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of the Woodwork 135. Welcome to our newsletter, it contains up to the minute news and gossip as well as awards details and items requiring help from the collective consciousness. If you wish to contribute please do so! We welcome your thoughts, your news items and any gossip! We do love a bit of gossip here at Fantastic HQ. Sad news from Locus: Crime novelist Stephen Marlowe died Friday, 22 February 2008, in Williamsburg, Virginia, at the age of 79. He was born Milton Lesser, and began his career writing SF novels under that name, including Slaves to the Metal Horde (1954) and Recruit for Andromeda (1959, an Ace Double with Robert Silverberg's The Plot Against Earth [as by Calvin M. Knox]) SFWA obituary SF fan and bookseller Ken Slater,
who operated UK mail-order "Fantast (Medway)" later "Operation
Fantast", died Saturday, 16 February 2008, at the age of 90.
SFWA obituary
It's a measure of the success of Ken that even now we buy collections
and still find invoices and ephemera from Fantast Medway - he will
be missed. One for the collective consciousness and boy is this a toughie! : I am trying to find the title of a book i read some 40 years ago about a mans dream of a "perfect world" and how to achieve it. Can you help ? I forgot to mention that its a science fiction book,full of "super"computors and robots.Everybody ownes "cheap"computors that talk to each other on something he called a "web". If you can help - email us and how about this one: I found you listed as a seller of a book Burning Marguerite by Mrs Innes Browne. I am searching for a book called, I think, Four Masters, by the same author. I have had no luck on the internet so far. I was wondering if you had ever heard of it, or if indeed there is such a book? It’s a memory from my childhood which may be very wrong. I believe it was a sequel to Three Daughters of the United Kingdom by the same author. - email us if you can help Woodwormers respond: Enjoyed the newsletter. Our old chum, Simon Clark contacted
us with some exciting news: 1888. The Yellow House, Arles: Vincent van Gogh paints works of
transcendent genius, while in London a killer launches a reign of
terror. Needless to say we will be stocking copies of Simon's book, if you want a copy or two, then just e-mail us and we will do the rest. and Guy Lawley also contacted us with some juicy gossip!
Thanks for the latest e-mail. Always a pleasure. I wonder if you’ve heard anything of the recent Michael Moorcock-related shenanigans at Gollancz? I found out a few weeks ago that Gollancz were planning to re-issue their Fantasy Masterworks no.17 , titled Elric, in April 2008. The new edition was to be titled Elric of Melniboné. (They have plucked eight of the Fantasy Masterworks books to get new editions, with a uniform set of covers by Sophie Toulouse, under the banner Ultimate Fantasies. I believe the other seven are retaining their titles!) As you probably know, Elric is a compendium of the original 1960s volumes Stealer of Souls and Stormbringer. Elric of Melniboné on the other hand is one of Moorcock’s new 1970s Elric books, a prequel to Stealer of Souls. I wrote to Jo Fletcher twice pointing out that Elric of Melniboné is the title of a different book altogether and suggesting that Gollancz revert back to the original title. Ms Fletcher wrote back twice justifying their decision in various more or less daft ways. For example she pointed out that Gollancz have three different editions of I Am Legend in print at the moment, including a film tie-in. Needless to say, all three are still called I Am Legend. None of them has been arbitrarily given the title of a completely different Richard Matheson book. Then Mike himself wrote to Gollancz. I had told him about the name change; Gollancz, surprisingly, hadn’t consulted him at all. At this point they decided they would change the name back to Elric. I hear that the title/cover change is now underway in the design department. I also hear that the word at Gollancz is that “some anal nerd Moorcock fan” started the ball rolling on this one. I’m thinking of having that put on a T-shirt. I might add that Moorcock collectors, who will doubtless want to get the new Gollancz volume anyway, may prefer the new Del Rey edition of the same stories. This will appear under the title Elric: Stealer of Souls, published later in Feb (as you probably also know). As well the original stories, Del Rey have added some tasty extras, like an Alan Moore introduction, new John Picacio illustrations, and historical bits and bobs like cover reproductions from the original Science Fantasy magazine appearance of the texts. It’s the first of a uniform series of new Elric compendia in the original order of publication. This looks to be a really nice set, in the same vein as their recent REH Conan series. For the record, I did not write to Del Rey objecting to their new title, for fairly obvious reasons (mainly: the book does actually contain the stories from the original Stealer of Souls; it hasn’t been given the name of another extant book). :O) If you’d like to mention any of this in your newsletter, I’d be very pleased to see the story passed on! Best wishes, Guy Lawley Latest Bram Stoker Award Ballot SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL The Guardener's Tale by Bruce Boston SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Nebula Awards Final Ballot The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have released the final ballot for this year's Nebula Awards. Winners will be announced at a banquet during Nebula Awards Weekend in Austin, Texas, on April 26, 2008
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