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Out
of the Woodwork 174. March 2011
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! Contents:- Goodreads - our ongoing feature so you can see what's being read here at Fantastic HQ, and add to it if you wish by sending us your reviews. Or join us on Facebook Raymond Chandler remains joined by wife's
ashes on Valentine's day - just missed this last time around Letters - Susan Reeves contacted us about
the death of Ariana Franklin, and we've an interesting question
from Dennis O'Sullivan and a belter of an appeal to the Collective
Consciousness - I love these! External Blinks: The
Independent has a fascinating story "My role in Stieg Larsson's
success, by partner who was left with nothing"
You can also join us on facebook to keep abreast of our news
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Simon
Gosden The ashes of Raymond Chandler's wife have been buried over his casket in a Valentine's Day ceremony in San Diego. It had been the crime thriller writer's wish to be buried alongside Cissy Chandler, who died in 1954. But because he left no instruction for what to do with her ashes after his death in 1959, it has taken more than five decades to bring them together. BBC story George R.R. Martin & Parris McBride, his partner of 30 years, were married on February 15, 2010 at their home in Santa Fe NM, among a small group of friends and loved ones. Pictures of the happy couple here and at George R R martin's website
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have released the final ballot for the 2010 Nebula Awards:
Novelette
Ray Bradbury Award
Final ballots are due March 30, 2011 (only active SFWA members
are eligible to vote). Winners will be announced at the Nebula Awards
Banquet on May 21, 2011, during the
Nebula Awards Weekend (May 19-22, 2011) at the Washington Hilton,
Washington DC. Competition Winner was: Peter Jeavons from Cwmbran in lovely Wales and we shipped the books to him on the 28th Feb. Hopefully we will get some feedback about the novels in due course. FantasyCon 2011's first Special Guest is multiple award-winning author Brian Aldiss. Author of more than eighty novels, both mainstream and science fiction, including Frankenstein Unbound,The Helliconia Trilogy and Harm to name just a few; and innumerable short stories, including 'Super-Toys Last All Summer Long,' which was filmed as A.I. Brian has also edited many anthologies, acted in performances of his plays, and is also an artist. Brian will be attending on the Saturday and Sunday of the Convention ( 1st and 2nd October) and joins Guests of Honour John Ajvide Lindqvist and Gwyneth Jones, as well as M.C. Sarah Pinborough. Fantasycon 2011 The
2010 Stoker Final Ballot has been released: Stephen King announces his new novel:- On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, If you had the chance to change history, would you? Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. (whoops - almost forgot to mention the poor old boy is being sued for plagiarism over some parts of Duma Key - full details) Intelligence papers on a reported UFO sighting known as the "Rendlesham incident" have gone missing, files from the National Archives reveal. The missing files relate to a report of mysterious lights from US servicemen at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk in 1980. The disappearance came to light with the release of 8,000 previously classified documents on UFOs. Officials found a "huge" gap where defence intelligence files relating to the case should be, the papers show. BBC story A laser can act as a "tractor beam", drawing small objects back toward the laser's source, scientists have said. It is known that light can provide a "push", for example in solar sails that propel spacecraft on a "wind of light". Now, in a paper on the Arxiv server, researchers from Hong Kong and China have calculated the conditions required to create a laser-based "pull" BBC story.
Dead Man's Cove, a tale about an orphaned 11-year-old who turns amateur sleuth, has been named the Blue Peter book of the year. Lauren St John, who also wrote best-selling novel The White Giraffe, said winning was a "huge honour". Deputy Blue Peter editor Joe McCulloch called the story "an absolutely enthralling and entertaining read". BBC story The
six titles on the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist have been
announced: The
Royal Mail Magical Realms Stamps Set - released
8th March 2011
Stingray, Joe 90, and Captain Scarlett - just some of the ground-breaking TV shows devised by Gerry Anderson in the 1960s, and now set to feature on a set of six stamps released in January 2011.
The first comic book to feature Spider-Man has been sold for $1.1m (£679,000) at a US auction, nearly half a century after it was published. Skip related content The 1962 copy of the Marvel comic book, in near-mint condition, shows Spidey swinging from a high building with a man under his right arm. Five decades ago, the comic was sold for just 12 cents. The sale, to an undisclosed buyer, comes a year after Superman's debut comic book from 1938 sold for $1.5m - or £926,000.
I always enjoy your newsletter and often wonder where else I would find out about the many things that interest me, and, that thankfully, you print in "Out of the Woodwork. Concerning one such item - I was very sad to hear the news of author Ariana Franklin (Diana Norman). Her "Mistress of the Art of Death" novels were exceptionally good and having just recently read the last one "A Murderous Procession", I can say I will certainly miss these books. This author was a fabulous historical mystery writer and I am sure there will be many who will miss her. As always, best wishes to all at Fantastic Literature from the heart of the prairies in Canada. Cheers, Susan **************************************************************************************************************************************** From Dennis O'Sullivan Hi, I was wondering if you'd know the supplier of large size prints for old New English Library book covers, specifically Hook: Whirlpool of Stars. If you know of anyone I'd be extremely grateful. Regards Dennis O'Sullivan EMail us if you can help Dennis ****************************************************************************************************************************************** Hello Simon I was wondering if you would put this "lost" novel out to the Collective Consciousness. This is about an SF novel that was accidentally shelved in the children's section of my library when I was a kid because it had a cover with a cartoon spaceship on it and the blurb made it sound like a Heinlein juvenile on the style of "Have Spacesuit Will Travel". I get the distinct feeling that it was deliberately done as a Dark and Adult subversion of that kind of story. I can only remember the bit of it that really disturbed me and I now want to know what book it was (I don't think this was specifically porn). There was a decadent "hive of scum and villainy" type planet or space station that did gladiatorial fights to the death for entertainment. And one of the "speciality" combats involved two combatants with remote-control squirming dildo-type things inserted up their arses, the opponent having the control, and the idea was to be the first person to guide your remote-controlled dildo-thing a certain distance up the other guy's anus, at which point it would explode and blow them to bits (literally, with gruesome anatomical description) below the waist. I have a weird idea that it might have been published by a feminist press. This was in the UK in the early eighties. Memorable, isn't it? Does anyone know what the novel was? Thanks Philip (email
us if you can help) Perry Moore, a co-producer of The Chronicles of Narnia film franchise and the author of a novel about a gay superhero, has died aged 39. Police said he was found unconscious in the bathroom of his Manhattan home on Thursday and died later in hospital. Foul play is not suspected. He produced all three Narnia films and wrote an illustrated book to accompany the first. BBC David F. Friedman, a film producer who cheerfully and cheesily exploited an audience’s hunger for bare-breasted women and blood-dripping corpses in lucrative low-budget films like “Blood Feast” and “Ilsa: She-Wolf of the S.S.,” died on Monday 14th February in Anniston, Ala. He was 87. New York Times Veteran Doctor Who actor Nicholas Courtney, best known for playing Brigadier Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart, has died at the age of 81. The actor appeared on screen opposite five different Doctors and worked with two more - David Tennant and Paul McGann - on Doctor Who audio stories. BBC Writer Lisa Wolfson, 47, who wrote young-adult novels as L.K. Madigan, died February 23, 2011 of cancer in Portland OR. Her first novel Flash Burnout (2009) is non-speculative, but second book The Mermaid’s Mirror (2010) is fantasy. Department of Smug Self Satisfaction. 1. The day after I order I received a message from the seller letting me know it would be on it way and I really appreciated that. I expected it to take much longer than it did. The book I ordered arrived in wonderful, like new condition in an amazingly timely manner. I will definitely be ordering from Fantastic Literature again. Thank you, thank you, thank you! (Amazon USA) 2. First-rate professional service! Very fast delivery from the UK to the USA! Book was expertly packaged and arrived in wonderful condition! Extremely pleased with all aspects of this transaction! Highly recommend this seller!! Many thanks!!! (Amazon USA) 3. The item came promptly, was well packaged and as described. I was very pleased. (Amazon UK) 4. Sehr schneller Versand. Bücher bestens verpackt, zus. eingeschlagen in Zeitungspapier. Zustand wie beschrieben (fine hardcover copy in a near fine dustwrapper v. 1988 & 3 fine paperbacks). Ich bestelle seit fünf Jahren bei fantasticliterature_de und immer wieder sehr gerne. (Amazon De) 5. très bien. super rapide (Amazon Fr) 6. I was delighted to receive these goods in condition described and very well wrapped. A big THANK YOU (Amazon JP) 7. Absolutely faultless. These people are e-bays finest, no contenders. THANKS!! (E Bay) 8. The copy was in great shape, sturdy packaging, and arrived earlier than scheduled. I highly recommend this seller (Alibris) Independent Crossword: Senior Teacher introducing a branch of knowledge, one invented by Terry Pratchett (9) Answer: Headology (clever, very clever) Just about to go out-of-print titles from Tartarus Press:-
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