100% completion, 173 bookmarks
-Movies & tv-series mentioned: HIGHLANDER THE TV-SERIES, FOREVER KNIGHT, HERMANS HEAD, UNIVERSAL SOLDIER, CETACEAN, MAN FROM ATLANTIS, BATMAN RETURNS, COVINGTON CROSS, FROM BEYOND, TANK GIRL, HUMAN TARGET (1992 tv-series), TIME TRAX, JURASSIC PARK 1993, DEATH BECOMES HER, PROJECT: SHADOWCHASER, PLAGUE 1978, STAY TUNED, HAWK THE SLAYER, MELROSE PLACE (tv-series), MISFITS OF SCIENCE, QUANTUM LEAP, WOOPS! (tv-series), KUNG FU THE LEGEND CONTINUES, MACGYVER, X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, BRAM STOKERS DRACULA, SOLAR CRISIS, PHANTOM EMPIRE (serial), FLASH GORDON (serial).
-Books & stories mentioned: THE CENTAURI DEVICE, ALEXANDRIA QUARTET, REAPER MAN, SAURONS DEFEAT, WAR DAY, THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS, TALES OF POWER, AT WINTERS END, GRUNTS!, CAPTAIN JACK ZODIAC, THE BIOFAB WAR, THE LAST COIN, GARDEN OF RAMA, WORLDS ENOUGH AND TIME, JURASSIC PARK, THE FOURTH R, THE TURING OPTION, CARVE THE SKY, A REBEL IN TIME, BAD VOLTAGE, THE DEEP 1975, A MILLION OPEN DOORS, RED GENESIS, BLOOD MUSIC,
-Pop culture references: John Boy from the Waltons, having to set binary mode for FTP downloads, Rick Springfield, tension building moments in James Bond films, Franklin Mint figurines, Spike Lee, the Karate Kid movie series, Red Sonja comics, National Unity debates in Canada, Secret Masters Of Fandom, Blockbuster Video, Brett Easton Ellis, Dan Quayle, NORB comic strip, Dick Wolf & TV Crime Procedurals, Dan Rather's KENNETH encounter, Cyberpunk Library, Back to the Future: The Ride!, CD-I systems, the Bosnian War, Wing Commander 1 (pc-game), SLP to SP modes on VCR tapes,
-SFLer unusual requests:
>Underwater Fantasies
>Post nuclear books
>Post plague fiction
>SF Detectives
>SF writers with consistent themes
>Far, far future stories
>Hong Kong SF movies
>1930's science fiction
>Science Fiction Stage Plays
>What makes a good (SF&F) Con
>Tarot SF and Fantasy
>Bio-Science within Science Fiction
>Linguistic SF
>Musical SF & F
>Characters/Books you hate to love
>SF Books that have become movies
>Rational Time Travel
>SF and Fantasy Alternate Sexuality Listings
>Thief main characters/thief stories
Death notices: Fritz Leiber
-A few more "shit-that-didn't-happen" humblebrags about SFLer's encountering non-SF&F fandom at SF&F conventions. Notable mostly because cosplaying convincingly as Avon from Blakes 7 or Vincent from the Beauty and the Beast tv-series or Sam/Al from Quantum Leap was 130% sure to get you laid at SF&F conventions.
-TSR Inc announces the business plan (50% increase in titles annually) that will have them bankrupt by mid 1994.
-A few SF&F Historians working on their PhD theses about Robert Heinlein & Isaac Asimov show up, trying to crowd-source their research/have people do their homework for them.
-A MILLION OPEN DOORS by John Barnes is published and most SFLers like it. Meanwhile in real time, the Bosnian War enters a phase that will break John Barnes brain 6 years before 09-11-2001 does similar damage to everyone else in the SF author community.
-Misleading covers in SF&F books & discussion of the most accurate/least embarrassing SF&F artists.
-David Brin had a insane meltdown in 1992 over Ralph Bakshi. Then had a second more insane rant about Bakshi & Censorship & David Brin always being right. Stein Sigurdsson (steinly@lick.ucsc.edu) seems to be David Brin's sock puppet account.
(2021: Both those David Brin rants have been posted in-full on this blogsite at https://nothing2seeherepleasedisperse.blogspot.com/2021/01/remember-time-david-brin-melted-hell.html )
-More GODZILLA & Kaiju genre movie discussion.
-Wizard of Space and Time creator Mike Jittlov posts on the SFL Archives again to complain about more piracy of his film occurring and about his nemesis organizing conspiracies versus him. This time the piracy is a 15 second clip brodcast in Russia under another name
-Marvin Minsky reappears in the SFL Archives after 7 years to promote THE TURING OPTION, a book he cowrote with Harry Harrison. Minsky shares details of what inspired the book/share FTP links to the chapters Minsky wrote that got cut from the final published version.
-QUANTUM LEAP discussion. Most QL fans are not thrilled how series creator Donald Bellisario is changing up the formula by inserting real-life people/real events into the series. Same thing goes for the reveal of an alternate Quantum Leap program.
-With a REBEL IN TIME Harry Turtledove goes fullbore into the alternate history mil-fiction & mil-scifi stories that he will spend the next 28 yrs/80+ books writing about.
-After almost 10 years as a moderator of the SF-LOVERS mailing list, Saul Jaffe starts to life-blog about his vacations & the various SF&F themed conventions he has attended.
-The passage of the Electronic Fan Writing Hugo Ammendment at WorldCon 1992.
-Security enforcement at conventions/Tips and advice on how established SF&F conventions interact with actual Law Enforcement during conventions. Usage of radios & walkie-talkies at conventions by convention staff & convention attendees.
-More discussion of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED tv series. X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES premieries and almost everyone asks "Who is Morph?"
-HIGHLANDER THE TV SERIES discussion. Differences of the series between the movies, Adrian Paul, new crops of Immortals, Duncan being a pacifist yet happier than Connor, Joan Jett, etc
-WHEEL OF TIME discussion. Lots of detailed theories and guessing as to what plot elements/characters/lore are evolving, none of which I am going to repost here. BTW, some people guessed right.
-COVINGTON CROSS tv-series discussion, and how nothing in it makes sense other than Nigel Terry still looking good while riding horses.
(2021 note: One of Nigel Terry's most famous roles was as King Arthur in EXCALIBUR 1981.)
-THE TAEIS PROJECT: a co-operative internally realistic shared fictional world
-SFLer's discuss what Steven Spielberg has planned for the upcoming movie JURASSIC PARK 1993. Lots and lots of CGI work is getting teased, and SFLer's start debating the "science" in Crichton's novel JURASSIC PARK.
-Computer data Disaster Recovery procedures "modern" 1992 organizations use or rather should be using. Storage rot and the need for off-site storage of data backup media & the hardware required for that data backup media is discussed.
-Jim Butcher in way at all read THE LAST COIN by James P Blaylock before coming up with his own spin on the Christian Mythos in the DRESDEN FILES. I repeat no way at all.
-Why more Slow Glass style stories never got written or published.
(2021: Someone writing into ANALOG magazine noted that the way Slow Glass worked; chipping or breaking or even erasing a Slow Glass installation would be releasing a nuclear bombs worth of energy all at once.)
-New SF&F shows HIGHLANDER THE TV SERIES, KUNG FU THE LEGEND CONTINUES, and TIME TRAXX all premiere in the fall of 1992.
-A few SFLers are getting tired of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, others are not.
-Charles Stross randomly popped in to recommend people looking for fun SF&F fiction to check out UK SF&F author Dave Langford
-Daniel Keys Moran randomly appeared to give a status update to his fans and listed out every single story/novel/novella he planned on writing in the CONTINUING TIME series, which was around 13 novels & 20+ short stories/novellas
(2021 note: The status update also contained a very sanitized version of why the editor who worked on his books got fired from Bantam Spectra. DKM slept with his book editor, got his book editor pregnant, married his book editor, then wondered why Bantam Spectra fired his book editor 5 months after she had her(and his) baby.)
-Did you know that in the Dewey Decimal catalogue system that glass manufacture is listed under 666?
(2021 note: No idea if this is true. Deliberately not looking this factoid up until my SFL Archives readthrough project finishes.)
-Someone posts up a timeline of how George Lucas came up with the STAR WARS setting/a timeline of the various STAR WARS movie screenplays George Lucas wrote. Leigh Brackett's screenwriting on ESB gets mentioned. The CORELLIAN ARCHIVES, a Star Wars fanzine collected started by George Lucas maintained at the Santa Barbara Science Fiction Alliance.
(2021 note: Star Wars historians probably already know about the CORELLIAN ARCHIVES. If they did not, they will after reading this.)
-Larry Niven KNOWN SPACE discussion: what did Niven mean when he described "dial controls" for the teleport disks in his KS stories. A touchpad, a feedback loop phone rotary disk, a spinning disk, etc?
-Charles Stross randomly appears in the SFL Archives 1992 to promote another UK author.
"...relatively obscure, although he began publishing at the same time as Pratchett, but he's actually a lot closer to the British funny-bone than TP (Terry Pratchett) who has a kind of transatlantic drawl running through his books. I refer of course to Dave Langford".
-Babylon 5 casting information & Info file guides for BABYLON 5'S initial tv-movie THE GATHERING pilot episode
(2021 note: All these will be written up in a separate post, still find the casting note about not wanting a pretty-boy actor cast for the Sinclair main character funny, given how Bruce Boxleitner was brought in just for that reason in Babylon 5 season 2)
-AGRIPPA the self-deleting ebook cyberpunk story by William Gibson and Penn Jillette.
-Casting announcement and setting details for STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE are released to the public. SFLer's start commenting on stuff.
-1992 closes out with BOSKONE drama. More specially Boskone art show display drama vs how the rest of the world's conventions handle art show displays. The managment people behind Boskone tried to enforce their way of handling art shows at an upcoming Worldcons. As usual, any negative feedback, and suggested improvements about how Boskone/Boskone management committees handle things are taken as deadly faux pass insults. tldr: The Boskone Defense Squad are assholes in all their responses/rebuttals.
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