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Diana Wynne Jones Essex IG10 1EF, UK Charlie Butler Vector The critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association No. 268 AUTUMN 2011 £4.00 Vector 268 The Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association CONTENTS Vector 2011 BSFA Awards http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com Donna Scott .................................................................. 4 Features, Editorial Shana Worthen An Excerpt from a Conversation and Letters: 127 Forest Road, Loughton, With Diana Wynne Jones Essex IG10 1EF, UK Charlie Butler ............................................................... 5 [email protected] Book Reviews: Martin Lewis Translating Diana Wynne Jones 14 Antony House, Pembury Gili Bar-Hillel Semo .................................................... 8 Place, London, E5 8GZ Diana Wynne Jones in the Context Production: Martin McGrath of Children’s Fantasy [email protected] Jessica Yates ................................................................ 11 The Mistress of Magic British Science Fiction Association Ltd Meredit MacArdle ..................................................... 15 The BSFA was founded in 1958 and is a non-profitmaking organisation entirely staffed by unpaid volunteers. Registered in On Screen: Two Filmed Versions of England. Limited by guarantee. Books by Diana Wynne Jones BSFA Website www.bsfa.co.uk Gill Othen ................................................................... 18 Company No. 921500 Registered address: 61 Ivycroft Road, Warton, Tamworth, Diana Wynne Jones: A BSFA Staffordshire, B79 0JJ Discussion President Stephen Baxter Farah Mendlesohn & Charlie Butler, Vice President Jon Courtenay Grimwood transcribed by Shana Worthen ................................ 21 Chair Ian Whates Infertility in Science Fiction as a [email protected] Treasurer Martin Potts Consequence of Warfare 61 Ivy Croft Road, Warton, Victor Grech Nr Tamworth, B79 0JJ with Clare Thake-Vassallo & Ivan Callus .............. 27 [email protected] Membership Services Peter Wilkinson Resonances Flat 4, Stratton Lodge, 79 Bulwer Road Stephen Baxter ........................................................... 34 Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5 5EU [email protected] Kincaid in Short: MEMBERSHIP FEES The Heat Death of the Universe UK £29 pa or (Unwaged - £20 pa). Paul Kincaid ............................................................... 36 Life membership £500) Outside UK £40 Foundation Favourites: Joint/family membership Add £2 to the above prices Forbidden Planet Cheques (Sterling only) should be made payable to “BSFA Ltd” Andy Sawyer ............................................................. 40 and sent to Peter Wilkinson at the address above or join via the Now and Then: BSFA website at www.bsfa.co.uk. Invisible Words BSFA AWARDS Terry Martin ............................................................... 42 Administrator: Donna Scott [email protected] The BSFA Review ORBITER WRITING GROUPS Edited by Martin Lewis ............................................ 45 Online: Terry Jackman [email protected] Published by the BSFA Ltd @2011 ISSN 05050448 Postal Gillian Rooke All opinions are those of the individual contributors and Southview, Pilgrims Lane, should not necessarily be taken as the views of the BSFA. Chilham, Kent, CT4 8AB VECTOR 268 – AUTUMN 2011 Torque Control hen I first took on Vector, a themed issue in honour of Diana Wynne Jones was one of the first things to Woccur to me. She was already ailing then, and, in the early planning stages, I hoped that she would be able to read this issue for itself. It was not to be, as you probably know. She died of ovarian cancer in March of this year. (Not, as was widely reported, lung cancer, although the cancer had invaded her lungs.) In the wake of her death, there was an outpouring of grief, and tributes, from obituaries in newspapers and science fiction magazines to posts in discussion groups and blogs, about the way she had made the author who she or he was today, in some part. I'm one of those people. I was introduced to Witch Week at the age of 10 by a mentoring school librarian. The DWJ fan community unexpectedly reconnected me with Farah Mendlesohn within only a few weeks of when I moved back to the UK. And there are a number of friends I might never have met had I not attended the 2009 conference on Diana in Bristol. A major theme of the articles, interview, and discussion in this issue is influences, both authors who influenced Jones in her work, and those whom she, in turn, influenced. Some of those are her scholars and fans, often both simultaneously, for, as Mendlesohn tells us, she made her own critics, teaching her readers the process of critical reading through the process of their reading her books. Despite her death, she has still contributed to this issue correspondence with her, in search of clarification, and in the in the form of an excerpt of an interview which Charlie Butler interview, where she comments on the difficulty of translating did with her this past February, and which will be forthcoming the astrological myths of The Game into Japanese, with its next year in its entirety in Reflections, a collection of Diana's different mythic planetary associations. essays and lectures. The interview deals, in part, with some of Speaking of Japan, contemporary international awareness the authors who influenced her, as well as aspects of myth she of Jones' work has been heightened by Hayao Miyazaki's has made use of in her work, and a near-encounter with an adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle into a full-length animated Australian aboriginal river spirit. film. In her essay, Gill Othen considers the two filmic adaptations Jessica Yates focuses on her influence and influences, of Jones' work in her article, both the Miyazaki movie, and the particularly with respect to children's literature. Her article is early '90s BBC six-part adaptation of Archer's Goon, and their partially biography, partially scholarship, and partially a heart- relationships with their source novels. felt appreciation of Diana and the range of her work, a tribute This issue also includes a transcript of the BSFA London to the author and her accomplishments. Meeting in September, 2010, in which Farah Mendlesohn Meredith MacArdle, who maintains the official Jones fan and Charlie Butler discussed Diana and her influences and page and who republished her first book Changeover, provides influencings, from The Faerie Queene to Lemony Snicket. a exploration of the some of the wide-ranging religions whose elements Diana has incorporated in her novels over the years, In other news, this issue sees the first of a three-part series and the ways in which she adapted existing magical systems on issues of reproduction in science fiction stories. Victor to suit her worlds. (Although not Australian river spirits; Jones Grech's article surveys and taxonomises infertility in science mentioned those in her interview as an example of mythic fiction, looking primarily at novels, but a number of films and material she had not made use of.) short stories as well. As a medical doctor, his central concern The dense, thought-provoking richness of Diana's books is in seeing the way science fiction responds to and reflects can be chewy for reader of her works of English prose, the concerns of our world with infertility, from the radiation but English is not the only language in which her works are of bombs to the radiation of space to biological warfare. Grech published and read. Gili Bar-Hillel, translator and of many of argues, in part, that nature is often at least as strange as what her works in Israel, offers fascinating insight into the many science fiction has to give us. challenges of translating her work into Hebrew. Words which Diana too often thought that the truth of parts of her life are multifaceted in one language do not necessarily contain the was stranger than fiction, framing stories of her travel jinx or same constellation of meaning in another after all, and Jones improbably other encounters with the assertion that she could frequently used layered words as keys to plot points. Diana was never have used a given experience in one of her novels; no aware of the challenge her work posed, as shown both in Gili's one would think it plausible. 3 AUTUMN 2011 – VECTOR 268 2011 BSFA AWARDS Donna Scott What are the BSFA Awards? that receive the most individual nominations by the deadline. The BSFA awards are presented annually by the British Science In the event of a tie for fifth place, the number of shortlisted Fiction Association, based on a vote of BSFA members and – in works may be reduced to four or increased to six, for example, recent years – members of the British national science fiction as appropriate. Works published by the BSFA, or in association convention Eastercon. They are fan awards that not only seek with the BSFA, are ineligible for a BSFA award. to honour the most worthy examples in each category, but to Not sure if the work you want to nominate fits the above promote the genre of science fiction, and get people reading, criteria? Don’t worry, the definitions are kept as open as talking about and enjoying all that contemporary science possible to allow for multifarious multimedia interpretation… fiction has to offer. if you’re not sure, just ask! The 2011 awards ceremony will be held at Olympus 2012, Please do not vote for your own work. The 2012 Eastercon, 6th - 9th April 2012 Return your nominations to Donna Scott, BSFA Awards Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow, London, UK. Administrator
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