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03.21.03
Chilling movie news from Variety is that John Travolta is likely to
star in a new remake of Harvey (1950). It would be unfair to speculate
that, in this version, the six-foot-three rabbit is invisible to others because
he's completely Clear.
Tiptree Award. This year's
winners are M. John Harrison's novel
Light and John
Kessel's story 'Stories
for Men' (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2002).
Thog's Translator Masterclass. "... there is practically no
radioactivity in the soil of this part of the galaxy." (Stanislaw Lem, The
Invincible, 1976 Penguin UK translation)
J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. have begun legal action in Holland to
prevent the sale of Dmitry Yemets's book The Magic Double Bass,
featuring the character Tanya Grotter. Copyright/trademark infringement and
unfair competition are claimed. (Publishers Lunch, 13 March)
R.I.P. Howard Fast (1915-2003), US author of such historical
bestsellers as Spartacus (1951), who published much short sf and fantasy
and was long associated with
F&SF, died on 12 March; he was 88. Fast's genre collections include
The General Zapped an Angel (1970). Monica Hughes
(1925-2003), Liverpool-born writer of children's sf who lived in Canada since
1952 and won several literary awards, died on 7 March aged 77. Her best-known sf
work is the Isis trilogy: The Keeper of the Isis Light (1980),
The Guardian of Isis (1981), and The Isis Pedlar (1982). See
CBC Arts News
obituary. Harry B. Warner Jr (1922-2003), long-time fan,
fanzine publisher, historian of fandom and indefatigable letter-writer, died at
his fannishly famous home address 423 Summit Avenue, Hagerstown, Maryland on 17 February. He was 80. Harry's fanzines included the 1940s Spaceways
and the long-running Horizons, published through FAPA ever since 1939;
his fan histories of the 1940s and 1950s were All Our Yesterdays (1969)
and A Wealth of Fable (1976), whose 1992 expansion won him a nonfiction
Hugo. He also received 1969 and 1972 Hugos as best fan writer, and was a guest
of honour at the 1971 Boston worldcon. Like so many fanzine publishers around
the world, I've lost count of the kindly, conscientious and sometimes cranky
letters of comment he sent me over the decades.
Thog's Masterclass. Neat Tricks Dept. 'He rubbed the bridge
of his nose and she heard the rasp of skin against stubble clearly.' (Sean
Williams, The Resurrected Man, 1998)
David Langford is an author and a gentleman.
His newsletter, Ansible,
is the essential SF-insider sourcebook of wit and incongruity. He lives in Reading, England with his wife Hazel, 25,000 books, and a few dozen Hugo awards. He continues to add books and Hugos.
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