SFL Vol 18a 6.5mb raw text file
100% completion, 173 bookmarks
-Movie & tv-series mentioned: STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE, SPACE RANGERS, SPACE COPS, TIME TRAXX, FOREVER KNIGHT, QUANTUM LEAP, GOLDEN YEARS, SEAQUEST DSV, ZARDOZ, JOHNNY QUEST (1990s cartoon), TEK WAR, TOMORROW PEOPLE (1990s reboot tv series), LOIS & CLARK, GET A LIFE, MATINEE. MOON 44, THE SURVIVORS, GROUNDHOG DAY, TREMORS, TREMORS 2, PIRANHA 2, CAPTAIN AMERICA 1990, ROCKY JONES, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THE ABYSS SPECIAL EDITION, THE PUNISHER 1989, SUPER MARIO BROS 1993, JURASSIC PARK,
-Books & stories mentioned: THE GRIPPING HAND, SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK, INTERTEXT (newsletter), ISLANDS IN THE NET, DESTROYER novellas, TEK WAR, GLASS HAMMER, IT CAME FROM SCHENECTADY, THE FOREVER KING, A FIRE UPON THE DEEP, PEACE WAR, ON BASILISK STATION, THE GENERAL: THE ANVIL, TEN YEARS TO DOOMSDAY, MILLION OPEN DOORS, GRUNTS!, CHILDREN OF MEN, MODERAN, GURPS UPLIFT, CHINA MOUNTAIN ZHANG, FIRST ON MARS, INNER ECLIPSE, HEAVEN CHRONICLES, AGAINST A DARK BACKGROUND, GUILTY PLEASURES, SARAH CANARY, RHAND: MORNINGSTAR (rpg).
-Pop culture references: Crazy Eddy NYC commercials, Serbian-Balkan War, David Hasselholf: German music superstar, Sime/Gen RPGs, Doogie Howser MD, the launch of WIRED! magazine, Ed Nilges(?) being a infamous usenet poster, nanotechnology,
-Death notices: Keith Laumer, Ishiro Honda, Brandon Lee, Avram Davidson, Lester Del Rey, and Richard Webb.
-Unusual SFL Archives requests:
>Fan Societies/groups
>Canadian slave magic
>Science catches SF
>hyper-intelligent space beings
>homosexuality in SF
>Connecticut Yankee Syndrome
>Best time travel
>Humor in SF
>access to ST: TOS & TNG, Robotech and other novels for blind people
>SF authors of the Catholic faith
>Librarian and Libraries in SF and fantasy
>Early Fantasy (1900-1950)?
-Del Rey & TOR Books editors start posting in the SFL Archives. The Del Rey editors effort-post about various decisions/things that happen behind-the-scenes at Del Rey...meanwhile the TOR Books senior editors opt for "yes/no this book is/is not published by TOR" responses.
(2021 note: The Del Rey newsletters are really worth checking out if you want behind-the-scenes info on how book cover art is chosen, why certain authors get published/republished, the mechanics behind doing print runs and interviews with different SF&F series authors.)
-Discussion of now long forgotten tv-series TIME TRAXX, SPACE RANGERS, GOLDEN YEARS, etc.
-Editors from TOR Books & Del Rey books start posting in the SFL Archives. The TOR Books editors opt for snide 2 paragraph posts while the Del Rey editors effort-post.
-The BABYLON 5 pilot episode The Gathering is produced and released to mostly favorable SFL Archives reaction. CGI effects look good/bad, characterization is rough, dialogue is worse, but the costuming is ace plus.
(2021 note: All JMS comments on BABYLON 5 have been put into a dedicated post here https://nothing2seeherepleasedisperse.blogspot.com/2021/01/sfl-archives-1993-compiled-posts-from-j.html )
-Let the record state that bhoughto@xxxx.xxxx.xxx really knows his pornography.
2021 note: bhoughto's post heavily reminded me of:
-Writing letters directly to heads of TV Networks about un-cancelling tv-series becomes a big thing. QUANTUM LEAP, SPACE RANGERS, HIGHLANDER, FOREVER KNIGHT, etc.
-The TEKUMEL RPG standing out from other fantasy RPG settings because it's not so boringly medieval Europe, re-hashed with orcs.
-PLANET OF THE APES movie franchise & book timeline discussion. SFLer's see at least 2 timelines for the movies, with alternate dimensions.
-STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE premieres, and most SFLer's have negative reactions to everything & everyone in it.
(2021 note: This is a typical reaction whenever a new Star Trek series comes out. THE NEXT GENERATION had the same thing happen, VOYAGER same thing, ENTERPRISE same thing, DISCOVERY same thing, LOWER DECKS, same thing.)
-Damon Knight writes an open-letter to the internet complaining about a mean career overview Algis Budrys wrote about Damon Knight.
(2021 note: Damon Knight loved to abuse his power as editor-author, and had hyper-thin skin. AKA Damon Knight could dish out criticism 24/7/365 but could not handle any criticism of himself.)
-Interview with Godzilla movie series soundtrack composer Akira Ifukube.
-ClariNet's The Hugo and Nebula Anthology 1993 CDROM which contained ebook versions of all nominated Hugo & Nebula award stories.
-Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mercedes Lackey, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro react to unauthorized fan fiction set in their literary universes getting published in fanzines/GEnie/SF&F periodicals, destroying months of work when book publishers/magazines refuse to publish their versions of the same stories.
(2021 note: MZB's version of how things worked out is suspect as hell, even before the SFWA White Knight chimes in to give their own pro-MZB take on the matter.)
-Intense David Brin UPLIFT universe discussion ranging from uplift methods, debates about Herbie, inter-galactic Libraries, wolfling cultures, and why Earth managed to be wolflings in 7 galaxies full of Uplifted races Uplifting away.
-David Milner firmly establishes himself as the resident Godzilla movie franchise/Kaiju movie subject matter expert.
-P.J. Plauger being inescapable if you were both a Science-Fiction fan and a C programmer.
-QUANTUM LEAP airs the back-half of it's final season. Most people see a huge drop in show quality and self-contradiction of internal rules the show had previously set. Lots of debate as to whether NBC or Don B is to blame for the decline/switch in the show's focus for the final season.
-A Canadian SF&F convention called WOLFCON implodes in real time on the SFL Archives. Extremely angry management people ban each other plus another local convention (KingCon) completely, both sides air grievances, both sides backtrack with more grievances...and all of a sudden WOLFCON is on a 2yr hiatus (lawsuits pending on both sides?).
-Someone starts posting biweekly lists of what movies are in pre-production/production from January 1993 to May 1993, then gives up.
(2021 note: These lists are interesting/worth reading by a scifi film historian because so many movies that came out decades later are listed as being worked on/optioned.)
-Rabid Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven defenders defend all things written by Pournelle & Niven, especially the dated racist/sexist/islamophobic/etc stuff.
-SFLer's begin to turn on Orson Scott Card, noting OSC's one note-storytelling method of "child main character gets tortured" and OSC's obsession with working Mormon lore into every new series/story.
-Extended Convention discussion on all fronts. How to manage art shows, staffing, weapons policies, hotel bids, the downsides of airing SF&F movies or tv-series, Secret masters of fandom,
-6+ years later, the events of BOSKONE 24 & how the NEFSA handled BOSKONE 25 are still bringing up anger. Things are not helped by everyone involved in managing BOSKONE 25 tripling down on defensive posting.
(2021 note: I came into this readthrough attempt non-committal on SF&F conventions and how they were run. 22 SFL Archives Volumes later, I utterly loathe everyone associated with the 1980s-1990s version of NEFSA, the management committee behind BOSKONE conventions for being ultra-beyond terrible hyper-toxic.)
-During discussion of draconian security at certain conventions, one SFLer(Gharlan of Eddore) describes the modular cosplay Wizards Stave they like to bring to conventions
One of my favorite costume props is my "talking stave." It's a carved,
bejewelled, battery-powered six-foot wizard's staff with L.E.D.'s that
flash in controlled patterns, several dedicated microprocessor chips,
a voice synthesizer, a couple of music synth chips, and two megs of RAM
that hold whatever music I've downloaded from the totable cpu I keep in
the hotel room. (AND is 2.5" max diameter, thinner most places.)
Even though the tube is custom-machined aircraft aluminum (under all the
anodization and wood-strip overlay) it weighs about twenty-thirty pounds.
(Depends on whether I have the Big Battery Pack or the Little Battery Pack
in it, and whether I have the tuned-port speaker modules mounted on the
ends... it's a modularly configurable wizard's stave, you see.)
And yet, the last time I tried to carry it through the halls at Boskone, I
got jumped by "security" because they were afraid I was going to "hit
someone" with a prop I'd been working on, off and on, for several years.
Riiiiiiiiight
-DOORWAYS, a tv-series pilot written by George RR Martin about a group of people dimension-travelling sounds like the inspiration behind a later scifi tv-series called SLIDERS
-The Exclusion Act at the first WorldCon in NYC (1939?) featuring Sam Moskowitz & Donald Wollheim.
-Why in 1953, did Forry Ackerman, the first SciFi fan to receive a Hugo Award, immediately give his Hugo Award to Ken Slater?
(2021 note: Nobody answered this query. Mildly curious at the answer.)
-SFL April Fools 1993: A special SF-LOVERS Digest devoted to April Fools posts went out, the jokes were ok to eh.
-One SFLer waging a one-man war vs the CONFRANCISCO convention. Why did CONFRANCISCO 1993 break established Hugo Award nomination procedures about including the previous years WorldCon attendees in the nomination process? Why did CONFRANCISCO lie about hotel availability? Why is CONFRANCISCO full of SMOF's?
-John Brunner's work being banned from a un-named publisher/bookstore chain when they found out he was the same John Brunner that wrote a bunch of anti-nuclear war stuff.
-JURASSIC PARK 1993 comes out and the last 7 weeks of SFL Archives Vol 18a are almost exclusively dedicated to Jurassic Park movie/book discussion with side-conversations about Michael Crichton's research/anti-technology bias as a author.
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