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First Contact the Newsletter of the Irish Science Fiction Association August 1996______ISSN 0791-3966 Inside First Gaelcon ’96 Contact This Yep First Contact The Newsletter of the Irish Science Fiction Association August 1996_____________ ISSN 0791-3966 Inside First Gaelcon ’96 Contact This Yep. it's here again. The games con that’s been going now for. Month... oh. ages will be taking place in the traditional venue - the Royal Hospital. Kilmainham - on 24th to 26th October. Guest of Honour News will be John Tynes, the founder of Pagan Publishing. He is also known, so it is said, as the man who was censored by TSR. What Sawyer, LeGuin win Nebula does this mean? Find out. Membership for the three days is £13. and Awards is available from The I.G.A., PO Box 4345, Dublin 1. Dick, Clarke, Lambda Awards announced Octocon Online? Travolta to produce After last year's attempt at getting a rake of computers into the Battlefield Earth convention, it looks as if this year there’ll be proper net access for Millennium - New series those who want to surf while they Congo. Although details from the from Chris Carter committee are sketchy at the moment, it seems that there’ll be IVheel of Time - a never- guides to how to find the best SF on the net. as well as the other ending story? more usual use for a bunch of computers in one room (can you say Deathmatch?). American Gothic, RIP Of course, you can check out Octocon while you’re online at the Netrunner Expansion moment; point your browser at http://arrogant.itc.icl.ie/octocon for Announced the latest information. So nifty is the setup that Harpercollins' totally cool Voyager page points to Octocon’s profile on Michael Babylon 5 Marshall Smith in their author run-down (check out http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/voyager if you don’t believe me). We continue our look at the Oh. and it seems I wasn’t reading my documentation properly best TV programme around. last month when I informed you of the details of this year’s Octocon. And we’ll find a few other Had I been paying more attention. I would have realised that the excuses to mention it, too. email address is not what it seemed; in fact. I can’t even claim it was a typo as [email protected] is nothing like what I typed. I beg Reviews forgiveness from all at Octocon. and promise to be more careful in future. The snail mail address is unchanged (I hope) at Octocon. 30 Savage Dragon CD-ROM (I South Circular Road. Dublin 8. mean it this month) Apollo 13 - I finally found someone who didn’t like it. Planet Sci-Fi - ComedyCon After changing its name - and presumably its focus - it looks as Other Stuff if one of the most interesting events of next year will be Planet Sci- New Venue for ISFA Fi. March 8°’ will see Robert Llewellyn (or Kivlen, as Red Dwarf Meetings - It’s the Ormond fans the world over know him) and others (including Chris Hotel on the first Tuesday. Dennison, a Klingon martial artist) converge in the Writers' Museum. Parnell Square for two days of SF that will include - but not focus on - Star Trek. Unlike Trek cons, this is being planned as a small event, and will have a maximum capacity of about 400. so book early. Up to 1st September it’ll cost you £19 (or £15 if you're under 16). Email [email protected] or write to Planet Sci-Fi, P.O. Box 30, Navan, Co. Meath for more information. More news on page 3 (and 4, come to think of it. In fact, you d better check 5 as well, just to be sure). First Contact. August 1996 Page 1 4 Editorial few. So send in your book reviews. Send in All. the untrammelled joy that your top ten. And read some more books. accompanies each editorial. It’s always the last thing I write (I’ve taken to writing the Robert Elliott contents last. too. so for the first time this year rde(d)irclands-wcb.ie they’re an accurate reflection of what’s actually inside), so the fact that I’m writing this means that another issue is mere seconds from completion. Okay, a couple of minutes. I can’t type that fast. This month. I'll avail of these few words to mention something that I swore would never Con ents appear in this magazine, but has been seen Front Cover 1 regularly over the last few months: computer Back Cover 18 games. Middle Cover 9 The argument went thus; Doom’ is unquestionably science fiction (okay, fantasy), Under Cover [classified] but once we accept that and review one game Editorial to vour left a month, we head down the path of The Irish News see front cover Times' Gamezone; a column that no-one More News 3 reads, is fundamentally flawed and of no Top Ten Books interest to anyone except advertisers. Deirdre Ruane 7 Unfortunately, technology has caught up, Babylon 5 and it’s no longer feasible to exclude games 9 from our brief. They’ve become so Adam Darcy sophisticated (take Wing Commander /f) The X-Files (please) that to ignore them in favour of films Michael O’Connor 14 like Mesa of Lost Women is sheer folly. Graphic Novels Thusly, you'll see an computer games having Robert Neilson 15 an increased presence from now on. CD-ROM Review 16 Assuming, that is. I can find people willing to Video Review play the fifty bucks for the damn things. Sam Michael O’Connor 17 ‘n ’ Max Hit the Road is cool, by the way. First Contact Oh yeah. I’ve noticed a distressing fall in the number of book-oriented submissions to is a publication of this august journal; while we try not to The Irish Science Fiction differentiate between media too much, it is Association still the considered opinion of your humble servant that the ultimate form of science 30, Beverly Downs fiction is the written word. Babylon 5 may be Knocklyon Road convincing everyone* that television is where Dublin 16 it’s at. but it’s people like David Brin who are giving us the best the genre has to offer. It’d e-mail [email protected] be a terrible shame if this magazine became a newsletter: [email protected] magazine of the visual arts: there are too few magazines that deal with books and I'd like First Contact to continue to be one of those Ifyou don t know by now that First Contact is ©1996 The Irish Science Fiction Association, then you need to stay in more. The contents, as ever, are © the people that penned them. Unauthorised reproduction is strictly a no-no. in fact, there s only been authorised reproduction once, but I don’t recall giving written permission. Woo. I’m going to sue Sproutlore. Cool. This month's magazine was assembled with my ancient, single-speed CD-ROM playing The Divine Comedy. Tom Lehrer. Taruta Tikaram, Tori Amos. Sophie B. Hawkins Chopin, (the first 8 Polonaises) and Joni Mitchell. This issue dedicated to Bonka cojfee. which not only has a cool name but without which this issue would be about sixteen pages smaller. ★except Sid Page 2 First Contact. August 1996 News Punctuation Watch £7.99. You can get two quid off. though, if One of these days, he’s going to make it to you buy one of their selected SF or fantasy a hundred, you know. Glenn Danzig, whose titles. singing ability is rivalled only by his talent at writing comics, has entertained for months Battlefield Earth - 50% Off with talcs based on the characters painted by Ah. for the days when we could buy a copy Frank Frazetta. Check out Death Dealer #2 of L. Ron’s epic tome emblazoned with the which is now on sale; it contains no fewer phrase "soon to be two major motion than 94 ellipses and eighty exclamation pictures!” and be suitably impressed by its marks. Our congratulations go to the scope (if not its content). Alas, although it’s innovative Danzig, who is surely the first to soon to arrive on the big screen - courtesy of combine the two in the phrase “...and there it producer John Travolta - it seems that it’ll be was!... The horse...” which I quote verbatim. a single picture. I know what you're thinking; can a single film hold that much shit? Only Helix - DC SF time will tell. DC Comics have just brought out a new imprint - Helix - which will feature a number Nebula Winners of science fiction titles; presumably without Our congrats to this year's Nebula award the spandex that litters their regular comics. winners... The first release was Cyberella by Howard Best novel ; Hobson s Choice/The Chaykin and Don Cameron; I must confess to Terminal Experiment. Robert J. Sawyer. finding it less than inspiring, though a Best novella ; "Last Summer at Mars Hill.” number of people have mentioned that they Elizabeth Hand enjoyed it. I, however, am looking forward to Best novelette ; “Solitude.” Ursula K. the offerings of Christopher Hinz, the man LeGuin who wrote the ultra-amazing Leige-Killer and Best short story : “Death and the its two sequels. Librarian.” Esther Friesner There’s nothing like a good idea... Bethke Wins Dick When I first heard that Marvel were going Actually, he did win something; he won to be publishing Star Trek comics. I the Philip K. Dick Award for best SF mentioned - in jest. I hasten to add - that paperback original for his first novel.
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