Maj-numret av David Langfords Hugo-vinnande newszine är ute:
http://news.ansible.uk/a358.html
Litet nyhetsplock (som månne inte har stått på SKRIVA tidigare - tyvärr många
döingar...):
* P-t-r L-g-n, a Glasgow sf author who had not previously crossed my radar (his
novel appeared in 2015), was found guilty in March of multiple rapes of an
unnamed mother and daughter, and sentenced in April to 11 years in prison.
* Ardian Syaf, Indonesian freelance artist working for Marvel Comics on X-Men
Gold, caused outrage with buried references to a Koran verse often read as
anti-Christian and anti-semitic (and invoked in recent legal/political
controversy in his homeland). Marvel made 'nothing to do with us' noises and
very soon fired the artist. (BBC & Paste, 11 April) [CMJ] Syaf, who had worked
on two Hugo-shortlisted comics, issued a kind of apology which did not save his
career – because, he said, 'Marvel is owned by Disney. When Jews are offended,
there is no mercy.'
* 'One of the most extraordinary and significant things about science fiction
is its almost total lack of sex, even of fake sex – except, of course, in the
"mad scientist's" operating chambers particularly prominent in the movie
versions [...] The reason for this is neither due to oversight nor external
censorship, but the fact that the largest percentage of the echt-pulp
literature is composed of adolescent boys (who continue reading it even after
they are grown up), who are terrified of women, sex, and pubic hair.' (G.
Legman, The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography, 1964)
* PAwards: Doc Weir (unsung heroes of fandom): Serena Culfeather and John
Wilson.
ier Awards (London theatre): Harry Potter and the Cursed Child won in nine
categories including best play, the previous record being seven; the musical
Groundhog Day won two including best musical.
Philip K. Dick: Claudia Casper, The Mercy Journals.
Pulitzer Prize for fiction: Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad.
Stoker (horror) novel categories: NOVEL John Langan, The Fisherman. DEBUT Tom
Deady, Haven. YA Maria Alexander, Snowed. GRAPHIC James Chambers, Kolchak the
Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe. See horror.org for the
rest.
* Niall Harrison has stepped down as editor-in-chief of Strange Horizons, and
is replaced by former associate editors Jane Crowley and Kate Dollarhyde.
* J.R.R. Tolkien, a 1,480-page reprint anthology of critical assessments
published by Routledge in April, will set you back $1,485. [MJW] Douglas A.
Anderson explains the rationale for this 50-copy edition – 'Basically, they are
out to soak money out of 50 large libraries.' – and is annoyed that he appears
in the contents list although neither he nor his publishers were approached for
permission (since explicitly refused). 'As far as I can tell, this is an
academic publishing scam of the worst type, and it should be called out for
what it is.'
* Steve Stiles didn't quite make the original Hugo shortlist for Best Fan
Artist but moved up as a substitute when Alex Garner (a Rabid Puppies slate
choice through no fault of his own) declared that his entire 2016 output had
been 'professional and not fan art'
* Donna Maree vann fanfonden GUFF (Australien -> Worldcon75). Tidiagre vann
John Purcell TAFF (Nordamerika -> Worldcon75).
* RIP:
Michael Ballhaus (1935-2017), German cinematographer whose films include Bram
Stoker's Dracula (1992), Wild Wild West (1999) and What Planet Are You From?
(2000), died on 12 April aged 81.
Grania Davis (1943-2017), US author and editor who devoted great effort to the
memory of her former husband Avram Davidson – with whom she wrote Marco Polo
and the Sleeping Beauty (1987) – died on 28 April aged 73. She completed
Davidson's The Boss in the Wall (1998) and co-edited The Avram Davidson
Treasury (1998), plus other notable AD collections.
Dahlov Ipcar (1917-2017), US illustrator and author of three fantasy novels
beginning with The Warlock of Night (1969), died on 10 February; she was 99.
Carolyn Kelly, US cartoonist who for a short time drew her father Walt Kelly's
creation Pogo and worked on the four volumes to date of the definitive reprint
The Complete Pogo, died on 9 April. (Serien Pogo har haft viss betydelse inom
fandom!)
Michael (Mike) Levy (1950-2017), US academic, fan and critic who was an editor
of Extrapolation from 2006 and wrote Children's Fantasy Literature: An
Introduction (2016) with Farah Mendlesohn, died on 3 April aged 66; he had
entered a hospice in late March.
George McGinnis (?1931-2017), Disney 'imagineer' (the last to be personally
hired by Walt Disney) whose many designs for Disneyland and Walt Disney World
included the Space Mountain, the EPCOT Horizons Pavilion, monorails and much
other transportation, died on 7 April aged 87. [PDF]
Patricia C. McKissack (1944-2017), US children's author whose books include The
Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (1992) and the 2010-2012 sf
trilogy The Clone Codes (with John and Fredrick L. McKissack), died on 7 April
aged 72.
V.E. Mitchell (Victoria Estelle Mitchell Gustafson, 1954-2017), US author of
four novels set in the Star Trek universe – beginning with Enemy Unseen (1990)
– died on 13 April aged 62.
Tim Pigott-Smith (1946-2017), UK actor whose credits include Doctor Who (1971,
1976), V for Vendetta (2005) and Alice in Wonderland (2010), died on 7 April;
he was 70.
Roger C. Schlobin (1944-2017), US academic critic whose first and last books
were A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies (1977 with L.W. Currey and
Marshall B. Tymn) and Phantasmagoria: Collected Essays on the Nature of Fantasy
and Horror Literature (2013), died on 25 April; he was 72. [JC]
Norio Shioyama (1940-2017), Japanese illustrator involved with anime since the
1960s and perhaps best known for creating Armoured Trooper VOTOMS in 1983, died
with his wife in a 12 April house fire.
Lars Erik Helin (1937-2017), long-time Swedish fan who was the second member –
after its founder – of the Gothenburg Club Cosmos in 1954 and co-published the
first true Swedish fanzine (Cosmos Bulletin) in July that year, died on 7
February aged 79.
Kommentar till det sista, där Ansible referar källan som John-Henri Holmberg.
JHH tycks lida av syndromet NI, Not Invented Here. Om det inte är från honom
räknas det inte...
Sveriges första fanzine (även i betydelsen "true") var Vår Rymd från 1952. Se
vad jag skrivit om det på SKRIVA:
//news.freelists.org/post/skriva/Sveriges-frsta-fanzine-Vr-Rymd-Cosmos-News-detroniserat
- bl a "Vår Rymd har så mycket science fiction och redaktionen bakom är
tveklöst sf-intresserade så det är ingen tvekan om att detta blad från 1952 är
första svenska sf-fanzinet."
1) JHH har uppenbarligen *inte ens sett* Vår rymd.
2) Och litet pinsamt är att han kallar det andra fanzinet "Cosmos Bulletin"
- det hette Cosmos News!
JHH skrev några fanhistoriska artiklar i fanzinet Gafiac på 1970-talet, och
har sedan dess inte bedrivit någon fanhistorisk forskning ö h t. Han har några
gånger ägnat sig åt fanhistoriska sammanfattningar, av info som redan är känd
(senast i sin Häpna!-antologi). Att försöka hålla fast vid att Cosmos
"Bulletin" var tidigare än Vår Rymd är mer dumska än witterhet.
(Undertecknad har däremot fanhistorieforskat på otaliga sätt, manifesterat i
t ex Fandboken, många artiklar - i Swede Ishes, Hugovinnande Mimosa m m -,
Sverifandomhistoriebibliografi, material om Atom-Noak, etc.)
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