Letters, News, and Notes

Publications Received:

Nova Express (Volume 6. Number 2, Summer 2020 fauces on the writing of Paul Di Filipo; other contents include an article on Avram Davidson's literary career and a review of the Serbian science fiction writer Zoran Zivkovic.

Publishing News:

Baen Books has just re-released the 1992 Prometheus winner for Best Novel: Fallen Angels. Larrry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn's near-future cautionary saga abut two high-technology Space Hab astronauts marooned on a future Earth enduring both an Ice Age and a repressive political system.

Meanwhile, TOR Books plans to publish several novels by authors of interest to the Libertarian Futurist Safety:

Engine City, the latest novel by Ken MacLeod. due for release in January, 2003, is the concluding volume of The Engines of Light, about an interstellar civilization of human and other beings who throughout history have secretly been removed from Earth.

The Wreck of the River of Stars, by Michael Flynn, is due for release in April, 2003. In Wreck, Flynn writes about the future of space exploration in a stand-alone epic of the spaceways. The novel is billed as a futuristic Greek tragedy about a catastrophic engine failure on a tramp freighter that was once a space-sailing luxury liner—and might sail again, as a long-shot act of salvation and survival.

TOR plans to publish two novels by the late Poul Anderson, a reprint of Conan the Rebel and one called For Love and Glory, apparently one of the last works written before his death. In this new science fiction adventure, two interstellar archaeologists—a human female and an alien academic who resembles a tyranosaur-investigate a remote planet where they discover an immense artifact that may have been left by mysterious beings called the Forerunners.

Hecate's Glory, scheduled for release in February, continues the fantasy saga begun by LFS member Karen Michelson in Enemy Glary. A young wizard has taken refuge in a monastery, but his schemes for revenge precipitate a disaster that forces him to venture again into the world.

Sims, set for release in April by TOR's sister imprint Forge Books, is a new medical thriller by F. Paul Wilson, set in the near future when dangerous or boring manual labor is gradually being transferred to sims, genetically altered chimps who occupy a gray zone between animal and human. But the company that owns the patent on the sim genome has a few secrets to hide.

Finally, Crossfire. set for release in February is a novel of alien war by Nancy Kress. Kress tells the story of a human colony that discovers primitive humanoid aliens, leading to involvement in an interstellar war between two very different species of aliens.

Events:

"Liberty 2002: The European Conference of the Libertarian International and Libertarian Alliance" will take place Saturday and Sunday, November 9 and 10, at the National Liberal Club in London, England. Conference memberships cost 75 pounds sterling or $111. For further information, email to admin@libertarian.co.uk.