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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 2 SFRA Newsletter, No. 175, Marcn, 7990 I The SFRA Newsletter Published ten times a year for the Science Fiction Research Association by Alan Newcomer, Hypatia Press, Eugene, Oregon. Copyright @ 1989 by the SFRA. Editorial correspondence: Betsy Harfst, Editor, SFRA Newsletter, Arts, Communications, & Social Science Division, Kishwaukee College, Malta II 60150. (Tel. 815-825-2086). Send changes of address and/or inquiries concerning subscriptions to the Treasurer, listed below. SFRA Executive Past Presidents of SFRA Thomas D. Clareson {1970-76} Committee Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. {1977-78} Joe De Bolt {1979-80} President James Gunn {1981-82} Patricia S. Warrick {1983-84} Elizabeth Anne Hull Liberal Arts Division Donald M. Hassler {1985-86} William Rainey Harper College Palatine, Illinois 60067 Past Editors of the Newsletter Fred Lerner {1971-74} Vice-President Beverly Friend {1974-78} Neil Barron Roald Tweet {1978-81} 1149 Lime Place Elizabeth Anne Hull {1981-84} Vista, California 92083 Richard W. Miller {1984-87} Robert A. Collins {1987 -89} Secretary David G. Mead English Department Pilgrim Award Winners Corpus Christi State University J.O. Bailey {1970} Marjorie Hope Nicolson {1971} Corpus Christi, Texas 78412 Julius Kagarlitski (1972) Treasurer Jack Williamson (1973) I.F. Clarke (1974) Thomas J. Remington Damon Knight (1975) English Department James Gunn ({1976) University of Northern Iowa Thomas D. Clareson (1977) Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614 Brian W. Aldiss (1978) Immediate Past President Darko Suvin (1979) Peter Nicholls (1980) William H. Hardesty Sam Moskowitz (1981) English Department Neil Barron {1982} Miami University H. Bruce Franklin (1983) Oxford, Ohio 45056 Everett Bleiler {1984} Samuel R. Delany (1985) George Slusser (1986) Gary K. Wolfe (1987) Joanna Russ (1988) Ursula K. Le Guin (1989) SFRA Newsletter, No. 175, March, 1990 3 President's Message TIME TO FISH OR CUT BAIT If you have not (yet) renewed your membership in SFRA, please do so now. (Please?) Every year we face the dilemma of when to stop sending the newsletter to late renewers who may really be nonrenewers. For various reasons we hate to cut off anyone who intends to renew. We know that some of our members, particularly those outside North America, may have received the renewal forms late due to surface mail delays, local mail strikes, or other delays beyond their or our control. And we value our international exchange of ideas. Then there is simple oversight. We're not all "absent-minded professors," but people do get preoccupied with personal and professional affairs. But we have to remain financially responsible, which means that we cannot subsidize the previous year's members with the dues of this year's members. So this is the deadline: your SFRA publications benefits package will cease with this issue unless your renewal is received before the next mailings go out. There's also the question of listings in the Directory. Our goal is to publish the Directory prior to the annual meeting in June, and we can only list those who have paid their dues before it goes to press. Obviously, it will be less useful to members as well as publishers or others who pay us to use the Directory if late-renewing members are omitted. In the past several years, the Executive Committee has decided to delay the publication of the Directory in order to include more of the members. But delay makes the Directory less useful also. So please renew now, while you're thinking about it. We don't want to lose touch with you. The greatest benefit of SFRA is the network of information we share. Here is good news for us. From Pierluigi and Betty Piazzi of Aleph Publishers, Sao Paulo, comes word that they will bring out their first sf book this fall (which, of course, is spring in the northern hemisphere). I've asked them to send a copy to the World SF special collection in the Spencer Library at the University of Kansas, for anyone interested in Portuguese-language sf. And on the subject of World SF, in my capacity as North American secretary for that organization, I've received an inquiry from Ralph Willing­ ham, a Ph.D. candidate writing a doctoral dissertation on "Science Fiction in the Theatre." He requests that anyone who has done any research on the 4 SFRA Newsletter, No. 175, March, 1990 subject contact him at URH-719; 1010 West Green Street; Urbana, IL 61801 U.S.A. He is also interested in hearing from anyone who has written an sf play. As for writers of sf. still another inquiry, from Kevin D. Browne; 267 West 70th Street #5E; New York, NY 10023 U.S.A. (212) 721-9273, who is interested in finding a collaborator on a "highly unique, marketable short story collection." He adds: "I'm sure this could represent a strong oppor­ tunityfor someone affiliated with the Science Fiction Research Association." (I'd appreciate knowing how this turns out for anyone who pursues it.) A final note on the subject of renewals, and the particular problems of international members in countries where blocked currency or massive in­ flation rates make dues paying a severe problem. One solution has been for members who can afford to do so to "adopt" a member who needs dues sup­ port, similar to the programs to "adopt" children in third world countries. In fact, there are already several such arrangements in effect. It occurs to me, however, that some members who might be interested in subsidizing a deserving academic may not know of anyone personally who is in need. If the idea appeals to you, please let me know and I will make some suggestions. In the event there would be more volunteers than present candidates, a restricted fund could be established within the SFRA budget. --Elizabeth Anne Hull Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference XXI "SF in the Future: There and Back Again with SFRA XXI" THE VENUE; SFRA XXI will meet June 28-July 1, 1990, at the Hyatt Edgewater Hotel in Long Beach, California. Located in the picturesque Long Beach Marina, the hotel is less than a five minute walk from dozens of restaurants and shops, two movie theaters, one of the best beaches in southern California, and the longest sport fishing pier on the West coast. Through Supershuttle, the hotel is inexpensively connected to the whole of the Southern California region. CONFERENCE FEES AND COSTS: Full conference membership will be $80 to June 14th, $85 thereafter, and includes the cost of the Pilgrim Award Banquet, conference trip, the nightly hospitality suite and other conference events to be announced. PLEASE NOTE: Those wishing to go on the conference trip (a visit to the full-scale mock-up of the Freedom space SFRA Newsletter, No. 175, March, 1990 5 station and then into LA to see the IMAX film "The Dream is Alive," shot "on orbit" bytheshuttle crews) must register by June 1st. Daily memberships will be $20 ($5 high school students, $10 college undergrads). Banquet: $25. Conference trip: $25. Please help us plan accurately by registering early. The Hyatt Edgewater Hotel has offered us rates of $68 per day, single or double. The Hyatt has also offered to extend its conference rates for those who would like to stay on after the conference. BOOK DISPLAY: TocelebrateSFRA's "Coming of Age," Neil Barron will be organizing the book display this year with a special emphasis upon the "Highlights of SF scholarship, 1930s-1980s." We also expect to have a dealers' area, with a selection of new and used paperbacks. There will be a signing period for guest authors. THE PROGRAM: Sheila Finch, Richard Lupoff, Frederik Pohl, Lewis Shiner, Susan Shwartz, Jack Williamson, SF screenwriter Harry Kleiner, story editor Max Headroom, and writer Michael Cassutt will be among the SF professionals attending. We will be announcing others who will be in attendance as they give us definite commitments. We have received many paper, session and panel proposals, and though we are now a bit past the deadline for submissions we still have a few spaces left. The formal deadline for submission was January 15, 1990. We will make every effort to accommo­ date late submissions, but get those ideas to the Land of LA now! Send proposals to us at 1017 Seal Way, Seal Beach, CA 90740. --Christine and Peter Lowentrout ...--,N-. S--'. I Burroughs Bulletin Revived Vernon Coriell, 1918-1987, founded the Burroughs Bulletin in 1947 and kept it going for almost four decades. George McWhorter, Curator, The Burroughs Memorial Collection, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, has revived the journal as a quarterly, with new series issue I, January 1990 as the inaugural issue. It's typeset, printed on coated stock, 8 1/2 x II, with both color and monochrome illustrations and photos; $28/year (U.S.), $35 (foreign). This initial issue is heavily nostalgic. The color cover reproduces Frank Schoonover's cover of the first hardcover editions of The Princess of Mars (1917), and the first of the Bibliographer's Corner columns reproduces covers of nine foreign language editions, ranging from a decidedly 1920s Egyptian look in a German edition to a 1968 Japanese edition with Dejah Thoris's pneumatic charms prominent.