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Emplaced Clichéd Detailed Judged Utopian Poetic Recommended Re/Sourced Orbited Ended FOCUS Magazine, Summer 2017 THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION’S MAGAZINE FOR WRITERS EMPLACED CLICHÉD DETAILED JUDGED UTOPIAN POETIC RECOMMENDED RE/SOURCED ORBITED ENDED AND MORE! Summer 2017 No. 67 THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION’S MAGAZINE FOR WRITERS 19 Sensing the Place—Ian Millsted The cover image is “Regeneration” 21 By Donna Scott Detailing Your Story—Dev Agarwal 28 Things I Learned Judging the 04 Clarke Award—David Gullen Towards a Taxonomy of Clichés in Space Opera Part One— 31 Charles Stross Towards a Taxonomy of Clichés in Space Opera Part Two—Charles 08 Stross Re/Source—Terry Jackman 36 10 Literary Agents and how to Get Utopia Reconsidered—Paul Raven One—Jacey Bedford 13 39 Not Giving Up—Sandra Unerman A Writer’s Guide to Fieldcraft—Neil Williamson 16 41 Reaching the End—Gaie Sebold My Secret Life With David & Charles—David Langford British Science Fiction Association Ltd Registered in England and Wales. Company No. 921500 BSFA MEMBERSHIP FEES UK £29 per annum (Unwaged: £20 pa) BSFA Website : www.bsfa.co.uk Joint/Family +£2 to the above prices Life Membership £500 Registered address : 61 Ivycroft Road, Warton, Outside UK £40 Tamworth, Staffordshire B79 0JJ Cheques should be made payable to ‘BSFA Ltd.’ (Pounds Ster- President : Stephen Baxter ling only) and sent to Dave Lally at the address above, alterna- tively you can join via the BSFA website at www.bsfa.co.uk Vice President : Pat Cadigan BSFA AWARDS Chair : Donna Bond [email protected] Administrator : Claire Boothby [email protected] Treasurer : Martin Potts [email protected] ORBITER WRITING GROUPS Membership Services : Dave Lally, 64 Richborne Terrace, London Online :Terry Jackman SW8 1AX [email protected] [email protected] page 2 FOCUS Magazine #67, Summer 2017 Dev Agarwal Says... Welcome to the summer issue of Trump's inauguration was George Or- Focus and also to the new normal. well's Nineteen Eighty Four. FOCUS is published twice a year by the We live in a time not so much of great British Science Fiction Association. It is a social change but of unending spasm. As the pace of change seems to accel- magazine about writing, for writers, and aims to present high quality articles about erate we can be said to be suffering the art and craft of writing, with a focus As readers will know 2016 brought us from both of Alvin Toffler's neolo- on science fiction. huge political and social upheaval. So gisms, future shock and information Contributions, ideas and correspondence far 2017 appears to be beating it for overload. (Future shock, according to are always welcome at the contact ad- dress below, but please get in touch first if drama. This is the type of radical Toffler, occurs when we experience you intend to submit a lengthy article. change that comes along once or an accelerated rate of technological When submitting work through conven- twice in a generation (we might hope) and social change. This leaves people tional postal services, please enclose an -- and it may have marked a string of disconnected and suffering from SSAE. distinctive breaks with the past. Don- "shattering stress and disorientation." Individual copyrights are the property of the contributors and editor. The views ald Trump in the White House, Britain While information overload was his expressed herein are not necessarily is exiting the EU, a general election term to describe the difficulty of un- those of the BSFA or committee members thereof. confounded the polls and gave us our derstanding an issue and making ef- Errors and omissions are the responsibility second hung parliament in a decade: fective decisions about it when you of the editor. some of us are delighted by these receive too much information rather ISSN 0144-560X changes. Other changes have fewer, than too little). editor if any, supporters: refugees fleeing Dev Agarwal violence in the Middle East, terror at- We turn to writers at times of change. tacks at home and abroad, threats of If, as a society, we are future shocked design and layout nuclear attacks from North Korea, the and information overloaded, who bet- Donna Scott horrendous fire in Kensington's Gren- ter than genre writers to help us navi- fell Tower and the protest and accu- gate through? contributors sations of neglect and cost cutting in Charles Stross the most affluent borough in Britain. In Focus 67, we have assembled a Paul Graham Raven raft of navigators. They range from Sandra Unerman We might be stunned, or terrified, by multi-award winning and well- Ian Millsted these developments. If nothing else, established professionals to newer Terry Jackman the cultural and political shockwaves voices. On the following pages they Gaie Sebold are so strong that they strike to the argue their cases, promote their agen- Charles Christian heart of not just society but culture as das, compete for your attention and, Jacey Bedford well. And that brings us to our genre. of occasion, disagree with each other. Neil Williamson Personally, I'm parsing current affairs David Langford with the vocabulary of science fiction. Ordinarily, I’d close by saying that our genre is at the forefront of predicting When all you can say with confidence the future, but even with Focus is that anything might happen next it packed to the gunwales with experi- seems to me that a genre that specu- enced voices, I feel like we still need lates on current trends and then uses to hold onto them to imagine possible futures is our hats as definitely an asset in digesting where genre fiction we are today. races to out- pace the fu- Mainstream media, both in fiction and ture shock in factual news reporting seems to be and Focus racing to catch up to us. It often feels rides the like science fiction got there first -- wave of and is showing the way. Many of us change like a will feel that our genre has never Serenityesque Contact: been more relevant or more promi- leaf on the Donna Bond, 11 Stanhope nent. Most summer blockbusters wind. Road, Northampton NN2 6JU have been science fiction for some years, much television drama is some Dev Agarwal [email protected] Twitter: @wishusdonna shade of speculative fiction, and the Focus Editor best selling novel after Donald July 2017 page 3 Towards a Taxonomy of clichés in Charles Stross Space Opera Part 1 riginality carries a premium in Science Fiction – but not too much originali- O ty. If you write something wildly experimental that blows the doors off all Charles Stross returns to the stuffy expectations of genre, many of your readers, reviewers, and editors will Focus. So strap in. In this miss the message and find your work more annoying than exciting. Which is why issue of Focus you'll not one the New Space Opera is a thriving thirty year old sub-genre, this being the anni- but two instalments of his versary of the publication of Consider Phlebas. There’s a lot of prior art, much of specially revised set of what it not very good, and a huge body of clichés has grown up. Indeed, it’s possible we find too often in Space to tell a space opera entirely with clichés! Opera fiction. His challenge Last year I began work on a new Space Opera. I’m lazy and I don’t like to rein- to you is to find a Space vent the entire universe with every book, so I decided to start by building a set- Opera story that navigates ting in which I could tell more than one story. As some of the ground-work, I through them… started by putting together a list of clichés to which Space Opera is unaccounta- bly prone, in order to ensure that I came up with new howlers rather than simply recycling the same tired old ones. Some of you might remember the “Evil Overlord’s List” (http://tvtropes.org/ pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList) – a compendium of all the generic cli- ché mistakes that Evil Overlords tend to make in fiction (“16: I will never utter the sentence But before I kill you, there’s just one thing I want to know.”). So without further ado, here is my Space Opera Cliché List: it’s only the tip of a very large iceberg, but at least it’s a starting point. Can you find any of these clichés in your current reading matter (or work in progress)? And can you find anything in the aforementioned reading/writing material that isn’t in this list and really de- serves to be here? Planetary civilizations This subheading covers common clichés/mistakes made in discussing inhabited (Earthlike) planets and the people who live on them. Planets are small and easily explored All the land masses on a planet are easily accessible Charles Stoss is an award- winning writer of science- You can fly anywhere on a planet in a short time without leaving the at- fiction, fantasy and Love- mosphere craftian horror. His novel Accelerando won the 2006 You can fly anywhere at Mach 2.2+ without experiencing hull heating due Locus Award for Best Science to atmospheric friction Fiction Novel, and he won the Hugo Award for Best Novella You can fly anywhere at Mach 2.2+ without worrying about Air Traffic Con- in 2005 for “The Concrete trol and NOTAMs Jungle”. The Apocalypse Co- Everywhere on a planet shares a common climate and the same weather dex won the Locus award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2013. patterns His science fiction novels The same plants and animals can be found everywhere on a given planet have also been nominated for the John W.
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