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Matrix Become a Fan Without Being Irrevocably Cut Off from Any SF Roots £1.25 110 NewsCetter Of tile Brittsll Science Yiction Association Ye6ruar9 - Marcil 1994 Morrix110 Datarife Determinants It seems to make more Sense to start a new year in February when the Membership weather is once more becoming civilised, rather than having it This costs £15 per year (UK and EC). immediately adjacent to the glullony and indulgence of Christmas. A British winter seems to be an endless tunnel of low-level misery and New members: Alison Cook, 27 Albemarle Drive. Grove, Wantage. dampness, so the first appearance of Ihe sun produces a primitive Oxon aXIl ON8 resurgence of joy. As the skeleton trees slowly blur into buds and the ground changes from mud to mud with stalks, there seems more point Renewals: Keith Freeman, 269 Wykeham Road, Reading RG6 IPL to life: and, perhaps, there may seem to be more to life than reading SF. USA: Cy Chauvin. 14248 Wilfred Street, Detroit. M148213, USA Unlike the metamorphosis from larva to dragon fly, an SF reader can Matrix become a fan without being irrevocably cut off from any SF roots. A fan will almost by definition stan as an SF reader who wishes to take Jenny and Steve Glover. 16 Aviary Place, Leeds LSl2 2NP a mOTe active role in the SF community. I'm not entirely convinced. Tel: 0532 791264 though, that people deliberately set out to become fans, There are a whole series of circumstances which seem to be coincidences and Vector which cascade onto the unwary reader but which will fail to activate anyone unless some spark of curiosity or sense of wonder gets ignited Catie Cary. 224 Soulhway. Park Bam. Guildford. Surrey GU2 6DN Becoming a fan, then. is a two way process. with the SF reader reaching out and some source of fannish information reaching over. Focus There's no compulsion 10 become a fan. though it could be compared to walking out of a comfortable house (leaving the door ajar) and Carol Ann Green, 5 Raglan Avenue. Raglan Street, Hull HUS 2JB and seeing the vast expanse of the world. No one will expect anyone 10 Julie Venner. 42 Walgrave Street, Newland Avenue. Hull HU5 2LT like everything in sight; nor is everything visible, Some fannish things may need investigation and it will be up to the emerging fan to decide Officials whether this will be worthwhile. Joint Administrators: Maureen Speller. 60 Bournemouth Road. My own fannish interests are with fanzines. though the postman who Folkeslone. Kent CTl9 5AZ and Calie Cary, 224 Southway. Park has to deliver them is nOl so enthusiastic. [like to sort through the Bam. Guildford. Surrey GU2 6DN post and sit down over breakfast, flicking through the contents. Then I Treasurer: Elizabeth Billinger, 82 Kelvin Road, New Cubbington. can vegetate fannishly throughout the day, concentrating on my job Leamington Spa CV32 7TQ and only allowing my thoughts to flicker to the morning post Orbiters: Carol Ann Green, 5 Raglan Avenue, Raglan Street, Hull occasionally - there will be time for that in the evening when I can HU52JB relax in a child-less environment. I like to see these windows on Awards: Nicholas Mahoney. 276 Lonsdale Avenue. Intake, Doncaster different worlds and to know that by commenting on them, J can CN26HG become part of that world. Foreign Liaison: Bridget Wilkinson. 17 Mimosa. 29 Avenue Road. I like to communicate through writing. It's a satisfying and indirect London NI5 form of communication which allows me to reveal as much - or as linle - of my feelings as I wish 10. The main problem, though, is that This Issue it lacks the nuances of personal conversation The more you may reveal of yourself, the more you risk touching a tender spot in the Cover Artwork: April Lee nerves of the recipient: and the more chance you may have of Proof-reading: Chris Terran initiating an exhilarating discussion in the letter columns for several issues to come British Science Fiction Association Ltd Company No. 921500. Other people may prefer more direct contact through clubs, Registered in England. Limited by Guarantee. Registered Address: 60 conventions, costuming or role'playing games. Fandom is a broad Boumemouth Road. Folkestone, Kent CT 19 5AZ. church. This may go some way to explaining the breadth of subject matter in Matrix. For example. the major article this issue concerns Published by POC Copyprinl, II Jeffries Passage, Guildford GUI the influence of Rudyard Kipling on Science Fiction. There is also a 4AP discussion of how to do a first fanzine with a recipe to use as an Copyright ClBSFA 1993. Individual copyrights are the property of the alternative to photocopying or duplicating: there is an article on the authors and editors. Klingon language. The news ranges from Keith Roberts' iUness to SF ISSN03073335. victims of the recent Los Angeles earthquake. I aim to provide a balance between Science Fiction news, feedback of members and information of ways to become more than an SF reader, if people should want to. I don't want to force people into fandom - just to Dea()(\ne indicate what is available - and I'd never want to suggest that fans cannOi be SF readers as well 15 Marcn1994 Fe6ru0'll-.March 1994 paperback in August - Anne McCaffrey is visiting the UK for a News publicity tour in June. The March publications lead with Isaac Asimov's Forward the Foundation. the seventh (and concluding) volume of his Foundation From: Pete COll.. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Doug Faunt, Ellen Key series. Olher book.s coming that month are John Saul's SluuJo .....s. Harris, Terry Pratchett, Amy Thomson. Bill Higgins. Herman Kuiper, which shows a school for children out of the normal and also Lauric Mann. John Madracki. Robert Baruch, Mark Stackpole, Gary Guardian which presents more horror as a mother attempts to guard Ehrlich, Matthew Michael Brenner, David V. Barrell. Jessica Yales her children against a cunning killer. John Saul is currently working and youredilors. on his next novel. Harry Harrison's 1M Stainless Steel Rat Sings rhe Blues will come as a hardback., decoraled by a Doily Telegraph qUOle. Arthur C Clarke Award comparing Harry Harrison to ~the Monty Pylhon of the spaceways". Corgi: Simon Maginn's firsl novel Sheep, published in February. begs Shortlist comparisons with 1M Wasp Factory: a deceptively casual narrative builds layen of horror upon each other. Terry Pralchetl'S Johnny and The shortlist for the eighth Anhur C Clarke Award for the besl the Dead is scheduled for March, It's Ihe sort of juvenile which is Science Fiction novel published in the United Kingdom in 1993 are, suitable for all, or at least most, ages as Johnny discovers that he can in alphabetical order of authors: see the dead, that the council is about to sell the cemetery for a A Million Open Door! by John Bames (Millennium (Orion]) building site and that the dead have quite a bit to say about this. Ammoniu by Nicola Griffith (Grafton [HarpeiCollinsJ) HarperColllns have just published the second volume in their series Vllrt by Jeff Noon (Ringpull) of the Asimov complete short stories (£16.99). The stories included SIt(JW Crash by Neal Stephenson (Roc (Penguin]) are: ~NOl: finaW, '"The Hazing~. ~Dealh Sentence", "Blind Alley~. Iron Drag(HI's Daugll/ilr The by Michael Swanwick (Millennium ~EvidenceM. '"The Red Queen's Race~, "Day of the Hunters~, '"The (Orion» Deep~, "'The Martian Way". '"The Monkey's finger~. "'The Singing 1M BroUn God by David lindell (HarperCollins). Bell~, '"The Talking Stone~, ~Eac:h an Explorer", ~Let'sGet Together~, 1be judges are Mark Plummer and Maureen Speller for me Science -Pitt de Foie Gras-, "Galley Slave~, "Lenny", ~A Loint of Paw-."A Fiction Foundation. Calie Cary and Chris Amies for the British Statue for Father", - Anniversary~, ~Obituary~. "Rain. Rain Go Away-. Science Fiction Association, Dr John Gribbin and Dr Jeff Kipling for "Star Light-, "Founding Father", 'The Key", '"The Billiard Ball", the International Science Policy Foundation "Exile to Hell", "Key Item", "Feminine Intuition", 'The Greatest Asset", "Mirror Image", "Take a Match", "Light Verse". "Stranger in The winning title will be selected in late April. The Award, an Paradise", 'That11Jou Art Mindful of Him", 'The Life and Times or engraved bookend and a cheque for £1,000, generously donated by Multivac~,"TIIe Bicentennial Man~, "Marching In". "Old-fashioned" Arthur C. Clark.e, will be presented by a guest celebrily and Fred and '"The Tercentenary Incident". Clarke, Anhur's brolher al a ceremony in London. In the Introduction, Isaac Asimov wrote: "Sometimes slories arise The 1993 winner of this Award was Marge Piercy for Body o/Glass because other people make some casual remark.. Such stories as 'LeI's (Michael Joseph). Get Together' and 'Rain, Rain, Go Away' are examples. I don't fed guilty about lifting ideas from the statements of other people. They're Publishing News not: going to go anything with them, so why shouldn't I? "But the point is thai slories arise out of anything. You just have to Bantam: Events in The Relurn o/Ihe Jed; happened five years ago keep your eyes and ears open and your imagInation worting. Once and the fragile New Republic now rcels from the attacks of Grand during a train trip, my first wife asked me where I got my ideas from. Admiral Thrawn, who has not. only rallied the remaining imperial I said 'From anywhere. I can write a story aboutlhis train trip'. And I forces. but has driven the rebe15 back. with an abominable new started writing it longhand. That story does not appear in tbis technology: clone soldiers. !l's time for Timothy labn's Slor Wars collection, however.- Vo/~ 3: 1M lAst Conlnl4lld where the Republic's only hope lies in A P/Qg~ 0/ Angels by Sheri S.
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