Letters, News, and Notes

In Memoriam

Virginia Heinlein died on the morning of Saturday, January 18, in a Florida hospital. She was married to Robert A. Heinlein from 1948 until his death in 1987. Mrs. Heinlein was an honored member of the libertarian science fiction community, not only for the memory of her husband’s role in creating that community, but for her own sake, for her friendship and support to many younger writers.

Publications Received

Fosfax 207. Prometheus welcomes back the fanzine of the Falls of the Ohio Science Fiction and Fantasy Association after a happily brief publishing hiatus (see Letters, News and Notes in our Summer 2002 issue). As always, the issue includes opinion pieces, reviews, convention reports (see p. 11 for a report on the Worldcon’s “Libertarian SF” panel), a very active letter column, and quirkier material such as Joseph Major’s alternate history of British North America. For information e-mail to jtmajor@iglou.com

Literary News

Gardner Dozois’s anthology Year's Best Best Science Fiction, 19th Edition (for 2002) gives an honorable mention to Fran Van Cleave’s novella “Navajo Moon-Bird” published in Analog. Van Cleave’s story portrays a private space-launch company that begins operating on the Navajo reservation after government regulation makes it impossible for them to launch from the U.S. The story is from the point of view of one Navajo teenage girl who chooses free enterprise over government and Green propaganda.

Libertarian writer Sunni Maravillosa has announced the establishment of “Sunni’s Freedom Book of the Month,” a Web site that reviews books of interest to libertarian readers. To view this site, go to http://www.sunnimaravillosa.com [archive.org link]

Letters

Fran Van Cleave writes:

The Prometheus Award nominee Picoverse by Robert A. Metzger is published by Ace, not Berkley Books. Would you be able to correct that in the next issue?