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(1) CAT RAMBO. In "So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish", Cat Rambo begins a seven-part series about her time on the SFWA board.
As I'm composing them, I'm asking you for a favor. If there is some SFWA moment that has been particularly meaningful for you in the past five years, I'd love to hear about it. I'd also love to know if there is a SFWA volunteer or volunteers that have helped make your experiences with SFWA positive. This is YOUR chance to give them a shout-out; drop me an e-mail about it!
And Cat asked me:
Would you pass this along to the Filers?
I really very much would like to hear from the F&SF community at large about how they think SFWA is doing, if there's been highlights for them, and what they'd like in the future from the organization.
File 770 has been one of the places I've gotten a lot of feedback and suggestions from during my time with SFWA and it's been the source of so many titles that I added to the recommended reading lists each year. I'm doing a lot of writing up thank yous this final month and I definitely owe them one.
(2) STRANGE HORIZONS ROUND TABLE. Participating in The Strange Horizons Book Club discussion of Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner are Zen Cho, the award-winning author; Charlotte Geater, a poet and editor at the Emma Press; and Abigail Nussbaum, blogger, critic and columnist. The discussion is moderated by Aishwarya Subramanian.
…Kingdoms of Elfin was first published as a collection in 1977 and comprises sixteen stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner; all but two of these had originally been published in The New Yorker earlier in that decade. Set in and around various, predominantly European, fairy courts, the stories were a consequence of Warner's desire to write "about something entirely different [than the human heart]" following the death of her partner, Valentine Ackland, in 1969. The result is a set of stories that, Greer Gilman notes in her foreword to this new edition (Handheld Press, 2018, with an introduction by Ingrid Hotz-Davies), return constantly to images of "captivity and flight. The cages here are courts, Gormenghastly in their etiquette; but glittering."
…Abigail Nussbaum: Well, I'll take the easy answers and mention Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, for the way that it attaches class so strongly to the fairy realm, and Gormenghast, for the way that it stresses ossified rituals that govern the lives of even the most elevated members of the court (I thought the similarity was particularly notable in "The Five Black Swans"). And, of course, if you mention Clarke, you have to assume that Mirrlees and Dunsany are not far behind. They both see fairies as fundamentally irrational beings and tell stories about humans getting caught in their webs. One thing that I found interesting about the Elfland stories was how rarely humans figured into them at all, and how the arrow of irrationality tended to point the other way when they did—it's the fairies who find humans bizarre and hard to parse.
Another connection that I made while reading and that I've been mulling over since then is to Tove Jansson's Moomin books. There's something about the way the fairy courts are constructed—hidden in the wilderness but so comfortable and hypercivilized (in a way that can be stifling as well as comfortable once you're allowed in)—that reminds me of the Moomin house, and of the way the books, especially the later ones, reveal an undertone of wildness and danger that is only just held at bay by the Moomins' fundamental goodness….
(3) PAY RAPT(OR) ATTENTION. Check in to Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, an all-new animated series coming to Netflix in 2020. According to ScienceFiction.com:
Little is known about the series so far, but it will be set within the timeline from the 2015 release of 'Jurassic World.' The plot will have the show follow "a group of six teenagers chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime experience at a new adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar. But when dinosaurs wreak havoc across the island, the campers are stranded. Unable to reach the outside world, they'll need to go from strangers to friends to family if they're going to survive."
(4) POLISHING THE BELLE. Erik Nelson argues that "Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be" at Talkhouse.
The Cold Blue's director on his new doc, restoring William Wyler's The Memphis Belle and propaganda and "fake news," then and now.
"Of all the liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory." My pal Harlan Ellison used to say that all of the time (and he would also want you to know that that line wasn't his. Harlan was picky about giving credit where due). How then is it possible to tell the truth about our shared past? We have recently seen the emergence of three documentaries that revolve around the restoration of archival footage to depict a forensic kind of truth. They Shall Not Grow Old takes us back to the devastating British experience of World War 1, Apollo 11 recreates a moment of technological triumph and the last call of American "can-do" optimism, and my film The Cold Blue celebrates the "last of the best," the young men who flew suicidally dangerous combat missions in B-17s over Germany in World War II. All of these films spraying Windex onto the murky window of the past – and give it a good big-screen, immersive-sound-design wipe.
These three documentaries have all generated a surprising amount of critical attention and box-office success, clearly speaking to modern audiences in a way that has surprised many. Nostalgia for a lost past has never seemed so vital, which perhaps says more about the dysfunction and demoralization of our current life and times than we might care to admit.
As for myself, I have long been fascinated with the secret history of the 20th century. Not what is in the books, but what really happened behind the scenes and in the margins. All too often, history has been reduced to cliché, or black-and-white images that immediately distance us from the past, with the quotidian details that bring history to life obscured.
The Cold Blue was a chance for me to attend to those details, as well as pay homage to a generation that became inadvertently great, along with a filmmaker who worked very hard at staying great, William Wyler.
It started with a chance discovery of all 34 reels of the source material for Wyler's classic documentary The Memphis Belle — filmed during the spring and summer of 1943 on 8th Air Force bases in England, and on bombing missions over Nazi occupied Europe. During production, one of Wyler's cameramen, Harold Tannenbaum, was lost along with his plane over France. Since The Memphis Belle's original release, all copies have deteriorated, and laboratory scratches inflicted on the original footage in 1943 remained. When I learned about the existence of the 15 hours of Wyler's raw footage, in radiant color, that captured, home-movie style, the insanely risky missions flown by the 8th Air Force, I knew there was a new story that demanded to be told. But first, we replaced 500 individual shots of this raw footage over the 1944 The Memphis Belle's existing soundtrack, and fully restored that film to pristine condition….
(5) COLLABORATION. Neil Gaiman was interviewed by Pasadena radio station KPCC's The Frame today about Good Omens.
Novelist and comic book creator Neil Gaiman is no stranger to writing for television — from episodes of "Babylon 5" and "Doctor Who" to bringing his own book, "American Gods," to the Starz network. But for his latest mini-series for Amazon, "Good Omens," starring Michael Seen and David Tennant, Gaiman had the added task of honoring the memory of the late Terry Pratchett. In 1990, Gaiman and Pratchett co- wrote the novel, "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnus Nutter, Witch." Before Pratchett's death in 2015, the two had hoped to bring the story to the screen but a production never came to light. In an interview at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, Gaiman told John Horn what it's like to finally bring "Good Omens" to television all these years later without Pratchett as a writing partner.
(6) ON THE SHELF. Kim Huett analyzes what it takes to be "The Next Big Thing" at Doctor Strangemind.
… I'm not sure that even book series such as Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern or Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga would work (even though I'm sure many people would be excited if they did, I'd certainly like to see the latter)….
(7) RAISED BY WOLVES. This game was played before there was a throne: "Sky Italia to Explore Birth of Rome in New Series 'Romulus'" – The Hollywood Reporter has the story.
The show will be shot in archaic Latin and feature 700 stunt people and thousands of extras occupying meticulously recreated historic locations.
Sky Italia is going back in history — way back to the eighth century B.C., and the creation of Rome — in its new series Romulus. Sky is producing the new 10-episode original with ITV Studio's Cattleya and Groenlandia.
Director Matteo Rovere (Italian Race, Drifters) will serve as showrunner for the series, which will be shot in archaic Latin. His latest film, Romulus & Remus: The First King, debuted earlier this year in Italy, revealing the mythology of the two twin brothers whose turbulent story led to the founding of Rome. Michele Alhaique and Enrico Maria Artale are also slated to direct episodes.
(8) HE BLAMES THE TROLLS. "'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Director Ron Howard Says Trolls Contributed To Poor Box Office Performance" – that's what he told ET Canada.
…Howard believes the core fan base was interested in the product but it failed to spark the mainstream's attention. "Whatever millions ['Solo'] made worldwide, those were the core fans, but it didn't hit that zeitgeist point, for whatever reason," he told the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast. "Timing, young Han Solo, pushback from the previous movie, which I kept hearing was maybe something."
And of course, "some trolling, definitely some trolling. Some actual aggressive… It was pretty interesting," he shared. "It was especially noticeable prior to the release of the movie. Several of the algorithms, whether it was Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes, there was an inordinate push down on the 'want to see' and on the fan voting."
(9) DUBLIN 2019 DAY PASSES. Available soon.
We are delighted to announce that we will have a limited number of day passes for Dublin 2019, an Irish Worldcon!
Sales will open on June 15th, and further details will come soon.
Note: passes must be bought ahead of the event – we don't plan any on-the-day sales. pic.twitter.com/NGxNkxESvV
— Dublin2019 (@Dublin2019) June 4, 2019
Born June 4, 1936 — Bruce Dern, 83. Here for Silent Running, a film I'd completely forgotten I'd seen until compiling this Birthday. It's the directorial debut of Douglas Trumbull who went on to much more famous projects. He also shows up in a number of other genre films such as The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant, The Haunting, The Astronaut Farmer and Freaks. Needless to say, you'll find him on series such as The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Land of the Giants.
Born June 4, 1951 — Wendi Pini, 68. With husband Richard, responsible for Elfquest. Over the years Elfquest has been self-published by the Pinis through their own company Warp Graphics, then Marvel Comics, then the Pinis again, more recently DC Comics and then Dark Horse Comics. Everything prior to 2013 is free online. Be prepared to spend hours lost in great reading!
Born June 4, 1953 — Kathleen Kennedy, 66. Film producer and current president of Lucasfilm. In 1981, she co-founded the production company Amblin Entertainment with Spielberg and husband Frank Marshall. If you've liked a major genre film, be it Raiders of the Lost Ark, Who Framed Roger Rabbit or The Secret World of Arrietty to give three very random examples, she most likely had a hand in it.
Born June 4, 1960 — Kristine Kathryn Rusch, 59. If you've not discovered the amazements of her Diving Universe series, you're in for a treat — it's that good. Her Retrieval Artist series is one that IIRC can be read in no particular order but is great deal of fun no matter where you start. Other than those two series, I've not read deeply of her, so recommendations are welcome.
Born June 4, 1964 — Sean Pertwee, 55. Let's see, where did I see him first? Oh, of course playing Sheriff Hugh Beringar on Cadfael but that's not really genre, is it? Captain Heinz in "Trenches of Hell, Part 2 ", The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was his first genre role followed being Pilot Smith on Event Horizon and Macbeth in a UK film the same year. He did a bit of low budget horror playing Bradley Cortese in Tale of the Mummy and likewise in being Sergeant Harry G. Wells in Dog Soldiers. There were some fairly low budget SF as well, say Father in Equilibrium. Not to mention Brother Proteus in Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie! All of which gets redeemed by his Inspector Lestrade in Elementary, a stunning take on that character. And then there's his Alfred in Gotham.
Born June 4, 1972 — Joe Hill, 47. I've met him once or twice down the years as he shows up here in Portland for signings. Nice guy. Locke & Key is an amazing series and I'm fond of all of his short stories, particularly those collected in 20th Century Ghosts.
Born June 4, 1975 — Angelina Jolie, 44. I really liked her two Tomb Raider films and thought Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was a really cool film. I never saw her early Cyborg 2 undertakingbut think Hackers and her role as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby was rather good. I've not seen, nor have any desire to see, her two Maleficent films.
(11) CARL BRANDON ON BRADBURY. This is from the pastiche "The Cacher In The Rye" by Carl Brandon (Terry Carr with Bhob Stewart), first published in 1956, and available again in Jeanne Gomoll's collection Carl Brandon, recently published through Lulu.
Who the hell wants to see the program of a stfcon? But anyway, we went and heard goddam Bradbury.
Bradbury's talk wasn't as bad as some I've heard. I mean he wasn't like old Ackerman with that toastmaster gag he pulls every convention. Bradbury just read one of his stories. It was kind of on the cruddy side. I know lots of fans think Bradbury is great and all, but I don't. He writes real smooth and all, and he's got good characterization and lots of goddam emotion in his stories…the only trouble is he writes too good. I mean, you don't pay attention to what's happening. You just notice how good he writes. But he was different, anyway. A hell of a lot better than old Ackerman pulling his toastmaster gig.
(12) BIG THREE. In contrast, Charlton Comics was much kinder toward Ray in this quick bio from Haunted #61 (published in 1971).
(13) YOUNG ERB. According to True West, a magazine that covers the history of America's Old West, Edgar Rice Burroughs's stories were influenced by his two-year stint in the 7th U.S. Calvary as they hunted for an elusive outlaw: "Edgar Rice Burroughs Hunted the Apache Kid".
Dateline: Fort Grant, Arizona Territory, Saturday, May 23, 1896.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, age 20, arrived here today to begin a harrowing ten-month tour of duty with the 7th U.S. Cavalry. A graduate of Michigan Military Academy, Burroughs had recently failed the entrance exam to West Point. Yet youthful optimism led him to believe a commission might still be attained from the ranks. Enlisted at Detroit with consent of his father (former Civil War Maj. George Tyler Burroughs), underage Ed had now achieved his rather perverse but expressed desire to be sent to "the worst post in the United States." At Fort Grant his high hopes for rapid advancement would soon be crushed upon hard Arizona rocks.
Unknown to Burroughs, those same jagged rocks concealed a living legend—the Apache Kid. Kid roamed ghost-like through the remote mountain vastness, a $5,000 bounty on his head on both sides of the border. Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose own legend was still unlit, would soon join the hunt for this famed phantom outlaw—thus tying his name forever to the Apache Kid saga."
Rob Thornton sent the link with a note of warning: "Some sexism here, including the use of the term 'soiled dove' when the article refers to prostitutes)."
(14) NOT SO FAST, ROBIN HOOD. NPR tells why "Astronomers Worry That Elon Musk's New Satellites Will Ruin The View".
Victoria Girgis was leading a public outreach session at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., when one of her guests noticed a string of lights moving high overhead.
"Occasionally, you'll see satellites, and they look kind of like shooting stars moving through the sky," Girgis says. "But this was a whole line of them all moving together."
The guest hadn't spotted a UFO invasion. Rather, it was the first installment of billionaire Elon Musk's vision for the future: a constellation of satellites known as Starlink that's meant to provide Internet to the entire planet.
On May 23, Musk's company SpaceX launched a rocket that carried 60 Starlink satellites into orbit. The 500-pound satellites fanned out like a deck of cards. From the ground, they looked like a glittering string whizzing across the arc of the sky.
The crowd watched as the satellites moved in front of the small telescope Girgis had trained on some distant galaxies. The bright satellites created over two dozen streaks across an image she was taking.
"My first immediate reaction was, 'That's visually kind of cool,'" she says. "But my second reaction was, 'Man you can't see a single galaxy.' "
The picture was useless.
(15) THE TELLTALE CURE. BBC says "'Pumping heart patch' ready for human use".
A "pumping" patch containing millions of living, beating stem cells could help repair the damage caused by a heart attack, according to researchers.
Sewn on to the heart, the 3cm (1in) by 2cm patch, grown in a lab from a sample of the patient's own cells, then turns itself into healthy working muscle.
It also releases chemicals that repair and regenerate existing heart cells.
Tests in rabbits show it appears safe, Imperial College London experts told a leading heart conference in Manchester.
Patient trials should start in the next two years, the British Cardiovascular Society meeting heard.
(16) FEAST ON THAT. And heart health is going to become important if you take up Chowhound's offer to teach you "How to Make the Food You See in 'Game of Thrones'"—or at least some reasonable substitutes for them.
Winter may have arrived in Westeros, but that's not going to stop our favorite "Game of Thrones" characters—the ones who are left, anyway—from indulging in their favorite sweets, meats, and goblets upon goblets of various boozes. (Or at least that's what we assume. Not even a White Walker seems like it'd stand in the way of a Lannister, Stark, or Targaryen and his or her meal.)
[…] While waiting to see what the final episode has in store, we've rounded up some of the most notable dishes below, along with recipes that you can try for yourself.
Recipes are offered for Lemon Cakes; Kidney Pie; Purple Wedding Pie; Pork Sausage, Oysters, Clams, and Cockles; Roast Boar; Whole Roasted Chicken; and Mulled Wine.
(17) 2020 BOOK FAIR. The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) returns to the Pasadena Convention Center on February 7-9, 2020 for the 53rd California International Antiquarian Book Fair.
The world's largest rare book fair, this biennial event features more than 200 exhibitors from across the globe.
In 2020, we are celebrating the 100 years of national women's suffrage with special exhibits, lectures, and panel discussions.
There will also be an additional exhibit and seminar in honor of the 100th anniversary of Ray Bradbury's birth.
[Thanks to Cat Eldridge, John King Tarpinian, JJ, Chip Hitchcock, Martin Morse Wooster, Mike Kennedy, Rob Thornton, Carl Slaughter, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Paul Weimer.]
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Pixel Scroll 5/17/19 Taking Pixel Mountain (By Scrollology)
(1) GRIEF RESOURCES. Pasadena Weekly talks with people who have lost a spouse and the support available for them, beginning with the widow of Harlan Ellison: "Surviving the profound loss of a longtime spouse".
…Susan Ellison, 58, a native of the British midlands, was puttering around the hillside house in Sherman Oaks that she had shared for more than three decades with her famous (and pugnacious) 84-year-old writer husband Harlan Ellison, best known for his science fiction. He had dubbed it the Lost Aztek Temple of Mars long before suffering a stroke in 2014 that left him bedridden.
"I'm an insomniac and he was still asleep when I checked in on him early in the morning," she recalled during a telephone conversation. "Then his therapist came," and found him unresponsive.
"I thought he'd go kicking and screaming, but he died quietly. And I thought I'd be a lot more prepared," she continued. Instead, she said, "I essentially shut down. He gave me a terrific life and he loved me completely. But I gave my life to him and now I don't know who I am anymore. I have to find out."
The experts say everyone reacts differently to a profound loss….
(2) MCFLY, ROBIN, FLY. Fascinating news — "Back to the Future musical sets date for world premiere in Manchester".
Great Scott! The Back to the Future musical has finally set a date for its world premiere – 20 February 2020 in Manchester, before a West End run.
The show had originally been scheduled to open in 2015. But it was delayed, and unlike Doc Brown, the production team didn't possess a time machine.
"Good things take time," writer Bob Gale said. Actor Olly Dobson will fill Michael J Fox's shoes as Marty McFly.
Bob Gale and I attended our first LASFS event together in 1970 (where Harlan Ellison was the guest speaker!)
(3) FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT. Galactic Journey comments on the status of colonialism (in 1964) in a review of this Pyramid paperback: [May 16, 1964] A Mirror to Progress (Chester Anderson and Michael Kurland's Ten Years to Doomsday).
These days, our world is undergoing a sudden and dramatic transformation. Starting immediately after the War, and accelerating since, many former colonies are becoming free nations, ready to embrace their potential and individuality. As these new countries find their own ways toward futures separate from their former masters, we in the Western world are able to experience life from different perspectives. These perspectives show the exquisite diversity of the human race. We are given the rare privilege to experience perspectives different from our own, perspectives sometimes frightening, sometimes exciting, but always intriguing. In doing so, we provide these nations the ultimate freedom: they can dream big. They can embrace new technologies and different ways of looking at the world. They can shake off the repressive yoke of colonialism and allow themselves to achieve their true potential.
Ten Years to Doomsday, the delightful new novel by the writing team of Chester Anderson and Michael Kurland, is a charming exploration of many of these themes using a mix of farce and drama….
(4) MULLIGAN OF THRONES. Over 900,000 have signed a Change.org petition demanding that HBO "Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with competent writers".
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have proven themselves to be woefully incompetent writers when they have no source material (i.e. the books) to fall back on.
This series deserves a final season that makes sense.
Subvert my expectations and make it happen, HBO!
Petition author Dylan D. says in an update —
I haven't heard from anyone HBO-related. I don't think people can reasonably expect HBO to completely remake the season, or any part of this particular series (keep in mind the prequel spinoffs). It costs a fortune to shoot one episode, and I think most signers understand that. Will HBO lose gobs of money over this? Eh probably not. As Heath Ledger's Joker once said, "It's not about the money, it's about sending a message." And I think this message is one of frustration and disappointment at its core.
The Beaverton claims that Benioff and Weiss have launched a counterstrike — "Game of Thrones writers petition fans to write their own goddamn show, if they're so smart".
(5) HIT THE BRICKS. Y'know all those shows about flipping houses? This isn't that. Let The Hollywood Reporter tell you the story: "'Stranger Things' Lego Set Goes Upside Down".
Lego has unveiled a Stranger Things set that literally flips things upside down.
Stranger Things: The Upside Down, based on the Netflix series, is a massive 2,287-brick set where half the set is overturned. The piece consists of the house of the Byers family, played by Winona Ryder, Charlie Heaton and Noah Schnapp in the show, on the top side, and the supernatural alien world of the Upside Down version of the house on the bottom, but flipped.
The set is designed to be displayed on either side. It measures over 12 inches (32cm) tall, 17 inches (44cm) wide and 8 inches (21cm) deep. Lego is touting a shared building experience with this one, pointing out that the sections of the house come in 11 bags and that the real world and Upside Down houses can be built concurrently, if that's your thing.
Stranger Things LEGO hi-res images! ? what does everyone think? pic.twitter.com/W86DaBUqN1
— Bob's Vintage Bricks (@bobvintagebrick) May 13, 2019
Born May 17, 1936 — Dennis Hopper. I think his first genre film would be Tarzan and Jane Regained… Sort of, an Andy Warhol film. Queen of Blood, a vampire thinly disguised as SF film, was his next genre film. My Science Project was his next outing before he took part in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. And now we get to the Super Mario Bros. where he played King Koopa. What a weird film that was! Of he followed that by being Deacon on Waterworld… And then doing Space Truckers. Ouch. He's El Niño in The Crow: Wicked Prayer, a film I barely remember. His final role was voicing one of the animated wolves in Alpha and Omega. He was also in Blue Velvet but I'll be damn if I can figure out how to call that genre. (Died 2010.)
Born May 17, 1946 — F. Paul Wilson, 73. I've read, let me check, oh about half I see of the Repairman Jack novels. Anyone finished them off and should I do so? What else by him is worth my time?
Born May 17, 1950 — Mark Leeper, 69. As Mark says on his site, "In and out of science fiction circles Mark and Evelyn Leeper are one of the best known writing couples on the Internet. Mark became an avid science fiction fan at age six with TV's 'Commando Cody.' Both went to the University of Massachusetts in 1968." And as Bill Higgins says here, their MT VOID fanzine is one of the longest published ones still going.
Born May 17, 1954 — Bryce Zabel, 65. A producer, director and writer. Genre wise, he's been involved as a producer or director with M.A.N.T.I.S., Dark Skies, Blackbeard, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and The Crow: Stairway to Heaven. Writing wise, he has written for most of these shows plus the Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and Atlantis: The Lost Empire screenplays.
Born May 17, 1954 — Colin Greenland, 65. His partner is the Susanna Clarke, with whom he has lived since 1996. The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction which was based on his PhD thesis. His most successful fictional work is the Plenty series that starts with Take Back Plenty and continues with Seasons of Plenty, The Plenty Principle and wraps up with Mother of Plenty. In the Eighties and Ninties, he was involved in the editorial work of Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction and Interzone.
Born May 17, 1967 — Michael Arnzen, 52. Winner of three Bram Stoker Awards, one for his Grave Markings novel, another for Goreletter and yet another for his poetry collection, Freakcidents. Very impressive indeed. Oh and he's a SJW.
(7) CALL FOR AUREALIS AWARDS JUDGES. The appeal begins:
We are seeking expressions of interest from Australian residents who would like to judge for the 2019 Aurealis Awards.
Judges are volunteers and are drawn from the Australian speculative fiction community, from diverse professions and backgrounds, including academics, booksellers, librarians, published authors, publishing industry professionals, reviewers and enthusiasts. The only qualification necessary is a demonstrated knowledge of and interest in their chosen category (good time management skills and an ability to work in a team in an online environment are also essential).
The full guidelines are here.
(8) BOOK TO SCREEN. Jeanne Gomoll's Carl Brandon, already available as a print-on-demand book, now can also be purchased from Lulu in PDF format.
Terry Carr recounts the invention of an imaginary black science fiction fan named Carl Brandon, one of the field's most (in)famous hoaxes. In addition to Carl Brandon's complete history, this volume includes his J.D. Salinger parody, "The Cacher of the Rye;" a more current parody by Carl Brandon 2.0, "The Kvetcher on the Racists;" and an essay by Samuel R. Delany, "Racism and Science Fiction." To quote Carr: "In the late fifties, several of the fans of the Bay Area…presented fandom with a new fanwriter who was quickly acclaimed as one of the best writers around and who was, not incidentally, the first prominent fan who was black." Read the book for more of this fascinating tale. All proceeds go to the Carl Brandon Society, which promotes discussions on race at conventions and conferences, and through its support of the Parallax and Kindred literary awards, and the Octavia E. Butler
(9) SJWC STAR OBIT. Celebrity feline passes on — "Grumpy Cat Dies; Her Spirit Will Live On, Family Says".
Grumpy Cat — the blue-eyed cat with the permafrown that suggested perpetual irritation — has died, her family announced early Friday. She was 7.
The scowling kitty died of complications from a urinary tract infection, her owners said.
"Some days are grumpier than others," Tabatha Bundesen wrote in announcing her cat's death.
Born in 2012, Grumpy Cat became a darling of memes, cat fanciers and anyone who needed to be reminded that somewhere out there, there was a cat who looked as grumpy as they felt.
…Noting that Grumpy Cat had met the recently deceased Marvel Comics leader Stan Lee — who mimicked her frown in several photos — Twitter user Greeshma Megha wrote, "Hope they meet in heaven."
(10) OVERDRAWN AT THE CALORIE ACCOUNT. BBC finds "Ultra-processed foods 'make you eat more'".
Ultra-processed foods lead people to eat more and put on weight, the first trial to assess their impact suggests.
Volunteers had every morsel of food they ate monitored for a month.
And when given ultra-processed food, they ate 500 calories a day more than when they were given unprocessed meals.
The US National Institutes of Health said ultra-processed foods may be affecting hunger hormones in the body, leading people to keep eating.
(11) NOT THE ILLUMINATI. Curiosity shares a scientific explanation for "How a Few Lucky Civil War Soldiers Started Glowing and Healed Faster".
…In an astonishing, and frankly spooky, turn of events, as night fell, many of those wounded soldiers began to see a strange glow emanating from their wounds. They called it "Angel's Glow" and it lived up to its nickname. When they were eventually recovered and moved to the field hospital, the soldiers whose wounds had been so blessed ended up recovering better and faster, with cleaner wounds and a better survival rate than the un-glowing. This really would sound downright impossible if it weren't for the fact that it's so well documented…
(12) MIDDLETON. Paul Weimer chimes in with "Microreview [book]: The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders" at Nerds of a Feather.
…Further, the author seems invested in telling stories about worlds having to change to survive, a theme that her All the Birds in the Sky used for Earth, as a pair of protagonists tackle the problems of Earth in completely different ways. The City in the Middle of the Night continues that tradition, although the framing and the process is very different. The tone is very much darker than the prior novel, those looking for the breeziness of the first novel are going to have expectations dashed picking up this book
(13) MATERIALS GIRL. HBO put out an official teaser for its forthcoming original series, His Dark Materials.
Adapting Philip Pullman's award-winning trilogy of the same name, which is considered a modern masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the first season follows Lyra, a seemingly ordinary but brave young woman from another world. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children, and becomes a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. As she journeys through the worlds, including our own, Lyra meets Will, a determined and courageous boy. Together, they encounter extraordinary beings and dangerous secrets, with the fate of both the living?—?and the dead?—?in their hands.
WHERE TO FIND BOOK REVIEWS. Todd Mason's weekly post has lots of links: "Friday's "Forgotten" Books and More: the links to the reviews: 17 May 2019″.
Patricia Abbott: Broken Harbor by Tana French
Frank Babics: Who Can Replace a Man? aka The Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss
Mark Baker: Murder in Little Italy by Victoria Thompson
Brad Bigelow: The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks
Paul Bishop: W. Glenn Duncan 1940-2019
Les Blatt: The Exploits of the Patent Leather Kid by Erle Stanley Gardner
Joachim Boaz: The World Menders by Lloyd Biggle; The Sudden Star by Pamela Sargent; The Lost Face by Josef Nesvadba (translated by Iris Urwin)
John Boston: Amazing Stories: Fact and Science Fiction, June 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Ben Boulden: Call Me Hazard by "Frank Wynne" (Brian Garfield); Closeup by Len Deighton
Brian Busby: An Army Doctor's Romance by Grant Allen
Steve Case: The Deep by John Crowley
Ellison Cooper: The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer
Hector DeJean: The Man in a Cage by (Jack aka) John Holbrook Vance
Martin Edwards: The Name of Annabel Lee by Julian Symons
Peter Enfantino: Atlas (proto-Marvel) horror comics, April 1952
Will Errickson: Finishing Touches by Thomas Tessier
José Ignacio Escribano: Big Sister by Gunnar Staalensen (tranlated by Don Bartlett)
Olman Feelyus: Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
Mark Finn: "The God in the Bowl" by Robert E. Howard
Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, November 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.
John Grant: The Liar's Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard; Good Morning, Darkness by Ruth Francisco
Aubrey Hamilton: She Came Back by Patricia Wentworth
Rich Horton: The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackery; Roger Zelazny capsule reviews; Alter S. Reiss stories; The Ghost Brigade and The Lost Colony by John Scalzi
Jerry House: Zane Grey Comics #246, 1949: Thunder Mountainadapted
Kate Jackson: A Knife for Harry Dodds by "George Bellairs" (Harold Blundell); Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
Tracy K: The Iron Gates by Margaret Millar; April reading
Colman Keane: "Sweet Little Hands" by Lawrence Block
George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #9 (1947) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
Joe Kenney: Chase by Norman Daniels
Rob Kitchin: The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan; The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
B. V. Lawson: A Bleeding of Innocents by Jo Bannister
Evan Lewis: "Tarzan" aka "Tarzan and the Tarmangani", a 1940sTarzan comic book prose filler/mailing permit content attributed to Edgar Rice Burroughs, ghostwriter unknown
Steve Lewis: "Child of the Green Light" by Leigh Brackett, Super Science Stories February 1942, edited by Alden H. Norton; Saturday Night Dead by Richard Rosen; "The Eyes of Countess Gerda" by May Edginton, The Story-Teller, December 1911
John F. Norris: The Perfect Alibi by Christopher St. John Sprigg
John O'Neill: Davy by Edgar Pangborn; Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy
Matt Paust: The Last Supper by Charles McCarry
James Reasoner: The Land of Mist by "Arthur Quiller" (Kenneth Bulmer)
Gerard Saylor: The Night of the Soul Stealer by Joseph Delaney
Jack Seabrook and Peter Enfantino: DC war comics, December 1974 (and the best of 1974)
Steven H Silver: George Scithers (editor of Amra, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales)
Victoria Silverwolf: Worlds of Tomorrow, February 1964, edited by Frederik Pohl
Kerrie Smith: Cities of the Sun by David Levien
"TomCat": The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage by Enid Blyton
David Vineyard: Strip for Murder by Richard S. Prather
[Thanks to Mike Kennedy, JJ, Chip Hitchcock, Cat Eldridge, Martin Morse Wooster, John King Tarpinian, Todd Mason, Carl Slaughter, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Jack Lint.]
Posted in Pixel Scroll	| Tagged Aurealis Awards, Back to the Future, Bob Gale, Carl Brandon, Chester Anderson, Galactic Journey, Harlan Ellison, Jeanne Gomoll, Lego, Michael Kurland, Paul Weimer, Philip Pullman, Stranger Things, Susan Ellison, Terry Carr, Todd Mason	| 32 Replies
Pixel Scroll 5/1/19 The Pixel That Can Be Scrolled Is Not The True Pixel
Posted on May 1, 2019 by Mike Glyer
(1) FUTURE TENSE. This month's entry in the Future Tense Fiction series is "The Song Between Worlds" by Indra Das, author of the award-winning novel The Devourers.
Each month, Future Tense Fiction—a series of short stories from Future Tense and ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives—publishes a story on a theme. The theme for April–June 2019: space settlement.
It was published along with a response essay "What Would Sound Be Like on Mars?" by the astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz of the Adler Planetarium.)
… Sound is a relatively simple physical phenomenon, but the way our minds shape it can be complex. It's a wave, but not the same kind of wave one might see in the ocean, where the medium (water, in the case of the ocean) travels toward or away from us. If sound waves were like ocean waves, we would not be able to speak to one another without blowing a constant breeze toward the listener, which is (generally speaking) not what happens. Rather, sound waves travel by creating collisions between the molecules of air between us and the origin of the sound….
(2) SURVEILLANCE STATE. In The Atlantic, Lily Meyer reviews "Two ambitious new novels build techno-futures in which surveillance offers disturbing new threats" — "Science Fiction's Preoccupation With Privacy".
…The only character in Dark Constellations not interested in controlling others is Piera, a disaffected Stromatoliton biologist whose alienation from her male co-workers and from the overreach of her company leads her to cut herself off—from people, and from broader systems. She privately refers to her employer as "the animal of the state unleashed," but remains at Stromatoliton, satisfying her voyeuristic curiosity even as the future of Argentine privacy is in question. With Piera, Oloixarac seems to underscore the impossibility of stepping away from power in a world in which science overrides ethics. Piera may consider herself an observer rather than a participant, but she remains complicit in the global expansion of surveillance….
(3) BRIANNA WU. Media people covering last weekend's synagogue shooting in San Diego tapped Brianna Wu for comment about the shooter's 8chan connection.
NPR: "Site's Ties To Shootings Renew Debate Over Internet's Role In Radicalizing Extremists".
…Whether the Internet is creating hate groups or just serving as a gathering place, one thing has become clear: What happens online doesn't stay there.
Brianna Wu is a software engineer who lives in Massachusetts. In 2014, she was targeted in something called Gamergate, in which men threatened female video game players and developers. The harassment started mainly on 8chan.
"They threw bricks through my windows. They sent me hundreds upon hundreds of death threats, rape threats," Wu says. "I've had people from 8chan follow me around just to let me know, 'I'm near you and could hurt you if I wanted to.' "
Wu, who is running for Congress, says the solution is simple. "We need dedicated FBI agents that understand online culture to look at these kinds of extreme crimes and prosecute them," she says.
Wu was quoted even more extensively in the Washington Post story "The Technology 202: California synagogue shooting puts fringe site 8chan in spotlight".
…The message is trickling to the campaign trail. Brianna Wu, a software engineer who is running as a Democrat for a House seat in Massachusetts, told me she is "angry" that law enforcement has not done more to rein in 8chan, which has also been connected to the circulation of child pornography and is a place where people are frequently doxxed.
After Wu herself was targeted on the website in 2014 with death threats during the Internet culture war known as Gamergate, she says she says she documented "tons of illegal activity" on 8chan and shared her findings with the FBI. She believes it's possible the recent shootings could have been avoided if law enforcement took greater action, she said, and wants to increase funding for the FBI to investigate online crime if elected to Congress.
"We need to fund a specific task force within the FBI that is very tech literate and tasked to prosecute these types of online crimes," she said. More from Wu:
7/ If you want to stop future mass shootings planned on #8chan, the course of action is very simple.
Get a warrant, and START PROSECUTING all the blatantly illegal actions taken there. It is a crime to post stolen credit card information. It is a crime to host child pornography.
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) April 28, 2019
(4) CAMERAS ROLL ON PICARD. They've begun to "Make it so" — "Star Trek: Patrick Stewart's Picard TV Show Starts Filming" at ScreenRant.
With a mix of old and newcomer talent on both sides of the camera, the Picard series looks to follow in Discovery's footsteps and blend old-fashioned Star Trek tropes with fresh sci-fi ideas and a more modern tone. Of course, this show has an advantage over CBS All Access' first Star Trek series in that it's not a prequel and has more freedom to play around with its storytelling, as opposed to having to work around classic lore and mythology. Something like the Star Wars sequel trilogy has certainly gotten a passionate fan response by bringing back old characters for new adventures, so it'll be very interesting to see how Trekkies take to Picard's story continuing by comparison.
(5) CARL BRANDON ORIGIN STORY. The Jeanne Gomoll-edited Carl Brandon, by and about the hoax fan Terry Carr co-created long ago, is available for order from Lulu ($16.00).
Terry Carr recounts the invention of an imaginary black science fiction fan named Carl Brandon, one of the field's most (in)famous hoaxes. In addition to Carl Brandon's complete history, this volume includes his J.D. Salinger parody, "The Cacher of the Rye;" a more current parody by Carl Brandon 2.0, "The Kvetcher on the Racists;" and an essay by Samuel R. Delany, "Racism and Science Fiction." To quote Carr: "In the late fifties, several of the fans of the Bay Area…presented fandom with a new fanwriter who was quickly acclaimed as one of the best writers around and who was, not incidentally, the first prominent fan who was black." Read the book for more of this fascinating tale. All proceeds go to the Carl Brandon Society, which promotes discussions on race at conventions and conferences, and through its support of the Parallax and Kindred literary awards, and the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund.
(6) JOHN SLADEK. The paperback edition of New Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek was informally launched at the UK Eastercon and the promised ebook is now available reports David Langford. Both can be ordered from Ansible Editions. Trade paperback 9″ x 6″, 255pp, ISBN 978-0-244-15877-4. $20 plus local postage from Lulu.com: click button below. Ebook in the usual formats at £5.50: again, click button below.
(7) FREE DOWNLOAD. Of more fannish interest, a free ebook reissue of Terry Carr's 1986 collection Fandom Harvest has been posted on David Langford's TAFF page as an incitement to give generously to the fund. He adds, "Many thanks to Bob Silverberg for allowing his 1986 introduction to be included and to the original publisher John-Henri Holmberg for his afterword and general approval. Carol Carr has given her blessing to this reissue."
Langford further notes – "For anyone interested in acquiring the Sladek or the Brandon paperback: both are published via Lulu.com, which currently has a 15%-off discount code ONEFIVE that's good until 2 May."
(8) HARLEQUIN ART. The Bristol Board features nine pieces of Steranko art done for an edition of a Harlan Ellison story.
Repent Harlequin, said the Tick-Tock Man!, a portfolio of illustrations by Jim Steranko, done as an adaptation of a short story that was written by Harlan Ellison. the last plate is a 3-D pinup.
Born May 1, 1905 — Edna Mayne Hull. Wife of A.E. van Vogt. And yes, she too wrote genre fiction. Her initial sale, "The Flight That Failed", appeared in the November 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction under chosen author credit of "E.M. Hull" though eventually she used her own name. She has but one novel of her own, Planets for Sale, and one with her husband, The Winged Man, and only a dozen stories, one with A.E. Van Vogt & James H. Schmitz. (Died 1975.)
Born May 1, 1924 — Terry Southern. Screenwriter and author of greatest interest for the screenplay from Peter George's original novel, Two Hours to Doom (as by Peter Bryant) of Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb directed (and in part written) by Stanley Kubrick. He was also involved in scripting Barbarella. (Died 1995.)
Born May 1, 1946 — Joanna Lumley, 73. No, she was no Emma Peel, but she was definitely more than a bit appealing in the New Avengers as Purdey. All twenty-six episode are out on DVD. Her next genre out was Sapphire & Steel whichstarred David McCallum as Steel and her as Sapphire. Skip forward nearly near twenty years and find her playing The Thirteenth Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death in Comic Relief special.
Born May 1, 1948 — Terry Goodkind, 71. You obviously know he is. I've read some of the Sword of Truth series. It's ok, but not really my cup of Earl Grey Tea Hot. Epic fantasy isn't something that I really read a lot of to be honest preferring epic sf instead.
Born May 1, 1952 — Andrew Sawyer, 67. Librarian by profession, critic and editor as well who an active part of fandom. He is the Reviews Editor for Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. I've also got him doing Upon the Rack in Print, a book review column in Interzone and elsewhere and contributing likewise the Rust Never Sleeps column to Paperback Inferno as well. He hasn't written much fiction, but there is some such as "The Mechanical Art" in the Digital Dreams anthology.
Born May 1, 1955 — J. R. Pournelle, 64. That's as in Jennifer, the daughter of the Jerry we know. She's here because she wrote Outies (Mote Series Book 3) which I confess she sent me a digital galley of years ago but I still need to take a look at. The first novel in the series is great.
Born May 1, 1956 — Phil Foglio, 63. He won the Best Fan Artist Hugo Award in 1977 and 1978. He later did work for DC, First and Marvel Comics including the backup stories in Grimjack. He and his wife are responsible for the exemplary Girl Genius, a three-time Best Graphic Story Hugo winner.
Born May 1, 1957 — Steve Meretzky, 62. He co-designed the early Eighties version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy video game with the full participation of Douglas Adams. SF Encyclopedia notes that he did also a space opera themed game, Planetfall and its sequel A Mind Forever Voyaging in the Eighties as well. He also did the definitely more erotic Leather Goddesses of Phobos as well.
(10) DC WOULDN'T HAVE NEEDED A SEQUEL. On CBR.com, Vivian Achieng thinks MCU characters are relatively wimpy and there are at least "25 DC Characters That Are More Powerful Than Thanos."
When we talk about the MCU blockbuster, Avengers: Infinity War, we cannot fail but mention the wrecking ball that was Thanos, and his infinity gauntlet of course. For the very first time, earth's mightiest heroes, The Avengers, look to have met their match. All their powers, tech and a snarky Star-Lord were not powerful enough to stop Thanos' crusade to save the universe. Fingers crossed for Captain Marvel. The superheroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe can appear to be underpowered compared to other superheroes. This isn't a knock on Captain America or Iron Man or the rest, but they don't compare characters from other franchises. If characters from other universes happened to show up in Infinity War, we think the fight against Thanos would have ended a tad differently. In fact, some wouldn't even need the support of the Avengers and could take the Mad Titan out all on their own.
Granted, Thanos is not an easy walk over. Without the Infinity Gauntlet, he is as strong or stronger than Thor with fair speed to match, he is pretty much indestructible, and has scientific knowledge greater than anyone on Earth, which in turn makes him a master strategist. He also has access to cosmic power which he can use to release blasts from his hands and eyes. With the Infinity Gauntlet, however, he can manipulate all of reality, time, space and the minds and souls of others. He looks pretty unbeatable, right? Wrong! Here is a list of 25 characters from Marvel's arch enemies, DC, which can very well handle the threat that is Thanos….
(11) RIPLEY! BELIEVE IT OR NOT. "Sigourney Weaver surprises high school cast of Alien: The Play" – CNET has the story.
… "I'm so excited to be here," Weaver told them. "I'm representing all the Alien fans from all over the universe … I think what you're doing is so cool and so important."
Another video shows one high school student yelling, "I love you, you're my childhood hero! I can't believe you're here right now!" before hugging Weaver.
Sigourney Weaver visiting the NBHS cast and crew at their encore performance of Alien after national media recognition was unbelievable!! #alien #Alien40th pic.twitter.com/2UXL0v1H3X
— Nicholas J. Sacco (@NicholasJSacco) April 27, 2019
The whole play is online –
(12) SFF IN TRANSLATION. Rachel Cordasco's "Love in the New Millennium [Why This Book Should Win]" is one in a series of thirty-five posts about every title longlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Awards.
Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Yale University Press)
Love in the New Millennium is a work of operatic magical realism; a book with many layers, many shifting romantic relationships, and no clear plot. Like Frontier, one of Can Xue's previous novels, Love invites us into the hazy, sometimes frustratingly-elusive worlds of a handful of characters, many of whom are desperately trying to find a "home."…
(13) CHALLENGE FOR THE WIKIPEDIA. UnDark discusses "What a Deleted Profile Tells Us About Wikipedia's Diversity Problem"
You've probably never heard of Clarice Phelps. If you were curious, you might enter her name into Google. And, if you had done so anytime between September of last year and February of this year, you would likely have found her Wikipedia entry. The nuclear scientist is thought to be the first African-American woman to help discover a chemical element; she was part of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory team that purified the radioactive sample of berkelium-249 from which the new element, tennessine, was created. But on February 11, 2019, in the middle of Black History Month and on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Phelps's page was deleted. The optics, as they say, weren't good.
The deletion came after a brief but intense dispute between Wikipedia contributors over whether Phelps met the site's criteria for notability. Ordinarily, such editorial spats are considered a feature of the crowdsourced encyclopedia, not a bug. If one of the site's hundreds of thousands of active contributors mistakenly or purposely adds incorrect information, the wisdom of the crowd will ensure that truth prevails.
But in the case of Phelps, the crowd made the wrong call, and the site's rules facilitated that. The entire spectacle revealed just how much work remains to be done to address the systemic biases that disproportionately keep women and people of color out of Wikipedia's pages.
(14) UNLIKELY STEPS. Scoffers can't believe the discovery, or that military authorities tweeted about it — "'Yeti footprints': Indian army mocked over claim".
The Indian army has claimed to have found footprints of the yeti, sparking jokes and disbelief on social media.
The army tweeted to its nearly six million followers on Monday that it had discovered "mysterious footprints of mythical beast 'Yeti' at the Makalu Base Camp [in the Himalayas]".
(15) IT BITES. CNN's AJ Willingham says "The 'Sonic the Hedgehog' trailer is out and people are having visceral reactions to it".
sonic the hedgehog returns to haunt me. he has a mouth full of human teeth. his will be the last face I see before I die pic.twitter.com/xKBA2g5oV4
— Eleanor Robertson (@marrowing) April 30, 2019
People are weird about teeth, and always have been. According to dental researcher Rosemary Wells, ancient cultures had a variety of ways of dealing with baby teeth, as described in her essay "The Making of an Icon: The Tooth Fairy in North American Folklore and Popular Culture:"
(1) the tooth was thrown into the sun; (2) thrown into the fire; (3) thrown between the legs; (4) thrown onto or over the roof of the house, often with an invocation to some animal or individual; (5) placed in a mouse hole near the stove or hearth or offered to some other animal; (6) buried; (7) hidden where animals could not get it; (8) placed in a tree or on a wall; and (9) swallowed by the mother, child or animal.
That's right, people have historically been so freaked out by teeth they used to THROW THEM INTO THE SUN. Dental anxiety is real! You can't just stick a full set of veneers in any old cartoon character and expect people to not be traumatized!
(16) PTERRY WEEPS. Chip Hitchcock advises a trigger warning should accompany BBC's video: "Leuser rainforest: Baby orangutans rescued from Indonesia's pet trade".
Baby orangutans on the island of Sumatra are being captured and sold as pets, but charities are working to rescue the animals and confront the owners.
(17) HIGH-PRICED COLLECTIBLE. "Star Wars Bib Fortuna toy prototype sells for £36k" – BBC has the story.
A prototype of a Star Wars toy has sold for £36,000 at auction.
The 1980s master model of Bib Fortuna, a male Twi'lek who lived on Tatooine, had an estimate of £12,000.
It sold at Thornaby-based Vectis Auctions along with prototypes of an ewok called Logray which fetched £12,000, and an Emperor's royal guard which reached £28,800.
Auctioneer Kathy Taylor said the three "relatively unknown" characters had "beaten all expectations".
They had been made in America by Kenner for the production of the toys in Europe by Palitoy, which was based in Coalville, Leicestershire.
…Ms Taylor said the master models are larger and more detailed than the final figures sold in toy shops.
(18) RESISTANCE. Season 3 of The Handmaid's Tale arrives June 5 on Hulu.
[Thanks to Martin Morse Wooster, Joey Eschrich, Andrew Porter, Carl Slaughter, Mike Kennedy, Chip Hitchcock, JJ, Cat Eldridge, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Andrew.]
Posted in Pixel Scroll	| Tagged Best Translated Book Award, Brianna Wu, Can Xue, Carl Brandon, David Langford, DC Universe, Future Tense, Harlan Ellison, Indra Das, Jean-Luc Picard, Jim Steranko, John Sladek, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Rachel Cordasco, SFF in Translation, Sigourney Weaver, Sonic the Hedgehog, Star Wars, TAFF, Terry Carr, Thanos, The Handmaid's Tale, Wikipedia, yeti	| 41 Replies
Dave Rike (1935-2014)
Posted on March 5, 2015 by Mike Glyer
Dave Rike (L) and F.M. Busby (R) in 1958.
Dave Rike, who did his share to create the "wealth of fable" which inspired the title of Warner's history of 1950s fandom, has passed away. A note from his son, Darius, in the latest newsletter of First Fandom reports Rike died November 1, 2014.
Dave co-edited the original issue of Innuendo with Terry Carr in 1956, a fanzine best remembered today for publishing the writing of "Carl Brandon", a hoax who described himself as a fan of color but whose identity was created by several fanwriters to address issues of race within the science fiction community. Those who wrote under the name Carl Brandon included Carr, Bob Stewart, Ron Ellik, Pete Graham, Miriam Carr, Karen Anderson and Rike.
He had a hand in The Incompleat Burbee, an important collection first published in 1958 as Charles Burbee's birthday present. Pete Graham, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik and Rike produced the 96-page volume containing 45 of Burbee's best fanzine pieces.
And after cartoonist Ray Nelson invented the iconic fan wearing a beanie, Rike was one of the fanartists who helped popularize the image, along with Bjo Trimble, Lee Hoffman and ATom.
Dave also was among the Bay Area fans responsible for the mythic Bheer Can Tower to the Moon (with Terry Carr and Bob Stewart), whose history he retraced for Mimosa #15. The Tower legend cast a figurative shadow over fandom for decades, and many a fannish room party has piled up a Tower of its own. Two examples: The first I ever saw was at the 1978 Westercon. rich brown, Dr. Gafia, noted in his fannish lexicon another at a room party during the 1992 Worldcon. I'm positive the Tower was part of the reason Randy Bathurst sculpted a beanie-weaing bheer can cranking a mimeo for the original FAAn Awards.
Dave, a lifelong resident of the San Francisco Bay area, enjoyed reading and according to Darius, "lived his life surrounded by books."
He was active in politics and his left-leaning views were sufficiently well-known that a writer for Science Fiction Five-Yearly knew readers would appreciate his ironic contrast about someone standing out "like Dave Rike at a meeting of the John Birch Society."
He lent his talents as a fanartist to promote the Industrial Workers of the World, creating the cover of Wobbly #2 (1962), illustrating what it would look like if an alien's first contact on earth was with IWW members. The caption: "Leader? WHAT leader?"
That social conscience may be one reason Rike was on the distribution for Bill Donaho's Great Breen Boondoggle or All Berkeley Fandom Is Plunged Into War (1963, which listed those being sent a copy).
Given his political activity, and bearing in mind the 1950s were the height of the Cold War, it is interesting that Dave was not deterred from applying for a position that required an investigation by Army Intelligence. Chaos spread throughout fandom as they did their background check, as Harry Warner Jr. explains in A Wealth of Fable:
They did such a thorough job on Rike that they visited a number of fans, some of whom knew Dave in only the most minimal fashion. One investigator was in a terrible tizzy over is inability to understand why so many fanzines which he inspected contained little or nothing about science fiction. Then he found a copy of Taurasi's sercon Science Fiction Times, which seemed to quiet him. The membership rosters of The Cult and FAPA fell into the maw of the investigative machinery. This caused some individuals in those organizations to fear the most alarming sorts of consequences, none of which occurred.
Dave was a longtime subscriber to File 770. His mail was always identifiable because he liked to write notes in the margins of recycled subscription cards, and send them in the preaddressed envelopes that came with junk mail, his exaggerated large script in the white space making sure the postal service delivered it all to the right destination.
He was more than a witness to legendary times — he helped make the memories.
[Thanks to Robert Lichtman for the story.]
Update 03/06/2015: Corrected year of death in the headline.
Posted in In Passing	| Tagged Carl Brandon, Dave Rike


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Traveling by plane is, by far, the most rapid and efficient manner of getting from one destination to another. The tourist infrastructure of Lake Garda could not lack such a platform for efficient transport means, taking into account the popularity the resorts located on the shore of Lake Garda enjoy with tourists around the world.
Thus, the most advisable airports visitors can resort to in order to get to Lake Garda are Verona Airport and Brescia Airport.
Verona Airport is la larger of the two main airports which service the tourist platform of Lake Garda, being, at the same time, the busier of the two. This feature is mirrored by the number of airline companies which operate here. Air Berlin, Belle Air, Air Italy, Alitalia, Carpatair, Ryanair, Transavia and British Airways are just a few examples, but what matters is, by means of this companies, the airport has fine connections with cities such as London, Madrid, Barcelona, Bucharest, Sharm El Sheikh or Vienna.
Millions of passengers use the airport each year, both for pleasure and for business, and Verona Airport experiences an increasing growth due to the fact it is endowed with facilities and given it provides services useful to all categories of passengers, including people with reduced mobility.
Finally, the airport is easily accessible, and tourists can get here by resorting to a range of means, such as the train, the bus, a taxi or a car (rented or otherwise).
In the spirit of efficiency, tourists might just as well resort to the services of a taxi. The distance between Verona Airport to the Lake Garda resorts is reasonably short (for instance, some 15 kilometers between the airport and Peschiera del Garda), which is why taking a taxi is a solution at hand from a budget point of view.
Plenty of taxi companies operate in the tourist region of Lake Garda, and most of them include airport transfers in their range of services.
In order to get from Verona Airport to Lake Garda, that is, to those resorts who do have a train station, tourists must first head for the Porta Nuova train station in Verona. The connection between the latter and the airport is covered by a bus line conceived by ATV Verona precisely for airport transfers. The bus operates daily every 20 minutes, between 05:40am and 11:10pm.
For details on the trains traveling between the train station in Verona and the train stations within the Lake Garda region, visit Trenitalia.
Brescia Airport is, it too, located only a short distance from the Lake Garda resorts (for instance, some 20 kilometers from Desenzano del Garda). This is a less crowded airport, where the tourist flow is less impressive. The bottom line is, however, Brescia Airport is a reliable solution for people who intend to come and spend their vacation at Lake Garda.
The services and facilities put forward by Brescia Airport have been conceived such as to take into consideration the needs of people with reduced mobility and, roughly speaking, they are sufficiently generous in order to ease passengers' transit through the airport.
The taxi companies operating throughout the Lake Garda region are often solicited to provide airport transfer services. Tourists can rely on these companies particularly because crossing the relatively short distance between the airport and Lake Garda does not entail significant expenses.
People who do take into consideration to travel between Brescia and the Lake Garda resorts by train must keep in mind the connection between the airport and the train station in Brescia is made by aerobus no. 23 which, in addition, covers the distance between Brescia Airport and the train station in Verona (this alternative is worth considering, though it is less practicable since it extends the trip unnecessarily).
For information on the schedule and the prices for trips with the aerobus, visit Brescia Airport.
For details on the trains traveling between the train station in Brescia and the train stations within the Lake Garda region, visit Trenitalia.
Transporti Brescia is the main company which ensures the public transport within the province of Brescia, including some of the most important resorts on Lake Garda in its network of lines. It's true there is no line dedicated to making connections between the airport and the said resorts, but one of the most convenient alternatives refers to going from the airport to the bus station in Montichiari (for instance). From Montichiari, tourists can take one of the buses which head for the said resorts.


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   printf("receiver1 ping received (%u)\n", *elem);
   counter++;
   pong_Output1(&counter);
}

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The Moscow authorities have banned opposition groups from rallying in Triumfalnaya Square for the tenth time, giving way instead for an extreme auto and motor sport festival.
Opposition and human rights activists are planning to hold a new rally on July 31 in support of Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees freedom of assembly.
The unauthorized rallies have been held on the last day of each month with 31 days as part of "Strategy 31." On May 31, dozens of protesters were detained, and human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin sharply criticized the actions of riot police.
Moscow Mayor's Office has repeatedly denied the rallies of opposition groups but allowed events conducted by other organizations at the same to be held at Triumfalnaya Square near Mayakovskaya Metro station in the city center.
An official from the mayor's office phoned Moscow Helsinki Group chairman Lyudmila Alekseeva on July 19 and said that the request for this month's rally had been denied. Alekseeva is one of the organizers of the event.
She had not asked for the reason because "it is happening over and over again," Alekseeva told Interfax. The official again offered other places – Bolotnaya or Tverskaya Square – as in previous cases. However, there is a tradition, Alekseeva said, adding that people will come to Triumfalnaya again.
This time, the city authorities have also denied the pro-Kremlin Young Russia group's request to hold a blood-donor rally on the same square on July 31. Officials said an auto and motor sports festival will be held at the place from July 30 to August 1. Such extreme events as stunt riding, rally sprint and motofreestyle have been scheduled. The organizers describe the festival as another move in fighting against illegal street racing in Moscow.
Thus, it will be more difficult for opposition groups to hold a March of Dissent rally on July 31 despite the ban. However, this time observers say the authorities' new strategy is not only to allow cars and motorcycles on the square, but also to establish a kind of dialogue with the opposition.
Co-chairman of the Solidarity movement Boris Nemtsov has said that he had been offered to hold a rally at Triumfalnaya Square without opposition activist and writer Eduard Limonov.
Limonov is also a leader of the Other Russia party that held its founding congress on July 10 and has not yet been registered. An opposition coalition, also named Other Russia, was recently disbanded.
Some observers believe a split has already occurred among radical opposition groups. The leader of "left radicals" Limonov tried to seize the initiative and held a congress of the Other Russia party, said Pavil Salin of the Center for Political Conjuncture.
Although the chances to be registered are too small for the new party, "radical liberals" have become the main losers, Salin said. Limonov's supporters were the massive force at dissenters' rallies, and the liberals were a minority, the analyst noted. Without Limonov's supporters, the number of people participating in the rallies may reduce drastically, he added.
Meanwhile, analysts are asking if a bargaining is really taking place between the authorities and some representatives of radical opposition groups. "It seems that the situation has changed… and the Kremlin is ready to deal with a part of non-system opposition in a legal field," commentator Tatyana Stanovaya wrote on Politcom.ru website.
She stressed that the issue concerns critics of the Kremlin because "Lyudmila Alekseeva has always enjoined public respect as a human rights activist." However, the possibility of holding rallies of radical opposition parties on Triumfalnaya Square is rather a political issue than a legal one, she noted.
The tough actions of the authorities against the opposition "provoke a lot of criticism from human rights activists, the West, and the public," the analyst said. One could ignore it "during the period of confrontation with the West, but now it provokes a certain discomfort among Russian authorities," she said.
So, the authorities may probably try to ease tension, but at the same time "save face" by not yielding to Limonov, she noted. However, they may also try to divide the non-system opposition that "already has inner conflicts," she noted.
Meanwhile, the government's national Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily on July 20 published a manifesto of Limonov's Other Russia party. The party submitted its program for publication four days earlier in accordance with the law on political parties. The paper had to publish the manifesto within a month.
In the manifesto, the party promises "to conduct decisive democratization of the country and all institutions of the state" and "to reduce bureaucracy." In regards to the economy, the party plans to nationalize the raw materials industries – primarily oil and gas, coal extraction, and electrical power production – as well as construction companies building residential buildings.
To be registered as a political party by the Justice Ministry, it should be represented in at least half of Russia's regions and have more than 45,000 members. Analysts doubt the party will be able to meet these criteria.


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SHOT Show on target for triumphant return
GTW Staff | Dec 14, 2021
There's probably not a single business on Earth that didn't go through some kind of trauma in the last year-and-a-half due to the coronavirus pandemic. That drum has been banged to death, so there's no need to dwell on it – what's more important is how your company bounces back from the setbacks, whatever they may be. That's something that's only too familiar to the guest on the first-ever episode of the brand-new Gun Trade World podcast, Chris Dolnack. Chris is the senior vice president and chief customer officer of the United States' firearm industry association the NSSF, which organises the annual SHOT Show trade show. When the pandemic struck, certain changes were forced upon the NSSF and, like many of the members it has helped through these trying times, it had to make changes in order to ensure its long-term survival.
"Immediately after SHOT Show 2020 we went to a fully remote workforce, as many businesses here in the United States did," Chris says. "Our IT department did a fantastic job anticipating that and introducing the tools we needed to enable our team to work fantastically well remotely. From that point we were tracking developments worldwide on the pandemic and specifically within the trade show fraternity. In the run up to the 2021 SHOT Show, it became obvious that we would not be able to move forward with the restrictions in place in the country and internationally at that time."
The team at the NSSF had to take the hugely difficult decision to cancel the 2021 edition of the event, and also make some other very tough calls such as reducing its staff by about 20 per cent and cutting back on sponsorship and advertising. But that hardship and that reassessment of how the organisation worked has helped it come back stronger than ever before. Chris explains: "We have learned that we needed to change the way in which we engaged with our members. We've upped our communications and personalised them. We are now spending a lot more time and concerted effort making outbound calls to our members to check in on them and see how we can help them, as opposed to just sending out x amount of many emails a week. We have learned to have a more personal touch, which has led to our membership retention rate increasing from roughly 60 per cent to about 80 per cent. We are putting out more education and advice than ever before, because in helping our members navigate this big disruption, we have learned that more of that is what they want."
Many of the other lessons that the NSSF has taken on board in the last two years will be evident at the eagerly anticipated SHOT Show 2022 event in Las Vegas from 18th to 21st January. It will be the largest SHOT Show ever, with an expansion of the show floor into the Caesars Forum, which is connected to Venetian Expo via a walk bridge. The New Product Showcase will have its own room within Caesars Forum and will be greatly expanded compared to previous years. There will also be an outdoor area that will allow better opportunities for buyers and attendees to try out products. The show will also have outdoor ride along experiences and a field dog feature. All of the polling that SHOT Show has done since its last event points towards visitors wanting to have more exclusive experiences when attending, so that is what will be duly delivered this year.
"We have a very tactile audience," explains Chris. "People want to touch and feel products – feel how the gun goes to the shoulder, feel the trigger pull, pull the zippers, inspect the stitching, and so on. All our polling has shown that our community really misses the networking opportunities and the learning from one another that a real-life event brings.
"But what's more important is that SHOT Show is the one place you can go where you can see everything, and everyone connected to your businesses to get a competitive edge. You can speak with the CEO of a company; you can speak with the engineer who designed a product. When you get back to your shop and a customer comes in, you can give them the essential information they need right from the horse's mouth.
"The SHOT Show is like the Super Bowl, Christmas day and the World Cup all rolled into one for our community – it's a gathering of the tribes, people come from all over the world. We're like-minded and we have a love and passion for hunting, shooting and firearms ownership, and no other single event engenders that sense of community like the SHOT Show does."
Listen to the full interview with Chris Dolnack on the all-new Gun Trade World Podcast. Simply click on your desired link below:
Anchor: https://anchor.fm/guntradeworld/episodes/Back-to-business-the-return-of-SHOT-Show-e1aku5a
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3K3QIgshEfG1oiFaWgyEq8?si=31d8737d64c04872
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-gun-trade-world-podcast/id1589775470?i=1000542695659
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React Server transpilation

## Example

**In**

```js
var logger = require('react-server').logging.getLogger(__LOGGER__);
```

**Out**

```js
"use strict";

var logger = require('react-server').logging.getLogger({ name: 'module.name', color: {} });
```

## Installation

```sh
$ npm install babel-plugin-react-server
```

## Usage

### Via `.babelrc` (Recommended)

**.babelrc**

```json
{
  "plugins": ["react-server"]
}
```

### Via CLI

```sh
$ babel --plugins react-server script.js
```

### Via Node API

```javascript
require("babel-core").transform("code", {
  plugins: ["react-server"]
});
```

## Configuration

A fully configured babel plugin in your babelrc would look be

```json
{
  "plugins": [
    ["react-server", {
      "trim": "my-project.components.",
      "token": "__LOGGER__"
    }]
  ]
}
```

### Trim

A substring to trim off the front of the module name

```javascript
{
    trim: "my-project.pages."
}
```

### Token

The token to replace in the source code with the module tag.  By default, uses
the default logger token `__LOGGER__`, and two future reserved tokens,
`__CHANNEL__` and

```javascript
{
    token: "__LOGGER__"
}
```


Recap of the 2016 Social Mitten, Michigan's Largest Social Media Conference!
As always, Social Mitten was a great time. Last year when it was in Grand Rapids, it required me leaving at 4 AM to get there i time since I was unable to go the night before. Thankfully KeKe went with me so I wasn't making the drive across the state alone. Every time I go to Grand Rapids I have someone new with me, but it leads to great adventures as each person knows different things about the city. KeKe knew this great pizza and sub shop in town so we went and ate there and they even had gluten free offerings!
Further proof we are #twinsies, Jon.
But anyway, this year it was in my backyard, in Ann Arbor at Crisler Arena. Not only that, this year I worked for Social Mitten instead of just attending as a guest of SMAMi (Social Media Association of Michigan). It was great! The speakers and I shared tales of conference presentations gone wrong and how we recovered, talked about our favorite places to visit, compared tech and Jon Beebe and I had a nerd-off over Star Wars and 300 baud modems.
Yes, we really are that big of nerds.
But in addition to hanging with the speakers all day and getting awesome shots of Where The Magic Happens behind the scenes on international brands like GM, Universal Studios, Microsoft, AT&T, Sony and more, I picked up some great information to use in social media, in presentation design and in my regular life.
While all the speakers were absolutely amazing, Charlie Woolborg of Curve Detroit and Jon Beebe of GM were the most dynamic speakers. Jeff had joked to Jon about spending 30 hours on each slide of his presentation and I scoffed. Surely nobody spends that amount of time on one slide, even with all the bells and whistles. I've spent many hours on a slide before, especially with complex animation, but 30? He must jest.
Jon's slides were full of rich animation and it was almost like watching a narrated movie with teachable moments hidden in.
Best signage ever. But what Instagram filter does one use for poo?
I can't wait for next year, even though it will be in enemy territory in Lansing. But already the speakers include Jay Baer and Scott Monty so I'm very excited! Head to www.socialmitten.com for info on how to pre-register. The date is Friday, September 22, 2017. See you there I hope!
Where the magic happens, the McD Hub.


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The Mission of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
It is the mission of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, SJ, to improve its members and enhance the communities in which they live by teaching and emulating the principles of Brotherly Love, Tolerance, Charity, and Truth while actively embracing high social, moral, and spiritual values including fellowship, compassion, and dedication to God, family and country.
About San Bernardino Valley
The years 1956 and 1957 saw feverish anticipation as Brethren of the area realized that soon the Valley of San Bernardino would become the 16th Scottish Rite Valley in California. With the election of Henry Christian Clausen, 33°, as Sovereign Grand Inspector General (SGIG) in the Orient of California and active Member of the Supreme Council, AASR of Freemasonry of the SJ of the USA, fresh impetus had been give the idea had been given the idea of a Consistory in this area.
Letters temporary for San Bernardino Lodge of Perfection and a Chapter of Rose Croix were personally presented by Ill. Brother Clasusen, 33rd, to Arthur B. Drake , 32nd, Venerable Master and Walter W. Taylor, 32nd, Wise Master on September 7, 1956.
The first class finished in the spring of 1957, and was named the "John H. Logie, 33rd, Alpha Class". In December 1957, a two year lease was signed with the Women's Club of Highland, California and the first meeting held there on December 17, 1957. Letters of Temporary for a Council of Kadosh and a Consistory were issued on December 16, 1957 and received on January 11, 1958.
Ground breaking for our present Center at 4400 Varsity Ave., was Saturday January 14, 1970 with Ill Carl J. Driscoll, 33rd, as Chairman for the event. The first class was started on October 24, 1970, August 13, 1971, saw the cornerstone officially laid by the Most Worshipful Herbert A. Heubner, Grand Master of Masons in California and Hawaii, with Grand Lodge being opened and closed at the San Bernardino Center.
Continuing a tradition which began on February 2, 1974, all four bodies of the Valley continue to hold annual joint Installation of officers in either late January or early February.
First Annual Poinsettia Ball
Only a few days away is the first annual Poinsettia Ball, being held at the Scottish Rite Temple in San Bernardino, Saturday eve, Nov 21st.
Tickets are still available for this momentous occasion!
Doors open at 530, dinner at 630, and a performance of big band swing music from 730 to 930, as performed by the 18 piece Riverside Concert Band.
Couple only $50, and singles just $30.
Please contact Worshipful Robert to make your reservation (909) 659 3585
Redlands Lodge 300 To Host Masonic Education On July 20,2013 At San Bernardino Scottish Rite
Contact: Brother Casey Latham for More Info : caselat@mail.regent.edu


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#pragma once

#ifndef _WIN32
#include <netdb.h>
#include <poll.h>

#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netinet/tcp.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
#else
#include <folly/portability/IOVec.h>
#include <folly/portability/SysTypes.h>
#include <folly/portability/Windows.h>

#include <WS2tcpip.h>

using nfds_t = int;
using sa_family_t = ADDRESS_FAMILY;

// We don't actually support either of these flags
// currently.
#define MSG_DONTWAIT 0x1000
#define MSG_EOR 0
struct msghdr {
  void* msg_name;
  socklen_t msg_namelen;
  struct iovec* msg_iov;
  size_t msg_iovlen;
  void* msg_control;
  size_t msg_controllen;
  int msg_flags;
};

struct sockaddr_un {
  sa_family_t sun_family;
  char sun_path[108];
};

#define SHUT_RD SD_RECEIVE
#define SHUT_WR SD_SEND
#define SHUT_RDWR SD_BOTH

// These are the same, but PF_LOCAL
// isn't defined by WinSock.
#define PF_LOCAL PF_UNIX

// This isn't defined by Windows, and we need to
// distinguish it from SO_REUSEADDR
#define SO_REUSEPORT 0x7001

// Someone thought it would be a good idea
// to define a field via a macro...
#undef s_host
#endif

namespace folly {
namespace portability {
namespace sockets {
#ifndef _WIN32
using ::accept;
using ::bind;
using ::connect;
using ::getpeername;
using ::getsockname;
using ::getsockopt;
using ::inet_ntop;
using ::listen;
using ::poll;
using ::recv;
using ::recvfrom;
using ::send;
using ::sendto;
using ::sendmsg;
using ::setsockopt;
using ::shutdown;
using ::socket;
#else
// Some Windows specific helper functions.
bool is_fh_socket(int fh);
SOCKET fd_to_socket(int fd);
int socket_to_fd(SOCKET s);
int translate_wsa_error(int wsaErr);

// These aren't additional overloads, but rather other functions that
// are referenced that we need to wrap, or, in the case of inet_aton,
// implement.
int accept(int s, struct sockaddr* addr, socklen_t* addrlen);
int inet_aton(const char* cp, struct in_addr* inp);
int socketpair(int domain, int type, int protocol, int sv[2]);

// Unless you have a case where you would normally have
// to reference the function as being explicitly in the
// global scope, then you shouldn't be calling these directly.
int bind(int s, const struct sockaddr* name, socklen_t namelen);
int connect(int s, const struct sockaddr* name, socklen_t namelen);
int getpeername(int s, struct sockaddr* name, socklen_t* namelen);
int getsockname(int s, struct sockaddr* name, socklen_t* namelen);
int getsockopt(int s, int level, int optname, void* optval, socklen_t* optlen);
const char* inet_ntop(int af, const void* src, char* dst, socklen_t size);
int listen(int s, int backlog);
int poll(struct pollfd fds[], nfds_t nfds, int timeout);
ssize_t recv(int s, void* buf, size_t len, int flags);
ssize_t recvfrom(
    int s,
    void* buf,
    size_t len,
    int flags,
    struct sockaddr* from,
    socklen_t* fromlen);
ssize_t send(int s, const void* buf, size_t len, int flags);
ssize_t sendto(
    int s,
    const void* buf,
    size_t len,
    int flags,
    const sockaddr* to,
    socklen_t tolen);
ssize_t sendmsg(int socket, const struct msghdr* message, int flags);
int setsockopt(
    int s,
    int level,
    int optname,
    const void* optval,
    socklen_t optlen);
int shutdown(int s, int how);

// This is the only function that _must_ be referenced via the namespace
// because there is no difference in parameter types to overload
// on.
int socket(int af, int type, int protocol);

// Windows needs a few extra overloads of some of the functions in order to
// resolve to our portability functions rather than the SOCKET accepting
// ones.
int getsockopt(int s, int level, int optname, char* optval, socklen_t* optlen);
ssize_t recv(int s, char* buf, int len, int flags);
ssize_t recv(int s, void* buf, int len, int flags);
ssize_t recvfrom(
    int s,
    char* buf,
    int len,
    int flags,
    struct sockaddr* from,
    socklen_t* fromlen);
ssize_t recvfrom(
    int s,
    void* buf,
    int len,
    int flags,
    struct sockaddr* from,
    socklen_t* fromlen);
ssize_t recvmsg(int s, struct msghdr* message, int fl);
ssize_t send(int s, const char* buf, int len, int flags);
ssize_t send(int s, const void* buf, int len, int flags);
ssize_t sendto(
    int s,
    const char* buf,
    int len,
    int flags,
    const sockaddr* to,
    socklen_t tolen);
ssize_t sendto(
    int s,
    const void* buf,
    int len,
    int flags,
    const sockaddr* to,
    socklen_t tolen);
int setsockopt(
    int s,
    int level,
    int optname,
    const char* optval,
    socklen_t optlen);
#endif
}
}
}

#ifdef _WIN32
// Add our helpers to the overload set.
/* using override */ using namespace folly::portability::sockets;
#endif


Good Stories For Good Children … From old Persia!
Bonnes histoires pour les bons enfants … De l'ancienne Perse!
Buenas historias para los niños buenos … De la antigua Persia!
This children story book has won a UNESCO prize. It is being published in this website exclusively under project number 731-1, with permission from copyright owner in Iran. Click on image below to learn about these stories and opportunity of their translation in other languages.
Ce livre des histoires pour les enfants a remporté un prix UNESCO. Il est publié ici exclusivement, sous le project numéro 731-1, avec la permission du propriétaire des droits d'auteur en Iran. Cliquez sur l'image ci-dessous pour en savoir plus,  à peu près ces histoires et opportunité de leur traduction dans d'autres langues.
Este libro de cuentos los niños ha sido galardonado con un premio UNESCO. Se está publicando exclusivamente en nuestro sitio, bajo el proyecto número 731-1, con el permiso del propietario de los derechos de autor en Irán. Haga clic en la imagen de abajo para aprender sobre estas historias y oportunidad de su traducción en otros idiomas.
The following text is a translation from original copyright Persian material with permission. The translation job into other language(s) is courtesy of one or several translators named on each respective section as gifted exclusively to COLOMBIRAN website for nonprofit project 731-1. All rights reserved for respective Translator(s), COLOMBIRAN Inc. (Online Publisher), and Amirkabir Publications Inc. (Original Persian Publisher).  You may republish the translation(s) ONLINE ONLY, and only for promotional non-commercial purposes, upon written permission from COLOMBIRAN, and by providing link to this webpage. For interested and qualified third party publishers to purchase the translations for prints and large worldwide distributions, we can arrange for copyright settlements between all parties involved in different countries. Contact us for details. Translation to Germany welcome.
Once upon a time there was a young mouse that had moved from the fields to a village. After looking around, it found the way to the kitchen of the village's head man. So then it lived separately from its parents who lived in the fields. But after a few days, the owner of the house found out about the mouse and placed a mouse trap there in order to catch it.
One night when there were no sounds of movement in the kitchen, the young mouse leaving its hole, smelled the aroma of some delicious food. When it went a little closer, it saw a net box and a roasted walnut kernel hanging from the center of it. It realised that the great smell was coming from that walnut kernel. Since the young mouse had never seen a food container such as that in any kitchen, it looked around well and touched the box's wall and saw that it is stable and did not move. It entered the box from the side that was open, went on slowly and shook the wires and the walls a little. When it felt sure that there was no danger, it sat comfortably in the middle of the box and started eating the walnut.
As soon as the mouse bit into the walnut, a frightful noise rose and the box shook as though there was an earthquake and the mouse's tail was caught in the trap. It was lucky that only a small part of the mouse's tail had caught and its tip was injured, for it was able to free itself from the trap.
The young mouse said this and bid its mother goodbye and went back to the head man's house.
It stayed there a few more days. Now it knew about mouse traps and avoided them. Until one day it heard footsteps from behind a wall and realized that there was something happening over there too. It made a hole in the corner and came out in a storeroom. The storeroom of the headman's house was a large room where there was not much traffic and it had a door to the garden as well. From then on the young mouse lived the good life. It connected its hole to some other ones as well and had a large and comfortable place. It had access to the kitchen on one side and the store room on the other, and to the garden as well. It lived comfortably in this hole for a while. It had made carpet and pillows out of pieces of fabric and in the corners of the hole had prepared small store rooms and had stored wheat and rice for a rainy day. Sometimes it took a stroll in the garden, sometimes it sang a song in the quiet store room, and sometimes it rested in its hole, and had become a pleasure-loving mouse with no worries.
But it is the way of the world that its toils or comforts do not last forever.
One day a horrible black snake, that had fled the fields, reached the garden and grazed in the store room and tasted the food there. The snake saw the mouse hole and crawled in and liked it and was sleeping there when the mouse came back and saw the snake asleep in its place of rest.
The mouse was very scared and since it dared not approach the snake, there was nothing for it but to wait. The mouse waited around for an hour until the snake woke up and started for the store room. The mouse hid itself behind a sack of rice until the snake went towards the garden. Then it entered its hole and saw that the place had not been disturbed. It wanted to rest but was too worried and could not go to sleep because it was scared. Its fear was not groundless either, since in another hour it heard the rustling sounds of the snake coming back.
The mouse hid in a corner. The snake came and again coiled itself on the mouse's bedding and sat there. Since the snake had realized that this was a place to rest and was near the garden, with plenty of food and a safe hole, it looked as though it had decided to stay there forever.
When the mouse saw how things were, it went to its mother's house and told the story and asked for help.
Next day the mouse went and hid in a corner and the snake came out at noon and waited under the weeping willow tree for the mouse. It was sunny and hot. The snake waited and waited but there was no sign of the mouse. Half an hour, an hour, passed and the mouse did not come. The snake thought to itself that the mouse had probably been scared and left. Gradually the snake became sleepy and coiled itself right there under the willow tree and went to sleep.
He went back to sleep and as soon as he was asleep, the mouse again came and jumped on his chest and showed itself and then fled and woke the gardener up again.
From then on they did not place mouse traps in the kitchen either.