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May Shuttle Pasteup in WORK Te Shutle May 2010 The Next NASFA Meeting is 15 May 2010 NOT at the Regular Time OR Location See Below for Info on the NASFA Cookout/Picnic Con†Stellation XXIX ConCom Meeting 3P, 22 May 2010, Tentatively at Renasant Bank (stay tuned for changes) time (3P) and possibly at the now-usual location (the Renasant d Oyez, Oyez d Bank). Stay tuned to your email/phone for updates, though. Concom meetings in June and forward are expected to re- The next NASFA Meeting is Saturday 15 May 2010 but not sume the regular schedule, 3P on club meeting Saturdays at the at the regular time or location. The meeting will be combined with the More-or-Less-Annual NASFA Cookout/Picnic, to be 120 Darlington Road NE held at Peggy Patrick’s house starting at 2P and going until she Huntsville AL 35801 kicks us all out. See the map at right for directions. MAY PROGRAM & ATMM Bankhead The May program and ATMM will be subsumed by the cookout/picnic. Pkwy FUTURE ATMMs The June After-The-Meeting Meeting will be at Maria and Adam Grim’s house in south Huntsville. Jennifer and Steve Pratt Toll Gate Rd Sloan will host in July. Directions will be available in the corre- Exit Memorial Parkway at University sponding Shuttle issues or at the relevant meeting. We need Ave Drive; head East on University, which turns into Pratt Avenue; continue ATMM volunteers for August and all months beyond. through 5-Points on Pratt, which CONCOM MEETINGS Map To turns into Bankhead Parkway as it Due to the picnic/cookout, the usual date/time for the con- starts up Monte Sano; Toll Gate Road Cookout/ merges with Bankhead from the com meeting is not viable in May. The May concom meeting Map To right; take the next left after the will be held on Saturday 22 May, one week after the club merge, onto Darlington Road; con- meeting/cookout/picnic. It will probably be at the now-usual ATMMPicnic tinue to 120 Darlington, on your right Continuing Our 30th Year of Publication! Inside this issue… News and Info .......................................................................2 Locus Awards Finalists .........................................................3 Minutes of the April Meeting ................................................2 Awards Roundup ..................................................................4 NASFA Calendar ..................................................................2 Letters of Comment ..............................................................5 Deadline for the June issue of The NASFA1 Shuttle is Friday, 4 June 2010 club meeting location. (With a dinner break between the meet- ing and the, er, meeting.) April Minutes SHUTTLE TRANSITION—REDUX by Steve Sloan, Secretary As of last month, production of the Shuttle is undergoing a new transition—this time forced by the death of one computer The April meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction As- and the acquisition of its replacement. Things may be uneven sociation was called to order on Saturday, April 17, 2010 in the for a while; please bear with us. (For this month only, see the Renasant Bank meeting room at 6:19:43P by President Mary lead section in the News and Info article for more, um, info.) Lampert. The traditional crickets seem to work for the moment. NASFA CALENDAR ONLINE OLD BUSINESS NASFA has an online calendar on Google. Interested parties can check the calendar online, but you can also subscribe to the None. calendar and have your Outlook, iCal, BlackBerry, or other NEW BUSINESS calendar automatically updated as events (Club Meetings, Con- The Huntsville Times had pictures of Ali and Sue at the com Meetings, local sf/f events) are added or changed. Yuri’s Night party. Mia has seven folding chairs she’s willing to donate for the convention. According to Mia, the giant bag of M&M’s was “fandom- News and Info sized chocolate.” Sam has absolutely no spammish emails to read. The people EXCUSES, EXCUSES rejoice. This issue of the Shuttle will be rather shorter than usual and According to Wyman, next month’s meeting, program, and might be rather odder than usual. The shortness is due to con- After-the-Meeting Meeting will be the picnic. The program for densing the production period because of heavy work com- June doesn’t have a title yet. mitments. The possible oddness is due to said production pe- Jack will present his Masquerade photos for the June program. riod being suffused with pain meds and muscle relaxants for a Sam asked when we need to reserve the meeting room at the back ache (brought on, in part, by the work commitments). bank. Are there any plans for After-the-Meeting Meetings C’est la vie. (ATMMs) through August? FLOOD v. FANDOM Adam and Mia volunteered to host the June ATMM at their The recent major flooding in Nashville forced one fannish house, and Steve and Jennifer volunteered to host the July couple to flee, though the ending was happy. Whether other ATMM at their house. fans were affected is not know at press time. Sam currently has the regular meeting room booked through Tom and Anita Feller were forced to evacuate on Sunday 1 August. May 2010 but when they were allowed back home they turned Doug moved to adjourn at 6:30:22P. out to be among the lucky ones: “We returned on Wednesday “Darrell Osborn Talks About Creativity” for the program. We and, to our astonishment and joy, found that both our house and learned that the word “creativity” is derived from “Kree-at-IV- garage were dry and there was no visible damage to the exte- itty”, which involves a blue alien injecting something small rior either.” into people. Darrell created balloon sculptures, including a dog This report comes to you via <file770.com> and before that on a motorcycle for Sue, a psychotic grinning monkey hat for from Guy H. Lillian III. Tom is a former President of the Steve, and a lion mask for Shelly. Sue Thorn hosted the After- Southern Fandom Confederation and a winner of the Rebel the-Meeting Meeting at her house. Award. Anita is a past President of the Middle Tennessee Sci- ence Fiction Club. GAYLAXICON 2010 CANCELLED The premier genre/LGBT of the year has been canceled due NASFA Calendar to hotel problems. Quoting their press release: After months of negotiating in good faith with our cho- MAY sen hotel, we came to the conclusion that they were not 01 BD: Russell McNutt. acting in kind and an agreement with them was not possi- 03 BD: Martha Knowles. ble. At this point, we cannot find suitable space for the 06 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: Turnabout, Mar- same weekend, without risking the financial well being of garet Haddix; 6P. convention. As Gaylaxicon 2011 is already scheduled for 09 Mothers’ Day. April 29–May 1 2011 in Atlanta, GA, delaying the con- 14 BD: Debbie Hughes. vention was also not a good option. As a result, we are 14–16 Mobicon 13—Mobile AL. regretfully canceling Gaylaxicon 2010. 14–16 Nebula Awards Weekend—Cocoa Beach FL. Those individuals who hold paid memberships for Gay- 15* NASFA Meeting—The More-or-Less Annual NASFA laxicon 2010 have been contacted directly regarding pos- Cookout/Picnic, at Peggy Patrick’s house. This takes the sible options for their fees. We hope to see everyone in place of both the meeting and the ATMM. It starts Atlanta. around 2P and runs until she kicks us out. Gaylaxicon is organized each year by a different committee, 15 Armed Forces Day. on somewhat the same structure as a Worldcon, DeepSouth- 16 BD: Linda Bolgeo. Con, or Westercon. The 2010 committee had intended to use 19 BD: David O. Miller. the Marriott Chateau Champlain in Montreal. Gaylaxicon 20 BD: Mike Glicksohn. styles itself as “the annual international Science Fiction, Fan- 21–23 ImagiCon—Birmingham AL. tasy, and Horror Convention for gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, 21–23 JampCon—Chattanooga TN. transgendered people and their friends.” 22 (Date is Firm; Time/Location areTentative) Con†Stella- 2 tion concom meeting—3P at Renasant Bank. third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large nearby 27 BD: Kathy Paulk. convention being held that weekend—in which case we often 28–30 Rocket City Furmeet—Huntsville AL. move the meeting to the second or fourth weekend.) The 28–30 Timegate—Atlanta GA. regular meeting location is the Community Room at the Bal- 28–30 Oasis 23—Orlando FL. moral branch of Renasant Bank (off Airport Road, near the 31 Memorial Day. Parkway). The Executive Committee meeting (if scheduled) JUNE is at 5P. The business meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. 02 BD: Lloyd Penney. Anyone is welcome to attend any of the meetings. There is 03 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: Creatures of usually an after-the-meeting meeting with directions available Light and Darkness, Roger Zelazny; 6P. at the program. 04–06 DeepSouthCon 48/ConCarolinas—Charlotte NC. 04–06 HeroesCon—Charlotte NC. 04–06 Hypericon 6—Nashville TN. 04–06 Hama-Con—Huntsville AL. 2010 Locus Awards Finalists 11–13 Sci-Fi Summer Con—Atlanta GA. 13 BD: Bill S. The top five in the single-round Locus Awards voting are 14 Flag Day. styled as finalists, even though the winner has already been 14 BD: Ali Scanland. determined. Said winners will be announced, and the awards 17 BD: Jeff Freeman. presented, during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seat- 19 (Tentative) Con†Stellation concom meeting—3P at Re- tle WA, 25–27 June 2010. Tickets are available online at nasant Bank. (Dinner break between concom meeting <www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2010LocusAwardsAd.html>. and club meeting.) The finalists are: 19* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 7P Program, at Re- SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL nasant Bank.
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