From LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Sat Sep 11 14:26:30 1999 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:48:31 -0500 From: "L-Soft list server at University of Illinois at Chicago (1.8c)" To: Laura Quilter Subject: File: "FEMINISTSF LOG9909A" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:18:50 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Chris Shaffer Subject: Test message, please delete Comments: To: feministsf@uic.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Test message from your silent listowner. Please delete. Apologies for any inconvenience. We now return you to your regularly scheduled literature discussion. ----- "The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'." --Larry Hardiman Chris Shaffer http://www.uic.edu/~shaffer/ shaffer@uic.edu AIM:ChrisShaff ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 16:57:00 -0700 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Laura Quilter Subject: Aurora Awards (Canadian SF awards) courtesy DARKECHO (darkecho@ao l.com) (fwd) Comments: To: feministsf-lit@uic.edu, feministsf@uic.edu, -Fem-SF list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 12:18:53 -0500 From: Todd Mason To: Multiple recipients of list SF-LIT Subject: Aurora Awards (Canadian SF awards) courtesy DARKECHO (darkecho@ao l.com) Best Long-Form Work in English (1997-98): Someplace To Be Flying, Charles de Lint (Tor, Feb/98) Flesh and Gold, Phyllis Gotlieb (Tor, Feb/98) Sailing To Sarantium, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking, Sept/98) Dracul: An Eternal Love Story, Nancy Kilpatrick (Lucard Publishing, Oct/98) Factoring Humanity, Robert J. Sawyer (Tor, June/98) Darwinia, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor, Jun/98) Best Long-Form Work in French (1997-98): Un fanttme d'amour, Reni Beaulieu (Ashem, 97) Les Voyageurs de la nuit, Reni Beaulieu (Iditions de l'A Venir, 97) Corps-machines et rjves d'anges, Alain Bergeron (Vents d'Ouest, 97) Coeur de fer, Jokl Champetier (Orion, 97) Samiva de Frie, Francine Pelletier (Alire, 98) Secrets, Esther Rochon (Alire, 98) Best Short-Form Work in English (1998) "Blind Date", David Chato (On Spec Fall/98) "Craphound", Cory Doctorow (SF Age Mar/98) "Sunny Fields", David Shotgyn, (Parsec Spring/98) "New Year's Eve", Douglas Smith (Interzone Feb/98) "Hockey's Night in Canada", Edo van Belkom (Arrowdreams) Best Short-Form Work in French (1998) +Uriel et Kornilla;, Alain Bergeron (Solaris 127) +Nocturne;, Fridirick Durand (Solaris 126) +Les Corbeaux immortels rjvent-ils de contrtler le monde?;, Hugues Morin (Solaris 124) +La Demoiselle sous la lune;, Guy Sirois (Fantasy, Fleuve Noir) +Aurilie sous les itoiles;, Elisabeth Vonarburg (Un lac, un fjord: paysages imaginaires, paysages riels: rencontres, JCL) Best Work in English (Other) (1998) Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternative Canadas, Mark Shainblum & John Dupuis, eds. (Nuage Editions) (anthology) "Ask Mr. Science", Al Betz (On Spec) (column) Divine Realms, Susan MacGregor, ed. (Ravenstone) (anthology) Northern Dreamers, Edo van Belkom (Quarry Press) non-fiction book) On Spec, Jena Snyder, general ed. (The Copper Pig Writers' Society) (magazine) Parsec, Chris Krejlgaard, ed. (Parsec Publishing Co) (magazine) TransVersions, Sally McBride & Dale L. Sproule, eds. (Island Specialty Reports) (magazine) Other awards include those for Artistic Achievement and several fan awards. The Web site for the Aurora Awards (and the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association) is http://www.sentex.net/~dmullin/aurora Ms. Paula Guran (aka DarkEcho) went on to explain: The awards will be presented at Canvention 19, held in conjunction with inCONsequential II, 15-17 Oct in Fredericton, New Brunswick. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 16:57:31 -0700 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Laura Quilter Subject: Hugo Winners! (fwd) Comments: To: -Fem-SF list , feministsf@uic.edu, feministsf-lit@uic.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 17:24:10 -0400 From: Paul J. Weimer To: Multiple recipients of list SF-LIT Subject: Hugo Winners! The Hugo award winners were announced today at Aussiecon III... Novel: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (Bantam Spectra) Novella: "Oceanic" by Greg Egan Novelette: "Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling Short Story: "The Very Pulse of the Machine" by Michael Swanwick Non-Fiction Book: The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World (Simon and Schuster) by Thomas M. Disch Dramatic Presentation: The Truman Show (Paramount) Professional Editor: Gardner Dozois Professional Artist: Bob Eggleton Semi-Prozine: Locus (Charles N. Brown, ed.) Fanzine: Ansible (Dave Langford, ed.) Fan Writer: Dave Langford Fan Artist: Ian Gunn Campbell Award: Nalo Hopkinson As a side note, the annual Dozois collection this year just so happens to have all three of the short form Hugo Winners, which is very cool to those who like to go back and read the winning stories again or for the first time. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 17:06:43 -0700 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Laura Quilter Subject: feminist / queer reading group in san francisco MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII hey - we're starting a queer / feminist reading group in san francisco bay area. any locals who're interested, let me know - first meeting will be wed october 6 and we'll be reading JEWELLE GOMEZ' THE GILDA STORIES ... more info also at www.exo.net/~lauraq/sfqsf/ Laura Quilter / lquilter@igc.apc.org "If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution." -- Emma Goldman *** NEW TRIAL FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL *** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 17:12:05 -0700 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Laura Quilter Subject: [*FSF-L*] FW: World Fantasy Nominees Announced (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII << 6:42pm 2-Sept-99 World Fantasy Nominees Announced The nominees for the 1999 World Fantasy Awards have been announced. This year's awards will be presented at the 1999 World Fantasy Convention, which will be held from Nov. 4-7 in Providence, R.I. This 1999 nominees and categories are: Novel Someplace to Be Flying by Charles de Lint (Tor) The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich (HarperFlamingo) Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay (Simon & Schuster/Earthlight, UK; Viking, Canada; HarperPrism, US) Mockingbird by Sean Stewart (Ace) The Martyring by Thomas Sullivan (Forge) Novella "Cold" by A.S. Byatt (Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice, Chatto & Windus UK, Random House US) "Dragonfly" by Ursula K. Le Guin (Legends, edited by Robert Silverberg; Tor US; Voyager UK) "The Hedge Knight" by George R.R. Martin (Legends, edited by Robert Silverberg; Tor US; Voyager UK) "The Summer Isles" by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1998) "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" by Peter Straub (Murder for Revenge, edited by Otto Penzler; Delacorte) Short Story "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" by Neil Gaiman (The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy, edited by Mike Ashley; Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions, by Neil Gaiman) "Every Angel Is Terrifying" by John Kessel (F&SF Oct/Nov 1998) "The Death of the Duke" by Ellen Kushner (Starlight 2, edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden; Tor) "The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link (Event Horizon, Nov 15, 1998) "Travels with the Snow Queen" by Kelly Link (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Vol. 1 No. 1, 1997/1998; The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling) Collection The Night We Buried Road Dog, Jack Cady (DreamHaven Books) Black Glass, Karen Joy Fowler (Henry Holt) Last Summer at Mars Hill, Elizabeth Hand (HarperPrism) Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton, Graham Masterton (British Fantasy Society) The Cleft and Other Odd Tales, Gahan Wilson (Tor) Anthology The Best of Crank!, edited by Bryan Cholfin (Tor) Dark Terrors 4, edited by Stephen Jones & David Sutton (Gollancz) Dreaming Down-Under, edited by Jack Dann & Janeen Webb (HarperCollins/Voyager Australia) Legends, edited by Robert Silverberg (Tor) Starlight 2, edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor) Artist Jim Burns Tom Canty Alan Clark Bob Eggleton Charles Vess Special Award, Professional Les Daniels (for Superman: The Complete History) Jo Fletcher (for editing) David Pringle (for Interzone) Robert Silverberg & Grania Davis (for editing The Avram Davidson Treasury) Jim Turner (for Golden Gryphon Press) Special Award, Non-Professional Richard Chizmar (for Cemetery Dance Publications) David Marshall (for Pumpkin Books) Stephen Pasechnick (for Edgewood Press) Jacob Weisman (for Tachyon Publications) Three nominees in each category were chosen by a panel of five judges, while the remaining two nominees were selected by members of the 1998 and 1999 World Fantasy Conventions. This year's nominees for the Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced at a later date. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 19:17:11 -0700 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Cynthia Gonsalves Subject: Re: Hugo Winners! (fwd) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Thanks for pointing out that tidbit about the Dozois collection. I've just started reading shorter stories and missed those winners. Cynthia -- "I had to be a bitch, they wouldn't let me be a Jesuit." -Joan Gant in Matt Ruff's Sewer, Gas, and Electric Sharks Bite!!! http://members.home.net/cynthia1960/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:58:50 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: Eleanor Arnason MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ...has a new novella scheduled for the December issue of FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, or so the Sept/Oct 50th anniversary issue promises. I liked the Carol Emshwiller story and the Judith Merril memoir in the current anniversary issue quite a lot, and haven't yet gotten to the new Earthsea story by Ursula Le Guin nor the novella by Kate Wilhelm. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:07:34 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: Re: Eleanor Arnason: correction! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" That should read, November issue. -----Original Message----- From: Todd Mason Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 3:59 PM To: FEMINISTSF@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Subject: [*FSFFU*] Eleanor Arnason ...has a new novella scheduled for the December issue of FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, or so the Sept/Oct 50th anniversary issue promises. I liked the Carol Emshwiller story and the Judith Merril memoir in the current anniversary issue quite a lot, and haven't yet gotten to the new Earthsea story by Ursula Le Guin nor the novella by Kate Wilhelm. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:43:05 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: writing of Eleanor Arnason.... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The current (October) REALMS OF FANTASY has a few letters praising Arnason's recent short story there, and an excellent account of a WisCon panel by Midori Snyder about her, Terri Windling, Heinz Fenkl and several others discussing variations on and analysis of the Sleeping Beauty folklore trope... From: Todd Mason Arnaso will have a new novella in the November issue of FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, or so the Sept/Oct 50th anniversary issue promises. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:32:14 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: STARSHIP TROOPERS, the cartoon Comments: To: Multiple recipients of list SF-LIT Comments: cc: SCIENCEFICTION-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU, Frederic Bush , Tia Hamilton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Well, I don't know how many of you spent your weekend, but while I was folding clothes on Labor Day, I took a look at the new BKN-distributed STARSHIP TROOPERS cartoon, which is a low-rent CGI item which might or might not have pleased Robert Heinlein more than the smirky film version would've. Mindless but sanitary violence, voice actors (the heroic ones anyway) with throats full of phlegm (including the token woman), no showers. Pseudo-populist resentment of the brass who put the mission ahead of the "apes" (as if all upper-level military didn't do this to some extent or another), and two flavors of "bug." The humor of the film (which was insufficient to make it worthwhile) is missing, and in it's place we have the spunky Token Woman taunting "bugs" by shouting, "The party's over here!" then looking surprised when the diversion works; later, TW is the only one to fall down and go boom after a rescue of one of the males who'd been hanging by his fingers over a cliff. TW, presumably, is allowed to have emotions, while the other "bug"-crushers, being Men, etc. If one crossed RAT PATROL with THUNDERBIRDS...more instructional programming for young minds.