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==Music==
==Music==
Along with The DeHorn Crew, in 1976 she created the first commercial [[filk]] recording, ''Folk Songs for Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet''.<ref>[http://www.filkontario.ca/hof/inductees/fishl.html FilKONtario. Filk Hall of Fame: Leslie Fish - 1995] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124181027/http://www.filkontario.ca/hof/inductees/fishl.html |date=2009-11-24 }}</ref> Her second recording, ''Solar Sailors'' (1977) included the song "[[Banned from Argo]]", a comic song parodying ''[[Star Trek]]'' which has since spawned over 100 variants and parodies.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Bastard Children of Argo |date=2001 |publisher=Random Factors |editor1-last=Creasey |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Creasey |editor2-first=Mary |url= http://www.massfilc.org/filkindex/bastardchildrenargo.xml |accessdate=2 August 2016 |format=8 1/2 x 11, comb binding |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401065328/http://www.massfilc.org/filkindex/bastardchildrenargo.xml |archivedate=1 April 2016}} (82 songs)</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Gold |editor1-first=Lee |editor1-link=Lee Gold |title=Xenofilkia #83 - Bastard Grandchildren of Argo| date=June 2002 |publisher=Xenofilkia |location=Los Angeles, California, United States |url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.music.filk/ICY6dnX9jL0 |accessdate=2 August 2016 |format=8 1/2 x 11, stapled}} Special issue of bimonthly magazine ''Xenofilkia'' (20 songs)</ref> These two albums (originally [[gramophone record|on vinyl]]) have recently been put back into print on joint [[Compact Disc|CD]], entitled ''Folk Songs for Solar Sailors''. She recorded the comic song "[[Carmen Miranda]]'s Ghost", which was the source for the [[short story]] [[anthology]] ''Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three'', edited by [[Don Sakers]] (in which she has one story and the notes on the song). Her song "Hope Eyrie" is regarded by some as being as close to the [[anthem]] of [[science fiction fandom]] as is possible in such a disparate group.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mailander |first1=Jane |title=Appendix B - Inside Jokes In Filk Fandom |url=http://www.filk.com/filk101_b.htm |website=FILKING 101: The Folk Music of Science Fiction |date=2007 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140221132831/http://www.filk.com/filk101_b.htm |archivedate=21 February 2014 |quote=Leslie Fish's song honoring the Apollo 11 mission; it embodies the hope of the space program. The anthem of filk singing. Always sung with respect and solemnity. Many filkers actually insist on standing at attention during this song.}}</ref><ref>[http://www.filkontario.ca/hofcitations1.htm#fish Filk Hall Of Fame Inductees and Citations - 1995-1997]</ref><ref>Launius, Roger D. ''Got Filk? Lament for Apollo in Modern Science Fiction Folk Music'', IAC-04-IAA.6.16.1.06, presented at the 55th International Astronautical Congress of the [[International Astronautical Federation]], the [[International Academy of Astronautics]], and the [[International Institute of Space Law]], Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 4-8, 2004</ref>
Along with The DeHorn Crew, in 1976 she created the first commercial [[filk]] recording, ''Folk Songs for Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet''.<ref>[http://www.filkontario.ca/hof/inductees/fishl.html FilKONtario. Filk Hall of Fame: Leslie Fish - 1995] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124181027/http://www.filkontario.ca/hof/inductees/fishl.html |date=2009-11-24 }}</ref> Her second recording, ''Solar Sailors'' (1977) included the song "[[Banned from Argo]]", a comic song parodying ''[[Star Trek]]'' which has since spawned over 100 variants and parodies.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Bastard Children of Argo |date=2001 |publisher=Random Factors |editor1-last=Creasey |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Creasey |editor2-first=Mary |url= http://www.massfilc.org/filkindex/bastardchildrenargo.xml |accessdate=2 August 2016 |format=8 1/2 x 11, comb binding |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401065328/http://www.massfilc.org/filkindex/bastardchildrenargo.xml |archivedate=1 April 2016}} (82 songs)</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Gold |editor1-first=Lee |editor1-link=Lee Gold |title=Xenofilkia #83 - Bastard Grandchildren of Argo| date=June 2002 |publisher=Xenofilkia |location=Los Angeles, California, United States |url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.music.filk/ICY6dnX9jL0 |accessdate=2 August 2016 |format=8 1/2 x 11, stapled}} Special issue of bimonthly magazine ''Xenofilkia'' (20 songs)</ref> These two albums (originally [[gramophone record|on vinyl]]) have recently been put back into print on joint [[Compact Disc|CD]], entitled ''Folk Songs for Solar Sailors''. She recorded the comic song "[[Carmen Miranda]]'s Ghost", which was the source for the [[short story]] [[anthology]] ''Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three'', edited by [[Don Sakers]] (in which she has one story and the notes on the song). Her song "Hope Eyrie" is regarded by some as being as close to the [[anthem]] of [[science fiction fandom]] as is possible in such a disparate group.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mailander |first1=Jane |title=Appendix B - Inside Jokes In Filk Fandom |url=http://www.filk.com/filk101_b.htm |website=FILKING 101: The Folk Music of Science Fiction |date=2007 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140221132831/http://www.filk.com/filk101_b.htm |archivedate=21 February 2014 |quote=Leslie Fish's song honoring the Apollo 11 mission; it embodies the hope of the space program. The anthem of filk singing. Always sung with respect and solemnity. Many filkers actually insist on standing at attention during this song.}}</ref><ref>[http://www.filkontario.ca/hofcitations1.htm#fish Filk Hall Of Fame Inductees and Citations - 1995-1997] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109015056/http://www.filkontario.ca/hofcitations1.htm |date=2007-11-09 }}</ref><ref>Launius, Roger D. ''Got Filk? Lament for Apollo in Modern Science Fiction Folk Music'', IAC-04-IAA.6.16.1.06, presented at the 55th International Astronautical Congress of the [[International Astronautical Federation]], the [[International Academy of Astronautics]], and the [[International Institute of Space Law]], Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 4-8, 2004</ref>


Fish often weaves [[Paganism|Pagan]] and anarchist themes into her music. She has also set to music many poems by [[Rudyard Kipling]]. She is a popular guest at [[science fiction conventions]], and she can often be seen at the large filksings with her distinctive 12-string guitar, "Monster", which Leslie says plays best when it is given good [[Scotch whisky]].
Fish often weaves [[Paganism|Pagan]] and anarchist themes into her music. She has also set to music many poems by [[Rudyard Kipling]]. She is a popular guest at [[science fiction conventions]], and she can often be seen at the large filksings with her distinctive 12-string guitar, "Monster", which Leslie says plays best when it is given good [[Scotch whisky]].

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Leslie Fish
Background information
BornNew Jersey, United States
GenresFilk
Occupation(s)Musician, author, writer
Websitelesliefish.com

Leslie Fish is a filk musician, author, and anarchist political activist.[1]

Music

Along with The DeHorn Crew, in 1976 she created the first commercial

CD, entitled Folk Songs for Solar Sailors. She recorded the comic song "Carmen Miranda's Ghost", which was the source for the short story anthology Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three, edited by Don Sakers (in which she has one story and the notes on the song). Her song "Hope Eyrie" is regarded by some as being as close to the anthem of science fiction fandom as is possible in such a disparate group.[5][6][7]

Fish often weaves

science fiction conventions, and she can often be seen at the large filksings with her distinctive 12-string guitar, "Monster", which Leslie says plays best when it is given good Scotch whisky
.

Film

She sings (and makes several appearances) in the film Finding the Future: A Science Fiction Conversation,[8][9] which makes extensive use of her music. She was interviewed and performed in Trekkies 2.

Political activism

Fish has been involved with numerous political causes, most notably anti-war activism during the Vietnam War, and is a longtime member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a fact referred to in several of her songs (e.g., "Wobblies From Space", "Leslie's Filks"). She is also well known as a gun-rights activist, and has asserted that private gun ownership is the only true protection of individual freedom (a topic touched on in several of her songs).[1][10] Because of her distrust of the stability of modern society, she has in the past worked to organize groups for carrying on civilization after what she (at one time at least) considered the imminent collapse of the current society. Her album Firestorm was in large part meant as a set of instructions for surviving a nuclear war, on the reasoning that it would be easier to recall them if they were in lyric form.

On anarchism, Fish says: "What sort of anarchist future would I like to see? There's no reason for a government-free society to be nothing but agrarian, no reason at all that it couldn't be industrial and space-faring."[11]

The character "Jenny Trout" in the science fiction novel

Michael Flynn is clearly meant to be Fish, although Trout is portrayed as a Marxist.[12]

Other activities

In addition to her work as a filk artist, Fish is also well-known within the

MIT's Henry Jenkins described Fish's anarchist-feminist Star Trek novel The Weight as a 'compelling narrative' 'remarkable in the scope and complexity of its conception, the precision of its execution, and the explicitness of its political orientation.'"[13] Fish has also written original novels and short stories, both alone and in collaboration with C. J. Cherryh and others. Fish's song, "Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three," inspired a collection of short stories with the same title, edited by Don Sakers and featuring stories by Cherryh and Anne McCaffrey
.

Fish is an avid

naturists, SCAdians, and other marginalized groups associated with fandom.[15][16][17] However, the Federal government has disputed the validity of the mining claim that she proposed to use to establish ownership.[citation needed
]

While Fish rarely discusses her private life, she was in a romantic relationship with anarchist political activist Mary Frohman "from the late '60s through the early '80s."[13] Together they were part of the Dehorn Crew, the house band for the IWW. Fish has often asserted that bisexuality is the human norm, and that the pervasive sexual repression she sees in current society causes many of the current social ills. She married long-time friend Robert "Rasty Bob" Ralston on November 13, 2011.[18]

One of Fish's personal projects is an ongoing attempt to breed domestic cats for intelligence and other traits, including polydactyly. She claims that her cats are about as intelligent as a six-year-old human child, except in regards to symbolic language.[19]

Since 2013, Fish and Ralston have been working to develop a rare and endangered species orchard.[20]

Albums

[All Off Centaur Publications, Firebird Arts & Music and Wail Songs albums are cassettes; all Random Factors albums are CDs except as noted. All Off Centaur albums are out of print as of 1988 unless reissued; all Wail Songs albums are OOP (out of print) as of ca. 1999. All Fish solo albums from Firebird are OOP as of 1995.][21]

  • Minus Ten and Counting
     1983 (contributor) [Off Centaur] [Out Of Print]

[Fish appears as singer, player, composer and/or lyricist on most of the Off Centaur anthology tapes (including A Wolfrider's Reflections, reissued by Richard & Wendy Pini on their own label, also OOP), on many of the Firebird Mercedes Lackey anthology albums, and on a number of convention live albums from Conglomeration, DAG, Off Centaur, Wail Songs and others; she also appears on the anthology The Pegasus Winners [Love Songs] [OOP].]

  • Folk Songs For Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet (with Dehorn Crew), 1976 LP [T.J. Phoenix], 1991 tape [Firebird] [both OOP]
  • Solar Sailors (with Dehorn Crew), 1977 LP [Bandersnatchi Press], 1989 tape [Firebird] [OOP]
  • Folk Songs For Solar Sailors (with Dehorn Crew), 2002 [collection of above two, Random Factors]
  • Skybound 1982 [Off Centaur] [OOP], 2005 [Random Factors]
  • Cold Iron (Kipling), 1983, 1986 [Off Centaur, OOP], 1991 [Firebird, OOP], 2007 [Random Factors]
  • The Undertaker's Horse (Kipling),1985 [Off Centaur], 1990 [Firebird] [both OOP]
  • Chickasaw Mountain
    , 1986 [Off Centaur], 1991 [Firebird] [OOP]
  • It's Sister Jenny's Turn to Throw the Bomb, 1987 [Off Centaur], [ca. 1992 Firebird w/1987 date] [OOP]
  • Firestorm: Songs of the Third World War, 1989 [Firebird] [two slightly different versions, not noted in liner notes] [OOP]
  • Leslie Fish...Live!, 1989 [Firebird] [OOP]
  • Our Fathers of Old (with Joe Bethancourt) [1993 tape {OOP}, 2002 CD [adds bonus tracks with Kristoph Klover] Random Factors]
  • Serious Steel (with Joe Bethancourt), 1995 [tape & CD] [Random Factors]
  • Smoked Fish And Friends (live, with 4 others), 1996 [Random Factors]
  • Not Canned or Frozen, 1996 [Wail Songs] [OOP]
  • Lock & Load, 2009 [Random Factors]
  • Avalon is Risen, 2012 [Prometheus Music]

Books

Short stories

The following short stories were produced as part of the Merovingen Nights series of science fiction books. The series was edited by C. J. Cherryh.

  • "First Night Cruise" in Festival Moon
  • "Guardian" in Festival Moon
  • "War of the Unseen Worlds" in Fever Season
  • "Treading the Maze" in Troubled Waters
  • "Fair Game" in Smuggler’s Gold
  • "Run Silent, Run Cheap" in Divine Right
  • "Walking on the Waves" in Flood Tide

The following short stories appeared in the War World series, a shared universe created by Jerry Pournelle:[22]

  • "Janesfort War" (with Frank Gasperik), in CoDominium: Revolt on War World
  • "Nothing in Common", in War World: Discovery
  • "To Win the Peace" (with Frank Gasperik), in War World: Takeover

Fanzine article

Writing as F. Sigmund Mead, "A Summary of the Physiological Roots of Andorian Culture" (Journal of Xenoanthropology, June 2341), edited by Leslie Fish. Fictional article on

Andorian culture first published in Sehlat's Roar #2, a Star Trek fanzine of the 1970s, published by Randy Ash.[23]

Pegasus Awards

Other awards

  • 2014 Prometheus Special Award for Novella ("Tower of Horses") and Song ("The Horsetamer's Daughter").

References

  1. ^ a b Leslie Fish Links
  2. ^ FilKONtario. Filk Hall of Fame: Leslie Fish - 1995 Archived 2009-11-24 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Creasey, John; Creasey, Mary, eds. (2001). The Bastard Children of Argo. Random Factors. Archived from the original (8 1/2 x 11, comb binding) on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016. (82 songs)
  4. ^ Gold, Lee, ed. (June 2002). Xenofilkia #83 - Bastard Grandchildren of Argo (8 1/2 x 11, stapled). Los Angeles, California, United States: Xenofilkia. Retrieved 2 August 2016. Special issue of bimonthly magazine Xenofilkia (20 songs)
  5. ^ Mailander, Jane (2007). "Appendix B - Inside Jokes In Filk Fandom". FILKING 101: The Folk Music of Science Fiction. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Leslie Fish's song honoring the Apollo 11 mission; it embodies the hope of the space program. The anthem of filk singing. Always sung with respect and solemnity. Many filkers actually insist on standing at attention during this song.
  6. ^ Filk Hall Of Fame Inductees and Citations - 1995-1997 Archived 2007-11-09 at the Wayback Machine
  7. International Institute of Space Law
    , Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 4-8, 2004
  8. ^ Leslie Fish
  9. ^ Finding the Future: A Science Fiction Conversation (2004) (V)
  10. ^ Leslie Fish Lyrics
  11. ^ Leslie Fish: Autobiography
  12. ^ Larry Niven Bibliography Leslie Fish [identified with] Character Jenny Trout Page 114
  13. ^ a b Walker, Jesse (2005-06-09) American Anarchist, Reason
  14. ^ "Fan Haven community grows in Arizona desert | SCAtoday.net". www.scatoday.net. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  15. ^ ""Fan Haven 2", Leslie Fish". The Diggings. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016. The last action for this claim—land status checked—occurred on March 3, 1998. Information on the claim was last updated on February 11, 2016.
  16. ^ ""Fan Haven 4", Leslie Fish". The Diggings. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016. The last action for this claim—land status checked—occurred on March 3, 1998. Information on the claim was last updated on February 11, 2016.
  17. ^ Shapero, Kay. "Fans, Pagans, SCAdians Wanted to help buy land for a Fan-Haven". Kay Shapero's Website. Kay Shapero. Archived from the original on 18 February 2006. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  18. ^ Fish, Leslie (25 August 2011). "rec.music.filk: Congratulations, Leslie Fish!". Google Groups. Google. p. 5. Retrieved 2 August 2016. I'll be getting married on November 13, to my old Berkeley Pagan buddy, Rasty Bob Ralston.
  19. ^ Leslie Fish on Cat Breeding... Excerpted from an autobiographical letter by Leslie Fish (Fall, 1992. Edited by Mary Creasey). Accessed 2013-03-24
  20. ^ http://www.gofundme.com/4pqo8g
  21. ^ Notes on albums from personal collection and company records, Mary Creasey of Random Factors
  22. ^ Bibliography of Jerry Pournelle's Future History
  23. ^ The Andor Files

External links

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