Volume 31 Number 9 Issue 374 February 2019

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR A short issue this month. A lot was going for me Pulp Adventurecon personally and I need to focus on doing reviews and checking February 9 out short fiction. Fort Lauderdale Grand Hotel If you have not renewed your membership and wish to 4500 Powerline Road do so, please contact us or renew on the website. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 Checkout the Locus website for their recommended $5 admission reading list. It is a good guide if you are an award voter or just www.pulpadventure.com looking for something new to read. The Orlando Winter Mini-Fringe had a great SF play SyFy Bartow dealing with a dystopia and Virtual reality called Into the Meta. February 16 It was a one man show with multimedia. It was very good. Main Street Next month I hope to do a review and the Nebula final Bartow, FL ballot should be out. A SF themed street fair Free Events Search on Facebook for more info

Orlando Anime Day Pensacon February 2 February 22-24 Wyndham Orlando Resort Pensacola Bay Center 8001 International Drive 201 E Gregory Street Orlando FL 32819 Pensacola, FL, 32502 $5 at the door Guests: David Weber www.orlando.animeday.net/ Mercedes Lackey Larry Dixon Rapier Timothy Zahn February 7-10 Karen Allen (Miriam, Raiders of the Lost Ark) Doubletree by Hilton at the Jacksonville Airport Peter Davison (5th Doctor, Doctor Who) Colin Baker (6th Doctor, Doctor Who) 2101 Dixie Clipper Drive, Julian Glover (Scarlioni, Doctor Who) Jacksonville, Florida, 32218, USA Paul Freeman (Belloq, Raiders of the Lost Ark) Gaming convention Catherine Tate (Donna, Doctor Who) $35 for the weekend Michelle Gomez (Missy, Doctor Who) www.rapiercon.com Alex Kingston (River Song, Doctor Who) William Shatner (James Kirk, Star Trek) Jonathan Frakes (Riker, Star Trek: TNG) Rick Worthy (Dean Fogg, The Magicians) Birthdays And many others see website Weekend pass $80 Pat Sims February 9 pensacon.com/

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OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 31 Issue 374, February 2019 Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Science Fiction 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 $6.00 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 323 Goldenrod, FL 32733-0323. 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 February 2018

February OASFiS Calendar OASFiS People

OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, February 10, 1:30 PM, Orange Public Steve Cole 407-275-5211 Library (Downtown Orlando, 101 E. Central Blvd, Orlando, [email protected] FL 32801,407-835-7325). Come join us as we discuss the Susan Cole 407-275-5211 works of Diane Duane and Ian MacDonald [email protected] Arthur Dykeman 407-314-5506 Sci Fi Light [email protected] TBD Steve Grant 352 241 0670 [email protected] Mike Pilletere [email protected] To contact for more info: David Ratti 407-282-2468 OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715 [email protected] Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 [email protected] (Continued from page 1) Patricia Wheeler 407-832-1428 Costal Magic [email protected] February 28-March 3 Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resortt Any of these people can give readers information about the 100 N Atlantic Avenue club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan. Daytona Beach Shores, FL 32118 Guests: Lucienne Diver (writer) Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik Aria Kane (writer Witchmark by C.L Polk And many others see website State Tectonics by Malka Older Weekend pass $100 Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse coastalmagicconvention.com Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi The Book of M by Peng Shepard OASFiS Meeting The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch Rosewater by Tade Thomson Date: 1-13-2019 Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente Officers: Juan Sanmiguel Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyanchenko Members: Steve Cole, Arthur Dykeman, Ed Meskys, Sandra Meskys, Harry Parkhurst *This book is not available in the Orange County library.

Convention Juan’s sources for these books were the following webistes: We signed with Sheraton North Orlando in Maitland. We still • Amazon’s Best SF/Fantasy List need to discuss AV issues with the hotel. We are waiting for the • Book Scrolling hotel to give us the link for online registration. • Kirkus list by John DeNardo (Best Fanzine Hugo

Winner) Guest of honor will be Adam-Troy Castro. • The Verge’s list by Andrew Liptak We will sent out invitations to program participants. Steve Cole recommended the following books: Best Novels of 2018 A Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeymi All the Plagues of Hell by Eric Flint Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett Relic by Alan Dean Foster Semiosis by Sue Burke Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers Steve also recommended Julie Czerneda’s Play of Shadows and The Armored Saint and The Queen of Crows by Myke Cole John C Wright’s Judge of Ages. Pride and Prejudice John Kessell The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky by Mary Juan recommended discussing the works of the two writer Guests Robinette Kowal of Honor of the next Worldcon: Diane Duane and Ian The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang MacDonald. The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai* The Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee The meeting adjourned at 3:30PM. Severance by Ling Ma Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller Page three February 2018

Award News Best Music (Original Score) Philip K. Dick Award Nominees • Ludwig Goransson, Black Panther (source File 770 website) • Alexandre Desplat, Isle of Dogs • Time Was by (Tor.com) • Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman Mary Poppins • The Body Library by Jeff Noon (Angry Robot) Returns • 84K by Claire North (Orbit) Best Music (Original Song) • Alien Virus Love Disasters: Stories by Abbey Mei * Otis (Small Beer Press) • “All the Stars,” Music by Mark Spears, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, and Anthony Tiffith Lyircs by • Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman (Europa Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, and Anthony Tiffith, Editions) Solána Rowe, from Black Panther • Ambiguity Machines and Others Stories by Vandana Singh (Small Beer Press) • “The Place Where Lost Things Go” Music and The award is presented annually to a distinguished work of Lyrics Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Mary science fiction originally published in paperback form in the Poppins Returns United States. Best Production Design The winner and any special citations will be announced on Friday, April 19, 2019 at Norwescon 42 at the DoubleTree by • Production Design: Hannah Beachler, Set Hilton Seattle Airport, SeaTac, Washington. Decoration: Jay Hart, Black Panther • Production Design: Nathan Crowley, Set Academy Award: Speculative Fiction finalists Decoration: Kath Lucas, First Man (source File 770) • Production Design: John Myhre, Set Decoration: Gordon Sim, Mary Poppins Returns Best Picture • Black Panther Best Sound Editing • Benjamin Burtt and Steve Boddeker, Black Best Animated Feature Film Panther • Incredibles 2 • Ah-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou, First Man • Isle of Dogs • Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl, A Quiet Place • Mirai Best Sound Mixing • Ralph Breaks the Internet • Steve Boddeker, Brandon Proctor, and Peter J. • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Devlin, Black Panther

• Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaña, Ai-Ling Lee, and Best Short Film (Animated) Mary H. Ellis , First Man • Animal Behavior • Bao Best Visual Effects • Late Afternoon • Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, , and , Avengers: Infinity War • One Small Step • Chritopher Lawrence, Michael Earnes, Theo Jones, • Weekends and , Christopher Robins

• Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles, and J. D. Best Costume Design Scwalm, First Man • Ruth E. Carter, Black Panther • Roger Guyette, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler, • Sandy Powell, Mary Poppins Returns and David Shirk Ready Player One • Red Bredow, Patrick Tubach, , and Best Makeup and Hairstyling Dominic Touhy Solo: A Star Wars Story • Göran Lundström and Panela Goldammer, Border * This song was quoted by N.K. Jemisin in her 2018 Hugo Award acceptance speech OASFiS PO Box 323 Goldenrod, FL 32733-0323

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