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Steam Engine Time 2 Arrives Steam Engine Time 1 Steam Engine T ime Issue 2 November 2001 2 Steam Engine Time Steam Engine Time The Future Issue 2 of the Genre? November 2001 Maureen Kincaid Speller Cover AT LAST, STEAM ENGINE TIME 2 ARRIVES. WE HOPE THAT THE GAP BETWEEN Ditmar (Dick Jenssen) issues 2 and 3 will be shorter as we iron out the teething problems associated with three busy people running an inter-continental zine by email. The Future of the Genre? After we sent out the first SET, I wondered if we had misjudged the need Maureen Kincaid Speller 2 for another magazine of critical discussion of sf… then the comments and A Word Beginning with ‘D’ reviews started coming in, and I realised that there was definitely room in Claire Brialey 3 the world for us. It’s a feeling that has been reinforced over the last few months, as people have come up to us at various conventions, on two conti- The Pure Quill nents, asking when issue 2 would be out. (And I know the same has been Bruce Gillespie 6 happening to Bruce in Australia.) I hope your patience has been rewarded. The Infrequency of Liberation I’m sure I’m not the only sf reader who wonders if there’s a future for the genre and its numerous literary outposts. Sf images are well and truly part Ron Drummond 12 of the common cultural currency nowadays, to the point where many people Call Me Dumbo, but... don’t even realise that they are a part of a rich visual and literary heritage David Longhorn 20 which extends back more than a hundred years before Star Trek, Star Wars The Problem Club and their ilk. I’m glad that my literary dialect is accessible to all, after years of trying to explain my interest to the non-comprehending, but it doesn’t Ron Bennett 21 make communication easier. I’ve lost count of the conversations that began The NorthNorth----SouthSouth Continuum promisingly with a shared enthusiasm for sf, only to stumble as soon as we Paul Kincaid 23 establish that one of us is talking about blockbuster films, the other about Cartoon books, or else that our perceptions of written science fiction are so far apart, we might as well be talking about completely different subjects. 31 Steve Jeffery Hardest of all is to explain to people that science fiction isn’t necessarily Letters of Comment 32 about science or space; that it can be about a certain way of looking at the world. I confess, I don’t really try to do it any more. It ’s in the nature of the genre that while the basic components are easily identified, the different ways of using them can vary so greatly that it obscures the discussion, rather than facilitating it, and that for many people, it just isn’t that important, so Steam Engine Time is jointly long as there is more of what they like. Which is an attitude that saddens me edited by Bruce Gillespie, Paul but it is also a fact of human nature that while some question, many simply Kincaid and Maureen Kincaid Speller. accept … and the world continues merrily on its way. Steam Engine Time will be Nevertheless, it’s all too easy to believe that no one’s really interested in published twice a year. Letters and books any more, until you go to a convention like Boskone, Potlatch or Wis- contributions are welcome and should con, or to an event like the Science Fiction Foundation’s recent Celebration of be sent to: British SF, or else stumble across a strand of serious programming about Bruce Gillespie books, such as the British Science Fiction Association regularly puts on at the 59 Keele St., Collingwood, British Eastercon. Paul and I, between us, have been present at all these VIC 3066, Australia events this year, and have been thrilled to discover that people still want to [email protected] talk about science fiction and fantastic literature in all its variations, and with such intensity it’s truly breathtaking. There are moments when the exchange OR of ideas is so intoxicating it’s completely overwhelming, and yet you just Maureen Kincaid Speller have to get up next morning and go back for more. 60 Bournemouth Road, My hope is that Steam Engine Time, alongside more venerable colleagues, Folkestone, Kent CT19 5AZ, UK such as Foundation, New York Review of Science Fiction and Vector, will help to [email protected] keep the discussion going in between such memorable gatherings and help (Please note new email address) to celebrate the diversity of our remarkable genre. ✦ Steam Engine Time 3 A Word Beginning With ‘D’ Claire Brialey CLAIRE BRIALEY has been I’M LOOKING FOR A WORD BEGINNING WITH ‘D’. JOHN KESSEL’S CORRUPTING DR DAVID SEED is a Nice (Gollancz, 1998) is either disappointing or deceptive. I thought it was a a member of the relatively enjoyable book, but it could have been more – or lighter, or fun- member of the English nier. Then again, it deals with some fairly weighty subjects: time travel, tam- Committee of the British Department at Liverpool pering with history – or, more to the point, with other people’s present – Science Fiction Association time paradoxes and so on. I mean, it could be proper skiffy. Oh, and there’s University. He is the some stuff about love, deception and the power of populism too. But it does and a judge of the Arthur all this in a very frilly way that makes me wish that Kessel hadn’t bothered. editor of Liverpool I understand that it’s meant to be a comedy: the BSFA’s Vector carried a C. Clarke Award. She review from Joseph Nicholas that seemed to say it was the funniest book in University Press Science the history of the world ever; the cover carries dazzling endorsements from reviews for Vector and Ursula Le Guin, Paul McAuley, Jonathan Lethem and Kim Stanley Robin- Fiction Texts and son – who claims it is ’the best time-travel novel ever written‘. Most impor- Foundation, and is co- Studies series. He tantly, nearly all the friends whose opinions about books I usually respect and which usually aren’t wildly divergent from my own have clearly got editor of the Nova Award- edited Anticipations: something out of this which I haven’t and agree that it is incontinence- winning fanzine Banana inducingly amusing. I don’t recall having had a sense-of-humour bypass, so Essays on Early Science I’m puzzled by the fact that (a) it isn’t actually very funny and (b) the serious Wings. bits are more interesting, or at least they are if you think them through, Fiction and its which is something you’re probably not meant to have time to do while A version of this article you’re rolling on the floor clutching your ribs. Precursors for the Much of what I’m about to say, therefore, must miss the point, or at any appeared in Acnestis, in rate not reflect what’s in the book. I don’t think it’s at all a bad thing for a series; is currently book to make you want to think more or know more about some of the main August 1998. working on a study of issues it covers; but it’s probably not such a good thing when you end up more interested in all the stuff you can extrapolate than in what the author the Cold War; and is actually wanted to write about. editing a collection, For instance, I liked Kessel’s solution to one of the classic time-travel para- doxes of whether going back in time irrevocably changes the time you came Imagining Apocalypse, from. No, he says firmly, it doesn’t. Rather than a single time line, what you have is a series of time moments which you visit. You can change the moment for Macmillan. while you’re there, but you don’t change the way that time originally was for you. More to the point, you don’t change the time moment that comes next, which makes it a lot easier for different parties of gawping tourists to go to the same historical events. I’m not quite convinced that this works, but it’s plausible if you don’t think about it for too long and it doesn’t make your brain leak out of your ears while you do think about it. Take an example. In your history, there’s a religion that believed that some character called something like Jesus Christ was the Son of God and was crucified and resurrected. You go back in time and find that he did ex- ist, sort of, and he was crucified, but he wasn’t resurrected. For reasons of your own which are never fully explained, you or some of your contempo- raries go back in time again and spirit him away just before he got crucified, when he was just some Jewish bloke called Yeshu who’d attracted a respect- able number of followers including some Zealots and some Essenes who you 4 Steam Engine Time always knew wouldn’t agree when he’d gone. That parallels too exactly any situations we have now and version of history in the Middle East starts to turn thus avoid drawing too telling and irritating little out differently, and it becomes quite a popular time morals about our world view. Some parts of the ar- resort from which to jump to other events from your gument seem easier to deal with, but aren’t really own existing history – like the Crucifixion, that fa- since you can never divorce one part of the issue vourite haunt of time travellers.
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