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• Summer 2010 ~ LL. Editors Karen Hellekson en I 16 Rolling Rdg. A publication of the Science Fiction Research Association Jay, ME 04239 [email protected] [email protected] Craig Jacobsen SFRA Review Business English Department New Editors Galore 2 Mesa Community College 1833 West Southern Ave. SFRA Business Mesa, AZ 85202 SFRA: Showing the Love 2 [email protected] SFRA 2010 Conference Wrap-up 3 [email protected] Candidate Statements for SFRA Executive Committee 3 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 5 Managing Editor SFRA Business Meeting Minutes 6 Janice M. Bogstad Mcintyre Library-CO 2010-2011 Award Committee Personnel 7 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Remarks for Pilgrim Award 7 105 Garfield Ave. Pilgrim Award Acceptance Speech 8 Eau Claire, WI 54702-5010 [email protected] Remarks for Pioneer Award 11 Pioneer Award Acceptance Speech 12 Nonfiction Editor Remarks for Clareson Award 12 Ed McKnight Clareson Award Acceptance Speech 13 113 Cannon Lane Mar-Y Kay Bray Award Remarks 13 Taylors, SC 29687 Mary Kay Bray Award Acceptance Speech 13 [email protected] Remarks for Student Paper Award 14 Fiction Editor Student Paper Award Acceptance Speech 14 Edward Carmien Feature 29 Sterling Rd. SF Audio 101, or "It's Alive!" 14 Princeton, NJ 08540 Nonfiction Reviews [email protected] Into Your Tent: The World of Eric Frank Russell 21 Media Editor Master Mechanics and Wicked Wizards 21 Ritch Calvin Middle-earth Minstrel 23 l6A Erland Rd. Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists 24 Stony Brook, NY 11790-1114 Fiction Reviews [email protected] Things We Didn't See Coming 25 The SFRA Review (ISSN 1068- Tomb of the Fathers-A Lydia Duluth Adventure 395X) is published four times a year by 26 the Science Fiction Research Association Media Reviews (SFRA), and distributed to SFRA members. Individual issues are not for sale; however, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 27 all issues after 256 are published to SFRA's The Losers and The Losers Book One 28 Web site (http://www.sfra.org/) no fewer than 10 weeks after paper publication. For Darwinia and Multiwinia 29 information about SFRA and member Announcements ship, see the back cover. SFRA thanks the University ofWisconsin-Eau Claire for its Calls for Papers 30 assistance in producing the SFRA Review. SUBMISSIONS The SFRA Review encourages submissions of reviews, review essays that cover several related texts, interviews, and feature articles. Submission guidelines are available at http://www.sfra.org/ or by inquiry to the appropriate editor. Contact the Editors for other submissions or for correspondence. larly scheduled life. And indeed, between the visually stunning desert setting, intellectually stimulating panels on science fic tion and fantasy across media, and, of course, emotionally grati EDITORS' MESSAGE fying opportunity to connect with old and new friends alike, I New Editors Galore am still seconding that sentiment three weeks later. Kudos to Craig for single-handedly organizing such a spectacular SFRA Karen Hellekson and Craig Jacobsen meeting, and special thanks to guest scholars Pawel Frelik, Joan Slonczewski, and Margaret Weitekamp for sharing their ideas With just two issues of the SFRA Review left to go, we are about science, society, and SF with us all. It was an exciting counting down the time to handoff. We have lots of tasty treats for you to close out our tenure. This issue features an Audio opportunity to celebrate the work oflongtime SFRA members Drama 101 by Neil Easterbrook and a Feminist SF 101 by Ritch while welcoming new scholars into our fold. Calvin, as well as much information about the SFRA meeting in Indeed, as the conference progressed, I was increasingly Carefree, Arizona. struck by how the diversity of our guest scholars-coming, as In the last issue of the Review, we asked for expressions of they do, from backgrounds in American studies, biology, and interest for the general editorship to be sent to SFRA president history-complemented the diversity of SFRA members and Lisa Yaszek for consideration at the Executive Board meeting their scholarly interests. A number of presenters at this year's in Carefree. We're happy to report that Doug Davis and Jason Embry have agreed to coedit the Review. We must also report conference chose to grapple with some of the oldest and still that previously we noted that we limited ourselves to a three most pressing topics in SF studies, including issues related year self-imposed tenure. However, when we actually read to pedagogy, publication, and scholarship. Others focused the bylaws of the organization (ahem!), we discovered that the on recurring themes in SF fiction and scholarship, including three-year term is a real one. And here we just thought it felt representations of gender, history, and memory. Still others right. inspired, no doubt, by the conference theme of"far stars and tin In addition to our exit, two of our longtime section editors stars" and our Arizona setting-chose to explore how SF au are stepping down: we thank the Ed Carmien (fiction editor) and Ed McKnight (nonfiction editor) for their years of service. thors participate in contemporary debates over the environment We invite you to consider applying for one of these editorships. and immigration. But what I personally found most exciting Both Eds promise to help train their successors and are happy was the interaction between diverse participants in the confer to answer questions. The job description is as follows: solicit ence itself. This year one-third of our conference attendees were books from the publishers; find reviewers; get them to deliver students new to the field of SF studies. I was delighted to see copy on time; quality- and fact-check it; and then deliver it seasoned conference attendees reach out to these new arrivals to the SFRA Review editor on the due date the editor speci- fies. Please send your questions or your expressions of interest (sometimes quite literally) and look forward to the day when to us (sfrareview AT gmail.com) by October 15, 2010, and in these new arrivals become SFRA veterans showing the love to a conjunction with the SFRA Board and the new editors, we will new generation of scholars. select new fiction and nonfiction editors. We are keen to make a And while we're on the topic of showing the love, I'd like smooth transition because so many Review leadership positions to take this opportunity to remind all SFRA members-old are falling open at the same time. and new alike-that there are many ways to participate in the This issue, we credit Michael Klein for his help. At the ongoing development of our organization even when you aren't SFRA meeting in Carefree, it was decided that contributors to the Review must be SFRA members (with certain limited excep taking a quick dip in the pool or getting a quick drink in the tions). Michael checked all submitters' names against a master bar with one another between conference events. For example, membership list to ensure that this was the case. some of you might volunteer to help Pawel Frelik with SFRA 2011 in Lublin or Steve Berman with SFRA 2012 in Detroit. (Heck, you might even consider hosting a future SFRA your self!) Ifthat kind of service strikes your fancy, be sure to check out the SFRA business meeting minutes .PUblished in this issue of the Review for more details. If you prefer working behind the scenes, you might consider applying for one of the SFRA PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Review editorial positions advertised elsewhere in this issue. SFRA: Showing the Love And finally, as we all carefully ponder the campaign statements Lisa Yaszek written by the candidates for our next executive committee (also published elsewhere in this issue of the Review), I hope that At the end of SFRA 2010, I overheard someone lament some (many!) of you will think about how you might participate that organizer Craig Jacobsen had done too good a job with the in the administration of the SFRA, thereby increasing the love conference and that he didn't want to go back home to his regu- all that much more. 2 SFRA Review 293 Summer 2010 CONFERENCE COORDINATOR MESSAGE capable people, began the process of shifting much of the orga ~FRA 2010 Conference Wrap-up nization online, which included the membership database, the registration process, the syllabus project, conference resources, Craig Jacobsen and the directory. In addition, in 2008 I was the conference organizer for the annual conference (Lawrence, KS). I have From June 24th through the 27th the Science Fiction also been the Media Reviews editor for the SFRA Review since Research Association held its annual conference in Carefree, 2008-1 hope that you at least look through the lists that I send Arizona, amid somewhat hostile political and physical climates. out quarterly and find some interesting things! In addition, I The conference attracted nearly one hundred attendees, nearly served on the Mary Kay Bray Award committee from 2006- one third of them first-time participants, a good sign for the 2009. In 2010, I was awarded the Mary Kay Bray Award for my health of the conference and association. The high desert setting short essay on mundane science fiction. provided a backdrop for many excellent sessions exploring the If you elect me President of SFRA, I will endeavor to: (I) conference theme, science fiction and the frontier, and many ensure that all the aspects of the SFRA (annual conference, pub other aspects of the field. lications, Web site, awards, membership outreach) continue to Guest Scholar Margaret Weitekamp, curator in the Space function seamlessly; (2) continue the process of transitioning to History Division of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space electronic media (electronic registration, journal management, Museum, set the mood with an engaging opening-evening slide membership database, and membership directory); (3) continue presentation on space toys and their connections to American to develop a web presence through various electronic and social notions of the frontier.

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