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[This is part FIVE of FIVE of Volume 1, Issue 6 of CYBERSPACE VANGUARD: News and Views of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Universe. If your site did not receive all five parts, or if you would like the entire thing sent to you in one large chunk, write to cn577@cleveland.freenet.edu. CV is registered with the United States Copyright Office. Permission is granted to repost the issue IN IT'S ENTIRETY. For other reposting, contact the above address.] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS --!1!-- Ramblings of a Deranged Editor (& a few deranged readers ...) --!2!-- Within the Realm of Extreme Possibility: Creator CHRIS CARTER on the X-FILES --!3!-- The Highlander's Heart: An Interview with ADRIAN PAUL End of PART ONE --!4!-- The Art and Science of Leaping Tall Buildings --!5!-- A Writer's Guide to STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION --!6!-- Reviews by EVELYN C. LEEPER --!7!-- THE OLD COMIC CURMUDGEON: R-E-S-P-E-C-T ... End of PART TWO --!8!-- The Infamous Reply Cards and What You Said --!9!-- SF Calendar: What's Coming Up in the Near Future --!10!-- All The News That's Fit To Transmit End of PART THREE is in the middle of --!10!-- PART FOUR is the rest of the news --!11!-- Spoilers Ahoy! Including TWILIGHT ZONE Episode Guide --!12!-- Contests and Awards --!13!-- Conventions and Readings --!14!-- Publications, Lists and the like --!15!-- Administrivia --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --!11!-- Spoilers Ahoy! Including TWILIGHT ZONE Episode Guide --------------------------------------------------------------------------- STAR TREK: The Next Generation STAR TREK: Deep Space Nine Week of 10/09/93 Gambit, Part I The Siege 10/16/93 Gambit, Part II Invasive Procedures 10/23/93 Phantasms Cardassians 10/30/93 Dark Page Melora 11/06/93 Attached Rules of Acquisition 11/13/93 Force of Nature Necessary Evil 11/20/93 Inheritance Second Sight 11/27/93 Parallels Sanctuary In "Dark Page," Lwaxana Troi is back, but not her usual bubbly self. A traumatic secret has caused her to have a mental collapse that threatens her life if Deanna can't help her. In "Phantasms," Data experiences his first nightmare, with disastrous results for the rest of the crew. In "Parallels," Worf bounces between alternate realities, one of which includes Wesely Crusher. Look for alterations in costume and sets, ala' "Yesterday's Enterprise." The "Cardassians" attempt to reclaim young Cardassians orphaned in the war and raised on Bejor. Movies that will supposedly appear on season five of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: Warrior of the Lost World, Hercules, Swamp Diamonds, Secret Agent Super Dragon, The Magic Voyage of Sinbad, Eegah!, I Accuse My Parents, Operation 007, Girl in Lover's Lane, The Painted Hills, MitchelL, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Teenage Strangler, Wild World of Batwoman, Atomic Brain, Beginning of the End, Radar Secret Service HIGHLANDER Second season episode list 01 The Watchers 02 Studies In Light 03 Turnabout 04 The Darkness 05 An Eye For An Eye 06 The Zone 07 Revenge of the Sword 08 Amanda Returns ALEXANDRA VANDERNOOT will be leaving HIGHLANDER to continue her career in feature films. She had expressed a desire during the second season contract negotiations to stay in France to be closer to her family but agreed to stay with the show long enough for the writers to write her character out of the story lines. Her character, Tessa Noel, will die in an episode early in the season. As a result, STAN KIRSCH's character will be expanded. The first episode, "The Watchers" opens in Paris with Duncan MacLeod (played by ADRIAN PAUL), devastated by the senseless murder of his long-time friend, the Immortal priest Darius (portrayed last season by the late WERNER STOCKER). His hunt for the killers takes him back to North America to his old city. "Studies in Light" Duncan discovers an Immortal friend undergoing violent psychological changes during a photo art show and is reunited with an old lover who is now 73 years old. "Turnabout" Evil Immortal Quenten Barnes escapes from the tomb he was sealed in after being convicted and executed for murder 30 years ago. Now, he is after those involved in his execution among which is an old friend of Duncan's. "The Darkness" A pivotal episode. Renegade Watcher Pallin Wolf is after the death of *all* Immortals, including Duncan. "An Eye for An Eye" Richie decides to be a hero during a terrorist attack on an ambassador. "The Zone" A neighborhood so bad that even the police won't go in alone. Joe Dawson suspects that the new leader of the ruling gang is an Immortal. He asks Duncan to investigate. "Revenge of the Sword" A former student of Charlie Desalvo's has made it big as a martial arts movie star. Trouble erupts on the scene of his latest movie about street gangs. "Amanda Returns" Our ever-popular sneak thief is back and she claims she's changed her ways. Who can blame Duncan for not believing her? Especially since Federal agents are hot on her trail. [Editor's note: The TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE GUIDE is reprinted with permission from the author. It has not been edited except to condense it space-wise. All text is intact. The original is available by FTP from gandalf.rutgers.edu.] [This file is from the Sf-Lovers Archives at Rutgers University. It is provided as part of a free service in connection with distribution of Sf-Lovers Digest. This file is currently maintained by the moderator of the Digest. It may be freely copied or redistributed in whole or in part as long as this notice remains intact. If you would like to know more about Sf-Lovers Digest, send mail to SF-LOVERS-REQUEST@RUTGERS.EDU.] =========================== TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE GUIDE =========================== Revision of 9/82 =========================== Saul Jaffe Lauren Weinstein (vortex!lauren@LBL-UNIX) Lauren's rating system * ugh. pretty bad. ** has merit. *** good, solid show. **** particularly good. ***** superlative. _________________________________ In this document, comments by Saul Jaffe are preceded by SJ: and comments by Lauren Weinstein are preceded by LW:. "There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears, and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call... THE TWILIGHT ZONE." Rod Serling LW: Background The Twilight Zone originally aired on the CBS Television Network. It was heavily sponsored by the large tobacco companies. In fact Serling did a few of the commercials himself! Serling just was not complete without the dangling cigarette, a fact which was later to contribute to his untimely demise... It should be noted that there have been rumors that some of the shows credited to Serling were actually "ghostwritten" by someone else. There is, however, no proof of this. Chalk another one up with Francis Bacon and Willy Shakespeare.... To an even greater extent than with "The Outer Limits", many actors appear in these episodes who later became very big stars. Many familiar (but younger!) faces peer out at us from this program... FIRST SEASON 1959-1960 WHERE IS EVERYBODY? *** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Robert Stevens Cast: Earl Holliman, James Gregory The pilot show for the series concerns a man who finds himself in a completely deserted city. In the end, we learn that it was all a test to observe how human beings will respond to extreme loneliness during space flights. This was the only episode shot at Universal Studios, all others were filmed at MGM. LW: Earl Holliman later became known as Angie Dickenson's sidekick in "Policewoman". Earl is the sole actor in this piece right up to the last five minutes or so of the script. ONE FOR THE ANGELS **** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Robert Parish Cast: Ed Wynn, Murray Hamilton, Dana Dillaway, Merritt Bohn Wynn delivers a bravura performance as a sidewalk salesman who makes the greatest pitch of his life to save a little girl from "Mr. Death". MR. DENTON ON DOOMSDAY ** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Allen Reisner Cast: Dan Duryea, Malcolm Atterbury, Martin Landau, Jeanne Cooper, Ken Lynch, Doug McClure A has-been gunslinger finds his fast draw abilities have been restored after he drinks a magic potion. LW: Neither Martin Landau nor Doug McClure had their careers exactly ended by this episode, even though it was a poor one. Martin continued on to roles in "The Outer Limits", and of course, starred in "Mission Impossible". Doug shows up in a variety of places. THE SIXTEEN-MILLIMETER SHRINE ** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Mitch Leisen Cast: Ida Lupino, Martin Balsam, Alice Frost, Jerome Cowan A former movie queen tries to recreate the spirit of her heyday by screening her old movies...and living them. WALKING DISTANCE **** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Robert Stevens Cast: Gig Young, Frank Overton, Michael Montgomery, Irene Tedrow Young's acting and a magnificent score by Bernard Hermann highlight this episode. Harried advertising agent Martin Sloane visits his home town and slips thirty years into his childhood. LW: Rather sentimental, but I'm a sucker for stuff like that. Our hero actually meets himself as a child, and turns out to be the cause of an old leg injury that bothered him the rest of his life... ESCAPE CLAUSE *** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Mitch Leisen Cast: David Wayne, Virginia Christine, Wendell Holmes, Thomas Gomez A hypochondriac makes a pact with the Devil for immortality. He then kills someone for kicks, but instead of getting the electric chair, he is sentenced to life imprisonment! LW: Rather amusing, actually! THE LONELY ***** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Jack Smight Cast: Jack Warden, Jean Marsh, John Dehner, Ted Knight, Jim Turley This classic episode concerns one James Corry (Warden), a man convicted of murder and sentenced to spend forty years on a distant asteroid. He has only one companion - a robot made in the form of a woman. Ted Knight, later Ted Baxter on THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, has a minor role as a nasty space crewman. LW: I gotta tell ya' ... the closing scene of this episode gave me nightmares for many nights as a child when I first saw it. An excellent episode. TIME ENOUGH AT LAST **** Writer: Rod Serling Director: John Brahm Cast: Burgess Meredith, Jacqueline DeWit, Vaughn Taylor, Lela Bliss In his first of several TWILIGHT ZONE episodes, Burgess Meredith plays a nearsighted bank teller who becomes the only survivor of an H-bomb attack. He is now able to pursue his only real interest in life: reading. LW: At least, he THINKS he will be able to pursue it... PERCHANCE TO DREAM *** Writer: Charles Beaumont Director: Robert Florey Cast: Richard Conte, John Larch, Suzanne Lloyd, Ted Stanhope, Eddie Marr The first non-Serling script of the series concerns a man (Conte) who is terrified of falling asleep. He fears that the mysterious woman he meets in his dreams will soon murder him. LW: To elaborate a bit: Conte has a heart condition, and fears that the excitement (so to speak) of dying in the dream will kill him. The last time he went to sleep, he ended up in a rollercoaster with this mystery woman. He knows that if he goes back to sleep, the dream will continue, she will push him out, and that will finish him, both in the dream and in reality. This episode involves several "layers" of reality and is a nice one. JUDGEMENT NIGHT * Writer: Rod Serling Director: John Brahm Cast: Nehemiah Persoff, Ben Wright, Patrick McNee, Hugh Sanders, Leslie Bradley, Deirdre Owen, James Franciscus Murky tale about a passenger aboard a wartime freighter who is certain the ship will be sunk at 1:15 AM. LW: Serling had a thing about ship stories, and they were almost always rather poor. Oh well. AND WHEN THE SKY WAS OPENED *** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Douglas Heyes Cast: Rod Taylor, Charles Aidman, James Hutton, Maxine Cooper After three astronauts return from man's first space flight, each of them mysteriously disappears. Based on a short story by Richard Matheson. SJ: Serling was so impressed by Matheson's work that he was later asked to write more episodes himself. LW: A good episode concerning the subject of "what IS reality?" WHAT YOU NEED **** Writer: Rod Serling Director: John Brahm Cast: Steve Cochran, Ernest Treux, Reed Morgan, William Edmonson, Arline Sax Swindler Fred Renard (Cochran) tries to profit from an amiable fellow's talent for seeing into the future. Based on a short story by Lewis Padgett. THE FOUR OF US ARE DYING ** Writer: Rod Serling Director: John Brahm Cast: Harry Townes, Beverly Garland, Philip Pine, Ross Martin, Don Gordon Arch Hammer (Townes) can alter his face to make it look like anyone else's. Based on a short story by George Johnson. LW: Not one of the best efforts. THIRD FROM THE SUN *** Writer: Richard Matheson Director: Richard Bare Cast: Fritz Weaver, Joe Maros, Edward Andrews, Denise Alexander, Lori March Weird camera angles and special props left over from MGM'S FORBIDDEN PLANET bolster this story about two families planning to leave a war- threatened world via spaceship. LW: Edward Andrews did at least one other "Twilight Zone", and countless other television shows and movies over the years. A great character actor, he usually is cast into roles involving rather evil, devious, or just plain unlikable men. I SHOT AN ARROW INTO THE AIR *** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Stuart Rosenberg Cast: Edward Binns, Dewey Martin After supposedly landing on another planet, an astronaut kills his comrades to prolong his own life. Based on a short story by Madeline Champion. THE HITCH-HIKER **** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Alvin Ganzer Cast: Inger Stevens, Leonard Strong, Adam Williams, Lew Gallo, Dwight Townsend Driving cross-country, a woman becomes panicky when she continually sees the same ominous hitch-hiker on the road ahead. Based on a story by Lucille Fletcher. SJ: a personal favorite. LW: "Going MY way?" ... THE FEVER **** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Alvin Ganzer Cast: Everett Sloane, Bibi Janiss, William Kendis, Lee Miller A gambling-hating man named Franklin Gibbs (Sloane) battles a Las Vegas slot machine with a malevolent mind of its own. SJ: Another favorite of mine. LW: Well, let's be careful now, he THINKS it has a mind of its own, but we don't REALLY know that. Still, it might have at that... THE LAST FLIGHT *** Writer: Richard Matheson Director: William Claxton Cast: Kenneth Haigh, Alexander Scourby, Simon Scott, Robert Warwick A British World War I flyer lands at a modern air base in 1959. LW: A minor time paradox is involved in this plot. THE PURPLE TESTAMENT *** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Richard Bare Cast: William Reynolds, Dick York, Barney Phillips, William Phipps, Warren Oates, Marc Cavell, Ron Masak, Paul Mazursky Powerful tale about a lieutenant with the ability to predict which men in his outfit will be killed in battle. LW: Powerful, yes. But I never cared much for it. Dick York, by the way, played Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) Stevens' first husband in "Bewitched". ELEGY *** Writer: Charles Beaumont Director: Douglas Heyes Cast: Cecil Kellaway, Jeff Morrow, Kevin Hagen, Don Dubbins Three astronauts land on a world where everyone is in a trance-like state. They then encounter an eccentric old gent named Mr. Wickwire (Kellaway), who apparently runs the planet. MIRROR IMAGE **** Writer: Rod Serling Director: John Brahm Cast: Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Joe Hamilton In a nearly deserted bus depot, a woman finds herself haunted by her double. LW: One of my personal favorites. This episode has a great "creepy" atmosphere. Martin Milner later starred in "Adam 12". THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET *** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Ron Winston Cast: Claude Akins, Jack Wagner, Ben Erway, Lyn Guild Hysteria grips a small community as residents suspect a power failure has been caused by invaders from outer space disguised as Earthmen. A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE **** Writer: Richard Matheson Director: Ted Post Cast: Howard Duff, Eileen Ryan, Gail Kobe, Frank Maxwell, Peter Walker A business man's working world inexplicably becomes the set for a film in which he has become a character. LW: Another of my favorites. The poor guy suddenly discovers that he is talking into a prop telephone! LONG LIVE WALTER JAMESON ** Writer: Charles Beaumont Director: Tony Leader Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Edgar Stehli, Estelle Winwood, Dody Heath An effective horror story in the tradition of "The Man in Half Moon Street." History professor Walter Jameson (McCarthy), an expert on the Civil War, is actually immortal and well over 200 years old. LW: The first of a couple of episodes on this basic theme. PEOPLE ARE ALIKE ALL OVER **** Writer: Rod Serling Director: David Orrick Cast: Roddy McDowell, Susan Oliver, Paul Comi, Byron Morrow, Vic Perrin An astronaut (McDowell) is pleased to find that people on Mars act just like people at home. Based on a short story by Paul W. Fairman. LW: A TZ classic. EXECUTION *** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Ron Winston Cast: Albert Salmi, Russel Johnson, Than Wyenn, George Mitchell, Jon Lormer A western outlaw (Salmi) is snatched from the hangman's noose by a modern day scientist (Johnson) and his time machine. LW: Russel Johnson, by the way, also had the distinction of playing "The Professor" on "Gilligan's Island", some years later! From the Twilight Zone to Gilligan's Island. Sigh... THE BIG TALL WISH * Writer: Rod Serling Director: Ron Winston Cast: Ivan Dixon, Steve Perry, Kim Hamilton A child's faith in miracles helps a down-and-out boxer win an important match. LW: Ever since "Requiem for a Heavyweight", Rod also had a thing about boxing plots. The Twilight Zone versions of these tended to be comparatively poor. A NICE PLACE TO VISIT **** Writer: Charles Beaumont Director: John Brahm Cast: Larry Blyden, Sebastion Cabot, Sandra Warner While committing a crime, a cheap hood (Blyden) gets killed and finds an afterlife in which all wishes are granted. LW: Sebastion is great as the, well, "helper" in the afterlife (he's called "Pip".) Sebastion starred in many other roles both before and after this of course. NIGHTMARE AS A CHILD ** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Alvin Ganzer Cast: Janice Rule, Terry Burnham, Shepperd Strudwick Schoolteacher Helen Foley (Rule) is haunted by the recurring image of herself as a child. LW: Time paradoxes play a minor role in this episode. A STOP AT WILLOUGHBY *** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Robert Parrish Cast: James Daly, Howard Smith, Patricia Donahue, James Maloney Harried by his high-pressure job, an executive falls asleep on a train and wakes at a mysterious stop called Willoughby. LW: Another "classic", though objectively speaking, not a truly great episode. THE CHASER *** Writer: Robert Presnell, Jr. Director: Douglas Heyes Cast: George Grizzard, John McIntyre, Patricia Barry A loser in the game of love purchases a special potion from a weird "doctor". Based on a short story by John Collier. LW: The doctor's name was somthing like "A. Demon" by the way, to give you some idea of what his practice was like... PASSAGE FOR TRUMPET **** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Don Medford Cast: Jack Klugman, Mary Webster, John Anderson, Frank Wolff An unsuccessful trumpet player is given a second crack at life - after he is struck and killed by a truck, but first he has to learn what it's like to be "dead" in a world full of life... LW: The first of several dramatic appearances on TZ by Klugman, later to become familiar to us all as the sloppy Oscar Madison on "The Odd Couple". MR. BEVIS ** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Robert Parrish Cast: Orson Bean, Henry Jones, Charles Lane, William Schallert A kindly fellow's life is turned topsy-turvy when he receives "help" from his guardian angel (Jones). LW: Sigh. Poor Orson Bean (familiar to all) starred in this the first of two almost identical (except for details) TZ episodes on the subject of guardian angels. Neither was particularly good. THE AFTER HOURS **** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Douglas Heyes Cast: Anne Francis, Elizabeth Allen, James Millholin, John Conwell A woman (Francis) discovers that the floor of a department store on which she bought an item doesn't exist, and that the salesgirl was, in reality, a mannequin. LW: Anne Francis we all know. This episode is one of the most memorable in the TZ series. THE MIGHTY CASEY *** Writer: Rod Serling Director: Douglas Heyes Cast: Jack Warden, Robert Sorrells, Don O'Kelly, Abraham Sofaer The manager of a baseball team adds a new man to the fold - a robot named Casey. LW: This episode is told as a fable, and is presented in a rather "tongue-in- cheek" manner. Fun if not taken too seriously. A WORLD OF HIS OWN ***** Writer: Richard Matheson Director: Ralph Nelson Cast: Keenan Wynn, Phyliss Kirk, Mary LaRoche Serio-comedy, as a playwright creates true-to-life characters on his tape machine. They are so true that he can make tham appear in the room with him! SJ: This episode has the strangest and funniest ending of the series. LW: An EXCELLENT episode, which indeed has the most bizarre ending of any show in the entire TZ run. Highly recommended. Keenan Wynn plays a truly delightful character in this comedy/drama. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --!12!-- Contests and Awards --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The results of the 1993 Electric Science Fiction Award. The nominees were all of the Hugo and Nebula nominees, and the voters were users on USENET, Internet, GEnie, other networks, and readers of the 1993 Hugo and Nebula Anthology from Clarinet. The voting was Hugo-stle. Short Story: "The Mountain to Mohammed" by Nancy Kress Novelette: "Danny Goes to Mars" by Pamela Sargent Novella: Stopping at Slowyear by Frederik Pohl Novel: A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Professional Artist: Bob Eggleton Fan Artist: Stu Shiffman Fan Writer Evelyn C. Leeper Professional Artwork: Dinotopia by James Gurney New Writer: Nicholas A. DiChario The 1993 Hugo and Campbell Awards Best Novel (tie): A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (Tor) and Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Bantam) Best Novella: "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" by Lucius Shepard (Asimov's, July 1992) Best Novelette: "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan (Asimov's, December 1992) Best Short Story: "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis (Asimov's, April 1992) Best Non-Fiction Book: A Wealth of Fable: An informal history of science fiction fandom in the 1950s by Harry Warner, Jr. (SCIFI Press) Best Dramatic Presentation: "The Inner Light" (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Paramount Television) Best Professional Editor: Gardner Dozois Best Professional Artist: Don Maitz Best Original Artwork: Dinotopia by James Gurney (Turner) Best Semi-Prozine: Science Fiction Chronicle, edited by Andrew Porter Best Fanzine: Mimosa, edited by Dick and Nicki Lynch Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford Best Fan Artist: Peggy Ranson John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer of 1991-1992: Laura Resnick Special Committee Award for building bridges between cultures and nations to advance science fiction and fantasy: Takumi Shibano --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --!13!-- Conventions and Readings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit convention listings to xx133@cleveland.freenet.edu in the format: CON NAME: Month, day, year; Hotel or Convention Center; City, State, Country; GUESTS; Cost until deadline, Cost after deadline (please specify currency); Full address for information; Telephone (if applicable); e-mail address (if any) Convention listings are provided as a public service. Cyberspace Vanguard is not affiliated with any of these conventions and takes no responsibility for anything to do with it. ................ SCI-CON 15: November 12-14 1993; Holiday Inn Executive Center; Virginia Beach, VA, USA; TIMOTHY ZAHN, DARRELL K. SWEET, BILL SMITH, ALEXIS GILLILAND, PATRICK and TERESA NIELSEN-HAYDEN, Greg Barr, William Barton, Michael Capobianco, Cathy DeMott, Colleen Doran, Ray Goodman, Steve Hauk, Donna Higgins, Aleta Jackson, Zachary Kane, Andrew Greenberg, Anne Parker Marsh, Elizabeth Massie, Greg Porter, Mark Rainey, Richard Rowand, Peter Schweighofer, Dr. Sheridan Simon, Ellie Sterheim, Stanislaus Tal, Jason Waltrip, John Waltrip, Grahm Watkins, Bud Webster, Allen Wold, and Beverly Yeskolski. More are expected to come; $25 (US); Sci-Con, c/o HaRoSFA, P.O.Box 9434, Hampton VA 23670; p.e.morris@larc.nasa.gov QUANTUM CON '94; February 19-20, 1984; Pasadena Civic Auditorium and Conference Center; Pasadena, CA, USA; Chris Ruppenthal, Charles Floyd Johnson, Deborah Pratt; $25(US) until 11/1/93, $30(US) until 1/1/94, $35(US) until the con, $40(US) at the door, $15(US) non-attending; Quantum Con '94, P.O. Box 93819, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA; eah4@po.cwru.edu. [Please note that this con is NOT put on by Creation, but by the fans. It's for charity - the beneficiaries being The American Diabetes Association, Broadway Cares (Equity Fights AIDS), ECO (Earth Communications Office), The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and The Los Angeles Mission.] TECHNICON 11: April 15-17, 1994; Blacksburg, VA, USA; ELLEN GUON, TOM MONAGHAN; Technicon 11, c/o VTSFFC, P.O. Box 256, Blacksburg, VA 24063-0256 USA; (703) 951-3282; Technicon@VTCC1.cc.vt.edu MEXICON 6: June 1994; "most probably a 'one-day programme, between two hotel nights ... in Newcastle'"; #9.50 (pounds sterling); 121 Cape Hill, Smethwick, Warley, West Midlands, B66 4SH EUROCON: May 26-29, 1994; Timisoara, Romania; Iain Banks, John Brunner, Herbert Francke, Joe Haldeman, Stanislaw Lem, Fredrick Pohl, Franz Rottensteiner, Norman Spinrad; $20(US) until 12/31/93, $35(US) until 2/15/93, $45 until 3/31/83, supporting/attending for East Europeans $5(US); Sigma Club, Post Office 3, Box 49, 5600 Piatra Neamt, Romania; 40-96-136 731, 40- 96-144 416, fax: 40-96-119 434 Science Fiction Research Association Annual Meeting; July 7-10, 1994; Woodfield Hilton and Towers; Arlington Heights, IL; SHERRI S. TEPPER; OCTAVIA BUTLER, Alex & Phyllis Eisenstein, Philip Jose Farmer, Jim Gunn, Fred Pohl, Joan Slonczewski, Joan Vinge, Jack Williamson, Gene Wolfe; $115(US); Elizabeth Anne Hull, William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL 60067 or Beverly Friend, Oakton Community College Des Plaines, IL 60016; 708-635-1987; friend@oakton.edu; [CALL FOR PROPSAL OF PAPERS AND SESSIONS (Deadline March 1) to Hull - send 2 copies. Conference Wn paper proposal possibilities: with special emphasis on papers dealing with the attending authors] WISHCON III: July 29-31, 94; King Alfred's Coll, Winchester; #20 until mid- November 93, #23 afterwards; 12 Crowsbury Close, Emsworth, Hants, PO10 7TS, 0243 376596. WHO'S 7 (DR/BLAKE EVENT): October 29-10, 1994; Wueens Hotel; Crystal Palace, London, UK; VARIOUS GUESTS; #30 (pounds sterling) until the end of '93; 131 Norman Rd, Leytonstone, London, E11 4RJ KATSUCON ICHI: February 17 - 19, 1995; Holiday Inn Executive Center; Virginia Beach, VA, USA; SCOTT FRAZIER, DANNY FAHS, C. SUE SHAMBAUGH, JOHN WALTRIP, JASON WALTRIP; $22 until June 30, 1994; Katsu Production, PO Box 1158, Blacksburg, Virginia 24062-1582, USA; katsucon@vtserf.cc.vt.edu, listproc@solaris.cc.vt.edu (mailing list) TIMEWARP (TREK): March 4-5, 1995; Grand Hotel; Malahide, Dublin, Ireland; 30 Beverley Downs, Knocklyon, Dublin 16, Ireland. ............. Signings and Readings ............. [Elizabeth Willey's Calander of Fantasy, SF, and Horror readings and signings is reprinted with permission. Thanks, Elizabeth!] Please send listing information to, the compiler: eliz@ai.mit.edu; on GEnie, e.willey. Thanks to all who have contributed!--Elizabeth Willey ======================================================================== 27 October 1993 Dan Simmons will read at Little Bookshop of Horrors in Arvada, CO. 19:30. 303-425-1975. 27 October 1993 Poppy Z. Brite and Melanie Tem will sign at Dark Carnival in Berkeley, CA. No times. 510-845-7757. 12 November 1993 Debra Doyle and James D. MacDonald will read at Barnes and Noble, 818 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY. 19:30. No phone. 17 November 1993 David Dvorkin will read at Little Bookshop of Horrors in Arvada, CO. 19:30. 303-425-1975. 18 November 1993 Alexander Jablokov and Ian Watson read at Dixon Place, 258 Bowery, New York City, NY; part of the New York Review of Science Fiction readings series. Admission $5.00; doors open 19:30. 212-219-3088. 15 December 1993 Connie Willis will read at Little Bookshop of Horrors in Arvada, CO. 19:30. 303-425-1975. 16 December 1993 Michael Swanwick and Jack Dann read at Dixon Place, 258 Bowery, New York City, NY; part of the New York Review of Science Fiction readings series. Admission $5.00; doors open 19:30. 212-219-3088. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --!14!-- Publications, Lists and the like --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This issue we've got a bit of a diverse view of the offerings floating around in cyberspace. Most of it is only available through Internet, but that will change next issue. If you have a favorite SF-oriented magazine, fanzine, mailing list, BBS, fringe newsgroup, or the like, let us know. Send information to xx133@cleveland.freenet.edu. If you are the owner of said resource, we would appreciate an informative listing at 10 lines or less. If not, we'd appreciate a means of getting hold of the owner -- or better yet, tell them to get hold of us! THE BLIND SPOT is Duke's fantasy/science-fiction/horror magazine, and we'll be in our third year. We take anything that fits into the above three categories as long as it is well written. Anything we get will get a full edit during the school year, whether it is accepted or not. We prefer stories of less than 10,000 words, but we are flexible. We pay a flat rate of $10 if the story is accepted. We are an annual magazine for now, and our next issue will be published in the beginning of next year. Sample copies are available for $2 + shipping and handling. ---- Andy Whitfield (Ye Olde Editor of the Blind Spot) awhit@acpub.duke.edu (Andy Whitfield) TWILIGHT ZONE is a bi-monthly fiction-only on-line magazine that conentrates slightly on the genres of fantasy and science fiction, possible with some added humour. A subscription may be acquired by sending a message to r.c.karsmakers@stud.let.ruu.nl. Submissions and general inquiries may also be aimed at that address. MAILING LISTS: Please MAKE SURE to send subscription request to the proper address and to find out what the lists ground rules are BEFORE posting to it. Most lists have rules against flaming, off-topic conversations, and spoilers posted without warning. HIGHLANDER: Send e-mail to LISTSERV@PSUVM.PSU.EDU with SUBSCRIBE HIGHLA-L <your full name> in the body of the message. Questions, comments, etc. should be direct at Debbie Douglass, ddoug@dl5000.bc.edu. FOREVER KNIGHT: Send mail to listserv@psuvm.psu.edu with SUB FORKNI-L <your name> in the body of the message. Questions or problems, contact JAP8@psuvm.psu.edu. There is also a sister group, FKFIC-L, for FK related fiction. (Use the same address to subscribe.) This one isn't really a magazine, but Paul's been nice enough to give us archive space on the FTP server, so we thought we'd help him out and let you all know that he's looking for submissions. "I am attempting to expand the offerings of electronic fiction and poetry files on the anonymous ftp/gopher archive server, etext.archive.umich.edu. If you have any materials you'd like to share with the universe, in ASCII text, PostScript, or TeX format, I would be delighted to have them, regardless of size. The server pays nothing, costs nothing, and you are welcome to copyright and retain all privileges so long as unmodified distribution is permitted in some fashion (otherwise I can't do anything with it)." There's also a huge collection of 'zines there, for those who are interested. For more info, contact Paul Southworth, pauls@umich.edu. Also, for those of you who hang out in the IRC (Internet Relay Chat), Rick Russell has started to maintain channel #scifi Monday through Thursday 6 - 8 pm Eastern Time. (Greenwich time - 5 hrs.) Contact him at rick-russell@tamu.edu. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --!15!-- Administrivia --------------------------------------------------------------------------- First off, an apology. Part of the reason for this issue's lateness is a catastrophic disk crash on the old editor's antiquated machine. (When was the last time you saw the letters IBM without other letters after it?) Some data, including the "About the Author"'s and a few newsbits and listings were lost. If your listing is one of those that did not appear, please re-send it and we will make sure it gets into the next issue. How to get hold of us: By e-mail, the preferred way to get hold of us is at cn577@cleveland.freenet.edu, but we are also available by Fido at Cyberspace Vanguard@1:157/564. Then, of course, you can always get hold of us by Snail Mail at PO Box 25704, Garfield Hts., OH 44125 USA. Writers should contact us at xx133@cleveland.freenet.edu. FTP access: Cyberspace Vanguard is archived at etext.archive.umich.edu. So that's it. Thanks for sticking with us through another issue, and we hope that all of you typo pickers will be disappointed this time! (Thanks, Pat, for going over things.) ---- TJ Goldstein, Editor Cyberspace Vanguard Magazine -- CYBERSPACE VANGUARD MAGAZINE Editor: TJ Goldstein, tlg4@po.CWRU.Edu News and Views from the Science Fiction Universe Send submission, question, and comments to xx133@cleveland.Freenet.Edu or cn577@cleveland.Freenet.Edu