From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V98 #219 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume98/219 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blakes7-d Digest Volume 98 : Issue 219 Today's Topics: [B7L] Re: Turner Award [B7L] Unearthing "ancient" history ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 15:39:27 +1000 From: Tim Richards & Narrelle Harris To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re: Turner Award Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19980822153927.007ac780@wire.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sarah wrote: >I was disappointed to read in the August issue of =Locus= that the George >Turner Prize for an SF or fantasy novel by a hitherto-unpublished Australian >author did not, after all, got to Narrelle Harris's =Witching Ways=. Thank you for the very kind words, Sarah. I have to get in touch with Transworld to find out if mine is one of the runners up they would like to publish, and to tell them I'm halfway through writing the sequel, so all is not yet lost. Maybe I'll enter the sequel in next year's and see what happens! :-) I've been enormously pleased with myself for getting shortlisted, with my first ever novel too. For those interested, there is a possibility that Phoenix 4, which is currently only web available, may get published in zine format. I will keep the list posted on that, as I know there are a lot of folks who prefer the kind of zine you can hold and take to bed with you, along with a mug of hot chocolate and a packet of Tim Tams... :-) Narrelle ************************************************* Tim Richards & Narrelle Harris "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." - Oscar Wilde (a month before his death in November 1900) parallax@wire.net.au http://www.wire.net.au/~parallax ************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:35:22 PDT From: "Joanne MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Unearthing "ancient" history Message-ID: <19980824033530.1244.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Hello to everyone. Oh God, this may be more trouble than it's worth to ask this question, and I'm genuinely sorry if I end up stirring something that might better have lain buried in the past. Maybe I shouldn't be asking. But I would like to know if someone feels like telling me...as impartially as is humanly possible, preferably. I've been downloading several months worth of the archives, but I'm still only up to 1993. One posting in the second half of the year refers to "fannish controversies". Now, this reference appeared during a debate on that perennial source of disagreement, slash fiction, and alongside what must have been Kathryn Andersen's original declaration to the list of her position. So that's obviously one of these controversies, but what would be others? Indeed, the reference made me think of an interview with Sheelagh Wells in "TV Zone", where she said, more or less, that she hadn't seen one member of the cast for some time because she refused to take sides in some disagreement that seemed to have started amongst a small group of American fans. (Please, please, please, do not allow your hackles to go up at this point, as I am only referring from memory to something printed years ago.) What, may I ask, happened there? You can, of course, tell me to go to hell now. You may say it happened too long ago to matter. But then this dweller on fandom's fringes (and I'm not referring to being Australian) doesn't know much about the past history of Blake's 7 fandom, apart from the compressed details in the Programme Guide by Attwood, and she's curious. So, privately or publicly, tell me (and anyone else who might feel the need to know - for future reference, as a way of knowing what topics of conversation to avoid, whatever). I'm giving you the chance to educate a relative newcomer Regards Joanne My name is miw, I am a pet And I am sacred To Bastet --Children's activity clue, Life and Death under the Pharaohs exhibition, the Australian Museum. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V98 Issue #219 **************************************