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Te Shutle July 2012 The Next NASFA Meeting will Saturday 14 July 2012 at the New Meeting Location Breaking News—Meeting at Willowbrook Madison; See Below ConCom 3P, Saturday 14 July at Willowbrook Madison and Doug Lampert at the meeting location. See the directions d Oyez, Oyez d elsewhere in this issue to get to the new meeting site. The usual rules apply—that is, please bring food and drink to share. The next NASFA Meeting will be Saturday 14 July 2012 There is a Kroger grocery store located across the street from at the Madison campus of Willowbrook Baptist Church (old the meeting (though getting there and back isn’t quite as simple Wilson Lumber Company building) at 7105 Highway 72W as that makes it sound). (aka University Drive). Note that this is the 2nd Saturday, one CONCOM MEETINGS week earlier than usual (due to LibertyCon) and not at the old The next Con†Stellation XXXI concom meeting will be Renasant Bank location. Please see the sidebar at the bottom Saturday 14 July—at 3P on the same day as the NASFA of page 2 for directions to the new meeting location. meeting; at the same location. There will be a dinner break [This new location may become our regular location, but in between the concom and the club meeting. any case many thanks to Sam for finding it and making the After July, the remaining Con†Stellation XXXI concom arrangements for us to use it on fairly short notice. Thanks also meetings will occur approximately twice a month. Though to Renasant Bank for letting us use their meeting room for sev- things could change, the currently scheduled dates are Sunday eral years—since March 2009. Though we are naturally disap- 5 August, Saturday 18 August (same day as a club meeting), pointed they are remodeling and no longer making the room Saturday 8 September, Saturday 22 September, Sunday 7 available for outside use, it was nonetheless a major boon while October, and Thursday 11 October (the day before the con- it lasted. -ED] vention). All of these except the last will probably be at 3P. The JULY PROGRAM final meeting is the all-day setup meeting—loading up equip- The July program will be Stephanie Osborn speaking on “Walk Toward The Light” 18 August meeting, which is the same day as a NASFA meet- —using history in her Displaced Detective series. ing, will very likely be at the club meeting location. The other JULY ATMM meetings may be at Mike Kennedy’s house or may be else- The July After-the-Meeting Meeting will be hosted by Mary where—please stay tuned. Continuing Our 32nd Year of Publication

Inside this issue… NASFA Calendar ...... 4 News & Info ...... 2 Review of DeepSouthCon 50 ...... 4 Directions to New Meeting Location ...... 2 Awards Roundup ...... 6 Minutes of the June Meeting ...... 3 Letter of Comment ...... 8

Deadline for the August 2012 issue of The1 NASFA Shuttle is Monday 30 July 2012 CHANGING SHUTTLE DEADLINES calendar automatically updated as events (Club Meetings, Con- The deadline for the NASFA Shuttle has been tweaked yet com Meetings, local sf/f events) are added or changed. You can again. The likely repro date has shifted somewhat to the right view the calendar online at . (roughly the weekend before each meeting) but most of each issue will still need to be put to bed as much as two weeks be- fore the monthly meeting. Please check the deadline below the Table of Contents each News & Info month to submit news, reviews, LoCs, or other material. We will generally need to enforce that deadline strictly. CHICON 7 ANNOUNCES FINAL RATE RISE PROGRAMS AND ATMMs As of 1 August 2012, membership rates for Chicon 7 —this year’s , to be held 30 August–3 • August: Les Johnson speaking on his book Going Interstel- September 2012 in Chicago IL—will go up to their final level. lar. Adult Attending memberships will bump up $15 to $230. Con- • September: Travis Taylor and his father talking about “Work- verting a Supporting Attending membership will go to $180. ing for Warner.” The senior Mr. Taylor was a NASA em- Children (0–16) and YA (17–21) rates remain unchanged at ployee during the Apollo program. $75 and $100 respectively. The Family Rate (2 adults plus 2 or • October: Probably the Con†Stellation Post-Mortem. more dependent children) will increase from $540 to $560. • December: Probably the More-Or-Less-Annual NASFA Gift Day rates have also been announced. The rates vary by day Exchange. (Thursday through Monday) and class of admission (Adult, We need ATMM volunteers for August and almost all YA, Child). (Note that Chicon is not calling these memberships months past (though November is spoken for). so presumably they do not come with rights to vote in Site Se- FUTURE CLUB MEETING DATES lection or attend the Business Meeting.) Those rates are: Adult, All remaining 2012 meetings are currently scheduled for $50 (Thu), $70 (Fri, Sat, or Sun), and $40 (Mon); YA $30/40/ the usual 3rd Saturday except this month, which will be the 2nd 20; and Child $20/30/15. Saturday due to a conflict with LibertyCon. AMAZON OFFERS TO BUY DORCHESTER JOINING THE NASFA EMAIL LIST Dorchester Publishing, which has been sliding down the All NASFANs are urged to join the NASFA email list, which slope into oblivion for a couple of years, has received an offer you can do online at . The list is from Amazon.com to buy it. An auction must still be held, but usually low traffic, averaging about 3 messages a week over the likelihood of another bidder seems to be low. If the sale the first half of 2012 (though the rate is rather variable). Gener- goes through, parties owed back royalties from Dorchester may ally the list is limited to club announcements plus the occa- be made whole in exchange for transferring DP’s contract sional message of general interest to north-Alabama sf/f/h/etc. rights to Amazon and throwing in ebook rights. fans. Non NASFAns are welcome to join the list, but please SETTLE PLANET BAEN only do so if you’re interested in the above restricted top- Baen Books has launched Planet Baen —a web-based game set on “on a planet on the galactic aged and could result in you being asked to leave the list. frontier”—where you can win free ebooks from Baen by NASFA CALENDAR ONLINE achieving various in-game goals. The game is integrated with NASFA has an online calendar on Google. Interested parties Facebook, but you apparently are not required to be a Face- can check the calendar online, but you can also subscribe to the bookie to play. Winnings are in the form of an ecoupon re- calendar and have your Outlook, iCal, BlackBerry, or other deemable for any of a variety of books. Multiple coupons can

roadwork, so watch for lane shifts, loose gravel, etc., and Directions to Meeting (2) You may not be able to see the Willowbrook Madison building (which is set back from the road) by the time you get Willowbrook Madison is near the intersection of US 72W to the turn into the Kroger parking lot. (aka University Drive closer to the center of Huntsville) and You can see a few photos of the approach to Willowbrook Slaughter Road (aka Jeff Road north of the intersection). This Madison online at . is in Huntsville, but close to the Madison city limit. Given that we have less than full control of the AC, it may be a little warmish in the building so you’re advised to dress accord-

ingly. Road Jeff Kroger Coming from the direction of Madison it’s an easy right turn from US 72 into the Willowbrook Madison parking lot, about 150 yards east of the intersection. US 72W Coming from the direction of Huntsville things are a little (aka University Drive) trickier. US 72 is divided by a median and there’s no left turn from westbound 72 into Willowbrook Madison’s parking lot. The easiest/safest way is to turn right into the Kroger parking

lot (either at the light before Slaughter/Jeff or at a second en- Road Slaughter trance about 100 yards later) and make your way through the Map To parking lot to Jeff Road. Turn left onto Jeff, then left at the Parking light onto US 72. Again, the right turn into the Willowbrook Meeting Madison parking lot is about 150 yards east of the intersec- Location Willowbrook Madison tion. Two notes of caution: (1) Jeff Road is undergoing major 7105 Highway 72W Huntsville AL 35806 2 be won depending on how far you level up and achieve goals. io9.com has reported that two of the Those goals, per the official website, include “Adjust[ing] your Kardashian sisters (Kendall and Kylie if you care) are writing a political, economic, and moral outlook.” Many Shuttle readers Young Adult novel. Well, them and their “co”- may be familiar enough with Baen to have a clue what that writer Maya Sloan. Reportedly, the book will not feature celeb- means. rity gossip but will still be a “serious book, along the lines of WANT TO OWN A SPACE SUIT? Hunger Games and Harry Potter.” And yes, this may be the A company by the name of Final Frontier Design first of a series. is proposing to design and build in- vehicle space suits for the variety of commercial space ventures now (pun intended) getting off the ground. In fact, they are already two generations in to their work and are now looking June Minutes for money to kickstart their “3G Space Suit” effort using, well, by Steve Sloan, Secretary kickstarter.com. For those who may not be familiar, Kickstarter has become a The June meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction Go To way of croudsourcing funding—asking people to “in- Association was called to order on Sunday, June 17, 2012 at vest” in a new idea. In the case of FFD’s appeal at , they are giving away various goodies ranging bassy Suites hotel at 3:37:45P by President Mary Lampert, who from a postcard (at the $3 basic level) to a full space suit (at the used a water bottle as a gavel. Crickets were left at home. [Us- $10,000 “Interstellar Spaced Level”) to donors. As this article ing editorial prerogative, I’ll note that we thank DSC for letting is being written the highest level with any donors is the $550 us use this room. -ED] “Zero Gravity Level” which nets the payee (among other OLD BUSINESS things) a pair of anti-G pants similar to those worn by fighter Eating. jet pilots. NEW BUSINESS The funding drive runs only through 15 July, with a goal of We lost the Renasant Bank meeting room. The bank is re- $20,000. The way Kickstarter works is that the money will modeling and the meeting room is going away. They are only only change hands if the goal is reached. honoring their room reservations until the end of June. The club HOW ABOUT A SPACE SHIP? discussed options for a replacement meeting location. If you get a space suit, how about a whole space ship to go According to Mike K., meeting rooms at local public librar- with it? ies would require much earlier meeting times [if on a Satur- The 24ʹ prop shuttlecraft Galileo—from the original Star day], and reservations can be taken six months in advance. The Trek series—recently changed hands for north of $70,000 in an Star Market meeting room is no longer there. It is probably not auction handled by Kiko Online Auctions. According to a story possible to use a meeting room at Teledyne Brown, because in the Canton Re- Mike K. or Doug would have to be at any meeting we would pository the price but they close early during the summer months. Doug could shot up at the end of ask his father to check at UAH for more information. the auction “as three Sam reported that Willowbrook Baptist Church has a branch late bidders fought to campus in Madison in the former Wilson’s Lumber building. claim the structure.” (By the way, it’s almost within spitting distance of Haven Com- Some parts are miss- ics.) We can have it for free on Saturdays. It has a theater-style ing, others are in- room with a seating capacity of 203, a large screen, one table, cluded in the sale but and “all the seats we can eat.” Sam has a key and the alarm not yet reattached. code. There is one basic rule: leave it the way we found it. Card The previous owner playing is apparently okay. (Judy asked.) It is available to host was less than halfway along in a restoration project when (per After-the-Meeting Meetings as well, although there are no the auction site) his or her “goals […] changed and [she/he kitchen facilities. now] desires immediate sale.” Doug moved that we hold the July NASFA meeting at the THE MUNSTERS ARE COMING, former Wilson’s Lumber building. Wyman seconded, and the THE MUNSTERS ARE COMING! motion passed many to two. Sam hasn’t asked if we can have In a possible sign of the Apocalypse, NBC is readying a “re- someone other than him let us in. The church has a two year boot” of The Munsters to be titled Mockingbird Lane. Pater lease on the building. Herman will be played by Jerry O’Connell (perhaps best There was more discussion of possible meeting locations. known as Detective Woody Hoyt from Crossing Jordan, but The Monte Sano hotel may have a place available for a nomi- with a few genre credits). Wife Lily will be portrayed by Portia nal fee. Doug noted that a restaurant would want a significant de Rossi (Nip/Tuck, Arrested Development). Other talent at- number of people to buy dinner. tached includes Eddie Izzard as Grandpa, Charity Wakefield as I don’t remember the context, but Ronnie mentioned a “reti- Marilyn, and Mason Cook as Eddie. nal scan that looks into your soul.” Wyman discussed upcom- The reimagined one-hour dramedy reportedly has Herman as ing programming. We will have Les Johnson in August. Wy- a zombie constantly in need of bodily repair. Perhaps produc- man asked Travis (who might have been sober) about having tion company Universal Television couldn’t find an actor of the him and his father give a program, possibly in September, Oc- Fred Gywnne’s stature. Look for it (if you dare) as a midseason tober, or November. Wyman has an idea for a Christmas pro- starter for the 2012–13 season. gram. THE KARDASHIANS ARE COMING, CON BUSINESS THE KARDASHIANS ARE COMING! Sam asked for a convention report. Mike K. reported that OK, the Apocalypse seems even closer, now. Website “we had a convention.” He also reported that the Con†Stella- 3 tion room party at DeepSouthCon went well. About 150 people 08* Con†Stellation XXXI Concom Meeting—3P, location got stickers. In comparison, the London Worldcon bid party got TBD but probably Mike Kennedy’s house. about 200 to 250 people. The club discussed which dealers we 09 BD: Mike Cothran. might have for Con†Stellation. So far, all new book dealers 09 Grandparents Day. have told us no. Con Suite Director Judy asked, “Will there be 11 BD: Ray Pietruszka. food?” Wyman moved to adjourn at 4:01:40P. 12 BD: Pat Butler. The program was… well… helping take down DeepSouth- 15* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 7P Program, location Con, I suppose. The DeepSouthCon Dead Dog Party was the TBD but probably Willowbrook Madison. Program: After-the-Meeting Meeting. “Working for Warner” by Dr. Travis Taylor and his fa- ther. ATMM: TBD. 17 Citizenship Day. 21–23 FenCon 9—Dallas TX. NASFA Calendar 22* Con†Stellation XXXI Concom Meeting—3P, location TBD but probably Mike Kennedy’s house. JULY 26 BD: Jenna Victoria Stone. 01 Canada Day. 28–30 Anime Weekend Atlanta—Atlanta GA. 02 BD: Deb Stone. 28–30 Klingon Feast—Daytona Beach FL. 04 Independence Day. OCTOBER 05 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: The Martian 04 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: , Dan Chronicles, ; 6P. Simmons; 6P. 09 Nunavut Day. 05–06 Handmade & Bound—Nashville TN. 13–15 Anime Southeast—Sevierville TN. 07* Con†Stellation XXXI Concom Meeting—3P, location 14* Con†Stellation XXXI Concom Meeting—3P, Willow- TBD but probably Mike Kennedy’s house. PLEASE brook Baptist Church, Madison location (old Wilson NOTE that this is a Sunday. Lumber Company building)—7105 Highway 72W. 11* Con†Stellation XXXI Concom Meeting—all-day meet- 14* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 7P Program, Willow- ing Thursday before the convention. Pickup equipment brook Madison. Program: Stephanie Osborn, “Walk and supplies at divers places and do setup at the hotel. Toward The Light”—using history in the Displaced 12–14 Con†Stellation XXXI—Huntsville AL. Detective series. ATMM: at the meeting location, hosted 15 BD: Robert Buelow. by Doug and Mary Lampert. PLEASE NOTE that this 20* NASFA Meeting— 6P Business, 7P Program, location is one week earlier than the usual weekend, to ac- TBD but probably Willowbrook Madison. Program: commodate folks attending LibertyCon. Probably the Con†Stellation Post-Mortem. ATMM: 14 Sukoshi Con—Athens GA. TBD. 20–22 LibertyCon 25—Chattanooga TN. 24 United Nations Day. 20–22 NAPPA Con—Decatur AL. 25 BD: Marie McCormack. 21 Rob-Con—Bristol TN. 26–28 Fangcon—Nashville TN. 22 Parents’ Day. 26–28 Geek Media Expo—Nashville TN. 24 BD: Jay Johns. 26–28 Fanboy Expo—Knoxville TN. 26–29 Play On Con—Birmingham AL. 26–28 Necronomicon—St. Petersburg FL. 29 BD: Mark Paulk. 31 Halloween. AUGUST OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO 02 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: Robopocalypse, The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on the Daniel H. Wilson; 6P. third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large nearby 05* Con†Stellation XXXI Concom Meeting—3P, location convention being held that weekend—in which case we often TBD but probably Mike Kennedy’s house. PLEASE move the meeting to the second or fourth weekend.) The regu- NOTE that this is a Sunday. lar meeting location is in flux. At press time meetings are 08 BD: Jim Woosley. scheduled for the Madison location of Willowbrook Baptist 12 BD: Sue Thorn. Church, (old Wilson Lumber Company building)—7105 14 BD: Edward Kenny. Highway 72W but stay tuned for changes until we settle down. 16–19 Game Fest South—Chattanooga TN. The Executive Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The 18* Con†Stellation XXXI Concom Meeting—3P, location business meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is wel- TBD but probably Willowbrook Madison. come to attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after- 18* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 7P Program, location the-meeting meeting with directions available at the program. TBD but probably Willowbrook Madison. Program: Les Johnson will discuss his book Going Interstellar. ATMM: TBD. 21 BD: Deborah Denton. Old Home Week(end) 30–03 Chicon 7 (70th Worldcon)—Chicago IL. A Short Review of DeepSouthCon 50 31–03 Dragon*Con—Atlanta GA. by Mike Kennedy 31–03 Mephit Furmeet—Memphis TN. SEPTEMBER DeepSouthCon 50: Lunar Party was held 15–17 June 2012 at 03 Labor Day. the Embassy Suites Hotel in Huntsville AL. Headline guests 03 BD: David K. Robinson. were GoH Lois McMaster Bujold, Artist GoH Howard Tayler, 06 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: More than Hu- Toastmaster Travis “Doc” Taylor, Fan GoHs Larry Montgom- man, Theodore Sturgeon; 6P. ery and David Hulan, and Special Media GoH Dr. Demento. 4 About 30 pros, fans, musicians, and groups were listed as Also around the perimeter of the second-floor atrium overlook. Attending guests. The final attendance number is pending but is Programming was diverse with a lot of science, fan history/ expected to be north of 500. fandom, and other panels in addition to the literary and movie- Many Shuttle readers will be aware that DeepSouthCon oriented ones. The filk track was reportedly very successful started in Huntsville, though DSC 1 (1963) was only retroac- (and several big names were present) but as with the Dealers tively called that (it Room I didn’t have time to sample it. I did make it to a few had originally been program items, including moderating a History of Huntsville called MidSouth- Fandom panel way too early Saturday morning. Con). Dave Hulan, The aforementioned Con Suite was run rockingly by de- who chaired that first partment head Regina Kirby with many assistants—including DSC, was one of the several NASFANs—and the rest of the social scene at DSC Fan Guests of Honor 50 was very active too. Both nights saw multiple parti- at DSC 50; Larry es—there were at least 6 on Saturday; on Friday I was helm- Montgomery, who ing the successful Con†Stellation XXXI room party and chaired DSC 2 and didn’t get out to any but the con program listing had 12 total co-chaired DSC 3, for the weekend. Breakfast both mornings was also a social was the other Fan event, as fans mixed and mingled at the tables with plates GoH. piled high with buffet food and/or made-to-order omelets. After DSC 1, The hotel also had an evening reception that was more Huntsville was also sparsely-attended than the breakfast as fans seemed to prefer the site for DSC 4, DSC 50 Logo finding each other in the atrium to go out to dinner or make DSC 23, DSC 25, and party preparations. DSC 40. The last three of those were sponsored by NASFA. One thing that DSC 50 lacked was organized gaming (with The cool thing about DSC 50 for us local NASFANs is that it one exception I’ll speak of shortly), but fans will find a way. was run by a committee drawn from across the Southeast so for The breakfast/evening reception area was one favorite destina- the most part we could actually go to stuff at a Huntsville tion for those DeepSouthCon and not just run stuff. This is thanks in large seeking a fix part to the self-named Moon Princesses (Julie Wall, Toni —the many 4- Weisskopf, and Linda Zielke) whose loony idea it was to form top tables the committee and start the bid three years ago. could be re- ((Get it… Moon Princesses, Lunar Party, loony idea…)) arranged into I don’t have the time I need to write a comprehensive review enough space of the convention, but if I had to sum it up quickly I’d simply to fit any say “success.” Any quibbles below are very minor and don’t game. Deep- detract from that summary at all. S o u t h C o n The venue worked well, though I think the hotel was does have one shocked each morning at how much food the fans put away at traditional the buffet breakfast that came free with the room. Function gaming event space was at one end of the ground floor and at both ends of the that DSC 50 second floor. All rooms overlooked a 10-story atrium except couldn’t over- Toni Congratulates Bruce for the few at one end whose view was blocked by the eleva- look. The tors. Speaking of those, they actually worked. That it, there was Hearts Championship of the Known Universe for 2012 went to enough capacity (3 speedy, fairly-capacious cars) that one sel- NASFAn Bruce Butler. dom had to wait more than a few moments. Parking was a A number of awards were given out at DSC 50, some spon- slight problem; between local day-trippers and those who drove sored by the con and some not. In the latter category, the Logan in from overflow hotels the parking lot was over capacity at Whitehurst Memorial Awards for Excellence in Comedy Music some times. I know of at least one hotel guest who was told to (sponsored by the Funny Music park across the street at the Holiday Inn when the Embassy Project and presented by Dr. Demento) Suites ran out of slots. were given: The Art Show crammed a lot of high-quality work into a Comedy Music Video ...... The Muppet Show Theme Song, room a little too small. Department head (and NASFAn) Randy OK Go and the Muppets Cleary is to be congratulated both for the quality of the artists Original Comedy Song ...... It’s Not Just For Gays Anymore, he attracted and for the smooth running of the room. Next door Neil Patrick Harris the Dealers Room appeared to be diverse, but I never had the Parody Song ...... Snoopy The Dogg, the Great Luke Ski time to do more than glance from the doorway. The main pro- In other awards news, DSC 50 ran a short story contest gramming room was on the first floor next to the Dealers that was won by Huntsvillain Scott Hancock for “The Comet Room and hosted a number of events that needed the capacity Five.” You can read it online at . later). Along more-traditional lines, the time-honored service (and From the first-floor meeting rooms one could walk up a disservice) Rebel, Phoenix, and Rubble Awards were given. flight of slightly-hidden stairs to two secondary programming The first two are for service to Southern Fandom by a fan and rooms and a third room devoted to fanzines, fan history dis- pro respectively and are official DSC awards. The last is not an plays, and cards. Alternately, one could walk past the hotel official DSC award—it’s administered by founder Gary Robe atrium to the elevators up to the Con Suite and Filk Room. Or, and is for a person or entity who has done much to Southern of course, one could walk between those two sets of rooms fandom. 5 CAMPBELL AND STURGEON AWARD WINNERS The John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for best science fiction novel) and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short sf) are given annually by J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. While the winners were announced ahead of time, the awards were actu- ally presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Ban- quet, held 5–8 July 2012 at the UK and nearby facilities in Lawrence KS. The ceremony itself was at The Oread hotel. This year’s Campbell (for wok in 2011) went to both Chris- topher Priest, for The Islanders and Joan Slonczewski, for The Highest Frontier due to a first-place tie. The Sturgeon went GoH Taylor Films Episode of Rocket City Rednecks During DSC 50 to Paul McAuley for “The Choice” (Asimov’s February 2011). The DSC committee surveyed previous Rebel and Phoenix DITMAR & OTHER AUSSIE AWARDS ANNOUNCED winners; the final selection was reserved to Julie and Toni rep- Winners of the Australian SF Awards (aka the Ditmars resenting the committee. They kept Linda out of the loop for ) and several other Australian reasons that will shortly become evident. The Phoenix Award awards were announced at Continuum 8: Craftonomicon, went to John Ringo . There were two which hosted the 51st Australian National SF Convention. De- Rebel Awards given, to Shelby Vick

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***************************************************************************************************************** The NASFA Shuttle is the newsletter of the North Alabama Science Fiction Association, Inc. This is the July 2012 edition (Volume 32, Num- ber 7). NASFA Officers for 2012: President Mary Lampert; Vice President Mike Kennedy; Secretary Steve Sloan; Treasurer Sam Smith; Pro- gram Director Wyman Cooke; Publicity Director Jack Lundy. Shuttle Editor Mike Kennedy. Comments, inquiries, and contributions of writing by email to: [email protected]—EDITORIAL ADDRESS (EMAIL) Comments, inquiries, and contributions of writing by snailmail to: Mike Kennedy, 7907 Charlotte Drive SW, Huntsville AL 35802-2841—EDITORIAL ADDRESS (SNAILMAIL) Dues ($), subscriptions ($), and Official Mail to: NASFA, Inc., P. O. Box 4857, Huntsville AL 35815-4857—OFFICIAL ADDRESS Contents Copyright, © 2010. All rights revert to contributors. All opinions are those of the individual authors and do not reflect club policies other than by coincidence. LoCs subject to edited printing. NASFA Dues = $25/year (Family rates available) Subscription only = $15/year Single copy = $2 each. *****************************************************************************************************************