get one from Scores 6 the SFRA website: <www.sfra.org>. Span of Mainstream and SF 8 SFRA would like to thank the Univer­ sity of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for its as­ Mervyn Peake 0 sistance in producing the Review. Hollywood's Stephen King 10 Visions of the Third Millennium I I SUBMISSIONS The SFRAReview encourages all submis­ sions. including essays. review essays that Fiction Reviews cover several related texts. and inter­ The Day Dall Died I 3 views. If you would like to review non­ fiction or fiction. please contact the Budayeen Nights 14 respective editor. House of War I 5 Quicksilver I 6 Christine Mains. Editor Box 66024 Oy Ploneerl 18 Calgary,AB T2N I N4 Alphabet of Thorn I 8 <[email protected]> Nothing Human 10 Janice M. Bogstad. Managing Editor Storyteller .20 239 Broadway St. Small Press Roundup .21 Eau Claire WI 54703-5553 <[email protected]> Advertisinr Ed McKnight, Nonfiction Editor 113 Cannon Lane SFRA .2004 Dues Information .23 Taylors SC 29687 Help SFRAI .23 <[email protected]> Philip Snyder, Fiction Editor 109 Northumberland Road Rochester NY 14618 <[email protected]> ) SFRA BUSINESS Messaae 'rom the Edlltor Christine Mains News Items: Unfortunately, we have no message from SFRA president Peter Brigg for The Science Fiction Foundation this issue, as he is lost somewhere in New Zealand. We know that he arrived seeks entries for its annual graduate safely, as he did send us a quick note from a cyber-cafe there; however, it appears essay prize. £250 will be awarded for that he's not quite settled in yet, and Peter knows how strict I've become about the best unpublished essay in science deadlines in recent months (since taking on this task, as a matter of fact). fiction criticism. The winning entry In addition to the usual mix of fiction and nonfiction reviews, this issue will be published in the journal Foun­ features the second half of Darko Suvin's response to Brian Stableford's con­ dation.The judges of the competition cerns about the future of science fiction; tile first half was published in SFRA are: Andrew M. Butler (Canterbury Retiew 266. We're pleased that the feature "Theory and Beyond" was able to Christ Church University College): provide a home for Suvin's article, and would like to take this opportunity to editor of Vector Elizabeth Hand: au­ remind SFRA members that we're always looking for short articles about theory thor and reviewer for The Magazine and science fiction, or about theorizing of science fiction. We also have another of F&SF Gary K. Wolfe (Roosevelt somewhat neglected feature, "Approaches," and I want to repeat my request University, Chicago): reviewer for from the previous issue for any member teaching science fiction in the classroom Locus. The deadline for submissions to share with SFRA Retiew readers the answer to the question "What novel or is 31 st May 2004. Entrants must be short story do you feel must be included on your syllabus and Why?" Simply registered for a higher degree. The email me at [email protected] with your response. judges reserve the right to withhold Mike Levy closes out this issue with a brief overview of some lesser­ the award. Two electronic copies known titles and an offer to send a review copy to any SFRA member willing to should be submitted, one anony­ write a more in-depth review. If you, like Mike, are familiar with the works of mous, of 5000-8000 words. Submis­ new writers or the efforts of the smaller genre presses, feel free to contact me sions should be sent as a Word docu­ about doing an interview or a brief review. Some wonderful writing finds a ment to: Dr Farah Mendlesohn, Foun­ home in the most unexpected places, and we'd like to playa small part in finding dation, <[email protected]>. a larger audience for that work. All submissions will be considered for publication in Foundation. THEORY AND BEYOND ,.he Final Chapter?: The Official Frederik Pohl website On Readina Brian Stable'ord is looking for contributions, includ­ Darko Suvin ing brief scholarly essays suitable for a wide audience, book reviews, brief is Part Two: Part One can be [alUld in SFRA RnieJIJ 266] synopses of works by Pohl, appre­ m"S ciations, reminiscences, .gif or .jpg .1. The common denominator of Fantasy seems to me the resolute refusal (picture) files, suggested links to of any technology, urbanization, and finances associated with the capitalism of other sites I permission to link to Industrial Revolution and "paleo technic" (Mumford) machinery, as well as the your website, and study guides. Send refusal of the opacity and sheer loss of synoptic overview which follow for all suggestions, articles and permissions efforts to understand relationships between people. The most useful definition to Rich Ehrlich at I could find for works that I'd call Fantasy is ahistori.111 alternatil'e worlds. This is <[email protected]>. consubstantial to a full evacuation of bOtil tile constraints and of the object world oflate capitalism. Carried over from the everyday pressures are, I think, The Sci Fi Channel has approved a three factors, which follow in ascending order of shape-shifting in relation to tile four hour miniseries adaptation of reader's empirical world. the first two books of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy, with produc­ First is the omnipresent hugely endangered status of life and liberty, stemming from our global avalanches of unemployment, hunger, epidemics, wars-you tion set to begin in New Zealand in name it. the spring. The miniseries is sched­ Second, the place of any overarching historical laws, whether ofbourgeois uled to air in December 2004. "progress" or of socialist sublation of capitalism that retains the achievements of industrialism, is taken by power politics; even the nostalgic collectivists of the ( ) Tolkien kind cannot show a monotheistic religion or Saviour. Heroic Fantasy and ( Horror Fantasy divide according to whether personal salvation through the action of saviour-heroes is on the agenda or not If it is, the reader's alienation is countered by the attempt to wipe the historical slate clean and try the pursuit of happiness in The final Nebula Award Ballot has a rougher but more understandable environment, the landscapes and cities using been announced by the SFWA The 18th-Century Arabian Tales or similarly @teredlegends of ''harder'' primitivism, winners will be announced at the and often intermingled with power from polytheistic godheads and wizardry. If it NebulaAwardsWeekend in Seattle, is not, the power politics are transmuted into the intervention of immeasurably Washington onAprill7.The Nebula superior crushing godheads or entities into everyday spacetime, which yokes the Awards Banquet is open to anyone. reader's alienation into the pleasure of aesthetized horror. In a further ideational Information at <www.sfwa.org/ compromise characteristic for our history of scaled-down hopes, parts of Heroic awards/2004/index.html>. Novels: Fantasy may also be seen as shelving the very thought of salvation in favour of Diplomatic Immunity, by lois McMaster little oases of privatized survival, either still against the backdrop of a whole age Bujold; The Mount, by Carol (Conan) or simply in the interstices of a city (Leiber). Emshwiller; Ught Music, by Kathleen Third, and for this initial hypothesis final, the most keenly felt Ann Goonan; The Salt Roads, by Nalo disenchantment (Weber) or loss of aura (Benjamin) pervading all aspects of Hopkinson; Chindi, by Jack McDevitt; capitalist hegemony is replaced by new thrills or 4fet1S. Even Lovecraftian horror The Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth maps a kind of demented causality that is more bearable than the isolation, Moon. Novellas: "Potter of Bones", fragmentedness, and alienation imposed by bureaucratized rationality yoked to by Eleanor Arnason; "The Empress the profit principle-and even more so the re-enchantments of Duns any, Tolkien, of Mars", by Kage Baker;"Coraline", and their followers. by Neil Gaiman;"Stories for Men", Let me try to prevent misunderstanding: As against the Puritanical or by John Kessel;"Breathmoss",by Ian business barbarians' discomfort at or even hate of truly new stories, there is in Macleod. Novelettes:"Mask of the principle or in theory no reason to shy away from any alternative worlds. My Rex", by Richard Bowes;"Of a Sweet shortcut in .MOSF to reject Fantasy as a genre, though meant only for horror Slow Dance in the Wake of Tempo­ fantasy, has proved overhasty. But I believe there are two crucial and consubstantial rary Dogs", by Adam-Troy Castro; preconditions if any such world depiction is to be useful beyond airport reading to "OwnzOred", by Cory Doctorow; anesthetize unbearable environments: 1/ that the actions and agents in this world 'The Empire of Ice Cream", by Jef­ be radically different, instead of a simple translation of (say) our empirical gang or frey Ford; "The Wages of Syntax", workplace brutality to wishful heroism, and 2/ that the story in its own way throw by Ray Vukcevich.
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