Subject: File: "FEMINISTSF LOG0204C" ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:35:59 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: Damon Knight 1922-2002 Comments: To: "sciencefiction-l@listserv.indiana.edu" , SF-LIT@sun8.loc.gov Comments: cc: "isaacl@yahoogroups.com" , "ttalkback@yahoogroups.com" , "horror@listserv.indiana.edu" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable He was my answer to "who is the best sf writer we have?". TM De : "John Kessel" =C0 : "IAFA list II" ;=20 Envoy=E9 : lundi 15 avril 2002 17:41 Objet : [IAFA-L] RIP: Damon Knight I pass along this sad news: Forward from Kitte Knight: As you may know, my father-in-law, Damon, has been very ill for the = last few months. Tonight he passed on. I will be home from work all week to help with funeral arrangements, field phone calls (Kate does not feel up to that task just yet) and just be all around emotional support for Jon and Kate and all the family that will be coming home in the next few days. I will = largely be unavailable for others matter at this time, so please don't feel that I am ignoring you if you don't hear from me. I just expect to be busy. Light a candle, say a prayer. Love Kitte -------------------------------------------------- This is the feministsf listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe feministsf Contact feministsf-request@UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:09:35 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Shalanna Subject: Re: Damon Knight 1922-2002 Comments: To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Oh! What a loss to the SF community as well as to his family. I have hung on for years to the printout of a message I received on one of the GEnie roundtable message boards, an area where Damon Knight would look at and comment on sixty lines (or thereabouts) of your fantasy/sf. He didn't care much for my fantasy series opening, because he wasn't really into elves and that kind of thing, but after a few comments about fantasy and so forth, he said, "But you're already writing at a professional level. Go forth and be published." Of course I didn't . . . though not for lack of trying. However, it was a comment that I held on to through all the rejection. And that's a milestone contribution in a microcosm. Just think about all the young writers he's helped, and there's a legacy for you. Again, I'm sorry to hear this. Having lost my father-in-law a couple of years ago (and my own daddy the fall when I was fifteen), I sympathize. My condolences and prayers to the family and friends. --------- Shalanna Collins shalanna@attbi.com Did you like Harry Potter or the Narnia books? Try my fantasy adventure novel. _Dulcinea, or Wizardry A-Flute_ by Shalanna Collins, ISBN 0-7388-5388-7 Recent publications: "Prom Night," in _Heaven and Hell_ anthology, Speculation Press "Mama's Five Myths About Writing," in _Crumbs in the Keyboard_ antho, Avid Press, out in February 2002 "The Splatterfairies, or A Maul and the Night Visitors," in _Octoberland_ anthology, Flesh & Blood Press, out in mid-2002. Visit my *NEW* website: --- Of course magnets raise your IQ -- they made Maxwell smart! -------------------------------------------------- This is the feministsf listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe feministsf Contact feministsf-request@UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:32:09 -0700 Reply-To: publicity@mystgalaxy.com Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Maryelizabeth Hart Organization: Mysterious Galaxy Subject: Wilhelm Novel Wins Spotted Owl Award Comments: To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit semi- OT, but worth sharing JJWANDJKW@aol.com wrote: > Friends Of Mystery > P.O. Box 8251 > Portland, Oregon 97207 > 503/241-0759, 503/241-5621 (fax) > www.friendsofmystery.org > Contact: John J. Walsdorf > Program and Publicity Director > JJWANDJKW@aol.com > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > March 21, 2002 > > WILHELM NOVEL RECEIVES 2002 SPOTTED OWL AWARD > > Noted Oregon author Kate Wilhelm has been chosen as the 2002 recipient of the > Friends Of Mystery's heralded Spotted Owl award for her book Desperate > Measures. The book was published in 2001 by St. Martin's Press. > > This annual award was established in 1995. It is given to the best mystery > novel of the year by an author who lives in the Pacific Northwest (Alaska, > British Columbia, Canada, Idaho, Oregon or Washington). Previous winners are > Earl Emerson, John Straley, Tom Mitchelltree and Linda 'L.L.' Thrasher, Lowen > Clausen and Marcia Simpson. > > Desperate Measures in the sixth book in the Barbara Holloway legal mystery > series. The mystery involves the murder of Gus Marchand, a hard-working, > God-fearing, but much disliked man. Without any real evidence linking him to > the crime, the suspicions are cast towards Alex Feldman, a newly > transplanted, but physically deformed young neighbor. At the request of a > fellow attorney, Barbara agrees to defend him. But another suspect is the > local high school principal, who also happens to be an old friend of > Barbara's father, whom he is naturally going to defend. The book evolves > around Barbara trying to defend her client while trying to find out who > really committed the crime. > > Kate Wilhelm is the author of dozens of novels and short story collections. > She is also the recipient of many honors, among them are the Prix Apollo, the > Hugo Award and three Nebula Awards. Born in Ohio and raised in Kentucky, Ms. > Wilhelm now lives in Eugene, Oregon. > > The reader's committee for this year's award evaluated sixty-two books. > Runners up for The Spotted Owl Award were: > > GM Ford for Fury. > Jess Walter for Over Tumbled Graves. > John Saul for The Manhattan Hunt Club. > Marcia Simpson for Sound Tracks. > T.F. Banks for Thief Taker. > Fredrick Huebner for Shades of Justice. > Frank Smith for Thread of Evidence. > Ridley Pearson for Parallel Lies. > Larry Karp for Midnight Special. > > Friends of Mystery is a non-profit literary/educational organization > headquartered in Portland, Oregon. For the past 20 years we have presented > lectures, organized conferences, and sponsored reading groups. We also > publish a regular newsletter. Our purpose is to promote the study and > understanding of mystery literature. -- ******************************************************************* Mysterious Galaxy Books Local Phone: 858.268.4747 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite 302 Fax: 858.268.4775 San Diego, CA 92111 Long Distance/Orders: 1.800.811.4747 http://www.mystgalaxy.com General Email: mgbooks@mystgalaxy.com ******************************************************************* -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe FEMINISTSF Contact FEMINISTSF-request@UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:39:30 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: "Michael J. Lowrey" Organization: The Working Class Subject: "Orange Mike" Lowrey to appear on television; nation torn between apathy and indifference Comments: To: einblatt@minnstf.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject to the exigencies of television production, it is alleged that the episode of WIN BEN STEIN'S MONEY! featuring your humble correspondent will be shown on Comedy Central on Monday, May 6, in the hideous time slot of 5 p.m. Eastern and Pacific timezones, 4 p.m. Central timezone. I take no responsibility for their somewhat vulgar and juvenile sense of humor; this _is_ Comedy Central, after all. -- Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe FEMINISTSF Contact FEMINISTSF-request@UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:02:02 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: Damon Knight eulogized on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED in this half-hour . Comments: To: "fictionmags@yahoogroups.com" , "ttalkback@yahoogroups.com" , "isaacl@yahoogroups.com" Comments: cc: "sciencefiction-l@listserv.indiana.edu" , "horror@listserv.indiana.edu" , SF-LIT@sun8.loc.gov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Probably will be archived, if you miss or can't access offline. -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe FEMINISTSF Contact FEMINISTSF-request@UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 07:58:01 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: 2002 Hugo noms. Comments: To: "sciencefiction-l@listserv.indiana.edu" , "fictionmags@yahoogroups.com" , "ttalkback@yahoogroups.com" , "isaacl@yahoogroups.com" , SF-LIT@sun8.loc.gov Comments: cc: "horror@listserv.indiana.edu" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 2002 HUGO AWARD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED CONJOSE, THE 60TH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION PO Box 61363, Sunnyvale CA 94088-1363 USA press@conjose.org; http://www.conjose.org/ For immediate release: Thursday 18 April, 2002, 9:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time 2002 HUGO AWARD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED ConJose is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2002 Hugo Awards. A total of 626 people cast Hugo Nominating ballots this year. Three categories have six nominees due to ties for the final ballot position. BEST NOVEL (486 ballots cast) The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold (HarperCollins/Eos) American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Morrow) Perdido Street Station by China Mi=E9ville (Macmillan (UK)(2000); Del Rey) Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod (Orbit (UK)(2000); Tor) Passage by Connie Willis (Bantam) The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) BEST NOVELLA (300 ballots cast) "May Be Some Time" by Brenda W. Clough (Analog 4/01) "The Diamond Pit" by Jack Dann (Jubilee, HarperCollins/Voyager Australia; F&SF 6/01) "The Chief Designer" by Andy Duncan (Asimov's 6/01) "Stealing Alabama" by Allen Steele (Asimov's 1/01) "Fast Times at Fairmont High" by Vernor Vinge (The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge, Tor) BEST NOVELETTE (292 ballots cast) "Hell Is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang (Starlight 3, Tor) "Undone" by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/01) "The Days Between" by Allen Steele (Asimov's 3/01) "Lobsters" by Charles Stross (Asimov's 6/01) "The Return of Spring" by Shane Tourtellotte (Analog 11/01) BEST SHORT STORY (331 ballots cast) "The Ghost Pit" by Stephen Baxter (Asimov's 7/01) "Spaceships" by Michael A. Burstein (Analog 6/01) "The Bones of the Earth" by Ursula K. Le Guin (Tales from Earthsea, Harcourt) "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's 9/01) "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 10-11/01) BEST RELATED BOOK (252 ballots cast) The Art of Richard Powers by Jane Frank (Paper Tiger) Meditations on Middle-Earth by Karen Haber, ed. (St. Martin's Press/A Byron Preiss Book) The Art of Chesley Bonestell by Ron Miller & Frederick C. Durant III (Paper Tiger) I Have This Nifty Idea...Now What Do I Do With It? by Mike Resnick (Wildside Press) J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey (HarperCollins (UK)(2000); Houghton Mifflin) Being Gardner Dozois by Michael Swanwick (Old Earth Books) BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (452 ballots cast) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1492 Pictures/Heyday Films/Warner Bros.) Directed by Chris Columbus; Screenplay by Steven Kloves; David Heyman, Producer; Michael Barthan, Chris Columbus, Duncan Henderson & Mark Radcliff, Excutive Producers. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (New Line Cinema/The Saul Zaentz Company/WingNut Films) Directed by Peter Jackson; Screenplay by Fran Walsh & Phillipa Boyens & Peter Jackson; Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Tim Sanders, Producers; Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein, Executive Producers. Monsters, Inc. (Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures) Directed by Pete Docter, David Silverman and Lee Unkrich. Story by Jill Culton, Peter Docter, Ralph Eggleston and Jeff Pidgeon. Darla K. Anderson, Producer. John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton, Executive Producers. Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Once More, With Feeling" (Fox Television Studios/Mutant Enemy, Inc.) Written & Directed by Joss Whedon. Joss Whedon and Marti Noxon, Executive Producers. Shrek (DreamWorks SKG/Pacific Data Images). Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson. Written by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman. Jeffrey Katzenberg, Aron Warner and John H. Williams, Producers. Penney Finkelman Cox and Sandra Rabins, Executive Producers. BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR (382 ballots cast) Ellen Datlow (SCI FICTION and anthologies) Gardner Dozois (Asimov's) Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books; Starlight anthology series) Stanley Schmidt (Analog) Gordon Van Gelder (F&SF) BEST PRO ARTIST (323 ballots cast) Jim Burns Bob Eggleton Frank Kelly Freas Donato Giancola Michael Whelan BEST SEMIPROZINE (283 ballots cast) Absolute Magnitude, edited by Warren Lapine Interzone, edited by David Pringle Locus, edited by Charles N. Brown The New York Review of Science Fiction, edited by Kathryn Cramer, David Hartwell & Kevin J. Maroney Speculations, edited by Susan Fry, published by Kent Brewster BEST FANZINE (237 ballots cast) File 770, edited by Mike Glyer Ansible, edited by Dave Langford Challenger, edited by Guy Lillian III Mimosa, edited by Richard & Nicki Lynch Plokta, edited by Alison Scott, Steve Davies & Mike Scott BEST FAN WRITER (248 ballots cast) Jeff Berkwits Bob Devney John L. Flynn Mike Glyer Dave Langford Steven H Silver BEST FAN ARTIST (177 ballots cast) Sheryl Birkhead Brad Foster Teddy Harvia Sue Mason Frank Wu BEST WEB SITE (365 ballots cast) Locus Online, Mark R. Kelly editor/webmaster (www.locusmag.com) SciFi.com, Craig Engler, executive producer (www.scifi.com) SF Site, Rodger Turner, publisher/managing editor (www.sfsite.com) Strange Horizons, Mary Anne Mohanraj, editor-in-chief (www.strangehorizons.com) Tangent Online, Dave Truesdale, senior editor; Tobias Buckell, webmaster (www.tangentonline.com) Each Worldcon has the right to add one special category, good only for that year and not binding upon any future Worldcon committees. ConJose exercised this right and will award a Hugo Award for Best Web Site. JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD for BEST NEW WRITER OF 2000/2001 (272 ballots cast) Tobias S. Buckell (second year of eligibility) Alexander C. Irvine (second year of eligibility) Wen Spencer (first year of eligibility) Jo Walton (second year of eligibility) Ken Wharton (second year of eligibility) The John W. Campbell Award, sponsored by Dell Magazines, is not a Hugo Award, but appears on the same ballot as the Hugo Awards and is administered in the same way as the Hugo Awards. The 2001 WSFS Business Meeting, as authorized by the WSFS Constitution, extended the eligibility of works initially published in 2000 outside the USA and not published in the USA as of the end of January 2001. Several works nominated this year qualify under this extension. Of the 626 total valid nominating ballots, 371 were cast electronically through the ConJose web site. Members of ConJose and of The Millennium Philcon (the 2002 and 2001 Worldcons) were eligible to make nominations for the 2002 Hugo Awards. 389 members of ConJose (236 voting electronically, 153 by mail) and 237 members of the Millennium Philcon (135 voting electronically, 102 by mail) cast nominating ballots. Only attending and supporting members of ConJose may vote on the 2002 Hugo Awards. ConJose will mail Hugo Award ballots to all of its members in Progress Report 4, scheduled to mail by the end of May 2002. A copy of the ballot will be available for download from the ConJose web site at http://www.conjose.org/wsfs/wsfs_hugo.html shortly. ConJose plans to offer online voting as it did for the nominating ballots. We will post details of how to vote online on our web site when the online ballot is available. The voting deadline is July 31, 2002. Through July 31, 2002, an Attending membership in ConJose is $180 and a Supporting membership is $35. Information about how to join ConJose is available from our web site at http://www.conjose.org/Member/membership.html. Voting Statistics Summary Category Ballots Votes Nominees Range Novel 486 1469 226 44-121 Novella 300 738 58 40-55 Novelette 292 823 144 27-43 Short Story 331 929 63 21-35 Related Book 252 514 88 31-68 Dramatic Presentation 452 1303 130 89-343 Professional Editor 382 979 91 87-121 Professional Artist 323 862 156 36-83 Semiprozine 283 573 45 41-116 Fanzine 237 531 100 29-43 Fan Writer 248 601 164 26-51 Fan Artist 248 410 93 17-59 Web Site 365 941 240 36-75 Campbell Award 272 653 101 29-53 "Ballots" is the number of ballots that included at least one nomination in that category. "Votes" is the total number of nominations cast in that category. "Nominees" is the number of individual works or persons nominated in that category. "Range" is the range between the least number of nominations required to make the final ballot in that category and the most number of nominations any work or person received in that category. "No Award" will appear as a candidate in each category on the final ballot, as required by the WSFS Constitution. More detailed statistics, including the number of nominations each person or work received, and the vote counts of the top fifteen candidates or those candidates receiving at least 5% of the nomination ballots cast in each category, will be released after the Hugo Awards Ceremony at ConJose. The 2002 Hugo Awards will be announced and presented at a ceremony on the evening of Sunday, September 1, 2002 in the San Jose Civic Auditorium during ConJose. ------------------------------------------------------ Contacts Hugo Awards: John Lorentz hugos@conjose.org General: Kevin Standlee info@conjose.org Press/Media: Bart Kemper press@conjose.org The 2002 Worldcon, known as ConJose, will take place at the McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California from 29 August through 2 September 2002. More information about ConJose, including current membership rates, is available from its web site (http://www.conjose.org/) or by writing to info@conjose.org. To be removed from the ConJose press release mailing list please write to publicity@conjose.org. You may receive multiple copies of this announcement because you subscribe to multiple mailing lists to which we send these announcements. We apologize for any inconvenience this duplicate coverage causes. "ConJose" is a service mark of San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., a California non-profit corporation recognized as tax exempt under IRS 501(c)(3). "WSFS", "Worldcon", "World Science Fiction Convention" and "Hugo Award" are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. 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