Data Dump 100+; Summaries of all issues of 'Data Dump' SF Newsleter from issue 100

DATA DUMP 100+
Summaries of all issues of 'Data Dump' SF Newsletter from issue 100
DATA DUMP (ISSN 1359 2 041) - A Newsletter of SF Poetry
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DATA DUMP 101
A typed 8 page summary of the previous 100 Data Dumps! Also, (still) unanswered questions from previous issues and a list of American and Canadian SF poets, who've been published in the UK.
DATA DUMP 102
Includes a list of small press mags that have survived after 30 years, a fine bit of pith from Mike Johnson, John M. Ford obituary, an article on SF music and opera, and a plug for a Hawkwind release in the margin!
DATA DUMP 103
Thought-quotes, Dune & Norstrilia, string theory, Nigel Kneale/Quatermass, and SF (opera-free) music continued. Plus, Viking ghosts!
DATA DUMP 104
More on Nigel Kneale. A.C. Evans featured, and lots of reviews, including one of Cardinal Cox's Old Scarlett's Book Of Impracticle Bats.
DATA DUMP 105
Features on poet John Heath-Stubbs, classic remints - Homer (the Greek writer, not the yella fella) treatments, and more Genre Music examples.
DATA DUMP 106
Data Dump Award '07 Nominations, a Pope's penis poem, and Purple People Eater.
DATA DUMP 107
Data Dump Award '07 Short List, Lee Hoffman obituary, W.H. Auden and William Blake anniversaries, Edgar Allan Poe as a character.
DATA DUMP 108
Data Dump Award '07 - Winner, 2nd, 3rd Places announced (see below). Not forgetting The Cosmographs, and that "Newton among poets", Percy Bysshe Shelley.
DATA DUMP 109
John Milton, William Shakespeare, Star*Line, The Burglars's Bone, Bokonon, Goldilocks planet discovery!
DATA DUMP 110
Bardathon, John Francis Haines reviews The Tempest, Hawkwind: Do Not Panic review, and Are Nursery Rhymes DF article?
DATA DUMP 111
The Return of Merlin, the Total Lunar Eclipse of March, '07, Review of Cardinal Cox's The Night Land, and Sunra Recordings.
DATA DUMP 112
Spanish Ignotus Awards, In The Egg poem, The Seven Hills Of Earth, Irish king Sweeney, and the first live music in space revealed!
DATA DUMP 113
This Way Up mourned, Worst Poem in the English Language, Half-Demon, Half-Elf, nappy wearing astronaut incident!
DATA DUMP 114
Free verse werewolves, Aurore Australe, A Collection of Collaborative Poetry reviews, Beowulf's dragon, and Siouxsie Sioux's dad milked snakes revelation!
DATA DUMP 115
A Q and A special with Drew Morse, this issue also includes a list of important SFanzines and SFanzine poets pf the 1930s to 1960s. Plus, Annals Of Arkya article.
DATA DUMP 116
Foods Out There, Novels Embedding Poetry, oddest Data Dump SF poetry factoid ever?!
DATA DUMP 117
John Cage pithy Thought-Quote Extra, review of Cardinal Cox's Sowerberry Harvest, and H. P. Lovecraft inspired music.
DATA DUMP 118
Derek Pickles tribute, Beowulf bonanza, Your Own Ghosts and Vespula Vanishes reviews.
DATA DUMP 119
Newton & The Striking Apple review, Americana, Robert Mannyng, Beowulfing on!
DATA DUMP 120
Interesting facts about William Blake's lack of success in his lifetime (a genius ahead of his time is a recurring theme in literature, art, and music, of course), Peter Ackroyd's Poe: A Life Cut Short review, Data Dump 2008 Award Preliminary Selections, Hawkfan mag review, Gilgamesh, William "the sadly neglected" Dearden, the eccentric John Whiteside Parsons, and a summary of The Observer Book Of Space list of Top 10 songs about space - a very contentious list of space songs from the rock era.
DATA DUMP 121
Fascinating bibliography by Drew Morse on genre poetry in 1930s US fanzines.
DATA DUMP 122
Data Dump 2008 Award Short List, reviews of the anthology Fantaverse and Edwin Morgan's From Saturn To Glasgow. Arthur C. Clarke, Ken Slater, Lee Hoffman remembered.
DATA DUMP 123
Data Dump 2008 Award - Winner, 2nd, 3rd Places announced (see below). Early 1940s Nepenthe magazine (issues 1 & 2), The Atlantean - Collected, Fairtyale Graveyard reviews. Curious Kurt Vonnegut info.
DATA DUMP 124
Simone B. Heaney's Beowulf, Elsewhen Unbound trail of poetry in early US Sfanzines, John Brunner, Flights From The Iron Moon (Hilltop Press) now available from efanzines.com.
DATA DUMP 125
Orpheus & Eurydice bonanza, Cardinal Cox's The Shaver Mysteries reviewed, Jack Speer obit. Fascinating theories - Gilgamesh not the oldest epic, and stars, planets, and the Moon making music only departing souls can hear. Also, Rupert Brooke's love potion no. 9...
DATA DUMP 126
Jack Speer's Konan reviewed, detailed Thomas M. Disch appreciation/obituary, '79 Futurama Festival, (rock band) Queen Metropolis link, Rupert Brooke topped by American blue man!
DATA DUMP 127
William Blake, The Tempest, Old Rossum's Book Of Practical Robots review, and a review of Cardinal Cox's The Devil's Own Music.
DATA DUMP 128
"The Raven Had Bart's Head On" is an inspired opening headline! Duane Ackerson's From Tedium To Terror article in Star*Line analysed, a snatch of Romanian SF poetry, Frankenstein - Peter Ackroyd style, Sunk Mambo review.
DATA DUMP 129
Review of special 75th issue of Handshake, Cardinal Cox's memories of Metropolis - The Musical, summary of 1929 sci-fi horror movie, High Treason. Plus, Faust, Faust, and more Faust!
DATA DUMP 130
Chigger update, reviews of Cardinal Cox's Memento Mori and Atlantean's The Bards Series #21- Sally Richards. Cardinal Cox reviews Michael Daugherty's Philadelphia Stories - UFO, and there's an article on SF novels with music.
DATA DUMP 131
This issue features a Thomas M. Disch obituary, John Milton, More & More Of His Neighbours' Houses, and Fiddler On Titan.
DATA DUMP 132
Edgar Allan Poe in space, genre epic poems in English, Hilltop Press stalwart Harry (H.E.) Turner obituary, 25 years of BBR.
DATA DUMP 133
Data Dump 2009 Award Preliminary Selections, lengthy review of Suzette Haden Elgin's Twenty-One Novel Poems.
DATA DUMP 134
Data Dump 2009 Award Short List, Ursula Le Guin's 80th birthday remembered, Elaine Cochrane's overview of the work of Dan Simmons analysed.
DATA DUMP 135
Data Dump 2009 Award - Winner, 2nd, 3rd Places announced (see below). Tolkien poems, review of Frontier Of Going.
DATA DUMP 136
J. G. Ballard obituary, Lionel & Patricia Fanthorpe, Aldebaran (Atlantean's The Bards Series #74) review, vembletroon poem form explained.
DATA DUMP 137
Emperors Of Dreams by S.T. Doshi, Favourite Constellations, John Brunner's Stand On Zanzibar reviews. James Kirkup and Arthur Langley Searles obituaries.
DATA DUMP 138
Reviews of A Prehistory Of Mind by Brian Aldiss, Moondust - The Album, and Tributes & Admiration. The vembletroon poem form unmasked.
DATA DUMP 139
A Data Dump special on long-running American SF journal Fantasy Commentator.
DATA DUMP 140
Charles Darwin dominates, and there's also an interesting piece on space-related music.
DATA DUMP 141
Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe anniversaries remembered. Reviews of Margaret Atwood's God's Gardeners and Algis Budrys' Michaelmas. Spinal Tap get a mention for their glorious 25 years together, as do Neil Young and David Bowie - for having had spiders named after them. This DD has golden nuggets galore of fascinating info!
DATA DUMP 142
42s of significance, reviews of Cardinal Cox's The Mysteries Of Nightmare Abbey and On Science anthology, and, poignantly, mention of BBC Radio 7's broadcast of Dr. Who's Horror Of Glam Rock, featuring late Boyzone singer Stephen Gately as Tommy Tomorrow.
DATA DUMP 143
Seamus Heaney is modern rhyming slang for bikini reveals this issue of DD! Also - Beowulfiana, Necronomicons.
DATA DUMP 144
Robert P. Holdstock and Eric Ratcliffe obituaries, lots on Hawkwind, and info on where The Icicle Works and Sweet Billy Pilgrim got their names from!
DATA DUMP 145
Meteors (including return of Gilgamesh), Return Of Inescapable B (Beowulf, of course!), Janet Fox obituary, In The Telling anthology review, and Queen's sci-fi tracks!
DATA DUMP 146
Yet more Beowulf! Sun Ra, 5th Annual Data Dump (2010) Awards Nominations, review of The Slayer Of Souls by Robert W. Chambers. And... Christopher Lee does metal!
DATA DUMP 147
Reviews of Robert Hold's Ysobel's Last Song, Andrew Jordan's Josian In Ermonie, Cardinal Cox's Carrion Crimson, and Walter de la Mare's Henry Broken. Data Dump Awards Short List, and The Goons' tribute to Sputnik!
DATA DUMP 148
Data Dump 2010 Award - Winner, 2nd, 3rd Places announced (see below). SARM awarded Galileo. Cardinal Cox reviews Gong's 2032 and Michael Dougherty & the Nashville Symphony Orchestra's Metropolis Symphony.
DATA DUMP 149
K.V. Bailey's Postmodern Playtime examined, Cardinal Cox reports on the launch of Stanza Press. Oulipo's half century, Peter Porter obituary, Hawkwind at the BBC in 1972, the inspiration for The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's I'm The Urban Spaceman revealed, and Buzz Aldrin does a cha cha!
DATA DUMP 150
19 years in the making, issue 150 of Data Dump features the main man himself, Beowulf, a fascinating article on 'curious and curiouser' verse forms, and an interesting article by A.C. Evans on diverse music with sci-fi links - some a tad tenuous!
DATA DUMP 151
Squid extravaganza, and very interesting Genre Music section in this one.
DATA DUMP 152
Gnepping fest, review of Cardinal Cox's engagingly titled Codex Cthulhapalooza, UFO music, and Cardinal Cox reviews Hawkwind's Blood of the Earth and Imagined Village's Empire & Love.
DATA DUMP 153
Review of Blair H. Allen's Early Poems 1966-82 and Boy's Own Rocket Science anthology. Genre Music extra features the true star of the 2010 World Cup - Paul the Psychic Octopus!
DATA DUMP 154
Edwin Morgan tribute special. Century of the Manikin author E C Tubb's demise also recognised.
DATA DUMP 155
Jabberwocky translations, and the weirdest Genre Music column yet!
DATA DUMP 156
Reviews of Cardinal Cox's Black Sands, White Rock and The Phantom of Truth anthology. Captain Beefheart obituary, plus, A.C. Evans 'exposes' H.P. Lovebox.
DATA DUMP 157
Dr. Who, Uranus Genre Music mentions aplenty. Reviews of Cardinal Cox's Codex Dagon and The Last Refuge by Russell Jones.
DATA DUMP 158
6th Annual Data Dump (2011) Awards Nominations. The terrifying news that William Shatner is recording a metal album, with space as its theme, is revealed. Queen's Brian May will be a partner in musical crime. Review of Michael Ward's Planet Narnia by Steve Jeffery, and Steve Sneyd reviews Rats Live on No Evil Star by Robert Coles.
DATA DUMP 159
Reviews of Les Merton's Dreckly and Cardinal Cox's The Rock Show 2: The Music of the Spheres and Other Earthy Verse. Data Dump Awards Short List 2011.
DATA DUMP 160
Data Dump 2011 Award - Winner, 2nd, 3rd Places announced (see below). Yuri Gagarin remembered, 50 years on from being the first man in space. Purple Patch editor Geoff Stevens revelation, and an extensive review of Wendy Webb's Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained. Also a review of a poetry and photos anthology of the 2011 partial solar eclipse.
DATA DUMP 161
Reviews of Cardinal Cox's Lundone, Larry Blazek's Eternal Midnight, The Sepulchre by A.C. Evans, and Hawkwind fanzine Hawkfan. Also news of Patrick Moore's latest single!
DATA DUMP 162
Yuri Gagarin remembered again, including mention of how well received he was by the British public, though not by politicians. Bob Dylan's 70th birthday also noted.
DATA DUMP 163
Out of This World SF exhibition review. Plus review by Cardinal Cox of The Enid, and a review of Cardinal Cox's Lovecraft-themed Dream-Work.
DATA DUMP 164
20 years of Data Dump celebrated. An eclectic mix of info in this issue, from Erasmus Darwin to the Clockwork Orange musical, and a review of the 40th anniversary edition of Science Fiction Commentary. Also info on statue of Yuri Gagarin, which was unveiled in London on July 14th, 2011.
DATA DUMP 165
Prometheus special, with the focus on literary and movie references to the Greek myth. Review of D.J. Tyrer's The Tears of Lot - 49.
DATA DUMP 166
Review of Tracy K. Smith's poetry collection, Life on Mars. Mention of William Shatner's latest music adventure is to be found hidden away on the back page.
DATA DUMP 167
'Worm Song Director Dies' is DD's quirky take on the passing of ledge film director Ken Russell. Moving account of Steve Sneyd's visit to William Dearden's grave. Horror icons also feature in this issue, from writer Edgar Allan Poe to Mary Shelley's creation, Frankenstein.

Joint First: "Mars On Life" by ALLAN PETERSON (The Seventh Quarry #11)
Shared Second: "We Am Clone" by CARDINAL COX (Black Sands, White Rock); "Safari" By BRYN FORTEV (Monomyth 10-1); "The Native Finds Her in the Wreckage" by MARGE SIMON ("Poetry Cornwall" #27)
Joint Third: "In the Name of Science" by PETER E. PRESFORD (Boy's Own Rocket Science); "What Trees Were" by NEAL WILGUS (Earth Love #37)

Joint First: "Fresh Make-Up For The Ship" by CARDINAL COX (1969 & All That, Malfunction Press anthology) "Pulling The Thread" by BEN PARKER (In The Telling, Cinnamon Press anthology)
Runner-Up: "Peas and Diced Carrots" by C. DESPARDES (Bard #73)
Shared Third: "Inspiration" by DAVE AUSTIN (Awen #56/The Bards 23); "Soul Creation" by PETER E. PRESFORD (1969 & All That)

Winner: "A Taxi Driver On Mars" by BRYN FORTEY (Awen #53)
Joint Second: "The Fifties" by J.C. HARTLEY (Poetry Cornwall, V.7, #3); "Spaced Out" by RICHARD LUNG (Handshake #75)
Shared Third: "Boo Galaxy" by A.C. EVANS (Handshake #75); "Home Help" by VIVIEN FOSTER (Old Rossum's Book Of Practical Robots); "In Cervisia Immortals" by J.P.V. STEWART (Curlew #60)

Winner: "Breakdown On The Galactic Highway" by DAVE PERRY (Paper Cuts #2)
Shared Second: "Planet Of The Apes Archive" by CHRISTOPHER BARNES (Bard #54); "Frankenstein/Bride Of Frankenstein" by CARDINAL COX (Handshake #69); "The Death Of Spiderman" by AUSTIN McCARRON (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow anthology)
Joint Third: "Adieu" by SUSIE REYNOLDS (Chimera #6); "Slow Cooker" by PETER E. PRESFORD (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Malfunction Panthology)

Winner: "Marriage of Powers" by ANDREW NIGHTINGALE (10th Muse #14)
Joint Second: "The Oracle Corporation" by F.J. WILLIAMS (Bard #48); "Time Zones" by ELIZABETH JODI WOODWARD (4th Dimension #11)
Shared Third: "Probe" by BRYN FORTEY (The Bards #16); "Space Aliens At The Burger King" by SIMON ROBSON (Urinal Jelly Babies); "Untitled Russian Haiku" by D.J. WESTON (Awen #40)