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The E-Magazine of the British Interplanetary Society Welcome to Odyssey Welcome Back The e-Magazine of the British Interplanetary Society Welcome to Odyssey Welcome back I’m Terry Henley, the new Managing Editor After a rather prolonged absence it’s great of Odyssey. My team members are John to have Odyssey back ‘on air’. I have Silvester, Terry Don and a new addition certainly missed having the opportunity to Richard Hayes, who helped Mark in tell our members what the BIS has been previous issues of Odyssey. up to and what we have planned for the future. I expect those of you with a leaning We are re-launching Odyssey quarterly for towards science fiction have missed it the present time and it will be shorter than even more, but I hope we can now make you have been used to. We are starting amends. small and when we have more to add, it will get bigger. We will be concentrating on I hope we can match the high standards Science Fiction, whether it’s stories, poetry be read again and again, even turned into set by Mark Stewart, Adrian Mann and or art. films. the rest of the original Odyssey team and have a good mix of interesting articles, Some people call Sci-Fi authors dreamers, This is what Odyssey is now incorporating, letters and book reviews. Please keep but to write a good Sci-Fi book, you need the future in the minds of space artists and them coming as we may be starting up an understanding of space, weapons, what writers. We are looking for ideas from our slowly, with only one 4-page e-magazine aliens could look like, ships and most of all readers, do you have an idea you would a quarter, but we hope to increase the the engines, which take the ships past the like to share with the other BIS members? A number of pages gradually and then speed of light into hyperspace and beyond, Sci-Fi story, poem or artwork, this is YOUR perhaps re-introduce the monthly issue. through wormholes, time and into the future Odyssey, what would YOU like to see in it? which happens today. We are also looking for people to help get I wish Terry Henley, John Sylvester, Terry stories, supply stories and add your input to Don and Richard Hayes all the best for a Who would have thought that the Your Odyssey. smooth introduction and a long run. communicator used in Star Trek would end up coming to life as a mobile phone? When If you have anything to say, that can be A. Scott James T. Kirk signs those electronic data done in YOUR SAY or Letters to the Editor. President pads, who would have thought we would all If you have a query, send it in and we’ll do British Interplanetary Society use them and they are part of our everyday our very best to answer it. Tell us what you lives known as the IPad? would like to see in Odyssey and we’ll do Diary Date our very best to put it there. Want a Sci-Fi Astronomers know much more about Crossword, we’ll create one. Want Sci-Fi 14-18 August – Loncon 3 - The 72nd World space now than we did forty years ago, yet Poetry, we’ll put it in. Science Fiction Convention, ExCel, London. authors like Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, H.G. www.loncon3.org Wells, A.E. van Vogt have been living out So here is the first issue, we hope you like there in space for much longer. Our books it. Editor: Terry J. Henley have to be believable and realistic, from the All the Best Assistant Editors: John Silvester, Terry way ships move, to the way they blow up. Don and Richard Hayes The engines needed to push a ship past the T J Henley speed of light have to work in principle, so Distribution and web support: Ralph the writer has to make it all come to life, to Managing Editor Timberlake and Andrew Vaudin Odyssey is published quarterly by the In the Next Issue BIS and circulated by email. Feedback In July’s issue, we hear more from Richard Hayes when he reviews another book and Malcolm on the e-magazine is welcome, including Smith reviews a new book Acid Sky. There will more filling the magazine and hopefully, you too suggestions for future issues, via will be asking us questions which we will answer. [email protected] Odyssey: The e-Magazine of the British Interplanetary Society: April 2014 www.bis-space.com 1 John Silvester from Odyssey Interviews BIS Author and Artist David Hardy David Hardy produced his first work so there were few constraints. Now of course you feel your approach to space art has of space art in 1950. In 1954 he started things are completely different, for example developed or changed over the years? illustrating books for Patrick Moore, and our knowledge of what the surface of Mars A. The biggest change has of course been later worked with him on the BBC Sky looks like. How has this affected and/or the move to digital working. I started using at Night programme until very recently. influenced your work? watercolours, then poster, and then moved He has been responsible for illustrating A. Again (and I’m sorry for the shameless to acrylics and oils. But I have always made hundreds of covers for science fiction plug!) this is best seen in the book Patrick use of new technology, so used Xeroxes, books, and his work has appeared in all and I did together in 2004: Futures: 50 Years photography (doing all my own developing of the well known astronomy magazines. in Space (now out of print, but still available and printing in the 1980s and becoming an Many awards have come his way over online). This was in effect a very much ARPS), and in 1986 got my first computer the years, and he currently holds the updated sequel to the most important book – an Atari ST with 512k (yes, K!) of RAM. In posts of European Vice President that we did together, Challenge of the Stars, 1991 I got my first AppleMac, and still use of the International Association of and that started way back in 1954 (hence Macs, including an iPad. Yet I have tried to Astronomical Artists and Vice President the book’s title). The original version was retain my own style, so am always pleased of the Association of Science Fiction and rejected by all the publishers as being ‘too when someone says of a digital work: “It still Fantasy Artists. He is also a well liked fanciful and speculative’, so it was shelved looks like a Hardy!” member of the BIS and he is now the until 1972, after Patrick’s Moon Fight Atlas longest-established living space artist. became a best-seller, documenting the Apollo missions. The publishers wanted to show where we could go in space after the Moon; so Challenge of the Stars rose, phoenix-like, from the ashes. John Silvester asked David in an interview this month. Q. Your work is wide ranging. Which gives you the most satisfaction, dealing with objects that are part of the Solar System, or those of an extrasolar nature? A. It makes very little difference really, but extrasolar objects do give me more scope Q. Are there any space subjects you have for imagination, and for depicting objects not yet tackled or have deliberately avoided that are not just planets, moons or comets. tackling? A. Not that I’m aware of! Q. Have you any particular memories of your association with the late Patrick Moore Q. You wrote a novel, Aurora: A Child of Sadly, 1972 proved to be the year in which you’d like to share with readers? Two Worlds, which spans quite a period of humans went beyond Earth orbit for the last A. Many! I think the best way to answer time starting in the Blitz. What made you time, and our hopes and plans for bases on this is to refer readers to a talk I gave to the decide to venture into the world of science the Moon and Mars, and manned expeditions Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) on 26th fiction writing? to the outer planets, never materialised. January, 2013, in remembrance of Patrick: A. My interest in SF (never ‘sci-fi’, please, Instead, we have explored by proxy, using www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQQAg71tNB8 except for media and movies!) parallels automated probes and robotic rovers. Futures my interest in space and astronomy, and As I explain, I met Patrick in 1954 when he shows examples of our 1950s and 1970s I bought my first SF book in 1950. But my gave me my first illustration commission, versions of the universe and space travel chief influence was the US artist Chesley and we worked together – including of alongside current depictions; Mars and Bonestell (along with R.A. Smith of course), course on The Sky at Night – almost until Titan with blue skies, Mars with craters and and he never painted SF subjects, only his death, so I miss him greatly. See also canyons instead of canals, Venus with huge astronomical. This did not stop them being the next question. shield volcanoes instead of jungles or oceans used on the covers of magazines like of soda water, and so on. Q. When you started out on your career so Amazing and The Magazine of Fantasy little was known about the Solar System, Q. Possibly related to the above, how do & Science Fiction.
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