University of South Florida Scholar Commons Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications 9-1-1991 SFRA ewN sletter 190 Science Fiction Research Association Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scifistud_pub Part of the Fiction Commons Scholar Commons Citation Science Fiction Research Association, "SFRA eN wsletter 190 " (1991). Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications. Paper 133. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scifistud_pub/133 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Past Presidents of SFRA Thomas D. Clareson (1970-76) Arthur o. Lewis, Jr. (1977-78) Joe De Bolt (1979-80) James Gunn (1981-82) Patricia S. Warrick (1983-84) Donald M. Hassler (1985-86) William H. Hardesty (1987-89) Elizabeth Anne Hull (1989-90) Past Editors of the Newsletter Fred Lerner (1971-74) Beverly Friend (1974-78) Roald Tweet (1978-81) Elizabeth Anne Hull (1981-84) Richard W. Miller (1984-87) Robert A. Collins (1987-89) Pilgrim Award Winners J. O. Bailey (1970) Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1971 ) julius Kagarlitski (1972) jack Williamson (1973) I. F. Clarke (1974) Damon Knight (1975) james Gunn (1976) Thomas D. Clareson (1977) Brian W. Aldiss (1978) Darko Suvin (1979) Peter Nicholls (1980) Sam Moskowitz (1981 ) Neil Barron (1982) H. Bruce Franklin (1983) Everett Bleiler (1984) Samuel R. Delany (1985) George Slusser (1986) Gary K. Wolfe (1987) Joanna Russ (1988) Ursula K. Le Guin (1989) Marshall Tymn (1990) Pierre Versins (1991 ) Pioneer Award Veronica Hollinger (1990) H. Bruce Franklin (1991 ) The SFRA Newsletter Published ten times a year for the Science Fiction Research Association by Alan Newcomer, Hypatia Press, Eugene, Oregon. Copyright © 1991 by the SFRA. Editorial correspondence: Betsy Harfst, Editor, SFRA Newsletter, 2357 E. Calypso, Mesa, AZ 85204. Send changes of address and/or inquiries concerning subscriptions to the Treasurer, listed below. Note to Publishers: Please send fiction books for review to: Robert Collins, Dept. of English, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431-7588. Send non-fiction books for review to Neil Barron, 1149 Lime Place, Vista, CA 92083. Juvenile-Young Adult books for review to Muriel Becker, 60 Crane Street, Caldwell, NJ 07006. SFRA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President Peter Lowentrout, Dept. of Religious Studies California State University, Long Beach, CA 90840 Vice-President Muriel Becker, English Department Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Secretary David G. Mead, English Department Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, Texas 78412 Treasurer Edra Bogle Department of English University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203-3827 Immediate Past President Elizabeth Anne Hull, Liberal Arts Division William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, Illinois 60067 SFRA Newsletter #189 July-Aug 1991 In This Issue: President's Message (Lowentrout) .................................................. .4 23rd Annual SFRA Conference (Lehman) ........................................ 6 22nd Annual SFRA Conference Pictures (Hull) ............................... 6 Recent & Forthcoming Books (Barron) ............................................ 9 World SF Meets in China (Hull) .................................................... 11 News & Information (Barron ........................................................ 15 Campbell & Sturgeon Awards (Gunn) ........................................... 20 The Shape of Films to Come (Krulik) ............................................. 21 SFRA Market Survey (Barron) ........................................................ 23 Editorial Matters (Harfst) ............................................................... 33 Non-Fiction: Amano, The Art of Yoshitaka Amano: Hiten. (Stevens) ................. 34 Boos, Design/Morris's l'The Earthly Paradise l' (MacDonald) ......... 35 Cederstrom, Jungian Patterns in Lessing (Wall) ............................. 36 Clark, Lewis Carroll (Collins) ........................................................ 38 DeLamotte, Perils of the Night: Study of Gothic (Sanders) ............ 39 Everson, Classics of the Horror Film (Dziemianowicz). ................ .41 Garnett & Ell is, eds. SF: Critical Approaches (Bartter) .................. .42 Jones & Goodwin, eds. Feminism, Utopia, & Narrative (Bartter) ............................... .44 Lacey, New Arthurian Encyclopedia (Williams) ........................... .45 Mancoff, The Arthurian Revival in Victorian Art (Albert) ............. .46 Matthews, The Authurian Book of Days (Thompson) ................... .47 Monleon, Specter Haunting Europe (Albert) ................................ .49 Pearson & Uricchio, The Many Lives of the Batman (Latham) ............................... 50 Penley, et ai, Film, Feminism & SF (Hollinger) .............................. 51 Powers, et ai, Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture (Barron) ................. 53 Shelley, The Mary Shelley Reader (Pfeiffer) ................................... 54 Skerl & Lydenberg, Wm. S. Burroughs at the Front (Morrison) ............................ 56 Smith, Poe in the Media (Taormina). ...... , ...................................... 58 SFRA Newsletter, 190, September 1991 3 Stephens, SF&F Paperback and Joyce & Stephens Checklist of Kim Stanley Robinson (Barron) ......................... 59 Stinson, Anthony Burgess Revisited (Ruddick) .............................. 60 Van Hise, ed.5tar Trek, Dark Shadows, Lost in Space, Trek Crew Book (Albert) ............................................................... 61 Waugh, The Comics (Albert) ......................................................... 63 Fiction: Anderson & Beason, Lifeline (Werbaneth) '" ................................. 64 Anthony, Phase Doubt (Collings) .................................................. 65 Arnason, A Woman of the Iron People (Sanders) .......................... 65 Curry & Dean, Winter Scream (Mallett) ........................................ 66 David, Vendetta (Mallett) .............................................................. 67 DeChancie, Castle War! (Osborn) ................................................ 68 Eddings, The Ruby Knight (Hitt) .................................................... 69 Edgerton, Goblin Moon (Strain) .................................................... 69 Farmer, Dayworld Breakup (Brizzi) ............................................... 70 Friesner, Hooray for Hellywood (Larrier) ...................................... 71 James, Sorcerer's Stone (Mallett) ................................................... 72 Kerr, Polar City Blues (Wytenbroek) ............................................. 73 McDowell, Taplin (Umland) ......................................................... 73 Preuss, Venus Prime: The Diamond Moon (Ferguson) .................. 75 Robinson, Callahan's Lady (Hellekson) ......................................... 76 Shiner, Nine Hard Questions About the Universe (Sanders) ......... 77 Williamson, Into the Eighth Decade (Levy) ................................... 79 Zahn, Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Hellekson) ........................... 80 4 SFRA Newsletter, 90, September1991 President's Message Our Foothold in Cyberspace Jim MacDonald, Sysop ("system operator") of the GEnie Science Fiction Roundtable (the SFRT) has recently established a private meeting area online for members of the SFRA, and it is now time for even our technophobes to lay aside fear and self-doubt - even though you can't figure out how to operate your TV's remote control, you can get online with the SFRA with little fuss and bother. The GEnie SFRT is the most active SF online meeting area in the world's growing electronic noosphere. Its several thousand members, including fans, writers, editors and scholars, log onto the system daily from Germany to Japan and South America to Canada. Nearly 200 members of the Science Fiction Writers of America are online with GEnie. For $4.95 a month, you can have unlimited "non-primetime" access to GEnie's "basic services" from 6 pm at night to 8 am the following morning, including the SFRT bulletin boards. GEnie will accommodate all types of computers, be they IBMs, IBM clones, Apples, Ataris or old CPM systems. Dialing into a "local node" (computer equipment in your local area ac­ cessed with your modem by dialing a local phone number), you have im­ mediate access to an international SF community with no long distance charges. GEnie has more local nodes worldwide than any other online ser­ vice and unlimited electronic mail is included in GEnie's basic services. If you get your friends online, you'll likely cut your postage and phone bills significantly. The SFRT Bulletin Board is currently divided into 47 "categories" (read "topics") of discussion, and categories are themselves divided into many "topics" (read "subtopics"). Among the categories are three for the discus­ sion of authors (with topic areas for nearly 150 authors), writer's workshops, categories for the consideration of specific books, SF film, SF television and radio, non-network SF television and radio, and music and art in SF. In category 3, "The Written Word - Concepts and Theory," some of the 27 topics include "Religious Faith in SF and Fantasy,"