SFL Archives Volume 24 readthrough

 SFL Archives Volume 24

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Movies, television shows referenced: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (tv-series), EARTH FINAL CONFLICT (tv-series), SEVEN DAYS (tv-series), STAR TREK VOYAGER (tv-series), X-FILES (tv-series), ANGEL (tv-series), XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS (tv-series), HERCULES THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS, THE FACULTY, SLIDING DOORS, BRIMSTONE (tv-series), MORTAL KOMBAT: CONQUEST (tv-series), ALIEN CARGO, THE CROW (tv-series), FANTASY ISLAND (tv-series), SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH (tv-series), SO WEIRD (tv-series), TOTAL RECALL 2070 (tv-series), CHARMED (tv-series), ULTRAVIOLET (tv-series), THE LAST MAN ON PLANET EARTH, WISHBONE IN SPACE! (tv-series), FARSCAPE (tv-series), FIRST WAVE (tv-series), FUTURAMA (tv-series), NOWHERE MAN (tv-series), RED DWARF (tv-series), STRANGE WORLD (tv-series), THE MATRIX 1, BABYLON 5: CRUSADE (tv-series), HIGHLANDER: THE RAVEN (tv-series), SATANS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, VIPER (tv-series), BLACK MASK, EXISTENZ, QUATERMASS XPERIMENT, STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE, MILLENIUM (tv-series), THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN (tv-series), TREKKIES, THIRTEENTH FLOOR, CAPTAIN POWER AND THE SOLDIERS OF THE FUTURE (tv-series), ANDROMEDA (tv-series), RELIC HUNTER (tv-series), ROBOCOP (tv-series), NOW AND AGAIN (tv-series), THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF JULES VERNE (tv-series), SLIDERS (tv-series), HARSH REALMS (tv-series), ROUGHNECKS: STARSHIP TROOPERS CHRONICLES (tv-series), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT 1, ROSWELL (tv-series), THE TIMESHIFTERS, BICENTENNIAL MAN, THIS WAY COMES (tv-series), GALAXY QUEST. 

SF&F stories referenced: BEAUTY, THE GILDED CHAIN, STARDUST, PRINCESS BRIDE, A FOR ANYTHING, PRINCE OF DOGS, THIS ALIEN SHORE, CAMBER OF CULDI, WIZARD OF THE PIGEONS, A CLASH OF KINGS, NIMISHAS SHIP, BLOOD, CASSINI DIVISION, HOKA! HOKA! HOKA!, PRETERNATURAL, THE FORTUNATE FALL, FORTRESS OF EAGLES, FORTRESS OF OWLS, LITTLE BIG, AGAIN DANGEROUS VISIONS, A THOUSAND WORDS FOR STRANGER, DARK LORD OF DERKHOLM, CHILD OF THE RIVER, THE HIGH HOUSE, KALEIDOSCOPE CENTURY, DINOSAUR SUMMER, SHADOW OF EARTH, LUCK OF THE WHEELS, BLOOM, MISSION CHILD, WAVE RIDER, PARIS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, STARLIGHT 2, EARTH MADE OF GLASS, RING OF ALLAIRE, THIRTEEN VIEWS OF A CARDBOARD CITY, ANCIENT OF DAYS, NOT EXACTLY THE THREE MUSKETEERS, LAIR OF THE CYCLOPS, MERCURY RISING, OF SWORDS AND SPELLS, THE GOLDEN GLOBE, TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG, TITAN, TO REIGN IN HELL, DRAGON, TEA FROM AN EMPTY CUP, THE JOWN W CAMPBELL LETTERS, CLORDIAN SWEEP, FOR RED SHIFT, OUR WORLD BEYOND THE WAVE, HOLES, LEFT BEHIND, THE GIFT, THE LAST HAWK, THE LAND OF NO SHADOW, TO VISIT THE QUEEN, ROGUE STAR, DRAGONSTAR, SHIP OF MAGIC, SAILING TO SARANTIUM, STORM OF THE CENTURY, BEGGARS IN SPAIN, SILVERHAND, PLAN B, THE SHADOW OF ALBION, GATEWAY, THE SPACE MERCHANTS, STARSWARM, THE STARS DISPOSE, BLUEHEART, A POINT OF HONOR, A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY, DARWINIA, THE ENGINEER, RAINBOW MARS, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERORS STONE, DISTRACTION, ILLUSION, ANGEL OF THE SUN, ATROCITY EXHIBTION, FINITY, WHITE LIGHT, THE LAST DRAGONLORD, NAKED CAME THE SASQUATCH, FREEDOM AND NECESSITY, THE WHIM OF THE DRAGON, THE EXILES KISS, YES DEAR, MOONWALK, BAKERS BOY, THE WILD SWANS, TOWER AND THE HIVE, DARK BEYOND THE STARS, HIGHLANDER: WHITE SILENCE, THE GLASS HARMONICA, THE WISHBONE BAG, THE LAST CONTINENT, THE GOLDEN, ARCADY, CRYPTONOMICON, THE RIFT, SILICON DAGGER, SKY COYOTE, EXPENDABLE, COMMITMENT HOUR, DARK HORN BLOWING, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, BESERKERS, PATRIACHS HOPE, DECEPTION WELL, THE FEAR OF GOD, CRUSADER, DIASPORA, AXIOMATIC, FIRESTAR, SECOND CHANCE AT EDEN, THE LION OF BOAZ-JACHIN, DEEP SECRET, THE BLACK SWAN, INTO THE DARKNESS, REBIRTH OF WONDER, FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND, STARTIDE RISING, MURTHER AND WALKING SPIRITS, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, ROCKETS REDHEADS AND REVOLUTION, BRIDGE OF BIRDS, A CALCULUS OF ANGELS, RIDDLEY WALKER: EXPANDED EDITION, FAR HORIZONS, VOYAGE, THE BOHR MAKER, THE CONSUMER, CITY COME A WALKIN, EXCHANGE OF HOSTAGES, THE CENTURIONS EMPIRE, THE SHINING COURT, SILVER BIRCH MOON BLOOD, WAR FOR THE OAKS, OCEANIC, THE BURNING STONE, TO SIN AGAINST SYSTEMS, PORT OF CALL, MUSE OF ART, DAEMONOMANIA, IN HARMS WAY, THE BLUE PLACE, MYTHAGO WOOD, THE PEARL OF THE SOUL OF THE WORLD, FALL OF HYPERION, HYPERION, APOCALYPSE TROLL, THE FOREVER DRUG, MICHAELMASS, INTERFACE, THE STEN CHRONICLES, THE KNIGHT THE HARP AND THE MAIDEN, ENCHANTMENT, LEST DARKNESS FALL, ZENITH, AZTEC CENTURY, THE RUNELORDS, BACK TO THE MOON, TOUR OF THE UNIVERSE, DEADLINE Y2K, DAYS, THE MOON AND THE SUN, THE MAGIC OF RECLUSE, SABRIEL, SIGNAL TO NOISE, DRY WATER, HEADCRASH, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, PRIAMS LENS, BURNT OFFERINGS, EINSTEIN INTERSECTION, EMPERORS PENGUINS, MOONFALL, FACTORING HUMANITY, EARTHWEB, RING OF SWORDS, AGAINST A DARK BACKGROUND, MOONSEED, THE WHITE ABACUS, ENDERS SHADOW, FADED STEEL HEAT, QUARANTINE, THIS SIDE OF JUDGEMENT, JARAN, FACE OF THE ENEMY, TRAITORS MOON, PARALLELITIES, BECOMING HUMAN, KASPIAN LOST, PLANET OF THE JEWS, END OF DAYS, THE REALITY DYSFUNCTION, CRADLE OF SATURN, RAILWAYS UP ON CANNIS, THE SILVER METAL LOVER, JASON COSMO, BLOOD JAGUAR, THE MORIGU, THE MILLENIUM PROJECT, ARAMAYA, ILLEGAL ALIEN, JOVAHS ANGEL, WRAPT IN CRYSTAL, THE FACE OF THE WATERS, THE DIAMOND AGE, VAMPIRES OF VERMONT, HEROES DIE, BEYOND THE GATES, OPERATION LUNA, LITTLE GREEN MEN, THE WONDERLAND GAMBIT, ANGELS ON FIRE, THE MEMORY CATHEDRAL, CHILDREN OF THE STAR, THE NAKED GOD, THE STAR BEAST, CHANGER, TIME FOR THE STARS, GOLD STALK, OLD MUSIC AND THE SLAVE WOMEN, THE BOOK OF KELLS, DESTINYS ROAD, SLOW FUNERAL, GREAT APES, SNOW CRASH, A FIRE UPON THE DEEP, RIFT, DARWINS RADIO, BLOOD MUSIC, THE TIN MAN, A CIVIL CAMPAIGN, FLESH AND SILVER, ENDERS GAME, R.U.R., THE DRAGON NEVER SLEEPS, THE SWORD OF MAIDENS TEARS, THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT GOES TO HELL, RHAPSODY, THE TIME WARS, THE SIEGE OF ARRANDIN, A RED HEART OF MEMORIES, TEEK, BAKERS DOZEN, THE STAR FRACTION, THE SKY ROAD, GRAVITY DREAMS, BLUE LIGHT, HORN CROWN, ANTARCTICA, SAUCER WISDOM, SEWER GAS AND ELECTRIC, FOOL ON THE HILL, THE SPARROW, LORD PRESTIMION, HOUNDS OF WINER, LOOKING BACKWARD, A PHULE AND HIS MONEY, AMMONITE, NIGHT VISIONS, THE STONE AND THE MAIDEN, HENRY MARTYN, NYMPHOATION, DIGITAL KNIGHT, HOUSEHOLD GODS, THE CHOSEN, THE UNCROWNED KING, NOT OF WOMAN BORN, THE ULTIMATE ALIEN, WESTMARK, DAWNTHIEF, AN ILL FATE MARSHALING, GROWING UP WEIGHTLESS, TAM LIN, RIBOFUNK, BORDERS OF INFINITY, TERANESIA, THE SECRET HISTORIES, STANDING WAVE, WHAT HO MAGIC!, OWL IN LOVE, THE STONE CANAL, PERSEUS SPUR, THIEFS GAMBLE, THE CHANGLING SEA, THE WEREWOLF OF PONKERT, THE REDISCOVERY OF MAN, THE DISFAVOURED HERO, COLOR OF DISTANCE, DRAGON WEATHER, BIOS, ON BLUES WATER, THE BROKEN GOD, WHEN THE ROSE IS DEAD, THE UNWOUND WAY, THE VEILED WEB, EINSTEINS BRIDGE, HALFWAY HUMAN, PHYLOGENESIS, WIZARDS FIRST RULE, VURT, THE FIFTH ELEPHANT, THE ANTIPOPE,THE REBELLERS, CHILD OF VENUS, LUTHIENS GAMBLE, WORLDWAR: IN THE BALANCE, MUTINEERS MOON, THE ARMAGEDDON INHERITANCE, EVERGENCE: THE PRODIGAL SON, ECHOES IN TIME, ARCADY, BELLWETHER, THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT JOINS THE CIRCUS, A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ, TYPHONS CHILDREN, FRONTIER EARTH, THE TROIKA, SHADOW OF ARARAT, ASH: A SECRET HISTORY, MILLENIUM RISING, KINGS OF THE HIGH FRONTIER, DIPLOMACY OF WOLVES, GOODMAN 2020, THE GOBLIN RESERVATION, CODE OF CONDUCT, CALIBAN, INFERNO, KOMARR, WIND IN THE STONE, THE SEA IS FULL OF STARS, THE ANNUNCIATE, DARKER ANGELS, BRUTE ORBIT, FOREVER PEACE, SCHISMATRIX, DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE, STARFISH. 

Pop culture references: Party of Five (tv-series), Alien Critic the sff fanzine, the NYC World Trade Center, Comic Relief TV specials, Moonlighting (tv-series), V.I.P. (tv-series), Jimmy James from News Radio (tv-series), Krispy Kreme donuts, the Waco Kid from BLAZING SADDLES, the MK-Ultra LSD experiments, Walmart, Josh Malina on SPORTSNIGHT (tv-series), Pepsi TV commericals, Buzz Lightyear from TOY STORY. 

Technology callbacks: The U.S. National Library Service, Windows 95 computer operating system, CAV LaserDiscs, Infocom text adventure games, the Grizzly (self-protection) Suit, 

Death notices: Christine Glanville, professional (tv-series) puppeteer. Vander Pyl, (cartoon) voice-actress. Marion Zimmer Bradley, SFF author. 

SFL requests/discussion topics:

>Re: Dean Koontz - What's the Deal?

>Re: C.S. Friedman's Coldfire trilogy

>Re: Robert Asprin "Myth" books

>Re: David Eddings

>Re: Why is J.G. Ballard unpopular?

>Re: Surprised by Philip K. Dick 

>Re: Gwyneth Jones

>Re: the Mageworld series

>Re: suggestions on Philip Jose Farmer?

>Re: The Wheel of Time

>Re: Daniel Keys Moran

>Re: J.R. Dunn?

>Re: recent Robert Silverberg

>Re: Barrington J. Bayley

>Re: E.E. Eddison's other work

>Re: Robert Heinlein, an appreciation

-Vol 24 starts off with a history of the SF-LOVERS mailing list, and a admission of not knowing how much longer the SF-LOVERS mailing list will stick around.

-Fans of A CLASH OF KINGS fans are desperate for more and wish George RR Martin would write faster. Other SFLers decide to hold off on reading the Game of Thrones books until GRRM finishes the trilogy -uh- quadrology.

(2021 note: Yeah. 23 years and the Game of Thrones book series still isn't finished, however there is a dozen more WILDCARDS series books edited by GRRM nobody asked for instead.)

-A blind SFLer posts to the SFL Archives about audio books and asks for help on offerings from the (U.S.) National Library Service.

(2021 note: The U.S. National Library Service is legitimately badass.)

-A explanation of why the JOHN W CAMPBELL LETTERS never had a volume 2, which boils down to money issues and less demand than expected.

-Why David R. Palmer stopped writing SFF fiction, and a plot twist in Palmer's Threshold that aged badly.

-First mention of JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone in the SFL Archives.

-SFLer's discuss why J.G. Ballard is so unpopular with SFF fans.

(2021 note: The reasons given are similar to why certain diehard SFF fans dislike Ray Bradbury)

-FARSCAPE the tv-series premieres and nobody in the SFL Archives is really sure about it, and everyone is comically bad at identifying and describing characters. For example, Dargo the tall tentacle guy keeps getting called "Bird Man" by everyone.

-FUTURAMA premieres and gets mildly discussed for a while then never really mentioned again throughout 1999. No one in the SFL Archives was Zapruder Film frame-by-frame analyzing the show to decode the alphabets or catchphrases and slogans.

-ONE SFLer starts a "read and review every Hugo Award winning novel" readthrough project that no one ever responds to, so I'm not bothering listing the novels they bring up in the "discussed SF&F stories referenced" section of this update.

(2021 note: Nobody responding to Evelyn Leeper's/Mark Leeper's constant posting-into-the-void reviews of SFF material is also why I stopped bothering mentioning anything the Leeper's mentioned around 1993-ish.)

-James Hogan either including a Larry Niven-esque fantasy about fucking fans at SFF conventions or a actual sexual encounter he had with a female fan in his ROCKETS REDHEADS AND REVOLUTION story collection. 

-One SFLer is fixated on the "porn actress" look in episodes of Xena Warrior and Hercules the Legendary Journeys.

-A movie-adaptation of A Princess of Mars being stuck in development hell at Disney comes up again.

-STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE comes out and almost every SFLer posts their review and thoughts on it. Reviews and comments on Phantom Menace are mostly positive, some SFLer's don't like the tone shift from the original Star Wars trilogy.

-The season finale of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER gets pre-empted until summer....for the student school shooter violence within the "high school graduation two parter episode'. WB eventually airs the Buffy season finale when most colleges/school systems are on break for the summer.

(2021 note: Not sure if this episode is aired at all circa 2021/aired without content cuts now that school violence/school shootings have become a omnipresent issue.)

-Another solitary cry-out of "Has anyone read Mark C. Perry's MORIGU?" with zero feedback.

(2021 note: These solitary cry-outs into the void about MORIGU have been happening since 1988-ish?, and is the final reference to MORIGU in the SFL Archives.)

-The publishers of Archie Comics wanting Melissa Joan Hart removed from the SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH tv-show because of some public comments she made about drinking and having sex.

(2021 note: This is deeply deeply hilarious given the existence and content of the CW tv show RIVERDALE for the past 3+ years.)

-New Line Cinema announces that the Lord of the Rings movies are officially under production status.

-GALAXY QUEST comes out just as 1999 closes and SFLer's aren't sure what to make it yet. The most vocal are angry about Star Trek fandom being mocked, the others just like the movie and the above-average CGI & Sigourney Weaver's Wonderbra.

-There is many 5 or less references to the upcoming potential Year 2000 computer programming scare mania in the SFL Archives, which was interesting and oddball.

(2021 note: Y2K disaster mania was promoted heavily by mass media news corporations and TV. All references to a possible Y2k disaster were quickly swept under the rug by the same groups/corporations that hyped it up so much, just like the Atlanta GA Olympic Games bomber fiasco all caused by those same groups/corporations. The only modern equivalent to the mania about looming potential Y2k disaster is probably the COVID-19/COVID-19 vaccinations)