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Readercon 14
readercon 14 program guide The conference on imaginative literature, fourteenth edition readercon 14 The Boston Marriott Burlington Burlington, Massachusetts 12th-14th July 2002 Guests of Honor: Octavia E. Butler Gwyneth Jones Memorial GoH: John Brunner program guide Practical Information......................................................................................... 1 Readercon 14 Committee................................................................................... 2 Hotel Map.......................................................................................................... 4 Bookshop Dealers...............................................................................................5 Readercon 14 Guests..........................................................................................6 Readercon 14: The Program.............................................................................. 7 Friday..................................................................................................... 8 Saturday................................................................................................14 Sunday................................................................................................. 21 Readercon 15 Advertisement.......................................................................... 26 About the Program Participants......................................................................27 Program Grids...........................................Back Cover and Inside Back Cover Cover -
Rose Gardner Mysteries
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. Est. 1994 RIGHTS CATALOG 2019 JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. 49 W. 45th St., 12th Floor, New York, NY 10036-4603 Phone: +1-917-388-3010 Fax: +1-917-388-2998 Joshua Bilmes, President [email protected] Adriana Funke Karen Bourne International Rights Director Foreign Rights Assistant [email protected] [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @awfulagent @jabberworld For the latest news, reviews, and updated rights information, visit us at: www.awfulagent.com The information in this catalog is accurate as of [DATE]. Clients, titles, and availability should be confirmed. Table of Contents Table of Contents Author/Section Genre Page # Author/Section Genre Page # Tim Akers ....................... Fantasy..........................................................................22 Ellery Queen ................... Mystery.........................................................................64 Robert Asprin ................. Fantasy..........................................................................68 Brandon Sanderson ........ New York Times Bestseller.......................................51-60 Marie Brennan ............... Fantasy..........................................................................8-9 Jon Sprunk ..................... Fantasy..........................................................................36 Peter V. Brett .................. Fantasy.....................................................................16-17 Michael J. Sullivan ......... Fantasy.....................................................................26-27 -
Whirlwind Worldcon
EDITORIAL Sheila Williams WHIRLWIND WORLDCON; or SHAMELESS NAME DROPPING It was not my intention to attend LonCon 3, the 2014 Worldcon, which was held in London this past summer.Although I usually arrange family vacations around World- con, we couldn’t do that in 2014 because we were already planning to visit the UK in April. Our elder daughter was spending her junior semester abroad at University Col- lege London and then returning to the States for a paid summer internship. We could- n’t swing two trips to England and we didn’t want to take a trip without her. When I drew up the magazine’s 2014 budget, I decided my big professional outing would be the World Fantasy Convention in Washington, D.C. WFC is an excellent convention that, like Worldcon, is always jam-packed with authors. Yet, while I wasn’t planning on attending LonCon 3, the Universe was conspiring to get me there. My husband, younger daughter, and I set out for JFK and London on April 11. We checked our luggage and proceeded to security.While on that line, I received a super- secret email informing me that I’d been nominated for a Hugo. The rest of our jour- ney through security proceeded without incident. Eventually, we headed for our gate, only to make the startling discovery that our check-in had been accidentally voided and our seats given away to standby passengers! This plane was the last flight out to London of the night, so while our luggage was happily on its way to Heathrow, we weren’t going anywhere fast. -
World Fantasy Convention 2003 Convention Fantasy World
ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED SERVICE ADDRESS [email protected] www.worldfantasy2003.org USA Annandale, VA 22003-1734 VA Annandale, 7113 Wayne Drive Wayne 7113 World Fantasy Convention 2003 Convention Fantasy World Progress Report Three The Washington Science Fiction Association presents: The 29th Annual World Fantasy Convention October 30th – November 2nd, 2003 Author Guest of Honor Brian Lumley Author Guest of Honor Jack Williamson Celebrating 75 years of Writing (Since Jack will not be able to attend, we shall be arranging a taped interview and other celebrations) Publisher Guest of Honor W. Paul Ganley Artist Guest of Honor Allen Koszowski Master of Ceremonies Douglas E. Winter Hyatt Regency Wachington on Capitol Hill © 2001 by Allen Koszowski Washington, DC USA 2003 World Fantasy Award Nominees _ _ _ _ _ _ Novel The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque Jeffrey Ford (Morrow) Fitcher’s Brides Gregory Frost (Tor) The Facts of Life Graham Joyce (Gollancz) Ombria in Shadow Patricia A. McKillip (Ace) The Scar China Miéville (Macmillan U.K.; Del Rey) Novella Seven Wild Sisters Charles de Lint (Subterranean Press) A Year in the Linear City Paul Di Filippo (PS Publishing) c/o Jerry Crutcher Coraline Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins) Box 1096 Post Office “The Least Trumps” Elizabeth Hand (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists) [email protected] “The Library” Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3) Membership Registration Rockville, MD 20849-1096 USA Short Story “Creation” Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 5/02) “The Weight of Words” Jeffrey Ford (Leviathan 3) “October in the Chair” Neil Gaiman (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists) “Little Dead Girl Singing” Stephen Gallagher (Weird Tales Spring 2002) “The Essayist in the Wilderness” William Browning Spencer (F&SF 5/02) Anthology The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Editors (Viking) The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection Ellen Datlow &Terri Windling, Eds. -
SF COMMENTARY 81 40Th Anniversary Edition, Part 2
SF COMMENTARY 81 40th Anniversary Edition, Part 2 June 2011 IN THIS ISSUE: THE COLIN STEELE SPECIAL COLIN STEELE REVIEWS THE FIELD OTHER CONTRIBUTORS: DITMAR (DICK JENSSEN) THE EDITOR PAUL ANDERSON LENNY BAILES DOUG BARBOUR WM BREIDING DAMIEN BRODERICK NED BROOKS HARRY BUERKETT STEPHEN CAMPBELL CY CHAUVIN BRAD FOSTER LEIGH EDMONDS TERRY GREEN JEFF HAMILL STEVE JEFFERY JERRY KAUFMAN PETER KERANS DAVID LAKE PATRICK MCGUIRE MURRAY MOORE JOSEPH NICHOLAS LLOYD PENNEY YVONNE ROUSSEAU GUY SALVIDGE STEVE SNEYD SUE THOMASON GEORGE ZEBROWSKI and many others SF COMMENTARY 81 40th Anniversary Edition, Part 2 CONTENTS 3 THIS ISSUE’S COVER 66 PINLIGHTERS Binary exploration Ditmar (Dick Jenssen) Stephen Campbell Damien Broderick 5 EDITORIAL Leigh Edmonds I must be talking to my friends Patrick McGuire The Editor Peter Kerans Jerry Kaufman 7 THE COLIN STEELE EDITION Jeff Hamill Harry Buerkett Yvonne Rousseau 7 IN HONOUR OF SIR TERRY Steve Jeffery PRATCHETT Steve Sneyd Lloyd Penney 7 Terry Pratchett: A (disc) world of Cy Chauvin collecting Lenny Bailes Colin Steele Guy Salvidge Terry Green 12 Sir Terry at the Sydney Opera House, Brad Foster 2011 Sue Thomason Colin Steele Paul Anderson Wm Breiding 13 Colin Steele reviews some recent Doug Barbour Pratchett publications George Zebrowski Joseph Nicholas David Lake 16 THE FIELD Ned Brooks Colin Steele Murray Moore Includes: 16 Reference and non-fiction 81 Terry Green reviews A Scanner Darkly 21 Science fiction 40 Horror, dark fantasy, and gothic 51 Fantasy 60 Ghost stories 63 Alternative history 2 SF COMMENTARY No. 81, June 2011, 88 pages, is edited and published by Bruce Gillespie, 5 Howard Street, Greensborough VIC 3088, Australia. -
NASFA 'Shuttle' Jun 2005
The SHUTTLE June 2005 The Next NASFA Meeting Will Be 18 June 2005 at the Regular Time and Location The Next Con Stellation ConCom Meeting Will Be 7 July 2005 at Marie McCormackÕs House { Oyez, Oyez { NASFA Calendar The next NASFA meeting will be 18 June 2005 at the JUNE regular time and location. 01 BD: Glenn Valentine. The June program is TBD at press time. The June after- 02 Concom Meeting: Marie McCormackÕs house. the-meeting meeting will be at Mike KennedyÕs house; 7907 02 BD: Lloyd Penney. Charlotte Drive SW, Huntsville. 03Ð05 ConCarolinas Ñ Charlotte NC. Due to space (and time!) limitations, the ongoing adven- 10Ð12 Sci-Fi Summer Con 2005 Ñ Atlanta GA. tures of PieEyedDragon will not appear in this issue. It is 14 Flag Day. scheduled to resume next month. (continued on page 2) Inside this issueÉ Minutes of the May Meeting ..........................................2 Time Magazine Top 100 Movie List ..............................5 Review of The Star Wars Saga .......................................3 Awards Roundup ............................................................5 NASFA Receivables .......................................................4 Letters of Comment ........................................................8 Deadline for the July 2005 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 1 July 2005. th Our 25 Year of1 Publication! 17Ð19 HyperiCon Ñ Nashville TN. Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The business 18* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is welcome to BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: Mike Ken- attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after-the- nedyÕs house. meeting meeting with directions available at the program. 19 FathersÕ Day. 21 First Day of Summer. -
Clockwork Heroines: Female Characters in Steampunk Literature Cassie N
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by TopSCHOLAR Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® Masters Theses & Specialist Projects Graduate School 5-1-2013 Clockwork Heroines: Female Characters in Steampunk Literature Cassie N. Bergman Western Kentucky University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses Part of the Literature in English, British Isles Commons, and the Literature in English, North America Commons Recommended Citation Bergman, Cassie N., "Clockwork Heroines: Female Characters in Steampunk Literature" (2013). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 1266. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1266 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses & Specialist Projects by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CLOCKWORK HEROINES: FEMALE CHARACTERS IN STEAMPUNK LITERATURE A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of English Western Kentucky University Bowling Green Kentucky In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirement for the Degree Master of Arts By Cassie N. Bergman August 2013 To my parents, John and Linda Bergman, for their endless support and love. and To my brother Johnny—my best friend. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Johnny for agreeing to continue our academic careers at the same university. I hope the white squirrels, International Fridays, random road trips, movie nights, and “get out of my brain” scenarios made the last two years meaningful. Thank you to my parents for always believing in me. A huge thank you to my family members that continue to support and love me unconditionally: Krystle, Dee, Jaime, Ashley, Lauren, Jeremy, Rhonda, Christian, Anthony, Logan, and baby Parker. -
BSFG News 295 April 1996
BRUM GROUP NEWS April 1996 Issue 295 The monthly newsletter of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group (Honorary Presidents: Brian W Aldiss and Harry Harrison) G r o u p C h a ir m a n & New s l e t t e r Editor - M artin T u d o r , S e c r e t a r y - A n n e W o o d fo r d , T r e a s u r e r - S a r a h Fr e a k l e y , Pu b lic it y O fficer - S t ev e J o n e s , O r d in a r y M e m b e r - A lan W o o d fo r d , No v a c o n 26 C h a irm a n - Ca r o l M o rto n , No v a c o n 27 C h a ir m a n - M a r t in T u d o r . SimonThis month's R. speakerGreen will address the Group on Friday 19th April 1996, 7.45pm for 8pm, at the Prince Hotel, Station Street, (behind New St. Station, between the Electric Cinema and the Bus Station, Birmingham city centre). Admittance: Members: £2.50, Non-Members £3.75. (Under 18s, Full-time Students and other Unwaged £2.00, at the discretion of the Treasurer, on production of appropriate proof.) Simon Green first tried to break into print in the seventies but didn't succeed until the late eighties when, after using two years on the dole to polish his style and submit vast amounts of work to a number of publishers, US publishers Ace offered him a six-book contract - one week after he'd started a new full time job. -
Here Walking Fossil Robert A
The Anticipation Hugo Committee is pleased to provide a detailed list of nominees for the 2009 Science Fiction and Fantasy Achievement Awards (the Hugos), and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (Sponsored by Dell Magazines). Each category is delineated to five nominees, per the WSFS Constitution. Also provided are the number of ballots with nominations, the total number of nominations and the number of unique nominations in each category. Novel The Last Centurion John Ringo 8 Once Upon a Time Philip Pullman 10 Ballots 639; Nominations: 1990; Unique: 335 The Mirrored Heavens David Williams 8 in the North Slow Train to Arcturus Dave Freer 7 To Hie from Far Cilenia Karl Schroeder 9 Little Brother Cory Doctorow 129 Hunter’s Run Martin Dozois Abraham 7 Pinocchio Walter Jon Williams 9 Anathem Neal Stephenson 93 Inside Straight George R. R. Martin 7 Utere Nihill Non Extra John Scalzi 9 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman 82 The Ashes of Worlds Kevin J Anderson 7 Quiritationem Suis Saturn’s Children Charles Stross 74 Gentleman Takes Sarah A Hoyt 7 Harvest James Van Pelt 9 Zoe’s Tale John Scalzi 54 a Chance The Inferior Peadar O’Guilin 7 Cenotaxis Sean Williams 9 Matter Iain M. Banks 49 Staked J.F. Lewis 7 In the Forests of Jay Lake 8 Nation Terry Pratchett 46 Graceling Kristin Cashore 6 the Night An Autumn War Daniel Abraham 46 Small Favor Jim Butcher 6 Black Petals Michael Moorcock 8 Implied Spaces Walter Jon Williams 45 Emissaries From Adam-Troy Castro 6 Political Science by Walton (Bud) Simons 7 Pirate Sun Karl Schroeder 41 the Dead & Ian Tregillis Half a Crown Jo Walton 38 A World Too Near Kay Kenyon 6 Mystery Hill Alex Irvine 7 Valley of Day-Glo Nick Dichario 35 Slanted Jack Mark L. -
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 77 (February 2019)
TABLE OF CONTENTS Issue 77, February 2019 FROM THE EDITOR Editorial: February 2019 FICTION Quiet the Dead Micah Dean Hicks We Are All Monsters Here Kelley Armstrong 58 Rules to Ensure Your Husband Loves You Forever Rafeeat Aliyu The Glottal Stop Nick Mamatas BOOK EXCERPTS Collision: Stories J.S. Breukelaar NONFICTION The H Word: How The Witch and Get Out Helped Usher in the New Wave of Elevated Horror Richard Thomas Roundtable Interview with Women in Horror Lisa Morton AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS Micah Dean Hicks Rafeeat Aliyu MISCELLANY Coming Attractions Stay Connected Subscriptions and Ebooks Support Us on Patreon or Drip, or How to Become a Dragonrider or Space Wizard About the Nightmare Team Also Edited by John Joseph Adams © 2019 Nightmare Magazine Cover by Grandfailure / Fotolia www.nightmare-magazine.com Editorial: February 2019 John Joseph Adams | 153 words Welcome to issue seventy-seven of Nightmare! We’re opening this month with an original short from Micah Dean Hicks, “Quiet the Dead,” the story of a haunted family in a town whose biggest industry is the pig slaughterhouse. Rafeeat Aliyu’s new short story “58 Rules To Ensure Your Husband Loves You Forever” is full of good relationship advice . if you don’t mind feeding your husband human flesh. We’re also sharing reprints by Kelley Armstrong (“We Are All Monsters Here”) and Nick Mamatas (“The Glottal Stop”). Our nonfiction team has put together their usual array of author spotlights, and in the latest installment of “The H Word,” Richard Thomas talks about exciting new trends in horror films. Since it’s Women in Horror Month, Lisa Morton has put together a terrific panel interview with Linda Addison, Joanna Parypinski, Becky Spratford, and Kaaron Warren—a great group of female writers and scholars. -
Edition80720.Pdf
PRAISE FOR JOHN MANTOOTH “John Mantooth writes with enviable grace, vigour, ease. These stories pulsate with the inevitable pain of familial love, and loss, and the horrors of the human condition while remaining peopled with unforgettable characters who move through their lives toward moments of personal realization and doom that can only come from the Southern experience. Mantooth has here collected a group of stories that exceeds the sum of its parts. You won’t regret picking up this collection and will think on these amazing and heartfelt stories long after you’ve closed the covers. Absolutely brilliant.” —John Hornor Jacobs, author of Southern Gods, This Dark Earth, and The Twelve Fingered Boy “The stories in John Mantooth’s powerful debut collection turn a blazing spotlight on those living at—and beyond—society’s margins. In sinuous, elegant prose, Mantooth maps the journeys that have led his characters to dead-ends and disappointments. Mantooth spares his characters nothing, including sufficient self- awareness to understand their roles in their personal catastrophes. These characters grieve their griefs on universal bones, and when they stumble onto hope, it is a small, tough thing that promises no miracles, only the possibility that life tomorrow will be a little better than it was today. This is impressive, assured work, not to be missed.” —John Langan, author of Technicolor and Other Revelations “John Mantooth’s short stories crackle with intelligence and vio- lence. He writes about desperate and simple lives gone not-so-sim- ple, and those lives beat with a savvy and familiar broken heart. -
Language Under the Microscope: Science and Philology in English Fiction 1850-1914
- 1 - Language under the Microscope: Science and Philology in English Fiction 1850-1914 Submitted by William Harrison Abberley to the University of Exeter as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English In September 2012 This thesis is available for Library use on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. I certify that all material in this thesis which is not my own work has been identified and that no material has previously been submitted and approved for the award of a degree by this or any other University. Signature: ………………………………………………………….. - 2 - Abstract This study explores how Anglophone fiction from the mid-Victorian period to the outbreak of the First World War acted as an imaginative testing-ground for theories of the evolution of language. Debates about the past development and the future of language ranged beyond the scope of empirical data and into speculative narrative. Fiction offered to realize such narratives in detail, building imaginative worlds out of different theories of language evolution. In the process, it also often tested these theories, exposing their contradictions. The lack of clear boundaries between nature and culture in language studies of the period enabled fictions of language evolution to explore questions to which contemporary researchers have returned. To what extent is communication instinctive or conventional? How do social and biological factors interact in the production of meaning? The study traces two opposing tendencies of thought on language evolution, naming them language ‗progressivism‘ and ‗vitalism‘. Progressivism imagined speakers evolving away from involuntary, instinctive vocalizations to extert rational control over their discourse with mechanical precision.