THEFIRSTWORLDCONINASIA! L.A.con IV 64 th World Science Fiction Convention
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Class Schedule: Membership: Wednesday August 23 rd thru $175 until July 1, 2006 Sunday August 27, 2006 Classes conveniently scheduled before Labor Day so more educators and families can attend Campus Housing: Hilton Anaheim is $109 Academy Location: and Anaheim Marriott is Anaheim Convention Center $99 confirmed room rates Anaheim, California, USA for single/double occupancy Earth, Terran System,Western Spiral Ann
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04 - Information thef i rst Aug30 - Sept3z2007 61? Worldcon 09 - From Chair 2007^8^300-97330 in Japan 11 - Sakyo Komatsu MR 65th YOKOHAMA 15 - A Letter from David Brin Science Fit at Pacifico Yokohama tf 'V F • 7 *J > Z)' 5 Convention 16 - David Brin the 46th Japa t: y F • y1J > Science Ficti 18 - Yoshitaka Amano Convention 21 - Michael Whelan
23 - Takumi Shibano
27 - Japan Rail Pass j Rm 28 - Staff List 7mU7F AuthorGoH ArtistGoH 29 - Results of the Haiku Contest
Sakyo Komatsu Yoshitaka Amano 32 - Pass Along Funds § David Brin Michael Whelan 34 - A Sight to see near Narita Airport I^Wlll TTd’-f'vF -J'UD 36 - Awards S F ICOIA< FanGoH 40 - What you can do in Japan MEOl'C Takumi Shibano 42 - Rates, AD Rattes • Ja^I>-F Manga p-J-=j3-<6OkWN V>7j' • Cover Illustration: Advertisers : ya, 02 - L.A.con IV (2006 ^7-Jl/ FZ)» To Naotoshilnoue 10 - Kansas 2009 Bid To b : 14 - Chicago 2008 Bid 26 - Anticipation 2009 Bid g^^±^L«L7cT>/^-^,TEAL 35 - Denver 2008 Bid £ To o £ 0 BEKxW T - > 3 ya (T 43 - Archon 31 (2007 (C/v 44-LOCUS (D-*X)
‘These are explanations for Japanese readers. _ Nippon2007 Progress Report 2 May, 2006 Nippon2007/JASFIC Nippon2007 / JASFIC 4-20-5-604, Mure, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-0002 JAPAN T 181 - 0002 MwSPHIMSML 4-20-5-604 #±75 [email protected] CONTACT US http://www.nippon2007.org North America: UK: Europe: Australia and NZ: Peggy Rae Sapienza Mike (Sparks) I ne Vincent Docherty Craig Macbride Nippon2007 68 Crichton Avenue Koninginnegracht 75a PO Box 274 Post Office Box 314 Burton Stone Lane 2514AH Den Haag World Trade Centre, Vic, 8005 Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 York, GREAT BRITAIN, YO30 I 1 Netherlands Australia [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 3 INFORMATION
Dealers^ Room bonded zone, we are choosing a cus care service. Under Japanese law, foreign deal toms broker who can do the customs In order to satisfy Japanese child ers may bring merchandise and sell it paperwork inexpensively. We would care regulations, we need to find li in Japan. There may be customs du stress that each dealer must take re censed childminders. We are look ties on some items. The rates of duty sponsibility for the proper declara ing for workers who can provide on T-shirts are completely different tion of goods. child care at the Nippon 2007 venue. from those on accessories. There are Japan is a cash-based economy. Five companies have expressed an no duties on books. The dealer must Payment from Japanese fans will be interest in the task as of this time. declare all products in order to as made either using a credit card or Please contact us to let us know sess the proper duty. cash. Nippon 2007 will facilitate the age of each child who will travel We are working to create a exchanging yen for other currencies with you and attend the Worldcon. “bonded zone” (similar to free trade during, and immediately after, the zones in the United States) where Worldcon. Art Show customs duty will only be required The Nippon 2007 Worldcon The Nippon 2007 Worldcon Art on the merchandise that is sold, rath hopes that many dealers will bring Show welcomes works of art from er than on that which is brought into merchandise for the Japanese (and overseas. the country. A Nippon 2007 World- other) fans to purchase. We are having discussions with con sub-committee has begun the the customs authorities about the application for this, in consultation Child Care & rules for importing art for display with the Japanese authorities, and Children's and/or sale. The current sticking the final decision should have been Programming point is that, when art goes to auc reached by the time of Progress Re tion, the actual selling price will not We will have children’s program port Three. have been determined when the art items for the Nippon 2007 Worldcon. Whether or not we can have a entered the country. Of course, if we We are also planning to have a child
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As men e_sisetsu/kaigi/center.html from the green room to the stage will tioned in the Dealer’s Room section, be measured and the dimensions will more information will be available The stage is 8 x 15 meters or ap be posted on the website and printed in our next report. proximately 26 x 49 feet. in future Progress Reports. Professional lighting is suspend Masquerade ed more than 5 meters/16 feet above Hotel Reservations Because many Japanese fans love the stage. The stage has curtained In Japan, it is customary for a Worldcon Masquerades, the Nippon wings, so entrants can wait out of hotel to give preferential treatment 2007 Committee, in consultation sight of the audience. Some addi to the travel agents it is in constant with the L.A.con IV Masquerade tional space on the stage level will contact with, rather than to people Director, has will sponsor a special be available to store large pieces. If like us who would be dealing with prize as part of the 2006 Worldcon you need access to this space, please the hotel for the first time. We have Masquerade. Nippon 2007 will pres let the masquerade director know in entrusted negotiations with the ho ent the winner of the L.A.con IV advance. tel to an official travel agency, Nip Masquerade Best in Show with a Right now, no plans currently pon Travel Agency (Nippon Ryoko, Japanese Wedding Gown. exist for any equipment to be on the http://www.nta.co.jp/english/index. In 2007, the Nippon World masquerade stage. A podium will be htm). The hotel rate should be con con masquerade will be held in the on the traditional stage right. firmed by L.A.con IV. We expect Pacifico Yokohama hall. The hall The main green room is 80 square that hotel reservations will be avail has theater style seating for 1,000 meters or approximately 860 square able during this year’s Worldcon. people. The layout of the hall can be feet. 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Discussions are (Dinner Cruising Party) Dale Mazzolia Columbus, OH currently underway with Star Alli John Randolph Los Gatos, CA ance Network, the group to which 3 September Eric Robinson Hollis, CA ANA belongs. We may be able to 11:00 Closing ceremonies announce the result of these discus Nippon 2007 Plans for sions in PR3. Hugo Award/Seiun Award Participants - Special The nominating forms for the Announcements Major Events Hugo and Seiun Awards will be The tentative schedule for the mailed in January, 2007. All mem Welcome Cards major events such as the Opening bers of L.A.con IV and of Nippon Welcome Cards allow foreign Ceremony, Hugo Award Ceremony, 2007 as of January 31. 2007 will tourists to receive special discounts Seiun Award Ceremony, Masquer be eligible to nominate for the 2007 for lodgings, food, museum admis ade, and Closing Ceremony are: Hugo Awards. All members of Nip sions, souvenirs, transport, etc. pon 2007, as members of the 46th This system is available only in 30 August Japanese National Convention, are certain municipalities. Right now, 19:00 Opening ceremonies eligible to nominate for the Seiun twelve areas issue the Welcome Awards. Cards, including Hokkaido, Aomo 1 September ri Prefecture, Narita City and sur 19:00 deadline for "Site Selection" Please Help Us Find roundings, Tokyo Metro area, Fuji/ 18:00 Hugo Award Ceremony these Lost Souls: Hakone, Setouchi area (the Japan Tara Baker Reynoldsburg, OH Setouchi Welcome Coupon), and 9/3(8) Katie Grudy Grove City, OH V'£To 11:00 Dale Mazzolia Columbus, OH F0aT77$HJ:81^cToT$©£ John Randolph Los Gatos, CA Ttf. ^THTkz&TZAbTtATH^T Eric Robinson Hollis, CA To Japan National Tourist Organization© ti-tFMSM©/ = T- b Web+FT bliTx/b^A*-F^fe. El ©W^2007T 18 0 £TO LA. 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Some tion in Space?) and lots of ideas in More information about the Wel of the English-language program between. come Cards, and travel in Japan in items will be translated into Japa And that’s one of the areas where general, appears on the Japan Na nese and some of the Japanese-lan- you come in. tional Tourist Organization website guage programs will be translated Programming is looking for (http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/). into English. We plan to ask people ideas and information from poten who will make presentations to pro tial program participants earlier than GuruNabi (a contraction of vide us with the text so that it can be most Worldcons. The joy (chal "Gourmet Navigation") translated before the Worldcon and lenge) of producing a program in This site is about Japanese eating made available to the audience. We two languages means that it’s going establishments. There’s information also expect that there will be some to take us longer to accomplish some in English as well, and some places panels that include native speakers of tasks than it does for single-language also offer discount coupons on the both languages with ongoing transla Worldcons, and the best way to get it site (http://www.gnavi.co.jp/en/). tion of both languages. The details all done in time is to start earlier. of dual-language items are one of the There are some unique resources Programing many concepts that the Program Di available in Japan, and while we can’t Nippon 2007 is excited about in vision is thinking about. track them all down, we’re certainly troducing fans from all over the rest English language programming able to follow-up on suggestions. Let of the world to the Japanese science will include the gamut of program us know what interests you! fiction community and vice-versa. ming that Worldcons have come to We’ll be at various conventions in Many of those opportunities will expect. Topics will range from aard North America and the UK, clearly happen within Programming. vark (Animals in Space? Traditions identified by Nippon 2007 Program- c 5 LTereteLT vLJgv' 5®?) 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This aroused a desire in me to IStio L ic, tit L#7c0£0 tell the world about Japanese Science 9 £ i ft l 7c o r-r < Fiction while the people who can Nippon2OO70 A t fcMWh speak about it most vividly from H*0SF££ Hiroaki Inoue, Nippon2007 Executive Committee Chairman Kansas City in 2009 A Bid for the 67th World Science Fiction Convention Labor Day Weekend-September 3-7,2009 We're back, and ready to bring you a Worldcon with: Great Facilities A Convenient Midwest Location Attractions for Everyone The Best Barbecue in the Known Universe Service Mark notice: "World Science Fiction Society," "WSFS," "World Science Fiction Convention," "NASFiC," "Hugo" and "WorldCon" are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. The benefits listed will be received if you vote in 2007 and we win. Presupport: $20 US; £10 Preoppose: $25 US; £13 €15; ¥2089 €19; ¥2611 supporting membership supporting membership 1/2 credit for conversion 1/2 credit for conversion Friend of the Library: $50 US; £26 Patron: $100 US; £52 €38; ¥5223 €76; ¥10446 attending membership attending membership listing in program book listing in program book; a bid t-shirt & more For Up to Date Information on All Aspects of the Bid, see our Website: www.midamericon.org Questions? Comments? Just want to chat? Our email address is: [email protected] Make checks (in U.S. funds) payable to Kansas City in 2009 and mail to: Kansas City 2009, P.O. Box 414175, Kansas City, MO 64141-4175 thef i rstWorldconi n Japan | GOH Sakyo Komatsu GiantofJapaneses F: SakyoKomatsu by. AritsuneToyota 'Jv Aritsune Toyota is Japanese SF, detective novels writer, essayist, was born in 1938. He is also working as a professor at The University Translated by JASFIC of Shimane. He takes east asian history and Japanese SF geopolitics as objects of study. writer Aritsune S F gEHWtil31938^££n0B*0SFfl^, ftSfT Toyota reveal the charm of Sakyo Komatsu, his works, and its impact on Japanese society. SFftSUDMflW JSfiTSo the 65th World Science Fiction Convention & 2T>7 the 46th Japan Science Fiction Convention Sakyo Komatsu is renowned This contest was jointly sponsored campaign instead of surrendering. for his encyclopedic knowledge and by Toho Studios, home to such films This story was the beginning of strong memory. The scope of his such as Godzilla, and Hayakawa Li so-called “parallel world”-themed inquisitiveness is immeasurable. brary, publishers of SFMagazine, the SF. This certainly was one of the Through this curiosity he has ac Japanese edition of The Magazine of groundbreaking ideas of sixties SF, cumulated an enormous amount of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Kom and it demonstrated Komatsu’s liter knowledge and stored it away like atsu’s contest entry received no more ary leadership, resulting in a major some human computer. than an honorable mention. Toho, trend in Japanese SF. In the thirty It is well-known that Komatsu being concerned more with ideas for years since “Peace on Earth” was graduated with a degree in Italian films, made only brief comments on written, Japanese SF experienced a Literature from Kyoto University. Komatsu’s highly literate story. The speculative military history boom. However Komatsu’s depth of knowl assessment of the magazine editors, Among writers of this genre are a edge, no doubt through his academic on the other hand, was lengthy. SF generation who have read “Peace on background, does not end with lit Magazine soon asked Komatsu to Earth”. erature. From astronomy above to edit the prizewinning stories; even Komatsu did not write in a simi geography below, and all subjects in though the ideas in them were good, lar vein again. It would have been a between, Komatsu’s passion for in the quality of composition was too shame for Komatsu to waste his tal tellectual pursuits has yet to be satis low to publish in the magazine as ents continuing to explore the same fied. they were. themes. Although his significance is in Komatsu's name spread beyond The next turning point for Kom disputable now, to say that Sakyo this small group following the sec atsu, after publishing stories one af Komatsu’s talent was recognized ond Japanese SF Contest, when he ter the other in SF Magazine, was from the start would be incorrect. shared the top prize with future Na- his entry into mainstream publish He moved through various jobs after oki Prize-winner Ryo Hanmura for ing when he began offering stories graduating from Kyoto University, the story “ (Chi-ni to general readers through publish including a stint as a reporter for a Wa Heiwa Wo) Peace on Earth”. ers that didn’t specialize in science nuclear energy trade journal as well Just how visionary a writer Kom fiction. as writing manzai comedy routines. atsu is can be clearly understood Komatsu’s role in the growth Komatsu started to make a name through this story. Set during the fi of Japanese SF was significant, and for himself in 1959 or 1960 when he nal days of the Second World War, in its early days he made two great entered the first Japanese SF Contest. the Japanese continued a resistance contributions. One was the paper- S F ny-77. bT#>So C^WiXbA So tfb^ia zr'>*vAHT^AM^®L. W* 1963TT&JOifiAHfifi7 A o A © 7 y— • 7> F • A Ah So OHABIK rs MLTl' ddftZA £aiSW 'L'Zn G A L A 0 A A o o awiioomfrAbaAo < (TWTfeSZm. IBijy-rXbW. d jA^'oTipoAo t. H^mLT^iac9o toAUiWWcOOLT^AC^. /Js -Blc = rai»LfrllKL%AoA0 L& Li5 AOT#>30 a lt. H*S FO&AlC&fcoTL d Welcomes the newest city to host a Worldcon, Yokohama, to the Worldcon community, from the city which hosted the second Worldcon. Chicago has a long history of convention planning and 2 0 0 8 =1 'y H > £ Fees running and looks forward L^lz LT& to the opportunity to play Yen US$ >9£To host to the 2008 mm b'Vlx convention. ^'y^-'y^a yV Chicago Worldcon Bid Chicago Worldcon Bid P.O. Box 13 P.O. Box 13 Skokie, IL 60076 Skokie, IL 60076 www.chicagoworldcon7.org www.chicagoworldcon7.org Committee: Chair. Dave McCarty, Treasurer Tom Veal, Secretary: Raymond Cyrus, Hotels Mark Herrup, bA-E-zu, Membership TammyCoxen, Publications Steven H Silver. Corresponding Secretary Shelly Rhoades. Elizabeth Bishop, Madrene Bradford, Joni Boll Dashoff, iOS-& ^y-«P—X.^y-y’^.ES/a $z7*, Todd Dashoff. Donald Eastlake. Jill Eastlake, kT ?Kk-y’77 5rK7t-E,S>3X. FU/u*s b y b’«^'>a 7, FitzSimmmons, Glenn Glazer. Alexia Hebei. Sherry Katz- F±zuKm' — * bW ?, ^zk*^ — x b ^rt'?,KT 7^ yVy^yX, Karp, Dina Krause. George Krause. Sydnie Krause, Ben 'fyy'WV- y-« y, Liberman. Barry Lyn-Waitsman, Marcy Lyn-Waitsman. 7 7-7^, y y- v^y. Kathleen Meyer, Laura Paskman-Syms, Kurt Sakeada. ■?—>—y 'y v~^y,^r^-y-y y* , p— Marah Searte-Kovacevic. Joseph "Unde Vlad" Stockman, John Syms, Barb Van Tilburg. Ray Van Tilburg. A ex von /<—y Hz/t.—s 4zX»— Thom. Brent Warren “Worldcon,” “WSFS,” “World Science Fiction Convention,” and “Worldcon,” “WSFS," “World Science Fiction Convention,” L/"C, “World Science Fiction Society” 13 “World Science Fiction Society” are service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. •c-to thef i rstWorldconi n Japan The Nippon 2007 the world's "centers of gravity." Es help persuade more North American Committee is pleased pecially in the realm of ideas. Might and European authors to fly over, Nippon 2007 offer a special oppor especially if other Asian events oc to share an Open Let tunity to explore and expand this curred during the weeks leading up ter from David Brin: theme? to Yokohama. We'd love to see this I do not want to interfere... but Above all, what better way to happen! then, Californians are not shy. (They spread messages of progress and I cannot express the excitement always speak out!) So let me ask peace? How better to overcome an that my family and I feel about re - might it be a good idea to involve cient animosities than by presenting turning to Japan, in order to help cel other Asian nations in a 2007 sum the huge vista of future time? Do any ebrate the 65th World Science Fiction mer of celebration and reflection on of our petty rivalries matter, against Convention, Nippon 2007, in beauti the future? such a vast perspective, that only SF ful and exciting Yokohama. Anyone Are other people interested in can offer? who's been paying attention knows a theme of "Asia and the Future"? Science fiction serves as a pow that Japan has become a world cen Especially exploring Asia as a new erful international medium for ideas. ter of future-oriented thinking, not center of SF? It encourages people to transcend only in technology and science but But imagine how much greater short-term animosity by looking up in fields of imagination, like anime, the convention might seem if it cul ward and outward, toward more dis film and science fiction literature. minated "SF and The Future" events tant horizons. I am excited by any In preparing for this wonderful across a vast continent where tens opportunity to share the wonder. event, I found myself pondering the of millions are discovering - every long overdue occasion of a Worldcon day - how technology and forward With cordial regards, in Asia and how it may reflect for thinking can transform lives, un ward, upon the 21st Century. Any cover dangers and inspire hope for a David Brin body can see that the coming de better tomorrow? www.davidbrin.com cades will feature profound shifts in As an added bonus, this might www.davidbrin.net An Asian Summer of SF? Translated by JASFIC SHIR : ^1C®^O W^45l Nippon 2007 (i, COL ££©-9^9417/ 0 AO, TLT COf-vmL. WTOC^giJM 3-n>yA0(T^7ct>£$^W< £9 13 ^TOOTWT'LJ; 9fr? W5-W17j:5M L41t^/bo WimiZ Lfr A 0 bit, W L Wl©y -t- L, TcfrB^V'oT* V7*4/Ci7AkJ:i*J MTc&O, A, # k u T v c £ tfttl AA^OHlA &7cW, ULC r!) Tc^Lfwiiow^r - 2007 © ^6 5 07-4/ gO^Hfc^© flUOTA'T 0 ? JltTO^OMv^i F S F > “Nippon 2007” ©4o ©g|^#$}Aty©tiMv^x.T^ 0 h MltiT3ttA&Ma LT U(fi- s F Oil'll 7 y 7 -t % 0 tb <" 6 X i' <5 % T < £097—v ^x>X7T^'>3>^u©74’t7 Ttf£Us>T03 Brin's work has 5jie>#uA(i0&0o 7'J >0 2 Mod' ,Ui f X T F • cz T > y. (Startide own charm, Rising)) It, but they are all Li-d-H a a l □. y t’t o iSij y l /to 6 a ti u±mmw35 great novels. So, ft, 20W:^T. where should ^nii’MV0g?tW0AfiIW we begin? Here Illi LT^WS 37c*'yV >0 Tom Whitmore i?§o fcT yj yiiliotb L, #rx«L£-tt3 ffnjznj introduce Brin's (■w yj y%, a# £ g s ti & lzLT0307c5d<, ®0^A±S work to us. Come 7^0$$7cLJSdo yj>lt. AWW L&li% C t t 5 L ff LTI and see Brin in L, ^Tc^oLW^ltW, Yokohama! 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Susumu Ishii, book editor of "Chimera" and "Vampire hunter D" , is looking back at the “Why not ask Amano-san to be r y 7 x b & /u tc ' c £ -e/ufrj the illustrator for Chimera?” Baku- 777v£W • nfL» >9—X dawn of Amano's ©$1^ r«^¥^vY7j ©lOfr± san (Mr. Baku Yumemakura) said to froTc^t, W&^liO^dBoTco career. me, when he finished the script for 1982 WJM©£ C©-WfrX “Genjuu Shonen Chimera (Phantom ff£^£©E£V'©£ofrft£#o7co r*?-T5j Beast Boy Chimera),” the first book -rXnXX'Xs LT 7 9-©Y 7 in his Chimera series. It was an early X b L-7-©lfi#!F&^7ckffr 9 Teo summer day in 1982 and I was about 7co 1981 W ¥-111.W© ITS F7fr»j to have a close encounter with Ama- fb7T7T b • 7—;bXj ©jg^% no-san. ETTm^A,© «Agm 79- X-V’VTfr/b • A 7 SI >7 'vV At that time, Amano-san had t) 7 XW©f$^^r Tic^OfrTIW T© bySusumu Ishii resigned from Tatsunoko Produc 7co tion (Animation Studio), to become aw©-m r-^ a freelance illustrator. In 1981, he ^T^LoT^7c0 jyjJ IW7 7X bTeo7c0 «0L7cl\ T<" Translated bvJASFIC started “Twilight Worlds” in SF IC^-pSoTcfr, 77>X7-©T7Xb Magazine, published by Hayakawa. His illustrations also appeared on feo/to e©rtic^*7ct©frf?iTfen. W7©Wi!i{W&W±A£© Susumu Ishii is a book editor making much the covers of some paperbacks, such SFTJ59, W#'K contribution toward Japanese SF. In 1980s, He as the Daimakai Series (Great Dev TcoTcfrGTc'o made a lot of science fiction books with young ildom) by Fumio Tanaka and the E^±fro7cY7Xb^M7cLt. talented writers such as Baku Yumemakura, # £ & < £ fr£ fr L fr o 7c © 7c L T <" L ft Hideyuki Kikuchi, and Yuichi Sasamoto, etc. books of Michael Moorcock. Following up on Baku-san’s fro Teo r^*^-©Y7X icuKi/t. request, I looked at “Daimakai.” ©O^frSb, ^-7b-y£l£t>T£ “Those are fascinating illustrations,” $1 £ ®$ n7c 1 fe© Y 7 X b fc thefi rstWorldconi n Japan I thought. I preferred them to his il Hunter D)” 1.1 asked Amano-san to would draw that kind of illustration. lustrations for Chimera. But I had one draw the illustrations for ‘D’. But the finished artwork was su small anxiety: they were all fantasy In 12090 A.D., Vampires, known premely beautiful! Kikuchi-san was illustrations. The Chimera series is as The Nobility, have dominated knocked out because the illustration a martial arts SF youth novel whose humans for three hundred years. was beyond his imagination. I said to hero was a high-school student. Their power is waning, but they are the boggled Kikuchi-san, “This book When I saw the finished illus still a large threat to humans. Only will sell well.” And exactly so... trations, I realized that my anxiety a Hunter “D” could control them. When thinking about early was unnecessary. The cover art was When constructing this fantastic works by Amano-san, you must not original. I had never seen that kind world, Kikuchi-san used the images stop at “Chimera” and “D”. I asked of illustration before. It suggested and tropes of a spaghetti western 2. him to draw for other series, includ a phantom beast inside the hero’s “D” has a supreme beauty, but he is ing “Alien series” by Kikuchi-san, body. Monotone illustrations com essentially a hunter and vagabond but for me, Amano-san’s world has a posed from lines and areas of only wandering the world. I think Kiku base line that began with “Chimera” dark ink. No use of halftones. Those chi-san predicted that Amano-san and “D”. In 1984, Asahi Sonorama were heroes under cherry trees, talk published Amano-san’s first portfo ing. I felt happy at the chance to meet lio “Maten (Devils’ Heaven)”. When and work with this unique illustrator. I conceptualized this book, I thought “Genjuu Shonen Chimera” was pub the main emphasis should be “Chi lished that July, and sales were very mera” and “D”. So I asked Yume- good. makura-san and Kikuchi-san to In September of that same year, write new short stories of “Chimera” Kikuchi-san (Mr. Hideyuki Kikuchi) and “D”, and I asked Amano-san to published his first novel, “Makai- draw four illustrations for each story. Toshi Shinjuku (Shinjuku, Dae It was a grand slam! Reiichi Kuki mon City),” and his second novel, floating on a pool of blood, D run- “Kyuuketsuki Hantaa ‘D’(Vampire 14, 5 ±AAkA^O$ 0 M147VW A AO n b-t 7° if a v 'fimzf e o o £ t th $ nr v' a b£t£A, mAA&>&^oZnttA$ ©Wo 7Z b -chili (fmW?) ^AtV'^Oofco rOT'T'^4- LA$l'A-blOgOBJTJooAo AO v$7j o&xj, ^LTm2mm iwci oimtT "Moten (Deavils' Heaven)" t^LA0 by Yosihitaka Amano |n]T9 WV/vvM 1985 MfiJ LfcHOZEj 0 b • ¥7' • tt-tLTWh, L/to ¥ S n £ fW fc M M T A If £ Zu 0 & £ 0 7 @^8^-0 0a$ft£Wo o A ffoWfco L ^.©XWTAIf^ZUi^O^ ft, 7 7 9 *0L'Cfr0WHilfif|ibtlT030A or 7-;bb'TcoA0 r/|^j n, EM0v 9 ¥ >TW0«W "Genju Shonen Chimera" by Baku Yumemakura published by Asahi SONORAMA Ltd. ti, D0^0H(iT-iz:t>i|-.£oT®jC 5 L L ion. >7bmimB7?y* Alf^Zu(i7l/-7Y7^v¥-v thefi rstWorldconi n Japan | GOH Michael Whelan Whatkindof treeisft? A novelist has her own image about almost everything in her novel. Can an artist truly depict them? Yes, Whelan can. •Z?- zJSLfJ O-r51r©-T5ZI- by C.J.Cherryh Translated by JASFIC Michael Whelan and I started out BO1 ft S £ & C 46 T l' £ -To -£ t frfr C.J.Cherryh is an American writer of sci nearly together, but he beat me into e>r. i^^DAwy7• *>>t- ence fiction and fantasy. Many of her books the field by a few publications and a mand of shadow, figure, and design, creative—he’s been a positive influ able to go easily where he leads. that this was one of the good ones. ence on the field, on other artists, on Congratulations to Michael, and And I knew the names of many art the writers he works with. He’s just my very best wishes. ists, but I didn’t know this one. a great personality and a sincerely I was lucky enough to have him good human being. He shares what set the images on many of my series, he knows—having absolutely no Gate, Chanur, Foreigner—and on in need to worry that anyone will be dependent books; and whenever Don or Betsy Wollheim would tell me that “Michael’s doing the cover,” I could just breathe a sigh of relief. The man just doesn’t have mis-cues. And he reads, bless him. I recall one mys terious recorded phone call which, without preamble or sign-off, simply asked: “What kind of tree is it?” Now, I scratched my head over that one. Then I recalled that Michael was doing a cover for me, and the book involved, yes, trees. So I phoned up his answering system, said, “It’s an oak,” and hung up,knowing that the artist, as peculiar as any writer deep in the throes of creation, wouldn’t even miss “Hello, how are you?” I was so pleased on meeting him to know that he is just as nice as he is KoWmUfco C k V -X -Gate, Chanur, Foreigner- L [=1 Till IS 0^0^ < '74 — • T/LMA c me £ O W T 9 < * y "DRAGONFLIGHT" by Anne McCaffrey published by HYAKAWA PUB «O0Ufco LISHING, INC. with autographs of McCaffrey and Whelan. • • • 'ffclz! ■mm LTco • • 0yyX;i/#iaj0WTL7c • • |c»fl0*R*0?Jo £ LTco ^0 f0< fAj fiWbm LTio &«0 n&AT&Ad C Lfco ^^ofcAWo ®«®0^ 22 the li rstWorldconi n Japan GOH Takumi Shibano LEARNINGTHELANGUAGEPart2of thellSAadventures 5—“ud’-BZ/’V—-j ofTakumiandSachiko Shibano Mr. and Mrs. Shibano's arrival in the US. That was only the beginning of their exchange experience. SF showed it could be best tool for intercultural communication. 1968 S ( BSW 43 * ). tlfcB*A SF □ JO • ©iiffi IS ? 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Many additional travel agen Within 3 months of the day you cies that sell JR Pass exchange orders plan to start using your JR Pass, buy are listed, by geographic region, on an exchange order for the JR Pass the official JR Pass web site, http:// from an authorized agency. www.japanrailpass.net. Choose your language, then click on a link in the 2. After you arrive in Japan: left column that says something like Bring the exchange order and “where exchange orders are sold”, your passport to the JR Information then choose your geographic region and Ticket Office at Narita Airport to view a list of authorized agencies. or to one of the JR Travel Service If you’re coming to Yokohama As of this writing, the cost Centers, such as the one at Tokyo for Nippon 2007, consider taking an for the different types of JR passes Station. A JR travel agent will help extra week (or two or three) to see in yen are as follows. Generally one you trade the exchange order for a more of Japan. Perhaps the most eco yen equals one penny. (Current ex JR Pass. The agent will ask you what nomical way to do this is to obtain a change rates and calculators for the date you want to start using the pass. Japan Rail Pass. Similar to a Eurail- yen versus other world currencies The pass starts being valid on that pass, a JR Pass is good for unlimited can be found at http://www.oanda. date, and stops being valid 7, 14, or travel, at your own pace, on almost com or your favorite currency ex 21 consecutive days later, depend all inter-city trains throughout Japan, change site.) ing on the period of time you chose. as well as on some JR bus lines and Be careful - once you’ve chosen the the Miyajima ferry. The JR (Japan Ordinary (coach class) JR Pass starting date, you can’t change it! Rail) Group, which has a network Adult Child (6 to 11 years old) of railways all over Japan, sells this 7-day 28,300 yen 14,150 yen Here’s the official web site for special pass to people who come to 14-day 45,100 yen 22,550 yen the Japan Rail Pass. Information Japan from foreign countries for the 21-day 57,700 yen 28,850 yen about the JR Pass is available here in purpose of sight-seeing. English, French, German, Korean, Since the purpose of the JR Pass Green (first class) JR Pass Chinese, and Japanese. http://www. is to encourage foreign tourists to Adult Child (6 to 11 years old) japanrailpass.net/ enjoy exploring and getting to know 7-day 37,800 yen 18,900 yen Here’s a website for Japan Rail, Japan, this special pass is only avail 14-day 61,200 yen 30,600 yen run by the New York office of the Ja able to travelers coming from out 21-day 79,600 yen 39,800 yen pan Railways Group. Information on side Japan. You can get an Ordinary this site is in English only. (coach class) or Green (first class) JR Most JR trains have Ordinary Pass valid for 7, 14, or 21 days. class cars; many long-distance trains http://www.japanrail.com/ Only people who have “Tempo also have Green-class cars, which rary Visitor” stamped in their pass cost more than the Ordinary cars. Locations to purchase the Rail ports can purchase the Japan Rail If you want to use Green cars a lot, Pass are listed at http://www.japan- Pass. you’ll want a Green-class JR Pass. If railpass.net/eng/en005.html. Tourists must purchase an “ex you think you might only want to use change order” in their home coun a Green car once or so, you might be tries. fine just getting an Ordinary-class The exchange order can be pur JR pass and paying the Green car chased up to three months prior to surcharge. exchanging it. The exchange order Getting a JR Pass does require &34fr£>Nippon2007lC# must be presented to a JR Rail Of some advance planning, but not '££02 L 7c & ficer (there is an office at Narita ?7^^— the 65ih World Science Fiction Convention & 1lDD»n2T>7 the 46th Japan Science Fiction Convention COMMITTEEMEMBERS WWI 7b y F • Z-y^-Vb Mail Coordinator Bill Jensen Uffl ft ftMHHUg v-7-7-F> Translation Manager Yuichiro Sakuta AS W- A-ty • >7?— b> Translation Atsushi Morioka -7ISJ XErfe -ItJK^SA A-7-=bZ-^Exy^ Katsumi Kushimoto Elim JO iitlWllA vY7 (XA-7X) bx- Trevor Knudsen SiE KMiftJSA tfb-tbb • F7*xy Akira linuma 7 3 -/ • —'7 fcrti&TiSMRSA 7bY7-v777ZF Sean Leonard ill RMi X7y7 yy FU a- • A • Z7’AX Leslie J. 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By avocation he is a lawyer, by inclination Z3 ' S a science fiction fan. Translated by JASFIC 5ffi^0g£A9JICl/Cl'-S77’7-5-l'7-o-TA ,JX}HKBK(19tt$BA)g|)0^7X'£S^A§jS®)T:bJO6nTl'So AWIJ:#iS±T. ®D$dUASF077’ : SFSPS^ >j£K)IZ^nUTl'5o No Worldcon bid conducted a or objective world, should meet at set). haiku contest before. But no Japa the end of the first or the end of the □ >ax b owfcck trmfm nese bid campaigned for a Worldcon second line. Nippon20070JtAKSA, A'- • U - • A before, either. Of course there was a Ex yy 7 Tfe3O WPJ!n HA#^k LTOffiAKi, O-tooftfWl haiku contest. 7co HA^AHL, 5-£lAte3*U£lfflEL7c □omarct, wjTAgmm miSTc'oTco WJT'Wlfc tttW, FlO 7—A A)TII-'ik7 C £V'5A—/KCt AXb&^LT'cE tkkftvx, LfrU HAA - o O o - 7 - A K n y # A fill L 7c e L t> £ 7c, % v >0 7c7c.WiiSt t(Jh An y A X b liS o 7co The contest did not choose to in Drunken autumn moon Pours sweet streams of golden wine I did not judge or enter the con voke these rules. You can read up And the river drinks test, but bear a lot of the blame for it. if you like: try R. Hass, The Essen I was asked to report the results. It tial Haiku (1994); D. Keene, World ESTHER FRIESNER was an offer I could not refuse. Within Walls (1976); R.H. Blyth, Haiku (1949). & fi (JMu □ y x b E L 7c 0, to work by the painter’s rule of Tc-oTcO LTtutti&l'ZA MMA5 drawing a brushstroke to show xxX— • 7y v'yy— where the mountain isn’t. They uyy-7, bom^k*- bA^JOId^ft The form of haiku on a page can Teo etiti®Tb^v>tem7£0 may be great or small. They may be interesting. In Japanese, the 5-7-5 joke or grieve or gleam. Haiku are about four hundred syllable rhythm is so natural that a years old. In Japan that is not very haiku can be written in a single line; IW, r-tyz • A7- 7>y-j long. Neither are haiku. 5-7-5OW®Z)'b this allows no enjambment — an £3, »£&O37©im -$T®V' English-language term for making a IW±, HAT ZA iliZ>^l«fM< Tc^KSOTO-10 phrase run across the break of lines A 5 ck 9E $ 15 5 n § W-J # & § o » U f$ A in writing. There are no capital let #tOT&3Zrt Lti&V'U ZntolW'tOZr The haiku is a kind of poetry to tLW'o 7a-AZ)'t LWLBJM ters, and there may be no punctua rouse anyone’s sense of wonder. Its un&v'b, tion. We can use all of these in Eng three unrhymed lines, of 5-7-5 syl Mi, CWHA&m lish. WfcVX, lables, communicate a moment. Be Bs^n/cv'o HABSTti, cause haiku are so short, they tend to R. Hass, The Essential Haiku 57-5©iWJXWTt®OT, W work by the painter’s rule of draw R] (i i H T B ft ti 3 (5 E 7co fij m 15 & v x, (1994); D. Keene, World Within 7 WZntiTc^ ing a brushstroke to show where the Walls (1976); R.H. Blyth, Haiku A£Ati%<, Al mountain isn’t. They may be great (1949). or small. They may joke or grieve or § c n 5 A^T WUT £ § o The administrator and chief gleam. judge of the contest was Peggy Rae In Japanese literature haiku - o O o - Sapienza, North America agent for naturally have a host of rules, for Nippon 2007. Only entries in Eng The first New Year’s dream: example that one haiku should lish were accepted. There were sev A snow white pigeon reveal one season, and that the inner enteen winners (one is a three-poem With a green olive branch or subjective world, and the outer 29- the 65th World Science Fiction Convention & 2»>7 the 46th Japan Science Fiction Convention VASILE MOLDOVAN ous thought, and whose second part ara koroshiteshimae hototogisu, WkL looks ahead to the following thought, “The cuckoo doesn’t sing? Kill it at which is hard in English; see how once” (he destroyed all opponents), this entrant approached it with the Hideyoshi, in Nakanunara nakas- -tf/b • X/b b 7 \ 7 phrase the stars my destination. That etemiseyoh hototogisu “The cuckoo is also the title of a famous SF novel doesn’t sing? I’ll let it sing” (he - o O o - by Alfred Bester. This technique made the best of his lot), and leyasu, On sticky small feet is much used in Japanese literature. in Nakanunara nakumadematou ho They walk up walls and ceilings There are poems in which each line totogisu “The cuckoo doesn’t sing? I want some fly shoes is a quotation of a famous poem. I’ll wait for it” (he was a master of KARL JUSTICE patience). H £ o x. < o ^AoObSi^x i6tiheicBA&$c-~LA'® » W 'N)W WElcoiXomMtS r^j oijgfflAo cti •£&<> WW IW&A5 SLXLSx. IfjOlXff Ll'o hOlxf&Z)'5 I'the stars my 9^X^2113 OBI A—;b • AXf^X destinationj LlPd 7 L—XX^’tlfCifi’AC 9 e^^x^irlA)o cmcMl LV\ 7 7b CtUi. 7 $!£ IWnjfcA'S qg/HtXJt-tfJ:? Haiku means “sportive verse”. lx>y K-^X^-fCf^^ASF/J^O^T b tv'd^jxA^n^ (nmown Some of great haiku h the Japanese /bx t> s ao c 0 A»xsfix AU^O^XW^X b W< LA)O A LX V'So HAlcif. ft^AgiJOBWSI poets are famous for comedy. The O IMlL rniWa A L 19 < £Xie L 9 contest did not require science-fic $A's>A)o tion haiku. Some entries were am - o O o - biguous. - o O o - The sheep mills about. Nervously waiting to see Early Fall a^o11am-awl min.x^^xs What others will do. Somewhere in the dark ^ifiKony-rX Hi, S WXV'AA 5>L There is the touch of the mist *'^A0 The dog barks loudly, And the smell of grapes Whining, scratching at the crack, - o O o - GRANT CARRINGTON But the door stays shut. W I remember stars imotpotxA' In the seasons of my youth The cat sits calmly, Glimmering through smog Quiet, dignified, knowing Anic7b'70@b The door will open. DAVID C. KOPASKA-MERKEL y A > b • 4- A V > K > ART WIDNER In English we can communicate T-A^^O-LibV'XV>S. delicately by stating or omitting “a” rAoy K*O riKxft-Aby/b 9 icteoxi'S. sa o AmA/yx and “the”. This haiku has a title; in t LXV'SOfro Japanese too, some haiku have titles, - o O o - some don’t. Outside, in the cold, AtfA^XSAS JXTzX'AA'b. raj Tthej Aj^^Ab. A hunter’s moon and the stars E7©«t>9MXV'5, WdAoAOm tX\ Ol£=i = xx My destination y->3zm. TofWiMtfSSZA LfrL b'7(iMCA££Ao SAXt|p]^X\ Stiff, JAMES WESTBROOKS AAl'(#6jtS3o JhM^V'X^'A ftAOJ^WL HWc. ^LLX, frHXl'S - o O o - u-rnK7»< cla JVjWJ The forsaken wife 7x— AX' • 7xx bAky 7X 7— b • 7-T FA— Views the fallen maple leaves, The structure of Japanese, and its Lovely and forlorn. system of writing, promote a great This triplet recalls the three ESTHER FRIESNER deal of wordplay. One technique haiku about 16th Century warrior is the use of “pivot words”, whose statesmen who unified Japan: No- Ji&XbtlAAW bunaga, characterized in Nakanun first part looks back to the previ !&oAAxx0»MXl'S 30 thef i rstWorldconi n Japan ge>L [HjefOlxfUtCiiS LTS LAX rforsaken (M White feathers tumbling slowly rmaple (Alr)j Tli Taj CD Chill as early snow SFe/A Heaves (SDj £ Hovely (S'bL cniLWAWfr/co 0)J TJi rij Toj ESTHER FRIESNER y's y • yyfi— £ LTfcbWl'5 - o O o - 7c0 £>» L7c§= How I long for home, XXX-• - o O o - Where the hot blue sun lit up The suitor returns The moons so brightly. Youthful lines better spoken See how the patterns of empha JON SINGER Time travel wins girl sis, and natural pauses, slow the sec ond line, so that its shape goes along DAVID C. KOPASKA-MERKEL TjTciswjdi'fcowzA with its thought. Japanese does not ya y • yya'— have stress-accents. B e> a § w c c 5 J; v * l v ftlil LV^LV'Oti, 2ft Whether or not you entered the @&3C £oT contest, maybe you’ll write haiku - o O o - HiWfcA yourself, traditional or otherwise. Maybe you’ll have a look at Japanese A warm spring morning: - o O o - culture. Many Japanese take an in Coffee in a white mug and After the sunset terest in Western culture. Apple blossom scent. A few glow-worms catch the fire ELIZABETH PENROSE fMuny-rX blcWTdkz-tAJx L&V'Ui To light the dog’s path £ v' v yt a s> fc □—t—£ VASILE MOLDOVAN dTfti/Hc-tfck, C ttf&d/'cdDo 9 yMfcnz LfedTcddo ^ - o O o - The subjective world comes the 65th World Science Fiction Convention & 2»>7 the 46th Japan Science Fiction Convention one-third of the total income is still just hopes and dreams, the expense budget is largely set. And by that Pass-Along time the convention has to make most of its decisions about what it will be doing and what it will be like — and consequently what it will spend. Fundssiaw^e To make things worse, Worldcon byMark L.Olson attendance is not very predictable. A North American Worldcon can Pass-Along Funds (PAF) is a to make sure people can see and hear count on about 4500 people buying plan to help make sure that World- what’s going on (perhaps $100K attending memberships, but the larg cons don't lose money and do spend more) and on publications (another er domestic Worldcons will have as as much as possible of their income $100K). A hundred thousand here, many as 2000 more people attending on the convention itself. Here’s how a hundred thousand there and pretty - that’s an additional quarter mil it works and why we need it: soon.... But even so. it ought to be lion dollars — an extra forty percent “Three-quarters-of-a-million- possible to budget these expenses so in income. And it is very hard to tell dollars” sounds like a huge amount that the convention comes out com which Worldcons will be large and of money. Since a Worldcon typi fortably in the black — right? which small until the last couple of cally gets at least that much income, Well, no. You have to make most months or so. So at the end of May. it should be swimming in cash — of your spending commitments be the Worldcon committee knows right? fore you know what your income that it has large fixed expenses and Well, no. It doesn’t turn out that will be. Nearly all of a Worldcon’s enough guaranteed income to cov way for several reasons. First of all, income is from memberships, and er its fixed expenses and not much Worldcon expenses are also high. half the membership money comes more. It has to make a guess how- Virtually every Worldcon is forced in during the last 75 days, because much more money it will get over the to rent a convention center (costing that’s when large numbers of people next three months and base its plan maybe $100K) and fill it with tables, decide if they’re coming. It’s also ning on that. Since it really is mostly chairs, some bits of carpeting, a few when memberships cost the most. a guess, some years there are more signs, and the labor to move all of that So a big chunk of the Worldcon’s in members than the guess and there’s (that stuff isn’t free or even cheap: come comes in between the end of lots of spare money, while other another $125K). Worldcons spend June and the end of the convention. years memberships fall short and the huge dollars on technical equipment But ten weeks before the con, when convention must slash its budget at 3 7-;k F□ y»>£ W AU5 W&AT3 c L#WAte t 92000A(i#/jnT3TL7 9o T3^25 cw; □yAyy3yg&oiRAfcBA® T'TT----- WU? ? 77 FWAZiW £T-----1&AO40/ V--t y %> A 9OTlc $3A#b, ^ViAb^Ao 7-JkF FitT'To H'O7-/k F31 y#A$$£A b, W L Xfth W W L t T 31 yoiRAO«HAHIi#»T\ »i!!to HAZiM^icA^O#, MOT, Hvf] Wlc>9 (1&&9ST----- 7—7kFn>T'At# b7 ConJose (2002) 14 Aussiecon, Chicon 2000, 7T^7gTLA^H14, ^41T<0^^ MilPhilZp5PAF£ L7^M+2771800 F/k^gtf &9 0T, #Jjn!WA^U^9S-t+Ao M I' 9 »7«3007-T F n ® o T, Torcon 3, Noreascon 4, Interthingy. 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I spent the night at a other) language explanations of the and the overwhelming effect on this nearby hotel found through the air exhibits in the five main halls, and foreigner was how a constant charac port website, and with some hours to there are plans of the exhibits avail teristic of Japanese society over the spare in the morning before having able from the excellent gift shop at centuries has been superbly carried to check in for my onward journey, the entrance. The subjects covered out design. decided to do some local sightseeing, by the museum include the pre-his The Museum makes a small since the downtown Tokyo area was tory of the country, including some charge of around four dollars for ad over an hour away by train. The front quite recent archaeological discover mission, and there is a restaurant as desk at the hotel suggested the Na ies, through to the fascinating story well as several smaller refreshment tional Museum of Japanese History, of Japan’s early contacts with the centres on the site. Rekihaki in Japanese. outside world and subsequent isola I did not have time to visit the It is in the town of Sakura, a tion, and the renewed contact and nearby Botanical Garden of Every few stops on the Keisei train line industrialisation since the mid-nine day Life, as I spent way too much from the airport station, where they teenth century. time in the Gift speak English at the enquiry counter There is a lot of mate Shop, and had to and advise about tickets. The train I rial about the way of life rush back to the caught took around fifteen minutes: of the various classes of airport. I found the Museum the easy way by society: the aris getting in a cab at the Sakura station tocracy, the war See http://www.rekihaku. - about a five-minute ride. On the riorclass, and the ac.jp/e_about/index.html, way back I took a faster (limited ex general populace. where a map of the local trans press, or tokkyu) train which made Many large dioramas port can be viewed. 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AoTco £AS3o ®oi'T html#go itmmfi bs0 ot0 ts3o » w T'M3 c A AtH^30 34 Join us in a bid to bring the 66th World Science Fiction Convention to Denver, Colorado August 6th through August 10th, 2008 Pre-Support $20 - Pre-Oppose $40 - Friends $100 Please send pre-supports, along with your name, address, email, phone number and suggestions to: Denver 2008, c/o Kent Bloom, 1245 Allegheny Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80919 Bid Committee: President: Kent Bloom, Treasurer: Brian Morman, Secretary: Mary Morman. Terry Adams, Jim Briggs, Sandra Childress, Ed Green, Jack Heneghan, Erin Jordan, Karen Jordan, Robert Macintosh, John Mansfield, Keith McClune, Sheila McClune, Robin Monogue, Ted Monogue, Melissa Morman, Michael Nelson, and Linda Ross-Mansfield. Competent, fiscally responsible, and outwardly focused. For offers of assistance, questions, or suggestions please email: [email protected] Or see our website at: http://www.denver2008.com Service Mark Notice : "World Science Fiction Society", "WSFS, "World Science Fiction Convention", "Worldcon", "NASFiC" and "Hugo Award" are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. the 65th World Science Fiction Convention & L • • the 46th Japan Science Fiction Convention Allabout ScienceFicfionAwards part 1 There are many kind of 'Awards* eWlClSUSOSfcS in the Science Fiction and Fantasy of the world. This time we introduce these three Awards, Prometheus Awards, Locus □ -tJZW. ill? Awards, and Seiun Awards. Libertarian FutursfSociety PrometheusAwards For over 20 years the Libertarian The books which have received Futurist Society (LFS) has presented the Prometheus Best Novel Award awards for Libertarian science fiction range widely in scope and focus. at the annual Worldcon. The LFS is Donald Kingsbury’s Psychohis- a organization of science fiction fans torical Crisis re-examines the ideas with a Libertarian philosophy and raised in Issac Asimov’s Foundation LFS members nominate and vote on trilogy. The world of biotech and ge byFred C. Moulton the awards. The LFS administers netic engineering are the background 71/9F • C • the Prometheus Award for Best Nov for the most recent winner Sims by el and the Prometheus Hall of Fame F. Paul Wilson. Wilson deals with Award. The awards are designed to the issues of rights and causes us to honor science fiction works of liter reflect on the issues of who is enti ary merit which explore individual tled to rights. Terry Pratchett takes liberty, investigate the negative con us to Discworld in his novel Night sequences of the suppression of in Watch in which the perennial issues dividual liberty or depict the folly of personal responsibility and doing of the ruling class. LFS members the right thing arise. organize an awards ceremony each The unusual can happen with year at Worldcon. the LFS awards. In 1997 Victor Ko- 20 W-LleiHoT. Libertarian Futurist Society(LFS) & & T 0 7 - /L F □ > T To LFS!i7n7b • W Libertarian+FT X • 7 -Y 7 > h >W‘] L Tn y T 7 L T Lfco LFSliSSi^O t^£#OSF7 7 LFSO^M ;RL7A 9 "J b 36 theti rstWorldcom n Japan man won the Prometheus Best Novel in 2002. The Prometheus Best Novel Award for his book Kings of the High The LFS had also on two occa Award was created by the science fic Frontier which had not been pub sions given special awards for works tion writer L. Neil Smith in 1979 and lished on paper. The book was only or authors which did not fit into the first winner of the award was the available for purchase as a download the areas covered by the other two book Wheels Within Wheels by F. or on computer readable media. Af awards. In 1998 the anthology Free Paul Wilson. The award was not pre ter Kings of the High Frontier won Space received a Special Award. sented again for a few years until the the award it was published in a limit In 2001 the LFS awarded a Special LFS revived the award in 1982. The ed signed and numbered hard bound Award for Lifetime Achievement to Prometheus Award for Best Novel is edition. The option of No Award is Poul Anderson. The award was ac given to the winning novel published always on the LFS ballot and in 1985 cepted by his wife Karen Anderson within the previous year. In 1983 the the vote was to have no Prometheus at Marcon 36 in Columbus, Ohio LFS added the Prometheus Hall of Best Novel Award given that year. where Poul was honored as the Guest Fame Award for classic works. The The Hall of Fame Award has of Honor but could not attend due to Prometheus Hail of Fame Award been awarded to a rich variety of his illness. covers all other forms such as short works. The foolishness and arro Works by Ken MacLeod, Ursula stories, movies and television. Win gance of a king is richly shown in K. LeGuin, Robert Heinlein, Alfred ners of the Prometheus Best Novel the 2000 winner “The Emperor’s Bester, Ayn Rand, Vernor Vinge and Award and the Prometheus Hall of New Clothes” by Hans Christian George Orwell have all received Fame Award receive a plaque with a Anderson. It is a story which is as awards from the LFS. LFS awards gold coin mounted on it. relevant today as it was when pub are not given based on the ideology More information about the LFS lished by Anderson over 150 years of the creator rather on the content of and its awards and other projects can ago. A classic of television has won a specific work. The common thread be found at the LFS website http:// the award, Patrick McGoohan’s is that a work has demonstrated at www.lfs.org. television show “The Prisoner” re least one aspect of the Libertarian ceived the the Hall of Fame Award message. OI^LTc, WA L £ T t C 6 1979^12 7n 7 7 7X • AX b • 7 A ASl' ZcSFfTon£ $ X. 5 L 0 TTo LFS£ft £<$iV7cMyx • 7 9X7-V7 • 7 77' Tft^giJ^L7c0(iSFfPM. Neil Smiths, TW07-T Fn>T^K^±lWLT TTT0 The Emperor's New ClothesGH ®100£MflHiF. Paul Wilson© fWheels 0I^)J TL/co 777'TL7^C0W.1S Within WheelsJ T L 7co C © ft Ci 7 © 7n777x ^W^/c0^15OTbuTT/)L $cW4£tiT\ LFS^«^M^L7c©Ci LTcWnfi TW^STTo TV0£fTt X 0ft£gft L 1982T0eLTL7to 7n777X • Ax To Donald Kingsbury0 bPsychohistorical TV7, Patrick McGoohan0TVWffi fThe b • 7ATft(iHfjTL/lhK$n7t^n7c7 CrisisJ • T7'7707 7Ty Prisoner(79 X'7-No. 6)J U2002TL A;l/^Hte»n^To 1983*17 LFSCii®£0 7— 7 a y HnMWlR 9 ±U’7c 7T 77 ^RW^ft^ftLSL/co OlftftT3 7d 7 7X^^^ft^ia BOoWST. ®8r0gK The Japanese word “Seiun” ac tually means “nebula”, however this award is not at all related to the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) Nebula Award. “Seiun” was The Locus Awards, started in professionals, is the basic nomina the name of the first professional SF 1972 to recognize outstanding works tion list, though respondents are also magazine in Japan, published in 1954 of SF &fantasy, and to make rec free to write in votes. The Awards and discontinued after only one is ommendations and suggestions to are presented annually at a banquet, sue because of extremely poor sales. Hugo Awards voters, are decided usually held at Westercon, see http:// This award was named after that by a yearly poll included in Locus www.westercon.org/. short-lived forerunner commemorat Magazine and electronically on Lo ing the dawn of Japanese SF. cus Online, available at http://www. The 2006 Award ceremony is Each year the Nationalcon at locusmag.com/. scheduled for the weekend of June tendees’ votes are gathered, checked, 16-18 in Seattle WA, at the Science and tallied by The Federation of SF Novel categories include SF. fan Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. Fangroups of Japan, founded in 1965. tasy, first novel, and young adult; The Locus Awards explicitly honor The Federation of SF Fangroups of short fiction categories include no publishers of winning works with Japan presents certificates of merit vella, novelette, and short story; ad scrolls of merit, as well as plaques and the convention committee pro ditional categories are for collection, for the winners designed by the vides trophies for the winners. Each anthology, nonfiction book, art book, banquet’s host organization. A ret committee designs the shape and editor, publisher, magazine, and art rospective anthology of winning sto material of the trophies; which vary ist. The recommended reading list, ries, The Locus Awards, was edited widely from year to year. published annually in the February by Charles N. 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Brown L Jonathan {ti!©7Pa^^ Lfe StrahanfcToT^^fl, 2004TfCtti® x bzmr^n^To -n £tl£L7co thef i rstWorldconi n Japan The first Seiun Award was pre by Takumi Shibano (the translator of and among the twenty-odd authors, sented at Token 5, the ninth Japanese both works using the pseudonym Rei editors, and fans who received the National Convention, held in 1970. Kozumi). award, there were two American re Originally there were five catego During the next several World- cipients: Roy Tackett and Forrest J ries: Japanese Novel, Japanese Short cons the Seiun Award presentations Ackerman. Story. Translated Novel, Translated were made by Takumi Shibano. The Japanese equivalent of the Short Story and Media Work, each Later, when Mr. Shibano was unable Nebula Award is the “Nippon SF awarded to the best item in that cat to attend Worldcons or to provide an Taisho”. It was started in 1982, and egory published or released in the introduction for other international is awarded to one (or rarely two) prior year. Categories for Artist and fans attending Worldcons: Katsumi outstanding work every year. The Comics were added in 1979; Non Shindo, Katsumi Kushimoto, Taka- selected work can be of any type, fiction in 1985; and “Nonsectional” yuki Tatsumi, Yoshio Kobayashi, including fiction, article, comic or or Free Section in 2002. This last Masamichi Osako and Kiyoshi Ima- other media. Sometimes a Special category is a catch-all covering any oka, to name several, presented the Award is also presented. thing that the SF community found Seiun Awards. Shibano’s role was The “Japan SF Fanzine Taisho” fascinating. succeeded by Masamichi Osako in for fan activities was started in 1980. For nearly ten years no announce 1991, then, in 1997, by Takayuki Awards were presented in seven cat ment was made about the award over Tatsumi. egories: Fiction, Article, Research, seas, and consequently the winners Translation, Editorial Work, Artwork for the Translation categories were Other SF Awards in Japan and Best Fanzine. The award was seldom aware of their honors. This The first SF award established in continued until 2003. The “Takumi situation changed during Noreascon Japan was the “Nippon SF Fandom- Shibano Award,” quite similar to the Two in 1980, when a private presen sho” (“sho” means award in Japa Big Heart Award, was established as tation was made in the Con Suite, nese.) It was started in 1965 to rec a special award. with other attendees present. The ognize people who had contributed The “Nippon SF Shinjin-sho” winning works in 1979 were Ring to the progress of SF in Japan, and (or the “Sakyo Komatsu Award”) world and Inconstant Moon, both by was replaced by the Seiun Award in was started in 1999, to spotlight out Larry Niven. The certificates and 1970. Its system was somewhat like standing new talent in the Japanese trophies were presented to Mr. Niven the American “Big Heart Award”, SF world. m A A 7 - ;b b n y tc #fju T t ft o tc T m. f5T—fF(T"< £tUC“{T)0eO§{T 7“bOTfcn^‘y*gPIW1979 Y>. 7-;bb'n>lc^jnT3ElTA7 7>' W, 7>7^ 7®PW985W. #f/5H7 7 7AAlcmL7c0 39 the 65ik World Science Fiction Convention & the 46th Japan Science Fiction Convention Whatyoucanjdo in Japan i SIGNS AND Sign of station name the names of the foods in roman let and train's destination ters (although if you don’t know the GETTING AROUND smtSRffiRr® BIS names of Japanese foods, the latter may not be too helpful). There are If you are unsure about how to even some restaurants that offer all get where you want to go, ask the There are many signboards English menus. writeen in English train station workers! They can be a great source of information and are Special eatinq concerns You'll find that many signs are usually very helpful. Most train sta in English as well as Japanese, espe tion workers speak at least enough If you have a special eating con cially while you’re in a city. In addi English to be able to help you with cern - for example if you have an al tion, most of the symbols for things what line you need to take to get to lergy to some type(s) of food, are a like restrooms, exits, elevators, etc. a particular station, what track the vegetarian or on another specialty are identical or similar to those in train leaves on, how much money diet - ordering at a restaurant may be other countries, including the United you need to put into the ticket ma a little more challenging. It’s best to States and Canada. chine, etc. In addition, most train research the Japanese names of the station employees will help you foods or types of foods that you can’t Getting into train and how to find your way to well-known places eat before coming to Japan. Tell the ask questions having a trouble near a station by taking out a map server “I can’t eat XXX” by using and showing you how to get to there. the expression “XXX o taberarenai”. There is usually a counter next to the Many trains have electric dis It also may be a good idea to have it ticket gates where you can talk to a plays above the doors that will dis written out for you so you can show station worker. play the name of the next station in it to the server. Check on the Nippon roman (English alphabet) letters and 2007 web site for examples of these many also have English announce OTHER CULTURAL expressions. ments (“the next stop is...” etc.). Each INFO AND TIPS station has signs that you can see t • SIB Chopstick Use through the train windows. Typical f you’re not holding one stick in ly, the sign will have the name of the Ordering food and drinks each hand, the chances are you’ll do current station in the middle of the in restaurants fine. You may even be complimented sign, the name of the previous sta on your chopstick skills! Here are tion to the left of the current station There are usually pictures of some cultural guidelines. and the name of the next station to the menu items in most restaurants’ 1. Don't pass anything using the right of the current station. These menus, so simply pointing can usual your chopsticks directly to someone station names are usually written in ly get the job done. Many restaurants else’s chopsticks. In traditional Japa roman letters, in addition to the Japa have plastic replicas of the food they nese funerals, part of the ceremony nese characters. serve and the prices of each item in involves fragments of the deceased’s the front window. In addition to this bones being passed in this manner some menus also have English or after cremation. The association isn’t 40 thef i rstWorldconi n Japan L&< 7c£l\> webkTfil^^Wr^T^T'-ro considered appropriate for eating. can refill their glass even if theirs Some even have a remote control, a 2. Don’t leave your chopsticks isn’t really low (just topping off is somewhat mysterious feature. sticking up in a bowl of rice. Again, O.K.), after which they will probably 3. The modified “traditional” toi doing so is part of the Japanese fu follow rule #2. let is a long, oval-shaped toilet, the neral ceremonies. 4. It is considered gracious to rim of which is level with the ground. 3. When moving food from a pour drinks for others in the group. This style toilet is used by straddling serving dish to your own, turn your 5. The Japanese expression for and squatting over it, instead of sit chopsticks upside down and use the “Cheers” is “Kampai”. ting on a seat. Guide books often- ends you don’t put to your mouth to recommend removing one’s pants transfer the food to your own plate. Taking off your shoes before trying this the first time. Picking up your bowl In some rooms and buildings you Karaoke have to take off your shoes and put It’s perfectly normal to pick up on slippers. If there are no slippers or Karaoke, in Japan, is usually your bowl to eat from it or drink the all the slippers are too small, wear done in special karaoke places where soup/broth. This is particularly con ing your socks is fine. The basic cues you can rent the use of a room with venient if your chopstick skills aren’t for when to take off your shoes are: all the necessary equipment for you that great, as the food doesn’t have 1. There are slippers in a door and your group. The rooms vary in as far to fall! way, or a rack of them by the door. size according to the size of your 2. It’s a Japanese style room with group from basically a walk-in closet SOME EATING/ “tatami” mats. to a big room for many people. They DRINKING ETIQUETTE 3. Everyone else is doing it always have a large selection of Eng (maybe not good advice for deciding lish songs and usually offer com whether to jump off a bridge, but it plimentary soft drinks (with free should be O.K. for when to take off refills). Although there are places Slurping Noodles your shoes)! where you can sing karaoke in a bar It’s not just alright; not slurping or restaurant setting with strangers, is considered strange! Japanese toilets this would be unusual in Japan. Pro nunciation point: the Japanese pro 1. In addition to the basic West Pouring Drinks nunciation of “karaoke” sounds like: 3509 ern-style toilet, and “Handicapped/ “kara O.K.” When drinking from bottles Disabled Access” toilets (which are (sake, beer, etc.) it is customary to also Western-style), there are two pour for others and not for yourself. other styles of toilets in Japan. Here are some basic guidelines; you 2. Some facilities have a high- probably won’t offend anyone if you tech toilet, or more precisely, a basic don’t follow them, so don’t spend Western-style toilet with a high-tech your time worrying about it! seat. The functions on the control panel of the seat usually include bi 1. If a person near you has an Any questions will do! empty (or low) glass, grab a bottle det functions, a dryer, controls for Q&ABB1 heating the seat, often a timer for set and offer to fill it up. Have some questins about Ja ting when the seat will begin to heat 2. If someone pours for you, of pan? Why don’t you ask us? 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