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The above has been adapted from Lorna Toolis' official
annual report to the Toronto
Public Library’s Financial Situation The following is
the text of a presentation made by Library Board members and senior staff
at a series of public consultation meetings in October-November 1992. Our funding comes from three sources: 90% from the
City of We have two budgets: operating and capital. The
operating budget covers staff; books and materials; supplies and services.
Our capital budget is for new buildings, renovations and automation. Our 1991 operating budget was close to $35,000,000.
Our 1992 budget is 2% less than last year. In reality, after absorbing the
cost of inflation, we have 7% less than last year. The library board is not alone in suffering curs. The
City of How have we done
this? Like all service-oriented organizations, our largest
cost by far is staff, and rightly so. Our staff are
our prime resource. Providing service in 33 locations is labour-intensive
and this takes 70% of our budget. Due to pay increases already negotiated
(for the second year of a two-year contract) and to increases in the cost
of benefits, our staff costs increased
by 5% in 1992. This meant that the other two categories—books and
services—had to take a much larger cut to stay within budget. Regretfully, we have had to cut the budget for books
and materials by 30%. (The Merril Collection books and materials budget was
cut by 10%.) We hope to restore some of this over
the next few years. Right now, it means that we will be buying 60,000 fewer
books this year. We still expect to offer the same variety of titles; we
will just have fewer copies of them spread among all our branches. We have
cut supplies and services by 15%. This category includes office supplies,
building maintenance, publicity and staff training. While these cuts may
not be visible to the public, they have put a lot of pressure on the
library internally. How are we
coping with the cuts? First, we have had a hiring freeze, as do all City
agencies, since Secondly, we have had our automated system up and
running in all branches since December last year and the on-line catalogue
since June this year. This has enabled us to give you better service without incurring more
cost. Third, with automation we can utilize our collections
much better. People have access to all our collections from any branch, can
place holds on copies held at other locations to be shipped to them, and
can place holds on books even while they are still on order. Lastly, the proposals on tiers of service and roles
that are the basis of our new service delivery model will help us focus our
efforts to deliver service more efficiently and effectively. What can we
expect in 1993? The economic situation is not going to improve for
some time. Recovery from recession in the public sector traditionally lags
behind the private sector. The Budget Review Committee of City Council has
recently released its "Streamlining Report". It calls for
reducing staff costs by 10% by the end of 1994. The Library, along with every other City department
and agency, is required to reduce its staff. We have been planning how we
will do this for the last six months. Once again, the City requested us to
propose cuts that would not involve staff layoffs or affect public service. We have made it clear to the Budget Review Committee
that a cut of 10% of our staff is impossible for us without service cuts. Torontonians place a high value on their
library service and library usage is increasing. Our City Councillors
understand this and are not requiring
us to downsize so drastically. We are, however, expecting to reduce staff
size by 4.4%. The cuts will be in areas where they will not have a serious
effect on service, and where technology is helping us to be more efficient.
(There are not cuts to the Merril Collection staff.) In the next year or so, you will be seeing more use of
technology that will enable us to save staff time. Coming first will be automatic phoning to notify people
of holds and overdue books. We are also looking at automatic renewals by
telephone and self-serve checkout. We will be reviewing patterns of library usage with a
view to fine-tuning our hours of opening. This will help us make the best
use of staff while ensuring that services are available when people most
need them. It is our expectation that the staff reductions can be
accomplished through resignations and retirements, without layoffs, over
the course of the next two years. In terms of our capital budget, our major project for
1993 will be our new Boys and Girls House, to be located on (On February 15, 1993, the balance of the funding was
approved by the Executive Committee of City Council.) Canadian
Fiction 1991 and 1992
The following is a listing of the science fiction,
fantasy and speculative fiction published by Canadians in 1992 and 1991.
This list has been derived primarily from the nominations list for the 1991
and 1992 Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (AURORA) Awards. We welcome
any additions or corrections. We welcome all authors, publishers, and other
knowledgeable individuals to keep us informed of works in the sf field by
all Canadians so that we may publish as complete and comprehensive a list
as possible each year. 1992 Novels and collections - English language ·
Atwood, Good Bones, Coach House ·
Burns, Cliff, That First,
Wound-Bearing Layer, Greensleeve ·
Choyce, ·
Coney, Michael, ·
Coney, Michael, A Tomcat
Called Salsvina, Porthole Press ·
Costello, Sean, Captain Quad,
Penguin ·
Davies, Robertson, The
Cornish Trilogy,Penguin ·
Davies, Robertson, Murther and Walking Spirits, McClelland &
Stewart ·
DeBrandt, Don H., The
Quicksilver Screen, Ballantine/Del Rey ·
de Lint, Charles, writing as Samuel M. Key, From a Whisper to a Scream, ·
de Lint, Charles, Spirit Walk, Tor ·
·
Duncan, Dave, Emperor and Clown,
Ballantine/Del Rey ·
Duncan, Dave, The ·
Gedge, Pauline, The
Covenant, Penguin ·
George, Stephen, Near Dead, Zebra ·
George, Stephen, Nightscape,
Zebra ·
Green, Terence M., Children
of the Rainbow, McClelland & Stewart ·
Huff, Tanya, Blood Trail, DAW ·
Hutchison, Don, Northern
Frights (editor), Mosaic Press ·
Kay, Guy Gavriel, A Song
forArbonne, Viking ·
Kilian, Crawford, Greenmagic,
Ballantine/Del Rey ·
Robinson, Spider, Lady
Slings the Booze, Ace ·
Russell, Sean, Gatherer of
Clouds, DAW ·
Sagara, Michelle, Children
of the Blood, Del Rey ·
Sawyer, Robert J., Far-Seer,
Ace ·
Steffler, John, The
Afterlife of George Cartwright ·
Stewart, Sean, Passion Play,
Beach Holme/Tesseract ·
·
·
Vonarburg, Élisabeth, In the
Mother's Land, Beach Holme ·
Vonarburg, Élisabeth, The
Maerlande Chronicles, Beach Home Short work - English
language ·
Armstrong-Jones, "Beastly!", Sword & Sorceress IX ·
Armstrong-Jones, "Love of the Banshee", Towers of Darkover ·
Armstrong-Jones, "Magic", Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Spring/92 ·
Baillie, Robert, "Silent Night", On Spec, v4#3 ·
Baker, Nancy, "Cold Sleep", Northern Frights ·
Begamudré, Ven, "Out of Sync", Tesseracts4 ·
Burns, Cliff, "Also Starring", Tesseracts4 ·
Burrs, Mick, "Baruch, The Man-Faced Dog", Tesseracts4 ·
Choyce, Lesley, "The Best of Both Worlds", Tesseracts4 ·
Choyce, Lesley, "Patches", ·
Clarke, J. Brian, "Adoption", Analog, May 92 ·
Cunningham, G.M., "Letters Home", ·
de Lint, Charles, "Bridges", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October-November
1992 ·
de Lint, Charles, "The Conjure Man", After the King ·
de Lint, Charles, "The Graceless Child", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1992 ·
de Lint, "The Stone Drum", Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1992 ·
Delaplace, Barbara, "Belonging", The Crafters, Volume 2 ·
Delaplace, Barbara, "Black Ice", Aladdin, Master of the Lamp ·
Delaplace, Barbara, "Choices", Alternate Presidents ·
Delaplace, Barbara, "Freedom", Alternate Kennedys and Alouette 5 ·
Delaplace, Barbara, "The Hidden Dragon", Dragonfantastic ·
Delaplace, Barbara, "Lost Lamb", Whatdunits ·
Delaplace, Barbara, "The Last Sphinx", A Christmas Bestiary ·
Delaplace, Barbara & M. Resnick, "Trading Up", Battlestation, Volume 1 ·
Doctorow, Cory, "Hell, A Cautionary Tale", Pulphouse No. 12/13 ·
Dorsey, Candas Jane, "Death of a Dream", Tesseracts4 ·
Dorsey, Candas Jane, "Living in Cities", ·
Duncan, Dave, "The Others", Tesseracts4 ·
Elflandsson, Galad, "Waiting", Northern Frights ·
Farley, Donna, "Light One Candle", On Spec, Fall 92 ·
Farley, Donna, "The Passing of the Eclipse", Universe 2 ·
Farrant, M.C., "The Children Do Not Yet Know", On Spec, Fall 92 ·
Field, M.W., "Gryphons", Tesseracts4 ·
·
Gardner, James Alan, "Lesser Figures of the Greater
Trumps", The New Quarterly, Winter
92 ·
Gardner, James Alan, "The Reckoning of Gifts", Tesseracts4 ·
Gardner, James Alan, "The Young Person's Guide to the
Organism, Variations and Fugue on a Classical Theme", Amazing, April 92 ·
Girczyc, Catherine, "The Plelades Cat", On Spec, Winter 1992 ·
Gotlieb, Phyllis, "The Newest Profession", ·
Gotlieb, Phyllis, "We Can't Go On Meeting Like This", Tesseracts4 ·
Green, Terence M., "Blue Limbo", ·
Hapon, ·
·
Herbert, Wesley, "Crossroads", On Spec, Fall 92 ·
Huff, Tanya, "Li Shiung", Dragonfantastic ·
Huff, Tanya, "Underground", Northern Frights ·
Hughes, Monica, "The Price of Land", ·
Kapalka, Jason, "Frosty", On Spec, Winter 1992 ·
Kernaghan, Eileen, "Couples", Tesseracts4 ·
Kernaghan, Eileen, "The Tulpa", The Blue Jean Collection ·
Kernaghan, Eileen, "The Weighmaster of Flood", ·
Kilpatrick, ·
Kilpatrick, Nancy, "Farm Wife", Northern Frights ·
Kilpatrick, Nancy, "The Ghoul Next Door", Book of Shadows #4 ·
Kilpatrick, Nancy, "Half a Chance", Fang #4 ·
Kilpatrick, ·
Kilpatrick, ·
Kozinets, Robert L., " ·
MacGregor, Susan, "No Tricks", On Spec, Spring 92 ·
·
Martel, J.R. "Saints", On Spec, Winter 1992 ·
McBride, Sally, "Children in Boxes", On Spec, Fall 92 ·
Meier, Shirley, "The Witches' Tree", Northern Frights ·
Merkel, Cheryl, "Last Run", On Spec, Winter 1992 ·
Meynard, Yves, "Equinox", Tesseracts4 ·
Murphy, Darryl, "Father Time", Tesseracts4 ·
Nelson, J., "Once Upon a Primetime", On Spec, Spring 92 ·
Nickle, David, "The ·
Nickle, David, "Manifestations", Northern Frights ·
Nickle, David & Schroeder, Karl, "The Toy Mill", Tesseracts4 ·
Park, John, "Falconer", Tesseracts4 ·
Reeves-Stevens, Garfield, "Outport", ·
Reeves-Stevens, ·
Sagara, Michelle, "Gifted", Aladdin, Master of the Lamp ·
Sampson, Robert, "The Silver Face", Northern Frights ·
Sawyer, Robert J., "Where the Heart Is", ·
Schroeder, Karl, "Hopscotch", On Spec, Spring 92 ·
Sellers, Peter, "Boogie Man", Northern Frights ·
Smith, Linda, "Changeling", On Spec, Winter 1992 ·
Spencer, Hugh, "Icarus Down/Bear Rising", On Spec, Spring 92 ·
Stanton, Steve, "Perfect Match", On Spec, Spring 92 ·
Stephens, Lorina J., "Sister Sun", On Spec, Fall 92 ·
Stewart, Sean, " ·
·
Taylor, Lucy, "Deer
Season", Northern Frights ·
Teasdale, Michael, "The ·
Trudel, Jean-Louis, "The Falafel is Better in ·
Trudel, Jean-Louis, "Remember, The Dead Say", Tesseracts4 ·
van Belkom, ·
van Belkom, ·
van Belkom, ·
Vonarburg, Élisabeth, "Chambered Nautilus", Tesseracts4 ·
Wehrstein, Karen, "Cold", Northern Frights ·
Weiner, Andrew, "Changes", In Dreams ·
Weiner, Andrew, "The Map", Northern Frights ·
Weiner, Andrew, "A New Man", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 92 ·
Weiner, Andrew, "Seeing", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 92 ·
Weiner, Andrew, "Streak", Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 92 ·
Weiss, Allan, "Ants", Tesseracts4 ·
Wynne-Jones, Timothy, "Time-Shrink", Tesseracts4 Novels and
collections - French language ·
Benoit, François, Carcasses,
Boréal ·
Bergeron, Alain, Le Chant
des Hayats, Paulines ·
Bossus, Francis, Quand la
mort est au bout, Pierre Tisseyre ·
Brochu, André, L'Esprit
ailleurs, XYZ Éditeur ·
Broehu, Yvon, On n'est pas
des monstres, Québec/Amérique ·
Carpentier, André, Carnet
sur la fin possible d'un monde, XYZ Éditeur ·
·
Fontaine, Clément, Drôle
d'Halloween, Pierre Tisseyre ·
Fontaine, Clément, Merveilles
au pays d'Alice, Pierre Tisseyre ·
Foueher, Jacques, Les Secrets
de l’ultra-sonde, Boréal ·
Gauthier, Philippe, Le
Destin de Qader, Paulines ·
Gélinas, Isabelle, Le Mystère
du Marloland, Fides ·
Goupil, Mylène, Le Détonnateur,
Fides ·
Lazure, Jacques, Pellicule-cités,
Québec/Amérique ·
Lebugle, André, La Chasse
aux vampires, Héritage ·
Marillac, Alain, La Loi du
miroir, Hurtubise HMH ·
Marillac, Alain, Le Mur des
volontés, Hurtubise HMH ·
Marois, Carmen, Un dragon
dans la cuisine, Québec/Amérique ·
Péan, Stanley, Sombres Allées,
CIDIHCA ·
Pelletier, Francine, La
Saison de l'Exil, Paulines ·
Pelletier, Francine, Le
Septième Écran, Paulines ·
Pouliot, Luc, Le Voyage des
chats, Paulines ·
Risco, Anton, Hippogrife,
VLB Éditeur ·
Rochon, Esther, L' Ombre et
le cheval, Paulines ·
Sernine, Daniel, ·
Somain, Jean-François, Le
Baiser des étoiles, Hurtubise HMH ·
Tremblay, Sylvaine, Nécessaires,
L'instant même ·
Vallières, Alain, Le Cité
d'Atéra, Éd. du Rocher blanc ·
Vonarburg, Élisabeth, Chroniques
du Pays des Mères, Québec/Amérique Short work -
French language ·
Aquin, Emmanuel, "Le Spasme de mourir", Stop 125 ·
Ayotte,Marie-Josée, "Confidence", Le Sabord 30 ·
Baillargeon, Michéle, "Bonsaï ", imagine... 59 ·
Barcelo, François, "Une histoire de marde pour en finir avec
les histoires de ...", Longues
histoires courtes ·
Barcelo, François, "Tous des imbéciles", Longues histoires courtes ·
Beaulieu, Natasha, "Le Milliriard", Solaris 100 ·
Begin, Marc-Élian, "Romance galactique", Le Polyscope ·
Bélil, Michel, "Le Jardinier servant", imagine... 59 ·
Bergeron, Alain, "Nymphea", Solaris 99 ·
Bilodeau, Louis, "Yggdrasil", imagine... 59 ·
Bizier, Yves, "Jardins d'antan", imagine... 59 ·
Bussus, Francis, "Quand la mort est au bout", Quand la mort est au bout ·
Bossus, Francis, "Le Temps du sculpteui", Quand la mort est au bout ·
Bossus, Francis, "Le propriétaire, la vine et la
poussiére", Quand la mort est au
bout ·
Bouchard, Guy, "Au jeu", imagine... 60 ·
Brochu, André, "La Berlue", L'Esprit ailleurs ·
Brochu, André, "L'Entretemps", L'Esprit ailleurs ·
Brochu, André, "Le Divin Âge", L'Esprit ailleurs ·
Cadot, Richard, "Night Life", Solaris 102 ·
Champetier, Joël, "Anciennes cicatrices", imagine... 59 ·
Champetier, Joël, "Luckenbach, les mathématiques et autres
dangers de Montréal", Solaris
100 ·
Champetier, Joël, "Petite peste", Par Chemins inventes ·
Chatillon, Pierre, "Edmond Verneuil", Écrits du Canada 74 ·
Chatillon, ·
Cliche, Marie, "La Robe blanche", Moebius 54/55 ·
Côté, Harold, "Le Projet", Solaris 101 ·
Daneau, Maxime, "La Classe mystérieuse", Le Polyscope ·
Delagrave, Éric, "Le Reve du hérisson", imagine... 59 ·
Desgroseillers, J. F., "Parfum d'insomnie", Le Polyscope ·
Désy, Jean, "Rencontre avec un sale type", imagine... 59 ·
Dion, Jean, "Base de négociation", Solaris 101 ·
Dussault, Danielle, "Mea Culpa", Le Sabord 30 ·
·
Foëx, Evelyne, "Aprés-midi d'octobre", Solaris 102 ·
Gaudreau, David, "Il mange avec les loupe", Le Polyscope ·
Juteau, Monique, "Pandanus...", Le Sabord 31 ·
Kleinberg, Carl, "Dégénérer", Solaris 31 ·
Langlois, Stéphane, "Résurrection", Solaris 102 ·
Leroux, Hélène, "Le Numéro de Bonsaï Noire", imagine... 59 ·
Lord, Denis, "Manuscrit trouvé dans un coffre à gants", Stop 125 ·
Lord, Michel, "La Légende Doré", XYZ 30 ·
Marcel, Jean, "Bonsaï", imagine... 59 ·
Martin, Michel, "Un temps pour mourir", imagine... 60 ·
McAllister, Laurent, "Le Pierrot diffracté", Solaris 99 ·
Meynard, Yves, "Le convoyeur d’âmes", Par Chemins inventes ·
Meynard, Yves & Élisabeth Vonarburg, "Chanson pour une
siréne", Solaris 100 ·
Michaud, Nando, "à la recherche du temps perçu", Stop 125 ·
Michaud, Nando, "Inside jogg", Stop 125 ·
Millet, Pascal, "Au-delà de la borne trente", imagine... 60 ·
Morin, Hugues, "L'Étrange monsieur W", Solaris 102 ·
Parent, Denis, "Le Train de 6 heures", Le Sabord 30 ·
Péan, Stanley, "Caméléon", L'écrit primal 12 ·
Péan, ·
Pellerin, Gilles, "En ligne", Le Sabord 31 ·
Pelletier, Francine, "La Collection Galloway", Solaris 101 ·
Pelletier, Francine, "Un bateau sur le fleuve", Par Chemins inventés ·
Petit, Robert, "La Sylve maudite", imagine... 59 ·
Pettigrew, Jean, "Le Glaï eul noir" (1/2/3/4/5), Le Journal de Québec ·
Pigeon, Daniel, "So danço samba", Le Sabord 32 ·
Pouvreau, Alain, "La Dame aux petite cailloux", Le Polyscope ·
Sernine, Daniel, "Pluies amères", Solaris 100 ·
Sernine, Daniel, "Le Van psychédélique à voyager dans le
temps", Par Chemins inventés ·
Trudel, Jean-Louis, "Lee Instincteurs de cruauté", Solaris 102 ·
Trudel, Jean-Louis, "Report 323: A Quebecois Infiltration
Attempt", Solaris 101 ·
Vonarburg, Élisabeth, "Initiatiques", Liberté ·
Vonarburg, Élisabeth, "Suspends ton vol", Solaris 99 1991 Novels and collections - English language ·
Bums, Cliff, Sex and Other
Acts of the Imagination, Burns ·
de Lint, Charles, The Little
Country, Morrow ·
de Lint, Charles, Our Lady
of the Harbour, Pulphouse/Axolotl ·
de Lint, Charles, Ghost of
Wind & Shadow, Pulphouse/Axolotl ·
·
Duncan, Dave, Hero!,
Ballantine/Del Rey ·
Duncan, Dave, Perilous Seas,
Ballantine/Del Rey ·
George, Stephen, The
Foresaken, Zebra ·
Henighan, Tom, Strange
Attractors, Beach Holme ·
Huff, Tanya, Blood Price,
DAW ·
Manguel, Alberto, Black
Water #2: More Tales of the Fantastic (editor), Lester & Orpen
Dennys ·
Meier, Shirley, Shadow's
Daughter, Baen ·
Meier, Shirley & Stirling, S.M. & Wehrstein, Karen, Shadow's Son, Baen ·
Reeves-Stevens, Judith & Garfield, Nightfeeder, Penguin RoC ·
Reynolds, Susan Lynn, Strandia,
HarperCollins ·
Robinson, Spider, Kill the
Editor, Axolotl ·
Robinson, Spider & Jeanne, Starseed,
Ace ·
Rosenberg, Joel, Not For
Glory, Penguin/RoC ·
Rosenberg, Joel, The Road to
Evehnor, Penguin/RoC ·
Russell, Sean, The Initiate
Brother, DAW ·
Sagara, Michelle, Into the
Dark Lands, Ballantine/Del Rey ·
Spears, Heather, Moonfall,
Beach Holme/Tesseract ·
·
·
·
·
Swithin, Anthony, Lords of
the Stoney Mountains ·
Wehrstein, Karen, Lion's
Heart, Baen ·
Wehrstein, Karen, Lion's
Soul, Baen ·
Short work - English
language ·
Armstrong-Jones, Lynne, "The Gift", Leroni of Darkover ·
Armstrong-Jones, Lynne, "Lesson in the Foothills", Renunciates of Darkover ·
Axline, A.J., "The Dark Terror of Fifi", On Spec, Fall, 1991 ·
·
Buckner, Brent, "Flesh and Blood", On Spec, Summer 1991 ·
daSilva, Humberto, "Eyes Only: Transcript: The Debriefing of
Corporal Harvey C. Rain on the Ecuador Messiah Incident", On Spec, Spring 1991 ·
de Lint, Charles, "The Boys of Goose Hill", Author's Choice #22 ·
deMeuelles, Richard, "Betrayal of the Sun", On Spec, Spring 1991 ·
Farley, Donna, "Astronomical Odds", On Spec, Fall, 1991 ·
Fogliatti, Beth, "Once a Knight is Enough", On Spec, Fall, 1991 ·
Foster, Dot, "Side Effects", On Spec, Summer 1991 ·
Gadallah, Leslie, "The Butterfly Effect", On Spec, Spring 1991 ·
·
·
Grant, Glenn, "Storm Surge", Interzone, April 1991 ·
Huff, Tanya, "Be It Ever So Humble", Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine,
Winter 1991 ·
Kilpatrick, Nancy, "The Shaft", Standing Stone #3, April 1991 ·
Kingsbury, Donald, "The Survivor", Man-Kzin Wars IV ·
MacLeod, Catherine, "The Day Before Never", On Spec, Spring 1991 ·
Markel, Cheryl, "Dreams in Darkness", On Spec, Summer 1991 ·
McBride, Sally, "Softlinks", On Spec, Spring 1991 ·
Meynard, Yves, "Stolen Fires", Edge Detector, Spring 1991 ·
Murphy, M.J., "In the Train of the King", On Spec, Spring 1991 ·
Songster, Hazel, "At My Chamber Door", On Spec, Fall 1991 ·
Scott, K., "Water", On
Spec, Summer 1991 ·
Skeet, Michael, "Pushing Buttons", On Spec, Fall 1991 ·
Snyder, ·
Snyder, ·
Spencer, Hugh, "Why I Hunt Flying Saucers", On Spec, Fall 1991 ·
Steinhouse, Herbert, "The Cool Bool Machine", On Spec, Spring 1991 ·
·
van Belkom, ·
van Belkom, ·
van Belkom, ·
van Belkom, ·
van Belkom, ·
Walton, Diane L., "Best Damn Cheesecake in the
Universe", On Spec, Summer
1991 Novels and
collections - French language ·
April, Jean-Pierre, N'ajustes
pas vos hallucinettes, Québec/Amérique ·
April, Jean-Pierre, Chocs
baroques, BQ ·
Aquin, Emmanuel, Dé incarnations,
Boréal ·
Arnau, Yves, Laurence, Pierre
Tisseyre ·
Beaumier, Jean-Paul, Petites
lâchetés, L'instant même ·
Berthisume, André, Presqu'îles
dans la ville, XYZ Éditeur ·
Bessette, Camille, Le
Complice du retour impossible, Fides ·
Bouchard, Camille, L'Empire
chagrin, Héritage ·
Champetier, Joël, La Requète
de Barrad, Paulines/Jeunesse-Pop ·
Champetier, Joël, La Taupe
et le dragon, Québec/Amérique ·
Champetier, Joël, La
Prisonnièr de Barrad, Paulines/Jeunesse-Pop ·
Châtillon, Pierre, L'Atlantidean,
Héritage ·
Chevette, Christiane et Cossette, Danielle, Camille et Dominique prises au piège, Fides ·
Corriveau, Hugues, Autours
des gores, L'instant même ·
Côté, Denis, Terminus
cauchemar, La courte échelle ·
Côté, Denis, Les Yeux d’Émeraude,
La courte échelle ·
Dandurand, Anne, Petites âmes
sous ultimatum, XYZ Éditeur ·
Desrosiers, Danièls, Au
secours de Mougalouk, Héritage ·
Dufour, Michel, Passé la
frontière, L'instant même ·
Dupuis-Déri, Francis, L'Erreur
humaine, Leméac ·
Gagnier, Hélène, Les Enfants
de l’eau, Pierre Tisseyre ·
Gauthier, Philippe, Le Château
de fer, Paulines/Jeunesse-Pop ·
Goulet, Stella, Mille
baisers, grand-pêre, Héritage ·
Guillet, Jean-Pierre, La
Paradis perdu, Héritage ·
Lachance, Laurent, Ailleurs plutot
que demain/L’Île du Chila-Chila, Héritage ·
Lebugle, André, Les Visiteurs
de minuit, Fides ·
Major, Henriette, La Planète
des enfants, Héritage ·
Marillac, Alain, ·
Marois, Carmen, Le Piano de
Beethoven, Québec/Amérique ·
Montambault, André, Étrangers!,
Logiques ·
Péan, ·
Pelchat, Jean, Le Lever du
corps, L'instant même ·
Pellerin, Gilles, ·
Pelletier, Francine, Des
vacances bizarres, Paulines/Jeunesse-Pop ·
Pelletier, Francine, La Forêt
de métal, Hurtubise HMH ·
Picher, Clermont, Le Signe
de l’étoile, Fides ·
Poiret, Marc, L'Amanach en sorcelé,
Hurtubise HMH ·
Rochon, Esther, Le Piege à
souvenirs, La pleine lone ·
Sanschagrin, Joceline, Mission
audacieuse, La courte échelle ·
Sauriol, Louise-Michelle, S.O.S.
Maya, Hurtubise HMH ·
Sernine, Daniel, À la
recherche de monsieur Goodtheim, Pub. Ianus ·
Sernine, Daniel, Boulevard
des Étoiles, Pub. Ianus ·
Sernine, Daniel, Le Cerele
de Khaleb, Héritage ·
Sernine, Daniel, La
Magicienne bleue, Peirre Tisseyre ·
Sernine, Daniel, Les Rêves d'Argus,
Paulines/Jeunesse-Pop ·
Taggart, Marie-Françoise, Une
affaire de vie ou de mort, Hurtubise HMH ·
Vézina, Miehel, Les Contes
de l’inattendu, Le Loup de gouttière ·
Vidal, Nicole, CH. M. 250 K.,
Hurtubise HMH ·
Vidal, Jean-Pierre, Histoires
cruelles et lamentables, Logiques ·
Vonarburg, Élisabeth, Ailleurs
et au Japon, Québec/Amérique ·
Warnant-Côté, M.-A., Élisabeth
tombé au monde, Héritage ·
Yance, Claude-Emmanuelle, Alchimie
de la douleur, Boréal Short work -
French language ·
April, Jean-Pierre, "Julie Joyal appelle les étoiles", N'ajustez pas vos hallucinettes ·
Bao-Son, Truong, "Un ame attachante", Québec Kaléidoscope ·
Bellefeuille, Natasha, "La Cité de Niba", imagine ... 56 ·
Bedon, Elettra, "Jean a sept ans aujour'hui", imagine ... 55 ·
Ber, André, "Sarmilia", Le Sabord 28 ·
Bergeron, Alain, "Les Jardins de l'Infante", imagine ... 58 ·
Bergeron, Alain, "Rèves d' anges", imagine ... 56 ·
Berthiaume, André, "Elvis Lévis", Presqu'îles dans la ville ·
Berthiaume, André, "Léger retard", Presqu'îles dans la ville ·
Berthisume, André, "L'Ouverture", Presqu'îles dans la ville ·
Berthisume, André, "Paf!", Presqu'îles dans la ville ·
Berthisume, André, "La Vallée des avaleurs", Presqu'îles dans la ville ·
Berthiaume, André, "Le Vieil homme et la lunette", Presqu'îles dans la ville ·
Bertrand, Charles, "Dens l’intervalle", Solaris 95 ·
Bolduc, Claude, "L'Enfer mauve", Bonjour Dimanche, ·
Bolduc, Claude, "Les effluves du passé", Solaris 98 ·
Bouchard, Guy, "La Chute", SOL ·
Bouchard, Guy, "Les Mères", imagine ... 56 ·
Châtillon, ·
Corbeil, ·
Corriveau, Hugues, "Le Crâne de chien", Autour des gores ·
Corriveau, Hugues, "Les Derniers bagages avant le vide",
Autour des gores ·
Corriveau, Hugues, "L'Invité de la dernière heure", Autour des gores ·
Corriveau, Hugues, "Les Messieurs de bordel", Autour des gores ·
Corriveau, Hugues, "Le village près de Göteborg", Autour des gores ·
Dandurand, Anne, "L'insémination du ciel", Petite âmes sous ultimatum ·
Dutrisac, Benoît, "Du coeur au ventre", Sarah, la givrie ·
Kandara, Marie, "La Part des choses", Temps Tôt 13-14 ·
Lamontagne, Michel, "Jusqu'au dernier", imagine ... 55 ·
Lamontagne, Michel, "Ralentir l'ennemi". Solaris 96 ·
Lord, Véronique, "L'Espace d'une vengeance", L'almanach ensoleillé ·
Lotey, Andrée, "Traffic", imagine ... 57 ·
Maritneau, Sylvain, "Le Presque idiot", Solaris 95 ·
Meynard, Yves, "L'Enfant des mondes assoupis", SOL ·
Péan, Stanley, "Athénaïse", Québec Kaléidoscope ·
Pellerin, Gilles, "Érquarrissage", À l'affiche, October 1991 ·
Pettigrew, Jean, "Amours d'un jour", Solaris 95 ·
Renaud, Alix, "Exanoïa", SOL ·
Rochon, Esther, "Les Deux maisons", Les Deux Maisons ·
Sernine, Daniel, "À la recherche de monsieur Goodtheim",
À la recherche de monsieur Goodtheim ·
Sernine, Daniel, "Hôtel Carnivalia", Boulevard des étoiles ·
Sernfine, Daniel, "Néon roses et bleus dans un salon
désert", La Sabord 27 ·
Somain, Jean-François, "Vue de douzième", Solaris 96 ·
Sormany, Pierre, "Les Mondes parallèles d'Everett", SOL ·
Sormany, ·
Tremblay, Richard, "Maternité foire", Solaris 98 ·
Trudel, Jean-Louis, "Les Jeux de la paix et de la
guerre", imagine ... 55 ·
Vonarburg, Élisabeth, "Celles qui vivent au-dessus des
nuages", Moebius 48 ·
Yance, Claude-Emmanuelle, "Les Fenêtres", Le Sabord 28 ADDITIONS TO 1990 CANADIAN FICTION LIST The following
additions to the Canadian Fiction (1990) list, as published in SOL Rising 7
(May 1991) were obtained from various sources. Novels and collections - English language ·
Costello, Sean, The
Cartoonist, Pocket Books ·
Costello, Sean, ·
Day, David, Swan Children,
Doubleday ·
Reeves-Stevens, Garfield, Nighteyes,
Seal/Bantam Spectra ·
Reeves-Stevens, Garfield, Red
Lord: Bloodshift II, Warner ·
Short work - English language ·
Burns, Cliff, "Invisible Boy", Tesseracts3 ·
Champetier, Joël, "The Winds of Time", Tesseracts3 ·
de Lint, Charles, "The Wild Girl", Drabble II-Double Century ·
de Lint, Charles, "Timeskip", Post Mortem ·
Pelletier, Francine, "Guinea Pig", Tesseracts3 ·
Prévost, Claude-Michel, "Happy Days in Old ·
Rochon, Esther, "Canadola", Tesseracts3 ·
Sernine, Daniel, "Only a Lifetime", Tesseracts3 ·
Trudel, Jean-Louis, "Proscripts of Gehenna", Tesseracts3 ·
Vonarburg, Elisabeth, "Cogito", Tesseracts3 ADDITIONS TO 1989 CANADIAN FICTION LIST The following
additions to the Canadian Fiction (1989) list, as published in SOL Rising 6
(November1990) were obtained from various sources. Short work - English language ·
de Lint, Charles, "The Sacred Fire", Stalkers ·
de Lint, Charles, "Timeskip", Post Mortem By John Robert Colombo Last year I published a book called Worlds in Small. It is an anthology
of "mini fictions"...teensy-weensy stories or literary effects
...not one of which amounts to more than fifty words. Indeed, most of the
stories are only a couple of sentences long. Some are only a few words
long. One or two are no words
long. Close to half the 111 selections are
the work of authors of fantastic literature like Ackerman, Bradbury,
Clarke, Heinlein, etc. When the book appeared, some writers praised it for
its novelty. "What a delightful book!" exclaimed Martin Gardner. "It's a real fun anthology," wrote
Mike Ashley. "Much to tease the mind there," suggested Brian W.
Aldiss. I even received a much- treasured letter from Arthur C.
Clarke...from The bugbear of the anthologist is space. There is
never too much of it. I really should release my next anthology as a CD-ROM;
that way I might have room for everything. Here are some "mini
fictions" that do not appear in Worlds
in Small. A number of them are "briefs" that I encountered
months after I had "put the book to bed" (to use the quaint
expression once common in the printing business). "First Drawing" / Vladimir Nabokov ...a newspaper
story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the
first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed bars of the
poor creature's cage. 37 words. "Perhaps Nabokov misremembered a
photograph that appeared in the newspapers that year: a chimpanzee at the "The Sibyl
at I saw the Sibyl at
33 words. "The Sibyl at "In Infinity" / Walter Sullivan Given an infinite number of planets in space or time,
someone, somewhere in infinity, with your name, is sitting in an exact
duplicate of your room, reading these exact words. 30 words. Science columnist
Walter Sullivan is the author of this sentence. It was quoted by Steven
Tyler in Are the Invaders Coming? (1968).
Tyler also repeats the famous expression of the notion of infinite
variation attributed to the astronomer Sir James Jeans: "If an
infinite number of monkeys witlessly pounded an infinite number of
typewriters for an infinite period of time, one monkey must eventually type
out the King James version of the Bible." "The Last
Man on Earth: Variation No. 97" / Forrest J Ackerman The last ma on
Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door. It was the last
pa. 22 words. Readers of this column are assuredly
familiar with Fredric Brown's 17-word class "Knock." Here is a
variation on Brown's "last man" theme; it was composed or
constructed by Forrest J. Ackerman, science-fiction fandom's punster
extraordinare. He had to be talked out of insisting it appear over the
byline "Fred Erik Braun"; instead, it appears as if written by
"Spencer Strong," the pseudonym chosen by Ackerman for this
composition and for yet another variation: "The last earth on man set
a-loam in a room. Dracula's casket." "Private Eye Yarn" / She was tough
and she was sexy. She had a black belt in karate, and that's all she wore. 19 words. "I hereby offer you the two sentences,
total of 19 words, that were all I ever wrote when
I attempted a Private Eye yarn about 40 years ago. I felt that anything I
could ever add would seem an anti-climax, so I prudently left the opus
unfinished ....As usual, the story opened with the arrival of an alluring
client in the shamus's shabby office." So wrote veteran journalist and
broadcaster Clyde Gilmour; a veteran musicologist as well, Gilmour did not
resist compareing (or contrasting) his "opus" with Schubert's so-called
"Unfinished Symphony. " "High-Concept Movie" / Jack Eberts Lethal Weapon:
blacklwhite buddy police story, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, drugs ring, boom. 14 words. A high-concept movie is one that may be
described to the trade in a few words; many words are required to convey
the characters of a low-concept movie. This description of a high-concept
movie appears in Jack Eberts's My
Indecision Is Final: The Rise and
Fall of Goldcrest Films (London: Faber & Faber, 1990) written with
Terry Ilott. "The Computer
Story" / Unknown Man to Computer:
Is there a God? Computer to Man: There is now. 13 words (6 of directions, 7 words of dialogue). No
one can now remember where this so-called computer story first appeared; it
seems that it was popular among science-fiction readers in the late 1950s
and early 1960s when the noun computer was yet to be modified by the
adjective personal. The bulky, room-sized machines glowed with vacuum tubes
and sported names like ENIAC and, inevitably, MANIAC. "It is the
shortest science-fiction tale I recall," noted Gotlieb, poet and
science-fiction writer, in May 1992. "Recipe for
Detecting Life on Mars" / Linda Sagan Add water. 2 words (plus 6-word title). "But there is a way
to test these ideas. One way the hypothetical Martian organisms would know
that the precessional spring has arrived is by the reappearance of liquid
water. Therefore, as Linda Sagan has mentioned, the recipe for detecting
life on Mars is 'Add water.' And this is just what the U.S. Viking biology
experiments, scheduled to land on Mars in 1976 and search for microbes,
will do.''- Carl Sagan in The Cosmic
Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (New York: A Dell Book,
1975). John Robert
Colombo, known as the Master Gatherer, has recently edited two collections,
The Mystery
of the Shaking Tent and Walt
Whitman's Public Lending
Right in Jeopardy By Robert J. Sawyer This month, a total of 6.9 million dollars was
disbursed to 8,393 Canadian authors by the Public Lending Right Commission
as compensation for revenues lost by those authors in 1992 because of free
library circulation of the 37,000 books they had written. The PLR system works like this: each year, authors
register with the Commission the titles of the books they've had published.
The Commission then chooses at random ten mid-sized libraries from coast to
coast, and checks their card catalogs. If at least one copy of a given
title shows up in a library, the author gets one share of that year's PLR
money. If all ten libraries have copies, the author gets ten shares for
that title. Authors can collect revenues for all the books they've
authored, but the maximum an author can collect in total is 100 shares. Then the annual Government grant to the PLR program is
simply divided by the number of share claims to produce the share value.
This year it was $43.70. So, if an author had written three books, one of
which had shown up in six out of ten libraries, and two of which had shown
up in four libraries a piece, he or she would have earned 14 shares, or
$611.80. The PLR program was founded in 1986, after intensive lobbying
by The Writers' Union of Canada and other organizations. At that time, the
Federal government committed to ongoing funding of it. However, the
government is now reneging on its commitment. Based on projected growth rate (more titles are
registered each year, of course, and new authors join the program) and the
government's recent 10% funding cut to the Canada Council (which operates
the PLR Commission), average cheques for 1993 will be 18% smaller than the
ones that just went out. Even if there are no further cuts, cheques for
1994 will be down a further 8 %, and for 1995, they'll be reduced yet
another 8%. That means for every $100 of PLR payments an author
got for 1992, he or she will receive only $69 in 1995. More: the maximum
per-author payout will drop by over $1,200 — from $4,370 for 1992 to
just $3,032 for 1995. The PLR Commission is a model of government
efficiency. Only 5.84% of its budget is spent on administration (including
the two annual mailings to authors and the actual inventorying of
libraries); everything else is disbursed directly to Canadian writers. The person responsible for the
cuts in PLR payments is We all get great pleasure out of the Merril
Collections holdings. It's wholly appropriate for the friends of a library
to want to make sure that the writers whose works stock that library
continue to be compensated for their materials available in it. I urge all members of The Friends of the Merril
Collection to make this an issue during this election year. Please send a
short personal note to Messrs. Beatty and Mulroney, with a copy to your own
Member of Parliament, protesting the reduction in PLR funding. Please write to either or both of: Hon. Perrin Beatty, Minister of Communications or The
Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of House of Commons KlA OA6 Robert J. Sawyer
is the Canadian Regional Director of Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of
America, Inc. Awards for 1990 and 1991 Fiction 1992 The
1992 Aurora Awards for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy of 1991, were awarded at CANVENTION 12 in Best Long‑form Work In
English
Other
Nominees
Best Short Work in English
(tie)
Other
Nominees
Meilleur Livre en Français
Other
Nominees
Meilleur Nouvelle en Français
Other
Nominees
1991 The
1991 Aurora Awards for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy of 1990, were awarded at CANVENTION 11 in Best Long‑form
Work in English
Other Nominees
Best Short Work In English ·
"Muffin Explains Teleology to the World", James Alan
Gardner Other Nominees ·
"Wolfrunner", Mary Choo ·
"The Fair in Emain Macha', Charles de Lint ·
"Freewheeling", Charles de Lint ·
"Eternity, Baby", Andrew Weiner Meilleur Livre en Franqais ·
Histoire de la Princesse et du
Dragon, Élisabeth
Vonarburg Other Nominees ·
L'Oiseau de feu (2A), Jacques Brossard ·
Le Mâitre de Chicken Itza, Vincent Chabot ·
La Mer au fond du monde, Joël Champetier ·
L'Espace du diamant, Esther Rochon ·
Nuits blémes, Daniel Sernine Meilleur Nouvelle en Français
Other Nominees
1991 NEBULA AWARDS The
1991 Nebula Awards for the best science fiction of 1991 were awarded by the
Science Fiction Writers of America. Best Novel ·
Stations of the Tide, Michael Swanwick Other Nominees ·
Orbital Resonance, John Barnes ·
Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold ·
Bone Dance, Emma Bull ·
Synners, Pat Cadigan ·
The Difference Engine, William Gibson & Bruce
Sterling Best Novella ·
Beggars in Other Nominees ·
"Man Opening a Door", Paul Ash ·
Apartheid, Superstrings, and
Mordecai Thubana, Michael Bishop ·
Bully!, Mike Resnick ·
The Gallery of HisDreams, Kristine Kathryn Rusch ·
"Jack", Connie Willis Best Novelette
Other Nominees ·
"Gate of Faces" ,Ray Aldridge ·
"Black Glass", Karen Joy fowler ·
"Standing in Line With Mr. Jimmy", James Patrick Kelly ·
"The Happy Man", Jonathan Lethem ·
"The All-Consuming", Lucius Shepard & Robert Frazier ·
"Getting Real", Susan Shwartz Best Short Story ·
"Ma Qui", Alan Brennert Other Nominees ·
"They're Made Out of Meat", Terry Bisson ·
"The Dark", Karen Joy Fowler ·
·
"Dog's Life", Martha Soukup ·
"the button, and what you know", W. Gregory Stewart 1990 NEBULA AWARDS The
1990 Nebula Awards for the best science fiction of 1990 were awarded by the
Science Fiction Writers of America. Best Novel ·
Tehanu: The Last Book of
Earthsea, Ursula
K. Leguin Other Nominees ·
Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin ·
Only Begotten Daughter, James Morrow ·
The Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons ·
Redshift Rendezvous, John E. Stith ·
White Jenna, Jane Yolen Best Novella
Other Nominees
Best Novelette ·
" Other Nominees ·
"The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed
Novelby Mr. Skunk", Dafydd ab Hugh ·
"The Shobies' Story", Ursula K. Le Guin ·
"1/72nd Scale", Ian MacLeod ·
"The Manamouki", Mike Resnick ·
"A Time For Every Purpose", Kristine Kathryn Rusch ·
"Loose Cannon", Susan Shwartz ·
"Over the Long Haul", Martha Soukup Best Short Story ·
"Bears Discover Fire", Terry Bisson Other Nominees ·
"The Power and the Passion", Pat Cadigan ·
"Lieserl", Karen Joy Fowler ·
"Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates", Pat Murphy ·
"Before I Wake", Kim Stanley Robinson ·
"Story Child", Kristine Kathryn Rusch 1992 HUGO AWARDS The
1992 Hugo Awards were presented by the members of MagiCon, the World
Science Fiction Convention held in Best Novel
Other Nominees
Best Novella ·
Beggars in Other Nominees ·
"And Wild For To Hold", Nancy Kress ·
The Gallery of His Dreams, Kristine Kathryn Rusch ·
·
"Jack", Connie Willis Best Novelette
Other Nominees
Best Short Story ·
"A Walk in the Sun", Geoffrey A. Landis Other Nominees ·
"Press Ann", Terry Bisson ·
" ·
"One Perfect Morning, With Jackals", Mike Resnick ·
"Winter Solstice", Mike Resnick ·
"Dog's Life", Martha Soukup ·
"In the Late Cretaceous", Connie Willis 1991 HUGO AWARDS The
1991 Hugo Awards were presented by the members of ChiCon V, the World
Science Fiction Convention held in Best Novel
Other
Nominees
Best Novella
Other Nominees
Best Novelette ·
"The Manamouki", Mike Resnick Other Nominees ·
" ·
"The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed
Novel by Mr. Skunk", Dafydd ab Hugh ·
"A Braver Thing", Charles Sheffield ·
"Over the Long Haul", Martha Soukup Best Short Story
Other Nominees
1992 WORLD FANTASY AWARDS The
1992 World Fantasy Awards for the best fantasy of 1991 were presented at
the World Fantasy Convention in Best Novel
Other Nominees
Best Novella ·
"The Ragthome", Robert Holdstock & Garry Kilworth Other Nominees ·
"Gwidion and the Dragon", C.J. Cherryh ·
Our Lady of the Harbour, Charles de Lint ·
The Gallery of His Dreams, Kristine Kathryn Rusch ·
"To Become a Sorceror", Darrell Schweitzer ·
"The Pavilion of Frozen Women", S.P. Somtow Best Short Story ·
"The Somewhere Doors", Fred Chappell Other Nominees ·
"The Better Boy", James P. Blaylock & Tim Powers ·
"The Conjure Man", Charles de Lint ·
"Pity the Monsters", Charles de Lint 1991 WORLD FANTASY AWARDS The
1991 World Fantasy Awards for the best fantasy of 1990 as presented at the
World Fantasy Convention held in Best Novel (tie)
Other Nominees
Best Novella
Other Nominees
Best Short Fiction ·
"A Midsummer Night's Dream", Neil Gaiman & Charles
Vess Other Nominees ·
"Bears Discover Fire", Terry Bisson ·
"The Last Feast of Harlequin", Thomas Ligotti ·
"Stephen", Elizabeth Massie
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