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Volume 8 Number 10 June 2006 The Southern Confederation Bulletin Volume 8 Number 10 SOUTHERN FANDOM CONFEDERATION BULLETIN

CONTENTS PAGE Ad Rates Cleary Comments 3 Treasurer Report 4 Type Full Page Half Page ¼ Page $50.00 $25.00 $12.50 Convention Reports 4 Pro $100.00 $50.00 $25.00 Annotated Listings 6

News 8 SFC Handbooks Southern Convention Listings 9 SFC By-Laws 10 This amazing 196 page tome of Southern Fannish lore, edited DSC By-Laws 11 by T.K.F.W. Reinhardt, is now available to all comers for $5, Letters of Comment 12 plus a $2 and handling charge if we have to mail it. The Handbook is also available online, thanks to the efforts Policies of Samuel Smith, at www.smithuel.net/sfcbh/. The SFC Handbook Errata page is: The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin Volume 8, www.smithuel.net/sfchb/hberrata.html. Number 10, June 2006, is the official publication of the Southern Fandom Confederation (SFC) , a not-for-profit T-Shirts literary organization and information clearinghouse dedicated to the service of Southern and Sizes Quantity (Animals) Quantity (States) Fandom. The Bulletin is edited by R. B. Cleary and is Medium 1 2 published at least three times per year. Membership in the Large 2 4 SFC is $15 annually, running from DeepSouthCon to DeepSouthCon. A club or convention membership is $75 T-Shirts are $10 each plus $3 shipping and handling fee if we annually. Donations are welcome. All checks should be made have to mail it. The first selection has a color design of cute payable to the Southern Fandom Confederation. The Bulletin animals on white fabric. The second selection has black is also available for trades, published contributions, and design of cute icons on states on peach fabric. letters of comment. Permission is granted to reprint all articles, lists, and SFC Patches flyers so long as the author and the Bulletin are credited. All art is copyrighted by the artist, unless otherwise specified. An These snazzy color SFC Patches are only $5 plus $1 shipping exception is granted in the case of art that appears in a and handling fee if we have to mail it. convention flyer. The editor encourages submission of lengthy written Art Credits material and art – covers and illos. Contributions and LoCs via electronic means are highly desirable. If you wish to use Cover by Julia Morgan-Scott; Pages 5, 6, & 13 by Scott the Internet, you may send the article as electronic mail or an Thomas attachment. If you wish to send the editor computer media, 3.5" floppies, 100 MB Zip disk, CD and DVD-ROMS are Officers Contact Information acceptable. IBM compatible file formats are acceptable. Media will be returned if requested. The Bulletin is laid out in President R. B. Cleary, 138 Bibb Drive, Madison, AL Microsoft Word 2003 on a Pentium III based PC. Ink and 35758-1064; 256-772-3826; [email protected]; typewritten submissions are also graciously accepted. If //home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-rbcleary you’re not sure what all this means, get in touch to work out a solution. Vice-President Julie Wall, 470 Ridge Road, Birmingham, Throughout the Bulletin, you will find comments in AL 35206; [email protected]; italics and enclosed by curly brackets {like this}. Those are comments from the editor, R. B. Cleary, unless otherwise Secretary Tom Feller, PO Box 140937, Nashville, TN noted. 37214-0937; [email protected]; //homtetown.aol.com/tomfeller Web Links Treasurer Janet Hopkins, 308 Dunbar Cave Rd, Clarksville, The SFC web site is: www.southernfandom.com. TN 37043; [email protected] Convention listings are from the Southern Fandom Resource Guide: www.scenic-city.com/sfrg. Southern Fandom Classic Yahoo! Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SouthernFandomClassic/

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CLEARY COMMENTS by R. B. Cleary

Once again “real” life (work, family, other fannish me Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 to pressure me into going to obligations, etc.) has delayed my best intentions for getting MidSouthCon the next day. I’d bailed out earlier due to work this issue out in May, so hopefully you’ll be reading this in pressures but they had eased, so I did not hesitate once I June July. I held off at the end to get up to date news about knew I had a room. It was a belated birthday celebration Jim Baen’s stroke. Unfortunately he passed on June 28th, weekend for Toni. We, including Todd Powell (Julie’s beau), 2006. I only met him once but enjoyed many of the books he had lots of fun. We partied Friday at the convention, checked published. He’ll be sorely missed as a person and a publisher. out of the con hotel Saturday and into the Peabody hotel, My condolences to his family and friends. went to Graceland Saturday afternoon (after a hardy breakfast at Bon-Tons), and had a wonderful dinner at the Capriccio ELECTIONS restaurant at the Peabody Hotel. Then we spent the evening on Beal Street, mostly at the Blues City Café listening to If anyone has the slightest interest in running for any office of blues and drinking in moderation. Grant Kruger was able to the SFC, please let me know before the Sunday business join us for dinner and drinks. He wore devil horns and a red meeting at DeepSouthCon DeepSouthCon 44, July 21-23, jacket which made him stand out somewhat. I was very 2006 in Raleigh, North Carolina. I am willing to turn over the sleepy on the drive back but made it safely home for a three reigns without contest if anyone is up for being President. I’m hour power nap. willing to serve until 2007 otherwise. Consult the SFC By- laws (in this issue) if interested in what is required. ASFA

FINANCE I’m no longer the Central Director of ASFA. I’m now the Director At Large of ASFA for 2006-2007. The new Treasurer, Janet Hopkins, has provided an official Treasurer report. The new SFC Bank Account in Clarksville, DeepSouthCon Tennessee is now open for deposits. You can send your membership checks to Janet D. Hopkins at will. See y’all at DeepSouthCon 44 in July 21-23, 2006 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Bulk Mail permit has been renewed. It has increased from $150 to $160 a year though. The OfficeMax that printed up the SFC Bulletin at reasonable prices (often with a discount) has closed. I hope my local Staples can offer similar rates and services.

WEB SITE

The SFC Bulletin for December 2006 is now on-line in PDF format. I now have a DSL Broadband connection instead of dial up, which makes creating the Bulletin much less of a chore, especially collecting information about conventions. It also makes receiving attachments much easier, so feel free to send me submissions of any size by e-mail. I’ve also switch over to a newer computer for my main one. Hopefully, I did not fail to transfer over any LoCs or news bits in the change over.

CONVENTIONS

Since December, I’ve attended Chattacon and MidSouthCon. I attended Chattacon in January and had some fun and got plenty of exercise though. It was at the Chattanooga Choo- choo hotel and convention center. The function space was the most spread out of any convention, except for a Worldcon, that I’ve even attended. It was damp and cool most of the weekend. At MidSouthCon, I’ve finally visited Graceland, white trash Mecca. Now I can die. It was interesting and not as in bad taste as I expected (but maybe that’s my upbringing). Toni Weisskopt-Reinhardt and Julie Wall called

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work most of the day and then run some errands. Even then I TREASURER’S REPORT needed to take my laptop with me. We left Nashville right by Janet Hopkins around 5 PM and with the time change arrived at the hotel Balance as of December 2005* $1493.66 around 8 PM. After registering with both the hotel and the Income con, we went directly to the guest reception, where we saw Memberships $120.00 old friends. The food was excellent as usual. Expenses $15.00 The convention was in a different hotel this year, Balance as of May 20, 2005* $ 1598.66 although it is not an entirely new one. Sixteen years ago, the {*Does not include the $25 in the SFC cash box.} Holiday Inn Chattanooga Choo Choo hosted Chattacon. As the name indicates, the hotel is decorated in railroad themes. ONVENTION EPORTS It also has tracks, parlor cars, and a steam engine on the C R property. The access code for the wireless network was even Tom Feller by “Track29”.

Anita and I discussed the advantages and Chambanacon disadvantages of this hotel over the Clarion and the Read House, where Chattacon has taken place in recent years. First This convention is outside of our normal driving range, the advantages: it has more sleeping rooms than the others, but we missed two nearby conventions in October and were and I did not hear of any fan who wanted to stay there, but undergoing convention-withdrawal. We tentatively decided to was turned away. The rooms themselves were quite large. attend so I made some hotel reservations with the The masquerade was held in an actual theater with understanding that if we did not feel up to the long drive comfortable chairs, and the con suite was in a skating rink (Anita had not been feeling well) to Springfield, Illinois, we (without the ice) where there was always room to sit. You would not go. On the Friday morning after Thanksgiving, didn’t have to worry about spilling food on the carpet, Anita decided she was well enough to attend, so we got in the because there was none. The principal disadvantage is that it car and headed north before she could change her mind. th is spread out over 30 acres, and it was four tenths of a mile This was the 35 Chambanacon, and I need to provide from registration to the con suite, which was on the edge of you with some background information. For many years, it the property. I’ve been to Worldcons that were less spread was held at the Chancellor Hotel in Champaign on out. Fortunately, the hotel provided a shuttle from point to Thanksgiving weekend. The University of Illinois point at night. It was unseasonably warm, although it was a occasionally played a home football game at the same time as rainy weekend. the convention, but the main reason the convention moved to After settling into our room, we proceeded to the con Springfield is that the Illinois state high school football suite, where we met up with more friends. The food, both championships now take up all the hotel rooms in Champaign junk and real, was plentiful. The soft drinks never ran out and for that weekend. Furthermore, the Chancellor Hotel is closed beer was available whenever we were there. Smoking was and is being torn down. At registration, they displayed a brick prohibited, which has not always been the case in the past, that a member recovered from the site. and the staff kept the place clean. However, it never seemed We had not pre-registered, but with only 200 members it to be a focal point, probably because of the location, and the did not take long to get our badges. No other conventions music was always too loud. There was a dance there on came to Springfield that weekend, and the meeting room Friday night, and Anita and I danced to a few songs. space was much bigger than we needed. Unfortunately, there We slept late Saturday morning. After coffee in the was a large group of East Indian families there, and we found room, we returned to the con suite for lunch. Then we went they could make a lot of noise at 7 AM. the hotel’s convention center to attend some panels and visit Timothy Zahn was the pro guest of honor. In his speech the dealer’s room. I bought the latest book in Harry at the banquet, he explained how he started coming to the Turtledove’s new alternate World War II series, in which convention when he just getting started as a professional Japan invaded the Hawaiian Islands after Pearl Harbor. Then writer and living in Champaign. He and his wife had to take I attended a writer’s panel and one comparing the old and the bus at first, later bought a used car after he won the Hugo new King Kong movies. The consensus is that the remake is Award, and finally bought a new one after he started to write good, but should have been shorter. Anita attended a slide Star Wars novels. show showing the fantasy element in carnival and amusement We left early Sunday morning, because I wanted to be park art and then a program of short films. home in time to watch the Packers at 3:15 PM. We were Nashville fan Ken Moore pointed out to me that there going to stop at the rest area in Metropolis to change drivers, was no panel on Irv Koch, the founder of Chattacon who died but we found that there were no parking places! This is an recently. Although the program book was dedicated to Irv unusual rest area in that you have to completely exit Interstate and he is mentioned within it, I agree that this was a serious Highway 24. Anita was driving and decided that we might as oversight which will hopefully be corrected in the future. well see the statue so we drove until we found it. We then went back to the con suite for dinner and then We still got back in time to see the Packers lose. back to the room to rest before the parties and the masquerade began. At 9 PM, we got back up and started Chattacon making the rounds. We visited the Hypericon party before attending the masquerade. As I mentioned earlier, the We got a late start Friday afternoon, because I needed to Page 4 The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin Volume 8 Number 10 masquerade was held in a theater with comfortable seats. other two. There were fourteen entries, and they were all good ones. My favorite was a parody of MTV’s Real World in which A Second Gathering of Southern Sherlockians characters from Harry Potter, Star Wars, and other fantasy series were stuck in a house together. For the second time in as many years, the Sherlock It was rather ironic that the program book editor wrote Holmes clubs of Nashville (Scholars of the Three Pipe about how great the parties usually are at Chattacon, because Problem), (Confederates of Wisteria Lodge), and this year’s lineup of parties was the weakest in years . There Birmingham (Genius Loci) held a joint meeting in were no announced parties at all on Friday and only four on Chattanooga at the Sheraton Read House. A few Sherlockians Saturday. None of them were bid parties. from other cities such as Memphis, Greenville, South After the masquerade, we visited the Dave Shockley Carolina, Cincinnati, and even someone from Chattanooga wake, where we found good food, drink, and conversation. also attended. (Dave, a Nashville fan, had died just a few weeks earlier.) It Anita and I drove there on Saturday morning and was a toss-up whether the wake or the Hypericon party was checked into the Days Inn-Rivergate, which is across the the best of the night. If you are an old phart who prefers street. The meeting started at noon and ran through Sunday conversation, the wake was better. If you prefer high energy morning, and the mayor of Chattanooga, Ron Littlefield, and a sexually charged atmosphere, the Hypericon party was greeted us. Although he is not a Sherlock Holmes fan, he said the best. he has heard the tent joke often enough to know better than to We stayed in the room as long as we could the following repeat it for us. morning before packing up and checking out. We stopped by There were six presentations that afternoon. Paul the consuite for breakfast and said good-bye to people before Walker (Atlanta) spoke on the four characters in the original getting back on the road for Nashville. Arthur Conan Doyle stories (aka The Canon) who were identified as Freemasons. Doyle was a member himself, and Walker pointed out that his treatment of those characters gets progressively more favorable as the years go by. Bill Mason (Nashville) spoke about the importance of the number three in The Canon, including the influence of The Three Musketeers on The Hound of the Baskervilles. (The Stapletons are based on Milady DeWinter and her supposed brother, the priest.) Richard Green (Birmingham) gave some advice on how to expand your Holmes collection without spending a lot of money. His recommendation was to collect magazines. For example, in August, 1948, Cosmoplitan printed a story that was thought to be a lost Holmes story by Doyle, although latter investigators discovered it was written by someone else, and an original copy of the magazine is quite inexpensive. Joel Senter (Cincinatti) performed a magic trick inspired by the story “The Six Napoleons”. Gael Stahl (Nashville) read us some limericks, especially those composed by prominent Sherlockians. Finally, Kenneth Carr spoke on how Doyle characterized Latin American females.

Carr’s wife, by the way, is Cuban. Concave That evening we had a banquet and toasts. The

meeting also had door prizes, and Anita and I won a I worked until about 1 PM on Friday before we got in the paperback containing the Holmes stories written by Adrian car and drove up to the Hampton Inn in Horsecave, Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur’s son, and John Dickinson Carr and Kentucky. After a stop for lunch, we arrived around 4 PM. a British children’s magazine called Look and Learn that After getting settled in the room, I checked both my voice contained an installment of a comic adaptation of The Sign of mail and e-mail. Then we went down to the lobby, which Four. The Birmingham group performed a Holmes play serves as the con suite, to visit with people. It was the usual based on the Basil Rathbone film The Woman in Green. crowd of fans you see at Midwestcon and used to see at The following morning, we met for breakfast and Rivercon and Kublakhan. There is little programming at answered a quiz about the three stories that inspired the Concave, but, modeled on Midwestcon, it features an open names of the clubs. Then the Atlanta group performed a bar and lots of food. Holmes musical. They took the music to “Oh, What a There were two parties on Friday night, a reception in the Beautiful Morning”, “Don’t Cry for me, Argentina”, “Stout - art show organized by Naomi Fisher and Pat Molloy and the Hearted Men”, and “Hello, Dolly” and wrote lyrics to fit Xerps in 2010 bid party. Saturday we attended the banquet at Sherlock Holmes. Next year, those of us in the Nashville will the Sahara restaurant, a nearby steakhouse. There were three have to put on a play. Anita had too much caffeine that parties on Saturday night, Libertycon, Trinoc-con (this year’s weekend, so she volunteered to run it. We spent most of the DeepSouthCon), and the Crack and Cheese party. The latter drive back to Nashville plotting the story. Oh my. was too smoky and crowded for our taste, but we enjoyed the Page 5 The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin Volume 8 Number 10

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{News gathered from various fannish resources such as Uncle 7TH CHALLENGER HUGO NOMINATION Timmy’s e-mail newsletters (THE REVENGE OF HUMP DAY, Guy Lillian's genzine, Challenger, has been nominated for a [email protected]), ASFS Yahoo! Group, 2006 Hugo award (www.challzine.net). groups.yahoo.com/group/ASFS, Southern Fandom Classic Yahoo! Group groups.yahoo.com group/SouthernFandomClassic and the like.} 2006 SESFA AWARD NOMINEES May 5, 2006: The online magazine scifidimensions (www.scifidimensions.com) announced the nominees for the HOWARD DEVORE PASSES Long time fan, Howard DeVore, scheduled to be the Fan 2006 Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Award (the Guest of Honor at L.A. Con IV, the 2006 World SF SESFA). Convention, died December 31, 2005. He had been moved to Best Novel of 2005 (Works >40,000 words) a rehab facility where he shortly passed away. • The Home by Scott Nicholson (Pinnacle Books) • Seeker by Jack McDevitt (Ace) DAVE SHOCKLEY PASSES • Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card (Tor) Southern fan, Dave Shockley, died from a brain aneurism • War Surf by M. M. Buckner (Ace) Tuesday, January 2006, in Nashville Tennessee. Best Short Fiction of 2005 (Works <40,000 words) • "Bears Discover Smut" by Michael Bishop (SCI WEBER’S NEW EDITION Fiction) Mike Weber proudly informs that a new granddaughter was • "The Karst" by M. M. Buckner (Apex SF & Horror born just after 5PM, Friday the 13th January, 2006, to Digest #2) (Jennifer) Helen (Whigham) Davidson, (with help from • "An Odd Day in I-Forgot" by Athena Workman husband Steve) Bridget was Catherine Davidson, known as (Apex SF & Horror Digest #2) Maggie. Mother and daughter have been home and are doing • "Oranges, Lemons, and Thou Beside Meº by Eugie well. Pictures appear at: Foster (Apex SF & Horror Digest #4) http://electronictiger.com/baby/maggie_gallery_1.htm. Lifetime Achievement in SF/F/H • Poppy Z. Brite JACK STOCKER KATRINA SITUATION • William S. Gibson New Orleans based fan, dealer, and frequent science guest of • Robert McCammon Crescent City Con, Dr. Jack Stocker, had an article about his • Jack McDevitt post-Katrina situation in a November issue of the Chemical th Participants who pay a modest $7.00 membership fee may and Engineering News. The story of the devastation to his 9 vote on the Nominees through June 30, 2006. The winners Ward home and complete loss of his book collection can be will be announced no later than July 5, 2006. accessed with the following link: The SESFA Award (www.sesfa.com), now in its fifth http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8347katrina2.html year, is designed to honor accomplishment in science fiction, fantasy or horror by individuals born or living in the Southern SAM GASTFRIEND DIES United States. The SESFA, a fan-based award selected by Sam Gastfriend, long time fan and co-chair of the 1974 member participants, is administered under the auspices of DeepSouthCon 12 in Atlanta, Georgia died in an automotive the online science fiction magazine scifidimensions. accident in March, 2006. FERN TUCKER PASSES ADDITONAL DEITRICK Fern Tucker, long time wife, since 1953, of SF fan and author David and Lori Deitrick are the proud first-time grandparents th Wilson "Bob" Tucker, died on June 7, 2006. She was at home of Oliver Sabin Gilgamesh Deitrick, born March 15 , 2006 to receiving hospice care, and all of her family was with her. Kathy and Conrad Deitrick. JIM BAEN DIES LOUISVILLE FAN, JUDI LUNDY, PASSES AWAY Thursday, June 15, 2006, Jim Baen of , and one Esther Judith ªJudiº Goldstein Lundy, 59, of Louisville, died of the most influential editors in the science fiction field, had Tuesday, March 28, 2006. A longtime member of RiverCon's a stroke. The doctors describe it as a massive bilateral stroke convention committee, she was one of ConGlomeration's in the thalamus. Jim did not regain consciousness and died founding convention committee members. She was a June 28th. Toni Weisskopf and David Drake suggest that Kentucky Colonel and a Life Member of Keneseth Israel people who wish to make a memorial donation purchase Sisterhood. She is survived by her sons, Sean Reck (Donna) copies of The World Turned Upside Down and donate them and Michael Reck of Indianapolis, Ind.; a brother, Leonard to libraries or teenagers of their acquaintance. Remembrances Goldstein; and three grandchildren. Expressions of sympathy of Jim©s life will be held at Trinoc*Con in Raleigh, NC may take the form of contributions to the American Cancer Saturday, July 22 and Lacon IV, the Worldcon, in Los Society. Angeles, CA in August.

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SOUTHERN CONVENTION LISTINGS July 1: Transformers Fan Event; 13: Charlotte ComiCon ($2); Charlotte, NC; 6-8: Rising Star ($25); Salem, VA; www.rising- www.transfancon.com; [email protected]; http://davescomicsonline.com/Scripts/coninfo.asp; star.org; [email protected]; PO Box 10787, Toys "R" Us, Atten: Events Coordinator, 330 704-424-3453 Blacksburg, VA 24062-0787 Brandon Town Center Blvd. Brandon, Florida 33511 17: Baltimore Toy Show ($2); Severna Park, MD; 12-14: International Comic Arts Festival ($?); 7-9: Shore Leave 28 ($65); Baltimore, MD; www.baltimoretoyshow.com; Washington, D.C.; www.shore-leave.com; information@shore- [email protected] www.benzilla.com/icaf/index.php; leave.com; 410-496-4456; PO Box 6809, Towson, 18-19: Fanex ($10); Hunt Valley, MD; [email protected]; MD 21285-6809 www.midmar.com/fanex.html; [email protected] 13-14: ($15); Bethesda, MD; 15: Jedicon; www.redbirdsolutions.com/jedicon; 19-20: Orlando Convention ($20), www.spxpo.com; PO Box 17123, Arlington, VA 201 North 4th Avenue, Paden City, WV 26159 Orlando, FL; 22216 15-16: GrailQuest ($20); St Augustine, FL; www.orlandocomicbookconvention.com; 13-15: TsubasaCon ($40); Charleston, WV; www.sanctuarygamesandbooks.com/index1.cfm; [email protected]; www.tsubasacon.org; [email protected]; PO Box [email protected]; 1855-3 Cassat Ave, 20: Raleigh Comic Book Show (Free); Raleigh, 498, Cool Ridge, WV 25825 Jacksonville, FL 32210; 904-388-3991 NC; www.comicbookconventions.com/raleigh.htm; 13-15: ScreamFest ($30); Orlando, FL; 16: Atlanta Comic Convention ($4); PO Box 99201, Raleigh, NC 27624; 919-844-1758 www.spookyempire.com; [email protected]; PO www.atlantacomicconvention.com; 20: Tampa Comic Book Convention ($5); Tampa, Box 460574, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33346 [email protected]; PO Box 1251, FL; 13-15: Waterloo IV ($35); Greenville, SC; Hogansville, GA 30230; 706-837-4976 www.comicbookconventions.com/tampaconvention/ www.boardgamers.org/specific/wat06ann.htm; 1541 21-23: Trinoc*coN/Deep South Con; Raleigh, NC; index.htm; [email protected]; 727-522-9032 Redfield Rd, Bel Air, MD 21015 www.trinoc-con.org; (Flyer on Page 15) 25-27: BrickFest ($10), Tyson©s CornerV, A; 14-15: Con-Sequential ($40); Memphis, TN; 21-23: VidCon ($45); Tampa, FL; www.brickfest.com www.con-sequential.com; info@con- www.stonehill.org/vidnews.htm; [email protected]; 25-26: Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show sequential.com; PO Box 770397, Memphis, TN Stone Hill SF Association, PO Box 22134, Plant ($25); Orlando, FL; 38177-0397 City, FL 33564-2213 www.hollywoodcollectorshow.com/Orlando.htm; 20-22: Constellation XXV: Cygnus ($40); 21-23: WriterCon ($75); Atlanta, GA; [email protected]; PO Box 5040, Spring Hill, FL Huntsville, AL; www.con- www.writercon.com; [email protected]; 34611-5040; 818-683-4203 stellation.org/constell/index.html; constell@con- 23: Comic Book & Card Show; Tyson©s Corner, 27: Virginia Comicon ($3); Richmond, VA; stellation.org; PO Box 4857; Huntsville AL 35815- VA; http://shoffpromotions.com/; 5904 Willow www.vacomicon.com; 4857 Knoll Dr, Derwood, MD 20855; (301)990-4929; 20-22: Capclave ($50); Silver Spring, MD; [email protected] September 1-4: Dragon*Con ($85); Atlanta, GA; www.capclave.org; [email protected]; 7113 Wayne 28-30: Vulkon; Tampa, FL; www.vulkon.com; 954- www.dragoncon.org; [email protected]; Dr, Annandale, VA 22003-1734 441-8735; [email protected] 770-909-0115; PO Box 16459, Atlanta, GA 30321- 20-22: Newport News Harvest Faire ($35); 28-30: LibertyCon 19 ($45), Chattanooga, TN; 0459 Newport News, VA; www.libertycon.org; [email protected]; 1-4: Mephit Furmeet ($40); Memphis, TN; www.paganet.org/harvest_faire/default.php; PO Box 695, Hixson, TN 37343-0695 www.mephitfurmeet.org; PO Box 190512, Saint 21-22: Nashville Comic & Horror Festival ($3); 28-30: Anime Festival ($45); Orlando, Orlando, FL; Louis MO 63119-6512 Nashville, TN; www.comiccitytn.com/hfest06.html; www.animefestivalorlando.com; info- 1-4: TCEP 13 ($40); Laurel, MD; [email protected]; 615-573-4537 [email protected]; www.barkingmad.org; [email protected]; 27-29: HallowCon ($45); Chattanooga, TN; 28-30: OtterCon ($20); Lynchburg, VA; PO Box 4275, Manassas, VA 20108 www.hallowcon.com; [email protected]; 395 www.legiongamers.com/ottercon2006.php; 8-10: OutsideCon ($35); Burns, TN; Stancil Rd, Rossville, GA 30741 [email protected] www.outsidecon.com; [email protected]; 308 27-29: Necronomicon ($35); Tampa, FL; 30: Zine-A-Polooza ($3); Duluth, GA; www.zine-a- Dunbar Cave Rd, Clarksville, TN 37043; www.stonehill.org/necro.htm; polooza.info; [email protected]; ZAP©06 c/o 9-10: Baltimore Comic-Con ($?); Baltimore, MD; [email protected]; PO Box 2213, Plant GIRAF Network Inc., PO Box 2684, Loganville, GA www.comicon.com/baltimore; City, FL 33564-2213 30052 [email protected]; 410-526-7410 27-29: Vulkon ($?); Orlando, FL; 30: Clandestine Show ($2.50), Glen 14-17: Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention ($45); www.vulkon.com; 954-441-8735; [email protected] Burnie, MD; www.clandestinecomics.com; Aberdeen, MD; [email protected]; 27-29: SugoiCon ($30); Covington, KY; [email protected]; 410-569-8357 www.midatlanticnostalgiaconvention.com; Po Box www.sugoicon.org/v2/news.php; PO Box 31131, 189, Delta, PA 17314 Mt. Healthy, OH 45231 August 4-6: ($60); Baltimore, MD; 21-24: Hurricon ($25); Orlando, FL; http://hmgs- 28-29: Mo-Kan Comics Conspiracy ($5/day); www.otakon.com/default2.asp; south.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task Kansas City, MO; http://mo- 4-6: DarkCon ($30); Nashville, TN; =view&id=19&Itemid=42; kancomicsconspiracy.com; Keith-KC- www.warhorn.net/darkcon; [email protected]; PO 22-24: ($45); Atlanta, [email protected]; 785-842-8064 Box 92466,Nashville, TN 37209 GA; www.awa-con.com; [email protected]; PO 29: Clandestine Comics Show ($2.50); Timonium, 11-13: ConGlomeration ($35), Louisville, KY; Box 13544, Atlanta, GA 30324-0544; 404-636-1490 MD; www.clandestinecomics.com; www.conglomeration.org; 28-October 1: Transformers BotCon 2006 ($9); [email protected]; 410-569-8357 [email protected]; PO Box 32095, Lexington, KY; www.botcon.com; 225 Cattle Baron Louisville, KY 40232-2095 Parc Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76108 November 3-5: Anime South; Destin, FL 11-13: Horrorfind Weekend ($45); Baltimore, MD; 29-October 1: Atlanta Game Fest 9 ($25); Atlanta, 3-5: 9; Hampton, VA www.horrorfindweekend.com/ state/maryland; GA; [email protected]; 3577-A Chamblee- 3-5: Weekend In Gothic Earth; Duluth, GA [email protected]; 9722 Groffs Mill Dr #109, Tucker Road #215, Atlanta, GA 30341 3-5: Anime South; Destin, FL Owings Mills, MD 21117 29-October 1: Klingon Feast ($35); Daytona Beach, 3-5: ; Ft. Lauderdale, FL 11-13: Mechacon ($40); Lafayette, LA; FL; http://groups.msn.com/KlingonFeast; 9-12: EuroQuest; Timonium, MD www.mechacon.com; [email protected]; P. O. [email protected]; 9-12: Novacon; Huntsville, AL Box 52847, Lafayette, LA 70505-2847 29-October 1: Southern Front ($20); Raleigh, NC; 9-12: Euro Quest 4; Timonium, MD 12-13: Yasumicon (Free), Miami, FL; www.trianglesimsociety.org/southernfront.html; 10-12: Revoluticon3; Asheville, NC www.fiu.edu/~tmont002; [email protected]; [email protected]; 5721 Chambers 10-12: Mace; High Point, NC 11200 SW 8th St; Miami, Florida 33199, GC 340 Court, Cedar Grove, NC 27231 10-12: D-Day IX; Timonium, MD 12: Game Days Atlanta ($8); Atlanta, GA; 16-19: ShaunCon 24; Kansas City, KS www.atlantagamefest.com/agd.htm; October 5-8: Archon 30 ($50), St. Louis, MO; 17-19: Anime USA; Tyson©s CornerV, A [email protected]; 3577-A Chamblee- www.archonstl.org/30/index.html; 17-19: Florida Pirate Festival; Clearwater, FL Tucker Road #215, Atlanta, GA 30341 [email protected]; PO Box 8387, St. 17-19: Miami Book Fair; Miami, FL Louis, MO 63132-8387; 636-326-3026 24-26: Darkover 26; Timonium, MD

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SFC BY-LAWS

SECTION 1 (a) The Southern Fandom Confederation is a DSC Business Meeting held at DeepSouthCon during her or non-profit organization of, by, and for science fiction and his term of office and shall prepare a report of same to be fantasy fans residing in the states of the Confederacy submitted to the president for publication in the Bulletin. (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, The Secretary shall also assist the President and the Vice Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, President upon request within reason. In the event of the Tennessee, Texas, Virginia), existing for the purpose of absence of the President and the Vice President, the promoting fan and professional activity within that area. (b) Secretary shall preside. The President shall have the discretion to name as (d) The Treasurer shall collect dues for the SFC and maintain "Southern Sympathizers" persons or groups outside the an account at a convenient bank on which only the South for the purpose of membership and participation in Treasurer or the President may draw. The Treasurer is the SFC. responsible for mailing the official Bulletin at the cheapest SECTION 2. The SFC shall meet once a year, simultaneously possible rate. The Treasurer shall also assist the other and at the same place as the DeepSouthCon, hereafter DSC. officers at request within reason. In the absence of all other This meeting shall be open to all dues-paid and dues- officers, the Treasurer shall preside. exempt SFC members, plus interested parties. Only Dues- SECTION 4. Dues for the SFC are $15.00 per year for an paid or -exempt members may speak or vote except through individual, with institutional dues being five times that dispensation by the presiding officer. Each meeting shall amount, a year being defined as the period between consist of: (a) a review of the year©s activity, (b) election of successive DeepSouthCons. The following are dues- officers, and (c) suggestions from the membership for exempt: (a) Winners of the Rebel and Phoenix Awards activities in the year ahead. presented at the DSC, (b) Individuals who have performed SECTION 3. The officers of the SFC shall consist of (a) such service to the organization that the President feels they President, (b) Vice President, (c) Secretary, and (d) merit exemption, (c) SFC officers during their term of Treasurer. All officers of the SFC must reside within the service. Confederacy. All are elected to one-year terms of office. SECTION 5. The official SFC Bulletin shall be published at Other than the President, any two (2) offices may be least every four months. The contents of each issue shall be combined for one year at the option of the membership left to the discretion of the President/editor, but shall present and voting at the meeting at which officers are include the following: one issue each year shall include a elected. Without specifically voting to combine two offices, comprehensive list of Southern SF clubs, apas, , the membership may effectively accomplish the same result and/or dues-paid and -exempt SFC members. Other by electing the same person to two offices; however, no material in the bulletin shall be concerned with Southern person shall be allowed to be elected as President if already fandom©s history, present activity & future plans . elected to serve in another office during the same or Editorial policy: (a) The bulletin shall concern itself freely overlapping term(s) of office and no person elected as with controversial matters confronting Southern Fandom. President shall be allowed to be elected to serve in another All editorial opinions shall be signed by the author and shall office during the same or overlapping term(s) of office. not be considered reflective of the opinions of any officer of (a) The President shall run the annual SFC business meeting, the SFC itself. (b) The bulletin shall maintain a neutral present a summary of the year©s activities, set SFC policy position between and among competing bids for DSC, or on matters of controversy, publish the official SFC bulletin between and among Southern contenders for a Worldcon. on a tri-annual basis, and represent the SFC at all fannish (c) A letter column shall be printed in each issue containing functions. a comprehensive spectrum of opinion on any matter before (b) The Vice President shall serve in the place of the the SFC. (d) The SFC shall promote the candidacy of President should the President be absent. The Vice Southern fans and professionals for fandom-wide honors President shall also assist the President in special projects such as the Hugo Award. (Capitalization courtesy Guy and other duties as requested by the President within Lillian, as reported by Tim Gatewood, SFC Secretary.) reason. SECTION 6. This set of by-laws may be amended or replaced (c) The secretary of the SFC, in conjunction with the other by the SFC members in attendance at the DSC meeting. officers, shall maintain a file of all active Southern fans, Any amendment proposed in writing and signed by 20 or clubs, amateur press alliances, conventions, and related more SFC members must be brought before this meeting fannish enterprises (including those available only and voted upon. A majority of members at the meeting may electronically) and shall work to disseminate information cause an amendment to be brought to a vote. A 2/3 majority about these persons, publications, organizations, and events of members voting shall be sufficient to cause an to interested parties, especially members of the SFC. The amendment to pass. Secretary shall also maintain the minutes, records, and other SECTION 7. All previous by-laws, rules and constitutions of documents of the SFC created and/or used during the the SFC are henceforth null and void. (As amended at the Secretary©s term of office, and shall turn over said minutes, SFC 1993 meeting, 1997 meeting, 1998 meeting, 1999 records, and other documents to the Archivist upon meeting, and the 2000 meeting.) completion of the Secretary©s term of office. The Secretary shall take minutes of the SFC Business meeting and the Page 10 The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin Volume 8 Number 10

DSC BY-LAWS

Section 1. Paragraph 1. The DeepSouthCon is an bid any site in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, unincorporated literary society whose functions are to Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, choose the locations and committees of the annual South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. DeepSouth Science Fiction Convention (hereinafter referred Section 3. Paragraph 1. Any proposal to amend this to as the DSC); to attend the DSC; and to perform such other constitution shall require two-thirds vote of all the votes cast activities as may be necessary or incidental to these on the question at the DSC meeting held at two successive purposes. DSCs. Section 1. Paragraph 2. The membership of DSC shall consist Section 3. Paragraph 2. DSC meetings shall be held at of (A) anyone paying the membership fee established by the advertised times at each DSC. The current DSC committee current DSC committee, or (B) anyone upon whom the shall provide the Presiding officer for each meeting. current DSC committee confers a complimentary Meetings shall be conducted in accordance with Robert©s membership. Only members attending the DSC will have Rules of Order, Newly Revised, and any Standing Rules the voting privileges and each person shall have one vote. meeting shall adopt. Absentee and proxy votes are not allowed. An optional class Section 3. Paragraph 3. The DSC constitution shall be of non-voting supporting membership may be established by published in the program book of each DSC. Any the current DSC committee for persons who wish to receive amendments eligible for ratification at the DSC shall also be DSC publications but cannot attend the convention and published in the program book. participate in the business meeting. Section 1. Paragraph 4. A DeepSouthCon committee may Section 1. Paragraph 3. No part of DSC©s net earnings shall be present such awards as it deems appropriate. The traditional paid to its members, officers, or other private persons except awards given out by the DSC are the Rebel Award for in furtherance of the DSC©s purposes. The DSC shall not fannish activity and the Phoenix Award for professional attempt to influence legislation or any political campaign for science fiction and fantasy activity. Should a DSC choose to public office. Should the DSC dissolve, its assets shall be award the Rebel and/or Phoenix, the following guidelines distributed by the current DSC committee or the appropriate shall be followed: a. The Rebel award is given to one or more court having jurisdiction exclusive for charitable purposes. science fiction fans who have, at some point, resided in the Section 2. Paragraph 1. The voting membership of DSC shall south (as defined in section 2, paragraph 2) or whose fannish choose the location and committee of the DSC to be held in activities have contributed to southern fandom in a positive the calendar year two years after the current DSC. Voting way. b. The Phoenix award is given to one or more science shall be by ballot cast at the current DSC. Counting of all fiction or fantasy professionals who have, at some point, votes shall be the responsibility of the DSC committee, resided in the south; whose professional work reflects on the using the preferential ballot system as it is used in site south in a positive way; or who have demonstrated friendship selection voting for the World Science Fiction Convention. with Southern fandom through support of regional fan Section 2. Paragraph 2. A committee shall be listed on the activities. c. Either award may be given posthumously. d. ballot if it submits to the current DSC, by 6:00 PM on Friday Rebel and Phoenix awards are considered lifetime of the current DSC, the following: a list of committee achievement awards, therefore no individual shall be given officers, a contract or letter of agreement with a facility the same award a second time. However, a past winner of adequate to hold the DSC, and a statement that the either award may also win the other award, as long as they committee agrees to abide by these rules. A committee may meet the criteria outlined in subparagraphs (a) and (b). (As amended at the April 10 2005 DSC business meeting.)

THE SOUTHERN FANDOM CONFEDERATION

The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin includes news, a convention calendar, a fanzine guide, a membership roster, club lists, convention reports, book reports, and many more items of interest to southern fandom. Keep in touch with hundreds of other southern fans. Your membership runs from DeepSouthCon (DSC) to DSC and gets you at least three issues, plus other benefits of membership. So join now. For a free sample issue, write Randy B. Cleary, 138 Bibb Drive, Madison, Alabama 35758-1064, [email protected]. To join, send $15 and mailing address to Janet Hopkins, 308 Dunbar Cave Road, Clarksville, Tennessee 37043; [email protected]. Check out the SFC web site at www.southernfandom.com.

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LETTERS OF COMMENT

{When e-mailing a LoC, please put “SFC LoC” or similar in (Heute Amerika, Morgan der Welt) than in Social the subject line and remind me if you wish your contact Democracy which favors government control of natural information printed or not.} resources and utilities, and regulations to promote competition in private industry. As for UK from Thatcher onwards, no argument. But December 27, 2005: Henry L. Welch, [email protected] then Rupert Murdock still has slightly more power in your Thanks for the latest SFC Bulletin that I have been country than in mine, although the difference seems to be horribly delayed in acknowledging. Thanks for including the narrowing rapidly. Ditto flyer and I assume by now you©ve seen a review or two Phones cut off. During the Nixon junta, one-sixth of all indicating that the convention was lightly attended, but phones in the US were tapped. (Testimony before a successful. Perhaps you©ll make it to one RSN. Congressional committee after Watergate.) A friend of mine, who was in the OSS behind the lines in China in WW-II, and I had a lot of fun phoning each other with weird January 2, 2006: Janice Gelb; [email protected] "conspiracies" we had no intention of carrying out, just to Greetings! Thanks so much for your efficiency in watch the local political machine do very strange things to sending me the latest SFC Bulletin and for the notice of my thwart them. After awhile it got so bad, I had to take the marriage in the news section. Please don©t feel obligtaed to underground railroad to Canada for six years, and with a send the Bulletin here from now on as I don©t want to Five-A draft card (over age - considered only in case of bankrupt the organization :-> (I hope to renew my dues with actual armed invasion of the continental US) in my pocket! Judy Bemis at Boskone in February.) {Bankruptcy is not Considering how poor an image socialism has in this likely and how much more southern could one get?. ϑ } country (the lone Socialist in Congress is forced to call himself "Independent" lest others be encouraged to examine what it really is), it is strange how many diverse elements January 3, 2006: Paul Cardwell; 1127 Cedar, Bonham, TX want to claim the name (National Socialist Workers (Nazi), 75418; [email protected] Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, etc.) which have no I am so far behind in LoC I am almost (but not quite) connection with the philosophy at all. No, I am not a ashamed to send it. 2004, ouch! socialist, but I am a Green, so I still favor honesty. Tangential? It is of intense interest, and I thank you for August 2004, 8:6 the information. It is a common fight against a common enemy. Annotated Fanzine Listings: Would someone please, D. Cannon, Jr.: The slaveholding, militarist, southern pretty please with sugar on it, update the CAR-PGa was definitely Confederate. However, most of the Newsletter subscription to $12.00 and a dollar a copy population was loyal to the United States. This was in part ($13.50 overseas)? {Done.} The ten buck listing is five due to the heavy population of German immigrants in the St. postage raises out of date and if they raise it again, we will Louis area (most of whom immigrated to escape have to readjust it again. conscription and militarism). This was typical. In Texas, the E.B. Frohvet: "nonfiction novel", I have no idea either, counties along the Red River supported the Union by a 3:2 but possibly roman à clef? Or on the other hand, since I am margin, but the next row south voted 3:2 against. However, involved in researching role-playing game matters, I think it the German-speaking county around Fredericksburg was might could include some of the works in the "true crime" 10:1 for Union. Most of them were murdered trying to reach genre, which are more novel than nonfiction despite their safety in Mexico, the rest disappeared into the cedar breaks pose. (Cruel Doubt comes to mind, in which a murder for where the SchützenVerein marksmen could keep out any insurance was not only blamed on role-playing games, but invasion (these shooting societies thought a Sunday also on eating pizza!) Actually, I think the term was first afternoon should be spent driving nails from 100 meters!). used by Truman Capote to describe his In Cold Blood. And of course Sam was removed as governor for Joseph Nicholas: Nazis favored government control of supporting the United States. industry? Sorry, I was alive back then. Hitler was put in Hank Renhardt: So what is the US? I am not permitted power by (in order of total amount of financial support) to vote for the candidate I want, just Republicrat D or Krupp, Ford, GAF, Firestone, Ciba, Bayer, etc. (see Arms of Republicrat R. The old Soviet Union had one candidate the Krupp, by William Manchester, plus several other nominated by the Communist Party, but the people could sources). The Nazis favored industrial control of vote yes or no and make comments on the ballot. We have government, not the other way around. Mussolini (who two candidates, cannot vote no, nor make comments (even invented the word "fascism") defined it back in the late the letters to the editor are often censored). This country was 1920s when he was the darling of the US media, as "the founded as a democratic republic (Jefferson's party wa seven complete union of government and business". Thus they called that), but now it is just another two-bit junta, a colony have far more in common with WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA, of a coalition of non-geographic nations claiming to be GATT, etc. which favors a corporate junta ruling the world corporations. That OSS vet I mentioned earlier knew John

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Birch personally, being in the same region. His evaluation is There's a Clarksville odwn the road from me, but its probably unprintable in this medium without extensive separate existence now consists mainly of its being an Bowdlerizing. arbitrary postal area; in practice it's a suburb of Columbia/Ellicott City. December 2004, 8:7 Joy Smith's con report: There are fans who are not SF readers and readers who are not fans. Time travel stories: Joseph Nicholas: One Ring suit: This of course brings obviously, Wells, The Time Machine; Heinlein, "By His up the Indiana Jones game back when TSR was generally Bootstraps"; Bradbury, "A Sound of Thunder"; Norton, the regarded as meaning They Sue Regularly. In one of their entire Time Traders series; Simak, Mastodonia; G.C. scenarios, they put the TM on all character names - Edmondson, The Ship that Sailed the Time Stream and the including a generic "Nazi". They did ultimately remove it, sequel To Sail the Century Sea; McCaffrey, Dragonflight but it became a bit of a laugh in game circles while it lasted. (Lessa and her dragon go back centuries to bring forward the Australian friends. A bit extreme, but I sympathize. I Lost Weyrs); Connie Willis, To Say Nothinq of the Dog, also have reduced squatting ability and occasional knee pains in some of her short fiction, as "Fire Watch". Ward Moore's from a driver who thought 50 mph was the appropriate speed Bring the Jubilee is generally seen as an alternate history but for running a red light in downtown ! Having a explicitly involves a time machine. Chevrolet Caprice (their biggest at the time) climb into your I would differ with the author who suggested amateurs lap is not comfortable. That was almost a quarter century send stories to Playboy; it's a high-paying market but they ago, but I still get reminders. At least I can still walk and sort almost never publish fiction except from well established of run for short distances. writers. Can an older writer continue to be productive? Norton, Simak, , all worked well into senior December 2005, 8:9 years. I am no longer doing articles or reviews, except for There is a Dracula High School in Atlanta? Isn't tha t Alexiad, and by special request. Speaking of which, Alexiad just begging to be called Dracula High? ought to have been MUCH higher than fifteenth in Hugo E.B. Frohvet: Scotland: People are also Scots. As for nominating. Similarly, while I will accept a distinction Scotch, I recall a discussion of this in The Scotch by John between "electronic zine" and "web site", the rules ought to Kenneth Galbraith (a Scot by way of Canada). He claimed, be clarified so that a single entity is not nominated in two with documentation including the immortal bard, Robbie categories. Burns, that Scotch was used to refer to themselves. On a related topic: vote Steve Stiles for "fan artist"! Trinlay Khadro: Indian Ocean tsunami: To say nothing Whoever invented the telephone should be shot. of the one triggered by Krakatau, which made it in a measurable, but hardly damaging, degree to England. I will try to be more prompt in the future.

January 3, 2006: Pamela Boal

Glad as always to get news of Southern Fandom I wish every one all the good things they wish themselves for 2006. Is bulk mailing just a way of getting cheaper postage or is it using a service to act as distributor? {Cheaper but slower.} If the latter I have found such services less than satisfactory. The journal of one org I belong to can take up to eight weeks to reach me from the date of posting in America. Ordinary surface mail is cheaper and more reliable but it does need volunteers to wrap and label. Like Sheryl Birkhead (hate to say so but I think we are February 9, 2006: Sheryl Birkhead, 25509 Jonnie Court, part of that graying folks are all ways on about) I don't get to Gaithersburg, MD 20882 Cons any more but that does not signify a loss of interest. Sigh. If only the cover subject had been wearing a Good Con reports are very welcomed and generally beanie, holding a fannish shield of armor (Jophen reference) speaking those in the Bulletin are good. and a stylus… Oasis: Argh, haven’t thought of that con in quite a while. Uh, were the nudes in the art show, SF, or “merely” January 5, 2006: E.B. Frohvet, 4716 Dorsey Hall Drive nudes? Just Curious. #506, Ellicott City MD 21042 I don’t get seven of the zines listed (and some of the e - I hope that southern fandom threw a naked party at zines), so pubbing is thundering right along. which everyone stood about making sarcastic jokes. And at RIP Howard Devore. the stroke of midnight you could all say, "Happy nude jeer!" Youch. Look at all those cons!

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Remind all who are (or perhaps into the past tense by insight or two. (Told you there’d be an insight here. Didn’t the time…) eligible to fill out that nomination sheet for the say it would be my own.) Indeed, background came before Hugoes. It’s not our only way, but is by the best known way plot, but once the background was established, the plot was to thank our own. Fill in all the blanks – pass out the worth waiting for. egoboo! The APA Myriad isn’t the only APA to run its last issue I still have not seen the last Star Wars movie – wonder over the last few years. Are printed APAs dinosaurs waiting if it will make the ballot. to die? There are still some printed APAs, although there are Good luck on your ASFA run! I was a member for a experiments with e-APAs. I’ve been in a few APA s myself year and then decided I was neither getting nor giving – so over the years, and they provided a good training ground for let it lapse. Each year I look forward to the Chesleys and writing for an audience, as small as the audience of an APA know that ASFA makes its presence felt. might be. (I think this may be why many apazines are mailed Hmmm. Too far as a fan…well it’s fairly common for out to non-apa members, the desire for a wider audience.) fen to have their creations revolve around cons…to have a Well, again, my LoC is about seven months old, so “lot” of book space…to socialize (non -con) with other some catch-up is in order. I am still at the Globe and Mail, fans…hum – I’d tend to think that the definition of “too far” and have been there for one year now. It is evening work, might also hinge on whether or not your spouse (or but it has been steady, and I am pleased with that. I am also significant other etc.) is also a fan. Non-fans tend to have doing some occasional work with BBW, which is a company less forgiving limits! But, I do agree on the ST uniform that provides registration staff for trade shows and comment. I do have to admit that when I was attending cons, conferences. Seeing I’ve been doing it for 25 years now on a I only knew the cities by the hotel that hosted said voluntary basis, I figure I might as well get paid for it for a convention. change. You are going to be busy (busier?) – good luck. All done, so in the e-mail it goes. Take care, and see {Thanks!} you next issue.

February 23, 2006: Lloyd Penney; [email protected]; April 10, 2006: Jan Stinson; [email protected]; PO 1706-24 Eva Rd, Etobicoke, ON CANADA M9C 2B2 Box 248, Eastlake, MI 49626-0248 Volume 8, No. 9 of the SFC Bulletin has arrived, and I'm glad I didn't renew my membership before reading has sat for far too long, seeing it’s the December 2005 issue. your note about the account transfer problem between It’s time for a letter, and an insight or two, with any luck. treasurers. I haven't gotten another ish of theB ulletin since I’ve never been to a Dragoncon, although more and this one, so if the problem has been resolved, I'd appreciate more from the area are going, some just to see what being informed soonest so I can get my renewal in. {The new all the fuss is about. I was at the Atlanta Worldcon in 1987, SFC bank account is up and running. Thanks to everyone for so I know how good the facilities are. The last time I their patience.} followed a television show with any level of regularity was Liked the superhero art, and the Sheryl Birkhead fillos! Babylon 5, so I doubt there’d be much for me at Dragoncon. Joy Smith writes the kind of con rep I like to write and read; Worldcons are much more my speed, and Yvonne and I plan so thanks for printing it. I've been to one Oasis, just for a to be at LAcon IV this August. day, but had fun nonetheless. Thanks also for the E.B. My own experience with fans and conventions here is Frohvet reviews of the two books on Tolkien's work . that literary conventions seem to be getting smaller while In the Web sites listing, why is there no mention of media conventions are getting bigger, and anime efanzines.com? Is it because Tom Feller hasn't been conventions are exploding in size. Several literary informed about it? Well, here ya go: efanzines.com is a site conventions in this country are having troubles surviving, created by Bill Burns as a place where fanzine editors can and they often have to delve into media or anime themes to make available electronic versions of their fanzines. Both draw others in to the con. It’s a shame this is happeni ng, but current and classic fanzines are represented there, as well as fans’ interests are gradually changing over the decades. I links to fanzines the site doesn't host. Find it at think print zines will survive, as long as the editors can www.efanzines.com. {Thanks! Lloyd Penney also mentions afford to produce them. It’s interesting that I’ve brought it.} stacks of fanzines to a local media convention, only to be Re: LoCs, Sheryl Birkhead writes of being unfamiliar told they weren’t real fanzines. These folks believed that real with Kinuko Craft. You can find more of her artwork on zines were Cerloxed tomes of . Today, I am told select boxes of Celestial Seasoning teas. She does lovely that media fandom would consider the fanzines I receive as work. {Her work can also be found on my living room letterzines, and see them as curiosities. Today, most fanfic is walls.} scattered on the Web. I’m glad that eFanzines.com exists as a central repository for e-zines. {Thanks for all the help folks. Keep those LoCs, Reports, I came across a large stack of scholarly books on Reviews, News, Illos, etc. coming for the next issue.} Tolkien and Middle-Earth, and even though it was tough slogging to get through them, I did just that, and gained an

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