From LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Sat Sep 11 14:26:26 1999 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:48:30 -0500 From: "L-Soft list server at University of Illinois at Chicago (1.8c)" To: Laura Quilter Subject: File: "FEMINISTSF LOG9908D" ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:47:16 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: Jorge Luis Borges centennial Comments: To: Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv , "horror@listserv.indiana.edu" Comments: cc: "SCIENCEFICTION-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" As NPR reminds us, this would've been Borges's 100th birthday today. I still haven't forgiven myself for missing his 1985 speech at George Mason University, a mile away from my then house...it was nice to hear my old prof Alistair Reid getting a comment in on the piece. World Fantasy Award for life achievement, folks, and no one deserved it more...and as with Fritz Leiber and a few others, even with all the awards he did collect in his life, none could be sufficient... -----Original Message----- From: Todd Mason Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 1:23 PM To: 'Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv' Subject: AKA "The last man on Earth sat alone..." While Fredric Brown used what had become a very old joke as the opener to "Knock," the oldest citation of this story I'm aware of even supplants the unintentional sexism (and speciesism!) of the usual retelling (presumably, the last woman on Earth could be knocking...or one of the not nearly extinct set of women...and other options). From THE BOOK OF FANTASY as published in the US by Carroll and Graf, with enough typos in W W Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw" to kill the story, "in translation" from the original ANTOLOGIA DE LA LITERATURA FANTASTICA (I gave the wrong title in my last post about it) edited by Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, and A. Bioy Casares, the following story is reprinted from the New England-based author's WORKS, VOLUME 9 (1912): A WOMAN ALONE WITH HER SOUL by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1835-1907) A woman is sitting alone in a house. She knows she is alone in the world: every other living thing is dead. The doorbell rings. -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Segal [mailto:jffal@WEBTV.NET] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 3:37 PM To: Multiple recipients of list SF-LIT Subject: Re: Great SF Opening Lines Re -"The last man on Earth sat in a room alone. There was a knock at the door." Where is this from? Jeff ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:24:24 -0400 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Lori B Pfahler Subject: Reading sf ebooks on your Palm Pilot Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes - I am a "gadget" nerd. I would be lost without my palm pilot. Got the following note from 3Com advertising a new product. Its a reader program for the pilot. You can purchase ebooks - new and old/out of print - from this company. I pass this along because the site has quite a few sf books - some hard to get. You can also request a book. The owners are apparently working with publishers to get more stock. Might be a way to get some out of print books. I gave it a try on the free book - worked well but new stuff is a bit expensive. I would have expected a discount for buying the book in digital format. Oh - just in case - I am not affilated in any way with this product. Just an FYI. Enjoy, Lori B. Pfahler Lori_B_Pfahler@rohmhaas.com Statistics Support Group Rohm and Haas Company Spring House Research Labs "These are my opinions and not those of the Rohm and Haas Company" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's a novel concept for all you bookworms: A chance to read some of the classics and bestsellers on your Palm III(TM) connected organizer. Peanutpress.com, an electronic bookstore for users of Palm Computing(R) organizers, features contemporary fiction and non-fiction releases as well as out-of-print or hard-to-find books from popular contemporary authors. With the Peanut Reader (which can be downloaded for free), it's easy to page through works like "Monica's Story," an account of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal; the Star Trek books; the Tarzan of the Apes series by Edgar Rice Burroughs; and Joe Hutsko's "The Deal," an insider's fictitious look at the computer industry. And between now and the end of August, you can download for *free* the first book in the popular series "Remo Williams, The Destroyer." For more information, visit http://p0.com/r.d?6AtYBS-Jn=/www.peanutpress.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:17:34 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: FW: SFWA Online Update, RE: SFWA Jr. (fwd) Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list SF-LIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" -----Original Message----- From: Mildred L. Perkins [mailto:mlperkin@INDIANA.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 10:25 AM To: SCIENCEFICTION-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: SFWA Online Update, RE: SFWA Jr. (fwd) > An electronic publication of < > Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America < --------------------------------------------------------------------- An Open Letter from SFWA President Paul Levinson: As some of you may know, SFWA established a new Junior Membership at its May Board of Directors meeting in Pittsburgh. I made the motion to create this membership for a variety of reasons. Most of us will likely recall that kids not only read science fiction and fantasy but on occasion are moved to write it. By recognizing this talent, SFWA benefits not only the young writers but everyone in our field. A SFWA Junior Member who goes on to write as an adult will have learned a bit from old hands about how to work with publishers, agents, editors, bookstores, and other authors. And older hands may well learn something from their juniors about inspiration. The SFWA Junior Membership is now available to anyone under 21 who has demonstrated a professional talent in writing science fiction and fantasy, as evidenced by either one of two kinds of accomplishment: (a) winning, honorable mention, or other special placement (finalist, semi-finalist, etc.) of a science fiction or fantasy story in a writing contest organized by a professional or official group; (b) publication of a science fiction or fantasy story in a school or equivalent magazine or newspaper. By "equivalent," we mean a publication sponsored or produced by an official organization -- it could be a community center rather than a school. Benefits of the SFWA Junior Membership include a subscription to the _SFWA Bulletin_; a SFWA Junior Membership Card; a special SFWA Junior Directory, which will facilitate communication among junior members; access to sections of SFWA's online Web Site and SFWA's online discussion groups on sff.net; and participation in special events, online and at science fiction and fantasy conventions, that SFWA will be organizing just for junior members. Please help us spread the word -- to convention and writing contest organizers, school officials, and others likely to know young writers with demonstrated talent. If you think someone you know might qualify as a junior member, please write to our Executive Director, Sharon Lee, SFWA, P.O. Box 171, Unity, Maine 04988-0171, and request an application (please specify "junior membership"). There is a $20 annual membership fee (other membership classes pay fees ranging from $35 to $60), and a parent or guardian may be required to sign the application depending upon the applicant's age. If you're a contest or convention organizer -- or anyone of any age with any questions about this -- please send me e-mail at President@sfwa.org -- I'd love to hear from you. I'll also be announcing a new SFWA Committee, to help publicize and facilitate the Junior Membership, in the next few weeks. Help us nurture the future of science fiction and fantasy writing. All best wishes, Paul Levinson, Ph.D. President, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America [The above notice may be freely reprinted in full with attribution.] mlperkin@indiana.edu ***** To leave the ScienceFiction-L list, send the message SIGNOFF SCIENCEFICTION-L to the server: listserv@listserv.indiana.edu. Questions to: mlperkin@indiana.edu or shsimko@mail.duke.edu ***** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:21:28 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: TWICE IN A LIFETIME (new fantasy television series) Comments: To: Multiple recipients of list SF-LIT , SCIENCEFICTION-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Last night I watched most of the premiere episode of TWICE IN A LIFETIME, the new-agey Xian fantasy program on Pax Net, the youngest of our national television networks (probably on a high-number UHF frequency somewhere near you). As you daily paper's TV reviewer might have warned you, this is fairly well made on a budget and a bit blandish; the premiere bore the same relation to TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL that PSI FACTOR does to THE X FILES. An unfortunate undercurrent of damning the protagonist for giving up her newborn/having sex as an adolescent was slightly mitigated by the end, and it pulled a few fewer punches than TETCHED has in my casual perusal. Some Xian stations feel it too new-agey for their audiences; oddly, some of them do take TBAA (perhaps it was the fewer pulled punches: "If we weren't Catholic I could get an abortion!" etc--rough talk by the standards of TBAA, even if somewhat redolent of INSIGHT and other productions from religious-film producers).