Path: utzoo!lsuc!nrcaer!cognos!geovision!alastair
From: alastair@geovision.uucp (Alastair Mayer)
Newsgroups: ont.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: A revival, a revival
Message-ID: <437@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 88 17:11:16 GMT
References: <1988Nov5.165746.19568@ziebmef.uucp>
Reply-To: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer)
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Organization: GeoVision Corp, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1988Nov5.165746.19568@ziebmef.uucp> cks@ziebmef.uucp (Chris Siebenmann) writes:
[...]
> So, anyone know what Guy Gavriel Kay is doing these days? Or
>Toronto's Bunch Of 7? Or Charles De Lint, for that matter (I saw the
        ^^^^^^^^^^

Well, I know what some of the Bo7 is up to.  Mike Wallis has moved to
California (LA for a contract, and then SF where his girlfriend is -
or is that vice versa?).  Indeed, due to weird immigration laws, he
couldn't come back for the last Ad Astra and was "Chairman-in-Exile".

Steve Stirling has taken over the editing of a new shared-universe
series for Baen Books.  Working title when I was involved in it was
"Tales of the Silver Service", hard SF centred around a "Space Force"
in the mid-21st century.  This has been kicking around for a while -
a bunch of us - Jim Baen, Jerry Pournelle, me, Harry Stine, and a few
others started kicking the idea around on BIX about two years ago,
developing the background.  Henry Vanderbilt and I put together the
first drafts of the timeline and technology background.  The thing
has seen a bunch of delays -- an associate of Pournelle's was the
first editor, there were stories promised from Larry Niven, Poul
Anderson, etc, but the thing seemed to submerge for a while.  Editorship
moved to Baen Books in New York for a while, finally Jim gave it over
to Steve.  Last I heard things are really starting to happen. (Finally!)
I think Steve is also involved in another project with Pournelle.

Dunno about the rest of Bo7 -- I think I remember hearing that Karen
sold her book, but don't recall details.   Ad Astra 8 was fun but
I was a bit too rushed to catch up on all the news.

-- Alastair