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blakes7-d Digest				Volume 98 : Issue 219

Today's Topics:
	 [B7L] Re: Turner Award
	 [B7L] Unearthing "ancient" history

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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 15:39:27 +1000
From: Tim Richards & Narrelle Harris <parallax@wire.net.au>
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Subject: [B7L] Re: Turner Award
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Sarah wrote:
>I was disappointed to read in the August issue of =Locus= that the George
>Turner Prize for an SF or fantasy novel by a hitherto-unpublished Australian
>author did not, after all, got to Narrelle Harris's =Witching Ways=.

Thank you for the very kind words, Sarah.  I have to get in touch with
Transworld to find out if mine is one of the runners up they would like to
publish, and to tell them I'm halfway through writing the sequel, so all is
not yet lost.  Maybe I'll enter the sequel in next year's and see what
happens!  :-) I've been enormously pleased with myself for getting
shortlisted, with my first ever novel too.

For those interested, there is a possibility that Phoenix 4, which is
currently only web available, may get published in zine format.  I will
keep the list posted on that, as I know there are a lot of folks who prefer
the kind of zine you can hold and take to bed with you, along with a mug of
hot chocolate and a packet of Tim Tams...  :-)

Narrelle

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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:35:22 PDT
From: "Joanne MacQueen" <j_macqueen@hotmail.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Unearthing "ancient" history
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Hello to everyone.

Oh God, this may be more trouble than it's worth to ask this question, 
and I'm genuinely sorry if I end up stirring something that might better 
have lain buried in the past. Maybe I shouldn't be asking. But I would 
like to know if someone feels like telling me...as impartially as is 
humanly possible, preferably.

I've been downloading several months worth of the archives, but I'm 
still only up to 1993. One posting in the second half of the year refers 
to "fannish controversies". Now, this reference appeared during a debate 
on that perennial source of disagreement, slash fiction, and alongside 
what must have been Kathryn Andersen's original declaration to the list 
of her position. So that's obviously one of these controversies, but 
what would be others? 

Indeed, the reference made me think of an interview with Sheelagh Wells 
in "TV Zone", where she said, more or less, that she hadn't seen one 
member of the cast for some time because she refused to take sides in 
some disagreement that seemed to have started amongst a small group of 
American fans. (Please, please, please, do not allow your hackles to go 
up at this point, as I am only referring from memory to something 
printed <i>years</i> ago.) What, may I ask, happened there?

You can, of course, tell me to go to hell now. You may say it happened 
too long ago to matter. But then this dweller on fandom's fringes (and 
I'm not referring to being Australian) doesn't know much about the past 
history of Blake's 7 fandom, apart from the compressed details in the 
Programme Guide by Attwood, and she's curious.

So, privately or publicly, tell me (and anyone else who might feel the 
need to know - for future reference, as a way of knowing what topics of 
conversation to avoid, whatever). 

I'm giving you the chance to educate a relative newcomer <smile>

Regards
Joanne

My name is <i>miw</i>, I am a pet
And I am sacred
To Bastet
--Children's activity clue, <i>Life and Death under the Pharaohs</i> 
exhibition, the Australian Museum.

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