Vector Has Landed

[coalescent]

Waiting for me when I got home this evening:



Vector 245: Movements and Manifestos
Frequently Asked Questions about Mundane SF by Trent Walters
A Refusal To Sign the Mundane Manifesto by Ian McDonald
No More New World Orders by Martin Lewis
Not Really New, Not Really Weird by Norman Spinrad
Infernokrusher: A Brief and Terrible History by Meghan McCarron
Archipelago: Appreciations from the ED SF Project, by Claire Light, Abigail Nussbaum, Paul Kincaid and Elizabeth Bear
First Impressions: Book Reviews edited by Paul Billinger
and The New X: a column by Graham Sleight

Yes, it's the first issue of Vector to be co-edited by greengolux and myself, complete with first-issue typos. Given that we've been editors-in-waiting for about a year, this is quite exciting, and we're proud of the lineup--many thanks to everyone who contributed. Although obviously, future issues are going to be even better.

A proper website, with some online content and everything, will be along Real Soon Now. In the meantime, Vector is available to BSFA members (along with some other magazines), so you know it only makes sense to join. Contributers can expect to be hassled for their real-world addresses so that we can send them copies.

In summary: huzzah!

Comments

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should just join the BSFA already.

I endorse this plan and/or scheme! :)

(Particularly interested in the Mundane SF thing.

Much as I'd love to claim exclusivity, there's been plenty of debate about it on various blogs. For example, Ian McDonald's lj, here.

It's like the New Puritan lit writers! But in the future!)

Or in the past ... I've got an ecletic selection of Vector back issues, and one of the ones from 1988 has two head-to-head articles by George Turner (then winner of the Clarke Award) and John Gribbin. To all intents and purposes, they're debating the merits of mundane sf. There is nothing new under the sun, it seems. We have the rights to reprint the articles so, again, when the website happens, we'll put them up.

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

And, like I say in column #2, Ryman pretty much put forward Mundane Sf (as "good-faith sf") in his interview in IZ 33 in '89.