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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">I hope the quarter is treating you well! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">As always, a lot has been happening the last month, and I'll start with a couple of really exciting acquisitions: </span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>The Terry Carr papers</b>.
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Terry was one of the most important science fiction editors of the 20th century. He published virtually every “name”
in science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Highlights of the archive include letters and memos with references to William Gibson’s
<i>Neuromancer </i>and Ursula Le Guin’s <i>The Left Hand of Darkness</i>. Includes Terry’s original Hugo Awards. The Eaton Collection already holds some of Carr's materials, and this purchase consolidates our archival holdings of a major editor of 20</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> century
SF!</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The Carol Carr papers</b>. This comprises Carol’s literary archive, including all her manuscripts,
along with 158 pages of original letters to Philip K. Dick and 28 pages of original letters from Joanna Russ. (I've had a skim of these and they are
<b>incredible</b>). Carol's archive in particular represents another important female writer in the SF world - still a minority in the Eaton's holdings - and her correspondence with Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Philip K. Dick (among others) are extremely
important in contextualizing feminist and cyberpunk SF. </span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There are other purchases in the works, pertaining to utopian literature and Black, queer SF
in particular, but more on those next month!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In other news: the
<b><a href="https://insideucr.ucr.edu/stories/2024/02/26/experience-movies-eaton-collection?utm_source=Inside+UCR+Weekly+Test&utm_campaign=6601ba08c8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_02_28_05_45&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-6601ba08c8-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D" id="LPlnk" title="https://insideucr.ucr.edu/stories/2024/02/26/experience-movies-eaton-collection?utm_source=Inside+UCR+Weekly+Test&utm_campaign=6601ba08c8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_02_28_05_45&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-6601ba08c8-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D">Eaton
at the Movies</a></b><a href="https://insideucr.ucr.edu/stories/2024/02/26/experience-movies-eaton-collection?utm_source=Inside+UCR+Weekly+Test&utm_campaign=6601ba08c8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_02_28_05_45&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-6601ba08c8-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D" id="LPlnk" title="https://insideucr.ucr.edu/stories/2024/02/26/experience-movies-eaton-collection?utm_source=Inside+UCR+Weekly+Test&utm_campaign=6601ba08c8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_02_28_05_45&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-6601ba08c8-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D"> exhibit
is now live</a>! Do come along and see it in SCUA's exhibit area (located on the fourth floor of the Rivera Library) between 10am-4pm, Monday to Friday. Don't forget to sign the 'guest book' cards and shove them (gently) into our replica R2-D2's gob. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
<b>Ancestral Futures</b> fanzine, coordinated by Sandy Enriquez, should be ready to distribute next month, so look out for that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Finally, I'm delighted to announce that our processing archivist Andrew Lippert has already started to process the aforementioned Carr archives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As always, if there are any authors or subject areas you'd like me to acquire for the Eaton that would be useful for your classes or research - let me know! <br>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; background-color: white;"><u>Recommended book of the month:</u> <b><i> </i>Concrete Island,
</b>J. G. Ballard (1974)</span></div>
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<i>Jay Kay and Doris Klein Librarian for Science Fiction and Fantasy </i></p>
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