Barely has the ink dried upon the
Companion - which is to be launched at
Eaton (with a strong piece of elastic - it's heavy) - when we are given a schedule for
Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. ETA is July, in both hardback and
paperback.
You can imagine the fun we had boiling all of sf (prose fiction, film, tv, theatre, comics, critical theory; reflecting diversity and history) down to 50 names, and the horse trading that's gone on. Then we saw a preview of the cover, with half a dozen or so names on it, and the horse trading begins anew. So, should we need to release
Seven Keyer Figures in Science Fiction:
- Octavia E. Butler
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Stan Lee
- George Lucas
- Gene Roddenberry
- H.G. Wells
And you can imagine the joy of people using parenthetical referencing with these two books - Bould
et al 2009a and Bould
et al 2009b.
It feels like I've been beavering away since I finished the Pratchett book, but with little more than reviews actually being published. With these and the Russ book there is a throughput again.
ETA: We've also had fun writing imaginary reviews listing the names we've wrongheadedly left out/included.