News Notes

Inspired by L. Neil Smith's The Gallatin Divergence, Neil Schulman wrote to Smith and suggested that they actually write a "social contract" like Big Al's "New Covenant" which he presents to the Whiskey Rebels as a substitute for the hated Federalist Constitution. What Schulman didn't know was that had been Smith's idea all along. He and his wife, Cathy, had already started collecting signatures. Their new document corrects the ills of the Constitution and "answers, along the way, objections of people like Lysander Spooner." They prefer to let the "revolution" spread chainletter style. If anyone is interested in signing this document, please send an inquiry to the Prometheus editorial officers and I will forward it to L. Neil Smith.

Anyone who wishes to reach Michael Grossberg should do so in care of his new address in Columbus, Ohio. where he is thriving as a theatre/movie critic for the Columbus Dispatch. Write to Michael Grossberg, Box 15548, Columbus. Ohio 43215.

On Friday, March 7th, CBS broadcast an episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Profile in Silver" and written by J. Neil Schulman, winner of the 1984 Prometheus Award (for his novel The Rainbow Cadenza. Schulman's story concerns a future historian who goes back to 1963 to observe, and accidentally prevents the assassination of his ancestor, John F. Kennedy. Schulman was allowed to be on the set while the crew was shooting, and he says "they did it right." In a March 3, USA Today Schulman was quoted as saying, "I personally can't say that I was a Kennedy supporter." However, he wrote the teleplay to show "what happens when a country is led by moral example."

Neal Wilgus will have three interviews published in Science Fiction Review this year. One is in two parts (at least one part has already been published in the Spring, 1986 issue), the second with F. Paul Wilson, and a third with Victor Koman. Interviews are what Wilgus does best, and the first half of J. Neil Schulman's is very interesting. Schulman comments on the publishing industry, science fiction, and of course libertarianism.