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SFRA Newsletter University of South Florida Scholar Commons Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications 6-1-1996 SFRA ewN sletter 223 Science Fiction Research Association Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scifistud_pub Part of the Fiction Commons Scholar Commons Citation Science Fiction Research Association, "SFRA eN wsletter 223 " (1996). Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications. Paper 162. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scifistud_pub/162 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Alin' Review == Issue #223, May/June 1996 IN THIS ISSUE: SFRA INTERNAL AFFAIRS: President's Message (Sanders) ............................................. 5 Letters/Corrections (Nicholls; Cherry) ............................... 6 NEWS AND INFORMATION ............................................ 9 CURRENT & FORTHCOMING BOOKS/ PUBLISHERS' ADDRESSES ........................................ 13 FEATURES Special Feature: "A Hainish Chronology" (Brigg) ........... 17 Special Feature: "The Sound of Science Fiction" Oldfield, Mike, The Songs Of Distant Earth; and Armer, Elinor and Ursula K. Le Guin, Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts. (Berkwits) ....................................... 21 REVIEWS: Nonfiction: Ballard, J,G. A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews. (Davis) ...................................................... 27 Beahm, George (Editor). The Stephen King Companion (Revised Edition). (Bousfield) ....................................... 28 Greene, Eric. "Planet of the Apes" as American Myth: Race and Politics in the Films and Television Series. (Westfahl) ........................................................................ 31 Hammond, Wayne G. & Christiania Scull. J.R.R Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator. (Kaveny) ........................................ 35 Joshi, S.T. (Editor). Caverns Measureless to Man: 18 Memoirs of H.P Lovecraft. (Kaveny) ............................. 37 Milward, Peter. A ChalJenge to C.S. Lewis. (Harris-Fain) .................................................................... 39 Pringle, David (Editor). St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers. (Mathews) ......................................................... 41 Seed, David (Editor). Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and its Precursors. (Terra) .................. 43 SFRA Review #223, page 1 Wu, Qjngyun. Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias. (Bogstad) ........................................... 44 Fiction: Aldiss, Brian W. Common Clay: 20 Odd Stories. (Collings) .......................................................................... 47 Card, Orson Scott. Alvin Journeyman. (Heller) .............. 48 Dann, Jack. The Memory Cathedral: A Secret Life of Leonardo da Vinci. (Weisman) ..................................... 50 Forrest, Jodie. The Rhymer and the Ravens. (Sullivan) ......................................................................... 51 Miller, John & Tim Smith (Editors). The Moon Box: Legends, Mystery, and Lore from Luna. (Barron) ....... 53 Rand, Ayn. Anthem: The 50th Anniversary Edition. (Morrissey) ...................................................................... 54 Williams, Paul (Editor). Microcosmic God: Volume II: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon .. (Stevens) .......................................................................... 55 Sussex, Lucy and Judith Raphael Buckrich (Editors). She's Fantastical: the first anthology of Australian women's speculative fiction, magical realism and fantasy. (Webb) .............................................................. 56 Weinbaum, Stanley G. The Black Flame. (Sanders) ....... 59 Willis, Connie. Bellwether. (Hellekson) ........................... 60 SFRA MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION & APPLICATION ............................................................... 63 SFRA Review #223, page 2 Eait!! Review Editor - Amy Sisson Assistant Editor - Paul Abell Assistant Nonfiction Editor - B. Diane Miller SFRA Review (lSSN 1068-395X) is published 6 times per year by the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) and dis­ tributed to SFRA members. Individual issues are not for sale. For information about the SFRA, see the description and appli­ cation at the back of this issue. Please submit reviews, news items, letters, etc. to Amy Sisson, Editor, SFRA Review, 3845 Harrison St. #103, Oakland CA 94611; telephone (510) 655-3711; e-mail "sfraamy@aol. com". Submissions are acceptable in any format: hardcopy, e-mail, Macintosh disk, or IBM disk (saved as text-only or ASCII). Please note the SFRA Review has an agreement with the Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual (Robert Collins & Michael M. Levy, Eds.) under which reviews are ex­ changed between publications. If you do not wish your re­ view to be submitted to the Annual, please indicate the same. Typeset by Amy Sisson on a Macintosh Performa 6205CD. Cover design by David Garcia of Sir Speedy. Printed by Sir Speedy, Oakland, California. SFRA Executive Committee PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT Joe Sanders Milton Wolf 6354 Brooks Blvd. University Library/322 Mentor OH 44060 Univ. of Nevada - Reno Reno NV 89557-0044 SECRETARY TREASURER Joan Gordon Robert]. Ewald 1 Tulip Lane 552 W. Lincoln St. Commack NY 11725 Findlay OH 45840 IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT David G. Mead 6021 Grassmere Corpus Christi TX 78415 SFRA Review #223, page 3 SFRA Review #223, page 4 E i in' Internal Affairs = PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE As I type this, I'm getting ready to attend the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts; when I see it in print, I'll be (with luck) polishing a paper for SFRA's conference in Eau Claire. Both conferences should be very enjoyable and valuable. As I've said before, I love the energy of program sessions and participants bouncing off each other. Being forced to choose between overlapping presentations, suddenly realizing the worth of papers I'd expected to be padding around something else I really wanted to hear, making star­ tling connections - a good conference leaves me on the edge of overload, a clipboard full of scribbled notes for projects I'd been working on or that I'd never imagined doing until now. But we live in strange times. I wonder how long it will be until the first virtual conference, the first time one of the conferences we like to attend becomes available in an elec­ tronic package. Looking at our last issue's reviews of two ICFA collections from Greenwood Press and a desktop-puh­ lished selection of papers from a conference in Britain, it's fairly obvious that the traditional selected-papers collection is at a dead end. Even if the Greenwood collections are ap­ propriately eclectic to represent the range of subjects at an ICFA, as Gary Wolfe opines in a recent Locus, the books aren't focussed enough to attract the attention of many buyers. Consequently, Greenwood puts a very high price on them. Consequently, they sell even fewer copies. Making a more unified collection by selecting papers that reflect some com­ mon theme would be possible, just as it would be possible to organize a conference around some theme. Instead, how­ ever, why not put a whole conference on a CD? Most of the writers have their papers on disk already. True, panels and question & answer periods would have to be transcribed - or would they? I'm being semi-serious about this. One of the pleasures of editing one of those Greenwood collections was having a big pile of papers ready to read whenever I wanted; it was like having access to all the sessions at once. I wound up, of course, creating my own ideal mini-conference. However, it would have been nice to keep everything handy, ready to search SFRA Review #223, page 5 with a few key strokes... And, besides the attraction of the technological potential to preserve the products of confer­ ences, marketplace necessities may soon give us no alterna­ tive. As I say, I appreciate the advantages. I'll still miss the per­ sonal interaction. See you in Eau Claire. - Joe Sanders LETTERS/CORRECTIONS Dear Editor, In his feature review "The Many Forms of Clute" (#221), W.D. Stevens says of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, that it is a book "in which Clute also has the primary editorial hand." Probably careless phrasing rather than malice, but untrue. Both the writing of text and the editorial responsibilities in this book were shared so equally that neither Clute nor I know (or care) who wrote the most words or did the most editing. I claim no primacy over Clute nor he over me, and it is wrong of Stevens to suggest otherwise. The order of the names on the cover (which we discussed between us) is merely alphabetical, and put that way round precisely so that nobody would imagine that I was claiming primacy. Alphabetical is neutral. When discussing the CD-ROM edition, Stevens very natu­ rally does not give credit to the third member of the editorial triumvirate who produced the Multimedia version. Natural, because she is not adequately credited on the disc itself. This was Deborah Bassette of Grolier, hard-working and intelli­ gent, whose responsibility was to control all the add-ons to Clute's and my text, not only sounds and pictures, but pic­ ture captions and so on. We think she
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