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NASFA 'Shuttle' Nov 2005 The SHUTTLE November 2005 The Next NASFA Meeting is 19 November 2005 at the Regular Time and Location { { send deserving fans between North America and Europe, Oyez, Oyez alternating direction each year Ñ the current direction is from Europe to North America. Funds are raised by donations, The next NASFA meeting will be 19 November 2005 at auctions and other fund-raising events, and Òrequired dona- the regular time and location. tionsÓ for voting (a minimum of $3 or £2 or EUR3). Voting is The November program will be the more-or-less annual by preferential ballot. The deadline is Saturday 27 May 2006. NASFA auction. Everyone should bring items to donate to the The nominees are: auction and, well, money. ÒBugÓ Bridget Bradshaw The November after-the-meeting meeting will be at Ò1/2rÓ Arthur Cruttenden Mike KennedyÕs house in celebration of November birthdays. ÒSparksÓ Mike Rennie And, yes, there will be cake. Voting is restricted to active fans. Ballots can be found online at <taff.org.uk> and include ÒNo PreferenceÓ and ÒHold Over FundsÓ options. Votes can be sent to any of three administrators: James Bacon, 211 Black Horse Avenue, Dublin 2006 TAFF Race 7, Ireland (Euro and dollar checks); TAFF c/o Claire Brialey, 59 Shirley Road, Croydon, CR0 7ES, UK (Sterling cheques); 2006 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund nominees have been an- and Suzanne Tompkins, P. O. Box 25075, Seattle WA 98165, nounced. TAFF, which was created in 1953, provides funds to USA (US dollar checks). Inside this issueÉ NASFA Calendar............................................................2 A Tale of Two Movies....................................................4 Minutes of the October Meeting .....................................2 Book Review, Another Fine Mess ..................................5 Awards News..................................................................3 Letters of Comment ........................................................6 Deadline for the December 2005 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 2 December 2005. th Our 25 Year of1 Publication! 11 BD: Jeanna Woosley. NASFA Calendar 12 BD: Abraham Lincoln. 14 St. ValentineÕs Day. NOVEMBER 17 BD: Nancy A. Cucci. 03Ð06 World Fantasy Convention Ñ Madison WI. 17Ð19 StellarCon 30 Ñ High Point NC. 04Ð06 Esotericon Ñ Atlanta GA (CANCELED). 18* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at 08 Election Day. BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. 11 VeteransÕ Day. 20 PresidentÕs Day. 11Ð13 AfterLife 2005 Ñ Atlanta GA. 21 BD: Susan Stockell. 11Ð13 Novacon Ñ Huntsville AL. 22 BD: George Washington. 19* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at 24Ð26 SheVaCon 14 Ñ Roanoke VA. BookMark. Program: NASFA Auction. ATMM: 24Ð26 ConDFW V Ñ Richadson (Dallas) TX. Mike KennedyÕs house. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO 19 TimeGate III Ñ Atlanta GA. 22 BD: Nancy Peters. The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on 23 BD: Wilson ÒBobÓ Tucker. the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large 23 BD: Mike Kennedy. nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which case 24 Thanksgiving Day. we often move the meeting to the second or fourth weekend.) 29 BD: Howard Camp. The regular meeting location is the upstairs meeting room at 30 BD: Joshua Kennedy. BookMark on South Memorial Parkway. The Executive 30 BD: Richard Gilliam. Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The business meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is welcome to DECEMBER attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after-the- 02Ð04 SMOFcon 23 Ñ Portland OR. meeting meeting with directions available at the program. 02Ð04 East Meets South Ñ Anniston AL. 07 Pearl Harbor Day. 09 BD: Maria West. 12 BD: Toni Weisskopf. October Minutes 17* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at by Steve Sloan, Secretary, Host, and Human Xerox Machine BookMark. Program: Gift Exchange. ATMM: TBD. 17 BD: Robin Ray. The October meeting of the North Alabama Science 19 BD: Yvonne Penney. Fiction Association was called to order on Saturday, October 20 BD: Aaron Kennedy. 10, 2005 in the BookMark upstairs meeting room at 6:22:55P 21 First Day of Winter. by President Mary Ortwerth. The tired crickets were shaken 25 Christmas Day. into performing again. 26 Boxing Day. OLD BUSINESS 26 First Day of Kwanzaa. Burp! (The club picnic was last month.) 26 First Day of Hannukah. NEW BUSINESS 26 BD: Michael R. Stone. Diddly-squat. 31 New YearÕs Eve Ñ Party Anyone? CONVENTION BUSINESS We have written confirmation from David Drake, Glen JANUARY 2006 Cook, and Stephen Hickman that they can attend next yearÕs 01 New YearÕs Day. Con Stellation XXV: Cygnus as guests of honor. 02 New YearÕs Day (Federal Holiday). Cygnus will probably be held on either the weekend of 03 BD: Jim Kennedy. October 13, or October 20. The 20th is the more likely date, 03 BD: Karen Hopkins. because Glen Cook isnÕt sure about the 13th. That means we 06 BD: Rich Garber. will probably have to reschedule that monthÕs club meetingÉ 06Ð07 ShadowCon Ñ Memphis TN. unless, of course, we follow the silly suggestions brought up by 06Ð08 GaFilk Ñ Atlanta GA. the idea. 07 BD: Douglas E. Lampert. David Drake will be Guest of Honor, and Stephen Hick- 16 BD: Bruce Butler. man will be either Master of Ceremonies or Artist Guest of 16 BD: Martin Luther King (Observed). Honor. We have no immediate plans to have a Fan Guest of 20 BD: Larry Montgomery. Honor, because Glen Cook will probably be a Special Guest. 20Ð22 Chattacon 31 Ñ Chattanooga TN. Eric Flint is also planning to attend. [Since the club meeting 20Ð22 MarsCon 15 Ñ Williamsburg VA. there have been some additions and possibly changes to the 21* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at lineup discussed by Steve. As of press time the final slate was BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. NOTE: not quite ready for publication. -ED] Could be moved due to Chattacon. At this time, weÕre missing one important ingredient: someone to run registration. We can really use a volunteer. FEBRUARY Mary has experience with the job, but sheÕll be a little too 01 National Freedom Day. busy co-running the entire con. Mike Kennedy was 02 Groundhog Day. suggested, especially if we can get someone else to sit at reg- 08 BD: Lin Cochran. istration to do the grunt work, but according to Mary, her 09 BD: Jack Lundy. attempts to guilt him into it havenÕt worked so far. Among 10 BD: Marcia Illingworth. other problems, he has religious objections to the way 2 registration has been done. ItÕs usually done on a PC, but heÕs ENDEAVOUR AWARD a Mac User. [Now, now Ñ I use PCs at work so IÕm quite The Endeavour Award <www.osfci.org/endeavour> is conversant with those beasts. -ED] presented annually for a distinguished science fiction or fan- Mike Cothran had a programming suggestion: the Ironing tasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and Chef. We decided that Mike can do publicity, and he can do the published in the previous year. The 2005 award was an- program book, but he cannot do programming. nounced at OryCon 27 (Portland OR) the first weekend in TREASURERÕS REPORT November. Prior to getting inundated with bills, Sam Smith thought The award, which is accompanied by a grant of $1,000, NASFA would be losing about $100 [on the convention]. Now, went to The Child Goddess by Louise Marley. Judges for this weÕre losing more. Sam had to transfer some money from the yearÕs award were Allen Steele, Susan Shwartz, and Nalo Con Stellation account to NASFAÕs account, to keep it from Hopkinson. dropping below the minimum balance. The problem isnÕt IHG AWARDS ANNOUNCED nearly as bad as it sounds, because while NASFA the club is The International Horror Guild <www.ihgonline.org> losing money, Con Stellation is fine. SamÕs executive sum- announced their 2005 awards during the World Fantasy Con- mary: If it werenÕt for this nasty NASFA thing being a drag on vention on Thursday 3 November 2005 in Madison,WI. The the con, weÕd just about break even. judges were Edward Bryant, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Ann After that, we discussed ways to improve NASFAÕs Kennedy, and Hank Wagner. The winners were: finances. Perhaps we should put off the idea of raising con Living Legend Award (previously announced) ........Gahan rates, and raise club membership rates instead, or cut down the Wilson unnecessary names on the mailing list. Another suggestion was Novel......................................................Ramsey Campbell, raising the individual rate, and dropping the family rate, to The Overnight (PS Publishing, UK) compensate for the printing and mailing costs of the Shuttle. First Novel ..................................................John Harwood, Mike Kennedy thinks that we can cut the Shuttle mailing list by The Ghost Writer (Harcourt, US; Jonathan Cape UK) about 10Ð20% without losing anything terribly important. Long Fiction..............................................Lucius Shepard, There is also a smaller number of people who could be added, Viator (Night Shade) so updating the list would be a net gain. Mid-Length Fiction ................................Daniel Abraham, At one time, the NASFA account had regular monthly ÒFlat DianeÓ (The Magazine of deposits from the CD, but the current 3% return doesnÕt help Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2004) much. Eventually, if Sam gets ambitious enough, he would like Short Fiction .............................................Don Tumasonis, to work up a complete accounting of NASFAÕs finances. ÒA Pace of ChangeÓ (Acquainted with the Night) The meeting adjourned at 6:35:12P. Collection ....................................................Brian Evenson, For the program, we had a post-mortem discussion of The Wavering Knife (Fiction Collective Two) Con Stellation XXIV, which was held the week before. Anthology ................................Acquainted with the Night, The After-the-Meeting Meeting was held at Steve SloanÕs Barbara and Christopher Roden, eds. (Ash-Tree Press) new house. Highlights included dual Killer Cutthroat Spades Non-Fiction .................................................D. M. Mitchell, tables, computer service and home inspection by Mike Cothran A Serious Life (Savoy, UK) (Thanks, Mike), and a showing of The Tick.
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