donn%utah-cs@sri-unix.UUCP (09/05/84)
From: donn@utah-cs (Donn Seeley) Here are some recent awards and award nominations for novels and stories, culled from recent reading: World Fantasy Award nominees (from LOCUS #284): Novels: THE DRAGON WAITING, John M. Ford PET SEMATARY, Stephen King THE WANDERING UNICORN, Manuel Mujica Lainez TEA WITH THE BLACK DRAGON, R.A. MacAvoy THE ARMAGEDDON RAG, George R.R. Martin LYONESSE, Jack Vance Novellas: 'The Lurking Duck', Scott Baker (Omni 12/83) 'The Monkey's Bride', Michael Bishop (HEROIC VISIONS) 'Nunc Dimittis', Tanith Lee (DODD, MEAD GALLERY OF HORROR) 'The Red Hawk', Elizabeth A. Lynn (Cheap Street) 'Black Air', Kim Stanley Robinson (F&SF 3/83) Short Stories: 'The Silent Cradle', Leigh Kennedy (SHADOWS 6) 'Elle est Trois (La Mort)', Tanith Lee (WHISPERS 4) 'The Hundred-Year Christmas', David Morrell (Donald M. Grant pub.) 'Solitario's Eyes', Lucius Shepard (F&SF, 9/83) 'Into Whose Hands', Karl Edward Wagner, (WHISPERS 4) 'Wong's Lost and Found Emporium', William Wu (Amazing 5/83) The 1984 John W. Campbell Memorial Award, given for the best novel of 1983 (not the same as the Campbell award given to best new writer at WorldCons) went to Gene Wolfe for THE CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH. (Also from LOCUS #284.) Here is how SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW (#52) reported the SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE Awards (voted on by readers of SF CHRONICLE): Best Novel: THE ANUBIS GATES, Tim Powers Best Novella: 'Her Habiline Husband', Michael Bishop Best Novellette: 'Black Air', Kim Stanley Robinson Best Short Story: 'The Peacemaker', Gardner Dozois Still haven't read most of these, but now I have an idea where to look. By the way, the 35th anniversary F&SF is now out and it has some really good stuff in it -- check out especially the Effinger story (perhaps the funniest thing I've read all year) and the Shepard story... Any Hugo updates yet? Donn Seeley University of Utah CS Dept donn@utah-cs.arpa 40 46' 6"N 111 50' 34"W (801) 581-5668 decvax!utah-cs!donn Relay-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wlbr.UUCP Path: uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!wlbr!dcm From: dcm@wlbr.UUCP (Dave Miller) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: John Delorean Message-ID: <208@wlbr.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 06:07:34 PDT Article-I.D.: wlbr.208 Posted: Tue Sep 4 06:07:34 1984 References: <828@ihuxp.UUCP>, <410@oliven.UUCP> Organization: Eaton IMS, Westlake Village, CA Lines: 53 (-: Sacrificial offering to the voracious line chomper :*) Ok, I've sat back and listened to your flames, now it's my turn to flame back. So put on your asbestos undies. < FLAME ON > \vvvvvvvv/ I have received numerous letters berating me for my statement regarding Delorean > > "Remember, he could have just said no!" > now here's my flame. First, I did *not* say that he should have backed out, I said he should have said *no*. Not when things started getting tough, but when the offer was first made. Also, I have been in some tough financial situations before and I don't recall anyone ever just coming up to me (nor can I imagine someone taking the chance of doing so) and saying something like: "Hey Dave, I heard that your having some financial problems you to help me get rid of..." It seems to me that anyone dealing in that quantity of coke would not just pick a poor bankrupt car maker unless, that dealer *knew* that Delorean would accept the offer. Honestly, if you were dealing in something illegal, would you ask someone to help you if you weren't sure that they would back you up and not run right to the cops? Delorean had to be interested to even get involved in a deal of that size. And if anyone is *still* hanging on to the idea that Delorean was this innocent guy that the FBI just *happened* to decide to offer coke to, when was the last time someone came up to you and offered you several million in coke? get involved in multi-million dollar coke deals, unless you are prepared to convince me that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy are for real also! /^^^^^^^^^\ < FLAME OFF > \vvvvvvvvv/ Submitted for your approval And if you don't, you can just go find yourself a nice million dollar coke deal! David C Miller {ihnp4,trwrb,vortex,scgvaxd}!wlbr!dcm