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Stratus SF Lovers' Newsletter #36--January 1992 ******************************************************************************* NEWS ******************************************************************************* INFORMATION From Donna Forman: January 22nd, QVC: 3 hours of Star Trek stuff for sale. Walter Koenig co-hosts. Macy's California just opened Star Trek outposts! From Laurie: Boskone pre-reg closes on 1/15/92. The guests are Jane Yolen, Jody Lee, Dave Langford and Kathy Mar. The con looks like it will be lots of fun. It will be out in Springfield at the Sheraton & Marriott Hotels. Pre-reg is just $29 now---it will be $40 at the door. I have forms, or you can send me E-mail if you want more info. Posted on USENET by Shiva George Alec Effinger Medical Fund For those who may not have known: George Alect Effinger has had medical problems for most of his life. He's gotten significant help from the SFWA Emergency Fund three times - but it IS an "emergency" fund, and needs to be available for others. So a specific fund has been set up by the Niagara Falls SF Association. Right now, they are selling $20 raffle tickets; exactly a thousand will be sold, with the first prize a pair of American Airlines roundtrip passes to any destination, worldwide. There will be other prizes; send a SASE to the address below for details. If you would like to support this fund, by buying raffle tickets or otherwise, contact them at THE GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER MEDICAL FUND c/o Niagara Falls Science Fiction Association PO Box 500, Bridge Station Niagara Falls NY 14305 ******************************************************************************* REVIEWS From Donna Forman: I loved the Addams family. There is a collection of Chales Addams' cartoons recently published by Fireside. I also picked up an antique book. Wonderful! I also loved Star Trek VI. Haven't seen Hook yet. From: Chiu Ngan Chan There was one technical detail (in STVI) that I didn't quite get. When the EXCELSIOR was struck by the wavefront in the neutral zone, was that some new phenomena in subspace?? I thought the "nova" style wavefront only exists in normal space.. which takes years and years to reach the kind of distance (from the Klingon home world to the neutral zone) that is in the Star Trek universe. Did I just missed something totally? According to Andy (Cowan) the book didn't explain this either.. it's just a suspension of the universal law. The entire scenario being setup for the rest of the story (which is great, except for the very thing that put them in it.. Klingon moon exploding, etc)- was just bogus in my view. [[(I'd chalk it up to someone not comprehending distances or basic astronomy. In short, suspend either your disbelief or decide at that point that the movie is too screwed up to worry about. Laurie)]] ******************************************************************************* Stratus SF Lovers' Newsletter #37-- February 1992 ******************************************************************************* NEWS Davis, the company that owns Analog & Issac Asimov's, has sold those and other magazines to the Dell Company (the people that print magazines and books, the people who build PCs). No immediate changes in editors are planned. Isaac Asimov has retired from writing. ******************************************************************************* INFORMATION I've downloaded a long (1,200+ lines long) convention listing. While not complete, it does include many obscure cons in many obscure areas. If you're curious, send mail to me and I'll send it to you. The 1992 Charlie Card Fund Fantasy Art Calendar The 1992 Charlie Card Fund Fantasy Art Calendar features art by Heather Burton, Tom Dow, Giovanna Fregni, Mary Hanson-Roberts, Linda Leach Hardy, Merle Insinga, April Lee, Peggy Ranson, Laurel Slate, Diana Harlan Stein, Gale Tang, Ruth Thompson, and Robin Wood. The calendar, sponsored by the SF convention Contraption, includes Midwestern convention dates, 1992 Worldcon information, and as many holidays----religious (mostly Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Baha'i and Pagan), secular, and Canadian and U.S. civic----as one person could possibly celebrate in a year. All revenue, less postage costs, will be donated to United Cerebral Palsy. To order copies of the calendar, send check or money order for $8.50 to: The Charlie Card Fund PO Box 2285 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (I expect to receive a few in time for Boskone, so you can stop by and take a look at one in about two weeks.) Boskone 29 is next weekend in Springfield. Our guests are Jane Yolen, Jody Lee, Dave Langford, Kathy Mar. Professionals in attendence include Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Laura Mixon, Steven Gould, Joan Vinge, Jim Frenkel, Beth Meacham, Joe Haldeman, Tom Kidd (the last three being the guests for next year's Boskone), Esther Friesner, Susan Shwartz, Judy Tarr, and Roger MacBride Allen. Memberships are $40 at-the-door, for three days of excitement and speculative tales. Friday-only memberships are $15, Saturday-only memberships are $25, and Sunday-only memberships are $20. Registration opens at 5pm on Friday in the Sheraton Monarch Place. ******************************************************************************* Stratus SF Lovers' Newsletter #38--March 1992 NEWS Nebula Nominations Announced The nominations for the Nebula awards, given out annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, have recently been announced: {Posted by J.BUNNELL [Djonn] on GEnie} --NOVEL-- ORBITAL RESONANCE John Barnes BARRAYAR Lois McMaster Bujold BONE DANCE Emma Bull SYNNERS Pat Cadigan THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE Bruce Sterling & William Gibson STATIONS OF THE TIDE Michael Swanwick --NOVELLA-- "Man Opening A Door" Paul Ash (Analog, 6/91) "Apartheid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana" Michael Bishop (Axolotl, 6/89; FULL SPECTRUM 3, 4/91) "Beggars in Spain" Nancy Kress (Axolotl, 2/91; Asimov's, 4/91) "Bully!" Mike Resnick (Axolotl, 1990; Asimov's, 4/91) "The Gallery of His Dreams" Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Axolotl, 6/91; Asimov's 9/91) "Jack" Connie Willis (Asimov's, 10/91) --NOVELETTE-- "Gate of Faces" Ray Aldridge (F&SF, 4/91) "Guide Dog" Mike Connor (F&SF, 5/91) "Black Glass" Karen Joy Fowler (FULL SPECTRUM 3, 4/91) "Stand in Line with Mister Jimmy" James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's, 6/91) "The Happy Man" Jonathan Lethem (Asimov's, 2/91) "The All Consuming" Lucius Shepard & Robert Frazier (Playboy, 7/90; Asimov's 5/91) "Getting Real" Susan Shwartz (NEWER YORK, 6/91) --SHORT STORY-- "They're Made Out of Meat" Terry Bisson (Omni, 2/91) "Ma Qui" Alan Brennert (F&SF, 2/91) "The Dark" Karen Joy Fowler (F&SF, 6/91) "Buffalo" John Kessel (F&SF, 1/91; FIRES OF THE PAST, 3/91) "Dog's Life" Martha Soukup (Amazing, 3/91) "the button, and what you know" Gregory Stewart (Amazing, 6/91) The Nebulas will be awarded at tha annual Nebula banquet, held in April. The First Annual James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Awards were given out last weekend. Here's a report on the awards: From: HUMPHRIES(at)SOC.DECNet (HUMPHRIES) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: 1st James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Awards announced at WISCON 16 Date: 10 Mar 92 18:32:00 GMT The first James Tiptree, Jr. Awards for the best works of SF or fantasy published in 1991 exploring or expanding gender roles were presented in Madison, WI at Wiscon 16. The Winners: Arnason, Eleanor A WOMAN OF THE IRON PEOPLE New York, William Morrow Jones, Gwyneth THE WHITE QUEEN London, Gollancz Tiptree Award co-founder Pat Murphy presented both winners with plaques, solid chocolate typewriters, and checks for $500. Funding for the Tiptree awards has come from the generous donations made by members of the SF community, the volunteer labor of fans and writers at the many bake sales held at SF conventions over the past year, and sales of THE BAKERY MEN DON'T SEE, a collection of confectionary recipies and anecdotes contributed by SFish households. At the ceremony, SF**3 President Jeanne Gomoll and outgoing treasurer Diane Martin presented the Tiptree Fund with a check for $1,800. Bake Sales, cookbook sales, and sales of a limited edition t-shirt raised another $1,400 during Wiscon 16. The Tiptree Award is named for the psudonymn of the late SF writer Alice Sheldon, or as Ursula K. Le Guin put it: a woman was James Tiptree, Jr. When Sheldon submitted manuscripts under the name of James Tiptree, Jr., she had no trouble selling them and they won plenty of awards. When Sheldon tried submitting a manuscripts under the name of Racoona Sheldon, she couldn't sell it until she sent it under a covering letter from Tiptree (who praised it.) Nominations for the next Tiptree Award (for works published in 1992) may be submitted to: the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award c/o 2238 23rd St. San Francisco, CA 94107. ******************************************************************************* INFORMATION The Smithsonian Resident Associate Program is holding on Feb. 29th an all-day lecture session on Star Trek. This is to coincide with an exhibition at the National Air & Space Museum (Feb. 28 - April ?) commemorating the 25th anniversary of ST. Speaking will be Robert Justman (asst. producer - ST, executive producer - ST/TNG) and William Ware Theiss, costume designer on both series & some of the movies. The topics are eclectic: Star Trek & the Vietnam Years; The Changing Role of Women in Star Trek; The Search For Our Origins; and a few others. This will be held in Washington, DC. Readercon will be held July 10-12 in Worcester. The guest of honor is Michael Bishop, the artist guest is Richard Powers, the special guest is Rick Lieder, and the "dead" guest of honor is James Tiptree, Jr. Nearly eighty SF professionals are expected, an astonishing number when you realize the expected attendence is 500. Readercon is a literary SF con aimed at the serious reader. No costumes, no media hucksters, just a lot of readers, writers, small press publishers and booksellers in one place at one time. I highly recommend this convention. Memberships: $23 until 5/30/92, $30 thereafter (and at the door) This convention will be held at the Worcester Marriott. For more information, or to join the convention, write to Readercon, PO Box 1246, Cambridge, MA 02238. ******************************************************************************* Stratus SF Lovers' Newsletter #39--April 6, 1992 NEWS Writer Isaac Asimov, Famous For Science Writing, Dies at 72 By RAYNER PIKE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Isaac Asimov, the prolific writer of science fact and fiction who laid down the literary laws of how robots must behave, died today, his brother said. He was 72. Stanley Asimov, a vice president of Newsday, said his brother died at 2:20 a.m. at New York University Hospital of heart and kidney failure. Earlier this year, Asimov announced that a prostate operation had slowed him down and he was cutting back on his writing. He also suspended his monthly column in Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine, to which he had contributed some 400 columns and articles over 33 years. .... Interviewer Barbara Walters once asked what he'd do if a doctor said he had six months to live. "I'd type faster," Asimov responded. His keyboard speed was a fast-enough 90 words per minute and a typical workday might yield 2,000 to 4,000 words. ... " ******************************************************************************* INFORMATION Disclave Information Disclave is a major East Coast convention, and takes place in Washington, DC over Memorial Day Weekend (May 22-25). The Guests of Honor are Pat Cadigan and Tom Kidd, and there will be a special party in honor of Hal Clement's 70th birthday. The hotel is the Washington Hilton and Towers in downtown Washington, and the hotel rate is $85 a night. Registration for Disclave is $25 until 4/30/92 and $30 at the door. Send registrations (make checks payable to Disclave '92) to: Disclave '92, Dan Hoey, PO Box 677, Wasington, DC 20044-0677. Disclave was somewhat out-of-control a few years ago, but has started to get its act together, so I think it's worth the trip back to DC to check it out. ******************************************************************************* REVIEWS ******************************************************************************* QUESTIONS From: Andrew Cowan A few questions: What kind of publication is Axolotl? If a work is first published in a year prior to 1991 why is it nominated for a 1991 award? Is it based on the circulation of the work the fiction is printed in or aren't there any rules on when something can win a certain year's award? Are the following anthologies (and if not what are they)? FULL SPECTRUM NEWER YORK FIRES OF THE PAST [from Laurie: Full Spectrum Newer York are both anthologies. The Nebulas have funny eligibility rules, so not everything you see on the list may have been published in 1991.] Did anyone save a copy of the September '91 edition of this newsletter? It was number 33, and it was last newsletter under the old name (Stratus SF SIG News). Please send it to me if you have it. Thanks ---Laurie ******************************************************************************* Stratus SF Lovers' Newsletter #41--May 11, 1992 NEWS Hugo Nominations The nominations for the 1992 Hugo Awards have been tabulated and the nominees have been notified. Here is the list of this year's nominees: Best Novel Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar (Baen) Emma Bull, Bone Dance (Ace) Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Tor) Anne McCaffrey, All the Weyrs of Pern (Del Rey, Bantam U.K.) Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide (Morrow), serialized in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1990 and January 1991 Joan D. Vinge, The Summer Queen (Warner/Questar) Best Novella Nancy Kress, "And Wild For To Hold", Alternate Wars (Bantam Spectra) and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1991 Nancy Kress, "Beggars in Spain", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1991 (also published by Axolotl Press) Kristine Kathryn Rusch, "The Gallery of His Dreams", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1991 (also published by Axolotl Press) Michael Swanwick, "Griffin's Egg" (St. Martin's, Legend) Connie Willis, "Jack", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1991 Best Novelette Isaac Asimov, "Gold", Analog, September 1991 Pat Cadigan, "Dispatches from the Revolution", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1991 Ted Chiang, "Understand", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1991 Howard Waldrop, "Fin de Cycle", Night of the Cooters (Ursus Press) and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1991 Connie Willis, "Miracle", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1991 Best Short Story Terry Bisson, "Press Ann", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1991 John Kessel, "Buffalo", The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction, January 1991 Geoffrey A. Landis, "A Walk in the Sun", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1991 Mike Resnick, "One Perfect Morning, With Jackals", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1991 Mike Resnick, "Winter Solstice", The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction, October/November 1991 Martha Soukup, "Dog's Life", Amazing, March 1991 Connie Willis, "In the Late Cretaceous", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1991 Best Non-Fiction Book Charles Addams, The World of Charles Addams (Knopf) Everett Blieler, Science Fiction: The Early Years (Kent State University Press) Jack L. Chalker and Mark Owings, The Science Fantasy Publishers: A Critical and Bibliographic History, 3rd ed. (Mirage Press) Jeanne Gomoll, Diane Martin et al., The Bakery Men Don't See Cookbook (SF3) Stephen Jones, Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden (Underwood/Miller) Best Original Artwork Tom Canty, cover of White Mists of Power (Roc Fantasy) Bob Eggleton, cover of Lunar Descent (Ace) Bob Eggleton, cover of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1991 (illustrating "Stations of the Tide") Don Maitz, cover of Heavy Time (Warner/Questar) Michael Whelan, cover of The Summer Queen (Warner/Questar) Best Dramatic Presentation Best Semiprozine The Addams Family (Paramount) Interzone, David Pringle Beauty and the Beast (Disney) Locus, Charles Brown The Rocketeer (Disney) New York Review of Science Fiction, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Kramer, Country (Paramount) Gordon van Gelder Terminator 2 (Carolco) Pulphouse, Dean Wesley Smith Science Fiction Chronicle, Andrew I. Porter Best Professional Editor Best Fan Writer Ellen Datlow Avedon Carol Gardner Dozois Mike Glyer Edward L. Ferman Andrew Hooper Kristine Kathryn Rusch Dave Langford Stanley Schmidt Evelyn Leeper Harry Warner, Jr. Best Professional Artist Best Fan Artist Tom Canty Brad Foster David Cherry Diana Harlan Stein Bob Eggleton Teddy Harvia Don Maitz Peggy Ranson Michael Whelan Stu Shiffman Best Fanzine John W. Campbell Award File 770, Mike Glyer Ted Chiang Fosfax, Janice Moore and Timothy Lane Barbara Delaplace Lan's Lantern, George ("Lan") Laskowski Greer Gillman Mimosa, Dick and Nicki Lynch Laura Resnick Trapdoor, Robert Lichtman Michelle Sagara The ballots will be distributed with Progress Report 6. Any MagiCon attending or supporting member may vote for the Hugo awards. The Hugos will be awarded on Saturday, September 5. Membership Statistics As of April 25, 1992 MagiCon had 4746 members. Here is the membership breakdown: 4213 Attending 333 Supporting 161 Children 23 Kid-in-tow 8 Guest 8 Other MagiCon preregistration closes on July 15, 1992. Until then, the attending rate is $110 and the children's rate is $55 for those twelve or under. Kid-in-tow memberships (for children born after September 3, 1986) are free. Supporting (non-attending) memberships remain at $25 until MagiCon. Our at-the-door rates will be announced in June. We now take MC/VISA. When sending us registrations that you wish to pay for with a credit card, don't forget to include the credit card name, number, expiration date, the name that appears on the card, and your signature. Hotel Statistics As of April 15, 1992, MagiCon members had booked rooms over 1800 rooms. Here is the hotel room breakdown: 700 Peabody Hotel 580 Clarion Hotel 325 Quality Motor Inn 165 Best Western 35 Embassy 15 Marriott We've added another hotel, the Orlando Heritage Inn. It's next to the Peabody (the headquarters hotel) on International Drive. The room rates are $55 (single-quad) for a standard room, and $65 deluxe. Many hotel rooms remain within a short distance of the convention center. If you have any questions, call the Orange County Housing Bureau at 800-258-7666. If you will require a suite, be sure to write to Suite Allocations, c/o the MagiCon PO Box. Special Art Retrospective Guest of Honor Vincent Di Fate, and Robert Reed, the co-curator of the American Society of Illustrators, are working with MagiCon to present a major exhibit of historic speculative art. The exhibition covers the period 1870--1970. As Di Fate explains, "We want to focus on artists whose names might not be familiar to science fiction fans, but whose art definitely is." Art collectors and museums from all over America are lending their art for this show. The Retrospective will feature paintings by diverse artists ranging from Charles R. Knight, the paleontologist who created the earliest scientific paintings of dinosaurs a hundred years ago, to Jack Davis, the designer who created poster art for movies like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World and whose controversial comic art led to the establishment of the Comics Code. The Retrospective will be in the Orange County Convention Center, and will be open during the same hours as the Art Show. Detailed information about the Retrospective will appear in a press release this summer. MagiCon to Host Astronaut John Young at a Special Luncheon Commander John W. Young, an astronaut on Apollo 16 and on the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Columbia, will be the keynote speaker after a banquet at noon on Friday, September 4. Young will speak about his experiences in NASA. The lunch will consist of chicken, salad, vegetables, beverage, and desert; a vegetarian entree will also be available. Tickets are $16.50, which includes tax and gratuity. If you wish to attend, send your name, your entree selection, and $16.50 for each ticket to MagiCon Luncheon, PO Box 52545, Philadelphia, PA 19115. You may make reservations for a complete table when you purchase your ticket. There will also be a lunch with the Hugo nominees on Saturday. Details about this lunch will appear in the next Progress Report; the tickets for this event will be sold at the convention. Walt Willis Enchanted Miniature Golf Course The Walt Willis Enchanted Miniature Golf Course will open in Exhibit Halls B and C of the convention center. This 12-hole course, based on Walt Willis and Bob Shaw's The Enchanted Duplicator, will feature miniature golf holes designed and built by Worldcon bids and fan clubs. If your club would like to participate, please write to Miniature Golf Course, c/o Pat Vandenberg, 15 Park Ave. Ext., Arlington, MA 02174. Course materials will be supplied by MagiCon; you supply the imagination and ingenuity! Program Book Ad Rates Size Pro Fan Full Page 400 100 2/3 Page 300 80 1/2 Page 250 70 (horizontal only) 1/3 Page 190 55 1/6 Page 120 40 These are the black and white rates. Color is available for the inside covers. For more information, write to Program Book Ads c/o the MagiCon PO Box, or to Stu Hellinger, PO Box 561, NY, NY 10150-0561 (718-438-0853). Babysitting Since MagiCon will need to hire a number of licensed babysitters, there will be additional charges for babysitting. Any child with a child's membership will receive a discount. Any child without a membership, or with a kids-in-tow admission will pay the full babysitting rate. Progress Report 6 The Progress Report, along with the final Hugo ballot, will be mailed out to all MagiCon members in May. Huckster Room The Huckster Room is sold out. If you want to be added to the waiting list, write to Dealers' Room, c/o the MagiCon PO box. Art Show The Art Show still has room for more artists. If you want to exhibit your artwork, please write to: MagiCon Art Show, PO Box 46, MIT Branch PO, Cambridge, MA 02139. Volunteers MagiCon is run completely by volunteers. We really need your help. If you can spare a few hours at the con, please write to Volunteers, c/o the MagiCon PO Box. Ways of Reaching MagiCon The MagiCon PO Box is: MagiCon, PO Box 621992, Orlando, FL 32862. The MagiCon phone number is: 407-859-8421. There's an answering machine attached to it, so you can leave MagiCon a message. MagiCon can be reached via GEnie, USENET/Internet, CompuServe, AmericaOnline or DELPHI. On GEnie, the MagiCon topic is category 26, topic 14 and the E-mail address is D.RATTI. On USENET, MagiCon is discussed in the rec.arts.sf.fandom news group, and the Internet E-mail address is magicon(at)jjmhome.uucp. The CompuServe E-mail address is 70732,761. On AmericaOnline, MagiCon press releases are posted in the Isaac Asimov Science Fiction Center, in the Conventions folder of The Written Word area, and the E-mail address is magicon. On DELPHI, the E-mail address is s.gold6. ****************************************************************************** To: sfl Subject: Stratus SF Lovers' Newsletter Options: low priority Stratus SF Lovers' Newsletter #42--July 20, 1992 NEWS Brian Thomsen, editor of the Questar Line for Warner Books, was fired/quit/ other about two weeks ago. He was almost immediately hired by TSR Books. ******************************************************************************* INFORMATION Hugo ballots need to be postmarked by July 31. From: Tom Moser I have acquired 7 stories nominated for the Hugo award via FTP. The stories are available for reading pleasure and voting purposes only and the stories may not be copied, distributed etc. That said the stories are available on on the Sun netowrk in ~moser/hugo along with directions on how to FTP the stories and short descriptions of the works. Enjoy. Here is an excerpt from the file 'directory': Stories in the library: "Dog's Life" By Martha Soukup. 3300 words. dogs_life.Z A sentient dog and cat declare independence with different_ goals. "One Perfect Morning, with Jackals" perfectmorn.Z By Mike Resnick. 3200 words. A Story set at the founding of Kirinyaga. "Winter Solstice" wintersolst.Z By Mike Resnick. 4800 words. Merlin's backwards-in-time life isn't pleasant. "A Walk in the Sun" walkinthesun.Z By Geoffrey Landis. 6400 words. A ship that was never meant to land, does. "Press Ann" By Terry Bisson. 1100 words. press_ann.Z An encounter with a sentient ATM. "Buffalo" By John Kessel. 7000 words buffalo.Z Kessel's father encounters H.G. Wells. "In the Late Cretaceous" cretaceous.Z By Connie Willis. 5000 words A comedy about restructuring at a university department. Typos in the last three are the fault of the OCR software and our editing. I have already run uncompress on the files so the file names no longer have the '.Z' extension. ******************************************************************************* REVIEWS Anybody reading out there? I'm trying to catch up on my Hugo reading, but I'm not getting anywhere fast... ******************************************************************************* To: sfl Date: 93-02-01 11:11:24 EST From: Laurie MannVOS Subject: The Demise of the SFL Electronic Newsletter With the general proliferation of network access at Stratus, it seems kind of pointless to continue this newsletter. I don't want to kill the sfl global mailing list...It can be a useful place to ask questions, sell books, organize convention trips (etc.). So I'll probably change the description a little in the Global Mailing List list. Jim and I are having a NESFA-sponsored "Hugo Discussion Group at our home in Northboro tonight. If you have any inerest in discussing possible nominees for this year's Hugo awards, send me E-mail and I'll send you a map.