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Steam Engine Time 13 STEAM ENGINE TIME 13 THE THEODORE STURGEON ISSUE The Last STEAM ENGINE TIME If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine time. — Charles Fort, Lo!, quoted in Westfahl, Science Fiction Quotations, Yale UP, 2005, p. 286 Steam Engine Time 13 Steam Engine Time No 13, March 2012, 118 pages, was edited for the last time by Bruce Gillespie ([email protected]), 5 Howard St., Greensborough VIC 3088, Australia, and Janine Stinson ([email protected]), PO Box 248, Eastlake, MI 49626-0248 USA and published at http://efanzines.com/SFC/SteamEngineTime/SET13.pdf. Members fwa. First edition and primary publication is electronic. All material in this publication was contributed for one-time use only, and copyrights belong to the contributors Illustrations: Various book and DVD/Blu-ray covers; plus: Stephen Campbell and David Russell (front cover:); Ditmar (Dick Jenssen) (p. 4); Ed Emshwiller (p. 16, 17); Brad W. Foster (pp. 70, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 98); Helena and Mervyn Binns (pp. 72, 73); Amy Harlib (p. 84, 99); Stephen Campbell (pp. 102, 107); Kathleen Jennings (p. 118). 2 Contents FRONT COVER: ’Farewell to Steam Engine Time’ 67 Sturgeon’s breakthrough: Stephen Campbell and David Russell Ruminations on ‘The World Well Lost’ by Theodore Sturgeon by Ditmar (Dick Jenssen) EDITORIAL 70 LETTERS OF COMMENT 4 Farewell to Steam Engine Time Bruce Gillespie, with Jan Stinson Lloyd Penney :: Merv Binns :: Lee Harding :: Patrick McGuire :: John Litchen :: Ray Wood :: Jerry Kaufman :: Ned Brooks 6 Just the lists, Bruce, just the lists :: Gillian Polack :: Mark Plummer :: Dick Jenssen :: Gary Farber Bruce Gillespie’s Favourites Lists for 2011 :: Chris Garcia :: James Allen :: Harry Buerkett :: Greg Pickersgill :: Brad Foster :: Lyn Nuttall :: Randy Byers :: Pamela Sargent :: Paul Anderson :: Rick Kennett :: Liz de Jager THEODORE STURGEON :: Cy Chauvin :: Gian Paolo Cossato :: Steve Jeffery :: Darrell Schweitzer :: Ralph Ashbrook :: Doug Barbour :: Matthew Davis :: Martin Morse Wooster :: Terry Green :: Guy Salvidge :: Andy Robertson :: Peter Simpson :: William Breiding :: Eric Lindsay 15 The work of Theodore Sturgeon :: Sheryl Birkhead :: Michael Bishop :: Steve Sneyd :: Matthew Davis and We Also Heard From ... 48 other correspondents. 3 Editorial Farewell to Steam Engine Time Beginnings Steam Engine Time was the result of a dinner after the Hugo Awards ceremony at Aussiecon 3 in Melbourne in 1999. Maureen Kincaid Speller, Paul Kincaid, and I were all too tired to attend the traditional Hugo Losers Party, so we relaxed around a table in the Chinese restaurant of what was then the Centro Hotel, just off the convention itself, and caught up with the natter we had been promising ourselves all convention. I knew Maureen and Paul, resident in Folkestone, Britain, principally from the pages of Acnestis, the apa of sparkling writing we were in at the time. Our interests in science fiction and criticism seemed very similar. Dinner and wine led to creative speculation. Why don’t we publish an inter- national magazine of longer articles about science fiction and fantasy? We would share expenses and workload, avoiding the need to post copies overseas from either country. Within a few weeks of reaching home, Maureen emailed me the suggested name: ‘Steam Engine Time’, com- plete with the quotation from Charles Fort you can find on page 2 of most issues of the magazine. In practical terms, the editor of the first three issues of Steam Engine Time was Paul Kincaid. He had some valuable contacts in British fandom and academic circles, he and Maureen wrote superbly about science fiction, and Paul managed to master the desktop publishing program Microsoft Publisher sufficiently to invent an effective, elegant page design for each issue. The problems came with the practicalities. Maureen and Paul produced too many copies of the first issue, then faced the problem of posting them. The response was good, but hardly as overwhelming as the initial print run might have inspired. I printed enough for the Australian readers. With the second issue, the content was even more exciting than in the first, but somehow copies did not reach people. And 4 by the time No 3 was edited, both Paul and Maureen found themselves engines idea after Number 3), other fan artists began to send interior with other interests, and as far as I know no copies were sent out from illustrations and back covers, and the flow of articles and letters swept Britain. However, Maureen had put together a comprehensive fan in. Jan suggested that we post issues of SET on efanzines. com as PDF address lists, so eventually I printed another 100 in Australia and sent files, but redesign each issue from a ’portrait’ layout (longer than wider) them airmail to the people I knew were interested in the magazine. to a ‘landscape’ layout (wider than longer) to better suit the computer/ e-book screen. This use of double layout, one for print and one for the This brings us to the end of 2001, then long silences between the editors Web, has been very successful. of the magazine. I assumed that Paul and Maureen did not want to continue, and let the matter slide. Already I was planning to revive SF The only difficulty was sharing editorial duties, especially as (I quickly Commentary, the magazine I began in 1969, and I had my hands full discovered) Americans have a quite different style of punctuation and with my apa obligations (Acnestis, until it folded in 2005, and ANZAPA, spelling from Australians. Jan would scout for material in America, and of which I became the Official Bloody Editor in 2004). I had great plans send on any letters of comment she received. We found that, if we both for reviving The Metaphysical Review, but that never happened. worked originally in Word, the combined file for the letter column could easily be converted to SET layout style. In this way Steam Engine Time died for the first time somewhere between 2001 and 2003. One regret of mine was that we could no longer continue As many readers will remember from her editorials, Jan came slam bang with Ditmar’s (Dick Jenssen’s) series of cover graphics. For each issue, up against the realities of Real Life. She found it increasingly hard to he added another steam train to the pack of steam trains seen tootling make a living, and the pension she was living on ran out when her son through deep space. turned 16. She had to begin an entire new career of freelance editing and writing at just the time of her life when she might have hoped to be Jan Stinson becomes co-editor taking it easy. This led to clinical depression, so Jan has found herself increasingly unable to take part in the Steam Engine Time process. Steam Engine Time would not have appeared again after No 3 if it had not been for Janine Stinson. She wrote to me in 2004, from Michigan. It was with great regret that she wrote to me a few months ago: We had never met (and still haven’t). I had enjoyed the light and breezy Much as I would like to continue with SET, I realize now that I’m not tone of her fanzine Peregrine Nations. There had been nothing to indicate in a good mental/emotional position to do so. While the depression that she was interested in sercon (serious and constructive) fanzines, meds and therapy are working well, I know now that I have to avoid but she said that she hoped she could come on board as co-editor of a overloading myself (for values of me and no one else) or I’ll be right revived fanzine. However, recently bereaved and supporting a son, she back down the pit. So, I’ll bow out now. I apologize for the long silence. had no cash to put into the venture, and would not be able to print and And I’m sorry I never got any editing done on the next ish (that’s what post copies for American/ British/European distribution. I remember happening [or not], at least). We gave it a go, and you, the readers, rallied to the magazine. Several Have fun with your next editing job and I’d be pleased if you kept in Ditmar nominations and wins followed, and a Chronos Award from touch, if you choose. I find that I read very few fanzines these days. Melbourne fans, so I was very pleased to be able to send Jan her own trophy after Steam Engine Time won Best Fan Publication in Melbourne New email address is tropicsf@ gmail.com. I seldom check the earth- in 2010. link mail nowadays. I had to redesign the interior of the magazine slightly so that I could Regards & regrets, Jan collate the pieces in Ventura rather than Publisher. Dick Jenssen was still willing to supply covers (although we had to give up the massed steam (27 October 2011) 5 Best wishes, Jan. May the world again turn bright for you. I might as well consolidate all my SF and fantasy efforts back into SF Commentary, which ebbs and flows like a meandering river from decade Where to now? to decade. Some writers send me articles about all the things in which we’re interested other than SF and fantasy; for the time being they will Several people have suggested that I might find yet another international appear in Scratch Pad on efanzines.com, and *brg* in the print edition editor or editors in order to continue Steam Engine Time.
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