Volume 29 Number 11 Issue 364 April 2018
A WORD FROM THE EDITOR Infinity Con The International Conference for the Fantastic April 14-15 Arts (ICFA) happened. This year I attended readings and a Florida National Guard Armory panel. I also got some magazines to give away at OASIS and the 490 NW Lake Jeffrey Road picnic. Lake City, FL 32055 Here are the 2018 Hugos finalists. Next month I will $15 for 2 Day, $10 for 1 day present the 1942 Retor Hugo Finalists. I will try do a review infinityconfl.com next month. FlaMinGo Con Events April 21 Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Spooky Empire 211 Trinity Place April 6-8 Jacksonville, FL 33401 Wyndham Orlando Resort Gaming 8001 International Drive No fee could be found on website Orlando, FL 32819 flamingocon.org/ $70 for 3-days at the door Guests: Matthew Lillard (Shaggy, Scooby Doo films) Daytona Beach Comic Con Linda Blair (Regan, The Exorcist) April 21-22 Catherine Hicks (Gillian, Star Trek IV) Embry-Riddle ICI Center and many more 601 S. Clyde Morris Blvd. www.spookyempire.com/ Daytona Beach, FL 32114 $10 at the Door per day, $18 for both days FLPolyCon daytonabeachcomicconvention.com/ April 7 Florida Polytechnic University Hatsume Fair 4700 Research Way April 21-22 Lakeland FL, 33805 Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens Guests: Stan Morrison (OASIS Artist Guest of Honor) 4000 Morikami Park Road $20 for the day Delray Beach, FL 33446 http://flpolycon.org $15 at the Door morikami.org/cultural-programs/hatsume-fair/ Steampunk Day: Carneval April 7 Recon Café Trastevere April 26-29 825 N. Magnolia Avenue Safety Harbor Community Center Orlando, FL 32803 Radisson Hotel and Conference Center Orlando Not clear from website if there is a admission fee 3011 Maingate Lane www.steampunkdayorlando.com/carnevale Kissimmee, FL 34747 Guests: Peter Panzeri (game designer) Gaming $40 preccon, $25 for HGMS members www.hmgs-south.com
OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 30 Issue 364 April 2018. Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Science Fiction Society (OASFiS). All rights reserved by original Authors and Artists. Editor: Juan Sanmiguel, 1421 Pon Pon Court, Orlando, FL 32825. Subscriptions are $12.00 per year and entitle the subscriber to membership in the Society. Attending Memberships are $20.00 per year. Extra memberships to family members are $6.00 per year when only one newsletter is sent to the household. To subscribe or join OASFiS, send a check or money order to: OASFiS, PO Box 323, Goldenrod, FL 32733-0323. To submit Articles, Artwork or Letters of Comment to the Event Horizon, send them to the Editor's address above or [email protected]. For additional information, call our Voice Mail at (407) 823-8715. OASFiS is a state chartered not for profit corporation whose goal is the promotion of Science Fiction in all its forms. All opinions expressed herein are solely those of the Author(s) and in no way represent the opinions of the Society or its members as a whole. Page two April 2018
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OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, April 8, 1:30 PM, Orange Public Library Steve Cole 407-275-5211 (Downtown Orlando, 101 E. Central Blvd, Orlando, FL [email protected] 32801,407-835-7325). Come join us as we discuss The Susan Cole 407-275-5211 Golden Gate by Robert Buettner [email protected] Arthur Dykeman 407-314-5506 OASFiS Picnic [email protected] Sunday, April 29 12:30 PM, Lake Downey Park (10107 Steve Grant 352 241 0670 Flowers Avenue Orlando, Florida 32825). Pavilion 1 Come [email protected] and have some fun. Mike Pilletere [email protected] David Ratti 407-282-2468 To contact for more info: [email protected] Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 [email protected] March 11, 2018 Patricia Wheeler 407-832-1428 Officers: Juan Sanmiguel [email protected] Members: Arthur Dykeman, Peggy Stubblefield
A car rear ended Juan while he was riding his bicycle to work six days ago, so if he grimaces in pain that is why. Today is daylight’s savings time. This may be why many Book Discussion regulars did not attend. Juan discussed last year’s Nebula winning novel, All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders. Lawrence is a boy who loves Michael said the club’s tax status has been straighten out. We science. Patricia is his schoolmate has magical abilities. They need to deposit a check from the IRS. The only thing we need is both have families that do not support their interests. Patricia and how much should go to club charity. Lawrence become friends and help each other out. They start out as teens but book then jumps to their 20s. Lawrence works for a We got Pavilion 1 at Downey Park on April 29. Juan will work science firm. Patricia has received training as a witch. They are with Michael on an email blast. Juan will also make an event working with their groups to solve world problems. The bad with Facebook. Juan will go through the books in his garage for thing is they are not talking to each other and that leads to the book exchange. problems. Juan and Charlie Jane Anders disagree that science and nature are at odds with each other. We need to learn from Juan discussed possible dates for OASIS 30. Need to see if we nature and incorporate to our science. The book is about a can move the date so we can make it better for the gamers. There are at least two major gaming only conventions in the Orlando. Award News We need to avoid scheduling against these cons. 2018 Hugo Award Finalists (source File 770 website) Kate Wilhelm passed. Juan mentioned her work like the When the Late, Sweet, Birds Sang (Hugo) and the Nebula winning Best Novel short story “Forever Yours, Anna”. She wrote mysteries as well The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit) as science fiction. • • Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty (Orbit) Culture Consumed • Provenance, by Ann Leckie (Orbit) • Raven Stratagem, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) Juan saw The Black Panther and Annihilation. The Black Panther’s design and story impressed Juan. Annihilation • New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) modified the novel’s story but maintained the tone. Juan said • The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi (Tor) there some interesting ideas with biology presented in the film. Juan recommended the film since Jeff VanderMeer is a Florida Best Novella writer (Tallahassee area) and the setting of the book and the film • River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey (Tor.com is supposed to be Florida. Publishing)
Peggy also saw The Black Panther. She liked how the film dealt • Down Among the Sticks and Bones, by Seanan how it paralleled with the organization that bears its name. She McGuire (Tor.com Publishing) did not like how the persons of color living outside Wakanda • Binti: Home, by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com were portrayed as being all in dire straits. Juan recommended the Publishing) Black Panther trade paperback collection by Ta-Nehsi Coates that are in the Orange County Library System. (Continued on page 4) Page three April 2018
Academy Awards Stoker Award (source File 770) (source File 770) Speculative Fiction winners Superior Achievement in a Novel Best Picture • Golden, Christopher – Ararat (St. Martin’s Press) The Shape of Water-Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dare Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Best Director • Cabeen, Robert Payne – Cold Cuts (Omnium The Shape of Water—Guillermo del Toro Gatherum Media)
Best Screenplay (Original) Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel Get Out-Jordan Peele • Liggett, Kim – The Last Harvest (Tor Teen
Best Animated Feature Film Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel Coco –Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson • Duffey, Damian and Butler, Octavia E. – Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Abrams ComicArts) Best Animated Short Dear Basketball—Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant Superior Achievement in Long Fiction • Jones, Stephen Graham – Mapping the Interior Best Production Design (Tor.com) The Shape of Water—Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
• Mannetti, Lisa – “Apocalypse Then” (Never Fear: Best Cinematography The Apocalypse) (13Thirty Books) Blade Runner 2049—Roger A. Deakins
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Best Music (Original Score) The Shape of Water-Alexandre Desplay • Hill, Joe – Strange Weather (William Morrow)
Best Music (Original Song Superior Achievement in a Screenplay Coco-”Remember Me,” Musica and Lyric by Kristen • Peele, Jordan – Get Out (Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez Productions, QC Entertainment)
Best Visual Effects Superior Achievement in an Anthology Blade Runner 2049– John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul • Murano, Doug – Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities & Lambert, and Richard Hoover Undefinable Wonders (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction • Hendrix, Grady. Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction (Quirk Books)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection • Sng, Christina – A Collection of Nightmares (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
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Letter of Comment (Uncanny, September/October 2017) • “Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience™,” Thanks for sending the link. by Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex, August 2017) • “Sun, Moon, Dust” by Ursula Vernon, (Uncanny, I read Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer for the May/June 2017) Hugos. I liked what I read, but, because it is really just • “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand,” by volume one of a larger work, the absence of an ending Fran Wilde (Uncanny, September 2017) caused me to rank it number five on my ballot. I was sufficiently impressed, on the other hand, to rank her • “Carnival Nine,” by Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 2017) number one for the Campbell award. Best Series American War I did finish by Omar El Akkad, but had • The Memoirs of Lady Trent, by Marie Brennan mixed feelings. I really liked how the author showed how (Tor US / Titan UK) an ordinary young person can be recruited to become a terrorist, but I thought he was clueless about the American • The Divine Cities, by Robert Jackson Bennett South and did not find his future plausible. (Broadway) • World of the Five Gods, by Lois McMaster Bujold My wife Anita and I were not impressed with the first few (Harper Voyager / Spectrum Literary Agency) episodes of The Good Place and gave up on it. We really • InCryptid, by Seanan McGuire (DAW) liked The Shape of Water and Get Out and found The • The Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson Greatest Showman to be quite entertaining. (Tor US / Gollancz UK) I'm not sure if I've read all of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro • The Books of the Raksura, by Martha Wells (Night Germaine books, but I've read a good many of them and Shade) enjoyed them all. Best Related Work
Best wishes, • Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy, by Liz Bourke (Aqueduct Press) • Iain M. Banks (Modern Masters of Science (Continued from page 2) Fiction), by Paul Kincaid (University of Illinois • “And Then There Were (N-One),” by Sarah Pinsker Press) (Uncanny, March/April 2017) • No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, • All Systems Red, by Martha Wells (Tor.com by Ursula K. Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Publishing) • Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. • The Black Tides of Heaven, by JY Yang (Tor.com Butler, edited by Mimi Mondal and Alexandra Publishing) Pierce (Twelfth Planet Press) • Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Best Novelette Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the • “Children of Thorns, Children of Water,” by Aliette Fight Against Online Hate, by Zoe Quinn de Bodard (Uncanny, July-August 2017) (PublicAffairs) • “Extracurricular Activities,” by Yoon Ha Lee • A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan (Tor.com, February 15, 2017) Ellison, by Nat Segaloff (NESFA Press) • “The Secret Life of Bots,” by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, September 2017) Best Graphic Story • “Wind Will Rove,” by Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s, • Black Bolt, Volume 1: Hard Time, written by September/October 2017) Saladin Ahmed, illustrated by Christian Ward, lettered by Clayton Cowles (Marvel) • “A Series of Steaks,” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld, January 2017) • Bitch Planet, Volume 2: President Bitch, written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, illustrated by Valentine • “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time,” by De Landro and Taki Soma, colored by Kelly K.M. Szpara (Uncanny, May/June 2017) Fitzpatrick, lettered by Clayton Cowles (Image Best Short Story Comics) • “The Martian Obelisk,” by Linda Nagata (Tor.com, • My Favorite Thing is Monsters, written and July 19, 2017) illustrated by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics) • “Fandom for Robots,” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Continued on page 6) Page five April 2018 Pictures at ICFA 39
Top Row: Writer Guests of Honor John Kessel, Nike Sulway Middle Row: Opening Panel: Fantastic Epics (left to right)—Gary K. Wolfe, Fred Botting, Nike Sulway, John Kessel Bottom Row: Panel– In Memoriam: Ursula K. LeGuin (left to right): Theodora Goss, unknown, Charles Vess, Eileen Gunn, Brian Attebery (host) Page six April 2018
• Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood, written by • Joe Monti Marjorie M. Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image • Diana M. Pho Comics) • Devi Pillai • Paper Girls, Volume 3, written by Brian K. Miriam Weinberg Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by • Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher (Image • Navah Wolfe Comics) • Saga, Volume 7, written by Brian K. Vaughan, Best Editor – Short Form illustrated by Fiona Staples (Image Comics) • John Joseph Adams • Neil Clarke Best Dramatic Presentaton – Long Form • Lee Harris • Blade Runner 2049, written by Hampton Fancher • Jonathan Strahan and Michael Green, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Alcon Entertainment / Bud Yorkin Productions / • Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Torridon Films / Columbia Pictures) • Sheila Williams • Get Out, written and directed by Jordan Peele (Blumhouse Productions / Monkeypaw Best Professional Artist Productions / QC Entertainment) • Galen Dara • The Shape of Water, written by Guillermo del Toro • Kathleen Jennings and Vanessa Taylor, directed by Guillermo del • Bastien Lecouffe Deharme Toro (TSG Entertainment / Double Dare You / Fox • Victo Ngai Searchlight Pictures) • John Picacio • Star Wars: The Last Jedi, written and directed by Rian Johnson (Lucasfilm, Ltd.) • Sana Takeda
• Thor: Ragnarok, written by Eric Pearson, Craig Best Semiprozine Kyle, and Christopher Yost; directed by Taika Waititi (Marvel Studios • Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews • Wonder Woman, screenplay by Allan Heinberg, story by Zack Snyder & Allan Heinberg and Jason • The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea Fuchs, directed by Patty Jenkins (DC Films / James Warner Brothers) • Escape Pod, edited by Mur Lafferty, S.B. Divya, • and Norm Sherman, with assistant editor Benjamin Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form C. Kinney • Black Mirror: “USS Callister,” written by William • Fireside Magazine, edited by Brian White and Julia Bridges and Charlie Brooker, directed by Toby Rios; managing editor Elsa Sjunneson-Henry; Haynes (House of Tomorrow) special feature editor Mikki Kendall; publisher & art director Pablo Defendini • “The Deep” [song], by Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes) • Strange Horizons, edited by Kate Dollarhyde, Gautam Bhatia, A.J. Odasso, Lila Garrott, Heather • Doctor Who: “Twice Upon a Time,” written by McDougal, Ciro Faienza, Tahlia Day, Vanessa Steven Moffat, directed by Rachel Talalay (BBC Rose Phin, and the Strange Horizons staff Cymru Wales) • Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & • The Good Place: “Michael’s Gambit,” written and Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, and Julia directed by Michael Schur (Fremulon / 3 Arts Rios; podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Entertainment / Universal Television) Schapansky • The Good Place: “The Trolley Problem,” written by Josh Siegal and Dylan Morgan, directed by Dean Best Fanzine Holland (Fremulon / 3 Arts Entertainment / • File 770, edited by Mike Glyer Universal Television) • Galactic Journey, edited by Gideon Marcus • Star Trek: Discovery: “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad,” written by Aron Eli Coleite & Jesse • Journey Planet, edited by Team Journey Planet Alexander, directed by David M. Barrett (CBS • nerds of a feather, flock together, edited by The G, Television Studios) Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry • Rocket Stack Rank, edited by Greg Hullender and Best Editor – Long Form Eric Wong • Sheila E. Gilbert (Continued on page 7) Page seven April 2018
• SF Bluestocking, edited by Bridget McKinney • Bogi Takács
Best Fancast Best Fan Artist • The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan • Geneva Benton Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe • Grace P. Fong • Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt • Maya Hahto Wallace • Likhain (M. Sereno) • Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams • Spring Schoenhuth • Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, • Steve Stiles Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts; produced by Andrew Finch 2018 Associated Awards (not Hugos) John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer • Sword and Laser, presented by Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt • Katherine Arden • Verity!, presented by Deborah Stanish, Erika • Sarah Kuhn Ensign, Katrina Griffiths, L.M. Myles, Lynne M. • Jeannette Ng Thomas, and Tansy Rayner Roberts • Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Best Fan Writer • Rebecca Roanhorse • Camestros Felapton • Rivers Solomon
• Sarah Gailey The World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) Award for Best • Mike Glyer Young Adult Book • Foz Meadows • In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan (Big • Charles Payseur Mouth House)
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