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File 770 #132
September 1999 1 2 File 770:132 The Last Diagnostician: I met James White at Intersection James White in 1995. We shared hot dogs in the SECC food court and talked 1928-1999 about what he might do as next year's Worldcon guest of honor. Tor Books was taking over publishing his Sector General series. They issued The Galactic Gourmet to coincide with We all look up to James here, and not just L.A.con III. Final Diagnosis and Mind Changer followed, and because he is about 6 1/2 feet tall. -- Walt Willis Double Contact is in the pipeline. All were edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, who did a wonderful interview of James James White died August 23 in Norn Iron, the day after during our Friday night GoH programming. suffering a stroke. His son, Martin, told Geri Sullivan that so far The committee fell completely under his charm. Gary Louie as he knew it was over very quickly. White was 71. spent countless hours compiling a “concordance” of terms and Looking around the obituaries and medical reports in this ideas from White’s science fiction (as yet unfinished). Fans issue makes me believe there must be an epidemic rampaging invented strange “alien food” to display and serve at a book among the nicest and sweetest people in fandom. And if charm, launch party in the Fan Lounge. Bruce Pelz issued t-shirts for a rich sense of humor and a gracious interest in everyone they “The White Company.” He also had about 15 “Diagnostician” met were the chief traits of the victims, none were more at risk badge ribbons printed, given to James to present to fans he than three Irish fans who made SLANT among the finest found especially helpful. -
A Short Guide to Irish Science Fiction
A Short Guide to Irish Science Fiction Jack Fennell As part of the Dublin 2019 Bid, we run a weekly feature on our social media platforms since January 2015. Irish Fiction Friday showcases a piece of free Irish Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror literature every week. During this, we contacted Jack Fennell, author of Irish Science Fiction, with an aim to featuring him as one of our weekly contributors. Instead, he gave us this wonderful bibliography of Irish Science Fiction to use as we saw fit. This booklet contains an in-depth list of Irish Science Fiction, details of publication and a short synopsis for each entry. It gives an idea of the breadth of science fiction literature, past and present. across a range of writers. It’s a wonderful introduction to Irish Science Fiction literature, and we very much hope you enjoy it. We’d like to thank Jack Fennell for his huge generosity and the time he has donated in putting this bibliography together. His book, Irish Science Fiction, is available from Liverpool University Press. http://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/60385 The cover is from Cathal Ó Sándair’s An Captaen Spéirling, Spás-Phíolóta (1961). We’d like to thank Joe Saunders (Cathal’s Grandson) for allowing us to reprint this image. Find out more about the Bid to host a Worldcon in Dublin 2019 on our webpage: www.dublin2019.com, and on our Facebook page; Dublin2019. You can also mail us at [email protected] Dublin 2019 Committee Anonymous. The Battle of the Moy; or, How Ireland Gained Her Independence, 1892-1894. -
L.A.Con III PR 0.Pdf
Quests of Honor said, "The time is ripe for comedy. It's the best of times and the worst of times. There's all this great Writer Guest of Honor: James ^Vfiite material, but no one has a sense of humor about anything. We really are Victorians now — it’s so distressing." When James White set out to write his first sf story, he says, "It took nearly a year to write 'Assisted Passage', because the group [Walt Willis, Bob Shaw, special Guest: Etsie JVoCCfieim etc.] was so keen on science fiction, we wouldn't let any of the others get away with anything corny. So Elsie Wollheim's life and career in Science Fiction, what an editor would have found to complain about and her life in Science Fiction Fandom, encompasses in a first story, we had already taken out because our more than half a century. From the Futurians of the friends and severest critics had done the work for 1930's and '40's to the DAW Books ot the '70s and them." beyond, she has been a Presence in the vortex of our field that is New York. He began his famous "Sector General" series a few years later, in 1957, eventually consisting of such The Convention Site at Anaheim collections and novels as Hospital Station, Star Surgeon, Major Operation, Ambulance Ship, Sector L.A.con III will return to site of the largest General, Star Healer, Code Blue:Emergency and Worldcon ever, in 1984: the Anaheim Convention The Genocidal Healer. By L.A.con III we may have Center, the adjacent Anaheim Hilton and (new this the ninth book in the series, which is already in time) the Anaheim Marriott. -
Jack Gaughan
3rd ANNUAL SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY FESTIVAL > ♦ * - ' MARCH 23-25 Featuring Discussions and Autographing < Sessions With Top Science-Fiction and a Fantasy Writers & Editors; MON. MARCH 23rd. * 12 PM * POCKET BOOKS PRESENTS: ’David Hartwell (Editor) ‘Brian Aldiss 5:30 7:00 PM DEL REY NIGHT: Featuring ’Lester & Judy-Lynn del Rey (Editors) ’Frederik Pohl ’Stephen R. Donaldson •James White______________ TUES. MARCH 24th. 1-2 PM BERKLEY PUBLISHING PRESENTS: ’Victoria Schochet (Editor) •Charles Platt ’Janet Morris ’Norman Spinrad ’Jill Bauman (llustrator) 5:30 7:00 PM AN EVENING WITH ISAAC ASIMOV “Science Fiction has a Future Too. WED. MARCH 25th. 5:30 7:00 PM DAW BOOKS PRESENTS: ’Donald Wollheim (Editor) ’Lin Carter •Ron Goulart ’C.J. Cherryh ’Doris Piserchia ’John Norman The most recent publication of featured authors will be available for autographing at each event. or visit D. Dolton for o complete schedule 666 Fifth Ave. at 52nd Street 212-247-1740 AMERICA’S FAVORITE BOOK SELLER March 20-22,1981 Writer Guest of Honor JAMES WHITE Artist Guest of Honor JACK GAUGHAN ZOCOZCr 2? Sponsored by The New York Science Fiction Society - The Lunarians, Inc. LUNACON ’81 would like to thank the following people and organizations without whose assistance this convention would not be possible: The Sheraton Heights, Sam Clark, our Honored Guests, Peggy White, Vincent DiFate, Bob Shaw, Joe Orlando, LUNA Publications, certain office machines who have insisted on their anonymity in order to maintain their usefulness to The Cause, Ira Stoller, Roberta Rogow, The Brooklyn Public Library, Dale Hardman, Willie Wilson, Cynthia Levine, D.N.M.S.D., Freff, Oscar Whitfield, Connie Whitfield, Snoopy, Woodstock, Linus, Ruth Gottesman, Smudge, Josephine Sachtcr, Impi,David Sorell, Heather Nachman. -
Sector General by James White Copywrite 1983 Other BOOKS by JAMES WHITE the Secret Visitor
Sector General by James White Copywrite 1983 Other BOOKS BY JAMES WHITE The Secret Visitor (1957) Second Ending (1962) Deadly Litter (1964) Escape Orbit (1965) The Watch Below (1966) All Judgement Fled (1968) The Aliens Among Us (1969) Tomorrow Is Too Far (1971) Dark Inferno (1972) The Dream Millennium (1974) Monsters and Medics (1977) Underkill (1979) Future Past (1982) Federation World (1988) The Silent Stars Go By (1991) The White Papers (1996) Gene Rodden berry's Earth: Final Conflict-The First Protector (Tor, 2000) THE SECTOR GENERAL SERIES Hospital Station (1962) Star Surgeon (1963) Major Operation (1971) Ambulance Ship (1979) Sector General (1983) Star Healer (1985) Code Blue-Emergency (1987) The Genocidal Healer (1992) The Galactic Gourmet (Tor, 1996) Final Diagnosis (Tor, 1997) Mind Changer (br, 1998) Double Contact (br, 1999) Species Classification The Classification System by Gary Louie James White's Sector General stories used a unique four letter classification system that helped describe the species quickly and effectivly, as one would require when the hospitol is a multi species enviroment. Gary Louie was working on a James White concordance. As part of that he completed a classification system, for the sector general series which covers all characters up to Final Diagnosis. This article appeared in the White Papers. Unfortunatly Gary Louie passed away, before the concordance was completed. Classification:AACL Planet:Unknown Species:Crepellian Pet No Individual Names Known A non-intelligent pet kept by AMSOs. It has six python-like ten-tacles which poke though seals in the cloudy plastic of its suit. The tentacles are each at least twenty feet long and tipped with a horny substance which must be steel-hard. -
ROBERT MAPSON 33 Westfield Road, Kelmscott WA 6111 JOHN BERRY 4 the Chilterns, South Hatfield, Herts AL10 8JU, UK MARTIN MORSE W
cover is clever, funny, and beautiful (and gives me a chance to see what Elaine looks like). Both Elaine’s fractal graphics are lovely too (I bet they are stunning in colour). What is it about fractals that makes them so beautiful? Is it partly the idea that there is pattern underlying everything? (Very magical.) Is it because the patterns are self-referential but not identical repeats (either because of variation of scale, or because there’s a complex call-out sequence where pattern A calls B calls C calls A . .)? Is that fractal-drawing program horribly expensive? I used to have (on my old computer, which only had a monochrome most of my previous interests. I have commenced work on monitor, bless it) a copy of something called Fractint, which my army memoirs, The Horsed Vassell. was apparently downloadable for free from the Internet, but The front and back covers of SFC 77 are particularly the ‘new computer’ (which is, let’s face it, a exceptional, well worth framing. g-g-g-grandmother in modern IT terms) has a colour I was in Aussieland in March–April 2000 to visit my son monitor, and I’m suddenly hungry for fractals again . I and family near Gundaroo, north of Canberra. He has a goat wouldn’t have any means of printing them out (unless I farm, which is actually his hobby, as a rest from make friends with a colour printer owner, which is not computerising. impossible) but it would still be nice to see them again. (Late November 2001) (7 December 2001) John has sent me, for TMR, an entertaining article about I’ve already explained to Sue that she can get a copy of his most recent visit to Australia — but I’ve told him that DJFractals directly, and for free, from its author, Dick Australian fans would really like to meet him next time he Jenssen ([email protected]). -
James White Papers
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8nv9k1x No online items Guide to the James White papers Processed by Melissa Huntington, 2010. Special Collections & Archives The UCR Libraries P.O. Box 5900 University of California Riverside, California 92517-5900 Phone: 951-827-3233 Fax: 951-827-4673 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.ucr.edu/view/collections/spcol ©2013 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Guide to the James White papers 208 1 Descriptive Summary Title: James White papers Date (inclusive): 1961-1992, undated. Date (bulk): 1965-1983 Collection Number: 208 Creator: White, James, 1928-1999 Extent: 5.5 linear feet (11 document boxes) Repository: Rivera Library. Special Collections Department. Riverside, CA 92517-5900 Abstract: This collection is comprised of typescripts, galley proofs, notes, and other material by James White, an Irish author of science fiction novels, novellas, and short stories. Primarily includes manuscripts of White’s published and unpublished works (many contain hand annotations). Within this collection is material pertaining to the Sector General book series that White was best known for including Hospital Station, Major Operation, and Ambulance Ship. Typescripts of White’s popular short story compilations including Federation World, Deadly Litter, and The Aliens Among Us are also included. Languages: The collection is in English. Access This collection is open for research. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher. -
James White Papers
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8nv9k1x No online items James White papers Finding aid prepared by Melissa Huntington. Special Collections & University Archives The UCR Library P.O. Box 5900 University of California Riverside, California 92517-5900 Phone: 951-827-3233 Fax: 951-827-4673 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.ucr.edu/libraries/special-collections-university-archives © 2013 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. James White papers MS 208 1 Descriptive Summary Title: James White papers Date (inclusive): 1961-1992, undated Date (bulk): 1965-1983 Collection Number: MS 208 Creator: White, James, 1928-1999 Extent: 4.58 linear feet(11 boxes) Repository: Rivera Library. Special Collections Department. Riverside, CA 92517-5900 Abstract: This collection is comprised of typescripts, galley proofs, notes, and other material by James White, an Irish author of science fiction novels, novellas, and short stories. Primarily includes manuscripts of White's published and unpublished works (many contain hand annotations). Within this collection is material pertaining to the Sector General book series that White was best known for including Hospital Station, Major Operation, and Ambulance Ship. Typescripts of White's popular short story compilations including Federation World, Deadly Litter, and The Aliens Among Us are also included. Languages: The collection is in English. Access This collection is open for research. Publication Rights Copyright Unknown: Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction, and/or commercial use, of some materials may be restricted by gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing agreement(s), and/or trademark rights. -
Title: the Irelands That We Dreamed Of: Irish Science Fiction from the 1850S to the Present
Title: The Irelands That We Dreamed Of: Irish Science Fiction from the 1850s to the Present Day Author: Jack Fennell Award sought: Doctor of Philosophy Supervisors: Prof. Tom Moylan and Dr. Michael J. Griffin Submitted to the University of Limerick, November 2012. Table of Contents Abstract iv Declaration vi Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Mad Science and Empire: Fitz-James O’Brien and Robert Cromie 46 Chapter 2. ‘Future War’ and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Ireland 89 Chapter 3. Nationalist Fantasies of the Early Twentieth Century 125 Chapter 4. States of Emergency: Irish SF During World War Two 155 Chapter 5. The 1960s: Lemass, Modernization and the Cold War 193 Chapter 6. The Wrong History: Bob Shaw, James White and the Troubles 224 Chapter 7. The Dystopian Decades: From Recession to Tiger and Back Again 255 ii Chapter 8. The Shape of Irish SF to Come 291 Notes 321 Bibliography 329 iii Abstract: My original contribution to knowledge is a synthesis between ‘mythological’ and ‘historical’ definitions of science fiction, a synthesis which I believe allows for a more nuanced understanding of postcolonial SF. In this project, I use Irish SF (hitherto treated as an anomaly or a novelty, when its existence is acknowledged at all) as an extended case-study. In this thesis, I revisit the oft-scorned argument that the genre is in fact structurally related to myth. Taking my cue from the work of Tatiana Chernyshova and Kôichi Yamano, I assert that SF grows out of pseudo-scientific narratives that are formed in the same way as myths: individuals whose understanding of a subject is limited will “fill in the gaps” in their knowledge with anecdotes, ‘common sense’ and faulty extrapolations. -
The Devniad, Book 15 Bob Devney 25 Johnson Street, North Attleboro, MA 02760 508-699-7885 [email protected] APA:NESFA #313, June 1996
The Devniad, Book 15 Bob Devney 25 Johnson Street, North Attleboro, MA 02760 508-699-7885 [email protected] APA:NESFA #313, June 1996 White Magic medicine and surgery on a multi-species space station hospital. Mighty few authors manage to make Picture ER drawing its casualties a mark by being decent. However, that from the Star Wars Cantina and you can forthright bit of legerdemain is just what imagine the possibilities. But probably the Irish writer James White has not as many as White has envisioned, accomplished. He’s been writing science and not with such fascinating details of fiction marked by decency, goodwill, bizarre anatomy, pathology, and and a gentle good humor steadily since psychology (and that’s just among 1953. the staff….) God, I can feel prospective White For me, though I quite like the Sector readers swooning away with every word General books and have a deep fondness I write, paralytic with anticipated for the undersea colony in 1966’s The boredom. It’s all true, dammit! But he’s Watch Below, White’s single most also fun to read, he really is…. satisfying and sustained work is The In fact, White is still producing Escape Orbit (1965), about a breakout decent stuff, and will be recognized as attempt from a prison planet in a future Guest of Honor at this year’s SF world war. It’s 188 pages of the best problem- convention in LA. So nice guys do finish solving, old-fashioned adventure SF with first. Eventually. Sometimes. never a wrong note or missed beat. -
IRS for ANZAPA
2 first published in ANZAPA mailing #249 - June 2009 "Banking should not be exciting. If banking is exciting there is something wrong with it. " Clay Ewing, president of German American Bancorp, a community bank in Jasper, Indiana, quoted in the New York Times of Wednesday, May 13 th , 2009. Contents This Issue’s Cover ......................................................................................................................................... 3 Surinam Turtles............................................................................................................................................. 5 Savage gentleman ......................................................................................................................................... 5 The girl on the landing .................................................................................................................................. 5 Tian An Men Square Massacre – Twenty Years of Denial ............................................................................. 6 Letter ............................................................................................................................................................ 7 Clerihew corner............................................................................................................................................. 8 Emma Hawkes Wins DUFF! ......................................................................................................................... 9 Conventions on the horizon -
Roslyn Kopel Gross
Roslyn Kopel Gross is a writer who lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband, two children and a dog, works as an emergency teacher, writes book reviews and stories, and is an incorrigible reader. She reads in the car at stop signs, in queues, anywhere she has to wait. She is asked some interesting questions. Roslyn Kopel Gross How best can we live? Discussed: THE FRESCO by Sheri Tepper (Gollancz, 2000, 406pp.) THE TELLING by Ursula K. le Guin (Gollancz, 2001, 264pp.) The aliens, Chiddy and Vess, have the unenviable task of readying Earth to join their galactic federa- tion; in order to do so, Earth needs to become ‘neighbourly’. As part of this process, the two aliens, in hilariously simple ways, are able to solve such insurmountable problems as environmental degradation, the oppression of women in Af- ghanistan (the novel was written before the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath in Afghanistan), the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and our drug and alcohol problems. Of course, they have resources and powers unavailable to us, but Tepper has a way of making clear solutions feel possible, almost obvious. As in much anthropological/sociological science fiction, description of the alien culture is employed in order to make observations about our own. Tepper describes Pistach society, with the evident intention of being provocative and highlighting the obtuseness of human society. Chiddy explains, ‘One should not want to be anything but what one is, because it creates un- happiness. If one cannot dance, one should not be a dancer . One should not be sexual if one cannot enjoy both the process and the product, and if there is no place for the product, one should stop being sexual.’ In Pistach society, each Painting: Guy Browning.