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The newsletter of the British Science Fiction Association matrix Issue 115 ~ £1.25 June - July 1995 malnlf,115' iun/jul199S matrix 115 • jun I jul 1995 Editor. Chris Terran \I 8et'dlwood Court Back Beechwood Crave leeds, UK LS4 2HS Tel:01132782388 matrix Email: [email protected] Cover Art: bn Brooks the news magazine of the Technical Assistance: Tom ~tterthw.Jite,JulieTiller Design / Production: Chris Ternn The deadline for the August/September issue is 4th August 1995. News - the happening world Obituary British Science Fiction Association Paul K/ncald on Roger Zelazny Recent and forthcoming books SFX ... and others Editorial Chrls Terran on sf zines ESPITE THE FACT that the aims of the BSFA as Mailbox pr('S('ntcd in its Articles of Association make no A bumper crop of fetters D special mention of promoting British science fiction, the orgamsation's name at least implies some special treatmenl 11 Video: Roswell ~~}:;::~~~·~~f,g~::u~~ra~r:~ert'~ar~~~~bl~~':~ Reviewed by Mark Og/er ~~~:~:rs~~C::~~il~~:a~~u..~~f=~~~~:e:sWi~~r 12 X-Rated Joseph Nicho/as on The X-Files and The Outer ~t:~i~so~~9)~~;~~o'}~·w%da%~~~~:l~~~$ Umits Glasgow X:rldcon - and thus can vote for the Hugos 14 Cheaper, Faster ... Better? p..1.ust' for thought. Stephen Baxter goes into space Wht'n I saw the list of H ugo nominations (prinled on pag;c 4) [ 16 SF Anime ~~.ST~;ae~~n~~~::;~, ;~~:U~t ~~e~~~~~~f~~~~t GeoffCow/e names there. In the fiction categories, there is precisely one: Bri;lln St;llbleford, for "t.es Fleurs du Mar. Note that this was 17 BabCon '95 published in an American magazine, which fact provides a Dave HippIe gets annoyed possible explanation for the generally poor showing of UK authors, artists and editors in the Hugo awards over the years 19 The Bad Thing About Nanotechnology ... (I think we can assume that the quality is there): the vagaries of Eugen Leltl is nervous about future terrorism publishing. 20 BSFA News By thl' tim(' the nominations come to be made most of I.hose AGM Minutes qualified to vott' (Ameflcans, larteefa' even this year) Will not Directors' Report :;ts:furth)::l:o~~~~it~:~tim:~~t~,:~~~u~~an 21 BSFAAccounts For 1994 mass-market US editions they are no long('f eligible, ~ving ~~~:~~b~~fv~:;;~~t:~!,:,i~~::,m 22 Events Diary will ,lribble on to the market over a long period,f'lt5t as 23 Peterborough SF Writers' Group eXpe11sive and hard-to-get imports, gaining the odd review He/en Gould and bit of publicity (often by word of mouth, as with Vurf), but Members' Noticeboard by and largt' making. little impact. A US edition will often depend on these iniuaJ reactions and so more time is lost. > 3 24 Competition Corner AWU'l:b: Nichola5 MMloney, 275 Lonsdale Aven~. InUl<e, Donc.iosttt. ~~~~~~by~~SZ~residents,£9forunwaged.P1eueenquirefOC DN26HC overseas rate. Foreign li;llison: Bridget WLlkill5Ol\- 17 Mimo5a, 29 Avenue RNli, Renew;llls .Ind new members: Alison Cook, 52 Woodhill Drive, Grove, LonclonN15 Want.lge, Oxon., aXI2 ODS USA Enquiries: Cy Ooauvin, 14248 WiUred Street, Detroit, MI48213, Publications U.S.A. Miftrix: Chris Tcrran, 9 Beechwood Court, Back Bcedlwood Grov\', Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS4 2HS Officials Tel: 0113 2782388 Em.lil: t8rr"[email protected] Administr;lllor: Maureen Kincaid Spelltt, 60 Bournemouth RO.Jd, Folkl'Swne, Kent,. CT19 5AZ Email: [email protected] Vector. utiI'CaIy, 224 Southway, Park Barn, Ctrildford, Surrey. CU2 Trusurer. FJiubeth Billinger, 82 Kelvin Road, New Cubbington,. 60N Leamingron Spoi, CV32 7TQ F«us. Carol Ann Creen,. 5 Raglan Avenue, Raglan Street, Hull,. HUS 2IB Orbiters: Carol Ann Crem, S Raglan Avenue. Raglan Street, H\lII, HUS 2IB Iulie Vmner, 42 Walgravt'Street, Newland Avenue. Hull. HUS ZlT British Science Ficlion Association Ltd. Company No. 921500. Re8istered Address: 60 Boumemooth Road, FolkeSlOne, Kent, Cfl9 SAZ. Registered in England. Limited by Guarantee. Printed by PDC Copyprint, II Jeffries Passage, Guildford, CUI 4AP. Copyrighf e BSFA 1995. Individual copyrights are the property of the authors and editor. ISSN 03073335. Designed and produced by Chris TelTan on an Acorn ASOOO page 2 ----------- _ ____________________________ matrix 115· jun/jul1995 Roger Zelazny Dies Leading sf and fantasy writer Roger Zelnny died on 16 June, after complications arising from cancer. Sce pageS for a full obituary. Encyclopedia CD-ROM Ready The CD-ROM version of John elute's and Petu Nicholls's award-winning SF Ency cloptdill was finalised on 19 June, and is due for relcasesometi.me in August. The H publishers, CrolieT, have booked tables at NEWSH Many thanks to the Worldcon so presumably they hope to 0 0 have something to sell .... S~~e7n~he~,d1~rj~n~~a~v:~~a~: ~~or~i~~l In addition to photographs, graphics, and U t· U sound clips, the text will be substantially Oebbie Moir, Cebbie' Notkin, Pe1erborough SF Group, Mark N Sa~er. N changed in three ways; Plummer, Jutie Rigby, Paul Rood, Andy Sue Thomas, D (1) corrections and modifications to the D Lawrence Watt·Evans, John Whitbourn 1992 text, including all the material in the S S Sept 93 Addrndll and more; (2) OVeT 800 updated t"ntries, bringing redistribution were: officially renewed for a third Sl"ries of 22. them to up-to-date as far as the end of Dan Stdfan 154;Samanda b jeude 144; episodes. Straczynski's. story arc calls for 1994; JOt' Wesson 59; No preference 8 five years' worth of episodes, ~ hooes are (3) over 100 complctely new entries. Votes come from both US and UK fans. now high that the series will see a completion. The voice-over at the start Paul \,Nilliarns Recovers Samanda b jeude led in the US voting, and Oan Steffan led in the UK. will be: "The Babylon Project was our last, As reported in Matrix J14, Paul WilIiI.ms best hopC' for peace. It failed. But, in thl" reomtly sustained a bad head injury alter Radio Scripts VVanted year of the Shadow War, it became some a motorcycle accident and there were KUBE (Keele Univcrsity Broadcasting thing greater: our last, best hope for ... fears for his long-tenn health. Fortunately Enterprises) Radio is putting into victory. The year is 2260. The placl": he has madl" a quick and full recovery. preproduction an anthology series called BabyJon 5." Debbie Notkin reports: "Much to my World of Drfilm5; thl" rust season of astonishment and delight, Paul showed fourteen episodes - possibly more, On-line Books up at last weekend's American depending on resources - is planned for Some authors are now making books and Booksellers' Association convention, FM broadcast in Septl"mber 1995, and stories freely available on the net. Bruce looking somewhat fragile but quite well. they're currently looking for scripts. It's Sterling was probably thl" rust with Tht Hl" is up and around, under doctors' an anthology programme similar to 71u HQclur Craclcdoum, and thl" latest is orders to wear a bicycle hdmet, since Twilight Zcnt and Tht Outtt' Limits, but is Richard K~drey, whose 1988 Ace novel there is an open place in his scalp from not limited to science fiction. Scripts or Mttrophagt (with a new intToduction) can the brain surgery (eventually, the doctors tapes should be 20 minutes long. now beobtaincd from The Well. Point will put a plastic plate thl"re). He seemed Contact Mark Overton, KUBE Drama your web browser at Vl"ry much himself, memory, mood, and Dept., KUBE Radio, University of Keele, http://gopher . well. COIII: 70/l/Pub personality intact. Keele, Staffordshire, S~ 5BG lications/authors/kadrey or your "Cindy Lee Berryhill[who took time off ortlrwil [email protected] gopher software at to care for Paul) was with him, sounding gopher: 1/gopher. well. corn: 70/, thrilled with his rc<:overy and ready to Maskerade On Stage and look under the "Authors, Books, finish with caregiving and go back to her A stage adaptation by Stephen Briggs of Periodicals ..." entry. Also available at own musician's life." Terry Putrnett's next Discworld book, the same site is Kadrey's short story Paul was at the ABA mccting in order to Masktradt, will be performed at the Studio "Horse Latitudes" (an excerpt from his get back into work projects, among them Theatre Oub in Abingdon on Tuesday 14 new novel Kamilcau L'Amour), 71u Hacktr his cditorship of the colk-cted short to Saturday 18 November. Tickets cost £5, CrQckdOWI1 and other Sterling non-fiction, stories of Theodore Sturgeon; this is now but there are few left. the full text of Tom M~ddox's sf novd schl"duled for autumn this year. Contact SAE to S. P. Briggs, PO Box 655, HQ/o, material by Willi~m Burroughs, and Oxford, OX3 OPD. Steffan VVins TAFF criticism by John Kessel and Gwyneth • Briggs also has Discworld ties, scarves Jones. D~n Sleff~n, writer, editor and artist, has and 'The Turtle Moves' T-shirts availabll". • Geoffrey A. L~ndis has made availabl(' won the Transatlantic Fan FW'ld race this year. Fmal voting was as follows: or his Hugo-nominated novelette 'The Singular Habits of Wasps", a Sherlock Dan Steffan: 187 Babylon 5 Aene\Ned Holmes pastiche. Email him at Samanda b Jeude: 162 According to the show's creator,j. Mich 9 [email protected]... ask The first round results before ~el Stuczynsk.i, Bczbylon 5 has been nicely, and he11 send you a copy. » Editori~1 t"Ol1tinued. _ pointcrs to to the best work from other countries which awards Now I'm certainly not going to ask you to vote for anyone - can provide.) Stabll"ford, David bngford and AI1Siblt, D~vid Pringle and 50 when the bme comes to tick the box _ and wludtvtr you l11to-..ol1t, whatever -simply because ~ey're British.