SCA-in-books-msg - 8/21/96
Mentions of the SCA in books and magazines.
NOTE: See also the files: SCA-noteables-msg, SCA-authors-msg, SCA-hist1-msg,
border-stories-msg, child-stories-msg, SCA-stories1-msg.
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Date: 23 Jan 92
From: Brian Stanley <STANLEY@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network
In reference to Vincent's question regarding SCA-inspired books,
I bring to your attention The Interior Life by Katherine Blake.
Although not predominantly set within the SCA, the august
organization is a significant factor.
Aleyn fitz Geoffrey
Late of the Barony of An Croisaire and now simply lost
Date: 29 Jan 92
From: Therion <HZS@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Penn State University
One interesting aspect of the growing fame of the SCA is that you never know
where we're going to be mentioned next. For instance, I was recently reading
a book called "Muscle - confessions of an unlikely bodybuilder", by Sam
Fussell. It's a rather histrionic account of the author's descent into the
world of weightlifting and steroid abuse. The following passage is from
when the author moved from New York to California in the late 1980's and met
some of his new roommates, who were also into bodybuilding. All typos are the
author's, not mine [i.e. Ciad for Caid, and the speaker's lisp]
>
>But Bamm Bamm didn't want to talk about football or bodybuilding, he
>wanted to talk about war. "They've outwawed it, Sam," he said, shaking
>his head in misery. "There are no more wars, no more Koweas or Vietnams.
>Thats why we have wifting, and this ..." he said, opening his closet
>door. Within I saw a helmet, and the rest of his armor. He had purchased
>it from Thornbird Arms in the San Fernando Valley. Once every few
>months, he left with Freewyn, a lifter from the nearby Fanatics Gym for
>a weekend war regulated by The Society for Creative Anachronism. "I
>fight in a wogue spwinter gwoup, under a duke," Bamm Bamm said, with a
>touch of defiance. His last war was staged near Scottsdale, Arizona.
>Within spitting distance of the I-10 freeway, Bamm Bamm and a few
>hundred other knights from Ciad (the Southern California district)
>fought Adenvelt (the Arizona district) for their kingdom. Bamm Bamm had
>forty "kills" that weekend, and a broken nose. Though the weapons are
>made of rattan, the armor is real. When a poleax struck his steel
>helmet, the nose guard came down and spliced his nose. But Bamm Bamm
>wasn't counting on fighting for Ciad much longer ... [stuff deleted] ...
>Knights errant both, we wore our weight-lifting belts over one shoulder
>like baldrics, packing our own form of heat in the event of Armageddon.
>How much easier it made life, whether the enemy was Adenvelt or my
>Adam's apple or meat with more than 15 percent fat ....
I just thought that this was amusing enough to share with the rest of you. And
in case anyone is really interested (we librarians have to do these things,
it's a compunction):
>>> isbn 0671701959
Fussell, Samuel Wilson.
Muscle, confessions of an unlikely bodybuilder. / Samuel Wilson Fussell.
New York, Poseidon Press, c1991.
252 p., ª8ß p. of plates. ill. 24 cm.
1. Fussell, Samuel Wilson. 2. Bodybuilders -- United States -- Biography.
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From: habura@vccnw09.its.rpi.edu (Andrea Marie Habura)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Knightfall
Date: 9 Aug 1993 17:39:16 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
As far as I know, the complete list of Mary Monica Pulver/Steffan and Kori
books is:
Murder at the War/Knight Fall (same book, different title)
The Unforgiving Minutes
Ashes to Ashes
Original Sin
The SCA-dependency of the books varies inversely with age :). The oldest,
Knight Fall, is almost completely within the context of the SCA; the newest,
Original Sin, contains only about a dozen sentences that indicate that some
of the characters are Scadian. Nonetheless, I feel that the writing is much
better in the later novels, and they're all worth reading.
Alison MacDermot
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Knightfall
From: schuldy@zariski.harvard.edu (Mark Schuldenfrei)
Date: 9 Aug 93 12:33:52 EDT
Pergrine wrote:
The book by Mary Monica Pulver is set at Pennsic, and describes exquisitely
the things which make the SCA what it is. (I haven't been to Pennsic, but
from this book, people would know about many of our customs and traditions,
as well as some neat period practices I hadn't known.)
It's getting a little dated, but it's still fun. And great fun to try
and guess who is whom!
Speaking of whom--there is another book of hers in which
a co-worker of this Policeman finds a "Don Quixote" wandering the streets
and brings him in for booking: turns out to be... well, what would you think
of some person in full armor wandering around town in a daze, talking of
knights and kings, etc.? I'll try to get the title.
I too have forgotten the title. However, this confused Knight is only
a divertissment that lasts a few pages. The balance of the book is straight
mystery.
WARNING: from what I remember, the teaser on the back cover of KNIGHT FALL
was not written by Mary Monica Pulver, and might have been written by a
non-SCA person without-a-clue. Read the book: it's excellent for SCA
folk new and old, and is a good introduction to the SCA itself.
The back cover blurbs never are. (off- topic mini-flame ahead) A tremendous
number of books are mis-represented, or overly telegraphed by the marketting
hype on the back cover. The cover is a marketting tool, and worth
ignoring. I read the first few pages of any book I might be interested
in, instead.
Tibor
--
Mark Schuldenfrei (schuldy@math.harvard.edu)
From: David Schroeder <ds4p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Knightfall
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 01:39:06 -0400
Organization: Doctoral student, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon,
Pittsburgh, PA
Alison MacDermot wrote:
> As far as I know, the complete list of Mary Monica Pulver/Steffan and Kori
> books is:
>
> Murder at the War/Knight Fall (same book, different title)
> The Unforgiving Minutes
> Ashes to Ashes
> Original Sin
Also, _Show Stopper_, c.1992, now out in paperback from Diamond...
Not to forget:
_The Novice's Tale, A Sister Frevisse Medieval Mystery_
by Margaret Frazer (Mary Monica Pulver and a co-author
whose name escapes me at the moment, sigh...) It's from
Jove, in paperback, c.1992, and is the first of a series
that's on its way.
And of course:
_Deer Abbey_, four issues of the Compleat Anachronist that
are worth the investment. (Tales of a 15th century nunnery).
My best -- enjoy -- Bertram
From: salley@niktow.canisius.edu (David Salley)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Life imitates Art imitates Life (was : Pell )
Date: 5 Mar 94 21:20:29 GMT
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
Heather Garvey writes:
> [Possible etymologies for 'pell' deleted]
> I've seen the term used in a number of modern fictional references
> and I didn't realize that people thought this was an SCA-only term....
Recent observation: Part of the problem with comparing SCA uses to 'modern
fictional references' is that you never know what the author is using for
sources. Case in point, in Katherine Kurtz's latest Deryni novel _King
Javan's Year_, a number of 'medieval traditions' are drawn straight out of
the author's experiences with the SCA. For example, she uses 'remove' to
mean one course in a banquet and all her knights wear white belts. ;-) Now
imagine a new member who reads voraciously (I know it's a long stretch of
the imagination, but _try_ to imagine it ;-) ;-) ;-) ) and then attends an
SCA event. Seeing two separate sources both limiting white belts to knights
they'd probably conclude that that was the way it was in period.
- Dagonell
SCA Persona : Lord Dagonell Collingwood of Emerald Lake, CSC, CK, CTr
Habitat : East Kingdom, AEthelmearc Principality, Rhydderich Hael Barony
Internet : salley@niktow.cs.canisius.edu
USnail-net : David P. Salley, 136 Shepard Street, Buffalo, New York 14212-2029
From: una@bregeuf.stonemarche.org (Honour Horne-Jaruk)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: We're famous...
Summary: definition of us from a glossary of Witchcraft, paganism andOccultism
Date: Wed, 25 May 94 08:22:47 EDT
Respected friends:
A pagan friend of mine just showed me a copy of "Withcraft,
Satanism, and Occult crime: Who's who and what's what"- this is `A manual
of reference materials for the professional investigator'. In plain english,
the book is a series of articles on how to tell the kooks from the crooks.
Under the "basic glossary of common terms and symbols" these entries
appear.
_Anachronism-something that appears to be from a time period other than
the one in which it is percieved._
_Society for Creative Anachronism- An historical reconstructionist
organization of medieval scholars and speculative fantasy buffs. Founded in
Berkeley, California on May 1,1966 by Diana Paxson, the SCA holds medieval
reconstructionist events, such as tournaments and feasts, and participates in
Renaissance Faires around the country._
I presume the entry is in there because of the repeated canard that
SCA means Satanist Church of America, and I really appreciate their trying to
correct the falsehood, but is this definition weird or what?
Honour/Alizaunde
From: blackadd@news.delphi.com (BLACKADDER@DELPHI.COM)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: SCA in Space Books.
Date: 6 Aug 1994 21:33:11 -0000
Also consider HUNTER'S WORLD by Fred Saberhagen. This features a huge
tournament for world supremacy between people like Thomas the Grabber
and Byford of Long Bridges. (Apparently he thinks lists are set in
alphabetical order.) An offworld visitor compares it favorably to "the
Anachronists playing with their dull swords" on civilized planets.
From: wlinden@phantom.com (William Linden)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: ANACHRONIST authors (and authors who include SCA in their works)
Date: 4 Sep 1994 14:01:11 GMT
David Salley (salley@niktow.canisius.edu) wrote:
: _Cloak of Anarchy_, written in 1972. I don't see how the SCA fits in,
: according to the story, you're searched for weapons before you can get in.
: Actually, that's the story that got Larry Niven into the duel I posted
: about earlier. It seems "Ron Cole", a character in the story was based on
: some one real who decided to have some fun with it. ;-) ;-)
Well, "Ron Cole" is Count Alpin MacGregor (Alpin the Mad).
From: caradoc@libre.com (John Groseclose)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: ANACHRONIST authors (and authors who include SCA in their works)
Date: 5 Sep 1994 06:42:31 GMT
> David Salley (salley@niktow.canisius.edu) wrote:
> : _Cloak of Anarchy_, written in 1972. I don't see how the SCA fits in,
> : according to the story, you're searched for weapons before you can get in.
> : Actually, that's the story that got Larry Niven into the duel I posted
> : about earlier. It seems "Ron Cole", a character in the story was based on
> : some one real who decided to have some fun with it. ;-) ;-)
_Cloak of Anarchy_, "N-Space," Larry Niven, page 226:
"We reached the grassy field sometimes used by the Society for Creative
Anachronism for their tournaments. They fight on foot with weighted and
padded weapons designed to behave like swords, broadaxes, morningstars,
etc. The weapons are bugged so that they won't fall into the wrong hands."
--
John D. Groseclose <caradoc@libre.com>
From: wlinden@phantom.com (William Linden)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: ANACHRONIST authors (and authors who include SCA in their works)
Date: 4 Sep 1994 14:05:22 GMT
Julia Bailey (BAILEY@biomed.med.yale.edu) wrote:
:: So it seems that either [Heinlein] he attended events or knew LOTS of
people who : did :}
Bear in mind that in the first years Tournaments and other Society
functions were often in sf con programs, in the west anyway...before the
"trufans" started getting snotty about "intrusion by those awful
Anachronists". (After, all, nearly all of the early cadre was drawn from
fandom). And the Epilogue in NUMBER OF THE BEAST is one long con parody.
Harlan Ellison reportedly fought in some of these events, and I think
the marshal in NUMBER is supposed to be Pournelle (Jerome Robert of McKenna).
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: ah447@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Victor W. Wong)
Subject: Re: ANACHRONIST authors (and authors who include SCA in their works)
Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 1994 18:19:28 GMT
You're probably not going to think this is on topic, but the latest novel
in the QUANTUM LEAP series has Sam "leaping" into a re-enactor. The back-
ground info looks very much like SCA or something similar.
The passages in which Sam realizes he's just "leaped" into a 15th-century
suit of armor just prior to a bout is just plain funny.
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From: jeffs@math.bu.EDU (Jeff Suzuki)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Niven
Date: 8 Sep 1994 14:20:48 -0400
Bertram writes:
> Oh, Niven refers to us, obliquely (I think) in one of his
> short stories about anarchy happening in a park -- I'm sure
"Cloak of Anarchy". The reference is just one line, about the SCA
(Niven spells it out) using the park for fighter practice.
Jeffs
From: jacquetta@aol.com (Jacquetta)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: SCA in Kiddie Lit.
Date: 20 Sep 1994 21:10:01 -0400
To the parents of pre-teens out there - my daughter just found a great
book. "All's Faire" by Pamela F. Service is a time-travel novel for kids
about a 12 year old boy whose parents are in the "Creative Anachronists"
and make him go to events and ren faires. He is transported back to the
"real" Middle Ages and learns the value of dreams and the imagination.
Nice story. **Thinly** veiled SCA. My daughter really liked it.
Jacquetta
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: rorice@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (rosalyn rice)
Subject: Re: SCA in Kiddie Lit.
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 12:56:41 GMT
Jacquetta <jacquetta@aol.com> wrote:
>To the parents of pre-teens out there - my daughter just found a great
>book. "All's Faire" by Pamela F. Service is a time-travel novel for kids
If it's the same person (and it probably is), then Pam Service lives
in my town. She isn't in the local S.C.A. group, and I have no idea how she
heard about us, or got information on us. Most peculiar.
Lothar
From: "Brett W. McCoy" <p01335@psilink.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: SCA in Kiddie Lit.
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 94 12:45:28 -0500
I don't know if this book has been mentioned, as I've come into this
thread rather late, but _The Folk of The Air_ by Peter S. Beagle is
very obviously about the SCA, known as "The League for Archaic
Pleasure" in the novel. They are located in California, and their
crown tourneys are exactly the same as SCA crown tourneys.
Brett W. McCoy
bmccoy@cap.gwu.edu
From: crouchet@eden.com (James Crouchet)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Freaking the Mundanes...
Date: 3 Jan 1995 20:03:43 GMT
Organization: Adhesive Media, Inc.
sclark@blues.epas.utoronto.ca (Susan Carroll-Clark) says:
> Yes, I did it. I got sucked into the "collectable card game" craze.
>The one I chose to buy is the new _Illuminati: New World Order_ game.
>Those of you who've played its predecessor, of course, know about the "Society
>for Creative Anarchism" card. Well, Steve Jackson has taken this little
>in-joke one step further.
> The booster deck I got yesterday included the "Freaking the Mundanes"
>card.
> WE know what he means.
>
> Fnord.
>
>Cheers & happy Feast of the Circumcision (yowch!)
>Nicolaa/Susan
>Canton of Eoforwic
>sclark@epas.utoronto.ca
Yeah, Steve was our founding baron in Bryn Gwlad (Ansteorra), so he does know
the SCA well. He finally resigned in disgust saying SCA politics was too much
like the real politics of our period. Good point I think.
Savian
From: zkessin@ppp3253.wing.net (Zach)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Important Info: Tried and True Ways of Getting Your Parents to
Finance your Swordfighting Habit
Date: 04 Jan 1995 05:02:41 GMT
Organization: Wilder Internet Gateway, Boston, MA
In article <D1up35.Gwp@acsu.buffalo.edu> v081lu33@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (TRISTAN
CLAIR DE LUNE/KEN MONDSCHEIN) writes:
Hi there! Like many of you, I'm a starving college student (tm). I
also have a rather expensive hobby, that is, stick-jocking. In fact, I'm
willing to bet that I've spent $1000+ on armor, rattan, raw materials to
make armor, etc. Now, while this keeps me off the streets selling crack, it
also results in a negative balance of money, unlike selling crack, which
rakes money in.
So, I've developed these tried-and-true arguments to get those
wellsprings of ca$h, my parents, to help me finance my hobby:
My father offered to pay for a Helm. I think I can get elbows and
knees out of him too, and make the rest. I didn't event have try to
hard to get it. Just say I didn't want ski boots.
The fact that I was able to bring him to a few events didn't hurt.
BTW on the authors/artists in the SCA I just noticed something. On the
Painting "Pendragon" by Jody Lee in the upper rt corner there is a
banner i recognised... Or within a Laurel wreath a crown dancity of 3
vert.
Guiliam Wodehouse
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/USERS/UGRAD/zkessin/east.html
zkessin@cs.brandeis.edu
From: alysk@ix.netcom.com (Elise Fleming )
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: SCA in _Life_
Date: 13 Oct 1995 16:17:24 GMT
Just opened my November 1995 _Life_ magazine and found three pages of
photos and text on this past Pennsic. A Midrealm group is featured in
the table of contents section, with the shield clearly visible (a field
divided crosswise...top is red with a white fleur-de-lys and bottom is
white and black checky). Most of the featured fighters are "blue
tape". Part of House Darkyard can be seen on page 28. Pages 28-29
feature three "blue tapes" in close-up of their helms. Page 30 shows 9
photos of various helms including one scout. An Easterner from
Ostgardr, Lord Dieterich von Bern, is mentioned by name. The final
page, 32, shows a closeup of one of the battles with poles, sword and
shield, all scrambled togehter. The final photo shows one pooped
fighter (his arms are on his tabard...looks like a circle overlaying an
upright sword) who is apparantly resting during the Woods Battle. The
focus is solely on the warlike aspect of Pennsic. Sure was a surprise
to me as I was paging through!
Alys Katharine
From: snyary@life.timeinc.COM (Sasha Nyary)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: LIFE magazine article
Date: 16 Oct 1995 11:38:40 -0400
Please put this information in your kingdom newsletters and pass it on to
your chroniclers.
(I believe this will be on our homepage, as well, but it's not up yet.)
LIFE homepage: http://www.pathfinder.com/Life/lifehome.html
For release: Monday, October 16, 1995
Contact: Alison Hart (212) 522-7576
LIFE CAPTURES THE ACTION AT A MEDIEVAL WAR
New York, N.Y., October 16, 1995 -- LIFE's November issue (on newsstands
today) features a journey to a spectacular conflict: the annual Pennsic
War, where hordes of steel-armored, sword-slinging fighters clash for the
sheer fun of it. Sponsored by the worldwide Society for Creative
Anachronism (SCA), this summer's war drew 9,000 men, women and children to
a tent city in western Pennsylvania. Whether combatants or civilians, LIFE
reports, all were in costume and in character -- transformed into counts
and courtesans, barons and barbarians, for a week's immersion in what the
SCA calls "the Middle Ages as they should have been."
LIFE sent veteran photographer Bill Eppridge to capture the action as 3,000
male and female warriors -- trained in medieval martial arts and following
strategies borrowed from ancient generals -- fought with chivalry, valor
and a king-size dollop of humor. In "LIFE Goes To a Medieval Battle,"
you'll see what he saw: a flamboyant combination of military exercise,
historical pageant, and full-contact sport.
###
From: powers@cis.ohio-state.edu (william thomas powers)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: SCA in _Life_
Date: 18 Oct 1995 23:35:54 -0400
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information
Science
>I thought the pictorial and article was one of the most positive I've
>read. This good national press is rare.
>Tigranes of Bezabde
You mean you didn't like the article on the SCA in the June 1980 issue
of Soldier of Fortune? ("Middle Ages Bash" by Bob Aldridge")
My favorite is still the one in the Smithsonian, June 1981, "They
`joust' as if knighthood were in flower today"
wilelm, who has both squirreled away in the bookcases------You know you
are in the SCA when people comment on your 10 lineal feet of books in your
bathroom and you apologize for it being so poorly en-booked--not to
mention the neighborhood kids asking if they can research for school
reports in your library
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: ah447@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Victor W. Wong)
Subject: SCA Makes the Globe & Mail Report on Business
Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 21:59:37 GMT
In the Oct. 27th Report on Business Magazine, there is a Profile on
Small Business on Mr. Bill Fedun, also known as Lord Yusef of South
Tower.
His photo, in full armor, appears in the one-page article and also on the
Table of Contents page.
The article is a profile of the South Tower Armory (annual sales
$145,000) based near Ottawa, Ontario (oh, all right, Canton Culdrithig,
Barony Skraeling Althing, Ealdormere) and talks briefly about both
his SCA and non-SCA (i.e. fetishic) clientele.
Boy we seem to be going mainstream, ain't we?
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From: Hashiri@aol.com (3/7/96)
To: markh@risc.sps.mot.com
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:56:43 -0500
Subject: SCA in books
Greetings!
I've just been perusing the section of the Web on SCA in books, magazines, etc.
I don't know if you can or want to add this, but I thought I'd mention it.
Escape Velocity, by Christopher Stasheff, mentions the SCA towards the end.
While he doesn't actually say 'SCA', he mentions the 'Society' and what he
describes certainly sounds like the SCA to me. It's very interesting,
because the Scadians in the book decide to leave the nasty politics of earth
and the human race behind - they buy a colony ship and leave to start a world
based on Society principles in a galaxy far, far away. This book begins a
series about the world which they colonize and is very entertaining to read.
A good mix of sci-fi and fantasy.
Christiana Ivarrsdottir, Barony of Bjornsborg, Ansteorra
From: room237@wabash.iac.net (Room 237)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: SCA Press:Swing 5-96
Date: 19 May 1996 20:41:20 GMT
Organization: Internet Access Cincinnati 513-887-8877
For all interested in collecting/reading any press on the SCA, the May
1996 Issue of the magazine "Swing" has a 1 page article with photos.
From: Endel@tarleton.edu
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:13:00 -0400
Subject: FYI
I thought people might find the following quotation of interest. I have no
idea if the author has any connection with the SCA or not. This is from The
Ambivalent Magician, by Simon Hawke (Warner Books, 1996). Hawke may be the
American equivalent of Terry Pratchett.
"That's why people join the SCA and read fantasy novels, because the real
world sucks."
Laird Alan MacRonan MacCalum
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