News Notes

On the Cover!

If you look closely at the picture of the new edition of James Hogan's Voyage from Yesteryear you'll see a change from the copy you probably have in your library. As far as we know, this is the first time that the Prometheus Award has been mentioned on the cover of a book, though it was printed on the dust-jacket of F. Paul Wilson's An Enemy of the State. This new edition of Voyage seems to be in most bookstores now.

Smith's New Contract

Postal service allowing, L. Neil Smith will be getting a five-figure contract in the mail from Bluebird Books. Bluebird Chief Jim Frenkel, who is Joan Vinge's husband, has asked Smith to write a non-confederacy book called The Crystal Empire. This will be Smith's biggest contract, he says. Congratulations, Neil!

Free Space

The FREELAND II, New Free Country Conference, to be held Saturday May 12, 1984, in Long Beach, California, is now selling tickets by mail. Poul Anderson and Gary Hudson are featured speakers, and other talks will be given on free countries in space, how to achieve privacy, floating cities, and space law and private property. Send for information to FREELAND, P.O. Box 4, Fullerton, CA 92632.

Grossberg Found

For all of you that have been trying to reach Michael Grossberg, he is working as a reporter for a California newspaper, and he will be handling LFS outreach for the 1984 Worldcon in Los Angeles. For all other LFS business, he requests that it be handled through the editor of this newsletter at the newsletter address. Michael's home address is: 15524 Tonekai, Apt. C, Apple Valley, CA 92307.