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W W W . N T H Z I N E . C Sep1temb4 er 2005 TIME TO KILL Jim Rudnick FOURTH FLOOR MONITOR Mike Ripley SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Matthew King Plus… POETRY COMICS FILK And… CONVENTIONS REVIEWS FACES OF FANDOM www.nthzine.com September 2005, Issue #14 C ONTENT S FEATURES The Editor’s Rant by Michael D. Pederson ...................................................................2 Conventions .....................................................................................4 Spine Bender by Michael D. Pederson .......................................................................10 Faces of Fandom: Christopher J. Garcia as himself ..........................................14 Comics .........................................................................................34 FICTION Time To Kill by Jim Rudnick .......................................................................................16 Fourth Floor Monitor by Mike Ripley .......................................................................24 Solitary Confinement by Matthew King ..................................................................26 POETRY /F ILK Darkness by Julian Gibson ..........................................................................................23 Mrs. Mad Scientist by Rochelle Mitchell ..................................................................32 The Buffy Bunch by Johnny Carruthers .....................................................................33 Cover illustration for “Time To Kill” by Alan Beck Nth Degree is a free, quarterly semi-pro fanzine. We encourage you to submit your manuscripts, illustrations, or photographs, but cannot guarantee the return of any unsolicited materials. All contributors retain individual rights to their contributions. Six-issue subscriptions are available by sending $18 to: Nth Degree ; 8600 Queensmere Place #2; Richmond, VA 23294; 804-270-0384; email [email protected]. Back issues are available for $3 each. Nth Degree #14 is ™ and © by Big Blind Productions, September 2005. Printed by Capitol Color Printing; Fredericksburg, VA, www.capitolcolor.com. September 2005 1 the editor’s STAFF PUBLISHER /E DITOR Rant Michael D. Pederson Michael D. Pederson, Publisher/Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Robert Balder Cindy Hutchins Time for another update on how things are going here at the bustling offices of Nth Degree. For starters, we have more projects going on than ever before. And by we, I mostly WEBMASTER mean me. Sigh. Brandon Blackmoor The biggest news involves the website. After letting it slide for way too long, I’ve finally got - ten the entire site up-to-date. All of the fiction, poetry, filks, comics and con reviews that have STAFF ARTIST appeared in the magazine have finally been loaded onto the website. I’ll keep this current from J. Andrew World here on out if it kills me. GRAPHIC DESIGN Brandon has added a neat new section to the website for us to start uploading exclusive new Michael D. Pederson “web only” content. This is going to be for fiction that I enjoyed but didn’t think was quite right for the magazine. I frequently receive good stories that are too long or are too similar to some - WITH HELP FROM thing I’ve just published, now I’ll have a place to put them. And I have enough material that I’ll Alan Beck be able to post new stories on a daily basis. C.J. Henderson I’ve also got several stories that I wanted to run in the zine but simply didn’t have room for. Christopher J. Garcia That’s one of the downsides to being quarterly. My output just can’t keep up with the volume Jack Jeffers of submissions I receive. One of these days we’ll be able to go bi-monthly but until then I’ll be Tee Morris putting out a monthly e-zine to go with the print magazine. NthZine will feature the fiction that James S. Reichert couldn’t fit into the print zine. Also, being monthly, we’ll be able to run more timely reviews for Tony Ruggiero things like television, movies, CDs and comics. The e-zine will be available as a PDF download. Billy Tackett In theory it will be very similar to Nth Degree, only distributed in an electronic format. Nth Degree has also taken on the task of hosting a science fiction literary con in Richmond, BIG BLIND PRODUCTIONS , I NC . Virginia. RavenCon is my own little brainchild but I’m being ably assisted by authors Tee Morris 8600 Queensmere Place #2 and Tony Ruggiero. Tee, Tony and myself attend quite a few conventions and decided that our Richmond, VA 23294 insider’s perspective would help us in organizing Richmond’s first SF con in over twenty years. 804-270-0384 We’ve seen quite a bit of what works and what doesn’t work and are not ashamed to liberally borrow ideas from other cons. We’ve already got a crack staff of volunteers. If the amount of fun Send $18.00 to the we have at our meetings is any indication then RavenCon will surely be a success. above address to receive Creatively, I’m having a banner year. Unfortunately, quantum instabilities in my personal life a 6-issue subscription. are still an issue. The big move last January threw my print schedule off a bit. Now I find myself Back issues are available forced to move again in September. And again in October. Then I’ll stay put for a while. I prom - for $3 each. ise. The downside is that I’ll probably only get three issues out this year. This won’t affect sub - scriptions any since I’ve always measured subscriptions by number of issues rather than by the Nth Degree calendar. And conventions won’t suffer since I’m increasing my print runs to accommodate is a quarterly longer distribution periods. semi-pro fanzine. By the time you read this, the monthly e-zine (NthZine) and daily web updates should be www.nthzine.com going strong though. In the meantime, I suggest that everyone buy lots and lots of back issues. The money’s always nice to have and less stuff to move is less stuff to move. 2 Nth Degree September 2005 3 C ONVENTIONS Stellarcon 29 CONVENTION March 11-13 Greensboro, NC S CHEDULE http://www.uncg.edu/student.groups/sf3/stellarcon.htm S EPT -O CT I love this con. There are few cons that I have more fun at than Stellarcon. Maybe more cons should be run by pirates. Sept. 1-5 Cascadia Con This year’s Guests of Honor included Lani Tupu (Media), Seatac, WA Janny Wurts (Writer), Don Maitz (Artist) and J.D. Wiker www.cascadiacon.org (Gaming). And what a great bunch of guests. I know because I Sept. 2-5 Dragon*Con was asked to host an Inside the Actor’s Studio -style interview Atlanta, GA with them (with the exception of Don Maitz, who presented his own slide show instead). It was www.dragoncon.org a great concept that the audience and the guests all seemed to enjoy. I know I had a blast! Sept. 9-11 CopperCon Frankly, the rest of the con is a blur. Phoenix, AZ There were a few drinks in the bar Friday night with John Ringo and company. Then lots of www.coppercon.org prepping on Saturday to make sure the interviews went smoothly. I’m pretty sure that I did a Sept. 23-25 FenCon panel or two somewhere in there. And, of course, I hosted our usual Nth Degree party on Dallas, TX Saturday night. One of our best yet, I might add (thanks go out to Patrick Vanner for that). www.fencon.org Other than that it was a typically exciting Stellarcon that is best recalled in snapshot images: Sept. 29 - Oct. 2 Archon Lots of pirates and stormtroopers. A HUGE number of familiar faces. A 2:00 panel on Friday St. Louis, MO afternoon that almost didn’t happen but turned into loads of fun. Great hall costumes (go to the www.archonstl.org/nasfic/ website and check out the Dolls). Some scary activity at the room party. And lots of giggly Oct. 7-9 Conjecture Carolina Scapers at the Lani Tupu interview. San Diego, CA Next year’s Stellarcon is being moved from March to February. I’m giving everyone lots www.conjecture.org of notice on this. I don’t want to hear any lame excuses about not knowing that they changed Oct. 7-9 ConClave dates. See you there! MP Lansing, MI www.conclavesf.org MidSouthCon 23 Oct. 7-9 Context April 1-3 Columbus, OH Memphis, TN www.contextcon.com http://www.midsouthcon.org/ Oct. 7-9 SiliCon MidSouthCon 23 was a real success again this year. It was expected that attendance would be San Jose, CA down significantly from last year—since DeepSouthCon 42 (a regional science fiction con that www.siliconventions.com is hosted each year by a different convention) coexisted with MidSouthCon 22—however, atten - Oct. 7-9 Albacon dance for MidSouthCon 23 exceeded 1000, as it did for MidSouthCon 22/DeepSouthCon 42. Albany, NY This is very healthy growth for a con that averaged 400 to 500 attendees for years. This year’s www.albacon.org programming reflected the higher attendance with 120 hours of programming scheduled in up Oct. 14-16 Capclave to six simultaneous tracks (and that’s not counting the Anime, Video or Gaming rooms). Silver Spring, MD MidSouth’s Artist Guest of Honor was Stephen Hickman. The Art Show featured several of www.capclave.org his paintings and he hosted a slide show of his work. You may own some of his work without Oct. 14-16 Ditto being aware of it—he has illustrated approximately 350 covers for Ace, Baen, Ballantine, Milwaukee, WI Bantam, Berkeley, Dell, Del Rey, Doubleday, Phage Press, Tor and Warren Publications as well www.circlenk.com/ditto as a lot of Tolkien and Lovecraft art. Oct. 28-30 Necronomicon The Science GoH this year was Gregory Benford. He was on the panel for “Using SF to Teach Tampa, FL the Scientific Method”—a good match since he won a Nebula Award for his novel Timespace and www.stonehill.org/necro.htm 4 Nth Degree is also a professor of Plasma Physics and Astrophysics at the University of California.
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