Rune 89 Rune #89 Volume 15, No. 3 2nd printing (Fixed date of Minicon 49 & copyright status of Ken Fleter art) Mahew and Kelly Strait, editors Published by the Minnesota Science Fiction Society You are geing this because: You ced/otherwise contributed to this issue/Editorial whim You are a club we’ve heard of You are a voting MNSTF member You pied this copy up at a con or similar You ought to get the next issue if you: • Send us a leer of comment, fanzine in trade, or any amount of money (sug- gested amount: $2.07; es to “Minnesota Science Fiction Society”), or in some other way actively tell us that you want it. • Are a voting member of Minnstf. You can request receiving the next issue on paper if you got this one by email, or vice versa. 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Rune #89 1 Nov 2013 Hi There! • Dec 7 at Ann Totusek & Kelly James’, We managed to get another issue out! We 7765 Drew Ave N, Brooklyn Park. hope you enjoy it. e plan is for another • Dec 21 at Sco & Irene Raun’s, 3928 around May. Having issues follow cons 11th Ave S, Mpls. seems like a good paern. In this issue And we throw conventions. To wit: 1 we feature METHOD Con reports. Look • Easter weekend 2014, April 17 2 –20: for Minicon 49 reports in Rune 90. In fact, Minicon 49 (mnstf.org/minicon49). don’t just look for them, send us yours! GoH: author Catherynne Valente, We are also interested in nearly any author Janny Wurts, artist Don Maitz. other writings or art you might produce Minicon is a general-purpose science that is in some way topical to Mnstf, SF, fiction and fantasy convention and fandom, or related to one of those, or our biggest event of the year. See the related to something that is related to one ad/registration form in this issue. of those. If it’s something you could have • (Probably a fallcon in Oct 2014, but a panel about, it can be here too. nothing confirmed yet.) • Easter weekend 2015, April 2–5 (4 Mnstf Births days): Minicon 50. GoH: authors Jane e ild formerly known as Godot has Yolen, Larry Niven, and Brandon arrived and is now known as Alex. He Sanderson, musician Adam Stemple, was born in April 2010, and came to live publisher Tom Doherty. in Minnesota in July 2012, with his loving • Dates TBA, 2073: e 131st World- yet exhausted parents, Betsy Lundsten con. Contingent on being selected by and Ma Eppelheimer. the World Science Fiction Society. Minn-stf Events Contents Minnstf throws bimonthly Saturday Leers of comment . 3 house parties. ey’re called “meetings”, Board minutes, bylaw amendments . 6 but the only meeting-ish thing about Running gaming at a con, Ri Price . 10 them is the 5-minute “business meeting”, Minicon financials, Ma Strait . 17 mostly for the purpose of announcing METHOD Con conreports & photos . 21 the next meeting. e parties officially start at 2pm, but are very quiet until 4pm. Usually they run past midnight. To Art Credits find the next meeting/party, look at the Cover: Teddy Harvia front page of our website or the Einbla, Page 5: Larry Tis mnstf.org/einbla. You can subscribe to Page 6: Ken Fleter the Einbla by email or, for $10/year, on Page 9: Teddy Harvia paper. e next meetings: Page 16: Brad Foster • Nov 16 at Jonathan & Carol Page 31: Alec Phillips Kennedy’s, 3328 Colfax Ave S, Mpls. Ba cover blimp: Rael Kroni Rune #89 2 Nov 2013 Letters of Comment Consume/Relaxacon’s that were Minn- Rune stf cons, although it’s not particularly clear whi those were. We know 2002 88 was. 2001 and 2003 may have been, but the records and recollections (and per- haps the reality) are so murky that I have given up and just marked them as “maybe”. e others certainly were not. Of course, since they ran only in a string of years with no Mn-stf fallcons, and were aended (I think) by mostly the same people as aend Minnstf fallcons, And the distinction could perhaps be argued Minneapolis in 2073 to be irrelevant. But that wouldn’t be suf- Progress Report 6 ficiently pedantic for my tastes. –Ma From Mike Sheffield: From Rachel Kronick: I notice from reading the meeting min- utes that MNSTF is working on geing Got my copy of Rune 88 a few days their 501(c)(3). Having just gone through ago; it looks great! I of course found a the process two years ago, I know it typo almost immediately upon opening can be difficult, especially for an orga- my articles, and the cover was slightly nization that has existed for some time. munged up, but su is life. I like the e Heinlein Society was incorporated Teddy Harvia and Brad Foster cartoons! as a non-profit in the state of Texas in I might have to do some of my own at November of 2000, but never applied some point… for federal tax-exempt status until 2010, ere was definitely a Con- whi made the process more difficult sume/Relaxacon in or aer 2004, because that it would have been in the begin- I went to at least one and I wasn’t in the ning. We got help from Patel & Almeida, country from 1996 to 2004. Were you taxexemptionlaw.com, and I can highly only listing Consume/Relaxacons that recommend them if you need assistance. were run by Mnstf? Apparently there ey arge $599, but will refund their was one or two that Ri Gellman ran fee if the IRS denies your status. without Mnstf sponsorship (I think it Also, be prepared once you apply to was sponsored by SF Minnesota, but that wait a long time for approval. It took may be wrong). more than a year for us to receive ap- Yes, I was aempting to list only the Rune #89 3 Nov 2013 proval, though it was retroactive to the commiee is happy, but investing time date we applied. money and ideas in imaginative events As of July, we got our 501(c)(3) status! will make those experienced return, and We also hired a lawyer to get it done. bring in new faces to keep aendance fresh. From Lloyd Penney: Hello to Jeanne Mealy! We’ve rein- 1706-24 Eva Rd. vented ourselves as dealers, and we of- Etobicoke, ON fer steampunk jewellery (earrings, ne- CANADA M9C 2B2 laces and brooes, some hand made by me), and hats and cushions (hand made ank you for a paper copy of issue and/or decorated by Yvonne), plus any 88 of Rune! It’s always a pleasure to see other items that may have that steam- this honoured title continue. Once I can punk vibe. We have a good source of get my hands on a few American dollars, steampunk/Victorian-ear jewellery, and I should send in some for a Minneapolis we also hit a number of yard sales ea in 2073 pre-support. Or, I could send you summer, for you never know what peo- some Canadian dollars, and make your ple put out for sale. next financial report even more interna- I’ve been involved in one MarkTime tional. Award winner… Fears For Ears was di- Happy belated first birthday to Nora! rected and produced by Aida Memise- It is good to see Teddy Harvia’s return to vic, five horror short stories, all wrien fanzine cartooning. He’s been missed, as by Canadian writers, converted to radio- have the Wingnuts and his other arac- style plays, on a CD anthology. I had one ters. role in ea of two stories, and the disk My loc… looks like there will soon be won the Mark Time Ogle GOLD Award announced a Worldcon bid for Montréal in 2002. I wish I could do more voice- in 2017. We’ve pre-supported that, and I work, but su projects have completely gather the official announcement will be dried up around here, or I have com- made at this year’s Smofcon in Toronto. pletely dropped out of the loop. I suspect e articles on convention costing the laer. are a good sign… many conrunners fail to see conrunning as a business. IMHO, From Larry Tisch: it must be run like on in order to succeed. 523 So. G #304 Don’t forget the customer service end of Tacoma, WA 98405 things, but the boom line and complete I just got home from work and I’m financial reports ensure that the good very tired. I work at the big newspa- times will resume the next year.