Letters, Notes, and News

Publications Received:

Fosfax 205 Part 1 and 205 Part 2. A print fanzine, with personal news. clinical discussion, convention reports, book reviews, and a very active letter column. Joseph T. Major offers a miniature alternate history including an alternate resolution to the American rebellion ("A Choice of Dynasties" pp. 68-72). Regrettably, publication is suspended with this issue, until the publishers' economic situation improves.

Thoughtcrime, edition 1, Volume 1. An electronically published newsletter devoted to the reexamination of George Orwell’s 1984 as a novel extrapolating social trends to a serious prediction of the late 20th century, and to exploration of how well the contemporary world fits Orwell’s predictions. The first issue contains a Mission Statement and articles by Jon Bromfield, David Gagman, David Ross, and Jefferson P. Swycaffer. Subscriptions (via a-mail) are currently available free; e-mail the Editor, David Ross, at curmudgeondr@ixpres.com

Publishing News:

James P. Hogan has turned in a new novel to Baen Books for release in December 2002. The Anguished Dawn is a sequel to Cradle of Saturn. The final version came to about 130,000 words.

Hogan is also working n a new collection, Chaos, Catastrophe, and Convolution, third in a series that began with Minds, Machines and Evolution, and on a nonfiction work on the political history of science, Truth under Tyranny.

Baen Books continues to work on keeping Hogan’s earlier books in print as well; they have recently acquired the rights to his novel The Genesis Machine, originally published in the late 1970s.

The Prometheus Award winning novel Moon of Ice, by Brad Linaweaver, is scheduled to appear in 1995 in a new edition from Meisha Merlin Publishing. A sequel, Swastika in the Sky, also from Meisha Merlin, will follow in 2005.

In a different alternative history of the 20th century, Linaweaver and J. Kent Hastings are collaborating on Anarquia (completion planned for summer 2003).

A shorter Linaweaver project of particular interest to readers of Prometheus is "A Reception at the Anarchist Embassy," to appear in Visions of Liberty from Baen Books.

L. Neil Smith has announced the signing of a contract for a graphic novel adaptation of The Probability Broach, for which Smith will write the script (completion planned for December 2002). Scott Bieser, the cover artist for Smith’s essay collection Lever Action, will be the artist; samples of his work can to seen at his Web site, www.libertyartworx.com

The graphic novel will be published by Big Head Press.

Two of Smith’s other novels will become available in electronic versions. Smith has agreed to prepare Tom Paine Maru for publication by a new firm headed by Thomas Knapp of Free-Market.net. Smith and his family are preparing a CD version of Their Majesties' Bucketeers.