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Volume 30 Number 4 Issue 357 September 2017

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR Huricon September 28-October 1 August was in Helsenki. Worldcon had a lot Park Inn by Radisson Resort & Conference going on. Helsenki was a fabulous city to hold the Worldcon. It 3011 Maingate Ln, turned out to be second biggest Worldcon. More space had to be Kissimmee, FL 34747 added to convention. The Hugos were spectacular and $40 pre-reg for members and 25 for non-members acknowledge the international nature of Worldcon. I had the Gaming honor on being on 2 panel discussions and I worked at www.hmgs-south.com/ registration and masquerade. This month I may checkout some local events. I need to Megacon Tampa focus on reviewing my notes on both NASFiC and Worldcon., September 29-October 1 so I can start on my con reports. Tampa Convention Center As always I am willing to take submissions. 333 S. Franklin Street See you next month. Tampa, FL 33602 Guests: William Shatner (Kirk, Star Trek-Fri,Sat) John Barrowamn (Merlin, Arrow ) Events Kevin Smith (Director) James Marsters (Spike, Buffy the Vampire Space Coast Comic Con Slayer) September 8-10 Alex Kingston (River Song, Doctor Who) Space Coast Convention Center Kate Cassidy (Laurel Lance, Arrow) 301 Tucker Ln Neal Adams (comic artist) Cocoa, FL 32926 Amanda Conner (comic writer Guests: Terance Baker (comic artist) Jimmy Palmotti (comic artist) Jake Estrada (comic artist) Chuck Dixon (comic writer Kimber Groman (graphic artist) Ron Marz (comic Marz) MarkWho42 podcast team and many more and others And many more $25 for 3 days pre con, $30 at the door $65 precon, spacecoastcomiccon.com megacontampabay.com

Klingon Feast September 29-October 1 Birthdays Best Western Aku Tiki Inn 2225 S Atlantic Ave Susan Cole - Sept. 3 Daytona Beach, FL 32118 $45 before Sep 1, $55 after Sep 1 krumscomics.wixsite.com/klingonfeast

OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 30 Issue 357, September 2017. Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Society (OASFiS). All rights reserved by original Authors and Artists. Editor: Juan Sanmiguel, 1421 Pon Pon Court, Orlando, FL 32825. Subscriptions are $12.00 per year and entitle the subscriber to membership in the Society. Attending Memberships are $25.00 per year. Extra memberships to family members are $7.00 per year when only one newsletter is sent to the household. To subscribe or join OASFiS, send a check or money order to: OASFiS, PO Box 592905, Orlando, FL 32859-2905. To submit Articles, Artwork or Letters of Comment to the Event Horizon, send them to the Editor's address above or [email protected]. For additional information, call our Voice Mail at (407) 823-8715. OASFiS is a state chartered not for profit corporation whose goal is the promotion of Science Fiction in all its forms. All opinions expressed herein are solely those of the Author(s) and in no way represent the opinions of the Society or its members as a whole. Page two September 2017

September OASFiS Calendar OASFiS People

Susan Cole 407-275-5211 OASFiS Business Meeting [email protected] Sunday, September 10, 1:30 PM, , Brick and Fire Arthur Dykeman 407-314-5506 Pasta and Pizza Parlor (Downtown Orlando, 1621 South [email protected] Orange Ave Orlando, Florida 32806 407-426-8922). Come Steve Grant 352 241 0670 and join us as we discuss Soul Summoner by Elicia Hyder [email protected] Mike Pilletere [email protected] SciFi Light David Ratti 407-282-2468 TBA. Check website and Facebook page. [email protected] Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 [email protected] To contact for more info: Patricia Wheeler [email protected] OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715 Any of these people can give readers information about the OASFiS Meeting club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan.

Date: 8-13-2017 Officers: Tom Reed and Peggy Stubblefield suggested reincorporation. Arthur feels we don't Members: Steve Cole, Arthur Dykeman, Ken Konkol, have enough starch to reincorporate, and Peggy Dave Ratti, Larry Wolfe agreed with him. Guests: Karim 6. Peggy discussed the club’s finances. We owe, we owe, it's off to work we go. We'll discuss it more after the talk with the accountant. 1. Tom brought and demonstrated a website format using Joomla. Will confer with Mike about it. 7. Book discussion: Soul Summoner by Elicia Hyder—only Dave read it. 2. Discussion of Doctor Who live presentation 8. Book choice for September: Soul Summoner, but through Fathom Theaters on Thursday Aug 17th. Then we talked about potential for a Female this time more people read it. Ken asks if we Doctor, and a Jane Bond. Provoked quite a bit of could hold the meeting at his place and hang out, discussion regarding traditional behaviors and and pros and cons were brought forward. Some degradation of morals in society. people like the public venue. 3. Steve noticed Goodreads will have a search 9. Discussed more books indexed by Goodreads that function with subcategory topics under primary Steve liked/likes. Tom brought up a miniseries genre. called Legion on FX. He doesn't like it, but it's artsy. 4. Discussion on bipedal humanoid characters in most modern sci-fi. 5. Touched lightly on the con and OASIS 30. Ken Page three September 2017

Award News BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT (source Locus) FORM 2017 Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes”, written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry Winners for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. McDonough (SyFy) Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced August 11, 2017 at Worldcon 75, the 75th BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM World Science Fiction Convention, held at the Ellen Datlow Messukeskus in Helsinki Finland, August 9-13, 2013. BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM BEST NOVEL Liz Gorinsky The Obelisk Gate, by N. K. Jemisin () BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST BEST Julie Dillon Every Heart a Doorway, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com publishing) BEST SEMIPROZINE Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & BEST NOVELETTE Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, “The Tomato Thief”, by Ursula Vernon (Apex and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Magazine, January 2016) Schapansky

BEST SHORT STORY BEST FANZINE “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, by Amal El-Mohtar (The Lady Business, edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Press) and Susan

BEST RELATED WORK BEST FANCAST Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Books, 2000-2016, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Peter Newman Beer) BEST FAN WRITER BEST GRAPHIC STORY Abigail Nussbaum Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image) BEST FAN ARTIST Elizabeth Leggett BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM BEST SERIES Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short (Special Category added by option of Worldcon 75) story by , directed by Denis Villeneuve The , by Lois McMaster Bujold (21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment/ (Baen) Lava Bear Films) THE JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER (Not a , but administered along with the Hugo Awards) Page six September 2017

Letters of Comment production. I am sure who wrote it. I hope they 1706-24 Eva Rd. perform it elsewhere.

Etobicoke, ON The World is both juried and a popular vote award vote. Two of the finalists for each category are CANADA M9C 2B2 nominated by the ’s members. The other are picked by selected judges. The judges will vote for the winner. The award can only go to a work of Fantasy. August 25, 2017 The Awards could be fixed. There problems are a complex time frame, little time to consider the finalists, and lack of transparency. The window should be the previous calendar year. Dear OASFiSians: should publish the voting statistics.

The August edition of the Event Horizon, issue 356, is My loc…the cons we like are the ones who reflect our here with me. And where am I? In the small town of interests, of course. Many of us have put in our time West Nipissing, ON, not far from the top of Lake as conrunners to make those cons happen, but now Huron, in a hotel room, getting ready for Yvonne’s that we are retired (I am, anyway), other will run the mother’s interment in the family plot at Cache Bay cons, and redirect the con’s interests away from your Public Cemetery. Gabrielle wouldn’t want me to just own. It’s bound to happen. There are cons we don’t sit and mourn, so here I am in our hotel room, with my go to any more, but we now go to cons we do like. tablet and keyboard, sending a loc all the way to Florida. Great costumes at Iccon! Lots of Batman costumes,

and any family who will dress as The Incredibles is Give Back to Hogwarts…I must tell Yvonne about incredible all on their own. this play. We were in England this time last year, but we simply didn’t have enough time, or money to see and the Cursed Child. With the attempts to control the Hugos by assorted Puppies, and the It is late, and we need to get some rest for the funeral heavy-handedness by the people who run tomorrow, so I will say thank you for this issue, and I DragonCon’s Dragon Awards, perhaps the World will keep an eye out for the next. Fantasy Awards are yet untouched. I hope I am right. Anyone know differently?

Give Back to Hogwarts might have been a local Yours, Lloyd Penney. Page seven September 2017

This month will have a special presentation of Nuasicaa of the Valley of the Wind. This is Academy Award winner Hayao Miyazaki’s second film but the first that was entirely his own creation. This is part of Fathom Events special presentation of Miyazaki’s films this year. This is set in the far during a biological apocalypse. While people are trying restore civilization, war may set back the recovery. A young princess Nausicaa explores this world and tries to stop a disaster. This has all the themes important to Miyazaki. There is a powerful heroine, a love of flight, and environmental concerns. This is also the animation debut of Hideaki Anno. Anno animated one of the film’s final action sequences. Anno would go on to create and direct the landmark anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion. This is the first major theater release of the film in over years. In 1985 a highly edited version of the film was released as Warriors of the Wind. Miyazaki was so angered by the is cut, he demanded a no edit clause for all of his films. The film will be in selected theaters on September 24 (dubbed) and September 25 (subtitled). It will be playing at Regal Theaters in the Central Florida area. OASFiS PO Box 323 Goldenrod, FL 32733-0323