Volume 11, Issue 5 ConNotations October/November The Bi-Monthly , Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society 24 Frames SF Tube Talk In This Issue Movie News & Reviews about every type of alien available and he By Lee Whiteside By Lee Whiteside expects his new role to be a recurring one, News & Reviews even if it is mostly appearing on a Movie News - Tragedies, Delays The New Fall season has gotten viewscreen. Appearing in the episode SF Tube Talk 1 and a Red Dwarf Movie underway with some interruptions and “The Andorian Incident” will be Jeffrey 24 Frames 1 The recent tragic events have had an changes due in part to the Terrorist Coombs, who had two recurring roles on FYI 2 effect on many movies in production or Attacks in early September. This has Deep Space Nine as the Ferengi Brunt and Musical Notes 3 about to be released. The Arnold resulted in some episodes of shows being the Vorta Weyoon. Brannon Braga has Schwarzenegger movie Collateral pulled to rescheduled. But we’ve still got said they intend to delve into the ConClusion 4 Damage has been postponed indefinitely new episodes of returning and new series Andorian Society with this and future In Our Book (Book Reviews) 16 due to the terrorist subject matter. The Tim debuting still as we continue into the fall. episodes. There’s also rumors of Musty Tomes 17 Allen comedy/adventure Big Trouble, Enterprise Launches Shatner making a cameo as James Kirk’s which deals with a bomb being accidentally With the publishing schedule such great grandfather or something along transported on an airplane, has been that I need to write this up before any Special Feature postponed and the Ben Stiller comedy episodes have actually aired, I can’t really Thief of Time Zoolander has had a last minute digital comment about how the pilot actually By Shane Shellenbarger 3 removal of the World Trade Center from looked, but based on the script it should Shane & Laurie’s Excellent any skyline shots. The have turned out well. Following the pilot, Spiderman movie had just released a trailer we’ve got episodes that show the Adventure where Spidey had a helicopter trapped in hazards of early space exploration and By Shane Shellenberger 15 webbing between the two towers. also brings back to the screen some Producers have said that the scene was aliens that have not been seen much in only done for the trailer, but that they will the later Trek series. We’ve got some Convention & Fandom also remove the WTC from any scenes in familiar names directing and some familiar Club Listings 21 the movie. Men in Black 2 had planned for names appearing in the series in the early Justice League © Cartoon Network the final big battle to take place with the going. Convention Listings 23 those lines and Jeri Ryan has indicated WTC as a backdrop. They will be changing Behind the scenes, we’ve got LeVar 23 she’d be willing to make a guest Convention Registration Form the location but will have the same action. Burton, Robert Duncan McNeill and appearance if it could be worked into her The Time Machine has been pushed Roxanne Dawson all taking turns schedule. Art Work back to a February opening date from it’s directing episodes for Enterprise. Based Early episodes include “Fight or original planned Christmas release. They on comments they’ve made at Sue Dawe 2 Flight”, where The Enterprise encounters will also recut the ending in which pieces of conventions, the new cast works together Sherlock 1, 15, 17 and alien race searching for a tri-globin the Moon fall on . It’s likely well and the three actor/directors like compound that is found in human blood they also want to avoid a debut the what they’ve seen of the series. and Soto must find a way communicate weekend after the Lord of the Rings movie Vaughn Armstrong appears in the with the aliens before it is too late; opens. pilot as Admiral Forrest, the head of “Strange New World” will find the crew The Matrix Reloaded has been pushed Starfleet, named after Deforest Kelly. getting infected with a pollen that causes back to summer of 2003 and also lost one of This is the first time he’s appeared on a hallucinations and that they have a hostile it’s cast members, Aaliyah, when the singer Trek series as a human. He’s had many © Sherlock ( Cont’d on page 9 ) appearances in the recent Trek series as ( Cont’d on Page 7 )

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Fiction Society, PO Box 62613, Phoenix, Amazing Discoveries out that she was ineligible. and was at capacity. AZ 85051 2545 E Speedway #155, Tucson, AZ Until Next Time ISSUE NUMBER: Volume 11 Issue 4 (520) 320-0338 The Busy Scribe SUBSCRIPTION: $12 for 6 ISSUES Page 2 ConNotations Volume 11 Issue 5 October, as she was looking for places to Twelve Hours with the Thief exceptional as is his work on the written Musical Notes play in the Valley at that time. Definitely page. Ellison doesn’t just read the words by Tom Tuerff check her out. of Time he lives the part, and that is the beginning OTHER COPPERCON NOTES: The By Shane Shellenbarger of the problems with this audio book Bringers (whose new CD I reviewed last because Ellison isn’t given a role, but only Heather Alexander: “A Gypsy’s Home” time) opened for Heather Alexander on Experimentation can be an amazing and paragraphs, sentences, and fragments of **** Saturday, and as usual, blew the roof off fruitful endeavor. Where would we be if sentences. Listed as “a guest appearance I’m writing this article the day after the joint. They were not, unfortunately, at our ancestors hadn’t experimented with by Harlan Ellison”, his role comes off more CopperCon 21, where I had the pleasure of full strength; Joe Bethancourt was at fire, horticulture, or metallurgy? What like someone hired to patch holes left by both listening to and playing music with home, nursing a bad infection apparently would life be like if Claudius Galen hadn’t others. In the twelve hours, Ellison’s Heather Alexander, who was this year’s inflicted by a cat. (Coincidence time: As experimented with physiology, if Galileo appearances come across as startling and filk guest of honor. I’m writing this, Ted Nugent’s Cat Scratch hadn’t experimented with falling bodies discordant due to their dropped-in nature. Wow. Fever is playing on the radio.) Feel better, (no, I’m not referring to corpses), if Pierre I don’t blame Ellison, but I do hold the If you saw her concert at the con, or Joe! and Marie Curie hadn’t isolated radium producer, Stefan Rudnicki, responsible for stopped in to watch her play in the filk I got the chance to play a concert for and polonium from uranium ore? What wasting not only the talents of Ellison, but suite each night, you know how good she the assembled masses at the Masquerade kind of world would we live in without the also those of the other actors in this audio is. She’s played both in bands and as a on Saturday night. At my side was my experimentation of Edison, Tesla, or the book adaptation: Christopher Cazenove, solo act in the San Francisco area and good pal and musical accomplice Nancy Wright brothers? Gabrielle De Cuir, Karesa McElheny, and elsewhere for many years now, delivering Freeman. I hope you all had as good a time Experimentation is nearly always a John Rubinstein. Their talents are diluted a fascinating sound that can best be as we did. good thing. That is, with the possible by Rudnicki’s experimentation with described at “American Celtic”, or at least Incidentally, Nancy, who’s no slouch exception of the audio book presentation identification of characters. that’s how critics describe it. in the songwriting department, will once of Terry Pratchett’s, Thief of Time by Each of the actors is given certain Suffice to say, that while Heather’s again be performing (along with me, Larry Fantastic Audio. I was drawn to this characters to portray through most of the CDs, including this new one, “A Gypsy’s Warner and a cast of , well, three more ) adaptation in Pratchett’s Discworld series eight tapes, but near the end chaos reigns Home” are thoroughly entertaining and her Stardust County song cycle at due to the presence of Harlan Ellison, supreme as actors switch roles and voice wonderful, you really aren’t getting the TusCon. Our initial performance of the whose work as a voice actor is as characterizations! If you’re like me and whole picture till you see Heather piece at Fiddlers’ Dream earlier this year listen to an audiotape to make your Alexander live, the songs, the went over really well, so be sure to check commute to and from work bearable, this musicianship, the delivery, the bizarre out performance #2 at the con. type of experimentation is frustrating, sense of humor, the way she moves when Also, be on the lookout for Nancy’s jarring, and drains the pleasure I derive she plays the fiddle — Heather Alexander next CD, Blues for Dumuzi, coming soon. from the authors work. Fortunately, the is a one-woman traveling show. Finally, on a personal note, I’m just quality of Pratchett’s wit and his mastery That said, even if you have seen her pleased as heck that listeners of the Dr. of satire and parody shine through and I live, you would do well to pick up her Demento show liked my song, First will sample his written works. It remains to latest CD. “A Gypsy’s Home” is House, enough that it hit #1 on the Funny be seen if I will experiment with other Alexander’s fourth CD and the first in four Five on June 3 of this year. Many thanks audio book adaptations by Fantastic years. (To get an idea of how strong her to those of you who called or wrote to Audio (an imprint of American Audio fan base is, Alexander funded the request it! Literature, Inc.) in the future, but it’s recording of this CD entirely on pre-sales!) Tom Tuerff is a Phoenix-based writer and unlikely. Subtitled Songs of the Roving Life, the musician who writes reviews of filk and http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/ “gypsy” idea is played up both musically related folk music for ConNotations and thiefoftime/ and thematically. While there are a lot of other local zines. If you record it, he’ll songs that encapsule traditional gypsy review it. Just get it to him by sending a rhythms and ideas here, Alexander never copy to ConNotations or by contacting strays too far from her Celtic roots, which him at [email protected]. Tom’s CD, is perfectly fine with me. Something to The album kicks off with the pleasant Sell at My Gigs, Gypsy Bardic Tinker People, which could is available at either be a simple tale of a traveling group www.cdbaby.com/ of tinkers and musicians, or a metaphor tuerff. for do-it-yourself professional musicians everywhere. Consider this lyric: Some folks think they’re all demented/ But it seems to me they’re quite contented. Gypsies or musicians? You decide. Other tunes that I really like here include Gypsy’s Fire, a rollicking and mysterious song; Heather on the Moor (how can you not like a song about a heather sung with obvious pride by a woman named Heather?); The Hexamshire Lass, a traditional “gimme my woman, dammit” Celtic tune; and the two fiddle solo medleys, some traditional tunes and some written by Heather herself in the same vein. You should definitely pick this CD up. Through the end of October, Michael’s Magic is You can do so by going to Heather’s proud to donate a percentage of each purchase to homepage, www.heatherlands.com. You should also keep your eyes and ears open WTC Disaster Relief for word on the next time she comes to town, which could be as soon as mid- Volume 11 Issue 5 ConNotations Page 3 underwear always seemed silly to me,” the running around in their velour pullovers. fiction as a reflection of modern life. ConClusion artist admitted. 2. Buscema preferred to He also spoke about his infamous article http://www.fantastic-four.nl/ work from Marvel scripts as opposed to comparing and , The%20Fantastic%20Four.htm Comic-Con International 2001 DC scripts. “At DC, the writers completely stating that Star Wars was a treacherous http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~arlen/ A review by scripted the action and location. At betrayal of everything that America stands ff.html http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/ Shane Shellenbarger Marvel, the scripts were written to give for and that Star Trek is about America. ~shorton/ffmain.html plot and dialogue that allowed the artist to Michael Jan Friedman spoke about Star The 2:30 p.m. panel was a loving Thursday, July 19th I arrived in San dictate the visuals. Since the artist is Fleet: Year One, the compiled edition due tribute to the passing of a man who gave Diego after an hour flight from Phoenix trained in the visual arena and has the out in March of the serialized stories that the world Uncle $crooge, Huey, Dewey, became a ninety-minute flight, delayed due imagination the artist should dictate the appeared in the back of Star Trek novels Louie, Gladstone Gander, and hundreds of to a co-pilots stuck window. I guess he visuals!” 3. Buscema drew his adaptation over twelve months. That edition will characters and locals filled with funny didn’t want the extra air conditioning. I of The Wizard of Oz from memory. “I had contain material that Pocket Books animals who were all too human: Carl registered at the Clarion, checked my some reference material for the actors, but previously left out and additional material Barks. The panel consisted of moderator luggage, and headed for the convention by and large I have a nearly photographic that Friedman felt would be fun to add. In , (creator of center. Every year it seems that the city memory of the film and I just played it in May, his first two novels in the Stargazer Broom-Hilda), R.C. Harvey ( needs to have a new project going on in my head when I was drawing a scene,” he series will be out, focusing on Jean-Luc historian and cartoonist), Don Rosa the vicinity of the convention center that said. 4.Bucema was born to draw. “Even Picard. Andy Mangels, who refers to (reigning duck artist), Byron Erickson will tie up traffic and endanger the lives of now, if I’m away from drawing for more himself as a blacklisted Star Wars author (Egmont Publishing), and the publishers pedestrians. Two years ago the roadway in then a couple of days I don’t feel quite and the first openly gay professional who revived the stories and art of Carl front of the convention center was torn to right. Drawing is something I have to do.” comic book writer, spoke about his history Barks for new generations, Bruce Hamilton smithereens, last year they broke ground I raced across the convention center to of writing Star Trek comics and the and Russ Cochran of Another Rainbow to extend the convention center, and this wedge myself into a front row seat to see ST:TNG Section 31 novel, Rogue that he Publishing. The next hour was filled with year the convention center is still the Jeff Broz demonstration of 3-D wrote with his writing partner, Michael A. stories from both the panelists and the undergoing an expansion upgrade while Computer Modeling. Despite some minor Martin. audience of Barks humility, generosity, the traffic lights at the eastside of the problems due to a lack of adaptors and Friday morning saw me back at the humanity, and his impact on the comic center flashed red in all directions for the cables, Broz plunged right in and packed convention center for the One-On-One book field. In Holland, 25% of the homes entire run of the Comic-Con. Sheesh! the next ninety minutes with information. interview with and Len have a subscription to Walt Disney’s Con registration went smoothly and Broz gave a similar talk at the 2000 Comic- Wein. They spoke about their friendship Comics and Stories. In Finland, the weekly since there was no programming Con, but a year is a long time in both (dating back to when Wolfman was Donald Duck comic sells over 350,000 scheduled until 1:00 P.M. and I wasn’t computer animation and computing power thirteen), Steve Ditko, Julius Schwartz, issues. When Barks died, it was front-page drawn to what was playing in the film or so I was amazed at how much can be done their fanzines (Aurora, Super Adventures, news all over Europe. Hamilton announced anime rooms, I headed for the dealers with a few thousand dollars worth of Stories of Suspense, What The?, and that he was no longer affiliated with the room. With nearly 600 dealers (excuse me, software and hardware. http:// Foob), their early work as artists, and how Walt Disney Company because they “Exhibitors”), just skimming the multitude www.jdbgrphx.com/ they started their writing careers. Wolfman bought him out. Hamilton then hinted that of wares offered in this bizarre bazaar took I headed back upstairs and over to and Wein discussed their working in late October he, Arizona State two hours and several credit card swipes. I watch Denis Kitchen interview the creator relationships with artists George Perez and University, the Field Museum in Chicago, was just about ready to leave for the of The Spirit, . Eisner spoke to Bernie Wrightson, respectively, and how and the Smithsonian would be involved in program areas when I spotted Lee the responsive crowd about the interviews they developed a shorthand promoting a tour of paintings Whiteside manning the Arizona SF he conducted with such giants in the communication when plotting comic book around the of America. Conventions table. Lee filled me in on graphics field as , C.C. Beck, stories. Wolfman talked about developing Hamilton told the audience that the Walt what he’d spotted so far at the convention , Jack Davis, , Gil character charts based on astrology, Disney Company and Diamond Comics including a poster for J. Michael Kane, , , Harvey although he holds no belief in the pseudo- Distributors are in negotiations to renew Straczynski’s next project for Showtime, Kurtzman, , and Joe Simon for science. When answering a question Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories. He also Jeremiah, due out in January that is based his latest project, Shop Talk with Will about breaking into writing for comic mentioned that The Fine Art of Walt on Platinum Studios’ award-winning Eisner. Kitchen spoke sparingly as Eisner books, Wein suggested photos of the Disney’s Donald Duck by Carl Barks has graphic novel series by Belgian author, relayed anecdotes and answered editors in compromising positions was an 80% chance of being re-released in a Hermann Huppen, which tells the tale of a questions from the appreciative fans. This your best bet and failing that, break-in by new and improved limited edition. Not plague that kills everyone who is post- was a delightful talk! http:// writing for independent comic books or it only were the panelists filled with facts pubescent. While Lee and I spoke, people www.darkhorse.com/news/interviews/ might help if you write for another field. and anecdotes about the Duckman, but constantly interrupted us with questions sku_40059int/ I headed north to the opposite end of the audience contained people with many for Lee about HexaCon, CopperCon, After Eisner’s talk, I moved next door the center and got an early seat for what stories about Barks giving nature: he LepreCon, and the Arizona WesterCon to hear what David Brin, Michael Jan promised to be a meeting of Marvel never denied a photo, an autograph, or an bid. I bid goodbye as Lee was giving the Friedman, Bob Greenberger, Andy legends dissecting forty years of the encouraging word to an aspiring artist. He “soft sale” to a middle-aged woman who Mangels, and Michael A. Martin had to Fantastic Four. While Chris Claremont will be greatly missed. had recently moved to Phoenix and say about writing for Star Trek. Bob wasn’t able to appear, the list of panelists http://www.carlbarks.cjb.net/ wanted information on the next Star Trek Greenberger talked about his involvement is impressive: Tom Brevoort, Jeph Loeb, http://www.brucehamilton.com/ convention. with the seven novel series involving the Paul Ryan, Bob Greenberg, , anotherrainbow/ http:// http://www.sftv.org/sftv/sftvschd.txt Iconian Gateway (as depicted in the Star Marv Wolfman, John Romita, Sr., John www.brucehamilton.com/brucehamco.html http://www.comics2film.com/ Trek: The Next Generation 2nd season Buscema, and Stan “The Man” Lee. The http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~donault/ Jeremiah.shtml episode, ”Contagion”). Each of the novels stellar cast discussed the history of the InMemoriam.html http:// http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art- ends in a cliffhanger and can be read series, how editors, writers, and artists that www.fortunecity.com/westwood/ tv.html?2001-07/30/11.00.tv independent of the others, but the reader followed in and Jack Kirby’s blumarine/14/index.html http:// It was nearing 1:00 P.M., so I headed needs the final hardback book in order to footsteps were imitated and they freely stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/ for Mark Evanier’s interview with John discover the concluding threads started in admit to swiping ideas and art from these http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw/ Buscema. Evanier is best known for his the other six books. The hardcover also two giants. They also commented on http://www.geocities.com/roland3066/ work on the animated series, Garfield and contains a 90-page compendium that comic books as a retelling of Greek and sketches.html http://members.nbci.com/ Friends, and Buscema is known in comic places Pocket Books 21 years of Star Trek Norse mythology, the superhero group as sigvaldg/donrosa/drinfo.html http:// book circles as possibly the best penciler novels in chronological order along side family, the emotional depth of villains, the www.geocities.com/~jimlowe/barks/ for high profile series like The Fantastic each of the television series and movies. shallowness of heroes as “super boy barksdex.html http://www.subdural.com/ Four, The Avengers, Thor, and the artists David Brin, former scientist and San Diego scouts,” superhero comics as modern fairy scrooge/ personal favorite: Conan the Barbarian. resident, talked about his book, Star Trek: tales, the wish fulfillment of placing Joe Casey, writer for The Adventures of Four things standout in the interview: 1. Forgivness, based on an idea he first had yourself in the shoes of super powered Superman, X-Men, and Wildcats, gave Buscema never liked drawing superheroes. in 1966 while watching Shatner and Nimoy beings, and the need of super heroic hope and solid information to a packed “Drawing people running around in their ( cont’d on page 5 ) Page 4 ConNotations Volume 11 Issue 5 th ConClusion (cont’d from page 4) until the November 16 release of Harry http://www.lordoftherings.net included Bob Bergen, the new voice of Potter and the trailer that was shown has http://mrshowbiz.go.com/news/2001/5/ Porky Pig, Gregg Berger the voice of room of comic book writer want-a-bees. done nothing if not to whet my appetite. lordoftheringscannes051101.html Agent Kay in Men in Black, Greg Berg Casey answered questions about how to Film adaptations are almost always a At 12:30 p.m., Buff, the Vampire who can be currently heard as the get an editor interested in your work, he disappointment when compared to their Slayer’s own Joss (not Josh) Wheaten spokesman for Kikkoman, and Tom Kane talked about self publishing to develop a literary origins, but I hold out true hope began his talk by stating that he wouldn’t who is the voice of Professor Utonium on track record, why you don’t want to be a after viewing the Harry Potter trailer. Keep give anything away about Buff’s getting Powerpuff Girls. The actors demonstrated problem for an editor, and what to expect your fingers crossed! together with Spike, or if Any is going to for the crowd how they developed their after you’ve made your first sale (which http://www.smallvilletv.net/ become a demon again, of if she and character voices, explained the difference isn’t that you’ve “made it”.) http://www.thewb.com/fallseason2001/ Zander are really going to get married. For between an impression and an This is Casey’s third year giving this / the next hour various fans proceeded to impersonation, why mimicry isn’t acting, no-holds-barred-take-no-prisoner’s http://www.comics2film.com/ try and get him to give them ANY clue related that Frank Welker is only late for a seminar for Comic-Con International, and SmallvilleRev.shtml about the future of the show. He didn’t 9:00 a.m. appointment when his 6:00 a.m. he kept the crowds attention with the http://www.comics2film.com/ budge. He did inform the crowd that it session runs overtime, how they guard inside scoop on the business of being a SupermanTV.shtml wasn’t a good idea to squeeze limes and their voice, how they lose their voice, and writer in the current state of the comic http://www.supermansupersite.com/ then to go out into direct sunlight because that Tom Kane believes that he has book industry. news.html http:// it will cause your hands to bubble. He then screamed every possible way in The Wild http://www.captaincomics.net/columns/ www.cartoonnetwork.com/POWERPUFF/ displayed his bandaged hands. The Thornberry’s. This panel is always a casey2.htm http://www.powerpuff.com/ questions started and his answers “must attend.” http://www.dragoncon.org/people/ http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/ followed. It’s unlikely that there will be any http://www.voicechasers.org/Actors/ caseyj.html lobo/intro.jsp http:// crossover episodes, at least not at the B_Bergen.html ttp:// http://www.slushfactory.com/features/ www2.warnerbros.com/web/gothamgirls/ beginning. He was disappointed that they www.voicechasers.org/bergenshow.html interviews/joecasey/index.shtml home.jsp http:// never had enough money in the budget to http://lynnsgallery.com/toontalk/ One program that I never miss is the osmosisjones.warnerbros.com/ http:// make the Initiative look cool. The animated bergen0499.html Kung Fu Super-hero Extravaganza hosted www2.warnerbros.com/osmosisjones/ Buff is now officially going to happen and http://voices.fuzzy.com/ by Inside Kung Fu columnist and author index.html may appear as soon as February of 2002. actor.idc?actor_id=841 http:// of Great Martial Arts Movies, Ric Meyers. http://13ghosts.warnerbros.com/ The BBC spin-off show with Anthony www.voicechasers.org/Actors/ Meyers hosts karate and kung fu film clips http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/ Stewart Head is very much a possibility, G_Berg.html while whipping the fans into a frothy http://mrshowbiz.go.com/movies/dvd/ with an underlying theme of loneliness. http://voices.fuzzy.com/ frenzy with prizes. Every year it’s a great Young_Reader.html The Buff books and the television show actor.idc?actor_id=308 time that I never miss, except for this year. Next in line was the New Line Cinema won’t have much to do with each other. http://www.soundbitesonline.com/ Friends come first and I ran into Gary presentation of Blade 2 with a targeted The show won’t change due to the http://www.voicechasers.org/Actors/ Leach and Sue Daigle-Leach of Bangfish release date of March 22, 2002, Rush Hour network it’s on, but because the show G_Berger.html Productions. We had dinner and caught 2 in theaters now, rapper Snoop Dogg’s does change each year. While Buff is http://voices.fuzzy.com/ up on each other’s lives. http:// Bones is due out on October 24th, and the available on videotape and DVD in actor.idc?actor_id=309 members.spree.com/molasar/hongkong/ ambitious Lord of the Rings: The Europe, it might not come out on DVD in http://www.voicechasers.org/Actors/ bookpix/meyers.html Fellowship of the Ring set for release in the U.S. for sometime due to the T_Kane.html http://www.addall.com/Browse/Detail/ December. LOTR may well be the most syndication of the show on FX. There will http://voices.fuzzy.com/ 0810830272.html anticipated film release since Star Wars: be a musical episode, the cast is afraid, actor.idc?actor_id=2279 http://stp.ling.uu.se/pipermail/dcml /2001- The Phantom Menace and we can only and it makes him laugh. He is working on http://www.angelfire.com/ut/RToons/ May/004337.html hope that it isn’t the greatest the script for a feature film and will talk TKane.html http://stp.ling.uu.se/pipermail/dcml/2001- disappointment since Episode One of the more about it in a couple of months. His http://www.angelfire.com/ut/RToons/ June.txt hexology. Judging by behind-the-scenes production company, Mutant Enemy does actors.html Saturday is the day for blockbusters clips, LOTR will live up to it’s hype and look at scripts, but they don’t encourage http://www.voicechasers.org/ with big guests and big presentations. I make film audiences forget the Rankin/ unamended scripts. UPPED has given him index1.html settled into Room 6CDEF for the marathon Bass saccharine 1977 animated version of carte blanche to create the show as he The last panel I attended on Saturday day ahead. First up was the Warner The Hobbit or the 1978 live action/ sees fit. The two-hour extravaganza will air was Writing for Sci-Fi Television and Brothers television, Internet, and film clip animation abomination by . on October 2nd. With Buff “dead” the Film, moderated by Mark A. Altman (Free festival with bits and pieces of Smallville, Bones is described as a “contemporary slayer line now runs though Faith (unless Enterprise). Panelists included Steven Powerpuff Girls, Lobo, The Gotham Girls, franchise film” about a vengeance-seeking they come up with a better idea, then Kroizere (producer, V.I.P.), Dan Vebber Osmosis Jones, 13 Ghosts, and the much- ghost who returns twenty years after his Wheaten never said that). Willow will find (producer, Futurama), Javier Grillo anticipated Harry Potter and the death to find those who killed him and a way to derated Amy Madison. The Marxuach (producer, The Chronicle), Kay Sorcerers Stone. Smallville appears to be destroyed his neighborhood. It appears to Buffybot may return. The mandate for the Reindl (producer, Night Visions), Robert Dawson’s Creek meets Lois and Clark, be aimed at the same audience as Romeo season finale was to make the audience Meyer Burnett (writer/director, Free but I’ll give it a try this fall on the off Must Die. I found Rush Hour 2 to be a cry. No, he would not do the Dance of Joy. Enterprise), Jason Pritchett (director of chance that it’s more than the latest bit of disappointment and hope that RH3 will There was also a surprise appearance by development, Intertainment), Harry teen angst fluff to keep the commercials never be. Blade 2: Bloodhunt, should Andy Hallett aka the Host who certainly Werksman and Gabrielle Stanton from banging together. Lobo and The please the From Dusk Till Dawn crowd. can belt out a song. (producers, Invisible Man), and Steve Gotham Girls are Internet webcasts and The big news missing from this http://www.upn.com/upn.html Melching (writer, Big Guy and Rusty). My can be entertaining, especially if the presentation was that Mike Myers would http://www.angelicslayer.com/tbcs/ problem with panels containing a cast of televised versions of the DC universe return in the third installment as Austin main.html thousands is that it usually boils down to aren’t available to you. If you like body Powers in Goldmember, with a production http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/ who will dominate the conversation. Add humor or Bill Murry, you’ll want to head start date of mid-November and a release http://mrshowbiz.go.com/news/2001/7/ to that mix a moderator who walks around for your local theater and see Osmosis date of July 26, 2002. britishbuffy070901.html blocking the view of the panelists from the Jones, but I believe I’ll wait and rent this http://www.newlinecinema.com/ http://www.thewb.com/angel/ audience and you get an uneven panel. film. 13 Ghosts is a remake by the same http://www.chud.com/reviews/ Cartoon Voices is an annual panel This type of panel is fairly common at team that brought you the remake of blade2script.php3 moderated by animation aficionado, Mark media conventions and the real House on Haunted Hill, so if hi-tech http://www.comics2film.com/ Evanier, who is on a first name basis with entertainment comes from the stories the jumping-out-from-behind-the-bushes is Blade2.shtml most of the voice talent in California. panelists tell about the idiots running the your idea of horror, have at it. The http://mrshowbiz.go.com/news/2001/8/ Every year, Evanier asks the convention various studios and the idiotic things they giveaways of the day were the t-shirts boxoffice080401.html staff for a bigger room and every year the say, “Why does the ship have a hollow based on the houses of the Hogwarts http://mrshowbiz.go.com/news/1998/4/ room fills beyond what the fire marshal deck?” “If an invisible man is shot by an School of witchcraft and wizardry (I got a snoop42798.html considers safe. This year his guests Hufflepuff shirt). Personally, I can’t wait (Cont’d on page 6 ) Volume 11 Issue 5 ConNotations Page 5 series still be watched 35 years from significant portions of programming the morning the day before the con ConClusion ( Cont’d from page 5 ) today? involved him as a topic. Philadelphia won started. I sat next to a native Philadelphian invisible gun will the bullet be invisible?” http://www.startrek.com/launch/ the right to hold the Worldcon 3 years ago who now lives in Phoenix. She gave me It’s always fun to ridicule studio execs. default.asp in Baltimore. Due to the perceived lots of info on what to see, do and eat. I The general agreement among the http://www.darkhorizons.com/reviews/ massive local vote the Worldcon bidding then read the latest quarterly newsletter of panelists is that it’s a wonder if a show of enterp-n.htm process has been changed since then so ASFA (Association of Science Fiction and any quality can make it to air. They also http://www.trektoday.com/news/ that the three zone rotation (West, Fantasy Artists). Unlike their writing answered the question that always comes 170601_05.shtml Midwest, East) has been replaced by a counterpart, SFWA (Science Fiction and up on a panel with writers: how does http://www.trektoday.com/news/ system where only bid sites more than 500 Fantasy Writers of America), ASFA allows someone break in? Write, direct, edit, and 250601_03.shtml miles from the vote site are eligible to bid. anyone interested in art (professional, produce your own short film. Turn in a http://www.treknation.com/articles/ This opens up bidding to almost every amateur, fan, collector, etc.) to join their professional looking script, write a spec broken_bow_comments.shtml http:// city for every Worldcon. Time will tell if organization. There was a lengthy (9 script for a show other that the show www.trekbbs.com/ubb/Forum19/HTML/ this works better than the previous pages) and interesting article on the you’re interested in writing for, get the list 002411.html system. horrors of the Chicago Worldcon (Chicon of agents from the Writers Guild of http://www.enterpriseuk.tv/ Participants this year included Forrest 2000) Art Show, pre-con, at-con and post- America and send the agents a query letter http://www.screenwritersutopia.com/ J. Ackerman, Roger MacBride Allen, con. I knew there had been problems, but with a s.a.s.e. Be persistent and good script_reviews/enterprise_pilot.html Gunther Anderson, Catherine Asaro, the article made it sound like the art show luck!http://www.wga.org/ The final panel of the convention for Stephen Baxter, Astrid Anderson Bear, to never repeat. Some of the artists I spoke Sunday arrives and the party is almost me was How to Write for Star Trek, with Erik Bear, Gregory Benford, Terry Bisson, with in Philly agreed. over. I wanted to hear what the pros Jimmy Diggs (Star Trek:Deep Space Nine David Brin, Edward Bryant (Toastmaster We arrived uneventfully in the late thought about the next incarnation of Star and Star Trek: Voyager), Harry Kloor (Star World Horror 1994), Algis Budrys, Lois afternoon / early evening and took a taxi to Trek, Enterprise. The panel, Back to the Trek: Voyager and Earth: Final Conflict) McMaster Bujold (Author GoH the hotel. The taxis are on flat rate ($20) Future: Can they Save Star Trek? Mark and moderated by Joseph Di Lella (the CopperCon), Michael A. Burstein, Orson from the airport to the city center, so it was A. Altman (writer/producer Free unsold Tao of Star Trek). The writers Scott Card, Jeffrey A. Carver (whom I met cheaper for us to do this with 3 than take a Enterprise) moderated with panelists talked about pitching, being rewritten, for the first time), Jeanne M. Cavelos, Jack shuttle. Less than 30 minutes later we Robert Meyer Burnett (writer/director, building drama, high concepts, L. Chalker, David Cherry, Hal Clement, were dropped off at Hawthorn Suites just Free Enterprise), Jeff Bond (author, Music characterization, and using their Glen Cook, Kathryn Cramer, Ellen Datlow, north of the convention center. While of Star Trek), Chris Gore (FilmThreat.com), backgrounds as a basis for their writing. I Samuel R. Delany, Doranna Durgin checking in I noticed a sign that said and Daren Dochterman (Talk Trek radio found Kloor and Diggs had a lot of relative (Arizona), Bob Eggleton (Art GoH Monday through Thursday there was a host). Burnett is cautiously optimistic material to contribute to the panel, but I LepreCon), Kate Elliott, Sheila Finch, complimentary buffet dinner served. I about the series, enjoying the first half of question how much Di Lella adds to this Michael F. Flynn (whom I also met for the knew about the comp breakfast every day, the script currently in circulation, but less annual panel since he’s been trying to sell first time), Joe Haldeman, David G. but this was a pleasant surprise. This was than enthusiastic about the second half. his book to a publisher for several years. Hartwell, Jael, Jordin T. Kare, J. Gregory on top of a better than the convention rate He also found fault with the idea that http://www.photo-synthesis.com/ Keyes, Thomas Kidd, Jeffrey D. Kooistra, using my AAA membership through their many of the aliens. Several spoilers were direct_aim/graphic/jimmy/ Nancy Kress, Tim Kyger (who ran web site. They even had a 24-hour revealed: Captain Archer has a dog http://www.aps.org/apsnews/articles/ IguanaCon in 1978), Geoffrey A. Landis convenience store in the lobby. We onboard, the title theme will have vocals, 11271.html http://www.donnareed.org/ (whom I met at Space Access earlier this hauled all of our luggage up to the 11th and the S.S. Enterprise will travel to the html/people/kloor.html year), Paul Levinson, Don Maitz (Special floor and made ourselves comfortable in Klingon home world to return a Klingon Each year I always lament the panels I GoH LepreCon), George R. R. Martin, Beth the room. Well, it was actually a two-room crewman after his crash landing in couldn’t attend, the special guests and Meacham, Elizabeth Moon, Patrick Nielsen suite, complete with mini refrigerator, Oklahoma, and there is a shadowy villain celebrities I didn’t see, the events that Hayden, (Author GoH microwave, sleeper sofa, etc. from the future who is manipulating aliens took place without my being present, and LepreCon and CopperCon), Frederik Pohl, Unfortunately, there were very few towels, to do his bidding. Bond reported that the all of the items in the exhibit hall that I Tom Purdom (whom I also met for the first some missing light bulbs, stains on the sets are great, Scott Bakula did a good job wanted but had to leave behind. Four time), Mike Resnick, Jennifer Roberson carpet, and the bedside light on my side as Archer, but he was less than pleased days, 50,000 attendees, over 200 (Arizona), Robert J. Sawyer, Charles didn’t work at all. Over the course of the with the acting abilities of Jolene Blalock professionals, and untold tons of junk Sheffield, Josepha Sherman, Norman next 24 hours we managed to get most of as SubCommander T’Pol (who, in my later, Comic-Con International still stands Spinrad, S. M. Stirling, Michael Swanwick, these corrected to our satisfaction. The opinion, follows in Jeri Ryan’s footsteps as out as the model for other conventions. Amy Thomson (whom I met for the first staff were nice and chatty. We hit the casting for big lips and big breasts.) Sure, it would be nice if they could have time), Harry Turtledove, Gordon Van dinner buffet and ran into some fans from Altman described the best Star Trek one year without a construction project Gelder, Len Wein, Michael Whelan (Art Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia that we series currently on the air is The West causing delays, sure the Pro Locator GoH LepreCon), Walter Jon Williams knew. One we expected to see didn’t make Wing with its built-in character conflict would be more useful if it contained more (Author GoH CopperCon), Connie Willis, it due to health reasons. Another was and comradeship of people who try to do than 50 professionals, sure the Events Marc Zicree (Media GoH LepreCon), and missing and they were worried. It turns the right thing and don’t always succeed. Guide is getting a bit unwieldy at 104 many many others. Please contact me if out his car died before he could get very Chris Gore showed clips from a proposed pages, but even with these minor quibbles you’re interested in a complete list. far from home, so he flew up instead. The series on the Movie Watch Channel called Comic-Con is the best. I’ll be back. My family and I intended to attend buffet was ok, but no big deal. Pasta, Critic’s Court (with Gore as the judge, http://www.comic-con.org/ Worldcon and do some touring around meat, vegetables, salad, beverages. It was Altman and Burnett as opposing since we had never visited Philly before. free. attorneys) in a trial setting of Star Trek Millennium Philcon (MilPhil): Unfortunately, my wife had to be at work After dinner we walked to the vs. Star Wars. It was fun. Altman called Worldcon 2001 for a paid seminar so we could only stay convention center and discovered that the out of the audience Rod Roddenberry, son A Review by Mike Willmoth for the con. Her ticket was paid for by closest entrance was at the south end of of Gene, who seemed to genuinely hope frequent flyer award certificates; mine and the main building. We found out later that that Enterprise does well. The capper of The 59th World Science Fiction my mother-in-law’s tickets were paid for in this was really the center of the whole the hour was when panelists and audience Convention was held in Philadelphia, the usual way. Except that the travel center. We took the escalators up to the members drew parallels between classic Pennsylvania, Thursday August 30 agency failed to do something correctly. second floor and spotted pre-registration. Trek and pre-classic Trek by doing a through Monday September 3, 2001 So, when I called the airline to verify all of I took care of my badge and my wife did reading with portions of the script for (LaborDay Weekend) at the Pennsylvania our reservations, only my wife’s were ok. hers. We had a transfer from a local fan Broken Bow. Dochterman does a great Convention Center and Marriott Hotel Back on the phone with the agency it for my mother-in-law, so we had to use the Sulu/Sato, a fine Kirk/Archer, and Bond attached. Guests-of-Honor were: Author became clear that I had done everything Solutions Booth for that, but it went does a McCoy/Tucker that sounds more Greg Bear; Artist Stephen Youll; Editor correctly. Within 24 hours all was quickly. We all were handed Program like Bogart. With the 35th anniversary of Gardner Dozois; Fan George Scithers; straightened out, a better price was Books, Pocket Programs and Restaurant Star Trek fast approaching the Toastmaster Esther Friesner. he theme negotiated and we were all set. We flew Guides. They had no bags or goodies to unanswered question is will any of the revolved around Benjamin Franklin and out of Phoenix non-stop to Philadelphia in ( cont’d on page 9 ) Page 6 ConNotations Volume 11 Issue 5 things like broken water pipes. She and the Clark and his friends. That includes Lana Dark Angel is now on Friday nights SF Tube Talk (cont’d from page 1 ) Scooby gang have to deal with a demon Lang (Kristin Kruek), whose parents and will have some new regular and alien race to deal with as well; In attempting to possess them and then have were killed in the meteor shower and she recurring characters as well as losing some “Unexpected”, when they discover an to deal with a group of budding warlocks wears a piece of the meteor as a necklace characters from the first season. Gone alien ship hiding in the Enterprise’s that include Jonathon (“Superstar”), in remembrance of them. Joining them as a (other than possible guest appearances) exhaust wake, Tucker goes onto their ship Warren (“I Was Made to Love You”) and sort of Scooby Gang investigating all the are Herbal Thought (Alimi Ballard) and to help them repair it and comes back their friend Andrew. They conjure a strange events, documented in a “Wall of Kendra (Jennifer Blanc).Joining the cast pregnant; “The Andorian Incident” deals demon to fight Buffy and cause other the Weird” of newspaper clippings, is will be Ashley Scott (Gigilo Jane in A.I.) as with Andorian terrorists who have a beef mischief in subsequent episodes. When Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) and Pete Asha (formerly named Natalie Copeland) with the Vulcans; In “Civilization”, the Buffy realizes that she needs to have some Ross (Sam Jones III).Lex Luthor (Michael who is part of a group of radicals wanting Enterprise discovers a planet with a late income, she tries different jobs, Rosenbaum) comes to Smallville to to expose government corruption who 19th Century Earth level of technology. experiencing them in some sort of strange manage his father’s (Julian Glover) failing seeks sanctuary with Logan when her When they disguise themselves as locals time loop. In the obligatory Halloween fertilizer plant, which he see’s as group is crushed. Martin Cummins (Nick to learn more of the planet and discover a episode, Dawn takes off with some friends punishment. Episodes will deal with Boyle on Poltergeist: The Legacy) will be “deadly mystery that has already cost the and joins in some Halloween mayhem, strange things like a young man with Ames White, is assigned to clean up the lives of several locals.” which turns out to be much worse than electrical powers, a nerdish bug collector mess that Renfro (Nana Vistor) left of Elsewhere on UPN, we’ve got WB she anticipated, especially when one of who has a lot in common with the bugs he Manticore. Visitor turned down a Refugees Roswell and Buffy turning up the friends turns out to be a Vampire. collects, a former Luthor Corp janitor who continuing regular role on the series. We’ll on Tuesday night. In a cross-promotion We’ll also have the much anticipated has been affected by a special fertilizer and also meet Kevin Durand (Mystery, with Enterprise, the Roswell episode musical Buffy episode where some sort of he comes to Smallville to find a cure, a Alaska), who will play Joshua, the “Secrets and Lies” will find Max in Los truth spell causes everyone to voice their Smallville High coach who has the ability genetically engineered mix of human and Angeles following up leads on a murder. true feelings to each other in song. to control fire, and an episode dealing with animal DNA. Somehow or other, an agent sets him up to Still on the WB, Angel is in it’s new Clark’s discovery of X-Ray vision. Finally, everyone will get to see the audition to play an alien on Enterprise. Monday night time slot, following Seventh Over on Charmed, in the season debut of FOX’s live action version of The Johnathon Frakes appears as himself as Heaven. The revived Vampire Hunter Holtz opener, they’ve discovered their Tick. Set to debut on Thursday, the Enterprise director and also directs the will be played by xxxxx. Various rumors previously unknown half-sister Paige, November 8th, it stars Patrick Warburton Roswell episode. Starting off the season, (emphasis on RUMORS) indicate that played by Rose McGowan. In the early as The Tick, David Burke as Arthur, Liz in the episode “Busted”, Max and Liz hold either one of the Angel Investigations episode “Size Matters”, Robert Englund Vassey as Captain Liberty and Nestor up a convenience store so that Max can crew will side with Holtz and betray Angel (Freddy Krueger) guest stars as a demon Carbonell as Batmanuel. In the pilot investigate a secret door there that may or that the police will get involved and that causing problems for the sisters. episode, The Tick arrives in The City, help him find a way to communicate with the true nature of Angel will be revealed, The new season of The X-Files will meeting Arthur, Captain Liberty and his homeworld. Things don’t go right and leading to the murder of a reporter. There finally debut on FOX in early November. Batmanuel and defeating The Red Scare they end up in jail. This leads to problems may also be a time warp episode where Returning will be and saving Jimmy Carter. with Liz’s parents and Max not being able Angel will see what would happen if (Scully), (Doggett), Mitch Subsequent episodes finds Arthur in to even talk to Liz. Michael starts having Angelus had not gotten a soul and had Pelligi (Skinner) and Annabeth Gish the hospital, having been injured fighting financial difficulties which leads to a night- continued his evil ways. Angel will also (Reyes) and the regular cast. Joining the Apocalypse Cow while The Tick takes on watchman job where he discovers some look into starting a relationship with series will be a couple of well known The Terror, a washed up supervillian trafficking in genetic material. Isabel takes someone after he realizes he should put actors for recurring roles. Cary Elwes (The (Armin Shimmerman); in “Arthur, up with Jesse Ramirez (played by Adam Buffy completely behind him. As reported Princess Bride) will appear as Assistant Interrupted” The Tick and Company Rodreguiz), a lawyer at Philip Evan’s law previously, Amy Acker’s Winefred will Director Brad Follmer, who is an old flame rescue Arthur from an insane asylum that firm who is brought in to help get Max become a regular. We may see Darla, of Agent Reyes. Also appearing in at least Arthur’s family put him in when he told released from jail. We learn that Isabel and Drusilla, Lindsey and Faith, but only as the first two episodes will be Lucy them about his new occupation; in “The Jesse have been having a secret affair over their respective actor’s schedules allow Lawless (Xena) as a mysterious woman License”, the Tick learns that all the summer. Jim Valenti, no longer charge .All of them are involved with other TV who also has the ability to breath superheroes are supposed to have a of local law enforcement, is forced by his and movie projects and are not available underwater. Expect to see The Lone license and inform the authorities of their son to get a job, which is one his son is for any lengthy multi-episode Gunmen and, Krycek (Executive Producer secret identity, of which The Tick has shocked by. appearances. Frank Spotnitz has indicated people neither; and in “Arthur Needs Space”, Going back to UPN for a minute, we’ve should pay close attention to what Krycek Arthur meets a high school crush who is got Special Unit 2 continuing with a said before he was shot) and maybe even impressed by his new superhero look, but second season, following Enterprise on a return of the Cigarrette Smoking Man. he can’t get rid of The Tick to spend some Monday nights. Not much specific The initial two episodes (“Nothing time alone with her; and in “Couples”, episode news to report, though. The only Important Happened Today I & II) deal The Tick and Arthur meet other info that has surfaced on the new season with some super soldiers who help prevent superhero/sidekick teams including Fiery so far is that John DeLancie will be someone from mucking with the area’s Blaze (Ron Perlman) and Friendly Fire turning up as a leader of the Links in a water supply and want the FBI to expose (Patrick Breen). likely recurring role. He’s also been doing it. We also learn of Mulder leaving or CBS’s lone genre series, Wolf Lake, a recurring role on Stargate SG-1 as the disappearing, which has Skinner delves into the strange goings on in the head of the N.I.D., which also films in concerned. Scully is dealing with her new Pacific northwest town Wolf Lake. Seattle Vancouver and he’s likely to show up baby and how it’s affecting her schedule. detective John Kanin (Lou Diamond again on Andromeda as Becka’s Uncle Sid In Daemonicus, Doggett and Reyes Philiips) goes there looking for his if they can fit it into his schedule. investigate what my be satanic ritual missing fiancee, and meets her parents, Back to The WB, their big new show is killings while Scully teaches a class at the who are part of the long lived denizens of Smallville, airing Tuesday nights FBI academy in which her reputation has the town who appear to have the ability to opposite Roswell. As previously reported preceded her. The investigation leads to a change into wolves. Also starring in the is stars Tom Welling as a 15 year old Clark mental hospital inmate who may be series is Tim Matheson as the local sherif, Kent who is just now coming into his controlling people and seems to know way Bruce McGill as the town leader, and powers. To give the show a different, more too much about Doggett. will Graham Greene as a local expert of sorts. mysterious, take on the Superman legend, focus on Agent Reyes as she investigates It airs Wednesday nights on CBS and its © UPN the arrival of young Clark’s spaceship was a death of a biker ex-con who is found chances of survival are likely slim. By the time you’ve read this, Buffy is accompanied by a large meteor shower skinned alive after having said he had On the cable side of things, we’re back and kicking demon butt, although that has made Smallville “The Meteor dreams about it in a group therapy pretty much into the land of repeats until wondering a bit about herself and having Capital of the World”.The meteor deposits session. Scully and Doggett mainly serve January. Now is a good time to catch up been dead and brought back. She’ll also have lead to a lot of strange things as secondary characters, tracking down on episodes you may have missed or ones be dealing with taking care of Dawn and developing in Smallville over the years, information for Reyes, with Scully making many of which will be investigated by a connection to a similar case from 1960. (Cont’d on page 8 ) Volume 11 Issue 5 ConNotations Page 7 Tracker. Paul is Cole, an alien hunter who Laila Ali, Gary Graham, and Alexandra been giving up any information on specific SF Tube Talk (cont’d from page 7 ) has come to Earth to track down over two Tydings. Plotlines will include Sheena episodes. The show looks to have lots of you’d wanted to see again. SciFi has hundred aliens who have escaped from an discovering a feral teenager living deep in action and should be worth checking out. ended their Saturday Prime for now, interplanetary prison and landed in the jungle, a shaman arises to challenge Once the series starts, I expect to see more moving The Chronicle into an early (and Chicago. An alien scientist named Zin Kali, Sheena having only 48 hours to get info on their official web site at late repeat) time slot on Fridays preceding (Gaeraint Wyn Davies of Forever Knight an undercover drug agent safely out of www.mutantx.net. the first showing of The Invisible Man. fame) devises a manner for escapees from harm’s way, an assassin comes into the It appears that Starhunter will not be and The Outer Limits are now the alien prison to travel to Earth via a jungle and kills some of the locals, a high airing in syndication. Other shows either in a Mon-Thur early prime time repeat wormhole and take over the bodies of stakes boxing tournament happens on debuting in syndication or returning are schedule of earlier seasons and Lexx has humans. Cole is sent to Earth to track Sheena’s turf, a valuable relic that was to The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, been banished to it’s usual late night, down and retrieve the escaped aliens. He be sold for a needy village is stolen by The Immortal, The Lost World, Relic early morning Sunday time slot during the meets up with Mel Poter (Amy Price- thieves, Kali is accused of some local Hunter, The Outer Limits, and repeat season. The only show on SciFi Francis ), the feisty and intelligent owner crimes, an international hostage situation Beastmaster. The Invisible Man will have continuing new episodes for the time of a landmark bar in downtown Chicago arises in Maltaka, an outsider comes in to new to syndication episodes during the being is their short film series Exposure. and Jess (Leanne Wilson), a sexy London reform the social and educational systems fall, having stopped airing new episodes The big news with SciFi is that they born barmaid. Cole is definitely a fish out of the villages, and two major homages: an the week after they aired on SciFi in July have committed to a sixth season of of water on Earth and relies on the two to X-Files one where villagers begin to so that they would have new episodes to Stargate SG-1.As with Poltergeist: The help him learn his way around Chicago and suspect alien abductions, and a Survivor air when SciFi goes into repeats. Legacy and The Outer Limits, SciFi has Earth in general. one, where a Survivor-like TV show is Debuting on the Cartoon Network in picked up a series that Showtime has not Earth: Final Conflict’s Fifth season interrupted by a civil war. November will be an all new series based picked up. Things could get confusing, will be it’s final one. With the departure of Over on Andromeda, Dylan Hunt and on DC Comics Justice League. It will however, since SciFi will begin airing Da’an (Leni Parker) and Liam Kincaid crew will continue with their problems with done in the style of the recent animated season six next summer, while the fifth (Robert Leeshock) from the series, the the Magog in the season opener The Batman and Superman and will feature the season, currently airing on Showtime, focus will be on Renee Palmer (Jayne Widening Gyre. Following the resolution follow-ing heroes: Superman, Batman, won’t air in syndication until next fall. Heitmeyer) for the new season. Joining of the strife with the Magog, the crew will Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Those watching the show on syndication the cast will be Allan Van Sprang as ponder their future in “Exit Strategies”. Flash, Hawkgirl and Martian Manhunter. (assuming they can find it) will have not Howlyn, the lead male avatus and In “All Too Human”, Rommie meets up The series will debut on Saturday, Nov 17 yet seen season five when they can start Guylaine St. Onge as Juda, the leading with a nerdy defense contractor played by at 7 pm ET/PT with a multipart episode and watching the sixth season on SciFi. female avatus, the result of the merging of Bruce Harwood (Byers The Lone it’s regular time slot will be Mondays at Airdates have been announced for the Taelons and Jaridians started at the Gunmen) and both have to deal with a 8:30 pm ET/PT starting Nov 19th. Bruce both the : Legend of the end of season four. Making a return government agent tracking them played Timm will be overseeing the series and Rangers TV Movie on SciFi (January 2nd) appearance as William Boone will be Kevin by First Wave’s Roger Cross. The crew “After working on the Superman and and the debut of Jeremiah on Showtime Kilner, whose character has been in visits a backwater colony not unlike a Batman series for the last several years, (Jan 11th).There’s not much new info on suspended animation since the end of the Western town in “Last Call at the Broken JUSTICE LEAGUE is a great opportunity these, so look for more info on both of first season. Also guest starring will be Hammer”. Beka Valentine will be featured to develop those characters a step further these J. Michael Straczynski shows next Margot Kidder, who will play a forensic in “A Heart For Falsehood Framed” and and bring more of the iconic DC Comics issue. pathologist turned serial killer that Rene Dylan will flash back to his early superheroes to life,” said Timm. “I am TNT has announced that they will breaks out of prison hoping she can help Commonwealth days in “Home Fires”. looking forward to exploring whole new have a second series of 13 episodes of in the battle with the atavus aliens. Also The writers have described “Una Salus realms of the superhero world.” Witchblade to air next summer. There’s no making a guest appearance will be Anita Victus” as The Male Genitalia Swinging The Green Lantern will be the John details on how the series will proceed. The La Selva, who was a regular as the Taelon Contest between Dylan and Tyr with a Stewart Green Lantern and will ending of the first series left them at a Zo’or who will make an appearance in a Beka B-story. The likely last two episodes be Wally West. There will be a two-parter point where it will be very interesting to “startling new incarnation”. of the fall, although they may air earlier, featuring a guest appearance by Aquaman see how they proceed. From Whoosh.org comes news on will be “Into the Labyrinth”, which guest and there will also be a Justice Society Debuting in mid-October in Sheena’s new season. Guest stars include stars James Marsters (Spike on Buffy) as episode. Villians will include The Joker, syndication is Adrian Paul’s new series, Mira Furlan, Ron Ely, Patricia Tallman, Charlemagne Bolivar, the Nietzschean Lex Luthor, Star Sapphire, Solomon archduke mentioned in “The Honey Grundy, the Injustice gang, and Mongul. Offering”. According to Timm, “Each character has a The episode specific role and we understand how they “Pitiless as fit in and how they react to one another. the Sun” will We’re trying to get really specific with guest star what their concerns are and what issues William B. they care about. It’s like Davis (X- with super powers.” Files’ CSM) Timm mentioned how they researched as a scientist the group dynamic by rereading trying to thousands of comics — not just JLA but find out the other team comics like the Avengers, about Fantastic Four and others. “We’ve found a Trance lot of bickering,” he concluded. Timm Gemini. promised that the show would be filled There’s with action. “One of the things that we’ve not much realized early on with this show is when new to you get this much super power in one report on group, you have to up the ante. You can’t Mutant X have them fighting a bunch of thugs in a from what warehouse anymore. So we’ll be tossing was in the planets and stuff at them all the time. It previous makes the show difficult, but fun, to do.” issue of More schedule information, news and ConNotations. links, visit the Magrathea/SFTV Pages at The writers www.sftv.org and official web site have not Page 8 ConNotations Volume 11 Issue 5 Already in theatres is “Joy Ride”, From Registration you could travel east or 24 Frames (Cont’d from page 1 ) ConClusion (cont’d from page 6 ) where a group of teenagers tangle cross west to enter the large Exhibit Hall where died in a plane crash. Reports are that 80% country with a deranged truck driver who go along with these. Oh well. Across the the fan tables were located, costume of her scenes had been filmed and the wants to teach them a lesson after they exhibit, science displays, photo displays, producers have to decide how whether to hallway from Registration were the play a prank on him. In “Bones”, rapper ASFA table, Art Show and Dealers Room. recast and reshoot or work around the newsletter boards, flyer boards, voodoo Snoop Dogg is Jimmy Bones, a They didn’t use the entire thing, either. available footage. Filming on the two (message) boards and freebies tables. neighborhood protector who was betrayed There was a wide distance between the sequels in Australia continues with lots of and killed in the 1970’s whose spirit Nothing was really ready to use, so we former items and the latter items. We extra casting. While taking to SciFi Wire, returns to clean things up in his old wandered south down the long hall to the producer Joel Silver explained the release neighborhood. “From Hell” stars Johnny exhibit hall (which another group ended up passed the seated Worldcon tables (San date push back with “It’s just it’s an Depp as inspector Frederick Abberline using) and out the gates to the Marriott Jose 2002, Toronto 2003) and bidded enormous project,” Silver told the investigating the murders of Prostitutes in Hotel. Entering there we found ourselves Worldcons (Boston & Charlotte 2004, UK website. “It’s a staggering project. There’s London. It is based on the graphic novel on the second floor. We took the elevator 2005, Los Angeles & Kansas City 2006, so much dealing with it, it’s unbelievable, by Alan Moore about the reign of Jack the up to the 21st floor where some parties Japan 2007). KC in ’06 was a new bid and I and they just need time to finish both Ripper. It also stars Heather Graham, Ian were supposed to be located. Sure chatted with them later about their info. movies, because we’re shooting them as Holm and Robbie Coltrane. “13 Ghosts” is enough, Charlotte (North Carolina) in 2004 They want 2006 since it will be the 30th one big movie. It’s not back to back. It’s a remake of the William Castle horror was running their Worldcon bid party anniversary of their last Worldcon. My one movie, so they’ll finish shooting it, classic about a family that inherits a house already. They were serving barbecued friend and I then hit the Dealers room with and then they’ll take the time to finish the that has 13 ghosts in it and what happens pork, salad, beans, beer, sodas, wine, etc. all the various booths offering books, art, movies.” when they are trapped in it. It stars F. The pork was not nearly as good as in costuming, magazines, jewelry, etc. Since Even though the first Harry Potter film Murray Abraham, Tony Shalhoub, the Art Show wasn’t open yet we just kind has yet to be released, there’s now talk of Chicago and I found out later that it was Shannon Elizabeth, Kathryn Anderson, of peeked in and left. We also walked Stephen Spielberg directing the third purchased locally rather than imported. I and J.R. Bourne. west and downstairs to the first floor movie. Spielberg was quoted by a British ate a little, but passed the rest of the con. where other meeting rooms were offering paper that the “first story didn’t touch me For science fiction, we’ve got K-Pax, It just wasn’t the same. We chatted with a Gaming, ASFA/SFWA/WSFS meetings creatively. Now the third Harry Potter which is about Prot (Kevin Spacey), a computer programmer from New York and book. ... It’s pure genius! Much darker, mental hospital patient who claims to be some other folks from around the country and readings, kids programming, etc. more esoteric and interesting to me an alien from the planet K-Pax. His before heading out to find other parties. That’s when I discovered the 2nd floor personally.” When asked if directing the psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Powell (Jeff Not much else was running until we hit the walkway went over the street that we had movie is a possibility, Spielberg replied Bridges) is baffled by Prot and is not sure 6th floor where Boston in 2004 was walked down the first night. My friend “You never know”. what will happen when Prot’s announced running their party. They had chocolates was bouncing off the walls the entire time Progress is being made on a Red departure date nears. In Black Night, and other sweets, shrimp with cocktail and had to go tell her husband all about it. Dwarf movie based on the BBC SciFi Martin Lawrence is Jamal, a waiter at a sauce, and hard drinks. Since their party I walked back to our hotel (which was comedy series. It will feature the TV cast Medieval World theme park who is comprised a number of interconnected on the edge of Chinatown) and rested and is being written and directed by Doug somehow transported back to the middle suites and next door suites we felt like we before meeting the online group for dinner. Naylor, co-creator of the TV series. ages and teams up with an ex-knight (Tom weaved through a rabbit warren. Of We met at the convention center and Filming will commence this fall and a Wilkinson) and a peasant girl (Marsha course, we had to do that just to get there. walked to an Italian restaurant across the Christmas 2002 release date is planned. Thomason) to defeat an evil king (Kevin street from the Marriott called The official web site at Turns out the 7th floor has the pool and Conway) Maggione’s. It was crowded, but part of www.reddwarf.co.uk has been having the 6th contains all the mechanical support Opening the first weekend in our group was already there. We had to updates on the film’s progress, reporting November is the latest from Pixar and for it. Those hallways were about 4 feet split into 2 groups of 9 to prevent being on cast read-throughs, rehearsals, and Disney, Monsters, Inc. It stars John wide! By the time we got back to our hotel forced to order family style (choosing one Robert Llewellyn’s plaster casting to make Goodman and as the voices we were full and tired. I read a bit and a new, bigger budget costume for Kryten. of a couple of Monsters of the type that watched some local TV before crashing. of two entrees, one of two salads, etc.). The budget will be just under 20 Million spring from kids closets to scare them. The Thursday brought a buffet breakfast We had a wonderful meal and the desserts British Pounds. In an interview on the web Monsters are really just as scared as the and another trip to the convention center. were to die for! Since my family had eaten site, Naylor said “It’s a complete story kids. When a little girl named Boo invades This time we attempted to take a taxi, but at the hotel buffet before I got back they unto itself. The story begins before the the Monster’s world, it gets turned upside none came even after calling twice. We resorted to just dessert while I plowed into series started, and then goes off in a down. In The One, Jet Li stars as multiple gave up and walked. My family wanted to the largest order of lasagna I had ever direction that the series didn’t go off on. versions of the same character in multiple see some items on the program and I had seen. I had to take most of it back to the So it’s set up and then has it’s own story, dimensions. When an evil version of arranged to meet an online friend for a hotel and finally ate it before leaving for complete in itself, whilst still being able to himself discovers that he grows stronger brief tour of a Worldcon. She was a the airport on Monday. We then hit assemble the cast that we know and love.” as each of his counterparts is killed, he Farscape fan and couldn’t attend the con parties. Since Charlotte was on floor 21 we goes on a interdimensional reign of terror. due to family commitments, but wanted to started there. Some other groups had Movie Release Dates It’s up to a good version of himself to stop parties up there. SFWA and ASFA suites Oct 5 - Joy Ride see one. Since she lived in Philly I insisted the bad one. Lots of special effects and were on the 20th floor. SFWA was Oct 19 - Bones, From Hell that she meet me for a two-bit tour. While Jet Li fight scenes are to be expected. It’s badging (sort of like carding) folks, so we Oct 26 - 13 Ghosts, K-Pax also written by the Morgan and Wong waiting for her I hung out with other visited ASFA instead. It was crowded, Nov 2 - Monsters, Inc., The One team, responsible for Final Destination friends from online and set up a dinner but had good food. I didn’t recognize Nov 16 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s and lots of good X-Files episodes. that night with them all. It turns out that Stone Of course, the big movie for November the freebie tables we hung out at were hardly anyone there except the president Nov 21 - Black Knight is the film adaptation of Harry Potter and ideally located at the top of the escalators and the suite coordinator, so we headed Dec 19 - The Fellowship of the Rings the Sorcerer’s Stone. From advance and the beginning of the programming down the elevator to other floors. Dec 21 - Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius footage the movie looks to capture the hallway. It was about as centrally located Somehow we missed UK in ’05, but caught Feb 8 - The Time Machine spirit of the book and the young actors as any place could be there. My family them later in the weekend. Boston had 2002 - Rollerball, Jason X, Pluto Nash, look to do a good job bringing the went back to the hotel before my friend their going again on the 6th floor. Many Spiderman (May 2), Star Wars Episode II characters to life. With a good adult cast arrived, so I used my mother-in-law’s other had the 7th floor tied up. SFF.Net (May 22), Scooby Doo (June 14), Reign of (Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, John badge for the tour. My friend finally ran a series of parties including chocolate Fire (June) Cleese, Julie Waters, Maggie Smith, showed up over an hour late, but had a as a theme. They had some good Warwick Davis and Alan Rickman) to great time. The hallway had rooms for chocolate. If you didn’t know, they are a Upcoming Movie Previews for October & support the kids, it should be as fun to web site that started up about the time November programming on either side that ran south watch for adults as for kids. And it will Genie (online service) was shut down. October is the month for Horror from Registration. The great hall beyond likely be entrenched in the number one They have some public access and some movies and there’s several of them allowed you to walk up stairs to another slot until late December, when the first private access. They also have some scheduled to be unleashed into the movie installment of the Lord of the Rings hall above that turned out not to be used. newsgroups only available there. We theatres. Then in November & December trilogy debuts. We’ll have lots more on The south end of that great hall led to the we’ve got some of the most highly that very highly anticipated movie next Marriott and a shopping center that I were full and pooped, so we took a cab anticipated movies of the year. didn’t get to until later in the weekend. issue. ( cont’d on page 12 ) Volume 11 Issue 5 ConNotations Page 9 MORE HexaCon 12 GAMING BIGGER Arizona’ Largest Gaming Convention SPACE LOCATION July 26-28, 2002 Embassy Suites North, Phoenix We have a new, LARGER site and plan to have all our regular features such as RPGA events, Magic ThG, Chess, Computer Gaming, LARPs, Board Games, Miniatures, the Miniatuer Painting Contest, our popular Used Game Auction, Consuite and Anime plus as many new events as we can think of. If there is something you would like to see at HexaCon please contact us and let us know what it is so we can do our best to bring it to you. Memersership Rates: Location Info SPECIAL EVENTS Contact Info

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Volume 11 Issue 5 ConNotations Page 11 ConClusion (cont’d from page 9 ) Attractions: Bantam, Enjoying The Art Telescope, sacrificed Writing On The even Posthuman Rights: What Rights Will Show, SF Professional Organizations: Web: The Internet As Resource And Tool A I’s have? I thought the topic Do They back to the hotel and crashed. SFWA And ASFA, The Art Of for the Art Show Docent Tour with David Keep Kosher On Mars: Jewishness In SF I didn’t get to much programming on Developing Character Histories In RPGs, Cherry, caught part of John Hertz’s docent would be a hoot to attend, or even pop my Thursday because I had to wait an Writers Who Filk & Filkers Who Write, tour afterward while finishing off the really head into Robert Heinlein: An unusually long time to hook up with my Worldbuilding 101: Creating A Planet, good art show, missed the Future of Appreciation And Evaluation. After all, I friend. I flipped through the pocket Spectroscopy For Kids, What Makes A Gardening and What SF Didn’t Predict and did write a paper in college on why RAH program while waiting and was Good Stage Costume?, Win Tom glad I missed Following The Slayer: A was the best SF writer up to that time disappointed to discover that the program Galloway’s Money (I was mistaken for Look Back At Five Seasons Of Buffy The (1976). I settled for New Missions To grid only showed 6 columns of information Tom by none other than Kevin Standlee Vampire Slayer. From what I heard in the Mars over Free Space And Corporate per page, two pages max. That’s only 12 whom I’ve known since LepreCon 15), gripe session on Monday is was sardine Space and passed on Piracy In The Digital program items! Well, just past the daily Writing For TV: A Dialog, America’s Best city. Age for Bob Eggleton Slide Show and grid was the daily details. Lo and behold, Comics, Pagan Concert, Art In The UK, Tonight we tried to get together with missing out on Web Pages for Writers. there was more going on than the grid Writing And Illustrating Fairy Tales, The some friends for dinner, but they were not The Geology Of Middle Earth was neat showed. From that point on I gave up on Classics Of Alternate History, Belly available because of relatives. So, my wife until the staff cut it short at 50 minutes yet the grid and just read the details. The size Dancing, Regency Dance, Previously In and I went back to Maggione’s for dinner again. The fellow giving the presentation of Saturday’s details included around 23 Philadelphia: the 1947 and 1953 and had to wait quite some time. We hung was also upset at being stopped far too unique items at a time, still much smaller Worldcons, Changing Views Of The Space out at a table in their bar and about half early. I thought about catching From The than LA’s program in 1996 which had up Program, Kaffe Klatches, Joe Bergeron way through our 75 minute estimated wait Caves Of Steel To The City Guard: SF and to 32! Some of the things offered on Slide Show, Where Has The Future Gone? the cocktail server asked if we’d like to just Fantasy Police Stories or Current Trends Thursday included autographings at the And the Retro Hugo Awards. For dinner eat there. Sure! After we ordered our in Anime or even Fandom In The Future, Asimov’s / Analog Table in the Dealers my family and I went to Chinatown with friends came in to wait for their table and but opted for Space Tourism: Publicity Room, Video: A Bug’s Life, Computer another friend from online. They returned we all hung out anyway. Their dinners Stunt Or The Coming Thing. Since then Security: How Secure Is Secure?, Readings to the hotel while I wandered back to the arrived as we finished ours, so we took off I’ve read where the Russians are working (Rob Sawyer, S.M. Stirling, etc.), Beer In Marriott for more parties. to join a group for a Masquerade party in a with the Chinese on a commercial space Philadelphia, How To Enjoy Your First Saturday started with breakfast, which room at the Marriott. It seems it was being station that appears to have NASA Worldcon, Rediscovered Authors, Book I missed due to oversleeping, and some televised in the hotel since it was held fretting. Libertarian SF sounded Discussion: Dune by Frank Herbert, The good programming. I missed seeing there. Unfortunately, by the time we got interesting, but I settled on visiting their Yankee Confederacy And Other Untapped Where Did Tom Swift Go? I cut my teeth there it was over, but we got to watch the party that night. It was awkward until we Alternate Histories, Philadelphia in in SF on Tom Swift Jr. books. I did catch awards given out. We sat around and chatted about local politics and western Science Fiction and Fantasy, Wizard part of the Stephen Youll Guest Artist joked until a gal came by to give us a water policies. They warmed up at that Costumes (Camp Franklin - Kids), Slide Show. He was cut short by program presentation in the fine art of punning. point. The Future Of Music sounded Worldcon Bidder Presentations, Field Of staff and he expressed his concern for Using used Leggs’ eggs and homemade interesting, Religious Societies In the Dreams: Baseball In SF And Fantasy, ending a GoH event before he was done. dolls of rabbits inside she spun a yarn that Spacefaring Future would have been Space Technology: A Look Into The Next He ended up running through his slides knitwits like me could only follow. Since it good, but the Growing Rift? - Pros and Quarter Century, Mobile Infantry And quickly in order to appease the staff. This was an interactive story we all had to Fans sounded a tad argumentative. The Space Fighters: What Makes Good was a common complaint throughout the guess the various punch lines and I was Year In Physics And Astronomy was high Military SF, Filk Concert, Anime: Bugs con as they ran 50-minute panels and mildly successful. All in all we had a great on my list as was the Future Of Medicine, Bunny Tribute, Opening Ceremonies, Nick didn’t care who you were when they gave time. Look for Madame Ovary at LosCon but I had to make sure we made dinner Danger (Radio Room), Friends Don’t Let the stop now sign. I caught the first half this November. From there we did more early since lots of restaurants nearby were Friends Run Worldcons: Worldcon Chairs of the annual ASFA Meeting and was parties. Tonight there was no Charlotte or closed. Discuss Worldcon, Docent Tour: Fan pleased to hear Teresa Patterson Boston since the site selection voting We met up with our friends from the Exhibits, Evolution Of Online Communities (President) say that the Art Show was ended at 6pm. Instead we found UK in night before and walked numerous blocks (this one I sat in on and they spent a large done very well and there was really ’05, Japan in ’07, LA and KC in ’06. Japan to Ludwig’s Garten for German food. We part of time explaining the origins of the nothing to complain about. This is in served a mean plum liqueur, UK served had reservations and it was fortuitous. Internet, Usenet and online services such contract to the Chicago Art Show from last scotch (I passed), and the others had great Our group was about #3 out of 25 that as CompuServe, Genie and AOL), HP year I mentioned above. They also gave food. I think it was in KC that I tried a descended on the poor understaffed Lovecraft in the 21st Century, The Art of out awards to various web sites, including taste from a bottle of You Can’t Handle restaurant that night. All told we spent 3 Worldbuilding: an Overview Of one that had previously been notified that This Sauce. I drank lots at the next party hours at dinner. Now, we weren’t rushed Worldbuilding Panels, Across The it was violating copyright by posting down the way, but did handle it. In the at all, so we enjoyed watching the various Commonwealth: The SF Renaissance In unauthorized artwork. Apparently they lobby later we ran into some Boston fans servers, bartenders, bussers and The UK, Australia and Canada, Pictionary, worked with ASFA to come into legal who were celebrating. They had won the hostesses run around like, well, you know. Star Trek Aliens and Cultures, Poetry Jam: compliance and ended up setting an 2004 bid! By the time we left it had died down to a An Open Mike Poetry Reading, example of how to properly do it! I had Sunday offered more good gentle sigh. I had the rouladen and my Underground Horrors: Horror Small Press. arranged to meet a friend for lunch and we programming. David Cherry had his slide wife had the sauerbraten with peach Most of these were in the convention did sandwiches in the nearby Reading show. I missed Are the Oceans Still Our flavored Belgian beer. They were out of center, but some occurred in the Marriott Terminal Market. This place has been Future? I passed on Life With Harry my choice so I opted for iced tea. in the meeting rooms. The Internet open for over 100 years and offers (Potter), but heard the Junkyard Wars was Speaking of beer, a good portion of the lounge, concerts, ConSuite, etc. were in vegetables, fruits, seafood, Amish baking quite good. I wanted to get to The Kepler restaurant guide covered beers. This is ok the hotel for various reasons, mostly cost. and restaurants, Philly steak sandwiches, a Project: The Search For Earth-Like Planets for those who survive on it, but for us it Friday we did the hotel breakfast book store, a cooking store, on and on. It or The City In SF, but ate lunch instead was a waste of space. Instead we had before heading to the con. I caught the was a wonderful place to eat and shop. with some San Diego fans in the food hoped to have a map of where the Hal Clement Slide Show: “Big Names” A Unfortunately, it was closed Sunday and court of the shopping center that attached restaurants were located. What we got Cautionary Tale About Fictional Trips To Monday (Labor Day). So, I missed the to the Marriott and convention center. was a generic map of the downtown area Well-Known Stars, Babylon 5 and Deep Michael Whelan Slide Show, the SETI We dined elegantly on Popeye’s Chicken. with only major streets. We had to Space 9: A Look Back, Galactic Project and Cutting Edge Physics: I missed The First Carpool: A Look At reference a restaurant summary to get the Geographic: A Guided Tour, Sailing The Theories Of Everything. I also missed the Chicon and Denvention (1940/41), Star address, then determine if we could walk Sea Of Stars: The Interrelations Between JPL Presentation and Worldbuilding 102: Wars Past and Future, and California to it. The good news was that they SF And Naval Fiction, tried to attend the Creating An Ecosystem. I passed on the Dreaming: Future Sources Of Energy. I did marked some as within 4 blocks. The bad Literary Beer with Robert Sawyer in the bar Introductory Shotokan Karate Workshop catch Mathematical SF which had quite a news was that they failed to provide a sort upstairs but it was completely full at his and SF Romances and Demo: Pen and Ink. heated discussion about some issues. I in the back by that criterion. City Center table, Jeff Walker’s Movie Trailers. Other I caught most of A Journey Through The wanted to see A History Of Japanese was there, but 4 blocks was a sublisting things that I missed included Coming Universe With The Hubble Space Fandom or Beer In Zero G and Other Challenges Of Space Manufacturing or ( cont’d on page 13 ) Page 12 ConNotations Volume 11 Issue 5 ConClusion (cont’d from page 12 were west coast fans or pros. Sure resembling mushroom eruptions in a Marella Sands, Mark Siegel, Janni Simner, enough, someone complained about the snowy blanket. It was really remarkable Ken St. Andre, Gene Steinberg, Grayson for) City Center restaurants. Many apparent censorship of past participants. I and much better than the in-flight movie. Steinberg, Jim Strait, David Summers, Kit restaurants were detailed while many were heard the Chair say that he knew of no one We arrived home to find our four-footed Townsend, Larry Vela, Scott Virtes, just listed with little info. I suppose it was who was deliberately left off the schedule. friends eager to unleash all their Catherine Wells, John Wheeler, Lee better than some cons do, though. So, Yeah, right. Other complaints had to do frustrations and love on us at once. After Whiteside, Randall Whitlock, Dr. David after dinner we did the party thing one last with room/crowd sizes (which can’t be feeding, that is. Williams, myself, Gail Wolfenden-Steib time and hung out in the lobby with fixed unless you do this every year like If you have any questions or and Veronica Zabala. friends until it was time to crash. It turns Comic Con), the restaurant guide (already comments about this review, or just want The theme this year was Celtic and out our other friends had done an covered) or the wide unused space in the additional details, please email me at Thursday evening offered Heather playing impromptu Hugos party in their room, but Exhibit Hall (already covered). [email protected] or give me a in Consuite for those lucky members who it was over by the time dinner was done Compliments included the Art Show, call at 480-945-6890. pre-registered. I got to hear some of it and we didn’t know anyway. various program items such as Junkyard while chatting with folks for awhile. Julian Monday we packed up and my family Wars, etc. I left early so we could get to CopperCon 21 May apparently had already headed off to hung out in the second floor lounge where the airport in a timely manner. A Review by Mike Willmoth the hotel bar. Heather later went for a beer the buffets were held. I checked out and As it turned out we got one right away and a back adjustment. Friday brought lots did the convention center one last time. I from the front desk and arrived with plenty CopperCon 21 was held Friday of setup. Teri Slaker & Carol Johnson did a didn’t attend the GoH Autographing, nor of time. Our driver was from the Ukraine. September 7 through Sunday September 9, Tri-Chem demo which my wife enjoyed. Small Presses And The Changing Face Of Once the flight started I got to see another 2001, at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort Larry Vela ran What’s That Byte? where Publishing. I also missed the Operations Phoenix fan, Katrine Cady (former local Art in Scottsdale, Arizona. This year’s guests audience members had to guess what tv Horizon And Lunex: The Military’s Cold GoH for LepreCon), and a LA fan, John were author Julian May, artist Mark show or movie or actor said or offered that War Plans For A Moon Base which I’ve Hertz (Regency Dancing). He want ed to Roland, local author Diana Gabaldon and sound. Writing For Other Media and a been reading about since then online. get together for awhile in Phoenix until he musician Heather Alexander. Other reading by Thomas Harlan occurred along How To Lie With Statistics: The had to catch his connection to LAX, so participants included Lubov, Barry Bard, with Odds N Ends Costuming For Kids. Continuing Story sounded interesting as upon arrival we did. We hung out in Sky Chuck Cady, Mike Cassidy, P.C. Cast, There was a gaming panel opposite Meet did Trends in Electronic Publishing, The Harbor’s lounge and chatted about Janeen DeBoard, Phil Eklund, Maryeileen The Pros. I had a nice chat with Diana Future Of Publishing: Print-On-Demand, E- MilPhil, his experience with programming, Flanagan, Jessie Foster, Alma Maria Gabaldon there and said hello to a few Books, And Other Big Changes. Computer Hugos and all that. On the flight back I Garcia, Scott Glener, Bennie Grezlik, local pros and fans. During MTP a group Law I missed but I caught the Gripe got to watch the sun shed pastels on the Thomas Harlan, Don Markstein, Patricia called The Bringers played Celtic music Session. I wanted to see how the Chair clouds below as the moguls of moisture Mathews, Terry McGarry, Catherine with percussion, violin and (of all things) handled criticism about the program. Pre- passed by for about an hour. I could see McMullen, Sean McMullen, Yvonne digeridoo. They were quite good and Cary con I heard about a number of former thunderheads spear their way through the Navarro, Rusty Neal, Adam Niswander, Riall introduced the guests and partici- Worldcon participants who were not horizontal layer and over the course of a David Perrine, James Reade, Cary Riall, pants between sets. Afterward Mark invited to be on MilPhil’s schedule. Most few minutes formed billowing formations ( cont’d on page 14 )

Volume 11 Issue 5 ConNotations Page 13 ConClusion ( cont’d from page 13 ) Liaison this year. There were a few issues already gone so I left the vacant halls for in Montreal. If we win a bid for 2003 or involving our department that I’ll pass on home. later, then WFC will also be at that same Roland led an Art Show Walkthru while to the team for inclusion in LepreCon 28. Next year’s con will be at another site Embassy. Since I’m the Bid Chair for that Catherine Wells did a reading and UFP ran Some dealt with Dealers Room, Gaming you may remember from CopperCon 18, wish me luck. Be sure to check out their traditional SciFi Jeopardy. I sat in on and Registration. Overall, everyone was the Embassy Suites Phoenix North, I-17 & www.coppercon.org for details as they the latter and our group was ahead until quite pleased with the con and how it ran. Greenway Rd. Their construction is become available for C22. If you have any the Final Jeopardy round where we blew it. Reg reported total membership about 500 complete and everything has been ideas or comments about C21, please Chuck Cady talked about a project he with 450+ onsite. My wife and I had dinner upgraded. All rooms are two room suites. contact me and I’ll pass them on to the worked on called Land Warrior, the with the rest of the program team at a LepreCon 28 will be there in May as will powers that be for next year. You can Massoglias ran Regency and Country Folk Mongolian Barbecue restaurant before I HexaCon 12 in July and CopperCon 22 in reach me at [email protected] Dancing and Westercon 55 (Los Angeles) returned for the staff wrap-up meeting. September. Phoenix is also bidding for a or 480-945-6890. held a party for their convention. Consuite was closed and most folks were World Fantasy Convention this Halloween Saturday was the big day and it started with Lee Whiteside’s Tube Talk (upcoming sf/f shows). The GoHs gave talks or interviews, there was a mini seminar on a Mission To Mars and John Wheeler gave a Face Painting demo. Various writing panels occurred, such as Celtic Themes, Foot In The Door and Do It Yourself Publishing. Heather did her Filk Concert after The Bringers warmed up the crowd. The Charity Auction brought in over $1000 dollars for RIF and a Pet Rescue charity. I caught Current NASA Space Exploration Plans briefly and saw Larry Vela demo airbrush all over Lori Herrin, Program Operations Staff over Kids’ Programming. The United Federation of Phoenix (UFP) held a panel discussion on Star Trek & SciFi on Trek’s 35th Anniversary which I found interesting enough to put in my 2 cents. My wife & I met up with a couple of friends for dinner at nearby Outback Restaurant. By the time we returned Masquerade was over and the Modern Dance with Mark Boniece was setting up. Later I saw it well attended and bodies bobbed in the light show. Independent Fan Film Making ran short due to the dance and the popularity of Sex Toys Of The Future. And there were lots of parties! UFP had cake and ice cream while showing off their homegrown video. DieterK and MoeCanDo held a party with music and ambience for their Modern Dance efforts at LepreCon. Not only Westercon 55 but also LosCon 28 had parties. Corsairs/Pirates ran their own Ditty Party. I also helped out at our Westercon in 2004 Bid party where you could sample cordials by Lord Craig or make your own dinner combo from our build your own taco bar. I told lots of folks about the bid, pre-supporting, voting, etc. I think we ended up with about 10 new members. Sunday started with Planetary Probes which was educational. Barry Bard did his usual At The Movies with free stuff given away. Writer’s Technique and Kicking The Tires ran opposite ATM. I saw kids walking around with Salt Dough Sculptures and sat on the panel for Future Fashion Design. Here I expected to cover styles, technology, etc. but we mostly talked about fabrics and nanobots removing the scent from your socks. The Art Auction ran short so there was quite a bit of time before the Compliments & Complaints panel occurred. Since Kitty McDonald-Neal had to leave the con before that I sat on it and represented Programming since I was the Science Page 14 ConNotations Volume 11 Issue 5 Shane and Laurie’s Our next stop was Nitro, new for 2001. inversions, has a lap restraint, and the the other along the 2,250 feet of track and Designed by Bolliger and Mabillard, the drop from the lift hill is 160 feet. However, ends up in the station on the side opposite Excellent Adventure: Six same firm that gave us Apollo’s Chariot, the longest drop is 228 foot through a from the one on which it left. The parallel Amusement Parks East of Nitro is longer, higher, and faster than the tunnel. This baby clips along its 3,200 feet tracks are so close that riders can grip the the Mississippi River and Williamsburg coaster. It’s as if the owners of track at 82 mph and the ride was hand of their opposite number in the next of Six Flags told the designers, “We want enjoyable in both the front of the train and train. This promotes an odd combination West of the Atlantic Ocean one of those, but give us MORE,” which in the rear car. We were able to ride it twice of community and competition as the (Part 2 of 3) they did. Nitro was the same overall in a row before the lines got too long. trains advance and retreat along their By Shane Shellenbarger feeling of Apollo’s Chariot, just turned up The next ride we headed for was the tracks. This is a fun coaster to ride. a couple of notches. The track carries the Exterminator, an enclosed Mad Mouse At 2,132 feet of track, dropping 70 feet, passengers through some lovely with a twist: halfway though the ride the and top speed of 45 mph, the Jack Rabbit Laurie and I traveled onward to countryside. At least I think it’s lovely. cars spin as you go around a corner. The isn’t the longest, highest, or fastest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, taking off a It’s a bit hard to tell when you’re rising 230 plot of this themed dark coaster is that wooden coaster around but it is a great couple of days from coaster riding to feet and falling 215 feet, banking and giant rats have overtaken a subterranean ride! The 45 degrees of descent down a spend some time among the groundlings, turning along 5,394 feet of track at 80 mph area of the city and you are part of the ravine and the double dips give the rider but by Sunday we were back at it, this time trusting in the lap restraint. Just like team charged with eliminating this threat. plenty of airtime. We loved it and rode it joined by our niece, Danielle. Apollo’s Chariot, Nitro was our favorite We thought this ride was a hoot-and-a- twice in a row. We headed to another park discovery, coaster in the park. half! At 20 miles per hour, it’s not fast and http://www.kennywood.com/ Six Flags Great Adventure and Wild Safari We crossed into the Lakefront area at 1,377 feet of track you don’t go very far, http://www.kennywood.com/sister2k.htm in Jackson, . This park also has and entered Skull Mountain, and but it does take about 2 minutes and 30 (To Be Cont’d in Volume 11 Issue 6) metal detectors and does a bag search. My enclosed dark-coaster which only gets up seconds to complete the circuit and we pocketknife was deemed dangerous so it to 33 mph along 1,377 feet of track rising to found it was pure fun. Well worth the ride! was tagged and I was given a receipt to a height of 40 feet. I’d class this one as a The other coaster in the “Lost TO BE CONTINUED retrieve it from Security after we left the family coaster and not worth the time to Kennywood” area is the Thunderbolt, a In the next issue of ConNotations Shane and park. This park is divided as follows: Main ride. wooden coaster that opened in 1968 as a Laurie finish their adventure with trips to Street, Old Country, Movietown, Looney Leaving Lakefront, we crossed half of major expansion of the Pippin, a coaster Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky and Tunes Seaport, Fantasy Forest, Lakefront, the park to get to The Great American built in 1924. Luck wasn’t with us that day Six Flags Worlds of Adventure near Cleveland Boardwalk, Bugs Bunny Land, and Scream Machine, a coaster in the Frontier Adventures. Boardwalk area with quite a few tricks up Our first stop in Movietown was its sleeve. With 7 inversions along 3,800 Batman and Robin: The Chiller, dual- feet of track you’re never quite sure what track linear induction motor launched will happen around the next twist or turn. coasters. Robin was not operating, so the You drop from a height of 173 feet through line for Batman was quite long. Designed 3 vertical loops, 1 corkscrew, and 2 as a shuttle (out from the station, through boomerang loops as you travel along at 68 a loop, up a ramp, and then backwards to mph. My companions complained that it the station), the track length is only 1,137 was a bit too rough, but we all enjoyed the feet in length, dropping 139 feet through ride. two inversions at a top speed of 70 mph, The dual-track wooden coaster, creating 5 G’s, all in 32 seconds. It was Rolling Thunder, and the heart-line over too fast! We wanted to ride again, spinning inverted coaster, Viper weren’t but we couldn’t justify the wait time vs. in operation the day we were there, so we the ride time. headed for Medusa in the Frontier While not strictly a roller coaster, Adventures region of the park. Danielle Stuntman’s Freefall does run along a loaded up on ice cream and begged off as track and has a lift that takes you up 130 we came within sight of this beauty. feet, moves your four-person car forward 6 Medusa is a “floorless” coaster, open on feet to another track and then drops you. the sides with chairs that seem to fly The track curves at the bottom so that the above the track. Traveling at 61 mph over car changes from the vertical plane to the 3,985 feet of track, the rider fly’s like a horizontal plane. Then while you are on fighter pilot through 10 banked turns and 7 your back the car moves backward and inversions including interlocking and the ride was not in operation. downward into a receiving area that corkscrews, a vertical loop, a double The Racer is at the extreme opposite rotates the car back to the vertical plane in inversion, a dive loop and a zero-g roll. end of the park, directly across from the the staging area. This is pretty Medusa was a thrilling topper for our day. Skycoaster, where one to three flyers are exhilarating. http://www.sixflags.com/parks/ secured in a harness and winched in a Batman: The Ride is nearly identical greatadventure/home.asp prone position toward the180 foot high to the Batman: The Ride in Six Flags http://www.sixflags.com/home.asp launch tower. When the flyers release Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. Kennywood was a change of pace for themselves by pulling a parachute style 2,700 feet of track support 8 cars at 50 mph Laurie and myself, a slower pace. ripcord the flight begins. The nearby to a height of 105 feet through 5 Kennywood is a traditional amusement Racer only rises to about 72 feet, but it is inversions. As you approach the entrance park in West Mifflin near Pittsburgh, a wooden twin coaster with a difference, to the ride the theme appears to be that of Pennsylvania that was established in 1902. the track is configured in a Moebius Loop. a Gotham City renovation project. To remind park goers of that bygone era, a The dual trains start out with car “A” in However, once you are inside you are six-acre area was completed in 1995 and the station on the left and car “B” in the treated to the urban decay of burned-out dubbed “Lost Kennywood.” Rides, food, station on the right. During the course of police cars, graffiti-covered walls, and junk and shops harkens back to a simpler time, their parallel travels, one train crosses over strewn across chain link fenced-off areas. but rising above the area, casting its It was great in California and it’s great in shadow in the early summer sunlight is the New Jersey. Phantom’s Revenge (formally the Steel Phantom from 1991 to 2000), the newest coaster in the park. This ride has no © Sherlock Volume 11 Issue 5 ConNotations Page 15 devices were confusing and obscure. It The Crow: Temple of Night After 25 years, we still live in a world of In Our Book isn’t exactly science fiction, it isn’t exactly by S.P. Somtow petty dictators while every country in the a social commentary, it seems to be Harper Entertainment, $6.99, 290 pp world proclaims democracy. Engh has Blue Light somewhere in-between. It is possible that conveyed the fantasy of every one of By Walter Mosley the continuing story will come together This novel is a spinoff from the comic- these tyrants, to finesse the major powers Little, Brown & Co., $24.00, 296 pp more coherently now that the introduction book-movie-TV series of the supernatural of the world and take over. See what the is done; I’ll reserve judgment. - Catherine character The Crow. He’s an avenging civilized world is up against, and thank Walter Mosley has long been a Book ghost, a dead man come back to kill Engh for it. By the way, the author favorite mystery author of mine so I was evildoers. This particular Crow is an dedicated the book to her pal ~Fritz Leiber: doubly interested in a science fiction story Outlaw School American journalist murdered in friend, heartener.” - Michael Griffin by him. by Rebecca Ore Bangkok’s red light district. His nemesis: a The story is narrated by a man, EOS, $13.50, 310 pp serial sex killer, who bathes in the blood of Valerius the King Chance, who has witnessed a profound murdered and mutilated prostitutes. by T. R. Rankin change to mankind and himself. Chance As a community college tutor, I was Possessed by an evil demon, he thinks his America House book; 231pp. $21.95 was captivated by a man, Orde, who began especially interested to read this tale of a crimes make him into a god who will end preaching in the park after he was struck future tutor who goes to a community the world. If this story were filmed as is, I by a blue light that came from outer space. college! This is one of those “if this goes would condemn it as another socially In this, the second volume of the The blue light changed life wherever it on ...” cautionary tales of social criticism. harmful movie using the lame excuse of art Valerian Chronicles, Valerius Everreigning struck: people, animals and plants. Orde It’s good to see Ore continuing this as catharsis. The problem with realistic sex has his work cut out for him. For his found others who had been infected also tradition, which probably hit a high point and violence in the mass media is that one opponent Fantar is not sitting idly by. and brought them together as a kind of in the 1950s with the writers of Galaxy man’s catharsis is another man’s Dissolute though he (Fantar) might be, his family. This “infection” caused those magazine. Her 22nd-century American inspiration. Fortunately, this story isn’t one dominant passion was war, and the afflicted to have an expanded perception dystopia is too close for comfort. The visual media. It’s a book, for that minority very threat of a new Valerius attempting to of reality and some discovered certain supreme social value is discrimination. of the population who still have the ability take back what he, Fantar, had taken from powers that they didn’t have before. Orde Science has been perverted to justify to generate pictures in their heads from the old was enough to give meaning and tried to bring others into the family by racism, classism, and sexism. Smart kids words they read. As a book, it can get purpose to his life. and he directed that giving them his blood in the hope that the not born rich are given drugs in school to into all of the nonvisual details which purpose with all the native genius he power could be passed along. Chance was make them dumb. Democracy has been make for socially redeeming value. could muster. one who survived that experience and was replaced by entertainment media. Somtow tries his best to get inside the If he was being threatened from the changed by it. The antagonist in the story Knowledge and information are head of a sex killer, not using the demon to sea, then he would fight at sea. And if that is a man who was pierced by the blue light copyrighted. Churches support a explain it all. His deeds are portrayed in all required ships, then ships he would build: when he was already dead and was technological cult: Judas Girls replace one their bloody detail, but it isn’t glorified like many ships, bigger and more powerful changed into one who hated life, the Gray eye with a spy camera to monitor their it would be if it were on a screen. Rather, ships, and he would man them with the Man. The ones who remain after an virtue. Exit one teenaged girl from all of the twisted logic of a sick mind is exposed boldest, most bloodthirsty men he could encounter with the dead one, hide in a this. Jayne becomes an outlaw, first as an for dissection. Twothirds of the way find. He would rout out this pretender forest of blue-light changed trees and unwed mother in a psychiatric hospital. through the book, The Crow appears and Valerius and send him to hell with the rest attempt to understand their altered destiny Then she hangs out in a brothel (but not the supernatural conflict begins. Love of his kin. until they are finally forced to confront the as an employee therein) . Finally Jayne wins in the end, and the forces of light and Will Valerius succeed in regaining his deadly Gray Man again. finds her calling as an illegal teacher of darkness will continue their eternal contest kingdom? How can he fight the This story attempts to examine our those who would learn more than society elsewhere. Hardcore stuff, with a hard overwhelmingly superior force available to notions of divinity, the of life and permits. She gets caught, and the spiritual message. - Michael Griffin Fantar? Read the book and find out! even racial relations. It seems like a lot to punishment is a prison parole work-release I found Valerius The King to be a fast look at in one story; in fact, this book is job, as a programmer of computer Arsian passed action adventure full of the prelude to a trilogy. It could be generated-imagery of fake politicians. by M.J. Eng unexpected plot twists. For those of you because Mr. Mosley is first and foremost a Eventually her grown son returns into her Tor Books, $13.95 who like a good hack and slash adventure mystery writer that writing science fiction life, now a local politician with bigger this is the book for you. The characters are was so alien to him. The writing is aspirations. Ore’s usually clear writing This reissue of the 1976 novel keeps a well developed, the story line flows professional and the essence of the theme style is sometimes elliptical and hard to masterwork deservedly in print. You smoothly and the action is believably is interesting. The style of the story is follow, but it pays off in the surprise won’t find a better study of the mind of an written. - William B. Whitmore something else. I felt jerked about and ending on the last page. Don’t look ahead evil dictator, in this case named Arslan. confused at some of the changes in to it, just read every page! - Michael The story is told from two points of view. Coaldon Of Rocknee scenes and characters. The pace of the Griffin One is a man’s, the school principal in a by James . Harshfield story was not very fluid. Some of the plot present-day Illinois town. The other is a Writer’s Showcase, $9.95, 123 pp school boy taken hostage, raped, and who stays with Arslan as a willing consort. Like Coaldon Of Rocknee is volume 1 of the villain of the Crow novel (also Voices of the Outlast. It is aimed at the reviewed in this issue), Arslan is a mass Young Adult/ Middle School market. killer who wants to end the world as we Coaldon is coming to his 18th * * BOOK SEARCHES * * know it. There the similarities stop. Arslan birthday. He has been raised in an isolated has a cause: to tear down civilization to an rural by his grandparents who have kept All genres but Science Fiction and Fantasy is my earlier time of isolated villages with simpler from him his identity as heir to the usurped technology. He is a warmaker to serve this throne of the North Kingdom. The forces speciality. end, and dedicated armies of competent of Evil do intend for him to reach his and devoted soldiers follow him. He has majority. As he learns of his heritage, He If you are too busy to search all the used bookstores no compunctions about killing anyone or must find the mage, Topple, to guide him in your city, using anybody for his pleasures. And he and reach the Monastery of Toms, home succeeds at his goals. He conquers the of a group of warrior priests to rejoin his too busy to search the Internet or just unable to travel, world; he stops and reverses progress. grandparents. His group of exotic helpers then I can help. But he can’t control his new, decentralized and he must undergo many trials to reach world. There are problems with roving the monastery. and prepare to pursue his Email for details. bandit gangs destiny. Given a choice between this novel or A bit preachy at times but has enough something else, pick this one to read next. action to carry the target audience. - Pam [email protected] There are few science fiction novels as good as Arslan, and none to pick over it. ( cont’d on page 17 ) Page 16 ConNotations Volume 11 Issue 5 In Our Book ( Cont’d from page 16 ) want it. The Rock Street Five are Harbor The Moon Maid View High Students who want to build a Musty Tomes By Allan skateboard/roller blade park to combat a teenage drinking problem. They are pulled The Stray Lamb This story was copyrighted in 1926, Proudly Serving My Corporate Master into the adults melange of murder, By Thorne Smith the last reprint under two separate titles by Adam Barr espionage, and conspiracy and have to Ballatine, 1980, 218 pp “The Moon Maid” and “The Moon Men” Universe.com, $22.99, 331 pp solve the mystery and save their was in 1990. While this early ERB story kidnapped friends. This story was written in 1929, which isn’t as well-known as his other works, it is Mr. Barr has written a book of how Though a somewhat moralistic at adds, I think, a certain flavor that is lacking unique in his collection. It is my favorite Microsoft is successful, where it does times, it would appear to be a good read in today’s literature. Mr. Lamb is a ERB story and a very patriotic tale. badly, and what it needs to do in the for the 12-15 crowd. At 119 pages, it conventional businessman, his However, I caution you, gentle reader, you future. Adam Barr is a former software shouldn’t stress the attention span of the pretentious, adulterous wife thinks she must set aside any politically correct developer with Microsoft, and has written TV generation. - Pam Allan has acting talent and his daughter is a thinking you may have; this story was a book of value to anyone who has product of the decade, willful, wild and interest in Microsoft, or the software written for a different generation. more than a little audacious. He has spent In the title story, our hero, Julian 5th, industry in general. his life believing himself to be a good and Some parts are a little technical, but bears more than a casual resemblance to lawful man and that this is a desirable state clearly well written so that the semi-literate John Carter. He is a handsome, brave and of affairs. Deep down though, he desires in computer software can follow. A powerful man. A scientist and a soldier, he to be wild and unlawful; to be free of worthwhile read for anyone with interest in joins forces with his former classmate and the field. - Pam Allan social restraints. One evening, as his rival, Orthis, to fly to Barsoom. The daughter is driving him home, they pick up experimental vehicle, powered and directed The Rock Street Five, The Mystery Of a strange little man hitchhiking. The by a sort of gravitational push-pull device, The Computer Disks strange little man presses Lamb to declare sets off for Mars in the year 2025. Along by James B. Harshfield, what he wants to be. Lamb incautiously the way, Orthis’ jealousy and less-than- Writer’s Showcase, $9.95, 119 pp states that he would like to be other than a honorable nature cause him to sabotage human and to be free of human the ship which is then forced to land on The Rock Street Five is a mystery/ responsibilities. The next morning he the moon. The entire history of Earth is adventure aimed at the middle school wakes up as a horse. changed by this act. Our hero rescues a market. This is obviously a story about personal Princess (of course) and attempts to return In Harbor View, Oregon is the small growth as Lamb assumes one animal guise her to her people. Our evil badguy, falls in town home of Laser Surge Technology © Sherlock after another. With each, he learns more with her enemies, the Kalkars, a coarse, who has just developed a weapon for the about what he truly desires. He also has brutal and ignorant people, and assists Missile Defense system. The bad guys ample opportunities to disregard society’s them with Earthian weapons to make civil mores and laws. All this may sound war. Our hero and his princess escape on terribly trite and dull, just one more story his ship back to Earth. about someone “finding himself”. BUT, The second part, titled “The Moon this story is terribly funny as it does so. Men” chronicles events a century later. There is a young lady, a friend of his The Kalkars, with Orthis’ help, have daughter’s, who sets her sights on Lamb. invaded and conquered Earth. Our new As an animal he finds he is increasingly hero, Julian 9th, lives a meager, brutal drawn to her and pursues her as he feels . All liberties and comforts are he cannot as a human. As a horse, he denied them. His father hides an American terrorizes the horse she intended to ride flag; the penalty for which is death. His and makes sure that he is chosen as the family reveres old American values and try substitute. As a cat, he is invited into her to keep their patriotic values alive but bed. As a seagull, he has an opportunity hidden. Events overtake our hero and in to spy on her. Lamb also has a tendency defense of a beautiful, young woman (of towards inebriation when he is an animal course), he finds himself leading a with extremely comic results; such as the rebellion. time he was a singing kangaroo in a The third part, titled “The Red Hawk” courtroom. is the story of Julian 20th, three hundred This book made me laugh out loud as years later. Since that first rebellion, true few other books have been able to do. Americans, having regressed to a Plains- The author is obviously well educated and Indian type society, have been steadily his writing is a joy to read. The story was driving the hated Kalkars to the western written in the expectation that the reader ocean. Our new hero is the leader of all would be as well educated. There was no free Americans and his story also need to write to the lowest common concerns the protection and salvation of a denominator as so many of today’s books beautiful young woman (of course). This seem to be. The tone is ironic and is woman, though, is descended from their flavored with clues about life in 1929 that most hated enemy, Orthis. ( A real Romeo fascinated me. If you have a craving for & Juliet kinda situation, without the quality writing that is just a little bit suicide pact…) Together, they fight to different then this may be one you should drive the last of the brutal Kalkars off watch for on your used bookstore shelves. American soil and reclaim their heritage. Try it, you may like it. - Catherine Book This is truly a “musty tome” and the earnest reader interested in the roots of science fiction should not neglect this story. Try it, you may like it. - Catherine Book

Volume 11 Issue 5 ConNotations Page 17 Stephanie L. Bannon (602)973-2341 for www.parex.org/meetinfo.htm. All interest- SFACE also serves as a guide through information. Web www.casfs.org ed persons are invited to participate. We the Internet - both teaching basic use Club are currently in the process of getting and utilizing as a source of speculative THE DARK ONES (Dark-wunz) n. 1) An organized and becoming an official fiction. For more info contact Dr Ray Listings organization formed for the expression and organization with tax status. Web page: Bromley at bromley.ray@ exploration of various cultural themes http://www.parex.org/ E-mail Contact: John a1.pc.maricopa.edu. The SFACE Web (EDITOR’S NOTE: Please check your club including, but not limited to, the Dark Kittelsrud, [email protected] site is found at http://www.pc. listing for errors. Please send corrections and Ages and the Renaissance through forms maricopa.edu/departments/studentact/ updates to the editor in writing or via email) of art including, but not limited to, THE PHOENIX FANTASY FILM organizations/sface/ painting, drawing, writing, photography, SOCIETY A Phoenix based club interest- ADRIAN EMPIRE A medieval and spoken word, and acts of characterization. ed in the entire realm of SF, Fantasy and SHADOWKEEP BBS Intelligent renaissance recreationist club. Sword- 2) a member of this organization. 3) Infor- Horror film. PFFS has been in existence for conver-sation, awesome graphics, fighting, arts, banquets, masquerades, mation available at www.darkones.org 25 years, meeting every 6 weeks in mem- stupendous door games, unworldly dances. meets every Wednesday night ber’s homes. Dues are $10 per year. filebank, RPG forums, QWK message from 7-10pm at Encanto Park. All are DAYSTAR HOLT Arizona’s first and Membership includes newsletters, an system and online RPG BBS-moderated welcome. Free. For details, call (602)582- longest-running Elfquest fan club. Daystar annual film awards and various outings. games! Our BBS is mainly RPG oriented 6990. meets to talk about EQ and related stuff, For information, contact PFFS, P.O. Box and we offer many services to GMs and develop characters, publish stories in our 34023, Phoenix, AZ 85067 or call David players. No fees necessary for users ARIZONA LANBASHERS LEAGUE A ‘zine Playelf and create an annual Storck at (602) 274_7404, e_mail: who post intelligent messages! $5 in collaboration of computer gaming calendar. Other common interests include [email protected]. credits to new users. Over 20 enthusiasts, the Arizona LANbashers music, belly dance, camping and of course, conferences and 10 doors to choose League throws quarterly LANparty SF. Membership is free (18 or over) and is PHOENIX JAPANIMATION SOCIETY from! Shadowkeep BBS - PCBoard 15.2/ events. Between parties, support is given attained by group vote after you attend Local chapter of Japanimation/general M - US Robotics 28.8 Modem. Phoenix, to local groups who wish to advertise their two meetings or holt-related get-togethers. animation oriented fans - meets monthly. AZ (602)245-0919; Connect at 2400- own gatherings. We have no set genre of Meetings are usually the first Saturday of Membership is free, though optional 28800 games and play anything from strategy each month; for more info, call Tom or monthly newsletter is $5/year or $.50 per games to first-person shooters to driving/ Janice at (602) 581-2258. They have a month. Call Tom Perry at (602) 996-2196 or THE SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE flying simulations. No annual membership website up at http://members.home.net/ write 3241 E. Altadena, Phoenix, AZ 85028. ANACHRONISM The kingdom of is required and admission to an event jeanderson/daystarholt.html Atenveldt doth lie in the state of ranges from $5-$15. See our webpage for RAGE ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST A Arizona. Within the fair kingdom can be current events. Email: THE EMPIRE OF CHIVALRY AND Live Action Theatre Troupe based out of found six Baronies: Atenveldt, Mons [email protected] Web: http:/ STEEL, INC. The Empire of Chivalry and the ASU campus in Tempe, AZ. It is Tonitrus, Twin Moons, SunDragon, Tir www.lanparty.com/all/ VoiceMail: 602-306- Steel specializes in the general recreation dedicated to the game Werewolf: The Ysgithr and Ered Sul. For more 9339 of the culture of the Middle Ages Apocalypse by White Wolf publishing. information on any of these or for including all of the Art Forms, Events Contact Mike McLaughlin at (602)461-5842 general information on thy past THE AWAY TEAM: The Away Team, is a (Feasts, Tournaments, Ceremonies and or write 1730 W Emelita Place #2025, Mesa tomorrows thou mayest contact general sci-fi appreciation group that Wars) and Combat Arts covering the years AZ85202-3144 or email to Mistress Myrddina o Dolwyddelan meets once a month for discussion of of 800AD up to 1650AD and any location [email protected] (Terry Schwartz) PO Box 584, Sonoita various sci-fi news regarding several within Europe or its explored territories. AZ 85637 (520)455-5835 Email: mediums to include: television, movies, For more information contact Bart Smith RAW GAMES (Role-players & [email protected] www.atenveldt.org video, books, comics, magazines, (Phoenix) (602)937-6995 or Leonard Bird Wargamers, Inc.) Role-players & collecting, and so forth. The meetings are (Tucson) (520)742-2432 Wargamers, Inc. is the Valley's oldest role- THE SOUTHWEST COSTUMER’S comprised of news, review and comment, playing and wargaming club. Currently GUILD The Southwest Costumers Guild BBS/computer news and help, meeting THE JEDI KNIGHTS Meetings are the 3rd meeting at 8159 W. Weldon in Phoenix is a loose organization of persons new members, video presentations, games, Sunday of each month. For more every Sunday from 3pm-9pm (except interested in all facets of historical, and socializing fun! Food and drinks are information call Carol Alves, Publicity, during conventions and other special cultural, science fiction, fantasy, and provided, via a $3 munchie fee (per (760)244-9593 or write Jedi Knights, c/o Jim events). Open to new members - call (602) humor costume. Members are often meeting) to compensate the host. (No Lowerre, 12291 Meade Street, Garden 849-9515. WWW.rawgames.org seen on stage and behind the scenes at other fees are involved.) The electronic Grove, CA 92841-3629 most local and regional Science Fiction home of the Away Team, is the Lightspeed SCIENCE FICTION CONTINUUM Convention masquerades. They meet Space Station BBS at (520) 325-6674.... LEPRECON, INC. One of the two Phoenix The Science Fiction Continuum: An on the last Sun-day of each month at Member ages for the group range from 13- area corporations that put on yearly Independent Star Trek and Sci-Fi club in various members’ homes in the greater 40-something with both male and female conventions. Best described as SF/F Phoenix, AZ. The SFCOM is an active club phoenix area. For details. Southwest members. Other activities include null- generalists with a main thrust into SF/F art. that participates in Local Phoenix, and Costumers Guild, PO Box 39504, modem link gamefests, group theater Guests are welcome. The meetings are Southwestern Star Trek and Sci-Fi Phoenix, AZ 85609 or call Randall movie viewings, convention trips and quarterly on the second Saturday of conventions and movies. The SFCOM has Whitlock at (602)995-7514, email: more. Have sci-fi fun in a relaxed, low- February, May, August & November three different divisions. The SFCOM [email protected] or Website: http:/ structure environment. NO RUBBER EARS unless otherwise notified. August is the itself, a free group where fun is the name /members.aol.com/souwesgld/ ALLOWED!! For questions, you can call annual meeting where board positions are of the game. The Deep Space SolarFlare guilg.html the BBS, or write to: LSS c/o R. Martin; determined. For more information, write PO (DSSF) an active member club in the 2522 N. Sparkman Blvd.; Tucson, AZ Box 26665, Tempe, AZ 85285 ; call Mike International Federation of Treker’s (IFT). SPACE ACCESS SOCIETY Space 85716 Willmoth at (480) 945-6890 or Email: This group is based on DS9 (a space Access Society’s sole purpose is to [email protected] station). And the IKV Sto-Vo-Kor promote radically cheaper access to BASFA Baja Arizona Science Fiction (Independent Klingon Vessel). A Klingon space, ASAP. We think it’s possible Association, a non-profit organization. MIB The Men in Black is the official Bird of Prey, roaming the desert looking for within ten years, with a little luck and a Puts on TusCon Convention annually. organization of field operatives for Steve battle. Are the Fed’s too soft, looking for lot of hard work. Join us and help us Webpage: http://home.earthlink.net/~basfa Jackson Games. They attend local combat, feel the call to glory. This is the make it happen! SAS membership is Email: [email protected] conventions to demonstrate and promote ship for you. Membership in the SFCOM $30 for one year, which gets you products of Steve Jackson Games. The is free! To join DSSF or the Sto-Vo-Kor a emailed Space Access Updates the CENTRAL ARIZONA SPECULATIVE also schedule demos in local gaming nominal fee for the national clubs involved instant they pass final edit, plus FICTION SOCIETY, INC. (CASFS) The stores. If you have a gaming store or and uniforms. For further information discounts on our annual conference on non-profit corporation that puts on convention that you would like to have contact President John Nelson at (602) the technology, politics, and business CopperCon conventions, SmurfCons, official Steve Jackson Games 409-7169 or on the internet at; of radically cheaper space HexaCons, occasional regional cons, and representation at, please contact the MIB [email protected] or check out our transportation, featuring leading publishes Con-Notations. Best described Arizona Cell Leader at web site. http://www.thesfcom.com players in the field. Email us at: as SF/F generalists with a strong bent [email protected]. [email protected] towards literary SF/F. Guests welcome - SFACE (Speculative Fiction And Web page: www.space-access.org/ meets at 8pm on the last Friday of each PAReX is a non-profit, just for fun Computer Enthusiasts) Phoenix College’s month in January thru September and the organization dedicated to the proliferation one and only connection to the worlds of STARBASE TUCSON Tucson Arizona second Friday in October, November and of robotics as a hobby. Monthly meetings speculative fiction, including science based Star Trek club. For info call Geof December at JB’s Restaurant, 2560 W. will be held and will be announced under fiction, fantasy, and horror as well as table Wood at (520) 746-1822 or write Indian School in Phoenix, AZ. Write PO the Meeting Information page, http:// top, live action and internet gaming, Box 62613, Phoenix, AZ 85082-2613 or call ( cont’d on page 19 ) Page 18 ConNotations Volume 11 Issue 5 UNITED FEDERATION OF PHOENIX A TusCon 28 (Tucson, AZ) November 9_11, Club Listings ( Cont’d from page 18 ) Phoenix area Star Trek and general SciFi Starbase Tucson ; 3314 E. Benson Hwy ; 2001 at the really spiffy InnSuites. GoH: fan club. We are a social club that meets Tucson AZ 85706. Chelesea Quinn Yarbo, AGoH: Newton every two weeks at various locations Email:[email protected] Ewell; TM: Ed Bryant. Events include: around the Phoenix area. The UFP has Meet the Authors and Artists, Panels, been meeting for over 20 years of TARDIS TARDIS is a Phoenix-based Readings, Video Room, Dealers Room, Art continuous activity. Dues are $10/per year General SF/Fantasy Fan Club, specializing Show, Game Room, LAN Computer prorated when you join; no restrictions. in International media SF/Fantasy since Gaming, Masqerade, Adult Masquerade, Membership includes membership roster 1983. TARDIS meets every two weeks at and ConSuite. Memb: $35 until 5/20, $40 and monthly newsletter. Come to any two different locations around the valley. until 9/9, $45 after. Onedays: $15/30/15 (F/ meetings at no obligation. For information, Activities include watching videos, S/S); kids 6_12 half price. InnSuites, 475 N write the UFP at PO Box 37224, Phoenix, discussions, parties, fund-raisers, AZ 85069, or call Jim Strait at (602) 242- Granada Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701 (near auctions, games, camping trips and 9203. Web page: http://www.U-F-P.org or I_10 and St Mary’s Road) (520) 622_3000. outings. We also maintain an active Email to [email protected] Reg Suites $69, 2_Rm Suites $79 (mention presence at local conventions. TARDIS “TusCon” to get these rates). Room rates publishes a monthly inform-ative UNITED WHOVIANS OF TUCSON include a real breakfast! Info: TusCon 28, newsletter, The Index File, with a national A well-informed and very active Dr. Who PO Box 26822, Tucson, AZ 85726. circulation which is included with club. $15 yearly membership includes four Webpage: http://home.earthlink.net/~basfa membership. Annual membership is just issues of their fanzine - TARDIS Time Lore Email: [email protected] $12.50. You can contact us at P.O. Box - written by semi-pros and other dedicated 63191, Phoenix, AZ 85082-3191, Voice Mail fans. For more information, contact The The Thirteenth Floor of Gallifrey One at (602) 864-0901, E-mail TARDIS- United Whovians of Tucson at P. O. Box [email protected] or visit http:// (Los Angeles, CA) Feb 15-18, 2002 The 13541, Tucson, AZ 85732-3541. Also, you www.primenet.com/~jgeorge/tardis.html Airtel Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA can contact the president at Guests: Nicola Bryant, Carole Ann Ford, [email protected] or the UWOT TEKWAR FAN CLUB Sanctioned by the Frazer Hines Memb: $35 thru 8/31/01, $40 webmaster at [email protected] series’ production companies and the thru 11/30/01, $45 thru Web page at: http://www.azstarnet.com/ USA Network! It is THE information 1/31/02 and $50 at the door. Info: Gallifrey ~hgadlng/uwotclub.htm conduit between the fans and the series! Conventions, Post Office Box 3021, North Fan club membership will bring you the Hollywood, CA 91609 following 1) subscription to the info filled Email: [email protected] Tek Informer newsletter; 2) official TekWar Web: www.gallifreyone.com Fan Club membership card and kit. Membership is by regular mail only and LepreCon 28, (Phoenix, AZ), May 17-19, the newsletter and materials will not be 2002, Embassy Suites Phoenix North, reproduced electronically. To join the Convention Artist Guest: Monte Moore, Author GoH: action and initiate your annual , Music Guests: Jeff & Maya membership, make check or money order Listings Kaatherine Bohnhoff, Memberships: $25 out for $12.50 to: Official TekWar Fan Club until 8/31/01, $30 until 1/31/02, $35 until 5/ (Membership section), 2522 N Sparkman ZonieCon 4 (Tucson, AZ) October 19-21, 05/02, $40 at the door. Kids 9-12 1/2 price Blvd., Tucson AZ 85716-2417 2001 Best Western Executive Inn, 333 W. (kids 6 & under free with adult admission) Drachman, Tucson, Arizona 85705 Memb: Hotel: Embassy Suites Phoenix North, 2577 T.H.E.M. T.H.E.M. is ASU’s science fiction $30 before 9/01/01, $35 at the door Info: W. Greenway Rd. (602) 375-1777, Rates: and fantasy club. Weekly meetings are held on the Arizona State University ZonieCon, PO BOX 44285, Tucson, AZ $79 S/D, $89 T, $99 Q Info: LepreCon 28, campus, with dates and places to be 85733 Phone: (520) 327-0539 email: PO Box 26665, Tempe, AZ 85285 Phone: HexaCon 12 (Phoenix, AZ) July 26-28, announced after the semester starts. For [email protected] Web: (480) 945-6890 ; Email: 2002 Embassy Suites North Phoenix. more information, contact Erik Wennstrom, www.zoniecon.org [email protected] Arizona’s Largest Annual Gaming email: [email protected] Phone: 480-968- Web: www.leprecon.org/lep28 Convention Memberships: $15 July 30 - 5257.To subscribe to our listserve, send a THE 4th ANNUAL DOC SAVAGE Dec 31, 2001; $20 Jan 1 - June 30, 2002; $25 message to [email protected]. CONVENTION (Tempe AZ) November WesterCon 55: Conagerie (Los Angeles, at the door. Special Thursday night events 3rd, 2001 1108 West Cornell, Tempe, AZ CA) July 4-7, 2002 Los Angeles Airport for pre-registered members only. Info: TUCSON FAN ALLIANCE E-Mail Email: [email protected] Radisson Hotel, Los Angeles, CA Hexacon 12, PO Box 62613, Phoenix, AZ Address is [email protected] or Web: members.netvalue.net/robsmalley/ Author Goh: Harry Turtledove, Editor: 85082 Phone: (602) 973-2341; [email protected]. DocCon2001.html Beth Meachem, Fan: Robert Lichtman, Email:[email protected] Artist: Ross Chamberlain USS STORMBRINGER The Storm- Memb: $60 through Feb 28, 2002 Info: CopperCon 22, (Phoenix, AZ) Sept 6-8, bringer is a correspondence Star Trek fan What is CASFS? WesterCon 55, c/o SCIFI, Inc., PO Box 2002 Author GoH: Barbara Hambly; club chapter of Starfleet, Intl. based out of What is really behind putting on a 8442, Van Nuys, CA 91409 Web: Media GoH: Mojo; Location: Embassy Tucson AZ. The chapter was convention? What the funds raised by a www.westercon.org/55 Suites North, Phoenix, Arizona Info: commissioned as the USS Stormbringer convention used for? Why not attend a CopperCon 22, PO Box 62613, Phoenix, AZ NCC-74213, attached to Division 31, meeting and find out? We’re the sponsor of Starfleet Covert Operations, on 10/31/98. ConNotations, CopperCons, HexaCons, 85082, [email protected] or www.casfs.org As of 11/29/98 there were 32 members. SmerfCons and other conventions. We are There are no dues other than the $15 for a charitable, non-profit organization that Generic Convention Regestration Form joining Starfleet Intl.. Members are exists to further science fiction, fantasy scattered world wide but the primary and science fields in Arizona. CASFS clusters are in Tucson, AZ and Plano, TX. currently meets at the JB’s Restaurant at Name:______They don’t meet on a regular basis since 2560 W Indian School Rd in Phoenix (NW they are a correspondence chapter. Their corner of I-17 and Indian School). The Badge Name:______web site is: http://www.geocities.com/ meetings begin at 8PM and are held on the Area51/Vault/9505/ and their contact/CO is last Friday of the month Jan. Through Address:______Capt. Dave Pitts, [email protected]. Sept. And on the second Friday of the month Oct through Dec. Everyone is City/State/ZIP:______invited to attend two meetings as a guest Z-PHILES are the ariZona x-PHILES. We (non-member). Membership rates are $12/ Phone:______Email:______maintain a mailing list for news and get- year plus an initial $3 application fee and togethers of fans of the X-Files living in rates are pro-rated for the amount of the Enclosed is $______for ______memberships for Arizona. We get together in both the year remaining. For more info Call: ______convention. Phoenix and Tucson areas. To subscribe, Stephanie L. Bannon (602)973-2341 send an empty message to z-philes- Webpage: www.casfs.org email: (See calendar for mailing address) [email protected] [email protected] More info on __ Masquerade __Art Show __Volunteer __ Other

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