Vasta Vista

When did the command PRINT come to mean, save document in a piece of software you don't actually use? I know it can mean SAVE AS A PDF, which I can then print, but I'll specifiy that when I want to do it. In the meantime, my bastard defaults ought to stay default.

Grrr. Need to email someone with code numbers you'd hope they'd have.

Bould, Butler, Roberts and Vint 2009a and Bould, Butler, Roberts and Vint 2009b

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.