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SFRA Newsletter, 181, October 1990 Membership Form Enclosed President's Message (Hull) 3 SERA Conference Date Responses (Barron) 5 Currcnt Research (SERA Members) 5 Conferences & Calls for Papcrs (Tilton, et al.) 6 Miscellany (Barron) 8 SE Litcrature and USA's National Library (Mayhew) 12 Call for Information (Myers) 13 REVIEWS: Non·Fiction: Bartkowski, Fcminist Utopias (Larrier) 13 Beahm, ed., Stcphcn King Companion (Dudley) 14 Cinebooks, Horror Film (Klossner) 15 Collings, In the Image of God: Theme in Fiction ofCard (Collins) 16 Cummins, Understanding Ursula K.LeGuin (Coli ins) 17 Florescu & McNally, Dracula Life & Times (Werbaneth) 18 Geist, et al. Popular Cu/turc Collections (Barron) 19 Hardy, Visions ofSpace (C. Morgan) · 20 l-lewman, Nightmare Movies:Guide to Horror Films (Klossner) 21 Schechtcr, Bosom Scrpent:Folklore & Popular Art(Klossncr) 22 Stanley, Work ofColin Wilson (Collings) 23 Fiction: Aldiss, Romance of Equator: Fantasy Stories Chapman) 24 Aronica, et al. Full Spectrum 2 (Stevens) 26 Author's Choice Monthly #1,#2: Effingcr & Wagncr (Key) 27 Bujold, Borders ofInfinity (Stevens) 27 Card, Maps in a Mirror: Short Fiction of Card (Collings) 28 Card, Xcnocide (Collings) 29 Collins, Sunglasscs Aftcr Dark (Collings) 30 Eco, Focault's Pcndulum (Schuylcr) 31 Gadallah, Cat's Gambit (Shcrman) 33 Greenberg, Foundations Fric,nds (Wolfe) 3~ Hambly, Dark Hand ofMagiC (Sherman) 3:> Hinz, Ash Ock (Hall) 36 Kennealv, Hawk's Gray Fcathcr (Tryforos) 37 Kcrr, BrIstling Wood (Wytcnbroek) ; 38 K.ing, The Stand, Uncut Edition (Sanders) 39 Lindholm, Luck ofthe Wheels (Bogstad) 40 LupoH & Coville, Dungcon, I, /I (Underhill) 41 Masello, Black Horizon (Gardiner-ScoU) 42 Monteleone, Fantasma (de Lint) 43 Niven, et ai, Man-Kzin Wars /I (Stevens) 44 Norton & Grecnberg, cds. Catfantastic (Sherman) 44 Pournelle, Princc oJ Mcrcenarics (Werbaneth) 46 Rusch, Pulphousc III, (Carper) 47 Saberhagen, Fourth Lost Swords: Farslayer (Heldreth) .48 Shiner, Slam (Gordon) 49 Su II ivan, The ParasiJe War (Marx) 50 Williams, Solip:Systems (Levy) 51 ~~~C~g ~dc.;r.:F1ag (Langcr) 52 Cook, Wizard's Bane (Berman) 53 Cooney, The Fog (jordan) 54 LeGuin, fire ana Stone (Chapman) 54 L'Engle, An Acceptable Time (Sherman) 55 Lisle, Afternoon of the Elves (Hemesaath) 56 Maguire, I Feel Like the Morning Star (Levy) 57 Norton, Dare to Go A-Hunting (Martin) 58 Singer, Storm Rising (Donsky) 59 SFRA Newsletter, 181, October 1990 The SFRA Newsletter published ten times a year for the Science Fiction Research Association by Alan Newcomer, Hypatia Press, Eugene, Oregon. Copyright @ 1990 by the SFRA. Editorial correspondence: Betsy Harfst, Editor, SFRA Newslet­ ter, 2357 E. Calypso, Mesa, AZ 85204. Send changes of address and/or inquiries concerning subscriptions to the Treasurer, listed below. SFRA EXECUTIVE Past Presidents of SFRA COMMITIEE Thomas D. Clareson (1970-76) Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. (1977-78) President Joe De Bolt (1 979-80) Elizabeth Anne Hull James Gunn (1981-82) Liberal Arts Division Patricia S. Warrick (1983-84) William Rainey Harper College Donald M. Hassler (1985-86) Palatine, Illinois 60067 Past Editors of the Newsletter Vice-President Fred Lerner (1971-74) Neil Barron Beverly Friend (1974-78) 1149 Lime Place Roald Tweet (1978-81) Vista, California 92083 Elizabeth Anne Hull (1981-84) Richard W. Miller (1984-87) Secretary Robert A. Collins (1987-89) David G. Mead English Department Pilgrim Award Winners Corpus Christi State University J. O. Bailey (1970) Corpus Christi, Texas 78412 Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1971) Julius Kagarlitski (1972) Treasurer Jack Williamson (1973) Thomas J. Remington I. F. Clarke (1974) English Department Damon Knight (1975) University of Northern Iowa James Gunn (1976) Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614 Thomas D. C1areson (1977) Brian W. Aldiss (1978) Immediate Past President Darko Suvin (1979) William H. Hardesty Peter Nichols (1980) English Department Sam Moskowitz (1981) Miami University Neil Barron (1982) Oxford, Ohio 45056 H. Bruce Franklin (1983) Everett Bleiler (1984) Pioneer Award Samuel R. Delany (1985) Veronica Hollinger (1990) George Slusser (1986) Gary K. Wolfe (1987) Joanna Russ (1988) Ursula K. LeGuin (1989) Marshall Tymn (1990) SFRA Newsletter, 181, October 1990 President's Message QUACKS FROM YOUR LAME DUCK While waiting for the results ofthe elections, I need to tie up a few loose ends so I can hand the reins over to the new president in Janu­ ary. One is the appointment ofthe Pioneer Committee for next year. I am very pleased to announce that Veronica Hollinger has agreed to join Takayuki Tatsumi and Russell Letson on that committee, which Takayuki will chair for 1991. If you are aware of any 1990 articles which should be eligible by their subject matter but might be overlooked because they appear in unusual journals for science fiction criticism, please send copies to all three panel members. Self nominations are quite appropriate also. Rotating off the Pioneer Committee is Lynn Williams, who also served on the original committee which developed the guidelines and procedures. Many thanks for all your fine work, Lynnl I am currently working on the composition of the new Pilgrim Committee, which I should be able to announce in the next newslet­ ter, and I have already received several nominations which I will pass along to the committee. I also hope to be able to establ ish the annual meeting site for 1992 (and perhaps even 1993), so if you are interested in hosting a meeting, let me know right away. On the subject of meeting sites-I'm just back from ConFiction and the World SF General Meeting in The Hague, where I saw Milt Wolf. He promises to submit another bid for a future SFRA meeting. World SF had bids for its 1991 meeting from both China and Poland. In a Solomon's decision, the members present voted finally to hold their official General Meeting 20-25 May 1991 in Chengdu, Sichuan, but also authorized a European regional meeting to be held in con­ junction with the Eurocon in Krakow 9-12 May 1991. It's possible that some hardy souls will make both World SF meetings, just as some of us attended both the Worldcon and the NASFiC-but Isuspect there will be very few. World SF plans to meet in 1992 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. If any SFRA members are interested in attending any of these meetings, let me know and I will keep you posted as I get more information myself. World SF welcomes teach­ ers, scholars, and librarians, as well as writers, editors, publishers, il­ lustrators, booksellers, film and TV producers, etc.-anyone who has a professional relationship to SF. 3 SFRA Newsletter, 181, October 1990 The World SF meeting was extremely interesting for news about publishing in general outside the U.S., particularly in the rapidly changing Eastern European countries. The changes extend even to the U.S.S.R. itself: Vitaly Babenko represented a flourishing new pub­ lishing venture in Moscow that can now exist outside the official Writers' Union. I also attended ConDiego (or ConDigeo as it appears at one place in the pocket program) in San Diego-both the Worldcon and the NASFiC program books were rife with misspellings and typos, but ConDiego's Committee didn't have the excuse of working with a foreign language. The most intriguing error was a title of a book of criticism (familiar to most SFRA members) by the Guest of Honor Samuel R. Delaney, which came out as The lewel-Hinged lew, con­ juring up a whole different image. Since Chip Delaney is a self-pro­ claimed dyslexic, some wits speculated that the transpositions of let­ ters were deliberately designed to make him feel at home. Although there was no official "Actrack" at either ConFiction or ConDiego, among SFRA members attending the NASFiC I saw Russ Letson, Takayuki Tatsumi, and Peter Lowentrout. In The Hague, Ialso was on a panel with a college teacher from Florida, discussing the use of science fiction to teach slow readers, a program developed by a Dutch publisher. Although we were scheduled against both Joe Haldeman's Guest of Honor Speech and a reading by Anne McCaffery, this panel drew an audience of about twenty, so I suspect there were many academics who might have attended Actrack type items if they were available. Is there interest in having an Actrack at Chicon V next year? And speaking of next year, for your convenience a membership brochure is enclosed in this issue of the newsletter. At the Executive Committee meeting we decided to do a first class mailing in Decem­ ber to those who have not renewed by then, but we urge you to write that check now while you're thinking of it and let SFRA save the postage for more important uses. If all goes smoothly with the tran­ sition of officers, we will aim to get the Directory to all the members as quickly as possible after the beginning of 1991, and of course the Directory will be most useful to everyone if it includes all the mem­ bers. While you're renewing, think about suggestions for projects SFRA should undertake.